| Steven D. HalesProfessorDepartment of Philosophy Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, PA 17815 email: hales@bloomu.edu |
| Degrees |
Ph.D. Brown University 1992
A.M. Brown University 1990
B.A. Southwestern University 1987
| Areas of Specialization |
Epistemology, metaphysics
This is Philosophy: An IntroductionWiley-Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming, 2013
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Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy |
Nietzsche's Perspectivism University of Illinois Press, 2000 |
Beer and PhilosophyBlackwell Publishing, 2007 |
What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your DogOpen Court Publishing, 2008 |
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What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your CatOpen Court Publishing, 2008 |
Delight in Thinking: An Introductory Reader (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co, 2006) |
Analytic Philosophy: Classic Readings Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2001 |
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Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1999 |
| Research Articles |
"The Faculty of Intuition," Analytic Philosophy (53:2, 2012) pp. 180-207.
"Reply to Licon on Time Travel," Logos & Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology (2:4, 2011) pp. 633-636.
"No Time Travel for Presentists," Logos & Episteme: An International Journal of Epistemology (1:2, 2010) pp. 353-360.
"Moral Relativism and Evolutionary Psychology," Synthese (166:2, 2009) pp. 431-447.
"What to Do About Incommensurable Doxastic Perspectives," Philosophia Christi (11:1, 2009) pp. 209-214.
"A Relativist's Rejoinder," The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (16:2, 2008) pp. 271-278.
"Time for Change," Southern Journal of Philosophy (45:4, 2007, with Timothy Johnson) pp. 497-513.
"Why the U.S. is Not the Best Country in the World," The Good Society (15:2, 2006) pp. 35-40.
“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.
"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)
"The Recurring Problem of the Third Man," Auslegung(17:1, 1991) pp. 67-80
| Popular Articles |
"Putting Claus Back Into Christmas," Christmas and Philosophy, ed. Scott C. Lowe (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) pp. 161-171
"Cycling and Philosophical Lessons Learned the Hard Way," Cycling and Philosophy, eds. Mike Martin and Jésus Ilundáin (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) pp. 162-172
"A Call to the Women's Center," Think (22:8, 2009) pp. 25-28
"A Proof of the Existence of Fairies," Think (16, 2008) pp. 45-48.
"Mill v. Miller, or Higher and Lower Pleasures," Beer and Philosophy, ed. Steven D. Hales (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) pp. 97-109.
“The Traditional Problem of Free Will,” Delight in Thinking: An Introductory Reader, eds. Steven D. Hales and Scott C. Lowe (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2006) pp. 23
"You Can Prove a Negative," Think (10, 2005) pp. 109-112. 5-248.
| Selected Awards |
Visiting Professorial Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, School for Advanced Study, University of London, 2009
National Semi-Finalist, Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, 2009
Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Bloomsburg University, 2006
Outstanding Scholarship Award, College of Liberal Arts, 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
| Selected Professional Service |
Series editor for This is Philosophy, a multi-volume series published by Wiley-Blackwell (2011-present)
Member of the editorial board for
History of Philosophy Quarterly (2002-2005)
Episteme (2002-)
The Journal of Philosophical Economics (2007-)
Article Referee for American Philosophical Quarterly; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Curriculum Inquiry; Episteme; Erkenntnis; Foundations of Science; History of Philosophy Quarterly; Inquiry; International Journal of Philosophical Studies; The Journal of Ethics; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies; The Journal of Philosophical Research; Mind; Nous; Philosophical Papers; Philosophical Psychology; The Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology; Synthese; Theoria
Book referee for Oxford University Press, Wadsworth Publishing Co., Jones and Bartlett Publishing Co, Simon and Schuster Publishing Co., Macmillan Publishing Co.
Grant reviewer for The European Research Council, Flanders Research Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities