CURRICULUM VITAE
Nicholas F. Gier, 509 Taylor Ave., Moscow, ID 83843
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Idaho
Senior Fellow, Martin Institute of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution,
1990-2000
Coordinator of Religious Studies, 1980-2003
President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, 1982-
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EDUCATION
B. A. with honors, Oregon State University, 1966
Honors Thesis: “T. S. Eliot and the Four Quartets”
M.A., Claremont Graduate University, 1969
M.A. thesis: “Process Theology and the Death of God”
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, 1973
Doctoral Dissertation: “Heidegger and the Ontological Differenz”
Further Graduate Studies at University of Copenhagen, 1966-67;
University of Heidelberg, 1970-71.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Merit Citation for Outstanding Service,
Associated Students of the University of Idaho, 1976.
Who’s Who in Religion, 1977, 1990.
President, Northwest Conference on Philosophy, 1982-84.
Alumni Awards for Faculty Excellence, 1987, 1991, 1998
Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Faculty Award, 1998
Outstanding Faculty Award, Disabled Student Services, University of Idaho, 2001
President, American Academy of Religion, Pacific Northwest Region, 2002-2003
Award of Highest Honor, Soka University, Hachioji, Japan, 2002
Excellence in Research Award, University of Idaho, 2003
Honorary Doctorate, Soka University, Hachioji, Japan, 2007
Upper Intermountain Associate Press Annual Awards
Third Place, June, 2011
EMPLOYMENT AND VISITING POSTS
University of Odense, Denmark, 1971-72
Visiting Lecturer, Philosophy and Comparative Literature.
University of Århus, Denmark, 1971-72
Visiting Lecturer, Theology and the History of Ideas.
Professor of Philosophy, University of Idaho, 1972-2003
Tenured 1977, promoted to professor,
1982.
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1978-79
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Philosophy
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985-86
Visiting Professor at the Institute of
Systematic Theology.
Dharmaram College, Bangalore, India,
Fall, 1992
Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the
Study of World Religions.
Panjab University, Fall, 1992, 1995, 1999
Visiting Scholar, Department of Gandhian Studies
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, Spring, 1993
Visiting Scholar at the School of
Theology
University of Queensland, Summer, 1995, 1999
Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies and Philosophy
Visiting Scholar, United Theological College,
Bangalore, India, Fall, 1995
Visiting Scholar, Gandhi Peace Foundation,
New Delhi, Fall, 1995, 1999.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Rotary Foundation Fellowship to Denmark, 1966-67.
Fulbright Graduate Fellowship to Germany, 1970-71.
University of Idaho “Seed” Grants, $2,000, 1974;
$2,500, 1985; $5,000, 1991; $6,000, 1999.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Stipend, $2,500, 1980.
Association for the Humanities in Idaho Grant, $5,285, 1982.
Franklin J. Matchette Foundation Grant, $1,000, 1982.
Humanities Faculty Summer Seminar Grant (NEH), $2,000, 1985.
Humanities Core Curriculum Faculty Development Grant (NEH), $5,000, 1985.
Martin Institute Research Grants, $2,000, 1992: $5,404, 1994;
$3,680, 1995; $1,480, 1997; $5,000, 1999
Niwano Peace
Foundation Grant, ¥500,000, 1993
National Seminar on Civic Virtue Stipend, $3,000, 1997
Idaho Humanities Grant, $2,000 (each) 2003, 2016
BOOKS AUTHORED
The Origins of Religious Violence: An
Asian Perspective
Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014
The Virtue of Non-Violence: from Gautama to Gandhi
Albany, New York:
State University of New York Press, 2004
Spiritual Titanism: Indian,
Chinese, and Western Perspectives
Albany,
New York: State University of New Press, 2000, xxvi + 302 pgs.
God, Reason and the
Evangelicals: The Case Against Evangelical Rationalism
Lanham,
Maryland: University Press of America, 1987, xxx + 371 pgs.
