Andrew Fiala, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

 

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State

California State University—Fresno

2380 E. Keats Ave.  M/S MB 105

Fresno, CA  93740-8024

 

Email: afiala@csufresno.edu              Office: 559-278-2124

 

Education

 

Ph.D. in Philosophy    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

 

M.A. in Philosophy     California State University, Long Beach, CA

 

B.A. in Philosophy      University of California, Los Angeles, CA

 

Work Experience

 

2005-Present: Associate Professor of Philosophy; California State University—Fresno

 

2007-Present: Director of the Ethics Center; California State University—Fresno

 

2005-Present: Editor of the journal, Philosophy in the Contemporary World

 

2003-5: Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies; University of Wisconsin—Green Bay

 

1999- 2003: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies; University of Wisconsin—Green Bay

 

Publications: Books

What Would Jesus Really Do?  The Power and Limits of Jesus’ Moral Teachings.  Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Tolerance and the Ethical Life.  London: Continuum, 2005.

Practical Pacifism.  New York: Algora Publishing, 2004.

The Philosopher’s Voice: Philosophy, Politics, and Language in the 19th Century.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.

 

            The Just War Myth.  Rowman and Littlefield, Forthcoming.

 

Publications: Peer Reviewed Articles

 

  1. “The Crusade for Freedom: A Just War Critique of The Bush Doctrine” The Journal of Political Theology (forthcoming).
  2. “The Bush Doctrine, Democratization, and Humanitarian Intervention: A Just War Critique” Theoria (forthcoming).

3.       “Crusades, Just Wars, and The Bush Doctrine” Peace Review (forthcoming).

4.      “Practical Pacifism, Jus in bello, and Citizen Responsibility: The Case of Iraq” Ethical Perspectives 13:4 (2006), 673-697.

5.      “Citizenship and Preemptive War: The Lesson from Iraq” Human Rights Review 7: 4 (July-September 2006), 19-37.

  1. “A Critique of Exceptions: Torture, Terrorism, and the Lesser Evil Argument” in International Journal of Applied Philosophy 20:1 (Spring 2006), 127-142.
  2. “The Vanity of Temporal Things: Hegel and the Ethics of War” in Studies in the History of Ethics, February 2006 (http://www.historyofethics.org/022006/022006Fiala.html).
  3.  “Emerson and the Limits of Language” Idealistic Studies, 34: 3 (Fall 2004).
  4. “Linguistic Nationalism and Linguistic Diversity: Locating Hegel between Fichte and Humboldt” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 9:1 (Fall 2004).
  5. “Existentialism and Repressive Toleration” Studies in Practical Philosophy, Fall, 2004.
  6. “Practical Pacifism after the War in Iraq” Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict (Wisconsin Peace and Conflict Studies), 2004-2005.
  7. “Citizenship, Epistemology, and the Just War Theory” in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 7:2 (April 2004), 100-117.
  8.  “Toleration and the Limits of the Moral Imagination” in Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 10:2 (Fall-Winter 2003), 33-40.
  9. “Stoic Tolerance” in Res Publica, 9: 2 (2003), 149-168.
  10. “Liberty, Security, and the War on Terror” Wisconsin Political Scientist, 8:2 (Fall 2002), 3-4.
  11. “Toleration and Pragmatism” in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 16: 2 (2002), 103-116.
  12. “Terrorism and the Philosophy of History: Liberalism, Realism and the Supreme Emergency Exemption” in Essays in Philosophy, Volume 4, Special Issue on Rawls and Terrorism, May 2002 (http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~essays/v3cline.html).
  13. “Toward an Ethics of Time: Eschatology and its Discontents” in Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 7: 2-3 (Summer-Fall 2000), 33-41.
  14. “The Risks of Education: Dewey and the Kansas School Board” in Kinesis, 27: 1 (Spring 2000), 39-56.
  15.  “The Irony of Political Philosophy” in Philosophy in the Contemporary World 5:1 (Fall 1999), 1-8.




