J. M. FRITZMAN

Associate Professor and Department Chair

Department of Philosophy
Lewis & Clark College
0615 Southwest Palatine Hill Road
Portland, Oregon 97219-7899, USA

fritzman@lclark.edu
503-768-7477

Education | Areas of Specialization | Areas of Competence
Areas of Teaching Competence | Teaching Experience
Publications
| Reviews | Presentations | Commentaries
Professional Associations | Service to the Profession
Service to the College | Awards | Career

 

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral studies: The School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College. Summer 1992. Richard Rorty's six-week seminar, Pragmatism, Deconstruction, and Feminism.

PhD: Purdue University. December 1991.
Dissertation: The Consequences of Antifoundationalism: The Intersections of Dialectic and Rhetoric.
Committee: Manfred Kuehn, William L. McBride, and Calvin O. Schrag (director).
Purdue University's 1992 nominee to the University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Competition.

BA: Eastern Mennonite University. May 1977. History major, Philosophy and Literature minors.

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Social & Political Philosophy.

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethical Theory, Feminist Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Law.

 

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE

Ancient Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, American Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Logic & Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Religion.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

100-Level: Contemporary Moral Issues, Critical Thinking, Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, Symbolic Logic.

200-Level: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Law, Social & Political Philosophy, Professional Ethics.

300-Level: Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology, Nineteenth Century Philosophy, 20th Century Analytic Philosophy, Recent Continental Philosophy.

400-Level: Feminist Theory, Habermas, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Naturalized Epistemology, Naturphilosophie in Nineteenth Century German Idealism and Romanticism, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein.

 

PUBLICATIONS

"Geist in Mumbai: Hegel with Rushdie."
Janus Head, Summer/Fall 2008, forthcoming.

"Queer Eye for the Geist Guy: Hegel's Gay Science."
International Studies in Philosophy, forthcoming.

"Hegel's Pyjamas: Refashioning World-History in Light of Postcolonial Criticism" (Gina Altamura, co-author).
Philosophical Frontiers 3:1, 2008, pages 87-117, http://www.philosophicalfrontiers.com/3.1.87-117.pdf.

"Diderot's Uncle, Hegel; Or Rameau's Nephew as a Branch of The Phenomenology of Spirit" (Isabelle C. DeMarte, co-author).
1650-1850 14, 2007, pages 177]220.

"Almeder's Implicit Scientism."
Philosophia
33:1-4, December 2005, pages 275-296.

"The Nonfoundational Hegelianism of Dove, Maker, and Winfield" (Wendy Lynn Clark, co-author).
Philosophical Forum
34:1, Spring 2003, pages 91-113.

"Reducing Spirit to Substance: Dove on Hegel's Method" (Wendy Lynn Clark, co-author).
Idealistic Studies
32:2, Summer 2002, pages 73-100.

"'Why I Hardly Read Althusser:' Reading Habermas Hardly Reading Althusser."
Philosophy in the Contemporary World
9:1, Spring-Summer 2002, pages 47-59.

"Return to Hegel."
Continental Philosophy Review
34:3, September 2001, pages 287-320.

"Overcoming Capitalism: Lyotard's Pessimism and Rorty's Prophecy."
Lyotard: Just Education
, edited by Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish, (London: Routledge, 2000), pages 73-96.

"Louis Althusser: Poststructural Materialist."
Naming the Multiple: Poststructuralism and Education,
edited by Michael Peters, (Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 1998), pages 49-64.

"From Pragmatism to the Differend."
Education and the Postmodern Condition: Essays on Lyotard
, edited by Michael Peters, foreword by Jean-François Lyotard, (Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 1995), pages 59-74.

"The Future of Nostalgia and the Time of the Sublime."
Clio
23:2, Winter 1994, pages 167-189.

"Thinking with Fraser about Rorty, Feminism, and Pragmatism."
Praxis International
13:2, July 1993, pages 113-125.

"Escaping Hegel."
International Philosophical Quarterly
33:1, March 1993, pages 57-68.

"Blumenberg and the Rationality of Rhetoric."
Rhetorica
10:4, Autumn 1992, pages 423-435.

"Afterword: Legitimation through Performativity or Paralogy? Nuyen and Nicholson on Lyotard."
Educational Theory
42:4, Fall 1992, pages 483-484.

