TABS AT 14 AND 21; JUSTIFICATION OFF;
(January 2005)
WILLIAM R. SCHROEDER
ADDRESS:
Dept of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 105 Gregory Hall,
810 South Wright St., Urbana, IL, 61801. (217-333-2889)
E-Mail: wschroed@uiuc.edu
EDUCATION:
University of Michigan B.A. [Magna cum laude with highest honors in philosophy] (68);
M.A. (72).; Ph. D., 1979.
Dissertation: OTHERS: An Examination of Sartre and His Predecessors (i.e., Husserl,
Hegel, Heidegger), 2 Volumes, 864 pages.
AREAS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTEREST:
Phenomenology (especially Scheler and Merleau-Ponty), existentialism (especially Heidegger and Sartre), Continental ethics (Hegel, Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Foucault, Levinas), Nineteenth Century Philosophy (especially Hegel and Nietzsche), poststructuralism (especially Foucault), postmodernism, philosophy in and of literature and film, hermeneutics and literary theory, and philosophical sociology.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
SARTRE AND HIS PREDECESSORS: The Self and the Other
Routledge and Kegan Paul; xv + 329 pages; 1984. (A thorough discussion and critique of the theories of intersubjectivity of Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre, as well as Sartre's discussion of his predecessors, which includes a comparison with some Analytic discussions of "other minds" and some general conclusions.)
BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (co-editor with Simon Critchley),
Blackwell Publishers; 680 pages; 1997. (A series of articles by experts on the major figures of 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy with an Afterword by me.)
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: A Critical Approach
Blackwell Publishers; xvii + 428 pages; 2005. An analysis and assessment of the major theorists/theories in Continental philosophy from Hegel to the present, including discussions of their strengths and weaknesses and of the value, specific field contributions, and prospects of Continental philosophy overall.
Articles:
"A New Conception of Freedom," Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society, 1981, pp. 350-57.
"Reflections on the Philosophy of Literary Interpretation," Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 1, No. 3-4, Winter '83, pp. 109-20.
"A Teachable Theory of Interpretation" in Criticism and Theory in the Classroom, ed. Cary Nelson, U. of Illinois Press, 1986, pp. 9-43.
"Nietzsche's Synoptic and Utopian Vision" in International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXI/2, 1989, pp. 15-20.
"Twentieth Century Continental Ethics" in Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence C. Becker; Garland Publishing, 1992 (reprinted 2001). Also included in A History of Western Ethics, ed. Lawrence C. Becker; 1992 (reprinted 2002)
"Nietzschean Philosophers," in International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XXIV/2, 1992, pp. 108-114.
"Afterword" to Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy, 1997, pp. 613-638.
"Sartre" in Companion to the Philosophers, ed. Robert Arrington, Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 492-500. Also to be included in a more general volume deriving from this book.
"Continental Ethics" in Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (ed., Hugh LaFollett) Blackwell Publishers, 2000, pp. 375-99.
"Resentment" in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd Edition, ed. Lawrence C. Becker. Routledge, 2001.
"Sartre's Being and Nothingness" an overview and critical analysis commissioned for a 4-volume text, Central Works of Philosophy, edited by John Shand, to be published by Acumen Publishers.
Review of Dominick La Capra and Steven Kaplan (eds.), Modern European Intellectual History (Cornell University Press, 1982) in CANADIAN PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS, Vol. IV, No. 4 (Aug., 1984), pp. 154-56.
Review of Robert Solomon, In the Spirit of Hegel (Oxford University Press, 1983) in CANADIAN PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS, Vol. V, No. 1 (Jan., 85), pp. 39-41.
Review of M.J. Inwood, Hegel (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983) in ETHICS, Vol. 95, No. 2 (April, 85), pp. 777-78.
Review of Charles Walters, How to Apply to Graduate School without Really Lying (Nelson-Hall, 1980) in TEACHING PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 8, No. 3 (July, 85), pp. 253-55
Review of Michael Allen Gillespie, Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History (University of Chicago Press, 1984) in ETHICS, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Oct, 85), pp. 216-17.
Review of Mitchell Aboulafia, The Mediating Self: Mead, Sartre, and Self-Determination (Yale University Press, 1986) in ETHICS, Vol. 97, No. 3 (April, 87) p. 694.
Review of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (ed.) Analecta Husserliana: Investigations in Phenomenological Praxeology: Psychiatric Therapeutics, Medical Ethics, and Social Praxis Within the Life- and Communal World (D. Reidel, 1986) in ETHICS, Vol. 97, No. 4 (July, 87), pp. 889-90.
Review of Ron Perrin, Max Scheler's Concept of the Person: An Ethics of Humanism (St. Martin's Press, 1991) in ETHICS, Vol. 103, No. 4 (July 93), pp. 847-48.