Wittgenstein and
Phenomenology: A Comparative Study of the
Later Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty
Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1981, xix + 268 pgs.
JOURNALS EDITED
With T. James Kodera, guest editors of Dialogue and Alliance 1:3
(Fall, 1987).
Theme: “Encounters between Asian and
Western Conceptions of the Ultimate”
BOOK CHAPTERS
Parts III & IV of
the Introduction
The Theology of Altizer: Critique and Response,
ed. John B. Cobb, Jr.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970, pp. 27-44.
“Process Theology and the Death
of God” in The
Theology of Altizer, pp. 164-193.
“Religious Liberalism and the
Founding Fathers” in Peter
Caws, ed.,
Two Centuries of Philosophy in America. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980, pp.
22-45.
“Humanistic Self-Judgment and
After-Death Experiences” in Geddes MacGregor, ed.
Immortality and Human Destiny. New York: Paragon House, 1985, pp. 3-20.
“Gandhi, Ahimsa, and
the Self” in S.
Mukherjee and S. Ramaswamy, eds.,
Facets of Mahatma Gandhi. New Delhi: Deep & Deep, 1994,
vol. 4, pp. 108-125.
Reprinted from Gandhi Marg (see below).
With Paul K. Kjellberg, “Buddhism and the Freedom of the Will” in
Freedom and Determinism: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy,
eds., J. K. Campbell, D. Shier, M. O’Rourke (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004), pp.
277-304.
“Toward a Hindu Virtue Ethics” in Contemporary
Issues in Constructive Dharma, eds. R. D. Sherma
and A. Deepak (Hampton, VA: Deepak Heritage Books, 2005), vol. 2, pp. 151-162.
“Non-Violence as a Civic Virtue:
Gandhi as a Reformed Liberal,” in
The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century,
ed. Douglas Allen
(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007), pp. 121-142. Reprint of article below.
“Li and Dharma: Gandhi, Confucius, and
Virtue Aesthetics,” in Brahman and Dao, eds.
Ithamar Theodor and Zhihua
Yao (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014), pp. 67-78.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Prehension and Intentionality,” Process Studies 6
(1976), pp. 197-213.
“The Savior Archetype,” Journal of Dharma 4
(1979), pp. 255-267.
“Wittgenstein and Forms of Life,” Philosophy
of the Social Sciences 10 (1980), pp. 241-258.
“Wittgenstein and Heidegger: A
Phenomenology of Forms of Life,”
Tijdschrift voor Filosofie (Belgium) 43 (1981), pp. 269-305.
“Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and
Behaviorism,” Metaphilosophy 13
(1982), pp. 46-64.
“Humanism as an American Heritage,” Free
Inquiry 2:2 (Spring 1982), pp. 27-29.
“Dialectic: East and West,” Indian
Philosophical Quarterly 10 (January, 1983), pp. 207-218.
“Titanism: Radical Humanism—East and West,”
Dialogue and Alliance 1:3 (Fall, 1987), pp. 53-69.
“The Color of Sin/The Color of
Skin:
Ancient Color Blindness and the Philosophical Origins of Modern Racism,”
Journal of Religious Thought 46:1 (Summer-Fall, 1989), pp. 42-52.
“Religious Syncretism and
Unification Theology,” Currents 2:1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 10-14.
“Wittgenstein’s Phenomenology
Revisited,” Philosophy
Today 34:4 (1990), pp. 273-288.
“Never Say Never: A Response to Harry
P. Reeder’s ‘Wittgenstein Never Was a Phenom-enologist,’” Journal of
the British Society for Phenomenology 22:1 (January, 1991), pp. 80-83.
“Three Types of Divine Power,” Process Studies 20:4
(Winter, 1991), pp. 221-232.
“Foundations and Forms of Life:
A Discussion of Gertrude Conway’s Wittgenstein on Foundations,”
International Philosophical Quarterly 32:1 (March, 1992), pp.
119-125.
