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Curriculum Vitae

Peter Hadreas

 

September, 2006

 

Department  of  Philosophy

One  Washington  Square                    

San  José  State  University                  

San  José,  CA  95192-0096               

email: phadreas@earthlink.net

(408)  924-1376

 

Education

 

B. A., with honors in Music, University of California, Berkeley.

M. A., in Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley.

Ph. D., in Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley.

 

Teaching Experience

 

San José State University, San José, California, Associate Professor, Fall, 2002 to present, Assistant Professor, 1999-2002,  Acting Associate Professor, 1991- 1999,  Lecturer, 1986- 1991.

University of California , Berkeley, part-time Lecturer, 1978-1988.

University of California, Santa Cruz , Lecturer, Fall 1977, Winter, 1978.

 

Areas of Specialization

Phenomenology, Philosophical Psychology, Aristotle, Greek philosophy, Business Ethics, Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Economics.

 

Publications

 

Books:

 

1. A Phenomenology of Love and Hate, accepted for publication by Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming in Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy Series, 2007.  

 

2. In Place of the Flawed Diamond, An Investigation of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy,  Peter Lang, Inc., New York/Bern, 1986.

 

Some references to  In Place of the Flawed Diamond.   

1.  In the article on Merleau-Ponty in the recent  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (London: Routledge, 1998),  In Place of the Flawed Diamond   is recommended in the short list of “references and further reading” on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy.

2.  David Abram, in  The Spell of the Sensuous -- Perception and Language in a More-than Human World,  (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996)  pp. 279-280   references a theory developed in  In Place of the Flawed Diamond,  and uses it to argue for his account of ecological crisis.

 

 

Articles:

   

1.  “Husserlian Self-Awareness and SSRIs,” forthcoming in, Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology.

2.  “Aristotle and Machiavelli interviewed  on  Wall Street Week Under Review,”  Business Ethics: A European Review. Vol. 14, No. 3. Fall, 2005. 

3.   “The Functions of Pleasure in Nicomachean Ethics,  Book X, Chapters 4 -5,”   Ancient Philosophy, 24,  2004, pp. 155-167.

4. “Husserl and the Phenomenology of Race,” The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 34, No. 1, Jan. 2003.

5.  “Phenomenology and the Incest Taboo,”  Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Vol. 33. No. 2,  Dec. 2002, pp. 203-222.

6.  “Aristotle on the Vices and Virtue of Wealth,” The Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 39, No. 4, Sept. (II) 2002.

7. “Deconstruction and the Meaning of Music,”  Perspectives of New Music,  Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer, 1999.

8.  "Intentionality and the Neurobiology of Pleasure,"  Studies in History and the Philosophy of Biology and the Biomedical Sciences,  Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 219-236, 1999.

9.  “Aristotle’s Simile of Pleasure,”  Ancient Philosophy,  Fall, 1997, pp. 371-374.

10.  “Derrida Versus Searle,”   Philosophiques,  Vol. XXIII No. 2,  Fall, 1996, pp. 317-326.  

11.  “Eunoia -- Aristotle on the Beginning of Friendship,”  Ancient Philosophy,   Fall,  1995.

12.  “Ford Pintos, GM Trucks and Media Distortions.”   in Business as Ethical and Business as Usual:   A Text with Readings,  edited by Sterling Harwood,   (Boston: Jones and Bartlett,  October,  1995), pp. 411-415.

13.  “Comments on Professors Johnson’s and Weiss’s Papers,” in Bulletin  de  la          Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française,   Spring, 1993, pp. 84-7.

14.  “Foucault and Affirmative Action,” Praxis International,  Vol 11, No. 2 July, 1991.

15.   “Money--A Speech Act Analysis,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. XX, Number 3, (Winter, 1989), pp. 115-129.

 

 

Other  writings:

 

Plays:

1.  “Athaliah, the Mad Proto-Feminist,”  also titled,  “Granny Dearest: Or the Sad but Bloody Story of How Athaliah, Queen of Judah,  Killed Seventy of Her Grandchildren,” a  very loose adaptation of Racine’s  Athalie, revised November, 2004.

 

2.   “A Friend to Nietzsche’s Madness,”    A one-act dramatization of   influences that went into the creation of the ‘Nietzsche myth’ during the period of the philosopher’s madness, performed at San José State , May, 1996.

 

3.   “Diogenes,” performed for  students and faculty at San José State University, April, 1993, and  by request of Humanities Honors Program for students and faculty,  November, 1993. Invited again to perform at West Valley College for  an audience of about 300 people, November 1996.

 

4.  “Simon E. Root, Inc,” a full length play, performed at the New Dramatists, December, 1991.

 

5.  “Post-Cambrian Capers,”  a full length play with music, performed at Theater Guenivere, July,  1986.

 

6.  “Swann and Odette,” with Jane Harada and William Conroy, an adaptation of Proust’s Swann in Love,   1983, performed at 73rd Street Playhouse, New York City and at A. C. T. , Plays in Progress series  in San Francisco.

 

Music:

 

 “Willie and Phil,” with Claude Bolling.  Musical score  written for the Paul Mazursky film 1979.

