CURRICULUM VITAE

Nicholas F. Gier, 1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID 83844-3016
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Idaho
Senior Fellow, Martin Institute of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, 1990-2000
Coordinator of Religious Studies, 1980-2003
President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
Tel: 208-882-9212; 885-8950 (FAX); ngier@uidaho.edu          Return  home

EDUCATION

B. A. with honors, Oregon State University, 1966. Honors Thesis: "T. S. Eliot and the Four Quartets."
M.A., Claremont Graduate School, 1969. M.A. thesis: "Process Theology and the Death of God."
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1973. Doctoral Dissertation: "Heidegger and the Ontological Differenz."
Graduate Studies, University of Copenhagen, 1966-67; University of Heidelberg, 1970-71.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Merit Citation for Outstanding Service, Associated Students of the University of Idaho, 1976.
Who's Who in Religion, 1977, 1990.
President, Northwest Conference on Philosophy, 1982-84.
Alumni Awards for Faculty Excellence, 1987, 1991, 1998
Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Faculty Award, 1998
Outstanding Faculty Award, Disabled Student Services, University of Idaho, 2001
President, American Academy of Religion, Pacific Northwest Region, 2002-2003
Award of Highest Honor, Soka University, Hachioji, Japan, 2002
Excellence in Research Award, University of Idaho, 2003
Honorary Doctorate, Soka University, Hachioji, Japan, 2007
Third Place, Column Writing, Spokane, Idaho, Utah Associated Press Journalism Awards, 2011
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EMPLOYMENT AND VISITING POSTS

University of Odense, Denmark, 1971-72. Visiting Lecturer, Philosophy and Comparative Literature.

University of Århus, Denmark, 1971-72. Visiting Lecturer, Theology and the History of Ideas.

University of Idaho, 1972-present. Professor of Philosophy, tenured 1977, promoted to professor, 1982.

University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1978-79. Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy.

University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985-86. Visiting Professor at the Institute of Systematic Theology.

Dharmaram College, Bangalore, India, Fall, 1992. Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of World Religions.

Panjab University, Fall, 1992, 1995, 1999.  Visiting Scholar, Department of Gandhian Studies

Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, Spring, 1993. Visiting Scholar at the School of Theology.

University of Queensland, Summer, 1995, 1999.  Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies and Philosophy (1999).

Visiting Scholar, United Theological College, Bangalore, India, Fall, 1995

Visiting Scholar, Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, Fall, 1995, 1999.

Senior Fellow, Martin Peace Institute, University of Idaho, 1993-2000

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Rotary Foundation Fellowship to Denmark, 1966-67.

Fulbright Graduate Fellowship to Germany, 1970-71.

University of Idaho "Seed" Grants, $2,000, 1974; $2,500, 1985; $5,000, 1991; $6,000, 1999.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, $2,500, 1980.

Association for the Humanities in Idaho Grant, $5,285, 1982.

Franklin J. Matchette Foundation Grant, $1,000, 1982.

Humanities Faculty Summer Seminar Grant (NEH), $2,000, 1985.

Humanities Core Curriculum Faculty Development Grant (NEH), $5,000, 1985.

Martin Institute Research Grants, $2,000, 1992: $5,404, 1994; $3,680, 1995; $1,480, 1997; $5,000, 1999

Niwano Peace Foundation Grant, ¥500,000, 1993

National Seminar on Civic Virtue Stipend, $3,000, 1997

BOOKS AUTHORED

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The Virtue of Non-Violence: from Gautama to Gandhi

Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

Spiritual Titanism: Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives.

Albany, New York: State University of New Press, 2000., xxvi + 302 pgs..

God, Reason and the Evangelicals: The Case Against Evangelical Rationalism.

Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1987, xxx + 371 pgs.

Wittgenstein and Phenomenology:
A Comparative Study of the Later Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty.
Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1981, xix + 268 pgs.

JOURNALS EDITED

With T. James Kodera, guest editors of Dialogue and Alliance 1:3 (Fall, 1987).
Theme: "Encounters between Asian and Western Conceptions of the Ultimate."

BOOK CHAPTERS

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Parts III & IV of the "Introduction" of The Theology of Altizer: Critique and Response, ed. John Cobb.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970, pp. 27-44.

"Process Theology and the Death of God" in The Theology of Altizer, pp. 164-193.

"Religious Liberalism and the Founding Fathers" in Peter Caws, ed.,
Two Centuries of Philosophy in America. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980, pp. 22-45.