Publications: Introductions, Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Articles

 

  1. “Pacifism” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pacifism/); published Summer 2006.
  2.  “Defusing Fear: A Critical Response to the War on Terrorism” in Philosophy 9/11: Thinking about the War on Terrorism.  Ed. Timothy Shanahan.  Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2005.
  3. “Creation Myths of the Ancient World” in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.  Ed. Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan.  London: Continuum, 2005.
  4. “Ovid’s Metamorphoses” in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.  Ed. Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan.  London: Continuum, 2005.
  5. Introduction for Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason.  New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2004.
  6. “Toleration” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/tolerati.htm), first published Spring 2003.
  7. Introduction for Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.  New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2003.
  8. “The Dawning of Desire: Hegel’s Logical History of Philosophy and Politics” in Hegel’s History of Philosophy: New Interpretations ed. by David Duquette.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, pp. 51-63.
  9. “Aesthetic Education and the Aesthetic State: Hegel’s Response to Schiller” in Hegel’s Aesthetics, ed. by William Maker.  Albany, NY: State University New York Press, 2000, pp. 171-85.

 

 

Publications: Book Reviews

 

  1. “Review of Bruce Wilshire, Get 'Em All. Kill 'Em" in Journal of Speculative Philosophy 19: 4 (2005).
  2. “Review of Sami Pihlstrøm, Naturalizing the Transcendental” in Philosophy in Review, 24: 6 (December 2004).
  3. “Review of Hans Oberdiek, Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance” in Metaphilosophy 34: 5 (October 2003).



Op-Ed and Other Popular Articles

 

  1. “Seeing the Suffering We Cause” Op-Ed in Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/30/200/  
  2. “Philosophy, The Pope, and Interfaith Dialogue” Op-Ed in The Fresno Bee, September 23, 2006.
  3. “King Preached Nonviolence, Too” Op-Ed in The San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 2006.
  4. “Let’s Define Our Terms of War Carefully” Op-Ed in The Fresno Bee, September 10, 2005.
  5. “Practical Pacifism and the War on Terror” in The Humanist, 62: 6 (November/December 2002), 14-16.

 

Scholarly Presentations

  1. “Democracy, Responsibility, and Peace: From Hiroshima to Baghdad” at International Society for Universal Dialogue, Hiroshima, Japan, June 2007.

