Curriculum Vitae
Roman Briggs
University of Arkansas
Philosophy Department
318 Old Main
Office: (479) 575–7553
Education:
–Undergraduate
Associate of Arts (2001)
Program: Psychology
Minors: Philosophy; Sociology
Bachelor of Arts (2003)
Summa
Cum Laude
–Graduate
Program:
Philosophy
Master
of Arts (2005)
MA
Thesis: “Red Worlds of Red Prisms: A Cordial Humbling of Marxian Dialectics,”
under
the supervision of Edward
Minar (director), Richard
Lee, and
Program:
Philosophy
Doctor
of Philosophy (expected 2009)
AOS: Social and Political
Philosophy
Graduate
Coursework:
GERM 3063. German for Reading Knowledge – Bunton
PHIL 4003. Ancient Greek Philosophy – Spellman
PHIL 4033. Modern Philosophy – Hyman
PHIL 4043. 19thCentury Continental Philosophy – Minar
PHIL 4063. 20th Century Continental Philosophy – Minar
PHIL 4073. History of Analytic Philosophy – Minar
PHIL 4083. Existentialism – Gulley
PHIL 4113. Social and Political Philosophy – Patrone
PHIL 4133. Contemporary Ethical Theory – Lee
PHIL 4143. Philosophy of Law – Adler
PHIL 4203. Theory of Knowledge –
PHIL 4233. Philosophy of Language – Funkhouser
PHIL 4253. Symbolic Logic – Ward
SOCI. 5253. Classical Social Theory – Newman
PHIL 5883. Seminar: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations – Minar
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Intersubjectivity – McMullin*
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Kant’s Critique
of Pure Reason – Patrone
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Pragmatism – Levine
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Action Theory – Funkhouser
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Realism and Objectivity – Ward
PHIL 690V.
* Informally
Audited
Awards and
Scholarships:
Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society (Induction: 2000)
Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology (Induction: 2002)
Alpha Chi National Honor Society (Induction: 2002)
The Thomas Vernon Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in
Philosophy
The Philip S. Bashor Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Work in
Philosophy
Standing
Memberships:
The American
Philosophical Association
The Society for Social and Political
Philosophy
Psi Chi National Honor Society in
Psychology
Alpha Chi National
Honor Society
Phi Theta Kappa National Honor
Society
Teaching
Experience:
–Teaching Assistant
PHIL 2003: Introduction to Philosophy (under the supervision of Barry Ward)
Spring 2004
–Instructor (Full Duties)
PHIL 2203: Introduction
to Logic
Fall 2004
Spring 2005
Summer 2005
PHIL 2003: Introduction
to Philosophy
Fall 2005
Spring 2006
Fall 2006
Spring 2007
PHIL 2103: Introduction
to Ethics
Fall 2007
Spring 2008
Conference Presentations:
–Undergraduate
“When Contraries Find Extension: A Brief Study of the Marxian
Dialectic”
“Clothing the Cave in Utopian Masque: Intellectual Maladies and
Noble
Lies in Plato’s Republic”
“Freedom qua
Responsibility: Sartrean Vertigo and Obsessive–Compulsive
Anxiety Disorder”
–Graduate
“Anchoring Neurath’s Vessel: A Coherentist’s Reformulation of
Foundherentism”
Midsouth Philosophy Conference
“The Philanthropy of Misanthropy: The Eradication of ‘the Many’ as
the
Apotheosis of ‘the One’ (‘One’ at a Time)”
“Standing the Dialectic on its Head: Marxian Method for a post–Marxian
Paradigm”
Rethinking Marxism 2006
“Why Copernicus?: A Two–Pronged Interpretation of Kant’s Analogy”
Midsouth Philosophy Conference
“‘What is a broom?’: Parsing the Dialectic”
2007 Brennen Conference – Social Inquiry: Constructing the
Political
“So Much the Worse for Integrity?: Consequentialism and the Moral
Self”
“So Much the Worse for Integrity?: Consequentialism and the Moral
Self”
Northwest Philosophy Conference
“What isn’t Orthodox Marxism?: Instrumentalism and Normative
Social Theory”
“The Greening of Heart and Mind: A ‘Love’ Story”
–Commentaries
On Brian Prince’s “
Midsouth
Philosophy Conference
On Chad Bogosian’s “On MacIntyre’s
Virtue Theory and What is the Best Kind of Life
for
Me to Lead”
References:
Eric
Funkhouser
Department
of Philosophy
Email:
efunkho@uark.edu
Richard
Lee
Department
of Philosophy
Email:
rlee@uark.edu
Edward Minar
Department of Philosophy
Email: eminar@uark.edu
Stephen
Striffler
Department
of Anthropology
Email:
striff@uark.edu
These
materials are not endorsed, approved, sponsored, or provided by or on behalf of
the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville;
however, the ghost of Emma Goldman is, no doubt, looking upon them as we
speak—and, nodding with approval.