"Humanistic Self-Judgment and After-Death Experiences" in Geddes MacGregor, ed.
Immortality and Human Destiny. New York: Paragon House, 1985, pp. 3-20.

"Gandhi, Ahimsa, and the Self" in S. Mukherjee and S. Ramaswamy, eds.,
Facets of Mahatma Gandhi.  New Delhi: Deep & Deep, 1994, vol. 4, pp. 108-125.
Reprinted from Gandhi Marg (see below).

With Paul K. Kjellberg, "Buddhism and the Freedom of the Will"  in
Freedom and Determinism: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy,
eds., J. K. Campbell, D. Shier, M. O’Rourke (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 277-304.

"Toward a Hindu Virtue Ethics" in Contemporary Issues in Constructive Dharma,
eds. R. D. Sherma and A. Deepak (Hampton, VA: Deepak Heritage Books, 2005), vol. 2, pp. 151-162.

"Non-Violence as a Civic Virtue: Gandhi as a Reformed Liberal," in
The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century,
ed. Douglas Allen (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007), pp. 121-142. Reprint of article below.

"Li and Dharma: Gandhi, Confucius, and Virtue Aesthetics," in Brahman and Dao, eds.
Ithamar Theodor and Zhihua Yao (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012), forthcoming

"Dharma Morality as Virtue Ethics," in Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges,
vol. 2, eds. Purusottama Bilimoria and Joseph Prabuhu (Springer, 2012), forthcoming

 JOURNAL ARTICLES

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"Prehension and Intentionality," Process Studies 6 (1976), pp. 197-213.

"The Savior Archetype," Journal of Dharma 4 (1979), pp. 255-267.

"Wittgenstein and Forms of Life," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 10 (1980), pp. 241-258.

"Wittgenstein and Heidegger: A Phenomenology of Forms of Life,"
Tijdschrift voor Filosofie (Belgium) 43 (1981), pp. 269-305.

"Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Behaviorism," Metaphilosophy 13 (1982), pp. 46-64.

"Humanism as an American Heritage," Free Inquiry 2:2 (Spring 1982), pp. 27-29.

"Dialectic: East and West," Indian Philosophical Quarterly 10 (January, 1983), pp. 207-218.

"Titanism: Radical Humanism--East and West," Dialogue and Alliance 1:3 (Fall, 1987), pp. 53-69.

"The Color of Sin/The Color of Skin:
Ancient Color Blindness and the Philosophical Origins of Modern Racism,"
Journal of Religious Thought 46:1 (Summer-Fall, 1989), pp. 42-52.

"Religious Syncretism and Unification Theology," Currents 2:1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 10-14.

"Wittgenstein's Phenomenology Revisited," Philosophy Today 34:4 (1990), pp. 273-288.

"Never Say Never: A Response to Harry P. Reeder's 'Wittgenstein Never Was a Phenomenologist,'"
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 22:1 (January, 1991), pp. 80-83.

"Three Types of Divine Power," Process Studies 20:4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 221-232.

"Foundations and Forms of Life: A Discussion of Gertrude Conway's Wittgenstein on Foundations,"
International Philosophical Quarterly 32:1 (March, 1992), pp. 119-125.

"On the Deification of Confucius," Asian Philosophy 1:3 (1993), pp. 43-54.

"Gandhi, Ahimsa, and the Self," Gandhi Marg 15:1 (April-June, 1993), pp. 24-38.

"The Virtue of Non-Violence: A Buddhist Perspective," Seikyo Times (February, 1994), pp. 28-36;
 reprinted in Living Buddhism 6:1(January, 2002, pp. 18-30.

"Hindu Titanism," Philosophy East & West 45:1 (January, 1995), pp. 73-96.

"Ahimsa, the Self, and Postmodernism," International Philosophical Quarterly 35:1 (March, 1995), pp. 71-86.

"Xunzi and the Confucian Answer to Titanism," The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 22:2 (June, 1995), pp. 129-151.

"Gandhi and Mahayana Buddhism" (in Japanese), Journal of Oriental Studies 35:2 (1996), pp. 84-105.

"Jaina Superhumanism and Gnostic Titanism," Scottish Journal of Religious Studies 17:2 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 139-158.

"Gandhi: Premodern, Modern, or Postmodern?" Gandhi Marg 17:3 (Oct.-Dec., 1996), pp. 261-281.

"The Yogi and the Goddess,"  International Journal of Hindu Studies 1:2 (June, 1997), pp. 265-87.