“On the Deification of Confucius,” Asian Philosophy 1:3
(1993), pp. 43-54.
“Gandhi, Ahimsa, and
the Self,” Gandhi
Marg 15:1 (April-June, 1993), pp. 24-38.
“The Virtue of Non-Violence: A
Buddhist Perspective,“
Seikyo Times (February, 1994), pp.
28-36;
reprinted in Living Buddhism 6:1(January, 2002, pp. 18-30.
“Hindu Titanism,” Philosophy
East & West 45:1 (January, 1995), pp. 73-96.
“Ahimsa, the Self, and Postmodernism,”
International Philosophical Quarterly 35:1 (March, 1995), pp.
71-86.
“Xunzi and the
Confucian Answer to Titanism,”
The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 22:2 (June, 1995), pp. 129-151.
“Gandhi and Mahayana Buddhism” (in Japanese),
Journal of Oriental Studies 35:2 (1996), pp. 84-105.
“Jaina Superhumanism and
Gnostic Titanism,”
Scottish Journal of Religious Studies 17:2 (Autumn, 1996), pp.
139-158.
“Gandhi: Premodern, Modern, or
Postmodern?”
Gandhi Marg 17:3 (Oct.-Dec., 1996), pp. 261-281.
“The Yogi and the Goddess,”
International Journal of Hindu Studies 1:2 (June, 1997), pp.
265-87.
“Gandhi, the Buddha, and Atman: A
Response to Ramashray Roy”
Gandhi Marg 21:4 (January-March, 2000), pp. 447-459.
“Last Judgment as Self-Judgment:
Kant, Autonomy, and Divine Power,”
Indian Philosophical Quarterly 28:1 (January, 2001), pp. 15-32.
“Confucius, Gandhi, and the
Aesthetics of Virtue,”
Asian Philosophy 11:1 (March, 2001), pp. 41-54.
“The Dancing Ru: A Confucian
Aesthetics of Virtue,”
Philosophy East and West 51:2 (April, 2001), pp. 280-305.
“Synthetic Reason, Aesthetic
Order, and the Grammar of Virtue”
Journal
of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 18: 4 (2001), pp. 13-28.
“Gandhi and the Virtue of
Non-Violence,”
Gandhi Marg 23:3 (October-December, 2001), pp. 261-284.
“The Virtues of Asian Humanism,”
Journal of Oriental Studies 12 (October, 2002), pp. 14-28.
“Gandhi and Mahayana Buddhism,”
Gandhi Marg 25:2 (July-September, 2003), pp. 155-178.
English version of article above.
“Non-Violence as a Civic Virtue:
Gandhi as a Reformed Liberal,”
International Journal of Hindu Studies 7 (2003), pp. 75-98.
“Whitehead, Confucius, and the
Aesthetics of Virtue,”
Asian Philosophy 14:2 (July, 2004), pp. 173-92.
“Response to John Allen Tucker’s
Review of Spiritual Titanism,”
China Review International 12:1 (January, 2006), pp. 277-280
“Virtue Ethics and Character
Consequentialism,”
Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy, 26 (Spring, 2006), pp. 18-21.
With Johnson Roosevelt, “Hebrew and Buddhist Selves: A
Constructive Postmodern Proposal,”
Asian Philosophy 17:1 (March, 2007), pp. 47-64.
“A Response to Shyam Ranganathan’s Review of The Virtue of
Non-Violence,“
Philosophy East and West 57:4 (October, 2007), pp. 561-564.
“Was Gandhi a Tantric?“ Gandhi Marg 29:1
(April-June, 2007), pp. 21-36.
“Wittgenstein and Deconstruction,”
Review of Contemporary Philosophy 6 (December, 2007), pp. 174-196.
“Gandhi, Deep
Religious Pluralism, and Multiculturalism,”
Philosophy East and West 64:2 (April, 2014), pp. 120-163.
