Curriculum Vitae
Roman Briggs
University of Arkansas
Philosophy Department
318 Old Main
Office: (479) 575–4102
Education:
–Undergraduate
Program: Psychology
Minors: Philosophy; Sociology
Bachelor of Arts (2003)
Summa
Cum Laude
–Graduate
Program:
Philosophy
Master of
Arts (2005)
Masters Thesis: “Red Worlds of Red Prisms: A
Cordial Humbling of Marxian Dialectics,”
under the
supervision of Edward
Minar (director), Richard
Lee, and Steve Striffler
Program:
Philosophy
Doctor of
Philosophy (expected 2010)
Dissertation Topic: Consequentialism, Moral Selfhood,
and Political Violence
AOS: Social & Political Philosophy;
Ethical Theory
AOC: Applied Ethics; Moral Psychology;
Continental
Graduate Coursework:
Value Theory and Moral
Psychology:
PHIL 4113. Social and Political Philosophy – Patrone
PHIL 4123. Classical Ethical Theory – Leea
PHIL 4133. Contemporary Ethical Theory – Lee
PHIL 4143. Philosophy of Law – Adler
PLSC 4923. Marxism: Theory and Practice – Strifflera
SOCI. 5253. Classical Social Theory – Newman
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Action Theory – Funkhouser
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Practical Reasoning – Funkhousera
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Realism and Antirealism – Ward
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Intersubjectivity – McMullina
PHIL 690V. Environmental Ethics – Lee
History of Philosophy:
PHIL 4003. Ancient Greek Philosophy – Spellman
PHIL 4033. Modern Philosophy – Hyman
PHIL 4043. 19th Century Continental Philosophy – Minar
PHIL 4043. 19th Century Continental Philosophy – McMullina
PHIL 4063. 20th Century Continental Philosophy – Minar
PHIL 4073. History of Analytic Philosophy – Minar
PHIL 4083. Existentialism – Gulley
PHIL 5883. Seminar: Wittgenstein – Minar
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Kant – Patrone
PHIL 5983. Seminar: Pragmatism – Levine
Contemporary Analytic
Philosophy:
PHIL 4203. Epistemology –
PHIL 4233. Philosophy of Language – Funkhouser
PHIL 4253. Symbolic Logic – Ward
aAudited
Awards and
Scholarships:
The Thomas Vernon Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in
Philosophy
The Philip S. Bashor Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Work in
Philosophy
Alpha Chi National Honor Society (Induction: 2002)
Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology (Induction: 2002)
Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Society (Induction: 2000)
Standing Memberships:
The American
Philosophical Association
Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy
Psi Chi National Honor Society in
Psychology
Alpha Chi National
Honor Society
Phi Theta Kappa National Honor
Society
Teaching Experience:
–Instructor (Full
Duties)
PHIL 2203: Introduction
to Logic
Fall 2004 (Two Sections)
Spring 2005 (Two Sections)
Summer 2005 (One Section)
PHIL 2003: Introduction
to Philosophy
Fall 2005 (Two Sections)
Spring 2006 (Two Sections)
Fall 2006 (Two Sections)
Spring 2007 (Two Sections)
Fall 2008 (Three Sections)
Spring 2009 (Two Sections)
PHIL 2103: Introduction
to Ethics
Fall 2007 (Two Sections)
Spring 2008 (Two Sections)
Fall 2009 (One Section)
–Teaching Assistant
PHIL 2003: Introduction to Philosophy (under the supervision of Barry Ward)
Spring 2004 (Three Sections)
Refereed Publications:
“The Greening of Heart and Mind: A Love Story,” Environmental
Ethics, Vol. 31,
No. 2, Summer 2009, p.155-168.
Conference Presentations:
–Graduate
Presentations
“Democracy By Way of Democracy: A Critical Explication of Deweyan
Liberalism”
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy – Graduate
Student Session
“The Greening of Heart and Mind: A Love Story”
“What isn’t Orthodox Marxism?: Instrumentalism and Normative
Social Theory”
“So Much the Worse for Integrity?: Consequentialism and the Moral
Self”
Northwest Philosophy Conference
“So Much the Worse for Integrity?: Consequentialism and the Moral
Self”
“‘What is a broom?’: Parsing the Dialectic”
2007 Brennen Conference – Social Inquiry: Constructing the
Political
“Why Copernicus?: A Two–Pronged Interpretation of Kant’s Analogy”
Midsouth Philosophy Conference
“Standing the Dialectic on its Head: Marxian Method for a
post–Marxian Paradigm”
Rethinking Marxism 2006
“The Philanthropy of Misanthropy: Heraclitus and Nietzsche on the
Majority”
“Anchoring Neurath’s Vessel: A Coherentist’s Reformulation of
Foundherentism”
Midsouth Philosophy Conference
–Undergraduate
Presentations
“Clothing the Cave in Utopian Masque: The Intellectual’s Malady in
Plato’s Republic
“Sartrean Vertigo and Obsessive-Compulsive Anxiety Disorder”
“Extended Contraries: A Brief Study of the Marxist Dialectic”
–Conference Commentaries
On Chad
Bogosian’s “MacIntyre’s Virtue Theory and What is the Best Kind of Life for
Me to
Lead”
On Brian
Prince’s “
Midsouth
Philosophy Conference
References:
Kevin
Durand
Department
of Philosophy
Email: durandk@hsu.edu
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
Tatiana
Patrone
Department
of Philosophy & Religion
Email: tpatrone@ithaca.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.