"Against Coherence."
American Philosophical Quarterly
29:2, April 1992, pages 183-191.

"Lyotard's Paralogy and Rorty's Pluralism: Their Differences and Pedagogical Implications."
Educational Theory
40:3, Summer 1990, pages 371-380.

 

REVIEWS

Allen W. Wood, Kantian Ethics, (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2008).
CHOICE, forthcoming.

Espen Hammer, editor, German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives, (New York: Routledge, 2007).
CHOICE, forthcoming.

Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert, Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007).
CHOICE, forthcoming.

Jeffrey Reid, Real Words: Language and System in Hegel, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
CHOICE, forthcoming.

Kyung-Man Kim, Discourses of Liberation: An Anatomy of Critical Theory, (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2005).
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, forthcoming.

Tom Rockmore, Kant and Idealism, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
CHOICE 44, June 2007, page 6178.

Ermanno Bencivenga, Ethic Vindicated: Kant's Transcendental Legitimation of Moral Discourse, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
CHOICE 44, June 2007, page 5570.

Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
CHOICE 44, February 2007, page 3222.

Brian K. Etter, Between Transcendence and Historicism: The Ethical Nature of the Arts in Hegelian Aesthetics, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006).
CHOICE 44, October 2006, page 870.

Nikolai Bukharin, Philosophical Arabesques, translated by Renfrey Clarke, (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005).
CHOICE 43, December 2005, page 2111.

Jason M. Wirth, editor, Schelling Now: Contemporary Readings, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).
CHOICE 43, September 2005, pages 6420.

Eli Friedlander, J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words, (Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 2004).
CHOICE 42, July 2005, page 6410.

John Russon, Reading Hegel's Phenomenology, (Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 2004).
CHOICE 42, June 2005, page 5790.

Duncan Richter, Historical Dictionary of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, (Lanham, Maryland:  Scarecrow Press, 2004).
CHOICE 42, May 2005, page 4975.

Yolanda Estes, Arnold Lorenzo Farr, Patricia Smith, and Clelia Smyth, editors, Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture, (Lawrence:  University Press of Kansas, 2000).
Essays in Philosophy 6:1, January 2005, http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/fritzmanrev.html.

Allen W. Wood, Kant, (London:  Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
CHOICE 42, January 2005, page 2742.

Stuart Barnett, editor, Hegel after Derrida, (London:  Routledge, 1998).
Radical Philosophy Review 7:1, 2004, pages107-111.

Christa Davis Acampora and Ralph R. Acampora, editors, A Nietzschean Bestiary:  Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal, (Lanham:  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004). 
CHOICE 42, October 2004, page 878.

Jason M. Wirth, The Conspiracy of Life:  Meditations on Schelling and His Time, (Albany:  SUNY PRESS, 2003).
CHOICE 41, June 2004, page 5839.

Jason Read, The Micro-Politics of Capital:  Marx and the Prehistory of the Present, (Albany:  SUNY Press, 2003).
CHOICE 41, May 2004, page 5230.

A. W. Moore, Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty:  Themes and Variations in Kant's Moral and Religious Philosophy, (New York:  Routledge, 2003).
CHOICE 41, March 2004, page 3983.

Jürgen Habermas, The Inclusion of the Other:  Studies in Political Theory, edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff, (Cambridge, Massachusetts:  MIT Press, 1999); Michael W, Howard, Self-Management and the Crisis of Socialism:  The Rose in the Fist of the Present, (Lanham, Maryland:  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000); Yannis Stavrakakis, Lacan and the Political, (London:  Routledge, 1999).
Radical Philosophy Review 6:1, 2003, pages 75-79.

Andrew Levine, A Future for Marxism? Althusser, the Analytical Turn and the Revival of Socialist Theory, (London: Pluto Press, 2003).
CHOICE, forthcoming.

Terry Pinkard, German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
CHOICE 40, July 2003, page 6341.

Richard L. Velkley, Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
CHOICE 40, March 2003, page 3949.

Isaiah Berlin, Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty, edited by Henry Hardy, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).
CHOICE 40:4, December 2002, page 2090..

Samantha Ashenden and David Owen, editors, Foucault contra Habermas: Recasting the Dialogue between Genealogy and Critical Theory, (London: Sage Publications, 1999).
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
32:1, December 2002, pages 578-582.

