CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

NAME

     James William Forrester

 

 

EDUCATION

1962      B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis, MD.

1968      Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

 

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

2004- Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Wyoming.

1988-2004, Professor, Department of Philosophy,

            University of Wyoming; Department Head, 1985-1991,

1998-2002;

 

            1977-88, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,

University of Wyoming.  Tenure granted in 1977.         

 

            1973-77, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,

                        University of Wyoming.

 

            1968-73, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,          

                        Columbia University.

 

            1966-68, Instructor in Philosophy, Columbia University.     

            1964-66, Junior Instructor (T.A.) in Introductory Philosophy

            and in Logic, The Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

PUBLISHED WORKS

 

Books:

 

James Wm. Forrester, Why You Should:  The Pragmatics of Deontic Speech; University Press of New England (for Brown University Press); 1989.

 

James Wm. Forrester, Being Good and Being Logical: Philosophical Groundwork for a New Deontic Logic; M.E. Sharpe, New York; 1996.

 

            Refereed Journal Articles:

 

"Plato's Parmenides:  The Argument of the First Hypothesis"; J. Hist. Phil. X, 1 (January, 1972).

 

"The Argument of the Porphyry Text"; J. Hist. Phil. XI, 4 (October, 1973).

 

"Arguments an Able Man Could Refute:  Parmenides 133b-134e"; Phronesis, Vol. XIX, 3; 1974.

 

"Some Perils of Paulinity"; Phronesis, Vol. XX, 1; 1975.

 

"'If, in thought, all composition be removed . . .'" Kant-Studien, Heft 4, 1980.

 

"The Principle of Interpretive Charity"; Southwest Philosophical Studies, 1983.

 

"Henry Teloh's The Development of Plato's Metaphysics" (critical review); Nous, XVIII, 3  (September, 1984).

 

"Gentle Murder, or the Adverbial Samaritan"; Journal of Philosophy, April, 1984.

 

"Scott Austin's Parmenides:  Being, Bounds, and Logic" (critical review);  Nous, September, 1989.

 

"Martin Benjamin's Splitting the Difference" (critical review); Nous; 1993.

 

"Pelletier's Parmenides, Plato and the Semantics of Not-Being" (critical review); Ancient Philosophy; 1993.

 

“Conflicts of Obligation”; American Philosophical Quarterly; 1995.

 

            Refereed Chapters in Books:

 

Chapters 3 and 4 of my book Why You Should: The Pragmatics of Deontic Speech appeared in a collection entitled Pragmatics:  Critical Assessment, edited by Prof. Asa Kasher of Tel-Aviv University, published by Routledge in 1995.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Manuscript Refereeing for the journals: Nous; Philosophical Studies; The Journal of the History of Philosophy; Ancient Philosophy; Philosophy Research Archives. 

 

For several book publishers.

 

 

PAPERS PRESENTED/SYMPOSIA/INVITED LECTURES/PROFESSIONALMEETINGS/WORKSHOPS

 

            Numerous lectures at universities such as:  Princeton, Columbia, Vanderbilt, California (San Diego), Pittsburgh, Nebraska, Colorado State.  Papers delivered to division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, and to the Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference.