My educational background and publications include the following: EDUCATION: 1985, B.A., summa cum laude, Loyola Marymount University             Double Major: Philosophy and Theology             One year (1983-84) at the University of Durham (England) 1986, M.A., Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada 1991, Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada             Dissertation title: "Hegel and Heidegger as Transcendental Philosophers"             Dissertation directors: Graeme Nicholson, Rebecca Comay, Kenneth Schmitz             One year of dissertation research (1988-89) at the University of Heidelberg 1995-98, J.D., cum laude, June 1998, Harvard Law School AREAS OF RESEARCH: Kant and German Idealism, 19th and 20th Century Continental Thought, Philosophy of Law AWARDS: 1985 Outstanding Scholar Award, Loyola Marymount University,                 awarded for graduating first in class of 701 students 1988-89 Fulbright Full Graduate Scholarship, one year at the University of Heidelberg 1995-98 Dean's Scholarship, from the Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships 1997-98 Distinction in Teaching Award, for Teaching in Core Curriculum, Harvard University PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT: 1991-1997 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 1997-1998 Teaching Fellow, Core Curriculum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138 1998-2002 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458 2002 - present Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458 2003 - present Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham Law School, New York, NY 10023 PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS: 1992-93, and 1997-2006 National Secretary, American Catholic Philosophical Association 1994-present National Secretary, Hegel Society of America 1996-1998 Visiting Scholar, Cabot House, Harvard-Radcliffe, Cambridge, Mass. 1996-present Associate Editor, The Owl of Minerva: Journal of the Hegel Society of America 2001-2005 Faculty-in-Residence (with wife Christine), Queen’s Court Residence, Fordham 2003-present Director, Natural Law Colloquium, Fordham University 2003-present Associate Director, Center for Ethics Education, Fordham University 2006-present Series Editor, "Cambridge Hegel Translations," Cambridge University Press PUBLICATIONS: Books (Editor or Co-editor) --Editor, The Importance of Truth: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (Washington, D.C.: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1994) --Co-editor (with John Russon), Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997) --Editor, Virtues and Virtue Theories: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (Washington, D.C.: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1998) --Editor, Texts and Their Interpretation: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1999) -- Co-editor (with Daniel O. Dahlstrom), The Emergence of German Idealism (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999) --Editor, Insight and Inference: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2000) --Editor, Philosophical Theology: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2001) --Editor, Person, Soul, and Immortality: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2002) --Editor, Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2003) --Editor, Philosophy and Intercultural Understanding: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2004) --Editor, Reckoning with the Tradition: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2005) --Editor, Social Justice – Its Theory and Practice: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2006) --Co-editor, The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think That Can’t Be Thunk, edited by Michael Baur and Steven Baur (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2006). The Portuguese-language version of this book was published in 2007: Os Beatles ea Filosofia: Nada que você pense que não pode ser pensado (São Paulo, Brasil: Madras Editora, Ltda., 2007). The German-language version of this book was published in 2010: Die Beatles und die Philosophie: Klüger werden mit der besten Band aller Zeiten (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2010). --Editor, Intelligence and the Philosophy of Mind: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2007) --Co-editor, The Blackwell Companion to Hegel, edited by Michael Baur and Stephen Houlgate (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2011) --Co-editor, Person, Being, and History: Essays in Honor of Kenneth L. Schmitz, edited by Michael Baur and Robert E. Wood (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011) Books (Translator) German-to-English translation of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right (334 pages), edited by Frederick Neuhouser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) Articles and Chapters in Books --"Ethics, Rationality, Dialectic, and Community," The Claremont Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy 5 (1985), pp. 12-29. --"Questions Philosophers Ask," Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 6 (1987), pp. 21-35. --"A Conversation with Hans-Georg Gadamer," conducted and translated by Michael Baur, Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 8 (1990), pp. 1-13. --"A Contribution to the Gadamer-Lonergan Discussion," Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies 8 (1990), pp. 14-23.  --"On the Aim of Scientific Theories in Relating to the World: A Defence of the Semantic Account," Dialogue 29 (1991), pp. 323-333. -- "Hegel and the Overcoming of the Understanding," The Owl of Minerva 22 (1991), pp. 141-158.  Reprinted in Hegel. Volume II: The Philosophy of Hegel, edited by David Lamb (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 315-332. --Preface to and translation of Martin Heidegger's "Phenomenological Interpretations with Respect to Aristotle," Man and World 25 (1992), pp. 355-393. --"Hegel and Aquinas on Self-Knowledge and Historicity," Reason in History: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, edited by Thérèse-Anne Druart (Washington, D.C.: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1995), pp. 125-134. --"Adorno and Heidegger on Art in the Modern World," Philosophy Today 40 (1996), pp. 357-366. --"Heidegger and Aquinas on the Self as Substance," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1996), pp. 317-337.  Reprinted in Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy, edited by Roman T. Ciapolo (Washington, D.C.: American Maritain Association, 1997), pp. 38-57. --"Innocent Owners and Guilty Property," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 20 (1996), pp. 279-292. --"Winckelmann and Hegel on the Imitation of the Greeks," in Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris, edited by Michael Baur and John Russon (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), pp. 93-110. --"Sublating Kant and the Old Metaphysics: A Reading of the Transition from Being to Essence in Hegel's Logic," The Owl of Minerva 29 (1998), pp. 139-164. --"Die Einleitung zu 'Sein und Zeit' und die Frage nach der phänomenologischen Methode: Versuch einer Erklärung," Perspektiven der Philosophie, Bd. 24 (1998), pp. 225-248. --"The Role of Skepticism in the Emergence of German Idealism," in The Emergence of German Idealism, edited by Michael Baur and Daniel O. Dahlstrom (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999), pp. 63-91. --"Kant's Moral Proof: Defense and Implications," Philosophical Theology: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2001), pp. 141-161. --"Self-measure and Self-moderation in Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre," in New Studies in Fichte's Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre, edited by Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2001), pp. 81-102. --"Natural Law and the Legislation of Virtue: Historicity, Positivity, and Circularity," in Vera Lex: Journal of the International Natural Law Society 2 (2001), pp. 51-70. --"Reversing Rawls: Criteriology, Contractualism, and the Kantian Primacy of the Practical," in Philosophy and Social Criticism 28:3 (May 2002), pp. 251-296. --"Kant, Lonergan, and Fichte on the Critique of Immediacy and the Epistemology of Constraint in Human Knowing," in International Philosophical Quarterly 43:1 (2003), pp. 91-112. --"Newman on the Problem of the Partiality and Unity of the Sciences," in Philosophy and Intercultural Understanding: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, edited by Michael Baur (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2004), pp. 111-127. --"On Actualizing Public Reason," Fordham Law Review 72:5 (April 2004), pp. 2153-2175. --"Idealism" in Volume Three of New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), pp. 1078-1082. --"What Is Distinctive About Terrorism, and What Are the Philosophical Implications?," in Philosophy 9/11: Thinking about the War on Terrorism, edited by Timothy Shanahan (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2005), pp. 3-21. --"In Defense of Finnis on Natural Law Legal Theory," in Vera Lex: Journal of the International Natural Law Society 6: 1-2 (Winter 2005), pp. 35-55. --"We All Need Mirrors to Remind Us Who We Are: Inherited Meaning and Inherited Selves in Memento," in Movies and the Meaning of Life: Philosophers Take On Hollywood, edited by Kimberly Blessing and Paul Tudico (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2005), pp. 94-110. --"Incommensurable Goods, Alternative Possibilities, and the Self-Refutation of the Self-Refutation of Determinism," in American Journal of Jurisprudence 50 (2005), pp. 165-171. --"Fichte’s Impossible Contract," in Rights, Bodies, Recognition: New Essays on Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right, edited by Tom Rockmore and Daniel Breazeale (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 11-25. --"'And the Time Will Come When You See We're All One: The Beatles and Idealistic Monism," in The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think That Can’t Be Thunk, edited by Michael Baur and Steven Baur (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2006), pp. 13-24. --"'American Pie' and the Self-critique of Rock 'n' Roll," in Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture, edited by William Irwin and Jorge J.E. Gracia (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006), pp. 255-273. --"Systematically Unsystematic Violence: On the Definition and Moral Status of Terrorism," in The Reason of Terror: Philosophical Responses to Terrorism, edited by Kem Crimmins and Herbert De Vriese (Louvain and Dudley, MA: Peeters Publishers, 2006), pp. 3-32. -- "Can Natural Law Thinking be Made Credible in our Contemporary Context?," in Freiheit, Natur, Religion: Studien zur Sozialethic, edited by Christian Spieβ (Paderborn: Schöningh Verlag, 2010), pp. 277-297. -- "Beyond Standard Legal Positivism and 'Aggressive' Natural Law: Some Thoughts on Judge O'Scannlain's 'Third Way'," in Fordham Law Review, vol. 79, no. 4 (March 2011), pp. 1529-1539. -- "From Kant's Highest Good to Hegel's Absolute Knowing," in The Blackwell Companion to Hegel, edited by Michael Baur and Stephen Houlgate (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2011), pp. 452-473. -- "Coming-to-Know as a Way of Coming-to-Be: Aristotle's De Anima III.5," in Person, Being, and History: Essays in Honor of Kenneth L. Schmitz, edited by Michael Baur and Robert E. Wood (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press,, 2011), pp. 77-102. -- "The Language of Rights: Towards an Aristotelian-Thomistic Analysis," in Philosophy and Language: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, edited by R. Edward Houser and Thomas Osborne (Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2011), pp. 89-98. -- "The Authority to Interpret, the Purpose of Universities, and the Giving of Awards, Honors, and Platforms by Catholic Universities: Some Thoughts on 'Catholics in Political Life'," in Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, vol. 49 (2011), pp. 101-120. -- "Law and Natural Law," in The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, edited by Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 238-254. Forthcoming Articles or Chapters in Books --"Law and Political Thought," in Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, edited by Gregory Claeys (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, forthcoming) -- "Hegel and Hermeneutics," in Hegel: Key Concepts, edited by Michael Baur (Durham, England: Acumen Publishing, forthcoming) -- "Natural Law and the Natural Environment: Pope Benedict XVI's Vision Beyond Utilitarianism and Deontology," in Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the U.S. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming) --"Decalogue Five: A Short Film about Killing, Sin, and Community," in Dialogue and Disquiet: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, edited by Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, forthcoming) -- "Hegel and the Classical Pragmatists: Prolegomena to a Future Discussion," under review for possible publication in Rekindling Pragmatisms's Fire: Richard J. Bernstein and the Pragmatic Turn in Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Judith M. Green (Palgrave Macmillan) Book Reviews --Review of Kinds of Being by E.J. Lowe, in The Review of Metaphysics 46 (1992), pp. 166-168. --Review of Radical Realism by Edward Pols, in The Review of Metaphysics 47 (1993), pp. 379-380. --Review of Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other by Robert Williams, in The Review of Metaphysics 47 (1994), pp. 849-851. --Review of The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama, in The Review of Metaphysics 48 (1994), pp. 135-137. --Review of The Metaphysics of Being of St. Thomas Aquinas in a Historical Perspective by Leo J. Elders, in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (Winter 1995), pp. 101-103. --Review of Feminism Under Fire by Ellen R. Klein, The Review of Metaphysics 50 (1996), pp. 164-165. --Review of Hegel, Literature, and the Problem of Agency by Allen Speight, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (2003), pp. 134-135. --Review of Problems from Kant by James Van Cleve, in International Philosophical Quarterly 43:1 (2003), pp. 124-126. -- Review of Matters of Spirit: J.G. Fichte and the Technological Imagination, by F. Scott Scribner, in the electronic journal, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (April 18, 2012), at: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/30359-matters-of-spirit-j-g-fichte-and-the-technological-imagination/ Non-academic Articles "Oedipus, Achilles and O.J.? Lessons from Antiquity for Our Time," Los Angeles Times, 27 June 1994, "Metro" section, p. B-7.