MICHAEL C. CIFONE

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Merchantville, NJ 08109

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SUMMARY

Respected educator with editing experience and publishing credits. Has given numerous presentations around the world. Recognized for teaching excellence. Adept at collecting, analyzing, and presenting information and reporting results. Published in several noted academic/professional journals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LYFT, Philadelphia Metro Area April 2016 present

Independent Driver

Achieved ongoing 4.9+ average customer rating.

UBER, Philadelphia Metro Area December 2015 Present

Independent Driver

Achieved 4.98 average customer rating and earned Uber’s “VIP Driver” status.

ROWAN UNIVERSITY, Glassboro, NJ January 2016 May 2016

Lecturer in Logic and Philosophy of Science

Responsible for innovating and implementing student learning outcomes in logic and critical thinking; teaching basic reasoning in science; and presenting the history of science through a history of scientific revolutions.

MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN UNIVERSITY, New York City, NY August 2015 December 2015

Lecturer in Comparative Religious Ethics

Responsible for ensuring diversity in the curriculum and covering a range of Western and non-Western religious-ethical traditions (Hindu, Buddhist, Christian).

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, CA August 2011 December 2014

Lecturer in Asian Thought, Philosophy and Religious Studies

Worked closely with the Center for Teaching Excellence to develop innovative pedagogical methods and ensure well-balanced student experience (mix of lecture and discussion).

EDUCATION

Ph.D., magna cum laude (History and Philosophy of Science, 2009) University of Maryland at College Park (Washington, D.C. area)

M.A. (Philosophy, 2007) University of Maryland at College Park

B.A., cum laude (major: Philosophy; minor degrees in Physics & Mathematical Science, 2000) Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, PA)

WRITING CREDITS (HIGHLIGHTS)

(2016) “Axioms in Z -- Notes on a Scandalous Appropriation of Philosophy out of the Sublimity of the Thing. Part I: Negations,” International Journal of Žižek Studies. 10 (1).

(2014) “Nothingness and Science (A Propaedeutic),” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 10 (1): 253-274.

(2008) “Why Quantum Mechanics Favors Adynamical and Acausal Interpretations Such as Relational Blockworld over Backwardly Causal and Time-Symmetric Rivals,” with Michael Silberstein and W.M. Stuckey, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39 (4): 736-751.

(2008) “Reconciling Spacetime and the Quantum: Relational Blockworld and the Quantum Liar Paradox,” with W. M. Stuckey and Michael Silberstein, Foundations of Physics 38 (4): 348-383.

(2006) “Deflating Quantum Mysteries via the Relational Blockworld,” with W. M. Stuckey and Michael Silberstein, in Physics Essays 19 (2): 269-283.

SELECT AWARDS AND HONORS

2005: University of Maryland: Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award

2004: National Science Foundation: Young Researcher’s Grant

2002: University of Maryland: Brian Hull Award (Fellowship) for Best First-Year Graduate Student

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