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Professor James Swindler

Emeritus
Philosophy
Office Hours
M, 4-5; W, 2-3
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Biography

Raised in a small Kansas town. Veteran, USAF. BA, MA, PhD, University of Kansas (KU). Teaching: KU 74-77; Westminster College ‘77-‘95; University of Miami, '83; Wittenberg University ‘95-‘00; ISU, ‘00- . Married, two children.

Teaching Interests & Areas

Metaphysics, Ethics, History of Philosophy.

Research Interests & Areas

Click on this link to read the vita for James Swindler: http://philosophy.illinoisstate.edu/faculty/?control=facultyProfile&ID=jkswind&dept=Philosophy

University of Kansas (KU)
Lawrence, KS

University of Kansas (KU)
Lawrence, KS

Philosophy (Honors) & English

University of Kansas (KU)
Lawrence, KS

Visiting Research Fellow

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
2014

Sabbatical

Illinois State University
2013

Sabbatical

Illinois State University
2006

Fellow

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Summer Institute
1998

Fellow

Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago
1996

Sabbatical and travel grant

Westminster College
1991

Visiting Research Fellow

Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah
1991

Fellow

National Endowment for the Humanities Institute , University of California, Santa Cruz
1990

Sabbatical

Westminster College
1984

Fellow

National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, Indiana University
1982

Book, Authored

Swindler, J. International Perspectives on Pragmatism. Peter Hare, Michel Weber, Oana-Maria Pastae, Cerasel Cuteanu (EDs). Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2009)
Swindler, J. Weaving: An Analysis of the Constitution of Objects. Rowman and Littlefield (1991)

Book, Chapter

Swindler, J. Fathering for Freedom. Michael Austin and Lon Nease (EDs), Fatherhood. Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
Swindler, J. Rationalist Grounds for Pragmatist Democracy. Peter Hare, Michel Weber, J. K. Swindler, Oana-Maria Pastae and Cerasel Cuteanu (EDs), International Perspectives on Pragmatism. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2009)

Conference Proceeding

Swindler, J. Does Strawson’s ‘Reconciliation’ Apply to Groups?. Southwestern Philosophical Society (2011)
Swindler, J. Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility. Joint Meeting of Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2011)
Swindler, J. Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (2011)
Swindler, J. The Gap as Status Function. Collective Intentionality VII, Special Session on Recent Work of John Searle (2010)

Journal Article

Swindler, J. Does Strawson’s ‘Reconciliation’ Apply to Groups?. Southwest Philosophy Review 28.1 (2012): 135-147.
Swindler, J. Autonomy and Accountability. Southwest Philosophy Review. Southwest Philosophy Review 26.1 (2010)
Swindler, J. Autonomy and Accountability. Appraisal. Appraisal 8.2 (2010)
Swindler, J. Particles and People: A Reply to Allori on the Free Will Theorem. Joint Meeting of the Illinois and Indiana Philosophical Associations (2010)
Swindler, J. The Gap as Status Function. Berkeley Social Ontology Group (2010)

Newspaper, Regular Column

Swindler, J. Southwest Philosophy Review Articles. Southwest Philosophy Review. Southwest Philosophy Review (1993)

Other

Swindler, J. Response to Forcehimes on Whether Gaus's Order of Public Reason is a Mere Modus Viviendi. Southwestern Philosophical Society. Southwest Philosophy Review 29.2 (2013)

Presentations

Social Roles and Moral Law. Collective Intentionality IX. International Social Ontology Society. (2014)
Social Roles and Moral Law. Theorizing Roles and Collective Intentionality. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. (2014)
Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress. University of Colorado. (2011)
The Gap as Status Function. Collective Intentionality VII. (2010)
Autonomy and Accountability. International Conference on Persons. University of Nottingham. (2009)
Autonomy, the Democratic Attitude, and Social Change. Collective Intentionality VI. University of Californian-Berkeley. (2008)
Justifying Social Change. 25th International Social Philosophy Conference. North American Society for Social Philosophy. (2008)
Rationalist Grounds for Pragmatist Democracy. Democracy and Pragmatism. Brancusi University. (2007)
Blueberries: Knowledge A Positio. Central States Philosophical Association. University of Memphis. (2006)
Normativity: From Individual to Collective. Collective Intentionality V. University of Helsinki. (2006)