George Allan, The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Forms, (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001).
CHOICE 40:2, October 2002, page 828.

Susan Lufkin Kranz, Refuting Peter Singer's Ethical Theory: The Importance of Human Dignity, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002).
CHOICE 40:2, October 2002, page 837.

Alfredo Ferrarin, Hegel and Aristotle, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 200l).
Philosophical Inquiry
, 24:3-4, Summer-Fall 2002, pages 131-132.

Richard Boothby, Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan, (New York: Routledge, 2001).
CHOICE
39:10, June 2002, page 6108.

Mitchell Aboulafia, The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001).
CHOICE
39:9, May 2002, page 5121.

Henry E. Allison, Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
CHOICE
39:6, February 2002, page 3313.

Anthony J. La Vopa, Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
CHOICE
39:5, January 2002, page 2734.

Jean-Claude Guillebaud, Re-Founding the World: A Western Testament, translated by W. Donald Wilson, (New York: Algora Publishing, 2001).
CHOICE
39:3, November 2001, page 1492.

Hwa Yol Jung, Rethinking Political Theory: Essays in Phenomenology and the Study of Politics, (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1993).
Human Studies
24, 2001, pages 261-266.

Joshua Foa Dienstag, Dancing in Chains: Narrative and Memory in Political Theory, (Stanford University Press, 1997).
Human Studies
23, 2000, pages 439-445.

Eric Alliez, Capital Times: Tales from the Conquest of Time, translated by Georges Van Den Abbeele, (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
Research in Philosophy and Technology
18, 1999, pages 299-301.

Jean-Joseph Goux and Philip R. Wood, editors, Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought, (Stanford University Press, 1998).
Philosophy in Review
19:3, June 1999, pages 181-182.

Jeremy Weate, A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy, illustrated by Peter Lawman, (DK Publishing, 1998).
Philosophy in Review
19:3, June 1999, pages 233-234.

Jean Hyppolite, Logic and Existence, translated by Leonard Lawlor and Amit Sen, (SUNY Press, 1997).
Philosophy in Review
19:1, February 1999, pages 28-30.

Frederick C. Beiser, editor, The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics, (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Philosophy in Review
17:3, June 1997, pages 155-157.

Michael O. Hardimon, Hegel's Social Philosophy: The Project of Reconciliation, (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Canadian Philosophical Reviews
25:5, October 1995, pages 329-331.

N. Scott Arnold, Marx's Radical Critique of Capitalist Society: A Reconstruction and Critical Evaluation, (Oxford University Press, 1990).
The Journal of Value Inquiry
25:4, 1991, pages 385-388.

 

PRESENTATIONS

"Hegel's Pyjamas:  Refashioning World-History in Light of Postcolonial Criticism" (Gina Altamura, co-author).
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/23/2008 (James Winchester, commentator).
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark College, 10/6/2006 (Jeffrey A. Gauthier, commentator).
Department of Philosophy and Summer Research Colloquium, Lewis & Clark College, 9/14/2007.

"Feminism and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: 'Lordship and Bondage' and 'Ethical Action'" (Jeffrey A. Gauthier, co-author).
Gender Studies Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, 3/8/2007.
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 3/8/2006.
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/25/2006 (J. Craig Hanks, commentator).
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Seattle University, 10/21/2005 (Elizabeth Sykes, commentator).

"Hegel's Philosophy -- In a Vat?"
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/24/2007 (Robert W. Barnard, commentator).
Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Portland, 11/4/2006 (Alfred Frankowski III, commentator).

"Hegel, Schopenhauer, and India."
Roundtable Discussion on Schopenhauer and Indian Thought, organized by the Indian Division of the Schopenhauer Society and Schopenhauer Gesellschaft, Germany, University of Delhi, 12/16/2006

"Between East, West: Hegel and Rushdie on Cosmopolitanism" (Rishona Zimring, co-author).
Interim World Philosophy Congress, University of Delhi, 12/17/2006.

"From Spinoza's Substance to Hegel's Subject" (Brianne Riley, co-author).
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 4/13/2005.
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/19/2005 (Jacob Shaw Mills, commentator).
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Bellevue Community College, 10/8/2004 (Mary Katrina Krizan, commentator).
Summer Research Colloquium, Lewis & Clark College, 8/4/2004.

