Professor James Swindler
Emeritus
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
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
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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
Fellow
National Science Foundation Seminar, Linda Hall Library
1978
Review of Metaphysics Dissertation Essay Prize
Review of Metaphysics
1978
Member
Phi Beta Kappa
1973
Book, Authored
International Perspectives on Pragmatism
James K Swindler.
(2009), Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Weaving: An Analysis of the Constitution of Objects
James K Swindler.
(1991), Rowman and Littlefield
Book, Chapter
Fathering for Freedom
James K Swindler.
(2011), Fatherhood, Wiley-Blackwell
Rationalist Grounds for Pragmatist Democracy
James K Swindler.
(2009), International Perspectives on Pragmatism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Conference Proceeding
Does Strawson’s ‘Reconciliation’ Apply to Groups?
James K Swindler.
Southwestern Philosophical Society, (2011)
Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility
James K Swindler.
Joint Meeting of Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (2011)
The Gap as Status Function
James K Swindler.
Collective Intentionality VII, Special Session on Recent Work of John Searle, (2010)
Journal Article
Does Strawson’s ‘Reconciliation’ Apply to Groups?
James K Swindler.
Southwest Philosophy Review, 28 (1), 135-147, (2012)
Autonomy and Accountability
James K Swindler.
Southwest Philosophy Review, 26 (1), (2010)
Particles and People: A Reply to Allori on the Free Will Theorem
James K Swindler.
Joint Meeting of the Illinois and Indiana Philosophical Associations, (2010)
Bringing Oneself Under the Concept of Law: Bootstrapping Autonomy from Private Language
James K Swindler.
LIT Verlag, (2009)
Normativity: From Individual to Collective
James K Swindler.
Journal of Social Philosophy, 39 (1), (2008)
Newspaper, Regular Column
Southwest Philosophy Review Articles
James K Swindler.
Southwest Philosophy Review, (1993)
Other
Response to Forcehimes on Whether Gaus's Order of Public Reason is a Mere Modus Viviendi
James K Swindler.
Southwest Philosophy Review, 29 (2), (2013)
Presentations
Social Roles and Moral Law
James Swindler.
Collective Intentionality IX, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, , 2014
Social Roles and Moral Law
James Swindler.
Theorizing Roles and Collective Intentionality, University of Edinburgh, , 2014
Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility
James Swindler.
Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO, , 2011
The Gap as Status Function
James Swindler.
Collective Intentionality VII, Basel, Switzerland, , 2010
Autonomy and Accountability
James Swindler.
International Conference on Persons, Nottingham, England, , 2009
Justifying Social Change
James Swindler.
25th International Social Philosophy Conference, University of Portland, , 2008
Autonomy, the Democratic Attitude, and Social Change
James Swindler.
Collective Intentionality VI, Berkeley, CA, , 2008
Rationalist Grounds for Pragmatist Democracy
James Swindler.
Democracy and Pragmatism, T̂ârgu Jiu, Romania, , 2007
Blueberries: Knowledge A Positio
James Swindler.
Central States Philosophical Association, Memphis, TN, , 2006
Normativity: From Individual to Collective
James Swindler.
Collective Intentionality V, Helsinki, Finland, , 2006
The Private Language Argument and Normative Freedom
James Swindler.
The Cogito, ,” International Congress on Person and Society, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga, 2005, Braga, Portugal, , 2005
Finding Ourselves: Butchvarov on the Dream Argument
James Swindler.
Conference Exploring the Thought of Panayot Butchvarov, Geneseo, NY, , 2004