“Sikhism, the Seduction of Modernism,
and Religious Violence,”
Special Issue on “Faith, War and Violence”
Religion and Public Life, vol. 39
(2014), pp. 47-64.
BOOK REVIEWS
Nicholas J. Yonker, God, Man, and the
Planetary Age
in Process Studies 8 (1978), pp. 128-130.
David Rubinstein, Marx and Wittgenstein
in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 2 (1983), pp. 201-203.
William L. McBride and Calvin O. Schrag, eds.,
Phenomenology in Pluralistic Context
Canadian Philosophical Reviews 5 (1985), pp. 65-69.
Harry P. Reeder, Language and Experience:
Descriptions of Living Language in Husserl and Wittgenstein
International Studies in Philosophy 20:3 (1987), pp. 139-40.
Charles M. Sherover, Time, Freedom, and the
Common Good
in The Personalist Forum 6:2 (Fall, 1990), pp.195-198.
James C. Edwards, The Authority of Language:
Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Threat
of Philosophical Nihilism
Canadian Philosophical Reviews 11:3 (June 1991), pp.
181-183.
David R. Griffin, William A. Beardslee, and Joe Holland, Varieties
of Post-Modern Theology
in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July 1991), p. 243. (Booknote)
Paul C. Bube, Ethics in John Cobb’s Process
Theology
in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July 1991), p. 242. (Booknote)
David R. Griffin, God and Religion in the Postmodern World
in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July 1991), pp. 243-244. (Booknote)
S. Teghraman, A. Serafini, and E.M. Cook, eds., Ludwig
Wittgenstein: A Symposium on the Centennial of His Birth in Canadian
Philosophical Reviews 11:6 (December 1991), pp. 430-32.
Robert Kane and Stephen H. Phillips, eds., Hartshorne, Process
Philosophy and Theology
Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July, 1992), p. 240. (Booknote)
Santiago Sia, ed., Charles Hartshorne’s Concept of God
in Religious Studies Review 17:3 (July, 1992), p. 240. (Booknote)
George R. Lucas, Jr., The Rehabilitation of Whitehead
in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 59:4 (Winter,
1991), pp. 846-849.
David R. Griffin, Evil Revisited in Religious Studies
Review (1993). (Booknote)
Joachim Schulte and Göran Sundholm, eds.,
Criss-Crossing a Philosophical Landscape
Canadian Philosophical Reviews 13:5 (October, 1993), pp. 266-68.
Wendy Doniger, ed., Purana Perennis
Asian Folklore Studies 53:1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 191-193.
Thomas E. Hosinski, Stubborn Fact and
Creative Advance:
An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead
Religious Studies Review 21:1 (January, 1995), p.
37. (Booknote)
Bimal Krishna Matilal, Ethics and Epics: Philosophy,
Culture, and Religion
in Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews (June, 2003).
Adrian MacFarlane, The Grammar of Fear and Evil
in International Philosophical Studies 35:4 (December, 2003), pp. 516-18.
Gregory
Newell Smith, The Solitude of the Open Sea,
The Sandpoint Reader (May 19, 2005).
Jiyuan Yu, The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue
(New York
& London: Routledge, 2007) in The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35:
4.
INTERNATIONAL
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
“Heidegger and Theology,” the theology faculty,
Århus University, May, 1972.
“Wittgenstein as Lebensphilosoph,” Seminar
for Austro-German Philosophy,
University of Manchester, March, 1979.
“An Introduction to Process Theology,” the theological faculty,
University of Copenhagen, March, 1979.
“Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty on the A priori,”
Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
University of Copenhagen, April, 1979.
“Wittgenstein and Phenomenology,” Department of Philosophy,
University of Oslo, April, 1979.
“Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Behaviorism,”
Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy,
London School of Economics, May, 1979.
“The Temptation of Belief,” Institute of Systematic Theology,
University of Copenhagen, October, 1985.
Eight Lectures on Contemporary American Theology
The Institute for Philosophy of Religion and Ethics,
Århus University, April, 1986.
