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STEVE NARAGON
Address: *** **** ******
North Manchester, IN 46962
E-Mail: aboyz7@r.postjobfree.com
Office Phone: 260-***-****
Date of Birth: 7 May 1959
Family Status: married (4 January 1983), three children (b. 1989, 1992, 1995)
Education
Ph.D, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) 1987.
(Dissertation: Reason and Animals: Descartes, Kant, and Mead on the Place of Humans in
Nature; directors: C. F. Delaney and Karl Ameriks)
Philipps-UniversitAt (Marburg, Germany), 1980-82.
B.A., Manchester College (N. Manchester, Indiana), 1982
.
Teaching and Academic Affiliation
Professor, Fall 2007-present
.
Associate Professor, Manchester College, Fall 1997-Spring 2007
.
Assistant Professor, Manchester College, Fall 1991-Spring 1997
.
Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame, Summer 1989-Summer 1991
.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, Spring 1989
.
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, 1987-88
.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Indianapolis, Summer 1987
.
Instructor, Indiana University at Indianapolis, Spring 1987
.
Instructor, Manchester College, Spring 1987
.
Instructor, University of Indianapolis, Spring 1987
.
Instructor, Manchester College, Spring 1985
.
Graduate Assistant, Univ. of Notre Dame, Fall 1982-Fall 1984.
Courses Taught
First-Year Seminar (Animal Minds; Sense and Nonsense; Difficult Dialogues), Introduction
to
Philosophy (200 level), Formal Logic (300), Ancient & Medieval Western Philosophy (300),
17th and
18th Century Philosophy (300), 19th Century Philosophy (300), Environmental Philosophy
(300), Ethics
(300), Medical Ethics (300), 20th Century Philosophy (400), Kant s Critique of Pure
Reason (graduate);
Special problems/directed readings on: Zen and Writing; Sudan and Humanitarian Aid;
Medical Ethics;
Philosophy of Mind; The Beautiful and Sublime in Burke and Kant; Pagan Political Thought;
Spinoza;
Merleau-Ponty.
Administrative and Committee Activities
Chair,
Department of Religion and Philosophy, Manchester College (Fall 2001- 2012
).
Chair, Humanities Division (
Fall 2008-2012)
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Presidential Search Committee (2004).
Chair, Search Committee, Lilly Plowshares Professor of Peace Studies (2002-3)
Search Committee, Lilly Plowshares Grant Coordinator (2001-2
)
Faculty Development Committee (
2000-05
)
Peace Studies Institute (1999-05
)
Enrollment Management Committee (1999-2000
)
Faculty Executive Committee (
.
Strategic Planning Committee (
1994-96
)
Fulbright Interview Committee (1994-05, 2010-12)
Presidential Search Committee (1993).
Academic Policies Committee
Department of Religion and Philosophy (1993-94
).
Peace Studies Council (
1992-2011
)
Environmental Studies Council (
1992-2010
)
Honors Committee (
1992-93)
First Year Seminar ad hoc development committee
(
1992-94)
(Various ad hoc and search committees)
Professional Affiliations
North American Kant Society (Bibliographer: 2010-present)
American Philosophical Association
Society for 18th Century Studies
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Work Published
Book
(1) Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics, co-translated and co-edited with Karl Ameriks
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xlvii, 642 pp. [Re-issued with revisions
as a
paperback in 2001.]
Website
(1) Kant in the Classroom (online since August 2006), consisting of about 4.8 MB of .html
text, of
which there are currently130 separate web pages (some of which are quite lengthy, running
to 20 or
more pages if printed out). This project brings together much of the research conducted
during my
1998-99 sabbatical, but the website is still being actively revised (as of June 2007).
The site averages
about 100 page loads each day, and cumulatively from 120 different countries, although
the majority
of users are in the US and Western Europe.
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(5) Kant-Lexikon, 3 vols., edited by Georg Mohr, JUrgen Stolzenberg, and Marcus
Willaschek (New
York/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter; forthcoming). Total of 20 articles: Maschine; Herz; Leib;
Gehirn;
Automat; GehOr; GerAusch; Geruch; Betastung; Sehen; TAuschung der Sinne; Ton; Taubheit;
Nerven;
Physiologie; Technizismus; Haut; Physiognomik; Kant s Anhang zu SOmmering: Uber das
Organ
der Seele ; Samuel Thomas SOmmering.(4) Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, 3 vols. (London/New York:
Continuum,
2010). General editors: Manfred Kuehn (Boston University) and Heiner Klemme (Wuppertal).
Total
of 46 articles: Alberti, Michael (1682-1757); Ammon, Christian Friedrich (1696-1742);
Arnoldt,
Daniel Heinrich (1706-1775); Baumgarten, Christoph Friedrich (16 -1746); Beseke, Johann
Melchior Gottlieb (1746-1802); Bock, Friedrich Samuel (1716-1785); Bock, Johann Georg
(1698-
1762); Bohl, Johann Christoph (1703-1785); Buck, Friedrich Johann (1722-1786); BUttner,
Christoph Gottlieb (1708-1776); Burckhard, Thomas (1686-1744); Busolt, Gotthilf Christoph
Wilhelm (1771-1831); Chmelnitzki, Johann (1742-1794); Christiani, Karl Andreas (1707-
1780);
Danovius, Ernst Jakob (1741-1782); FriedlAnder, Michael (1769-1824); Gatterer, Johann
Christoph
(1727-1799); Gensichen, Johann Friedrich (1759-1807); Hagen, Karl Gottfried (1749-1829);
Herrmann, Christian Gotthilf (1764-1823); Hoffmann, Friedrich (1660-1742); Hufeland,
Christoph
Wilhelm Friedrich (1762-1836); Jachmann, Reinhold Bernhard (1767-1843); JAsche, Gottlieb
Benjamin (1762-1842); Kiesewetter, Joh. Gottfried Karl Christian (1766-1819); Kreutzfeld,
Johann
Gottlieb (1745-1784); Kypke, Georg David (1724-1779); Kypke, Johann David (1692-1758);
Lilienthal, Michael (1686-1750); Michaelis, Christian Friedrich (1770-1834); Pisanski,
Georg
Christoph (1725-1790); POlitz, Karl Heinrich Ludwig (1772-1838); POrschke, Karl Ludwig
(1751-
1812); Reidenitz, Daniel Christoph (1760-1842); Reil, Johann Christian (1759-1813);
Rogall, Georg
Friedrich (1701-1733); Salthenius, Daniel Lorenz (1701-1750); Sanden, Christian Bernhard
von
(1707-1756); Sanden, Heinrich von (1672-1728); Schultz, Johann Friedrich (1739-1805);
Schulz, J.