  2. “Emerson and the Poetry of Nature” at Nature and Value Spring Philosophy Conference, Bass Lake, CA, April 2007.
  3. “Community Dialogue Projects as a Method of Socratic Education” at CSU Conference on Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Fresno, CA, April 2007.
  4. “Reason, Ethics, and God” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World at the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2007.
  5. “The Crusade for Freedom: A Critique of the Bush Doctrine” at the American Academy of Religion, Washington DC, November 2006.
  6. “Varieties of Pacifism” University of Colorado—Denver, Department of Philosophy, October 2006.
  7. “Crusades and Just Wars in the Unipolar World: The Disproportional Aims of The Bush Doctrine” at The Concept of War: Political Science, Philosophy, Law, Vancouver, BC September 2006.
  8. “Playing with Plato’s Dove: Anarchy, Peace, and Philosophy” at Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Western Carolina University, July 2006.
  9. “Time, Change, and Ethics” at Fresno State Philosophy Conference, Tenaya Lodge, CA, April 2006 (Invited lecture).
  10. “Author Meets Critics: Andrew Fiala’s Practical Pacifism” at the American Philosophical Association, Western Division meeting, Portland, OR, March, 2006.
  11. “Practical Pacifism, Jus in bello, and the War in Iraq” at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division meeting, Boston, MA, December 2004.
  12. “Using Dialogue to Teach Ethics” at Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Western Carolina University, July 2004.
  13. “Time, Tragedy, and Ethics: A Temporal Analysis of Tragic Conflicts in Ethics” at Special Conference on Values, University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, April 2004.
  14. “Teaching Ethics by Using Dialogical Interviews” at UW-System Conference: “Making Teaching and Learning Visible,” Madison, WI, April 2003.
  15. “Fear Itself” (“Defusing Fear”) at Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy meeting at the American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, December 2003.
  16.  “Defusing Fear: Critical Reflections on the War on Terrorism” at Understanding Terrorism: Philosophical Issues, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, September 2003.
  17. “Terrorism, War, and the Eschatological Suspension of the Ethical” at Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2003.
  18. “Cynicism, Meliorism, and the Pragmatic Imperative of Liberal Hope” at Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Denver, CO, March 2003.
  19. “Human Rights: Sense or Nonsense” at the annual meeting of The Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues at the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2002.
  20. “Civil Liberties and The War on Terror” at Wisconsin Political Science Society, University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh, October 2002.
  21. “Toleration and the Limits of the Moral Imagination” at Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, July 2002.
  22. “Some Modest Conclusions About the Philosophy of Time” at Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, April 2002.
  23. “Hope for the Hopeless: A Pragmatic Approach” at Conference for Value Inquiry Bioethics Conference, Milwaukee, WI, April 2002.
  24. “Environmental Education and the Fox River” at International Association for Great Lakes Research session on Environmental Justice, at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, June 2001.
  25. “Royce and Hegel on Loyalty” in a Panel Session “Competing Loyalties: Royce’s Philosophy of Loyalty in Context” organized by me at Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Las Vegas, NV, March 2001.
  26. “Democratic Discussion in Teaching Political Philosophy” at Teaching Across the Generations, Faculty Development Conference, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, January, 2001.
  27. “The Strength of Toleration: Toleration as a Stoic Virtue” at Morality and Its Others at the Center for Interdisciplinary Study in Meaning and Value, Albion College, Albion MI, November 2000.
  28. “The Dawning of Desire: Hegel’s Logical History of Philosophy and Politics” at Hegel Society of America, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, October 2000.
  29. “The Dialectic of Tolerance: Tolerant Dissent in the Aftermath of the Southworth Case” at United Kingdom Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, University of Exeter, Exeter, England, April 2000.
  30. “The Risks of Education: Dewey and the Kansas School Board” at Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Indianapolis, IN, March 2000. 
  31. “The Present Crisis and the Politics of Eschatology” at Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Estes Park, CO, August 1999.
  32. “The State in Plato and the Americans” at International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May, 1999.
  33. “Fichte and the Ursprache” at North American Fichte Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 1999.
  34. “Political Truth in the Communist Manifesto” at American Philosophical Association Western Division, Berkeley, CA, April 1999.
  35. “Rorty and the Crisis of Ecology: Toward a Post-Modern Ecology” at Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, March 1999.
  36. “The Nature of Nature” (Comment on “Environmental Ethics and the Problem of Predation: How Bambi Lovers Respect Nature” by Jennifer Everett) at Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, March 1999.
  37. “Nature is Still Elsewhere: Pragmatic Ecology and the Poetry of Nature” at Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Eugene, OR, February, 1999.
  38. “The Irony of Political Philosophy” at Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Estes Park, CO, August 1998.
  39. “Addressing Marx: The Ambiguity of Political Philosophy” at Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, February 1998.
  40. “Liberal-Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Public/Private Distinction” at Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Estes Park, CO, August 1997.
  41. “Critique as Political Discourse” at Tennessee Philosophical Association, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, November 1996.
  42. “Aesthetic Education and the Aesthetic State: Hegel’s Response to Schiller” at Hegel Society of America, Keystone, CO, October 1996.
  43. “Essence and Time: Heidegger’s Reversal of Hegel’s Conception of Essence” at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 1996.
  44. “Kant, Levinas, and the Problem of Freedom” at Kant’s Legacy Conference, De Paul University, Chicago, IL, April 1995.
  45. “The Sublime in Sport: Confronting the Body Image” at Mid-South Graduate Student Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, March 1995.
  46. “Friendship and the Dialectic of (Non-)Self-Identity” at Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, February 1995.
  47. “Commentary on ‘Work, Process, and the Intellectual Activity'“ by Thomas P. Kling at Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, February 1995.
  48. “The Death of the Future: Heidegger and Levinas” at Collegium Phaenomenologicum Participant’s Conference, Perugia, Italy, July 1994.
  49. “Thinking the Circle in Nietzsche and Heidegger” at Nietzsche’s Wake Conference, De Paul University, Chicago, IL, May 1994.

