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PERSONAL |
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Date of Birth: March 31, 1943
Marital Status: Married |
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND |
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Rice University B.A. in Mathematics |
1961-1965 |
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Rice University Ph.D. in Philosophy |
1965-1969 |
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HONORS AND AWARDS |
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Phi Beta Kappa |
1965 |
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James A. and Alice G. Baker Scholar |
1963-1964 |
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Thomas R. and Julia H. Franklin Scholar |
1964-1965 |
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National Defense Education Act Fellow |
1965-1969 |
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Texas A&M University Assocation of Former Students
Distinguished Teaching Award ($4000.00) |
1983 |
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Texas A&M University College of Liberal Arts
Fifth Annual Humanities Lecturer |
1989 |
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PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (scholarly) |
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Assistant Professor, Rice University
Fall 1968 - Spring 1970 |
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Council for Philosophical Studies,
Summer Institute in Philosophy of Law,
University of California
Irvine, California
Summer 1969 |
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Visiting Lecturer, University of Southampton,
Southampton, England
Fall 1970 - Spring 1971 |
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Assistant Professor, Rice University
Fall 1971 - Spring 1974 |
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Council for Philosophical Studies,
Summer Institute in Epistemology,
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Summer 1972 |
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Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Fall 1974 - Spring 1980 |
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National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer
Seminar in Philosophy of Religion, Calvin
College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Summer 1978 |
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| Department of Philosophy and Adult
Continuing Education Program,
Queens College, Flushing, New York
Summer 1979 |
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| National Endowment for the Humanities,
Research Grant in Philosophy of Religion
Fall 1979 - Summer 1980 |
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| Professor, Texas A&M University
Fall 1980 - Present |
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| Visiting Professor, Rice University
Fall 1992 |
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| Visiting Researcher, Institute for Studies in
Pragmaticism, Texas Tech University
Summer 1996 |
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| PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE (administrative) |
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| Chair, Liberal Arts Council, Texas A&M
University, College of Liberal Arts
Fall 1976 - Spring 1978 |
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| Chair, Libraries Section,
Texas A&M University 10-year
Accreditation Self-Study
Fall 1978 - Spring 1980 |
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| Member, Liberal Arts Council, Texas A&M
University, College of Liberal Arts
Fall 1986 - Spring 1990 |
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| Chair, Texas A&M University Academic Freedom,
Tenure, and Responsibility Committee
Fall 1986 - Spring 1988 |
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| Dean's Advisory Committee
Fall 1986 - Spring 1988 |
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (other) |
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| Director, International Conference,
Frontiers in American Philosophy
Winter 1986 - Summer 1988 |
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| Co-Editor (with Herman Saatkamp), Volumes I and II,
Frontiers in American Philosophy
Fall 1989 - Spring 1996 |
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| Referee:
Historia Mathematica
History and Philosophy of Logic
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society |
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| Contributing Editor:
Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological
Edition |
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| Consultant:
Army Research Laboratory, White Sands, NM |
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| II. PUBLICATIONS |
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| BOOKS |
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| 1. Study Guide for Hurley / Logic. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1981. |
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| 2. Study Guide for Hurley / Logic. 2nd edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1985. |
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| 3. Study Guide for Hurley / Logic. 3rd edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1988. |
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| 4. Study Guide for Hurley / Logic. 4th edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1991. |
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| 5. Study Guide for Hurley / Logic. 5th edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994. |
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| 6. Study Guide for Hurley / Logic. 6th edition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1996. |
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| 7. A Peircean Reduction Thesis: the Foundations of Topological Logic. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 1991. |
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| EDITED VOLUMES |
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| 1. (with Herman Saatkamp) Frontiers in American Philosophy, Volume 1. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1993. |
