Steven D. Hales Professor Department of Philosophy Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, PA 17815 email: hales@bloomu.edu phone: 570-389-4229 fax: 570-389-2094

Degrees

Ph.D. Brown University 1992

A.M. Brown University 1990

B.A. Southwestern University 1987

Areas of Specialization

Epistemology, metaphysics

Research Articles

"Moral Relativism and Evolutionary Psychology," Synthese (166:2, 2009), 431-448.

"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

"A Call to the Women's Center," Think (22:8, 2009) 25-28

"A Proof of the Existence of Fairies," Think (16, 2008) pp. 45-48.

"Editor's Introduction," Beer and Philosophy, ed. Steven D. Hales (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) pp. 1-11.

"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. 235-248.

"You Can Prove a Negative," Think (10, 2005) pp. 109-112.

Selected Conference Presentations

"No Time Travel for Presentists," International Philosophy Conference, Athens Institute for Teaching and Research, Athens, Greece, 2008

"Moral Relativism and Evolutionary Psychology," The Australasian Association of Philosophy (New Zealand Division) University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2007

"Moral Relativism, Pragmatism, and Evolutionary Psychology," International Conference on the Philosophy of Pragmatism, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, 2006

"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.

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

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; Curriculum Inquiry; Erkenntnis; Foundations of Science; History of Philosophy Quarterly; The Journal of Ethics; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies; Journal of Philosophical Research; 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.