·I
have taught here since 1972, with the exception of a year (1976-1977) at
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor under a National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Residence for College
Teachers and a year in London (1984-85) on an exchange with the University
of North London. On my return from London I accepted the role as Co-ordinator
of "Modern Western Thought", a course required (until recently) of all
our students under the General Education requirements of the college. Since
its inception, I have also taught in the "Prejudice and Discrimination"
category of our General Education program. I have participated in faculty
and institutional development of such courses paired with composition courses.
Thus I have been heavily involved in what passes for interdisciplinary
education at Cortland.
·I am also heavily involved in computer and internet resources and pedagogy. I proposed (and after it was initiated I co-moderated) a listserv(DIVERSE) for the American Association of Colleges and Universities. I run workshops on various occasions on using the internet as a resource for teaching issues in gender, race and class.
·I am the UUP Chapter President for SUNY Cortland and have served on the statewide UUP Grievance Committee for a number of years until transferring recently to the statewide committee which deals with "Technology and Higher Education".
·In the Cortland community I have co-chaired (with Jamie Dangler in Sociology/Anthropology) a local community group call CURB--short for "Clean Up Rosen Brothers". The group applied for and received a $50,000 EPA Superfund grant to provide input on Cortland's toxic waste site, rated as one of the top 200 most important sites in the US. We are still struggling to achieve a cleanup that will not permanently burden the community.
·I have published papers on "Hume's Theory of the Self and its Identity" and on "Analogy and Inference", both in Dialogue and both with co-authors, which must be some kind of distinction, as co-authored papers are rare in philosophy.