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| 2. (with Herman Saatkamp) Frontiers in American Philosophy, Volume 2. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. |
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| JOURNAL ARTICLES (excluding reviews and review essays) |
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| 1. "Cohen, Austin, and Meaning," Ratio (English Edition), Vol. 15, No. 1, June 1973, pp. 117-124. |
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| 2. "Cohen, Austin, and Bedeutung, " Ration (German Edition), Band 15, Heft 1, pp. 112-119. |
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| 3. "The Commandability of Pathological Love", The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1972, pp. 131-140; reprinted in Alan Soble, Eros, Agape, and Philia: Readings in the Philosophy of Love, New York: Paragon House, 1989, pp. 245-253. |
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| 4. "Ryle on Dispositions and Hypotheticals," Rice University Studies, Vol. 58, No. 3, Summer 1972, p. 49-63. |
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| 5. "Reason-Giving and Action-Guiding in Morality," The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1973, pp. 29-38. |
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| 6. "Obligation and Guilt in a Morality of Hypothetical Imperatives," The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1974, pp. 129-133. |
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| 7. "Are There Moral Experts?" The Monist, Vol. 58, No. 4, October 1974, pp. 646-658. |
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| 8. "Hume on Pride and Humility," The New Scholasticism, Vol. 49, No. 2, Spring 1975, pp. 177-188. |
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| 9. "Heidegger and the Bounds of Sense," The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 1, Winter 1975, pp. 27-30. |
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| 10. "Why Elementary Propositons Cannot Be Negative," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 27, No. 6, June 1975, pp. 433-435. |
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| 11. "Two Basic Claims of Phenomenology," Rice University Studies, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer 1975, pp. 13-19. |
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| 12. "What is Hume's Doctrine of Negation?" International Logic Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, December 1976, pp. 236-242. |
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| 13. "Why Grammar Cannot Be Innate," The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 1, Winter 1976, pp. 37-44. |
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| 14. "Kant's Theory of Beauty as Ideal Art," in George Dickie and Richard Sciafani, eds., Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977, pp. 688-703. |
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| 15. "Animals, Rights, and Claims," The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1977, pp. 53-59. |
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| 16. "Functional Explanation and Normalcy," The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 1978, pp. 45-53. |
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| 17. "Plantinga and Leibniz's Lapse," Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 1, January 1979, pp. 24-29. |
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| 18. "James and the 'New" Theory of Reference," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall 1979, pp. 281-297. |
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| 19. "Propositions and the Liar Paradox," Logique et Analyse, Vol. 22, No. 85, March-June 1979, pp. 55-63. |
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| 20. "Truth and Modality in James's 'The Dilemma of Determinism'," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter 1979, pp. 427-435. |
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| 21. "Objective Values and the Divine Command Theory of Morality," The New Scholasticism, Vol. 54. No. 3, Summer 1980, pp. 279-304. |
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| 22. "Bayesianism and Analogy in Hume's Dialogues," Hume Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, April 1980, pp. 32-44. |
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| 23. "The Defense from Plenitude Against the Problem of Evil," International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 12, 1981, pp. 29-37. |
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| 24. "An Unpublished Logic Paper by Josiah Royce," Transactions of the Chalres S. Peirce Society, Vol. 23, No. 2, Spring 1987, pp. 173-204. |
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| 25. "A Transformation in Royce's View of Kant," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
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| 26. "The Concept of Freedom in Royce's Early Idealism," Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 35, 1987, pp. 23-30. |
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| 27. "Royce and Wittgenstein on the Context of Privacy," History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 3, July 1988. pp. 287-304. |
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| 28. "Peirce on the Application of Relations to Relations," in an anthology edited by Nathan Houser and Don D. Roberts. Indanapolis: Indiana University Press, forthcoming. |
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| 29. "Valental Aspects of Peircean Algebraic Logic," Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 23, No. 6-9, 1992, pp. 665-677. This work will also appear in Semantic Networks in Artificial Intelligence (New York, Cambridge, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). |
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| 30. "Valency, Adicity, and Adity in Peirce's MS 482," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring 1991, pp. 237-244. |
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| 31. "Peirce's Reduction Thesis," in an anthology edited by Nathan Houser and Don D. Roberts. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, forthcoming. |