"Gandhi, the Buddha, and Atman: A Response to Ramashray Roy"
Gandhi Marg 21:4 (January-March, 2000), pp. 447-459.

"Last Judgment as Self-Judgment: Kant, Autonomy, and Divine Power,"
Indian Philosophical Quarterly 28:1 (January, 2001), pp. 15-32.

"Confucius, Gandhi, and the Aesthetics of Virtue," Asian Philosophy 11:1 (March, 2001), pp. 41-54.

"The Dancing Ru: A Confucian Aesthetics of Virtue," Philosophy East and West 51:2 (April, 2001), pp. 280-305.

"Synthetic Reason, Aesthetic Order, and the Grammar of Virtue"
Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 18: 4 (2001), pp. 13-28.

"Gandhi and the Virtue of Non-Violence," Gandhi Marg 23:3 (October-December, 2001), pp. 261-284.

"The Virtues of Asian Humanism," Journal of Oriental Studies 12 (October, 2002), pp. 14-28.

"Gandhi and Mahayana Buddhism," Gandhi Marg 25:2 (July-September, 2003), pp. 155-178.
  English version of article above.

"Non-Violence as a Civic Virtue: Gandhi as a Reformed Liberal," International Journal of Hindu Studies
7 (2003), pp. 75-98.

"Whitehead, Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue," Asian Philosophy 14:2 (July, 2004), pp. 173-92.

"Response to John Allen Tucker's Review of Spiritual Titanism," China Review International
12:1 (January, 2006), pp. 277-280

"Virtue Ethics and Character Consequentialism," Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy
Number 26 (Spring, 2006), pp. 18-21.

"Hebrew and Buddhist Selves: A Constructive Postmodern Proposal,"
Asian Philosophy 17:1 (March, 2007), pp. 47-64.

"A Response to Shyam Ranganathan's Review of The Virtue of Non-Violence,"
Philosophy East and West 57:4 (October, 2007),.

"Was Gandhi a Tantric?" Gandhi Marg 29:1 (April-June, 2007), pp. 21-36.

"Wittgenstein and Deconstruction," Review of Contemporary Philosophy 6 (December, 2007), pp. 174-196.

BOOK REVIEWS

Nicholas J. Yonker, God, Man, and the Planetary Age in Process Studies 8 (1978), pp. 128-130.

David Rubinstein, Marx and Wittgenstein in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 2 (1983), pp. 201-203.

William L. McBride and Calvin O. Schrag, eds., Phenomenology in Pluralistic Context
in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 5 (1985), pp. 65-69.

Harry P. Reeder, Language and Experience: Descriptions of Living Language in Husserl and Wittgensteinin
in International Studies in Philosophy 20:3 (1987), pp. 139-40.

Charles M. Sherover, Time, Freedom, and the Common Good in The Personalist Forum 6:2 (Fall, 1990), pp.195-198.

James C. Edwards, The Authority of Language: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Threat of Philosophical Nihilism
in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 11:3 (June 1991), pp. 181-183.

David R. Griffin, William A. Beardslee, and Joe Holland, Varieties of Post-Modern Theology
in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July 1991), p. 243. (Booknote)

Paul C. Bube, Ethics in John Cobb's Process Theology in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July 1991), p. 242. (Booknote)

David R. Griffin, God and Religion in the Postmodern World
in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July 1991), pp. 243-244. (Booknote)

S. Teghraman, A. Serafini, and E.M. Cook, eds., Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Symposium on the Centennial of His Birth
in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 11:6 (December 1991), pp. 430-32.

Robert Kane and Stephen H. Phillips, eds., Hartshorne, Process Philosophy and Theology
in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July, 1992), p. 240. (Booknote)

Santiago Sia, ed., Charles Hartshorne's Concept of God
in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July, 1992), p. 240. (Booknote)

George R. Lucas, Jr., The Rehabilitation of Whitehead
in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 59:4 (Winter, 1991), pp. 846-849.

David R. Griffin, Evil Revisited in Religious Studies Review (1993). (Booknote)

Joachim Schulte and Göran Sundholm, eds., Criss-Crossing a Philosophical Landscape
in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 13:5 (October, 1993), pp. 266-68.

Wendy Doniger, ed., Purana Perennis in Asian Folklore Studies 53:1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 191-193.

Thomas E. Hosinski, Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance: An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead in Religious Studies Review 21:1 (January, 1995), p. 37.  (Booknote) 

 Bimal Krishna Matilal, Ethics and Epics: Philosophy, Culture, and Religion
in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (June, 2003).

