May, 2009
CURRICULUM VITA
Philip T. Grier
Thomas Bowman Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Department of Philosophy
Dickinson College
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 19013
Tel. (717) 245-1250
E-mail: grier@dickinson.edu
Education:
Swarthmore College B.A. with High Honors in
1960-64 Philosophy, Psychology, and
English literature
Balliol College, B.A./M.A. in Philosophy,
Oxford, 1964-66 Politics, and Economics
University of Michigan Ph.D. in Philosophy and
1966-68 Political Science (l973);
Certificate in Russian and
Soviet Area Studies (l968)
Areas of Specialization:
Hegel and 19th Century Philosophy
Political and Social Philosophy
Ethics; Philosophy of Law
History of Modern Philosophy
Russian Philosophy
Employment:
Thomas Bowman Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Dickinson College
(Since 1997)
Professor of Philosophy
Dickinson College
(since 1990)
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Dickinson College
Carlisle, Pa. 17013
1980-1990
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill.
1973-80
Lecturer in Russian Studies
University of Keele
Staffordshire, U.K.
1969-73 (with tenure, 1971)
Publications:
Books published :
Marxist Ethical Theory in the Soviet Union (Dordrecht/Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978, vol. 40 in the Sovietica Series, 276+vii pp.)
Dialectic and Contemporary Science: Essays in Honor of Errol E. Harris, Edited and with an Introduction by Philip T. Grier (University Press of America, 1989, 235+xxvi pp., 1989)
Identity and Difference: Studies in Hegel’s Logic, Philosophy of Spirit and Politics, ed. Philip T. Grier (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007).
Forthcoming works:
Translator (from the Russian) and Editor: I.A. Il’in, The Philosophy of Hegel as a Doctrine of the Concreteness of God and Humanity, 1918 (a 2-volume commentary on Hegel), with Editorial Introduction. (Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2010)
“Adventures in Dialectic and Intuition: Shpet, Il’in, and Losev,” in Russian Philosophy: A History from 1830-1930, ed. Gary Hamburg and Randall Poole (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009/10).
“The Relation of Mind to Nature: Two Paradigms,” Presidential Address for the Hegel Society of America, 2009. (In preparation for publication in a volume of articles on Hegel’s philosophy of subjective spirit).
Works in progress:
The Possibility of Ethics: An Introduction to Ethical Theory
Published articles, chapters, and entries in reference works:
“Gustav Shpet and the Semiotics of ‘Living Discourse’” in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, (2009) vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 61-68.
“Errol E. Harris” entry in American Philosophers 1850-2000, ed. Philip B. Dematteis & Leemon B. McHenry, vol. 279 in The Dictionary of Literary Biography series (Michigan: Thomson Gale, 2003) pp. 81-88.
“The Russian Idea and the West” in Russia and Western Civilization, Russell Bova, ed., (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003), pp 23-77.
Entry on E.N. Trubetskoi in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy On-Line (available since 2003).
Conference Report on "Hegel at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy," The Owl of Minerva, Vol. 30, No. 1, (Fall, 1998), pp. 119-27.
Entries on Il'in, Shpet, and Kropotkin for The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Second Edition, Robert Audi, General Editor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1999).
"The End of History, and the Return of History," in The Hegel Myths and Legends, Ed. Jon Stewart (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996), reprint (slightly revised) of the article originally published in The Owl of Minerva, Vol 21, No. 2 (Spring, 1990).
The article on "I.A. Il'in" for The Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. 4, pp. 692-96. (Also available in the on-line edition since 2003)
"The Speculative Concrete: I.A. Il'in's Interpretation of Hegel," Hegel, History and Interpretation, Ed. Shaun Gallagher, SUNY Press, (1997), pp. 169-93. Translated into Russian and published in an Appendix to I.A., Il’in, Filosofiia Gegelia kak uchenie o konkretnosti Boga I cheloveka. Tom vtoroi. Uchenie o cheloveke. Sostavlenie i kommentarii Yu. T. Lisitsa (Moskva: Russkaia kniga, 2002). The original English version of the article was also re-published in the same volume.
"The Complex Legacy of I.A. Il'in," in Russian Thought After Communism: the Recovery of a Philosophical Heritage, Ed. James Scanlan, (Armonk, NY and London, England: M.E. Sharpe, 1994, pp. 165-186.
"Abstract and Concrete in Hegel's Logic," in Essays on Hegel's Logic, George di Giovanni, Ed., (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), pp. 59-75.
"Modern Ethical Theory and Newtonian Science," in Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, Ed. Phillip Bricker and R.I.G. Hughes, (Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1990), pp. 227-39.
"George L. Kline's Influence on the Study of Russian and Soviet Philosophy in the United States," in Philosophical Sovietology, (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1988), pp. 243-66.
"On Clarity, Integrity, and Philosophical Vision", in The Life of Transcendental Ego, Casey and Morano, eds., (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1986).
