MARVIN GARY BELZER Curriculum Vitae Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Shatzel Hall 325 Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 Office: 419-372-7216 email: mbelzer@bgsu.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., Duke University, 1984 Dissertation: Reasoning and Change in a Language Game for Imperative and Permission Sentences Committee: Martin Golding, David Sanford, Stephen Darwall MEDITATION TEACHING AND CONSULTING Visiting Scholar, Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA, Spring 2008 Teacher, Meditation: Practice and Theory (Philosophy 339, Bowling Green St. University), a semester long mindfulness meditation course taught 8 times for credit since 1998 Teacher, Young Adult Meditation Retreat, Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Marin County, CA), with Diana Winston and Debra Chamberlin-Taylor, August 2007 Teacher, Young Adult Meditation Retreat, Insight Meditation Center (Barre, Mass.), with Michele McDonald, Rebecca Bradshaw, Diana Winston, Tempel Smith, and others; each year in June 1991-1998, 2000, 2002-2007 Teacher, Numerous teen retreats in California with Tempel Smith, Diana Winston, and others, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, 2003-present Teacher, Monsanto Corporation Mindfulness workshops (Chicago, November, 1998; St. Louis, December, 1998) Teacher, Numerous weekend mindfulness meditation retreats, eastern and midwest U.S., 1994-present Consultant, Contemplative Practice Fellows conference, American Council of Learned Societies (Cummins Foundation, New York, September, 1998; and Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, July, 1999) WORK IN PROGRESS The Z-Files (Community Project for the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, BGSU, December, 2000) Dialogues on Personal Identity and Morality ARTICLES "Dyadic Deontic Detachment" (with Barry Loewer), Synthese 54 (1983): 295-318. "Normative Kinematics (I): a Solution to a Problem about Permission," Law and Philosophy 4 (1985): 257-287. "Normative Kinematics (II): the Introduction of Imperatives," Law and Philosophy 4 (1985): 377-403. "Reasoning with Defeasible Principles," Synthese 66 (1986): 135-158. "A Logic of Deliberation," Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1986), volume 1: 38-43. "Help for the Good Samaritan Paradox" (with Barry Loewer), Philosophical Studies 50 (1986): 117-127. "Intentional Social Action and We-Intentions," Analyse & Kritik 8 (1986): 86-95. "Default Rules, Acceptance, and Expectation in Belief Systems" (with Barry Loewer), Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on System Sciences 3 (1987): 445-454. "Legal Reasoning in 3-D," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (1987): 155-163. "On a Problem in 3-D" (in Russian), Proceedings of the Institute of Logic, U.S.S.R. Academy of Science (1988): 1-12. "A Conditional Logic for Defeasible Belief" (with Barry Loewer), Decision Support Sciences 4 (1988): 129-142. "Prima Facie Obligation: Its Deconstruction and Reconstruction" (with Barry Loewer), in John Searle and His Critics, eds. Ernest LePore and Robert van Gulick (Basil Blackwell, 1991): 359-370. "Absolute Obligations and Ordered Worlds" (with Barry Loewer), Philosophical Studies 72 (1993): 47-70. "HECTOR meets GDL: A Diaphilosophical Epic" (with Barry Loewer), Philosophical Perspectives (Logic and Language) 8, ed. James Tomberlin (Rigdeview, 1994): 389-414. “Notes on Relation R,” Analysis 56.1 (1996): 56-62. “Deontic Logics of Defeasibility,” (with Barry Loewer), Defeasible Deontic Logic, ed. Donald Nute (Kluwer, 1997): 45-57. "Deontic Logic," Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1997). The Z-Files (Community Project for the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, BGSU, December, 2000). Dialogues on Personal Identity and Morality (2002). "Self-conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Unity Reaction," Social Philosophy & Policy (2005): 126-164. (for an early draft see "Parfit and Lewis on Survival of Fission and What Matters in Survival: Why Parfit won the Debate) Shantila's Inside Logic (2006). "Mere Stranger," in Philosophers without Gods ed. Louise Antony (Oxford, 2007). REVIEWS Doing the Best We Can by Fred Feldman, International Studies in Philosophy 22 (1990): 101-102. A Theory of Counterfactuals by Igal Kvart, Nous (March, 1993). FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS NEH Summer Seminar, Director: HÈctor-Neri CastaÒeda, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982 Fulbright Grant (Finnish Government Grant), University of Helsinki, Finland, September 1982-December 1983 NEH Summer Institute, Director: Robert Audi, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 1984 NEH Conference on Moral Theory and Moral Judgments, Director: Baruch Brody, November 6-8, 1985 Scholar-in-residence, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, BGSU, Fall, 2000 TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS Duke University (Instructor: Fall 1979, and Fall 1980): Metaphysics and Epistemology University of South Carolina (Visiting Instructor: Spring 1980, and Spring 1981): Logic, Philosophy of Law Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Visiting Instructor: 1981-82): Morality and Justice, Metaphysics, Humanities University of Helsinki (Fulbright Research Grant, 1982-83) University of Missouri, Columbia (Assistant Professor: 1984-86): Modal Logic (graduate), Philosophy of Law, Logic Advanced Computational Methods Center, University of Georgia (Research Associate, September 1985-August 1988) Rutgers University (Visiting Assistant Professor: 1988-89): Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion Duke University (Visiting Assistant Professor: Fall 1989): Personal Identity (graduate), Philosophy of Mind North Carolina State University (Visiting Assistant Professor: (1990-91): Logic, Philosophy of Psychology Bowling Green State University (Assistant Professor: 1991-1993; Associate Professor, 1994 - present; Chair, 1995 - 1999): Modal Logic, Personal Identity, Meditation, Buddhist Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Meditation: