Publications
"Particular Cases and Immediate Moral Recognition," Philosophy in Context (vol. 16,
1986)
"A Criterion for Determining Negativity and Positivity of Duties," Tulane Studies in
Philosophy, 1985
"Saving Life and Taking Life," (see below), included in Killing and Letter Die, Bonnie
Steinbock, ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs,N. J., 1980.
"The Nonequivalency of Saving Life and Not Taking Life," The Journal of Medicine and
Philosophy, (1979, vol. 4, no. 3)
"The Presumption Against Taking Life," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (vol. III,
no. 1, 1978)
"Euthanasia and the Law," Journal of Social Philosophy (Jan., 1978)
"Fairness, Utility and Survival," (jointly authored with Tom Wren), Philosophy (52:1977)
"Tooley's Moral Symmetry Principle," Philosophy and Public Affairs (Spring, 1976)
"Arithmetic and Conventionalism," The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy (VII, 3)
"Saving Life and Taking Life," The Journal of Philosophy (March 13, 1975)
"Charles S. Peirce and Henry James the Elder," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society (Fall, 1973)
"Religion, Reason and Instinct in the Philosophy of C. S. Peirce," Transactions of the
Charles S. Peirce Society (Winter, 1972)
"Peirce's Final Opinion," Transactions of the XVth World Congress of Philosophy (Varna,
Bulgaria, 1973)
"Review of Paul Ramsey's Fabricated Man,:" Union Seminary Quarterly (Summer, 1971)
"Religion and Artificial Insemination," Christianity and Crisis (Dec. 23, 1968)
(11 of the above publications are indexed in Philosopher's Index)
Dissertation
Ph.D.Thesis, "Charles S. Peirce's Understanding of Religion"
B. D. Thesis,"Linguistic Philosophy and the Meaning of Statements about God"
Grants and Distinctions
Who's Who Among America's Teachers (fifth edition, 1998, also ninth edition, 2004-2005)
Who's Who in the East, 16th edition
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on "The Plausibility of Utilitarianism,"
under the leadership of Professor Richard B. Brandt, summer 1975
Outstanding Educators of America, 1975
Research Grant from American Philosophical Society (Dec., 1971) for study of Charles S.
Peirce
Columbia University President's Fellow, 1969-1970
Union Seminary B.D., cum laude
Berea College, Austin Scholar and Phi Kappa Phi
GRE scores: 99 percentile quantitative, 98 percentile verbal
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Grove City College, 1971-present
Visiting Teacher, Penn State at Sharon, various times in 1970's and 1980's
Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, 1970-1971
Tutor at Union Theological Seminary, 1969
Instructor in Philosophy at Morehead State University, 1967
Addresses
"Negative and Positive Duties," read at Eastern APA meeting, Washington, D. C., Dec. 19,
1974
"Peirce's Conception of God," read at annual meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Atlanta,
Georgia, Dec. 28, 1973
"Peirce's Final Opinion," read at XVth World Congress of Philosophy, Varna, Bulgaria, Sept.,
1973 (in session chaired by A. J. Ayer)