Christina River Institute

Personal: born Southall, Middlesex, England, 5/25/31; married to Dr. Nancy Breslin, 11/28/87; daughter Elisabeth (9); by previous marriage daughter Hilary (36) and son Matthew (34).

Education: B.Sc. (hons., Physics), London, 1952; Ph.D. (Philosophy), Yale, 1956.

Teaching and administration: natural science, Michigan State, 1956-57; philosophy, U. of Kansas, 1957-62 (chair 1961-2), U. of Costa Rica, summer 1961, Hunter Coll. (chair 1965-7) and the Grad. School (executive officer, 1967-70, 1981-2), City U. of New York, 1965-82; French (visiting) NYU, Spring 1982; Comparative Literature (visiting), U. of Maryland, spring 1985. Since 1982 University Professor of Philosophy, The George Washington University (director, Ph.D. program in Human Sciences, 1991-3).

Professional: American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow; vice-president, section L, 1967); American Philosophical Association (board member: chair, Committee on International Cooperation, 1974-84); Board of Distinguished Advisors, Society for General Systems Research (now International Society for Systems Science)(president, 1966); Washington Philosophy Club (president, 1988-89); Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (president 1992-94).

Public: member, Academic Freedom Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, 1966-75; member, National Research Council, 1967-70; member, Advisory Board, Learning Corporation of America, 1968-74; board member and treasurer, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1969-70; co-chairman, Policy Council on Learning, Teaching, and Evaluation, Assembly on University Goals and Governance, 1969-70; fellow, Scientists’ Institute for Public Information, 1972- ; member, Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council, 1973-76; consultant in Humanities, League of Women Voters, 1978-79; Community Advisory Board, Wilmington (DE) News Journal, 1998-2000..

Honors & Awards: Fulbright travel grant, 1953; Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1972-3; National Lecturer, Society of the Sigma Xi, 1975-7; Humanities Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation, 1979-80; Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 1983-4; first Philip Morris Distinguished Lecturer in Business and Society, Baruch College, New York, 1986; honorary member, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of the District of Columbia, 1992.

Books: The Philosophy of Science, A Systematic Account (Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1965); Science and the Theory of Value (New York: Random House, 1967); Sartre (The Arguments of the Philosophers)(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979; paperback edition with additional material 1984); (ed.) Two Centuries of Philosophy in America (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980); Structuralism: The Art of the Intelligible (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1988, paperback 1990, 2nd edition [subtitle A Philosophy for the Human Sciences] 1997); (ed.) The Causes of Quarrel: Essays on Peace, War, and Thomas Hobbes (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989); Yorick's World: Science and the Knowing Subject (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993); The Capital Connection: Business, Science, and Government (New York: Baruch College, 1993); Ethics from Experience (Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1996).

Selected recent articles (total 100+): "Sartrean Structuralism?" in Howells, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (1992); "Where the Argument Led," in Karnos and Shoemaker, eds., Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk About Their Calling (1993); "Subjectivity, Self-Identity, and Self-Description," in Sadler, ed., Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification (1994); "Identity: Cultural, Transcultural, Multicultural," in Goldberg, ed., Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (1994); "Minimal Consequentialism," Philosophy (1995); "Sophistry, Rhetoric and the Postmodern Condition," Symploke (1997); "The Unconscious is Structured Like a City: Freud, Lacan, and the project of the Human Sciences," Janus Head (2000)