CURRICULUM VITAE
Stuart E. Rosenbaum
Department of Philosophy
Baylor University
One Bear Place, Box 97274
Waco, Texas 76798-7274
(254) 710 6361
Home Address
836 Tahoe Trail Dr
Hewitt, TX 76643
Cell: (254) 644 1806
EDUCATION:
Brown University, Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1973
University of Nebraska, M.A. in Philosophy, 1968
Harvard University Divinity School, 1965-1966
Baylor University, B.A. in Philosophy and Literature, 1965
EMPLOYMENT:
Baylor University, Professor of Philosophy, 1987-Present
Baylor University, Graduate Program Director, 1992-2005
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 1983-1987
Outstanding University Faculty Member, 1985, 1997
Circle of Achievement Award, 1985, 1997
Tenure, 1984
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1981-1983
Memphis State University, Assistant Professor, 1979-1981
Gustavus Adolphus College, Assistant Professor, 1973-1979
Ohio University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1972-1973
PUBLICATIONS:
AUTHORED BOOKS:
Pragmatism and The Reflective Life, 2009, Rowman-Littlefield/Lexington
Books. (Issued in Paperback, 2010)
Recovering Integrity, Moral Thought in American Pragmatism,
Forthcoming 2015, Roman-Littlefield/Lexington Books.
EDITED BOOKS:
Pragmatism and Religion: Classical Sources and Original Essays,
(Champaign: Illinois University Press) 2003
Capital Punishment, Ed. with Robert Baird, Prometheus, 2010.
Disability, Ed. with Robert M. Baird and Kay Toombs, Prometheus Press
2008.
Intelligent Design: Science or Religion? Ed. with Robert Baird,
Prometheus Press 2007.
Same Sex Marriage, Second Edition, Ed. with Robert M. Baird,
Prometheus 2004
Civil Liberties vs. National Security in a Post 9/11 World, edited with
Katherine Darmer and Robert Baird, Prometheus Press, 2004.
*Caring for the Dying, edited with Robert M. Baird, Prometheus Press
2003.
(*Selected an Outstanding Academic Book for 2005 by CHOICE)
Abortion, Third Edition, Ed. with Robert Baird, Prometheus Books 2001.
Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice: Definitions, Causes and Solutions, Ed.
with Robert Baird, Prometheus Books 1999.
The Media and Morality (Ed. with Robert Baird and William Loges),
Prometheus Books 1999.
Pornography: Private Right or Public Menace, ed. with Robert Baird,
Prometheus Books 1998.
Same Sex Marriage, Ed. with Robert Baird, Prometheus Press, 1997
Punishment and the Death Penalty: The Current Debate, Ed. with Robert
Baird, Prometheus Books 1995.
The Ethics of Abortion, Revised Edition, Prometheus Books, 1993
*Bigotry, Prejudice, and Hatred, Ed. with Robert Baird, Prometheus
Press, 1992 (*December 6, 1993: Selected as an Outstanding
Book on human rights by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study
of Human Rights).
Pornography: Private Right or Public Menace? Ed. with Robert Baird,
Prometheus Books 1991.
Animal Experimentation, Ed. with Robert Baird, Prometheus
Books 1991.
Euthanasia, edited with Robert Baird, Prometheus Books, 1989.
The Ethics of Abortion, edited with Robert Baird, Prometheus
Books, 1989 (Second Edition, 1993).
Law and Morality, edited with Robert Baird, Prometheus Books, 1988.
Philosophy of Punishment, edited with Robert Baird, Prometheus Books,
1987. (Second Edition, 1995)
Contemporary Essays on Greek Ideas: The Kilgore Festschrift, edited
with Baird, Cooper, and Duncan, Baylor University Press, 1987.
ARTICLES:
“Justice, The Lorax and the Environment,” Southwest Philosophy Review,
Forthcoming, 2014.
“The Concept of a Person: Response to Jacquelyn Kegley,” Southwest
Philosophy Review, Volume 29, Number 2, July 2013, 83-87.
“Relativism, Pragmatism and John Dewey,” American Catholic
Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 87, No. 2, Spring 2013, 321-345.
“Aesthetics and The Face in Levinas and James,” The Journal of
Scriptural Reasoning,” Number 11.2, 2012.
“On Virtue Rationality,” Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol 28, Number
2, 2012.
“Pragmatism, Relativism and Boghossian,” Southwest Philosophy Review,
Volume 27, Number 1 (2011), 195-203.
