Steven D. Hales
ProfessorDepartment of Philosophy
Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 17815
email: hales@bloomu.edu
phone: 570-389-4229
fax: 570-389-2094
| Steven D. HalesProfessorDepartment of Philosophy Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 17815 email: hales@bloomu.edu |
Ph.D. Brown University 1992
A.M. Brown University 1990
B.A. Southwestern University 1987
Beer and Philosophy(Blackwell Publishing forthcoming 2007) |
Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy(MIT Press, forthcoming 2006) |
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Delight in Thinking: An Introductory Reader(McGraw-Hill Publishing Co, 2006) co-edited with Scott C. Lowe; with pedagogical apparatus. |
 | Analytic Philosophy: Classic Readings(Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2001) Edited, with preface and introduction. |
 | Nietzsche's Perspectivism(University of Illinois Press, 2000) Co-authored with Rex Welshon |
 | Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings(Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1999) Edited, with prefaces and pedagogical apparatus. |
“The Traditional Problem of Free Will,” Delight in Thinking: An Introductory Reader, eds. Scott C. Lowe and Steven D. Hales (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2006) pp. 235-248.
“A Trilemma for Philosophical Knowledge,” Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in Epistemology, ed. René van Woudenberg, Sabine Roeser, and Ron Rood (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2005) pp. 131-144.
"You Can Prove a Negative," Think (10, 2005) pp. 109-112.
"Intuition, Revelation, and Relativism," The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (12:4, 2004) pp. 271-295.
"Endurantism, Perdurantism, and Special Relativity," The Philosophical Quarterly (53:213, 2003) pp. 524-539. (with Timothy Johnson)
"Lynch's Metaphysical Pluralism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (63:3, 2001) pp. 699-709.
"Reincarnation Redux," Philosophia (28:1-4, 2001) pp. 359-367
"Evidence and the Afterlife," Philosophia (28:1-4, 2001) pp. 335-346
"Recent Work on Nietzsche," American Philosophical Quarterly (37:4, 2000) pp. 313-333.
"The Problem of Intuition," American Philosophical Quarterly (37:2, 2000) pp. 135-147.
"Nietzsche, Perspectivism and Mental Health," Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology (6:3, 1999) pp. 173-177. (with Rex Welshon)
"An Epistemologist Looks at the Hot Hand in Sports," Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (26, 1999) pp. 79-87
"Reply to Shogenji on Relativism," Mind (106:424, 1997) pp. 749-750
"Ockham's Disposable Razor," The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy: Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Paul Weingartner, Gerhard Schurz, and Georg Dorn, eds. (Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1997) pp. 356-361
"A Consistent Relativism", Mind (106:421, 1997) pp. 33-52
"Nietzsche on Logic," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (56:4, 1996) pp. 819-835
"Abortion and Fathers' Rights," Biomedical Ethics Reviews: Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, J.M. Humber and R.F. Almeder, eds. (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1996) pp. 5-26
"More on Fathers' Rights," Biomedical Ethics Reviews: Reproduction, Technology, and Rights, J.M. Humber and R.F. Almeder, eds. (Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1996) pp. 43-49
"The Impossibility of Unconditional Love," Public Affairs Quarterly (9:4, 1995) pp. 317-320
"Epistemic Closure Principles," Southern Journal of Philosophy (33:2, 1995) pp. 185-201
"Was Nietzsche a Consequentialist?," International Studies in Philosophy (27:3, 1995) pp. 25-34
"Self-Deception and Belief Attribution," Synthese (101:2, 1994) pp. 273-289
"Certainty and Phenomenal States," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (24:1, 1994) pp. 57-72
"Truth, Paradox, and Nietzschean Perspectivism," History of Philosophy Quarterly (11:1, 1994) pp. 101-119 (with Rex Welshon) Reprinted in Nietzsche, ed. Richard White (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2002).
"The Recurring Problem of the Third Man," Auslegung (17:1, 1991) pp. 67-80
"Time for Change," International Philosophy Conference, Athens Institute for Teaching and Research, Athens, Greece, 2006
"Perdurantism, Change, and Special Relativity," 28th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 2005.
"Can Science Debunk Rational Intuition?" 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003
"Moral Intuitions and Moral Relativism," 3rd Global Conference of Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, Prague, Czech Republic, 2002
"Relativism at the Foundations," The Epistemology of Basic Belief, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2001
"Why Perdurantism Follows from Special Relativity," International Congress of Metaphysics for the Third Millennium, Rome, Italy, 2000.
"The Problem of Intuition," 3rd European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Maribor, Slovenia, 1999.
"Ockham's Disposable Razor," 20th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 1997.
"A Consistent Relativism," American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, 1995.
Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Bloomsburg University, 2006
Resident Scholar at the Whitehall Museum House, Middletown, Rhode Island, 2004
Elected to Phi Kappa Phi honor society, 2001
Dean's Salute for Excellence, Bloomsburg University, 1998
Richard M. Griffith Memorial Award, awarded by The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1995
Referee for American Philosophical Quarterly; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Foundations of Science; History of Philosophy Quarterly; The Journal of Ethics; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies; Journal of Philosophical Research; Philosophical Psychology; The Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology; Synthese; Theoria