"O.I. Dzioev: A Soviet Critique of Structuralist Social Theory", in Blakeley, et al, The Varieties of Contemporary Marxism, (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983).
"Engels, Kautsky, and neo-Kantian Ethical Theory", translated into Chinese and published in the Journal of Foreign Social Science (Guowai shehui Koxue), 1980, no. 8, Peking, (excerpted from my book on Marxist ethical theory).
"The Influence of Hegel on Soviet Ethical Theory", (translated into Chinese), Journal of Foreign Social Science, Peking, 1980, no. 9 (excerpted from my book on Marxist ethical theory).
"Kantian Ethics and Soviet Deontological Theories", (translated into Chinese), Journal of Foreign Social Science, Peking, 1980, no. 10, (excerpted from my book on Marxist ethical theory).
Editorial Work:
Guest Editor, Russian Studies in Philosophy, Fall, 1994, Vol. 33, No. 2:
The Fate of Philosophy in 20th Century Russia
Special Editor, The Owl of Minerva, Volume 32, Number 1 (Fall, 2000).
Book Reviews:
Review of War and Moral Responsibility, Cohen, Nagel, and Scanlon, eds., for Teaching Philosophy, Spring, 1976 ("Fighting Moral Wars Morally, Where Possible").
Review of Karl Kautsky, 1854-1938: Marxism in the Classical Years, by Gary Steenson, for Studies in Soviet Thought, 1981, no. 2.
Review of John Smith's Purpose and Thought: The Meaning of American Pragmatism, in Teaching Philosophy, 1980, pp. 379ff.
Review of André Liebich, Between Ideology and Utopia: The Politics and Philosophy of August Cieszkowski, in Slavic Review, Fall, 1981.
Review of Morris Eames, Pragmatic Naturalism: An Introduction, in Teaching Philosophy, January, 1982.
Review of H. J. Kannegeisser, Knowledge and Science, in Teaching Philosophy, January, 1982.
Review of Hugh Collins, Marxism and Law, for Canadian Philosophical Reviews, vol. IV, no. 5, October, 1984, pp. 187-90.
Review of Paul Phillips, Marx and Engels on Law and Laws, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, vol. V, no. 2 (Feb., 1985).
Review of Gillian Rose, Dialectic of Nihilism, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, vol. VI, no. 4, (April, 1986).
Review of James P. Scanlan, Marxism in the U.S.S.R., for Slavic Review, vol. 45, no. 2 (Summer, 1986).
Review of Rockmore, et. al, Marxism and Alternatives for Noûs, vol. 21, no. 1 (March, 1987).
Review of Father Copleston, Philosophy in Russia, for The Russian Review, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 460-61.
Review of Vera Ammer, Gottmenschentum und Menschgottum: Zur Auseinandersetzung von Christentum und Atheismus im russichen Denken, for The Russian Review, Vol. 49, No. 1 (January, 1990).
Review of Alexander Vucinich, Darwin in Russia, for Science (18 August, 1989).
Review of Errol Harris, The Reality of Time, for The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Winter, 1990.
Review of Daniel P. Todes, Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought (Oxford University Press, 1989) for Russian History/Histoire Russe, Fall, 1991, pp. 364-65.
Review of Science and the Social Order, Loren Graham, Ed., (Harvard University Press, 1990) for The Russian Review, April, 1992.
Review of Howard P. Kainz, Paradox, Dialectic, and System: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the Hegelian Problematic (University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988), pp. x + 137 for Idealistic Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, Sept. 1992.
Review of David Bakhurst, Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1991, for the International Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming.
Review of Allen W. Wood, Hegel's Ethical Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1990 for The Owl of Minerva, Fall, 1993.
Review of Harry Brod, Hegel's Philosophy of Politics: Idealism, Identity, and Modernity, Westview Press, 1992, for The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XLVI, No. 4, June, 1993.
Review of Loren Graham, Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History, Cambridge University Press, 1993, for the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 26, no. 2 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 316-17.
Review of Kuvalik, A History of Russian Philosophy, 2 vols., Prometheus Press, 1993, for Metaphilosophy, vol. 25 nos 2&3 (April/July, 1994), pp. 228-232.
Review of Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia, Stanford University Press, 1995, for The Canadian-American Slavic Review, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 205-07.
Review of Burns, Ed., After History? Francis Fukuyama and his Critics, Littlefield Adams, for The Owl of Minerva, Vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 94-98.
Review of Alexander Martin, Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries: Russia's Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997), for The Russian Review, Vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 147-48.
Review of Kornblatt and Gustafson, Eds., Russian Religious Thought, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996) for Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-4 (1998), pp. 423-25.
Review of Bulgakov, Sergei, Philosophy of Economy, Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Catherine Evtuhov (New Haven and London:Yale University Press, 2000) for Canadian-American Slavic Studies, Vol. 35, no. 4 (Winter, 2001), pp. 457-58.