Review of Kathleen Marie Higgins, Comic Relief (Oxford University Press, 2000) and of Ruth Abbey, Nietzsche's Middle Period (Oxford University Press, 2000) in MIND, Vol. 111, No. 442 (April, 2002), pp. 434-43.
Review of Robert Solomon, Living With Nietzsche (Oxford University Press, 2004) in MIND (forthcoming, 2005).
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
Books:
Nietzsche's Ethics: an analysis, interpretation, and critique of the main claims in Nietzsche's constructive ethics, general theory of value, moral psychology, analysis of virtues, critique of morality, and theories of self-transformation, culture and politics. Under contract to Blackwell publishers, to be submitted by Jan. 06.
Max Scheler: A Critical Analysis (proposal for a short book examining and evaluating Max Scheler's ethical positions, to be submitted to various publishers. 75% of the manuscript is already drafted and revised.
Blackwell Companion to Continental Philosophy (Second Edition): new articles, revision of existing articles, supplementary editorial material, overseen primarily by me as the sole editor.
ARTISTIC WORKS:
Film: Listen to the City (original story and screenplay) produced and directed by Ron Mann (award-winning Canadian filmmaker); conceived and written 1983; shot and edited 1984; premiere at Toronto's Festival of Festivals, Sept., 1984. Feature film, 88 minutes.
Film: Dreamtower (consultant at all stages of planning, shooting, editing) produced and directed by Ron Mann, 1988. Documentary, 82 minutes.
Film: Twist (consultant at all stages of planning, shooting, editing, and marketing), produced and directed by Ron Mann. Premiere at Toronto's Festival of Festivals, Sept. 1992. Documentary, 78 minutes.
Film: The Fifties: Elvis and the Beats (consultant at all stages of planning, scripting and editing), directed by Ron Mann. Documentary, 57 minutes. Premiere on the Disney Channel, 1996.
Film: Grass (consultant at all stages of planning, scripting, editing), directed by Ron Mann. Documentary, 85 minutes. Premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2000.
Film: Go Further (consultant at all stages of planning, scripting, and editing), directed by Ron Mann. Documentary, 85 minutes. Premiere at Austin Film Festival (Texas) 2002.
PAPERS PRESENTED:
"Hegel's Spiritual Animal Kingdom" UCLA Philosophy Department Colloquium 1972 and California State University Philosophy Department Colloquium 1972.
"Self-Deception" UC Irvine Philosophy Department 1973.
"On Sincerity" UC Irvine Philosophy Department 1973.
"A Theory of Intersubjectivity" Bennington College Colloquium, 1975.
"Sartre's Theory of Others" UIUC Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1979.
"A New Conception of Freedom" Philosophy of Education Society, 1981.
"Ironic and Redemptive Theories of Narrative: A Response to Professor Bruner" UIUC, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium 1982.
"Views, Readings, and Acts of Criticism: Stanley Cavell's Contributions to Our Comprehension of Film" UIUC, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium, 1982.
"Betrayals of Love: A Reading of Antonioni's L'Avventura American Society for Values Inquiry meeting with A.P.A. (Western Division) 1982
"Perception in Science: A Reply to Prof. Salyers" UIUC, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium, 1983.
"Schacht on Nietzsche" UIUC, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloq., 1983.
"Penley on Film Theory and Pedagogy," UIUC, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium, 1984.
"Wittgenstein and Sartre on Other Minds" Sartre Society, 1985.
"Nietzsche's Synoptic and Utopian Vision," North American Nietzsche Society, 1986.
"Sartrean Self-Deception," Sartre Society, 1986.
"Nietzschean Life-Affirmation," North American Nietzsche Society, April, 1988.
"Nietzsche and Postmodernism," UIUC Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium, 1989.
"A Continental Critique of Wallace's Ethics," UIUC Dept of Philosophy Colloquium, 1990.
"Nietzschean Philosophers," UIUC Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium, 1990. Also, North American Nietzsche Society, 1991
"A Vision of Work" (talk on Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man), Kirkland College, Iowa, 1995.
"Nietzsche's Ethics (talk at Kirkland College, Iowa, 1995).
"Hegelian Recognition and Social Theory" comment delivered at Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1995.
"Continental Ethics" presentation delivered to Association for Value Inquiry, meeting with the Eastern Division APA, 1997.
"The Foundations of New Work", comment delivered on an invited paper by Frithjof Bergmann on New Work at the Central Division APA, 1998.
"Advice to a Young Friend", discussion of long document produced to benefit graduate students in the UIUC Philosophy program, 2000.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDS:
Phi Beta Kappa, August 1968.
Danforth Graduate Fellowship (1968-1975).
"UIUC Undergraduate Instructional Award," 1980.
UIUC Research Board Grant - Summer/Fall 1981.
U. of Illinois Center for Advanced Study, Center Fellow, Spring, 1984.
Outstanding Professor Award, LAS, Fall Illini Days 1987
LAS Study in a Second Discipline Program, Fall, 1992
Fellow at Center for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, Spring, 1993.