“Confucianism and Titanism,” Shaanxi Teachers
University,
Xian, China, July, 1992.
First presented at the International Conference on Chinese Philosophy,
University of Hawaii, July, 1989.
“Wittgenstein and Deconstruction,” Department of Philosophy,
Tokyo University at Komaba, April, 1993.
“Three
Types of Divine Power,” Indian Association of Christian
Philosophers,
Dharmaram College in Bangalore, India, October, 1992.
“Gandhi, Ahimsa,
and the Self,” Department
of Gandhian Studies,
Panjab University, December, 1992.
“The Virtue of Non-Violence,” Department of Studies in Religion,
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, July, 1995.
“Gandhi’s Philosophy:
Premodern, Modern, or Postmodern,”
National Seminar on the Significance of Mahatma Gandhi Today,
Radhakrishnan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy,
University of Madras, October, 1995.
“Jaina Superhumanism and
Gnostic Titanism,”
Eighth International Congress of Vedanta,
Miami University of Ohio, November, 1996.
“Whitehead,
Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue,”
Second International Whitehead Conference, Center for Process Studies,
Claremont School of Theology, August, 1998
“Synthetic Reason, Aesthetic Order, and the
Grammar of Virtue,”
Faculty Seminar, Department of Philosophy,
University of Queensland, August, 1999
and Department of Philosophy, Panjab University, December, 1999.
“The
Dancing Ru: A Confucian Aesthetics of Virtue,”
Department of Studies in Religion,
University of Queensland, August, 1999.
“Gandhi, the Buddha, and Atman,”
Department of Gandhian Studies,
Panjab University, December, 1999.
“Gandhi
and Confucius on the Aesthetics of Virtue,”
Department of Gandhian Studies,
Panjab University, December, 1999.
“The Virtues of Asian
Humanism,” Institute of Oriental
Philosophy, Soka University, Japan, March, 2002.
“Gandhi as a Postmodern Thinker,”
Plenary Address at the 13th International Congress of Vedanta,
Miami University, September, 2002.
“Gandhi
and Pali Buddhism,” Assumption University,
Bangkok, Thailand, November, 2002.
“Non-Violence as a
Civic Virtue,”
plenary panel
at the Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy,
Monterey, California, May, 2003
“Non-Violence as a
Civic Virtue,”
Invited Address, University of Rajasthan, October, 2005
“Three Principles of Civil Disobedience:
Thoreau, Gandhi, King,”
Ajmer Civic Association, India, October, 2005
“Gandhi
and Jainism,” Invited Address, University of Rajasthan, October,
2005
“The
Saints of Non-Violence: Buddha, Christ, Gandhi, King,”
The Reddy Memorial Endowment Lecture,
Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, October,
2005
NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
“Religious Liberalism and the Founding Fathers,”
The Bicentennial Symposium of Philosophy, New York City, October, 1976.
“Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Behaviorism,”
American Philosophical Association,
Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 29, 1980.
“Kant’s Anticipation of Linguistic Philosophy,”
Kant Bicentennial Symposium, Gonzaga University, March, 1981.
“Titanism: Radical Humanism–East and West,”
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 17,
1984.
Invited Commentator for two papers at a conference on
“Christian Humanism and Secular Humanism,”
University of Dayton, October, 1986.
“On Making God’s Acquaintance,” Society of Christian Philosophers,
Midwestern Regional Meeting, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 8,
1987.
“Sin Color and Skin Color,” national meeting of the American Academy of
Religion,
University of Chicago, November, 1988.
“Gandhi, Nonviolence, and the Self”
at Consortium on Peach Research Education and Development Conference
Atlanta, Georgia, October, 1993.
“The Virtue of Nonviolence: The Buddha and Virtue Ethics”
for Soka Gakkei
International, Santa Monica, November, 1993.
“Gandhi and Mahayana
Buddhism,” Soka Gakkei
International,
Santa Monica, March 1995; SGI Boston, October, 1998.