"Queer Eye for the Geist Guy: Hegel's Gay Science."
Gender Studies Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, 3/9/2005.

"Kryptonite for Superyankees: Brandom and Kornblith on Reasons and Reliabilism."
Oregon Academy for Science, Oregon State University, 2/26/2004.

"Context Really Count: Evidence for Booking Achinstein."
Oregon Academy for Science, Portland State University, 2/28/2004.
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/20/2004 (Timothy Lord, commentator).

"No Theory for Wittgenstein?" (Nathan P. Baty, co-author).
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 11/14/2003.
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Reed College, 10/4/2003 (Robert Paul, commentator).

"The Immodesty of Kitcher's Modest Realism, and His Subversion of Democracy."
Symposium -- on Philip Kitcher's Science, Truth, and Democracy -- to honor William A. Rottschaefer, Lewis & Clark College, 3/8/2003

"'Rien ne dissemble plus de lui que lui-même:' Diderot's Rameau's Nephew as (a Branch of) Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit" (Isabelle C. DeMarte, co-author).
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/21/2003 (Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, commentator).
Northwest Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Washington-Seattle, 11/17/2002 (Jeffrey A. Gauthier, responder).
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 10/23/2002.

"What Is Beauty?"
Philosophy Extravaganza, Lewis & Clark College, 11/19/2002.

The Nonfoundational Hegelianism of Dove, Maker, and Winfield" (Wendy Lynn Clark, co-author).
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 4/10/2002.

"The Noonday Flight of Hegel's Owl."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/23/2002 (Timothy C. Huson, commentator).

"Almeder's Implicit Scientism."
Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Washington State University, 10/12/2001, (James Sage, commentator).

"Reducing Spirit to Substance: Dove on Hegel's Method" (Wendy Lynn Clark, co-author).
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/24/2001 (Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, commentator).
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 1/24/2001.

"'Why I Hardly Read Althusser:' Reading Habermas Hardly Reading Althusser."
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 11/15/2000.
Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Pacific University, 11/10/2000 (Donald Jefferson Morse, commentator).
Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, George Washington University, 11/7/1997.

"Margolis' Biopsy of Recent Analytic Philosophy: A Second Opinion."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/26/2000 (Kelly Becker, commentator).
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 1/19/2000.

"From Lyotard's Differend to Rorty's Prophecy."
Conference on Value Inquiry, Central Missouri State University, 4/23/1999.
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 3/6/1999 (Henry Theriault, commentator).
Department of Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, 2/15/1999.

"An Introduction to the Philosophy of History."
Philosophy Club, Southwest Missouri State University, 10/14/1998.

"Some Questions Concerning Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action."
Division of Social Sciences, Emporia State University, 4/9/1998.
Department of History and Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University, 3/11/1998.
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/28/1998 (Daniel Tkachyk, commentator).

"On Mill's On Liberty."
Catawba College, 3/30/1998.

"Hegel and the Future's Foreclosure."
Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, George Washington University, 11/8/1996.
Department of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University, 4/6/1994.

"Changing Paradigms: From Plato's Forms to Wittgenstein's Family Resemblances."
Department of Religion & Philosophy, Park College, 6/16/1995.

"How Aristotle's Bees Help Us Understand Hegel and Marx."
Department of Religion and Philosophy, Lyon College, 5/19/1995.
Department of Philosophy, Earlham College, 1/20/1995.

"Enthusiasm, Time, and Kant's Sublime: Reading with Makkreel and Lyotard."
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Duquesne University, 5/15/1993 (Rudolf A. Makkreel, commentator).

"Thinking with Rorty and Fraser about Feminism and Pragmatism."
APA Central Division, 4/23/1993 (Lenore Langsdorf, commentator).
Department of Philosophy, Augsburg College in Minneapolis, 4/13/1992.

"Lyotard, Jameson, and the Meanings of Postmodernism."
Faculty Development Roundtable, Washington State University, 3/8/1993.

"After the Fall: Marx's Continuing Relevance."
Philosophy Club, University of Idaho, 2/3/1993.

"The Empowering Now of the Disempowered."
Passions-Persons-Powers Conference, University of California at Berkeley, 5/2/1992.

