Vita

• Mathematics teacher, N.C. Public Schools 1967-1972.
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pembroke State University, 1976- 1983.
• Instructor of Philosophy (part-time), Brunswick Community College, 1984- 1995.
• Instructor of Philosophy (part-time), Shaw University’s Extension (CAPE -Center for Alternative Programs in Education) at Wilmington 1991-1994.
• Instructor of Philosophy (part-time), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1990-1999.
• Full-time Lecturer in Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1999-July 2007.

• Introduction to Logical Analysis, Humanities Publications, Manassas, Va., 1989.
• The Legend of Nance Dude (novel), John F. Blair, Publisher, Winston-Salem, N.C., April 1991. (novel based on a true story, about poverty in the Western N.C. mountains)
• Series of articles and movie review for Quality Living: A Magazine for the Study of Values, 1984-91.
• Philosophical movie reviews published by the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts: “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Fugitive,” The Treasure of the Sierre Madre,” “Timecop,” in the SPSCVA Review, 1995-96.
• “The Paradox of the Individual,” Bradley Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, UK., Spring, 1996.

• I am a member of The American Philosophical Association, and also the Bradley Society, Oxford University, UK.

• 1980 University of Toledo - “Film and Philosophy.” (workshop)
• 1981 Wake Forest University - “Scientific Language.”
• 1981 Eastern Kentucky University - “Ethics as Analytic.”
• 1982 Appalachian State University - “Truth and Trust.”
• 1989 Washington and Lee University - “Creation and the Big Bang.”
• 1990 Invited to present paper, “The Geometry of Ethics” at Rochester Institute of Technology Convention on Ethical Language.
• 1991 Invited to present paper, “Two Philosophical Movie Reviews” at the Chicago Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, to the Society for Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts.
• 1993 Oxford University - “Bradley on Thought and Reality,” presented at Bradley Conference at Merton College, Oxford University, UK.
• 1994 Cape Fear Community College - “The Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
• 1995 Presented paper, “The Fugitive: A Philosophical Review” to the Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, at the 1995 Chicago Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.
• 1997 Oxford University - paper, “Community and Terror,” accepted to the Anglo-American Idealism Conference, 4th-6th July 1997, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK.
• 1998 Presented paper, “The Geometry of Ethics” at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston. This paper has been published electronically by the WCP at: http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TEth/TEthStan.htm.
• 1999 Chaired session on political philosophy at the Bosanquet Conference at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, Sept. 1-2, 1999.
• Served as humanist scholar for North Carolina Humanities Council presentation of a play, “Nance Dude,” based on my novel The Legend of Nance Dude, Oct.1,2,3 and Oct.15,16, and 17, 1999.
• Signed contract with Wadsworth, Inc., to publish textbook, Logic and Controversy, Oct.,1999.

• Spring, 1990 - The Green Swamp Lecture Series: Issues in Environmental Ethics $5000 from the North Carolina Humanities Council (state arm of National Endowment of the Humanities) for series of 10 lectures by scholars in philosophy, religion, anthropology, law,sociology. Lectures held at Brunswick Community College, Supply, N.C. 28462
• Jan. 1994 - The Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., paid for by NCHC grant which I wrote, for Shaw University’s CAPE Program in Wilmington, N.C., a series of lectures by scholars from several universities in the region. Included scholars in political science, religion, philosophy, law.

• Invitation to Philosophical Thinking*
• Introduction to Logic
• Introduction to Ethics
• Medical Ethics
• Business Ethics
• Philosophy of Law
• Environmental Ethics
• Contemporary Philosophy
• The Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr

* UNC-W — about 35 students per section, from two sections in 1990 to six sections this semester (Fall 1998). My book of philosophical problems, Bewitchments, was put on-line for students, Fall 1998.