Practice and Theory, Introduction to Logic Visiting Scholar, Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA, Spring 2008 PAPERS PRESENTED “Conditionals in Deontic Logic," South Carolina Philosophy Society, April 20, 1980 "Ackerman on Liberal Constraints on Justifications of Power," South Carolina Philosophy Society, March 29, 1981 "A Game-theoretical Pragmatics for Seven Uses of Ought," University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, October 28, 1982 "Temporally-relative Ethical Sufficiency in Deontic Logic," Third Finnish-Soviet Logic Conference, Helsinki, April 25, 1983 "Ideal Norms and All-out Norms," Turku University, Turku, Finland, June 5, 1983 "Normative Kinematics in a Language Game for Imperatives and Permissions," Conference on Normative Reasoning and Legal Interpretation, Turku, Finland, August 17, 1983 "Conditional Obligations and Counterfactuals," University of Helsinki, November 15, 1983 "The Free Rider Problem and the Peace Movement," Dilemma Group, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, November 21, 1983 "Ideology, Utopia, and Deontic Logic," Finnish Philosophical Society, Helsinki, Finland, November 30, 1983 "Chisholm's Paradox and Deontic Logic 3-D," Institute of Philosophy, U.S.S.R., December 15, 1983 "Davidson on Normative Reasoning and Weakness of Will," University of Missouri, St. Louis, November 5, 1984 "Normative Kinematics," Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March 12, 1985 "Good Samaritans and Good Deontic Logics" (with Barry Loewer), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 5, 1985 "Reasoning with Defeasible Principles," Institute for Natural Language Systems, University of Tubingen, March 5, 1986; Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, March 12, 1986 "A Logic of Deliberation," Fifth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence AAAI-86), Philadelphia, August 12, 1986 "Practical Reasoning in 3-D" (with Barry Loewer), Ohio University Interdisciplinary Conference on Inference, Athens, Ohio, October 10, 1986 "Default Rules, Acceptance, and Expectation in Belief Systems" (with Barry Loewer), Twentieth International Conference on System Sciences, Kona, Hawaii, January 9, 1987 "Absolute Obligations and Lewis' Semantics for Deontic Logic" (with Barry Loewer), Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 24, 1987 "Legal Reasoning in 3-D," (presented by Gary Gates), First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Boston, May 27, 1987 "The Neon Lights of West Berlin: Reasons to Meditate," Duke University, December 5, 1989 "Psychological Connectedness and Further Facts: A Defense of Parfit in Response to his Recent Journal of Philosophy Critics," NC State University, December 12, 1990 Comments on James Tomberlin, "On Singular Terms, Quantification, and Ontology," Fifth Conference of Sociedad Filosofica Ibero Americana (SOFIA), University of Florida, May 17, 1992 "Logics for Defeasible Normative Reasoning," (with Barry Loewer), Society for Exact Philosophy, Toronto, May 15, 1993 "Avoiding the Future Pain Test," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta, December 30, 1993 “Normality and Normativity,” (with Barry Loewer), Society for Exact Philosophy, Austin, May 19, 1994 “Parfit and the Buddha: Do they agree about personal identity?” Union College, Feb. 2, 1995 “Trekkies, Relax! A Solution to the Branchline Problem,” University of Toledo, April 18, 1997 “Recruiting Minorities into the Philosophy Profession,” Central Division meetings, American Philosophical Association, May, 1999 “Parfit took the A Train: Psychological criteria for personal identity and for what matters in survival,” Department of Philosophy, BGSU, October 15, 1999 “Earth to Parfit: Forget about Fission!” (excerpts performed from Dialogues on Personal Identity and Morality), Central Eastern University, Budapest, November 12, 1999; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 18, 1999 “The Buddhist Doctrine of Two Truths,” University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 19, 1999 “Who Survives? Why Parfit won the debate with Lewis about survival of fission,” Department of Philosophy, BGSU, September 7, 2000; and Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, September 14, 2000 “Excerpts from The Z-Files,” Reading and performance, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, BGSU, October 19, 2000; and April 9, 2001 "Self-conception and Personal Identity: Revisiting Parfit and Lewis with an Eye on the Unity Reaction," Social Philosophy and Policy Center conference on Personal Identity, April 2004 "Mindfulness meditation as a tool for use in the development of inner peace and social connection," Gandhi/King conference, Memphis, to be presented October 26, 2007 REFEREE Nous; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Synthese; Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic; Mind; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Ethics; National Science Foundation COMMITTEES (BGSU) Department of Philosophy (BGSU): Graduate Committee, 1991-92 Undergraduate Advisor, 1992-1994 Department Chair, January, 1995- June, 1999 Evaluation Committe, 2000-02 (Chair, 2002-03) Placement Committee (Chair), 2002-present College of Arts and Sciences / University (BGSU) Arts and Humanities Committee, 1992-94 (Chair, 1994) Search Committee for Director, Philosophy Documentation Center (Chair, 1995) Steering Committee, Chairs and Directors (Arts and Sciences), 1996-99 College Committee on the Budget (Arts and Sciences), 1996-99 Provost's Committee on Dual Careers, 1996-97 Search Committee for Director, Women's Resource and Action Center, 1997-98 Search Committee for Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate College, 1997-98 President's Committee on Spiritual Growth as a Core University Value, 1998-99 Search Committee Chair, Faculty Search, Ethnic Studies Department, 1999-2000 Advisory Board, Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, 1998-2000 Faculty Senate, 2006-2007 Asian Studies Committee, 1995-present Peace Studies Committee (founding member), 2006-present |