David Boersema
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Professor of Philosophy
Douglas C. Strain Chair of Natural Philosophy
Distinguished University Professor
Office: Drake House 201 (map)
Office hours: TWTh 2:00-3:00
Office phone: 503-352-2150
Fax: 503-352-2242
Email: boersema@pacificu.edu
Schedule: Spring 2009
| Course | Time |
|---|---|
| Phil 315 Philosophy of Law | TTh 9:40-11:15 |
| Phil 403 20th Century Philosophy | TTh 1:00-2:00 |
Courses I Have Taught
Introduction to Philosophy
Ethics and Values
Critical Thinking
Language and Logic
Classical and Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy and the Modern World, 1500-1900
Twentieth Century Philosophy
Existentialism
Ethics, Medicine, and Health Care
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of Art
American Philosophy
Human Rights
Seminar in Philosophy of Math
Seminar in Semiotics
Seminar in Philosophy of Mind
Seminar in Philosophy of Language
Seminar on Nietzsche
Seminar on Eco
Honors Course: The Meaning of Modern Physics
Honors Course: Cosmology
History of Science
Introduction to Linguistics
The Middle East
Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
Philosophical and Theological Bases of Peace
Culture and Civilization
School and Society
First-Year Seminar
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy; Michigan State University; 1985
M.A. Philosophy; Michigan State University; 1978
B.A. Philosophy/Economics; Hope College; 1973
Publications
Books
Pragmatism and Reference, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009
Philosophy of Science, New York: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2008
Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace, co-editor with Katy Gray Brown, New York: Rodopi, 2006
Articles
“Aristotle” forthcoming in World History Encyclopedia. Ed. Kevin McGeough, ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2009
“Socrates” forthcoming in World History Encyclopedia. Ed. Kevin McGeough, ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2009
“Middle East and North America” In The Nineties in America. Ed. Milton Berman. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009. Pages 568-571
“What’s Wrong with Victims’ Rights?” forthcoming in Remembrance and Reconciliation. Eds. Dennis Rothermel and Ron Hirschbein. Rodopi Publishers, 2009
“Geach on Proper Names” In The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy: Volume 6, Epistemology. Eds. Stephen Voss and Dermot Moran. Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2008. Pages 37-42
“Ramsey Sentence” In American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge, 2008. Page 645
“Metaphysics” In American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pages 503-506
“Inference” In American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pages 394-395
“Logic: Deduction” In American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pages 471-472
“Epistemology” In American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pages 239-242
“Readers vs. Breeders” The Pantaneto Forum October 2007 (on-line journal; www.pantaneto.co.uk/issue28/boersema)
“Taking Compromise Seriously” In Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace. Eds. David Boersema and Katy Gray Brown. New York: Rodopi, 2006. Pages 161-167
“Moral Explanation” Bridges 13 (2006): 1-29
“Eco on Names and Reference” Contemporary Pragmatism 2 (2005): 167-184
“The Phenomenon of Evidence” The Pantaneto Forum January 2005 (on-line journal; www.pantaneto.co.uk/issue17/boersema)
“Mind, Metaphysics, and the Unity of Science” Behavioral & Brain Sciences 27 (2004): 627-628
“Victims’ Rights” In Ethics, Revised Edition. Ed. John K. Roth. Salem Press, 2005. Pages 1547-9
“Peirce and Sartre on Consciousness and the Ego” Philosophy Now #43 (Oct/Nov 2003): 12-15
“American Philosophy” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (www.iep.utm.edu), April 2004
“Human Rights” in Global Studies Encyclopedia, Moscow: Raduga Press, 2003. Pages 240-245
“Metaphysics” in Global Studies Encyclopedia, Moscow: Raduga Press, 2003. Pages 342-346
“Peirce on Explanation” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17 (2003): 224-236
“Peirce on Names and Reference” Transactions of the Charles S.Peirce Society 37 (2002): 351- 362
“The Internet, Epistemology and Ontology” in Journal of Education, Community, and Values, Vol. 2, #8 (August 2002) (on-line journal; bcis.pacificu.edu)
“Introduction” in Essays in Philosophy v. 3 #2 (June 2002) (www.humboldt.edu/~essays)
“Wittgenstein on Names” in Essays in Philosophy v. 1, #2 (June 2000)
“Donald Davidson” in World Philosophers and Their Works, ed. by John K. Roth, Salem Press, 2000. Pages 435-441
“Saul Kripke” in World Philosophers and Their Works, ed. by John K. Roth, Salem Press, 2000. Pages 1025-1031
“Thomas Kuhn” in American National Biography, ed. by John Garraty, Oxford University Press, 1999 (on-line, no page numbers)
“Alonzo Church” in American National Biography, ed. by John Garraty, Oxford University Press, 1999. Pages 863-864
“Inductivism, Naturalism, and Metascientific Theories” In The Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the IPS Spring Conference, 1997, ed. by Thomas A. F. Kelly, Irish Philosophical Society (pub.), 1998. Pages 55-73
“The Use of Real and Imaginary Cases in Communicating the Nature of Science” In The Nature of Science in Science Education: Rationales and Strategies, ed. by W. McComas, Kluwer Publishing Co., 1998. Pages 255-266. (Updated version forthcoming in 2nd edition of this book, 2006)