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| 32. "Die Logischen Operationen in Peirce' 'Beschreibung einer Notation fuer die Logik der Relative'," in Kreativitaet und Logik: Charles S. Peirce und das Problem des Neuen (Franfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1994), pp. 77-113. |
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| 33. 16 entries in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (New York, Cambridge, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995): antilogism, biconditional, conjunction, contraposition, contraries, contravalid, converse, disjunctive proposition, iff, inconsistent triad, logical product, negation, partition, sorites, truth table, truth-value. |
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| 34. "Game Theoretical Semantics for Peirce's Existential Graphs," Synthese, 99 (1994), pp. 361-375. |
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| 35. "Josiah Royce," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming. |
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| 36. "A Tarski-style Semantics for Peirce's Beta Graphs," in an anthology edited by Jacqueline Brunning, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming. |
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| 37. "Quasi-Axiomatic Systems" United States Army Report, publications of the Army Research Laboratory, White Sands, New Mexico, forthcoming. |
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| BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS |
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| 1. Review of The Development of Lester Ward's World View, by Alvin F. Nelson. The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1972, pp. 141-145. |
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| 2. Review of The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce, by John Clendenning. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 22, No. 4, Fall 1986, pp. 467-476. |
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| 3. Review Essay: "New and Old in the Century of Genius," Seventeenth Century News, forthcoming. |
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| 4. Review of Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology, by J. V. Field. Seventeenth Century News, Vol. 47, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall-Winter 1989, pp. 55-56. |
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| 5. Review of Naturordnung und Zeichenprozess, Schriftenüber Semiotikund Naturphilosophie, by Helmut Pape. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 1990, pp. 147-152. |
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| 6. Review of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Induction and Probability, by L. Jonathan Cohen, and of Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery, by John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett, and Paul R. Thagard. Teaching Philosophy, 14:4, December 1991, pp. 427-431. |
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| 7. Review of Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Vol. 4, ed. Christian J. W. Kloesel. History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 11, 1990, pp. 217-224. |
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| 8. Review of Studies on Natural Logic and Catergorial Grammar, by Victor Sanchez. History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 13 (1992), pp. 250-251. |
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| III. RECENT ACTIVITIES |
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| RECENT PRESENTATIONS |
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| "Game Theoretical Semantics for Peirce's Existential Graphs," Annaul Meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society, New York, New York, December 28, 1991. |
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| "Logic Through Pictures," Colloquium, Rice University, November 22, 1992. |
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| "The Shame of Psychotherapy," Conference on Medical Ethics, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, March 5, 1993. Discussions on Psychotherapy and Social Control, Moscow, Russian Federation, November 1996. |
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| "The Impact of Technology on Ethical Questions in Medicine," Conference on Medical Ethics, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, March 5, 1993. |
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| "Peircean Graphical Logic" Texas Tech University, June 1996. |
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| "Peirce's Existential Graphs," Lectures at VINITI (The All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (a division of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russian Federation, November 1996. |
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| WORK IN PROGRESS |
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| Peirce's Existential Graphs
The Early Idealism of Josiah Royce
The Logical Investigations of Josiah Royce
Translation: Logische Studien by Friedrich Albert Lange
"Semantics for Peirce's Beta Graphs"
"Quasi-Axiomatic Systems"
"A Bayesian Approach to Peirce's Gamma Graphs" |
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| AREAS OF CURRENT SPECIALIZATION |
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| Logic
History of Logic
American Philosophy: Peirce, Royce, James |
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| MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES |
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| American Philosophical Assocation
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Charles Sanders Peirce Society |
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| LIST OF CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES OF PRESENT POSITION |
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| Teaching: One Large class and one regular-sized class
per semeseter; one or two classes per summer.
Research: See WORK IN PROGRESS above.
Administrative: Negligible |
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