Humanities Release Time Award, Fall, 97.
UIUC Research Board Grant – Summer/Fall/Spring 03-04 (research assistant)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Eastern Michigan University; Lecturer, 1969-71.
University of California at Los Angeles; Acting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1971-73. Lecturer, 1974.
University of Michigan; Visiting Lecturer, 1975.
Bennington College; Assistant Prof., 1975-78.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Prof. 1985-present. Assistant Prof., 1979-85. Courses:
Philosophy 101: Intro to Philosophy: S 87, 96, 01
Philosophy 106: Ethics and Social Policy: S 98
Philosophy 198: Honors Seminar: Utopian Thought: F 86, 95;S 93, 98
Philosophy 199: The Mentality of Modern Culture: Int 82
Philosophy 199: Romantic Love: An Analysis: Int 83
Philosophy 201: Philosophy in Literature: F80, 82, 89; S85, 86, 87, 92, 95
Philosophy 225: Contemporary European Phil: F 79, 98; S 87, 89, 03
Philosophy 280: On Being Free: F 81, 84, 86, 88, 94, 96; S 79, 90, 92, 04
Philosophy 301: Philosophy and Film: F87, S 81, 82, 83, 85, 90, 93, 98, 02, 05
Philosophy 312: Hegel's Phenomenology: F 79, 95; S 87, 01
Nietzsche's Ethics: S 96; F 00, S 03, S 04
Philosophy 314: Recent Philosophers: Late Sartre: S 89, 98
Philosophy 341: Existential Philosophy: S 82; 95; 02
Philosophy 343: Phenomenology-Intersubjectivity: S 79, F 81, 84, 88, 96, 04
Phenomenology-Merleau-Ponty: F 80, 86; F 02
Phenomenology-Ethics & Intersubjectivity: F 91
Phenomenology-Late Sartre: F 98
Philosophy 344: Phenomenology and Social Theory: F 82
Phenomenological Ethics: S 86, 90, 93; F 94
Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason S 05
Philosophy 347: Poststructuralism: S 81, 85, F 89
Philosophy 375: Philosophy of Social Science: S 85
Humanities 395: Interpretive Theories: S 83, F 89, F 91
Philosophy 401: Seminar on Nietzsche's Ethics: F 93
Seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology: F 95
Seminar on Sartre's Being and Nothingness F 03
Philosophy 411: Seminar on Continental Ethics: S 99
Philosophy 421: Seminar on Continental Philosophy: S 97
Seminar on Other Minds/Intersubjectivity F 01
COMMITTEES AND UNIVERSITY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Profession:
Member, American Philosophical Association.
Member, North American Nietzsche Society
UIUC Campus:
LAS Curriculum and Program Committee (80-81).
Humanities Faculty Criticism Seminar, regular participant (79 -93).
Executive Committee, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory (81 - 92).
Chancellors Allerton Conference 80.
LAS Honors Council - Volunteer Mentor (81-82).
LAS Honors Council - Allerton Conference Fall 81.
WILL Eulogy Program on Sartre (guest) Spring 80.
LAS Committee on Programs and Advising (86-88)
Humanities Honors and Cohn Scholars (86-89)
LAS Honors Committee 2002-04
LAS Teaching Awards Committee (2002-04)
Philosophy Department:
Associate Chair of Philosophy Department (96-present)
Executive Committee (80-84, 89, 96-present)
Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (Member 87-89)
(Chair, 89-90, 91-92)
Curriculum and Enrollment Committee (Chairman, 80-90)
Undergraduate Philosophy Club Advisor (80-84)
Contemporary Issues in Philosophy Series (organizer and pubilicist) (80-81)
Contemporary Continental Philosophy Discussion Group (leader) (S 81; F 82) (organizer) (Nozick: 81-82) (organizer) (Taylor: 90-91)
Library Committee (Chairman, 81-91)
Lectures and Colloquium Committee (Member, 80-83, 00-present)
Microcomputer Committee (Member, 84-89)
Qualifying Committee (Chair, 95-96; member, 2001)
Prelim Committee (90-91; 93-95) (96-present; Chair 2000, 2001)
Placement Director (2001-2002)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Manuscript referee for Harvard University Press and Cambridge University Press.
Proposal Referee for Blackwell Publishers, Oxford University Press, and Palgrave.
Journal referee for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
APA Program Committee Member for Central Division, 1997.
Paper Referee for Central States Philosophy Association Program, 2001
Tenure Referee, 2001 (Georgia State University)
Blackwell Companion to the Philosophers (Associate Editor), main editor, Robert Arrington. I advised the main editor about which scholars to commission to write the entries on Continental philosophers.
REFERENCES:
Professor Frithjof Bergmann, University of Michigan
Professor Richard Schacht, UIUC
Professor Cary Nelson, Dept. of English, UIUC
Professor Robert Solomon, U. of Texas, Austin