GILBURT GOFFSTEIN

                                    GILBURT MARC GOFFSTEIN

EDUCATION AND DEGREES:

            1985 Ph.D.   (Philosophy)  University of Missouri-Columbia
            1973 M.A.    (Philosophy)  University of Missouri-Columbia
            1969 B.A.     (Philosophy)  University of Missouri-St.Louis

RESEARCH AND EMPLOYMENT:

1998 –    Adjunct Assistant Professor
            Present   Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
                           Radford University, Radford, VA
            1999-03  Master of Arts in Liberal Studies  Faculty
                           Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
            1998-00  Adjunct Assistant Professor
                            Department of Philosophy, Religion & Classics
                            Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
            1994-97   Independent Research       
1990-94   Visiting Assistant Professor
    Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
                Radford University, Radford, VA
            1988-90   Visiting Assistant Professor
                            Philosophy Department
                            Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN
            1986-88   Visiting Assistant Professor
                             Philosophy Department
                             Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN
            1985-86    Instructor
                             Philosophy Department
                             University of Missouri-Columbia
            1982-85    Ph.D. Dissertation
                             "The Origin and Nature of the Self: An
                             Exploration of the Reciprocity of
                             Epistemology and Social-Political Reality"
                             Director: Professor Joseph Bien
            1980-81   Assistant Librarian
                             Physics Research Library, Harvard University
            1979-80   Administrative Assistant
                            Harvard University Health Services
                                      

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

            American Philosophical Association-Central Division
            Central States Philosophical Association
            Society for Social and Political Philosophy
IPPNO (International Philosophers for Peace)
Concerned Philosophers for Peace

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
           
Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Critical Social Theory, Habermas
           
AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

History of Philosophy, Feminist Thought, Applied Ethics, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
  
INTERDISCIPLINARY AREAS:
           
Interconnections Between: Issues of Peace and Justice, Environmental Ethics, Communicative Action Theory, Political Science, Economics, Psychology, and Spirituality

PUBLICATIONS:

“Exploring Problems of Democracy with Perspectives of Jurgen Habermas and Zen Buddhism”
Chapter Four in Problems For Democracy, ed. John Kultgen and Mary Lenzi, (Amsterdam:Rodopi, 2006)

"A Critical Communciative Politics of Recognition" Chapter Seven in Community, Diversity, and Difference: Implications for Peace, ed. Alison Bailey and Paula J. Smithka,  (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002)
           
"Notes On Epistemology and Social-Political Reality"
            Ethics and Politics (Armstrong, Missouri: Klare Ltd., 1992)           
           
            "A Freudo-Marxist Interpretation of G. H. Mead's Pragmatic Social Behaviorism"  Prairie Home Philosophy: in commemoration and celebration of 25 years of   philosophy at Moorhead State University (Moorhead, Mn., Moorhead State                           University Press, 1987), pp. 169-73.
PAPERS READ:
           
“A Communication Theoretic Analysis of Violence”
October 4, 1998, Eleventh Annual Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Washington, D.C.

"Reconstructing Habermas, Wittgenstein, and Zen: Towards a Critical Communicative Spirituality"
March 1998, Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society for Social and Political Philosophy, Columbia, Missouri.

"What is Problematic about Our Democracy?"
October 1996, Ninth Annual Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Columbia, Missouri.

"The Interplay Between a Multicultural Politics of Difference and a Philosophy of Liberation"
October 1995, Eighth Annual Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Dayton, Ohio

"Compassionate Critical Theory: Human Liberation and Enduring Peace"
January 1994, IPPNO Fourth World Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica

            "Plato, Marx, Sartre, Freud, and the Emergence of
            Feminist Theory"
            November 1988, Freshman Symposium
            Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota.

            "Mead's Ethics: From Kant and Mill to Social-Political
            Praxis"  March 1988, Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN
           
            "Notes On Epistemology and Social-Political Reality"
            April 1987, Society for Social and Political Philosophy,
            Columbia, Missouri.

            "A Freudo-Marxist Interpretation of G. H. Mead's Pragmatic Social Behaviorism"
            December 1986, Tri-College Colloquium, Moorhead, Minnesota.

COURSES TAUGHT:                                                           

            Self, Society, and Liberation
            Ethics
            Introduction to Philosophy
            Critical Thinking

            Contemporary Moral Issues
            Ancient Philosophy
            Marxism
            Nineteenth Century Philosophy
            Philosophy of the Self
            Modern Philosophy: Bacon to Kant
            American Philosophy
            Epistemology
Marxism and Revolution
Peace and World Order: Human Nature and Alternative Futures
            Human Nature and Feminist Theory
            Mass Media and Society

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE EXPERIENCE:

Program Committee Co-chair for IPPNO's (International Philosophers for Peace) Fourth
            World Conference, held January 1994 in San Jose, Costa Rica - -1993 - 94

IPPNO Treasurer--1993 - 1998

Member of Freshman Connection Faculty at RU--1993-1994

Departmental Advisor for Philosophy Club at RU--1990-1994
       
Member of "Peace and World Security Studies" Faculty at RU--1991-1994

            Student Advising  at BSU--1988-90

            Member of "Communication Studies Institute"  at BSU--1988-90  

            Participation in the Philosophy Club at BSU--1988-90

            Symposiast for 1988 BSU Freshman Symposium--Topic:

                        "How have the thinkers and disciplines discussed in
                        L. Stevenson's Seven Theories of Human Nature shaped
                        our thinking about women?"