 

 

Grants

1. Awarded Difference-in-Pay Sabbatical Leave for 2003-04.

 

2. Awarded Diversity Grant from College of the Humanities and Arts, in December, 1999, to visit Husserl Archive in New York City.  Visited Husserl Archive June 12-18, 2000 and research conducted there is currently being organized into paper on the phenomenology of racism.

 

3. Awarded Difference-in-Pay Sabbatical Leave for 1996-97.

 

4.  Received  Lottery Funds Grant,  December 1994.

 

5.  Received Dean of Humanities and the Arts Small Grant Award, December 1994.

 

University-wide Service

 

1. Served as a member of the Difficult Dialogues Advisory Board, initial meeting Thursday, March 23,  2006.

 

2.   Member of the College of Business Dean search committee, 2004-5.

 

Some recent College Service  (since 2000)

 

1. Member of College Research and Faculty  Development Committee, 2004-06.

 

2. Member of  College Sabbatical Leaves Committee, 2004-06..

 

3. Member of College Curriculum and Assessment Committee, Spring 2000.

 

University Research Institute Affiliation

 

1. Appointed Director of Institute for Social Responsibility, Ethics and Education (ISREE), beginning August 1, 2004. Currently, serving as Director.

 

2.  Member of governing board of Institute for Social Responsibility, Ethics and Education (ISREE) June, 1998 to Aug. 1, 2004. (The Institute for Social Responsibility, Ethics and Education is a University Research Organization at San José State focusing on ethical issues on campus and within the broader business and professional communities of Silicon Valley . )

 

3. Associate Director of Institute for Social Responsibility, June, 1995- to June, 1998. 

 

4.  Co-Director of  the Institute for Social Responsibility,  1994 - 95. 

 

5.  Member of the Steering Committee of the Institute for Social Responsibility from Jan. 1992  to  1996. 

 

 

Some Recent Departmental Service  (since 1990).

 

1. Served on departmental search committee seeking new tenure-track faculty member, Dec. 2005-Feb. 2006.

 

2.  Served on Masters Theses of fourteen graduate students from 1990- to present.

 

3. G. E. Coordinator for Bus/JS/Phil 186,  August, 1997 to present.

 

4.  G. E. Coordinator for Phil 107 from 1997 to present.

 

5. Interviewed candidates for tenure-track position at meetings of American Philosophical Association in Boston , Dec. 27-29, 2004.

 

 6. Chaired philosophy department Curriculum and Assessment Committee, August, 1999 to June, 2003.

 

7. Participated in preliminary screenings for SJSU Philosophy Department tenure-track position at New York City meetings of American Philosophical Association, Dec. 2000.

 

 8. Participated in preliminary screenings for SJSU Philosophy Department tenure-track position in Comparative Philosophy at Boston meetings of American Philosophical Association, Dec. 1999.

 

9.  Taught Distance Learning courses : Professional and Business Ethics (Fall of 2000, 1997, and 1995)  and Philosophy in Literature  (Spring, 1996) on the San José State University Television Education Network.

 

10.  Devised and taught two new courses, Postmodern philosophy, in 1992 and Philosophy and Literature in 1993.  Both these courses have since  been added  to the General Catalogue of  Courses.

 

11.  Organized departmental colloquia from Fall 1988 to Spring 1992.

 

12.  Served on curriculum committee, Fall 1993-Spring 1994.

 

13..  Wrote Departmental Newsletter 1990-1992.

 

Recent participation in philosophy conferences and colloquia.

 

1. Attended  National I2P competition on social entrepreneurship at SJSU organized by Prof. Malu Roldan, April 1, 2006.

 

2. Invited to read paper, “Husserlian Phenomenology and the Secret Truth of Prozac,”  at meetings of Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy held at Memphis, Tenn.,  Oct. 26-30, 2004.

 

3. Read  paper, “Husserlian Phenomenology and the Secret Truth of Prozac,” at a San Jose State University Philosophy colloquium, Oct, 2004.

 

4. Read  paper, “Aristotle and Incest,” at colloquium session of Eastern Division meetings of American Philosophical Association, New York City, Dec. 29, 2000.

 

5. Read  paper, “Husserl and the Phenomenology of Racism,” at a San Jose State University Philosophy colloquium, Dec. 6, 2000.

 

6. Read paper, “Aristotle and Incest,” at a session of  the meeting for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at SUNY, Binghamton, Sat., Oct. 28, 2000.

 

7. Chaired session of American Society for Aesthetics, at Asilomar, March 29, 2000.

 

8. Chaired two sessions of Pacific Division of Am. Phil. Assoc. colloquium entitled: “Nietzsche and Epistemology,” Berkeley, CA, April 1, 1999.

 

9. Read paper entitled, “Perfecting Pleasures -- Aristotle’s Functional Definition of Pleasure at EN Book X,”  at a  SJSU Philosophy colloquium, March 11, 1999.

 

10. Gave a lecture entitled, “Madness, Mental Health and Philosophy,”  for The San Jose Intercollegiate Philosophy Club. Approximately 50 people in attendance, Nov. 13, 1998.

