EducationB.A., University of Houston, Philosophy, 1982M.A., University of Houston, Philosophy, 1982 Ph.D., Harvard University, Philosophy, 1992 Phone: (631) 632-7572 E-mail: hcormier@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Areas of InterestKantian ethics; Nietzschean arguments against morality; pragmatic ethics; animal rights; justifications for affirmative action; realistic, idealistic, and pragmatic theories of truth; concepts of knowledge and objectivity connected with these; pragmatism versus neo-pragmatism; philosophy and literature, Nelson Goodman's and Arthur Danto's philosophies of art, Marx-influenced theories of art and culture; ancient skepticism and stoicism; "Black philosophy" and arguments for the reality of "race" and against individualism; Cornel West's "prophetic pragmatism"; Peter Singer's comparisons of racism with "speciesism"Recent PublicationsIntroduction to Early Critics of Pragmatism: Volume Three: Truth on Trial, by Paul Carus (1911; Thoemmes Press; rpt. March 2001)The Truth Is What Works; Or, Pragmatism and the Seed of Death (Rowman and Littlefield; Spring 2000) 'Nietzsche for Determinists', International Studies in Philosophy, Fall 1999 'Jamesian Pragmatism and Jamesian Realism', The Henry James Review, Fall 1997 'Pragmatism, Politics, and the Corridor', in The Cambridge Companion to William James, R. A. Putnam, ed. (Cambridge U. P., 1997) '2001, Modern Art, and Modern Philosophy', in Philosophy and Film, Freeland and Wartenburg, eds. (Routledge, 1995) Curriculum Vitae |