"Escaping Hegel's Dialectic."
Indiana Philosophical Association, Purdue University, 11/2/1991.

"Rupturing Theory's Limits: The Dialectics of Zeno, Protagoras, and Gorgias."
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Montreal, 5/17/1991.

"Lyotard Notice: Phrasing the Differend."
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Villanova University, 10/16/1990.

"Lyotard, Narrativity, and the Postmodern Condition."
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Emory University, 5/7/1989 (Rebecca Comay, commentator).

 

COMMENTARIES

Murray Skees, "The World Ought To Be Otherwise:  Theodor Adorno's Theory of Aesthetic Autonomy and a New Categorical Imperative."
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, 3/19/2008.

Kari Theurer, "Zombies, Intuitions, and the Limits of Conceivability."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/23/2008.

Aaron Bunch, "Executing the Queen:  The Allegorical Kant-Critique of Schiller's Maria Stuart."
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark College, 10/6/2007.

Flo Leibowitz, "'Colorizing the Cosmos:'  When the Hubble Photographs Mislead Us and When They Don't."
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark College, 10/6/2007.

Katharina Dulckeit, "Unlikely Bedfellows? Putnam and Hegel on Natural Kind Terms."
The Society for Systematic Philosophy, San Francisco, 4/5/2007.

Anna Bergqvist, "Sibley and Defeasible Reasons: Holism about Reasons in Aesthetic Evaluations."
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, 4/4/2007.

Brendan Moran, "Metaphysics as Ontology: Walter Benjamin."
Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Portland, 11/4/2006.

Dennis Rothermel, "How Deleuze Thinks about Cinema."
Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Portland, 3/24/2006.

Mark M. Sanders, "gRorty's Hope for Philosophy."
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Portland, 3/22/2006.

Lee Braver, "Reading the Analytic-Continental Division as Anthropology from Two Kantian Points of View."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/25/2006.

Aaron Fortune, "Langer's Presentational Symbol as Actual."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/24/2006.

Scott Borchers, "How Natural History Undermines Hegel's Speculative System."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/19/2005.

Brendan O'Sullivan, "Perry's Take on the Modal Argument."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/18/2005.

Lissa Skitol, "The Pathos of Wonder and the Owl of Minerva:  Thoughts on the Need and Possibility of Social Criticism."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/18/2005.

John Scott Gray, "Hegel and the Family:  A Place for Same-Sex Marriage?"
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/20/2004.

Katharina Dulckeit, "Towards a Hegelian Theory of Reference."
The Society for Systematic Philosophy, Washington, D.C., 12/29/2003.

Russell Wahl, "Occasional Causes and Laws of Nature."
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Reed College, 10/3/2003.

Xiaoyu Zhu, "Identification and the Divided Self."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/22/2003.

Tracy L. Colony, "Time and the Work of Art: Reconsiderations of Heidegger's Reading of the Will to Power."
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Seattle, 3/31/2002.

Timothy C. Huson, "Slavoj Zizek's Rediscovery of Hegel's Radically Negative Subject."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/23/2002.

Greg Johnson, "Coming Together Remaining Apart: Merleau-Ponty's Reversibility of Flesh and Coalition Politics."
Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Washington State University, 10/12/2001.

Robert Lovering, "The Hiddenness of God: A Second Argument for the Non-Existence of God.
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, 3/29/200.

Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, "The Logical Structure of Self-Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/23/2001.

Mark Collier, "The Compatability of Hume's Naturalism and Inductive Skepticism."
Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Pacific University, 11/10/2000.

Guy Rohrbaugh, "Modal Flexibility and Ontology in the Arts."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/26/2000.

Matthew Lango, "Language and Recognition: Rethinking Hegel's Jena Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 3/6/1999.

Lori Underwood, "Re-Surveying the Bounds of Sense: A Critique of the Strawsonian Analysis of Transcendental Idealism."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 3/6/1999.

Laura Hengehold, "Materiality, Power, and Political Imagination: On the Role of Law in Habermas and Foucault."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/27/1998.

Robert Sherwood-Moore, "Deleuze on Reading Spinoza."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 3/1/1997.

Cathy Schwartz, "'Your Desire or Your Life!': Antigone as a Paradigm for an Existential Ethic."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/24/1996.

