Curriculum Vitae

GEORGE FREDERICK SCHUELER

E-Mail: SCHUELER@UDEL, Web Page: www.unm.edu/~schueler/

 

 

35 Darien Rd.
Newark, Delaware 19711

Philosophy Dept.
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-2359

 

 

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1973)
M.A., University of California, Berkeley (1968)
A.B., (Honors in Philosophy), Stanford University (1966).

AcademicPositions

            Department Chair, Philosophy Department,
            University of Delaware, 2007 - present

            Professor of Philosophy,
            University of Delaware,    2007 - Present
         
        Professor of Philosophy,
        University of New Mexico, 1990-  2007

Department Chair, Philosophy Department,
University of New Mexico, 1996 - 2000

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, 1979- 1990.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico,1971-1979.


Areas Of Specialization


          Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action

 

Areas of Competence

         Philosophy of Law, Applied ethics, Elementary Logic.

 

 

Books


REASONS AND PURPOSES: Human Rationality and The Teleological Explanation of Action, Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press (2003), paperback (2005)

DESIRE: Its Role in Practical Reason and the Explanation of Action,
MIT Press/Bradford Books (1995)

THE IDEA OF A REASON FOR ACTING, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY(1989) 

 

Current Work:

Invited Review Essay on Three Faces of Desire by Timothy Schroeder. (Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research)

 ÒInterpretative ExplanationsÓ (Invited contribution to a collection of essays on explanation of action editedby Constantine Sandis to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan.)

 

 

Articles

(excluding book reviews, colloquium and symposium papers, informal public talks, etc.)

ÒThe Humean Theory of Motivation RejectedÓ (Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research)

ÒIs It Really Possible to Follow OneÕs Conscience?Ó  American Philosophical Quarterly, January 2007

ÒRationality and Character TraitsÓ, New Essays in Moral Psychology, ed. By S. Tenenbaum. 

"Action Explanation: Causes and Purposes" in Intentions and Intentionality, ed. by B. Malle, L. Moses, and D. Baldwin,
MIT Press, 2001.

"Why IS Modesty a Virtue?," Ethics, July 1999.

"How Can Reason Be Practical?," Critica , Vol. 28, issue no. 84, pp. 41-62.

"Why Modesty Is a Virtue," Ethics, Vol. 107, no.3 (April 1997), pp. 467-485. [Reprinted in Ethics for Everybody, David Benatar (ed.) (McGraw-Hill, 2001)]

"Why 'Ought's Are Not Facts", Mind 416, Vol. 104,Oct. 1995, pp. 713-723. Presented at a conference on Norms and Rationality, Glasgow, Scotland,(July, 1995)

"Pro-Attitudes and Direction of Fit", Mind 398, Vol. 100, No. 2 (April, 1991), pp. 277-281.

"Anti-Realism and Skepticism in Ethics," Iyyun Vol. 4 (Jan. 1991), pp. 3-18.

"Consequences and Agent-Centered Restrictions," Metaphilosophy Vol. 20, no. 1.(Jan., 1989).(This paper was read at the Pacific Division meeting of the American PhilosophicalAssociation,27 March 1987.'Abstract,' Proceedings and Addresses of theA.P.A., Vol. 60, #3 (Jan., 1987), p.569.)

"The Evaluation of Teaching in Philosophy," Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 11, no. 4 (December,1988).(Reprinted in Polish translation in Edukacja Filozoficzna, Vol. 10(1990).)

"Modus Ponens and Moral Realism," Ethics, Vol. 98, no. 3 (April, 1988).(A shorter version of this paper was read at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association,30 April, 1988.'Abstract,' Proceedings and Addresses of the A.P.A., Vol.61, #4 (March, 1988), p. 797.)

 

"Philosophers and Medical Ethics" (published as "Toppling the Philosopher Off his Ethical Pedestal"),Medical Ethics for the Physician, Vol. 1, no. 5 (Dec. 1986).