“Pragmatism, Rights, Community” Contemporary Philosophy 19 (1997): 3-8
“Mass Extinctions and the Teaching of Philosophy of Science” Teaching Philosophy 19 (1996): 263-274
“Rights and Moral Compromise” Contemporary Philosophy 17(1995): 2-5 (Reprinted in Law, Justice, and Culture, ed. by P. Koller and A-J. Arnaud. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pages 24-29)
“What's Wrong With Rights?” In Law, Justice and the State. Aleksander Peczenik & Mikael M. Karlsson (eds.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. Pages 149-155
“Nemesis and Theory Evaluation” Methodology & Science 27 (1994): 209-220
“Is the Descriptivist/Cluster Theory of Reference ‘Wrong From the Fundamentals’?” Philosophy Research Archives 14(1988/89): 517-538
“The Irrelevance of the Realism/Nonrealism Debate” Methodology & Science 21(1988): 88-96
Essay review of R.J. Ackermann's Data, Instruments, and Theory, Methodology & Science 20(1987): 63-70
“Social Control in a Second Grade Classroom” In Toward a Theory of Teachers' Practical Ways of Seeing and Making Sense, Frederick Erickson, et al. Pages 1-62. Institute for Research on Teaching, 1986
“Epistemological Commitments of Information Theory” Methodology & Science 18 (1985): 1-11
“Teacher Determination of Student Identity” In Toward a Theory of Student Status as Socially Constructed. Frederick Erickson, et al. Pages 9-17. Institute for Research on Teaching, Occasional Paper No. 88, 1985
“Peirce on Man as Language” Kinesis 13 (1984): 65-76
Reviews
Review of M. Hussain and R. Wilkinson’s The Pursuit of Comparative Aesthetics, Essays in Philosophy vol 9 #2 2008 (online journal; www.humboldt.edu/~essays)
Review of B. Moran’s Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution, Bridges 14 (2008): 361-365
Review of A. Dershowitz’s Rights from Wrongs, Essays in Philosophy vol. 8 #2 2007
Review of S. Haack’s Pragmatism: Old and New, Essays in Philosophy vol. 8 #1 2007
Review of S. Soames’s Reference and Description, Bridges 13 (2006): 184-189
Review of J.S. Robert’s Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution, Essays in Philosophy vol. 7 #1 2006
Review of M. Weber’s Philosophy of Experimental Biology, Essays in Philosophy vol. 7 #1 2006
Review of P. C. Bube and J. Geller’s (eds.) Conversations with Pragmatism: A Multi-Disciplinary Study, Contemporary Pragmatism 1(2004): 179-182
Review of Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter #99 (Oct. 2004): 21-28
Review of T. Kuhn’s The Road Since Structure Essays in Philosophy vol. 5, #2, June 2004
Review of J. Habermas’s The Liberating Power of Symbols Essays in Philosophy vol. 5, #1 Jan. 2004
Review of J. Habermas’s The Postnational Constellation, Essays in Philosophy vol. 5, #1 January 2004
Review of J. Conant and U. Zeglen’s (eds.) Hilary Putnam Essays in Philosophy v. 4, no. 1; Jan. 2003
Review of S. Shapiro's Thinking About Mathematics Teaching Philosophy, 25, No. 3 (2002): 261-265
Review of J. Brown's Philosophy of Mathematics Teaching Philosophy, 25, No. 3 (2002): 261- 265
Review of M. Friedman's Reconsidering Logical Positivism, Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 1, Jan. 2002
Review of J. Garcia's Metaphysics and Its Task, Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan. 2001
Review of L. Filius's The Problemata Physica Attributed to Aristotle, Biblioteca Orientalis Vol. LVII, No. 5/6 (2000): 745-747
Review of B. Singer's Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter, June 2000: 27-29
Review of K. Sterelny & P. Griffiths's Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology, Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 2000
Review of D. Hull & M. Ruse's The Philosophy of Biology, Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 2000
Review of R. Kearney & M. Rainwater's The Continental Philosophy Reader Teaching Philosophy 20 (1997): 193-196
Review of W. V. Quine's Selected Logic Papers and From Stimulus to Science Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter October 1996: 9-10
Review of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World Teaching Philosophy 19 (1996): 83-84
Review of Toby Huff's The Rise of Early Modern Science Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 29 (1995): 243-244
Review of David Lightfoot's The Language Lottery American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy June (1988): 17
Review of Anthony Gilles's The Evolution of Philosophy American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy June (1988): 18
Review of D. VanDeVeer and T. Regan's Health Care Ethics: An Introduction, American Journal of Occupational Therapy 42 (1988) #1: 62
Review of C. Hookway's Peirce, Teaching Philosophy 9 (1986): 372-373
Review of I. Hacking’s Representing and Intervening, Teaching Philosophy 8 (1985): 177-178
Other professional work
Executive Director for Concerned Philosophers for Peace
General editor for Essays in Philosophy (beginning in January 2010)
Book Review editor for Teaching Philosophy
Area editor of American Philosophy for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Professional Organizations
American Philosophical Association
Philosophy of Science Association
History of Science Society
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Study of Biology
History of Earth Sciences Society
Sigma Xi
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Charles S. Peirce Society
AMINTAPHIL
Middle East Studies Association