 

Public Lectures

1.      “The Bush Doctrine and the Just War Tradition” Humanities Lecture Series, Fresno State, November 30, 2006.

2.      “From Jesus to George W. Bush: Christian Pacifism, Just War Theory, and the War on Terrorism” Distinguished Lecture at the University of Colorado at Denver, October 2006.

3.      “Just War Theory and the War on Terrorism” at Faculty Research Group, Fresno State, October 2006.

4.      “Practical Pacifism” a reading at the Reader’s Loft, De Pere, WI, October 2004.

5.      “Practical Pacifism after the War in Iraq” at Justice, War, and Peace public lecture series (sponsored by UWGB and the Wisconsin Humanities Council), Brown County Public Library, Green Bay, WI, October 2004.

6.      “Kierkegaard on Christianity” at Campus Crusade for Christ, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, April 2004.

  1. “The Sublime in Kant and Schopenhauer” at “Exploring the Sublime: A Panel Discussion in honor of the “Neo-Sublime” Paintings of Steve Hough, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, October 2003.
  2. “Ethics and Post-Modernism” Humanistic Studies Faculty Forum, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, September 2003.

9.      “Civil Liberties and National Security: A Discussion of the Patriot Act” at the Academic Staff Program Development Committee, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, April 2004.

10.  “The Liberty-Security Dialectic and the Patriot Act” at the League of Women Voters, Green Bay, WI, February 2004.

11.  “Civil Liberties and the Patriot Act” at ACLU of Northeast Wisconsin annual meeting, Green Bay, WI, November 2003.

 

Grants and Awards

 

  • College of Arts and Humanities Faculty Research Award.  Academic Year 2006-07.  This grant was awarded to support research for a book project: “Pacifism, Just War Theory, and American Hegemony”

 

  • Wisconsin Humanities Council Grant, Fall 2004.  This grant supported a public discussion series held at the Brown County Public Library, “Justice, War, and Peace.”  This series brought philosophers and community leaders together to reflect on Justice, War and Peace.

 

  • Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, Academic Year 2003-2004.  Selected to represent UW-Green Bay at the UW System’s Office of Professional and Instructional Development faculty development activities supporting the craft of teaching.  Project in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: “Changing Attitudes in Teaching Ethics.”

 

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Ralph Waldo Emerson at 200: Literature, Philosophy, Democracy,” Summer 2003.  Selected participant in this 5-week summer institute at St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

 

  • Wisconsin Humanities Council Grant, Fall 2002.  This grant supported a public discussion series held at the Brown County Public Library, “Ethics and the War on Terrorism.”  This series brought philosophers and community leaders together to reflect on Terrorism and the War on Terrorism.

 

  • Research Fellowship: Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Spring Semester 2002.  Project Title: “Ethics, History, and Time.”  During a one semester research-leave I participated in the Institute and worked on a book manuscript entitled, The Ethics of Time.

 

  • UW-Green Bay Faculty Development Council “Creative Approaches to Teaching” award, Fall 2001.  My teaching tip focused on stimulating class participation using student led discussion.

 

  • UW-Green Bay Teaching Scholar, 2000-2001.  Selected to participate in discussions of teaching, research into the craft of teaching, and a practical teaching project. 

 

  • EPA Environmental Education Grant, Fall 2000 ($5,000) for project: “Critical Thinking, Science, and the Environment: The Restoration of the Fox-River/Green Bay Ecosystem.”  This grant sponsored a series of critical thinking seminars presented to the general public by myself and David Dolan, Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

 

  • Grant from the University of Wisconsin Institute on Race and Ethnicity for a Faculty Reading Group on Race and Culture, Spring 2000 with Regan Gurung, Professor of Human Development of the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Spring 2000.

 

  • First Runner-up for the Ila and John Mellow Prize for excellence in American Philosophy of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: for the paper, “Nature is Still Elsewhere: Pragmatic Ecology and the Poetry of Nature,” 1999.

 

  • Dissertation Enhancement Grant, Vanderbilt University, 1996.

 

  • Whittington Scholarship for excellence in Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach, 1991-92.