"Some Reasoning About Preferences," Ethics, Vol. 95, no. 1 (Oct. 1984).

"Stroud on Hume on Induction," Southwest Philosophical Studies, Vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring,1983).

"How Not to Reply to a Moral Sceptic," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 61, no. 3 (Sept. 1983).(This paper was read at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, 26 March 1983.'Abstract,' Proceedings andAddresses ofthe A.P.A., Vol. 56, #3 (Feb., 1983), pp. 479-480.)

"Akrasia Revisited," Mind, Vol. 92 (Oct., 1983).

"Can Subjectivism be 'Defused'?" Metaphilosophy, Vol. 12, no. 1. (Jan., 1981)(This paper was read at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, 25 March 1979.'Abstract,' Proceedings and Addresses of the A.P.A., Vol. 52, #3 (Jan., 1979),pp. 477-478.)

"Exclusionary Reasons," The Personalist, Vol. 60, no. 4.

"'X's Reason for phi-ing was p'," Mind, Vol. 87, no. 349. (Jan., 1979)

"Harman on Moral Relativism," The Journal of Critical Analysis, Vol. 7, no. 3 (Summer/Fall,1978)

"A Law School Course in Philosophy of Law and Professional Responsibility,"(co-author), in Professional Responsibility in the Law,S. Gorovitz and B. Miller(eds.),(Council for Philosophical Studies, 1977).

"Moral Scepticism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 15, no. 1 (Spring, 1977).

"Nagel on the Rationality of Prudence," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 29, no. 1 (Jan., 1976).

"How to Prove 'Freedom of the Will'," Proceedings of the N.M. and W. Texas Philosophical Society,(April,1975).

"Rawls on Promising," Proceedings of the N. M. and W. Texas Philosophical Society,(April,1974).

"The Notion of 'Incitement'," Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol.7, no. 2   (Spring,1974).

 

 

Awards, Fellowships, Etc.


Sabbatical Semester, Fall 2005

National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Research

Stipend, June & July 2003.

Hewlett Foundation Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant (With J. Jenson and I. Jaffe), 2001-2002.

Sabbatical Semester, Fall 1998.

Sabbatical year at Oxford University, 1991-92.

Faculty Scholar (Research Fellowship), University of New Mexico, Fall 1990-91.

         National Endowment for the Humanities: Institute on Heidegger and       Davidson, University of  California, Santa Cruz, summer1990.

Sabbatical year at Oxford University, 1984-85.

American Philosophical Association: Conference on Teaching Philosophy, Williams College,   1981.

Sabbatical year at Oxford University, 1977-78.

Council for Philosophical Studies: Institute on Law and Ethics, Williams College, 1977.

Ralph W. Church Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley, (declined) 1971.

            James Sutton Fellowship in Philosophy,
         University of California, Berkeley, 1969- 70.

Undergraduate Prize in the Humanities, Stanford University, 1966.

E.R. Crosset Scholarship, Stanford University, 1965-66.

Other Professional Activities

 

         Program Committee, American Philosophical Association,
         Pacific Division, (2005-2008); (Chair, for the 2007 meeting)

         Executive Committee, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, (2005 - 7).

         Nominating Committee (Chair), American Philosophical        Association, Pacific Division(2000/2001)

University Faculty Senator, UNM (1982/84, 1995/97);

Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division,(1995-98);

Departmental Director of Graduate Studies, UNM (1980/81, 1982/83, 1986-1990,1993/94);

Acting Department Chair, UNM (1981/82 and second semester 1986/87); 

AssistantEditor: Guidebook to Publishing in Philosophy (2nd Ed.,APA, 1986);

Referee for Ethics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Nous,  Hume Studies, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Philosophical Quarterly, Inquiry;

Organized Brian O'Neil Memorial Lectures in The History of Philosophy(endowed annual lectures, UNM, 1985-2007) 

 

 

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