 

11. Chaired session, “Tragedy, Horror and the Movies” at American Society for Aesthetics at Asilomar, Pacific Grove,  April 2,  1998.

 

12. Read paper at a SJSU Philosophy Colloquium, “Utilitarianism and the Phenomenology of Pleasure and Pain.”  November, 1997.

 

13.   Commented on Susan B. Levin's paper: "Poets as the Auxiliaries of Philosophers?: New Facets of Plato's Critical Engagement with the Literary Tradition."  American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, Asilomar, April 3, 1997.

 

14. Commented on Sander Lee’s paper, “Notion of Selflessness in Sartrean Existentialism and Theravadin Buddhism,” Pacific Division meetings of APA, March 27, 1997.

 

15.  Delivered paper: Aristotle and the Neurobiology of Pleasure” for University of Nevada at Las Vegas philosophy colloquium and later again at Interdisciplinary seminar, February, 12-13, 1997.

 

16. Invited to read my paper “‘Supplementarity’  and the Meaning of Music”  at session of Pacific Division meetings of APA, April 6, 1996.

 

17. Invited to comment on  Robert’s Rigg’s  paper at the American Society for Aesthetics at Asilomar, Pacific Grove,  April 1995.

 

18.  Invited to be a speaker on interdisciplinary panel on Tony Kushner’s play,  “Angels in America,” San José State University   Dec. 1, 1994

 

19.  Invited to comment on Alan Casebier’s paper, on Husserl and Film Theory at session of American Society for Aesthetics at Asilomar,  Pacific Grove, April, 1994.

 

20.  With Professors Tommy Lott and Scott Cook presented recent work  by Bratman, Searle and Gilbert at a San José State colloquium on Group Intentionality,  February 1994.

 

21.  Read paper,  “Searle versus Derrida?” at a colloquium at San José State University, November 1993.

 

22.  Invited to read a paper, “Eunoia -- Aristotle on the Beginning of Friendship” at the meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek philosophy in Binghamton, New York,  October 1993.

 

23.  Moderated a Session of the Society for Existential of Phenomenological Philosophy, Boston, October, 1992.

 

24.  Gave talk for San José State University Critical Studies Group entitled “Foucault, Kristeva and Derrida on Truth,”  November, 1992.

 

25.  Gave talk to San José State Philosophy Department entitled, “Analytic versus Continental?” November 20, 1992.

 

26.  Served as  commentator for session on “Current French Philosophy” at the meetings of the APA in New York, December, 1992.

 

27.  Chaired session of American Society for Aesthetics at Asilomar,  Pacific Grove, April 5, 1991.

 

 

Union Activities

1. Faculty Rights Advocate, representing on four occasions  San José State faculty members in  various degrees of mediation and level one grievance proceedings,  1995 to Sept. 2004.

     

2. Elected to Executive Board of California Faculty Association, March 1996.

 

Extra-University Scholarly Affiliations

1.  Spring,, 2006 , served on Brian Proesser's Qualifying Exam committee with members of philosophy department at U. C. Santa Cruz.  Agreed to serve on Proesser's Ph. D. dissertation committee on Kierkegaard/Levinas.

 

2. Sept. 2001 to present, member of the Board of Modern Greek Studies Foundation, San Francisco Sttate University.

 

Courses Taught

Aesthetics (general), upper division

Aesthetics of Music, upper division

Aristotle (Graduate Seminar)

Introduction to Epistemology (lower division) taught at U. C. Berkeley to a class of 150 students

Epistemology, upper division

Existentialism in Literature, lower division, (class at U. C. Berkeley often  had over 400 students)

Humanities Core Sequence at San Jose State University

Humanities Core Sequence at U. C. Berkeley

Informal Logic, lower division

Introduction to Philosophy, lower division

Introduction to Philosophy, upper division

Later Heideggerian philosophy, upper division

Merleau-Ponty, upper division

Nietzsche, upper division

Phenomenology and Existentialism, upper division

Phenomenology, upper division

Philosophy and Literature, upper division

Plato (graduate seminar)

Professional Business Ethics, upper division  Postmodernism (graduate Seminar)

Postmodernism, upper division

Seminar in Intentionality (upper division)

Seminar in Pleasure, Pain, Happiness and Well-Being  (graduate seminar)

Seminar in Kant's First Critique (graduate seminar)

Value Theory (graduate Seminar)

Philosophical Subjects taught in  Independent Study :

 

Aristotle

Pierre Bourdieu

Martin Buber

Simone de Beauvoir

Drucilla Cornell

Jacques Derrida

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Michel Foucault

Georg W. F. Hegel

Martin Heidegger

Edmund Husserl

Søren Kierkegaard

Julie Kristeva

Jacques Lacan

Claud Levi-Strauss

Jean-François Lyotard

Plato

Pre-Socratic Philosophy

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Nietzsche

Jean-Paul Sartre

Santayana

Seminar in Attic Greek for Philosophy Students

Seminar in Koine Greek for Philosophy Students

Edith Stein

Stoicism

Santayana

Seminar in Attic Greek for Philosophy Students

Seminar in Koine Greek for Philosophy Students

Paul Tillich

 

 


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