“Butterfield on Dewey’s Idea of Democracy,” Southwest Philosophy
Review, Volume 26, Number 2 (2010), 47-49.
“Must Religion Be a Conversation Stopper?” Harvard Theological
Review, 102:4 (2009) 393-409.
“How To Be a Graceful Footnote to Plato,” Southwest Philosophy Review,
Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2009, 1-13.
“Pragmatism’s Ideals,” Contemporary Pragmatism, January 2009.
“The Wisdom of Mma Ramotswe,” The Pluralist, 2008, 79-94.
“Jonathan Edwards as Proto-Pragmatist and John Dewey as PostTheological Calvinist,” in The Contribution of Jonathan Edwards
to American Culture and Society, ed., Richard Hall (Toronto:
Mellen Press, 2008), 219-229.
“Jamesian Religious Pluralism: A Response to Clanton,” Southwest
Philosophy Review, Volume 22, Number 2, July 2006, 79-83.
“Pragmatism’s Empowerment of Religion,” Quarterly Review, (Volume
25, number 3, fall 2005), 227-240.
“Pragmatism’s Deliberation,” Southwest Philosophy Review, Volume 20,
Number 1, January 2004, 165-172.
“Morality and Religion: Why not Pragmatism?” in Pragmatism and
Religion: Classical Sources and Original Essays, ed., Stuart
Rosenbaum (Champaign: Illinois University Press) 2003, 175189.
“Sustaining Pragmatism’s Critique of Epistemology,” Conversations with
Pragmatism, Bube, Paul and Jeffrey Geller, Eds. (New York:
Editions Rodopi) 2002, 63-71.
“The Constitution, Abortion, and Metaphysics,” Journal of Church and
State, Vol. 43, autumn 2001, 707-723.
“Reading Reading Dewey,” Southwest Philosophy Review, Volume 15,
Number 2, July 1999, 127-138.
“Moral Theory and the Reflective Life,” Proceedings of the 1998 World
Congress of Philosophy, Volume I, 1999, 29-40.
“Larry Hickman on John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology,” Southwest
Philosophy Review, vol. 14, no. 2, July 1998, 189-195.
"McIntyre OR Dewey," American Journal of Theology and Philosophy,
January 1998, 35-59.
“Moral Theory and the Reflective Life,” Southwest Philosophy Review,
Vol 13, Number 1, January 1997.
“Moral Theory and Reflective Morality,” Southwest Philosophy Review,
Volume 13, Number 1, winter, 1997.
"A Virtue of Dewey's Moral Thought," Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol.
10, no. 1, January, 1994, 187-197.
"Toward A New American Responsibility," Contemporary Philosophy,
January 1991
"Drug Testing," Waco Tribune-Herald, October 11, 1989.
"A Comment on Harman's Relativism," Southwestern Philosophical
Studies, 1987.
"Rortian Rationality," Metaphilosophy, l7 (April 1986).
"A Note on the Impossibility of Rationalizing Desire," The Journal of
Value Inquiry, 18 (1984): 63-67.
“The Concept of a Theory of Evidence,” Southwestern Philosophical
Studies, 9 (Winter 1983), 77-84.
“Reason and Desire in Motivation,” Southwestern Journal of Philosophy,
(Winter 198l).
“The Property Objection and the Principle of Identity,” Philosophical
Studies, 32 (1977): 155-164.
“Denotation and Eliminative Materialism,” Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, 36 (March 1976): 391-397.
REVIEWS:
Review of The Human Eros, by Thomas Alexander, Metaphilosophy,
forthcoming, 2015.
Review of The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair, by Bryan F. Le Beau,
Journal of Church and State, 2003.
Review of Skeptical Philosophy for Everyone, by Popkin, Richard H. and
Avrum Stroll, Journal of Church and State, 2003.
Review of The Rise of the Imperial Self, by Ronald W. Dworkin, 1998,
Journal of Church and State.
Review of John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait, by Sidney Hook,
Journal of Church and State, fall 1997.
Review of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism, by Tim M. Berra,
Journal of Church and State, January, 1995.
Review of Dax's Case: Essays in Medical Ethics and Human Meaning,
Lonnie Kliever, Ethics, January, 1991.
Review of the Free Mind through the Ages, by Edward L. Ericson,
Journal of Church & State, 30 (Spring 1988)
Review of the Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom, Waco
Tribune-Herald, July 5, 1987.
Review of Sentience by Wallace Matson, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, 37 (June 1977): 378-380.