Curriculum Vitae
Kent Baldner
(October 2011)
Education:
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
Areas of Specialization:
History of Early Modern
Philosophy
Kant
Sartre
Areas of Competence:
Existentialism
Philosophy of Language
and Analytic Philosophy
Environmental Ethics
Formal Logic
Publications:
“Phenomenology,” in the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics, J. Baird Callicott
and Robert Frodeman (eds.), Thompson Press, November
2008
“My Life as a Dog,” Between The Species, Issue IV, (June 2004)
“Subjectivity and the Unity of the
World,” The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 184 (July, 1996)
“Environmental Obligations,” The Grass Roots Review, Vol. 7, (1995)
“Transcendental
Idealism and the Fact/Value Dichotomy,” The
Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy, May,
1992
“Review of
Paul Guyer’s Kant
and the Experience of Freedom, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, XIV, No. 1 (February, 1994)
Introduction to Philosophy:
Lecture Guide, Kendal/Hunt, 1993
Tôpoi, 12,
No. 1, March 1993, Guest Editor (Topic: Environmental Ethics)
“Introduction,”
Tôpoi, 12, No. 1, March 1993
“In
Search of the Center,” Between the
Species, Fall 1991
“Is
Transcendental Idealism Coherent?” Synthese, 85,
No. 1 (1990)
“Causality
and Things in Themselves,” Synthese, 77, No. 3 (1988)
“‘Quining’ Kant,” Proceedings of
the Sixth International Kant Congress, 12, University Press of
Professional Acknowledgments:
In Mind-World : Essays in Phenomenology and Ontology, David Woodruff Smith,
In
A Theory of Language and Mind, Ermanno Bencivenga, University
of
In
Kant’s Copernican Revolution, Ermanno Bencivenga,
Press,
1987
Presentations
“Subjectivity
and Divinity,” Departmental “Brown Bag,” April 2011
“How to be Realists after Descartes,” to the Heraclitean
Society at WMU, December, 2003
“Personhood as a Regulative Ideal,” to the Heraclitean
Society at WMU, April 2004
Commentator for the Society of the
Study of Ethics and Animals, May 1999
Paper Commentator for the Society of the
Study of Ethics and Animals, May 1998
Session Chair for Colloquium on
the History of Modern Philosophy: Kant, the American Philosophical Association, May 1998
“Environmental Ethics,” People’s Church
Forum, Fall 1996
Panelist on Ethical Issues
in Technology and the Environment, November
1994,
“Explanatory Unity and Transcendental Apperception,” Central States Philosophical Association,
“Do We Have Moral Obligations to the Environment?” at
“Explanatory Unity and Transcendental Apperception,” to the Philosophy
Department at
“Transcendental Idealism and Conceptual Relativism,” to the Society for Realism/Anti-Realism Discussion, December 1992
“Transcendental Idealism from the Chinese Room,” to the Heraclitean Society at WMU,
Winter 1991
“Ethics and Ecosystems,” to the Society
of the Study of Ethics and Animals, May 1990
“Is Transcendental Idealism Coherent?” to the Classical Realism Society, May 1990
“Realism and Respect,” to the Consortium
for Peace Research and Education, October
1989
“Realism and Respect,” to the Society
of the Study of Ethics and Animals, May 1989
“Causality and Things in Themselves,” to the Philosophy Department at
Commentator at the
“Causality and Things in Themselves,” to the Philosophy Department at
the
Commentator at the American
Philosophical Association, May
1986
“‘Quining’ Kant,” to the Philosophy
Department at the
“‘Quining’ Kant,” to the Sixth International Kant Congress, September 1985
“‘Quining’ Kant,” to the American Philosophical Association, May 1985
“Kantian Dis-Appearance,” to the Philosophy
Department at
“Kantian Dis-Appearance,” to the Philosophy
Department at the
Awards
Administrative Merit Pay, 1996-2001
NEH Summer Seminar Participant, 1995
Faculty Merit Pay, 1991-1994
Administrative Merit Pay for Excellence in Teaching, 1991-1992
New Faculty Research Grant, 1991
NEH Summer Seminar Participant, 1986
Teaching
Experience
1992-Present, Associate Professor,
1990-1992, Assistant Professor,
1988-1990, Assistant Professor, Eastern
1987-1988, Visiting Assistant Professor,
1986-1987, Visiting Assistant Professor,
1985-1986, Visiting Assistant Professor,
Courses
Taught
Introduction
to Philosophy, Introduction to Logic, Critical Reasoning, Symbolic Logic,
Meta-Logic, Contemporary Moral Problems, Environmental Ethics, AIDS and Ethics,
History of Modern Philosophy, 20th Century Analytic Philosophy, The
Modern World View, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Problems in
Psychology, Existentialism; Senior Seminars on Sartre and Husserl; Graduate
Seminars on Kant, Sartre, Analytic Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind,
Rationalism, The Continental Tradition in Philosophy; Independent Studies on
Existentialism, Modern Philosophy, Spinoza, Kant, Husserl, Leibniz, Descartes,
Sartre, Thoreau, Causality.
Service:
Departmental:
1. Undergraduate Advisor, 2005-present
2. Department Chair, 1996-2003
3. Hosted First ever Alumni Events, Fall 2002
4. Established annual Heraclitean Essay Prize
5. Authored and implemented substantial
changes to MA program
6. Organized departmental retreats,
1997-2001
7. Frequent student
advising, and service on thesis committees
8. Arranged and
hosted visits from philosophers Baird Callicott, Fred
Adams, Ermanno Bencivenga, David Smith, Paul Draper, and Gary Watson
9. Director
of Graduate Studies, 1993-1996
10.
Departmental Library Representative, 1991-1996
University:
1. Faculty Senator
2. Departmental AAAUP Rep
3. Undergraduate Studies Council (USC),
2005-Present
4. Chair, USC, 2002-2003
5. Vice-Chair, Research Policies Council
(RPC), 2001-2003
6. Recording Secretary,
USC, 1994-1996, 2000-2002, 2006-present
7. USC, 1993-1996, 2000-2003
8. RPC, 1998-2003
9. University Accreditation Committee,
1999
10. Reforming the Major Steering
Committee, 1992-1993
Professional:
1. Referee
for The Journal of the History of Philosophy, Noûs, Synthese, and Tôpoi
2. Reviewed
numerous text-book manuscript for various publishers