“The Yogi and the
Goddess,” presented at the
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March, 1995.
“Xunzi and the Confucian Answer to Titanism,” International Society for Chinese
Philosophy
American Philosophical Association, Seattle, March, 1996.
“The
Dancing Ru: A Confucian Aesthetics of Virtue,” National Seminar on
Civic Virtue, Santa Clara University;
May 22, 1998; Department of Philosophy, Fairfield University, October, 1998.
“Mahatma
Gandhi Meets Saddam Hussein,” University Hour Address
Eastern Connecticut State University, October, 1998.
“Gandhi, Confucius, and
the Aesthetics of Virtue,” Vedanta Congress, Miami University, Ohio, September, 2000;
Confucian Traditions Section, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of
Religion, Nashville, November, 2000.
“Whitehead, Confucius,
and the Aesthetics of Virtue“
Ethics Section of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion,
Nashville, November, 2000.
“Gandhi,
Character Consequentialism, and the Virtue of Non-Violence,”
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April, 2002.
“Gandhi and Mahayana Buddhism,” Soka
University of America, October, 2002.
“Buddhism
and Freedom of the Will,” Department of Philosophy Colloquium,
University of Hawaii, December, 2003
“Hindu Virtue Ethics,” Dharma Association of
North America at the annual
American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, November, 2004
“The
Virtue of Non-Violence,” First Annual Conference
Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, April, 2005
“Was Gandhi a Tantric?“ Annual Meeting of the
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Monterey,
California,
June, 2006. Also presented at the Department of Religious Studies, Rice
University, November, 2006
“Gandhi and Deep
Religious Pluralism,” invited address at San Diego State University, October, 2010
“Gandhi, the Indian
Tradition, and Deep Ecology,” invited address at Claremont School of Theology, April, 2011
“Gandhi, Mahayana
Buddhism, and Deep Ecology,” invited address at Soka University of
America, April, 2011
REGIONAL
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
“A Heideggerian Critique of Altizer’s Concept of
Eternal Death”
Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Washington State University, November
1972.
“Intentionality and Prehension,” Northwest Conference on
Philosophy, Gonzaga University, November 1974.
“Two Types of Existentialism,” Northwest Conference on Philosophy,
Seattle Pacific University, November 1976.
“Wittgenstein and Forms of Life,” Inland Empire Philosophy
Colloquium, Gonzaga University, April 1978.
“Libertarianism: Left and Right,” Idaho Political Science
Convention, University of Idaho, February 1980.
“Philosophical and Historical Background of `Status offender’ Problem”
Association for the Humanities in Idaho, April 1981.
“Dialectic: East and
West,” Inland Empire
Philosophy Colloquium, Washington State University, April 1982.
“Last Judgment as
Self-Judgment,” Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
University of Washington, April 22, 1983.
“The Myth of God Incarnate Revisited: The Man-God and Evangelical
Rationalism”
Presidential address at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Eastern
Washington University, November 3, 1984.
“Abortion, Persons, and
the Image of God,” Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion
University of Calgary, May 3, 1985.
“Whither Theology? Reconstruction not Deconstruction,” Pacific
Northwest American Academy of Religion
Vancouver School of Theology, May 1989.
“The Geometry of Creation,” Northwest Math Teachers Conference,
Seattle, October 1989.
“Wittgenstein
and Deconstruction,” Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Lewis and Clark College,
November 1989.
“God’s Power and Our Freedom,” invited address at the Philosophy
Forum, University of Montana, April 1991.
“Three
Types of Divine Power,” Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, University
of Washington, May 1991.
“On The Deification of Confucius,” Inland Empire Philosophy Colloquium,
Washington State University, April, 1992.
“Ungodly Abuse: Job, His Wife, and their God,” Pacific Northwest
American Academy of Religion
Walla Walla College, May 1992.