C. F. (1762-1798); Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas (1755-1830); Starck, Johann August (1741-
1816); Teske, Johann Gottfried (1704-1772); Wlochatius, August Wilhelm (1744-1815);
ZOllner,
Johann Friedrich (1753-1804).
(3) A Good, Honest Watchmaker : J. C. F. Schulz s Portrait of Kant from 1791 in Kant-
Studien,
101:
Other Publications
(1) Co-editor of the Bulletin of the Peace Studies Institute of Manchester College (1993-
2002).
Texts for which I served as a referee
(3) 2002: Justice and Justification (a volume of proceedings for the Concerned
Philosophers for Peace).
(2) 2002: a text on environmental epistemology (Rowman & Littlefield).
(1) 1996: a logic textbook (Wadsworth/Thompson Publishing).
Presentations
Academic
(8) Bringing Online Learning into the Virtual Classroom Fort Wayne Teaching
Conference (IPFW;
February 25, 2011).
(7) Second Life as Classroom and as Laboratory 7th Annual ICI Instructional
Technology Summit
(Butler University, August 8, 2010).
(6) Ethics in the Academy Academic Deans Conference at IPFW (February 20, 2004).
(5) Kant als Professor in KOnigsberg invited annual lecture (in German) for the
Gesellschaft zur
FOrderung des Marburger Kant-Archivs (April 28, 1999).
(4) Menschenbestimmung and the Progress of Reason in Kant (NEH seminar on the
Enlightenment,
led by James Schmidt, 1994).
(3) Animal Rights and Deep Ecology, Annual Meeting of the Indiana College Biology
Teachers
Association (March 12, 1994).
(2) Kant s Revolution of the Mind, Manchester College Centennial Symposium (May 1990).
(1) Kant on Human Evolution, Arkansas Philosophical Assoc. annual meeting (Nov. 1987).
Popular
(16) Environmental Theology led a workshop for Church of the Brethren pastors
(October 2007).
(15) Elaine Pagel s Beyond Belief three-Sunday presentation and guided discussion for
an adult
Sunday School class (November 2004).
(14) What is philosophy good for? Shepherd s Center, North Manchester (April 7,
2004).
(13) Utilitarianism, Moral Theory, and Animal Rights three-Sunday presentation and
guided
discussion for an adult Sunday School class (November 2002).
(12) There are Two Errors in the the Title of this Talk: On Solving the Liar s Paradox
Department
of Religion and Philosophy Thursday Colloquy, Manchester College (October 10, 2002).
(11) Four Ethical and One Philosophical Implication of the Human Genome Project,
presented to the
Science Division Seminar (Nov. 27, 2000).
(10) What is Philosophy? North Manchester Lions Club (August 1999).
(9) Faith and Reason talk with discussion for the Unitarian Congregation of Kokomo
(Feb. 1996).
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(8) Environmental Philosophy and High School Biology talk for a group of high school
biology
teachers (June 1995).
(7) Medical Ethics co-led a workshop for Church of the Brethren pastors (April 1995).
(6) Science and Ethics talk with discussion for the MC TUNSIS group (March 1995).
(5) Environmental Ethics talk with discussion for the Unitarian Congregation of
Kokomo (Jan.
1995).
(4) Kant on Human Sexuality talk with discussion for the MC Philosophy Club (Nov.
1994).
(3) One s Philosophy of Life two-Sunday presentation and guided discussion for an
adult Sunday
school class (Sept. 1993).
(2) Theology and the Environment presented to a Church of the Brethren youth group (May
1992).
(1) Animal Rights and Animal Liberation presented to the Manchester Chapter of the
Fellowship of
Reconciliation (Sept. 1991).
Grants and other funded research
(8) February-June 2007: Fulbright Travel Grant.
(7) Fall 2005-Summer 2006: sabbatical research and writing, primarily of twenty-three
short biographies
(for an encyclopedia of 18th century German philosophers), twenty short articles for a
forthcoming
Kant-Lexikon, a book review, and a website (for presenting material developed during my
1998-99
sabbatical). Included a six month stay at the Marburg Kant archive/Germany.
(6) Manchester College Faculty Research summer grants for 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005.
(5)
June-July 2000: DAAD Study Visit Research Grant for Faculty (funding for research in
Marburg and
Berlin).
(4)
Fall 1998 Summer 1999: sabbatical research on a manuscript (Professor Kant in the
Classroom),
including six months research at the Marburg Kant archive/Germany.
(3)
Summer 1994: NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers: What is Enlightenment ; James
Schmidt, director. Boston University.
(2) Fall 1988: NEH Travel Grant (to the Marburg Kant archive/Germany).
(1)
1988-89: Consulting support from an NEH Translation Grant.
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