Adrian MacFarlane, The Grammar of Fear and Evil in International Philosophical Studies
35:4 (December, 2003), pp. 516-18.

Gregory Newell Smith, The Solitude of the Open Sea, in The Sandpoint Reader (May 19, 2005).

Jiyuan Yu, The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue (New York & London: Routledge, 2007)
in The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35: 4

INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

"Heidegger and Theology," presented to the theology faculty, Århus University, May, 1972.

"Wittgenstein as Lebensphilosoph," Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy, University of Manchester, March, 1979.

"An Introduction to Process Theology," presented to the theological faculty, University of Copenhagen, March, 1979.

"Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty on the A priori," Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
University of Copenhagen, April, 1979.

"Wittgenstein and Phenomenology," presented to the philosophy faculty, University of Oslo, April, 1979.

"Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Behaviorism," Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy,
London School of Economics, May, 1979.

"The Temptation of Belief," Institute of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen, October, 1985.

Eight Lectures on Contemporary American Theology at the Institute for Philosophy of Religion and Ethics,
Århus University, April, 1986.

"Confucianism and Titanism," Shaanxi Teachers University, Xian, China, July, 1992.
First presented at the International Conference on Chinese Philosophy, University of Hawaii, July, 1989.

"Wittgenstein and Deconstruction," Department of Philosophy, Tokyo University at Komaba, April, 1993.

"Three Types of Divine Power," Indian Association of Christian Philosophers,
Dharmaram College in Bangalore, India, October, 1992.

"Gandhi, Ahimsa, and the Self," Department of Gandhian Studies, Panjab University, December, 1992.

"The Virtue of Non-Violence," Department of Studies in Religion,
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, July, 1995.

"Gandhi's Philosophy: Premodern, Modern, or Postmodern,"
National Seminar on the Significance of Mahatma Gandhi Today,
Radhakrishnan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Madras, October, 1995.

"Jaina Superhumanism and Gnostic Titanism," Eighth International Congress of Vedanta,
Miami University of Ohio, November, 1996.

"Whitehead, Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue: Towards a Constructive Postmodern Ethics,"
Second International Whitehead Conference, Center for Process Studies, Claremont School of Theology, August, 1998

"Synthetic Reason, Aesthetic Order, and the Grammar of Virtue," Faculty Seminar, Department of Philosophy,
University of Queensland, August, 1999 and Department of Philosophy, Panjab University, December, 1999.

"The Dancing Ru: A Confucian Aesthetics of Virtue," Department of Studies in Religion,
University of Queensland, August, 1999.

"Gandhi, the Buddha, and Atman," Department of Gandhian Studies, Panjab University, December, 1999.

"Gandhi and Confucius on the Aesthetics of Virtue," Department of Gandhian Studies,
Panjab University, December, 1999.

"The Virtues of Asian Humanism," Institute of Oriental Philosophy, Soka University, Japan, March, 2002.

AGandhi as a Postmodern Thinker,@ plenary address at the 13^th International Congress of Vedanta, Miami University, September, 2002.

AGandhi and Pali Buddhism,@ Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand, November, 2002.

"Non-Violence as a Civic Virtue," plenary panel at the Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy,
Monterey, California, May, 2003

"Non-Violence as a Civic Virtue," Invited Address, University of Rajasthan, October, 2005

"Three Principles of Civil Disobedience: Thoreau, Gandhi, King," Ajmer Civic Association, India, October, 2005

"Gandhi and Jainism,"  Invited Address, University of Rajasthan, October, 2005

"The Saints of Non-Violence: Buddha, Christ, Gandhi, King," The Reddy Memorial Endowment Lecture,
Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, October, 2005

 
NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

"Religious Liberalism and the Founding Fathers,"
The Bicentennial Symposium of Philosophy, New York City, October, 1976.

"Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Behaviorism," American Philosophical Association,
Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 29, 1980.

"Kant's Anticipation of Linguistic Philosophy,"
Kant Bicentennial Symposium, Gonzaga University, March, 1981.

"Titanism: Radical Humanism--East and West,"
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 17, 1984.

Invited Commentator for two papers at a conference on "Christian Humanism and Secular Humanism,"
University of Dayton, October, 1986.

"On Making God's Acquaintance," Society of Christian Philosophers,
Midwestern Regional Meeting, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 8, 1987.

"Sin Color and Skin Color," national meeting of the American Academy of Religion,
University of Chicago, November, 1988.