James M. Humber, "Hume's Hidden Identity."
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/26/1994.

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Philosophical Association.

American Society for Aesthetics.

Hegel Society of America.

Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.

Society for German Idealism (co-founder).

Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion.

 

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Designed the website for the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, http://www.lclark.edu/~sipr/SIPR.html.

President of the 2007 Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark College.

Chair of session on "Hegel's Logic of Essence." The Society for Systematic Philosophy, San Francisco, 4/6/2007.

President of the 2007 Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 2/23-24/2007. Dermot Moran delivered the keynote address, "Heidegger's Critique of Husserl's Phenomenology."

Member of the Editoral Board of Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 2003-present.

Member of the Program Committee of the American Philosophical Association's Pacific Division, 2003-2005. Arranged the following invited symposia and author-meets-critics sessions:

2005

Invited Symposium:  Hegel's Logic and Analytic Philosophy:  The Topic of Language; 3/23/2005.
Speaker: David Kolb (Bates College), "The Necessities of the Logic?"
Speaker: John McCumber (UCLA), 'Hegel and 'Natural Language'"
Speaker: Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY), "Metaphor, Vagueness, and Meaning
Variance in Hegel"
Speaker: Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University), "Some Recent Analytic 'Realist' Readings of Hegel"
Chair: Aaron Bunch (Loyola University Chicago)

Author Meets Critics:  Petrified Intelligence:  Nature in Hegel's Philosophy; 3/23/2005.
Author: Alison Stone (Lancaster University)
Critic: Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Boston University
Critic: Edward Halper (University of Georgia)
Chair: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)

Author Meets Critics:  Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism; 3/25/2005.
Author: Kenneth R. Westphal (University of East Anglia)
Critic: Rolf George (University of Waterloon)
Critic: Bill Harper (University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Rod Bertolet (Purdue University)

2004

Invited Symposium:  Dewey and Moral Particularism; 3/25/2004.
Speaker: David J. Bakhurst (Queen's University), "Pragmatism and Ethical Particularism"
Speaker: Raymond D. Boisvert (Siena College), "Occasion, Response, and Pre-Disposition:  Pragmatism's Moral Philosophy"
Speaker: Margaret Little (Georgetown University), "Defending Moral Particularism"
Chair: Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)

Author Meets Critics:  German Philosophy 1760-1860:  The Legacy of Idealism; 3/26/2004.
Author:  Terry Pinkard (Northwestern University)
Critic:  Dale E. Snow (Loyola College in Maryland)
Critic: Robert Stern (University of Sheffield)
Chair:  J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)

Author Meets Critics:  The Romantic Conception of Life:  Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe; 3/27/2004.
Author: Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago)
Critic: Joan Steigerwald (Science & Society Program, York University)
Critic: John Zammito (Rice University)
Chair: Aaron Bunch (Loyola University Chicago)

2003

Invited Symposium: Pragmatism and Reference, 3/27/2003.
Chair: Kaarina Beam (Linfield College)
Speakers: David B. Boersema (Pacific University), "Pragmatism, Individuation, and Reference"
Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University), "Pragmatism and Reference in Brandom and Habermas"
Robert Schwartz (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), "Pragmatic Instrumentalism"

Author Meets Critics: Charles Travis, Unshadowed Thought: Representation in Thought and Language, 3/28/2003.
Chair: Elizabeth Wakeman (Albertson College)
Critics: Peter M. Sullivan (University of Stirling)
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)
Author: Charles Travis (Northwestern University)

Author Meets Critics: Frederick C. Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 3/30/2003.
Chair: J. M. Fritzman (Lewis & Clark College)
Critics: Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame)
Allen W. Wood (Stanford University)
Author: Frederick C. Beiser (Syracuse University)

Co-founder, with Aaron Bunch, of The Society for German Idealism (SGI).  The SGI meets annually, in conjunction with the Pacific APA.  Responsible for maintaining the SGI's website (http://www.lclark.edu/~idealism/SGI.html), and for distributing the call-for-papers and other information via the Internet.

President of the 2002 Northwest Philosophy Conference. Lewis & Clark College, 10/25-26/2002. Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison) delivered the keynote address, "Testing Adaptive Hypotheses."