 

 

Other Scholarly Activities

 

General Editor of the journal Philosophy in the Contemporary World, since 2005.

Author of website: “Student Survival Guide” for Wadsworth Publications Philosophy website: http://www.wadsworth.com/philosophy_d/special_features/popups/survival_guide.html 

Program Co-Chair for the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, North Carolina, July 2004.

 

Housing Coordinator for the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2003.

 

Invited Participant: Liberty Fund Symposium: Rigoletto, Indianapolis, IN, May 2004

 

Conference Organizer  for “Ethics and the War on Terrorism”: a series of public forums to stimulate philosophical reflection about the Terrorism and the War on Terrorism, Fall, 2002.

 

Session Chair for Hegel Society of America, Biannual Meeting at Pennsylvania State University, October 2002.

 

Housing Coordinator for the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2002.

 

Program Chair for the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2001.

 

Invited Participant: Liberty Fund Summer Institute; Theme: “Competing Models of Liberty” Lake Tahoe, CA, July, 2000.

 

Program Selection Committee for the Wisconsin Philosophical Association, Spring 2000.

 

Selected Participant in Humanities Center Seminar, Vanderbilt University (with Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain); Theme: “Politics, Ethics, Terror”; Summer 1996.

 

Selected Participant at Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia Italy; Theme: “The Futures of Phenomenology in Heidegger, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty”; Summer 1994.

 

 

 

Memberships and Organizational Activities

 

Member of the Ethics Center Steering Committee, Fresno State, 2005-Present

 

Associate Chair, Humanistic Studies, UW-Green Bay, Spring 2005

 

Webmaster for Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World (http://www.spcw.info/)

 

Treasurer for the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World; 2001-2004

 

Chair, University of Wisconsin—Green Bay, Institutional Review Board; 2003-2004

 

Chair, ACLU of Northeastern Wisconsin; 2003

 

Memberships (current and past): American Philosophical Association, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Hegel Society of America

 

 

Courses Taught at Fresno State

Moral Questions

Fall 2005; Spring 2006

Contemporary Conflicts of Morals

Summer 2006; Fall 2006; Spring 2007; Summer 2007

Ethics of Criminal Justice

Fall 2006

Professional Ethics

Fall 2005

Philosophy Senior Seminar: Philosophy of War and Peace

Spring 2006

 

Courses Taught at UW-Green Bay

American Philosophy

Fall 1999

Capstone Seminar in the Humanities

Fall 2002; Spring 2003

Interdisciplinary Themes in Humanities: Existentialism

Fall 2001; Spring 2004

Interdisciplinary Themes in Humanities: Individual and Society

Fall 1999; Fall 2000

Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy

Spring 2000; Spring 2001; Spring 2003; Spring 2004

Introduction to the Humanities 1

Spring 2001; Spring 2001 (Extended Degree WEBCT Internet Delivery format)

Introduction to the Humanities 2

Spring 2000; Spring 2004; Fall 2004

Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture

Fall 2001; Fall 2002

Nineteenth Century Philosophy

Fall 2001; Fall 2003

Perspectives in Human Values: The Contemporary World

Fall 2003

Perspectives in Human Values: The Modern

Spring 2001

Philosophy, Politics, and Law

Spring 2000 (Extended Degree weekend format); Fall 2000; Spring 2002 (Extended Degree weekend format); Fall 2002; Fall 2003 (Extended Degree weekend format)

Problem Solving and Professional Ethics

Fall 2000 (Extended Degree weekend format); Fall 2002 (Extended Degree weekend format); Fall 2004

Problems in Ethics

Fall 1999; Summer 2000; Fall 2000; Summer 2002; Fall 2003; Fall 2004

Courses Taught Elsewhere

Nineteenth Century Philosophy

Vanderbilt University

Formal Logic

Vanderbilt University

Critical Thinking

Vanderbilt University; Belmont University

Introduction to Philosophy

Vanderbilt University; Belmont University; O’More College

Early Civilizations

University School of Nashville

Introduction to Ethics (T.A.)

Vanderbilt University (under Professors John Lachs and Lenn Goodman)

The Big Questions

Phillips Academy (Andover, MA)