"Gandhi, Nonviolence, and the Self" at Consortium on Peach Research Education and Development Conference
Atlanta, Georgia, October, 1993.

"The Virtue of Nonviolence: The Buddha and Virtue Ethics"
for Soka Gakkei International, Santa Monica, November, 1993.

"Gandhi and Mahayana Buddhism," Soka Gakkei International,
Santa Monica, March 1995; SGI Boston, October, 1998.

"The Yogi and the Goddess," presented at the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March, 1995.

"Xunzi and the Confucian Answer to Titanism," International Society for Chinese Philosophy
American Philosophical Association, Seattle, March, 1996.

"The Dancing Ru: A Confucian Aesthetics of Virtue," National Seminar on Civic Virtue, Santa Clara University;
May 22, 1998; Department of Philosophy, Fairfield University, October, 1998.

"Mahatma Gandhi Meets Saddam Hussein," University Hour Address
Eastern Connecticut State University, October, 1998.

"Gandhi, Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue," Vedanta Congress, Miami University, Ohio, September, 2000;
Confucian Traditions Section, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nashville, November, 2000.

"Whitehead, Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue"
Ethics Section of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nashville, November, 2000.

REGIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

"A Heideggerian Critique of Altizer's Concept of Eternal Death"
Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Washington State University, November 1972.

"Intentionality and Prehension," Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Gonzaga University, November 1974.

"Two Types of Existentialism," Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Seattle Pacific University, November 1976.

"Wittgenstein and Forms of Life," Inland Empire Philosophy Colloquium, Gonzaga University, April 1978.

"Libertarianism: Left and Right," Idaho Political Science Convention, University of Idaho, February 1980.

"Philosophical and Historical Background of `Status offender' Problem"
Association for the Humanities in Idaho, April 1981.

"Dialectic: East and West," Inland Empire Philosophy Colloquium, Washington State University, April 1982.

"Last Judgment as Self-Judgment," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
University of Washington, April 22, 1983.

"The Myth of God Incarnate Revisited: The Man-God and Evangelical Rationalism"
Presidential address at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Eastern Washington University, November 3, 1984.

"Abortion, Persons, and the Image of God," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
University of Calgary, May 3, 1985.

"Whither Theology? Reconstruction not Deconstruction," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
Vancouver School of Theology, May 1989.

"The Geometry of Creation," Northwest Math Teachers Conference, Seattle, October 1989.

"Wittgenstein and Deconstruction," Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Lewis and Clark College, November 1989.

"God's Power and Our Freedom," invited address at the Philosophy Forum, University of Montana, April 1991.

"Three Types of Divine Power," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, University of Washington, May 1991.

"On The Deification of Confucius," Inland Empire Philosophy Colloquium, Washington State University, April, 1992.

"Ungodly Abuse: Job, His Wife, and their God," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
Walla Walla College, May 1992.

"Kant, Autonomy, and Divine Power" at the Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
University of Alberta, May, 1993.

"Gandhi and Buddhism on Non-Violence" for Soka Gakkei International, Seattle, January, 1994.

"The Yogi and the Goddess: Hindu Titanism and Feminism"
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, University of Portland, April 30, 1994.

"Buddhism, Humanism, and Titanism," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
St. Martin's College, April, 1995.

"Gandhi's Philosophy: Premodern, Modern, or Postmodern?"
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, University of Great Falls, May, 1996.

"Zhuangzi, Nietzsche, and Titanism," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, May, 1997.

"Is Contemporary Physics Mystical?" a physics conference entitled "Pions and Beyond"
University of Idaho, April, 1998.

"The Star of India: Cross-Cultural Geometry,"
Northwest Math Teachers Conference, Whistler, B.C., October, 1998. With Gail Adele

"Synthetic Reason, Aesthetic Order, and the Grammar of Virtue,"
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April, 1999.

"Whitehead, Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue: Towards a Constructive Postmodern Ethics,"
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, Gonzaga University, Spokane, April, 2000.

"Polyhedron Problem Solving," Northwest Mathematics Conference, October, 2000. With Gail Adele.

"Aristotle, Confucius, and Practical Reason," Northwest Conferrence on Philosophy,
Pacific University, November, 2000

"Gandhi and the Virtue of Non-Violence," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion,
University of Alberta, May 11, 2001.

"Buddhist and Hebrew Skandhas," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, University of Oregon, May, 2002.

"Gandhi and Deep Religious Pluralism," Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion,
Pacific Lutheran University, May, 2009