Reviewer for Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Fall 2001-present.

Secretary for the Midsouth Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis, 1996-present; responsible for maintaining the conference website (http://www.lclark.edu/~midsouth/MPC.html), and for distributing the call-for-papers and other information via the Internet.

Chair of session on "Levinas and Feminism." APA Central Division, 5/7/1999.

Reviewer for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 1998-present.

Reviewed Richard L. Epstein's Critical Thinking (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999) for Wadsworth Publishing Company, 11/9/1998.

President of the 1995 Midsouth Philosophy Conference. University of Memphis, 2/24-25/1995. John J. McDermott (Texas A & M University) delivered the keynote address, "Loyalty, Isolation and Rage: A Philosophical Probe Into the Present Situation."

Chair of session on "Contemporary French Philosophy."American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, 12/29/1994.

Reviewed and evaluated articles in the Philosophy subject area for Microsoft Encarta, a multimedia encyclopedia, 1994.

 

SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE

Chair of the Department of Philosophy, 2004-2005, 2007-present.

Faculty advisor to the Student Academic Affairs Board (SAAB), 2002-2005, 2006-present.

Committee on Promotion and Tenure, 2006-2007.

Faculty Representative on the College Honor Board, 2002-2005, 2006-2007.

International Studies Coordinating Committee, 2006-2007.

Responsible for maintaineing the website for the Department of Philosophy (http://www.lclark.edu/~phil/PHILOSOPHY.html), 2000-2005, 2006-present. Authored the department's statement on Thinking-Writing-Speaking.

Moderator of session on "Queer Bodies and Queer Spaces." Gender Studies Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, 3/10/2006.

Faculty leader of the overseas study program to India, Fall 2005.

Presentation of my Syllabus Archive Project to the Faculty Technology Showcase, 4/29/2005.

Moderator of session on "Feminists Theorize the Traditional." Gender Studies Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, 3/10/2004.

Faculty advisor to the Student Academic Affairs Board (SAAB) , Spring 2001 (replacement for Klaus Engelhardt while he led a study group to Romania).

Member of the Curriculum Proposal Subcommittee, 2000-2001.

Member of the Admissions, Awards, and Academic Standing (AAAS) Committee, 2000-2001.

Chair of Awards Subcommittee of the AAAS, 2000-2001.

Member of Enrollment Management Committee (as the representative from the AAAS), 2000-2001.

Member of the Early Modern Philosophy Search Committee, 2000-2001 (this search resulted in the hiring of Rebecca Copenhaver).

Maintained the website for the Philosophy Club, 2000-2005.

 

AWARDS

Lewis & Clark College's Faculty/Student Collaborative Summer Research Stipend (with Molly Gibson), 2008.  Project title:  From Nature to Idea:  Schelling's Evolutionary Process or Hegel's Conceptual Development?

Lewis & Clark College's Faculty/Student Collaborative Summer Research Stipend (with Gina Altamura), 2007.  Project title: Postcolonial Theory's Challenges to Hegel's Philosophy of History.

Lewis & Clark College's Sabbatical Leave, Spring 2006.

Lewis & Clark College's Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Grant (with Brianne Riley), 2004.  Project title: From Spinoza's Mechanistic Substance to Hegel's Organicistic Subject.

Lewis & Clark College's Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Grant (with Nathan Baty), 2003.  Project title: The Primacy of Pragmatics in Hegel and Wittgenstein.

Lewis & Clark College's Junior Sabbatical Leave, Fall 2001.

Lewis & Clark College's Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Grant (with Wendy Lynn Clark), 2000.  Project title: Hegel's Method:  Phenomenological or Dialectical?

 

CAREER

Lewis & Clark College, (2003-present); associate professor.

Lewis & Clark College, (1999-2003); assistant professor.

Southwest Missouri State University, (1997-1999); lecturer.

North Central College, (1996-1997); adjunct.

Rockford College, (1995); adjunct.

Saint Xavier University, (1994-1996); adjunct.

Northern Illinois University, (1993-1994); visiting assistant professor.

Washington State University, (1992-1993); visiting assistant professor.

Purdue University, (1985-1992); teaching assistant, graduate fellow, lecturer

 


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J. M. Fritzman
Department of Philosophy
Lewis & Clark College
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Updated on 5 May 2008