“Kant, Autonomy, and Divine Power” at the Pacific Northwest
American Academy of Religion
University of Alberta, May, 1993.
“Gandhi and Buddhism on Non-Violence“ for Soka Gakkei International,
Seattle, January, 1994.
“The Yogi and the Goddess: Hindu Titanism and
Feminism”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, University of Portland,
April 30, 1994.
“Buddhism, Humanism, and Titanism,” Pacific
Northwest American Academy of Religion
St. Martin’s College, April, 1995.
“Gandhi’s Philosophy:
Premodern, Modern, or Postmodern?“
Pacific
Northwest American Academy of Religion, University of Great Falls, May, 1996.
“Zhuangzi, Nietzsche, and Titanism,” Pacific
Northwest American Academy of Religion
Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, May, 1997.
“Is Contemporary
Physics Mystical?” a
physics conference entitled “Pions and Beyond”
University of Idaho, April, 1998.
“The Star of India: Cross-Cultural Geometry,”
Northwest Math Teachers Conference, Whistler, B.C., October, 1998. With
Gail Adele
“Synthetic Reason, Aesthetic Order, and the
Grammar of Virtue,”
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April, 1999.
“Whitehead,
Confucius, and the Aesthetics of Virtue Ethics,”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion,
Gonzaga University, Spokane, April, 2000.
“Polyhedron
Problem Solving,”
Northwest Mathematics Conference, October, 2000. With
Gail Adele.
“Aristotle,
Confucius, and Practical Reason,”
Northwest Conference on Philosophy,
Pacific University, November, 2000
“Gandhi and the Virtue
of Non-Violence,”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion,
University of Alberta, May 11, 2001.
“Buddhist
and Hebrew Skandhas,” Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion,
University of Oregon, May, 2002.
“Joy,
Pleasure, and Happiness: In Defense of a Nonhedonistic
Eudaimonism,”
Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark College, October, 2002.
“The
Saints of Non-Violence: Buddha, Christ, Gandhi, King,”
presidential address at the
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, University of Idaho, April, 2003;
and Higher Education Ministries, Western Washington University, October, 2003
“The Regular Polyhedra: From the Ancient Scots to Johannes Kepler,”
Idaho Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Boise, October 2003.
“Hindu Virtue Ethics,” Pacific Northwest
American Academy of Religion,
University of British Columbia, May, 2004.
“The Origins of Religious Violence,” Pacific Northwest
American Academy of Religion,
University of British Columbia, May, 2004.
“Religious Violence and Buddhist Nationalism
is Sri Lanka,”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, Seattle University, May, 2005
“From Mongols to Mughals: Religious Violence
in India from the 9th to 18th Century,”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, Gonzaga University, May, 2006
“The
Taiping Rebellion as a Religious War,” Pacific Northwest American Academy
of Religion,
University of Lethbridge, May, 2007
“Buddhism
and Japanese Nationalism: A Sad Chronicle of Complicity,”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, George Fox University , May, 2008
“Gandhi and Deep
Religious Pluralism,” Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion,
Pacific Lutheran University, May, 2009
“Church-State
Relations and Violence in Tibet and Bhutan,”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, University of Victoria,
May, 2010
“Gandhi and Deep
Ecology,”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion,
Gonzaga University, May, 2011
“Gandhi,
Sikhism, and Non-Violence,” Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion,
Gonzaga University, May, 2012
“’Compassionate’
Violence in Tibetan Buddhism:
A Thousand Years of ‘War’ Magic,”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, May, 2013
“Burmese
Nationalisms, Modernism, and Buddhist Attacks on Muslims”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, May,
2014
“The
Hazaras of Afghanistan: Origin, History, and Religious Persecution”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, March
27, 2015
“Not Yet the Mahatma: A
Saint’s Clay Feet in South Africa”
Pacific Northwest American Academy of Religion, May 16, 2016
“Chemical Mysticism: East
and West”
Pacific Northwest American
Academy of Religion, May, 2019