Mahlon W. Barnes

Born Evanston, Illinois, May 10, 1930.

EDUCATION:

University of Chicago, 1948-1951. A.B. (College) 1950.
University of Washington, 1952-53. A.B. 1953.
University of California, Los Angeles, 1955-56.
Northwestern University, 1951-52, 1953-55, 1956-61. M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1961.
Dissertation: Concept Structure in Cassirer and Whitehead.
Teaching:
Part-time teaching at Northwestern and Roosevelt Universities. 1954-57; teaching assistant at U.C.L.A., 1955-56.
Full-time:
University of Miami, 1958-62.
Ohio University, 1962-64.
University of Hartford, 1964-present.. Professor Emeritus, 2001.

FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION:

Ethics, Ancient Greek philosophy, 20th Century philosophy, Pragmatism.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Introduction to Philosophy, Practical Reasoning, Symbolic Logic, Classical Philosophy: Greece and Rome (formerly Ancient and Medieval Philosophy), Rationalists and Empiricists, American Philosophy, Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Twentieth Century Philosophy, Ethical Problems, Ethical Theory, Ethical and Social Philosophy to 1650, Ethical and Social Philosophy since 1651, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Religion, Language and Form, Self and Society, Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Community, Communitarian Ethics, Engineering Humanities, Seminars on Plato, Aristotle, Ortega, Hegel, Sartre, Bergson, Dewey, Kant. Interdisciplinary course in Ancient Greek Art and Thought. Directed studies on Plato, Aristotle, Ortega, Bergson, Augustine, Dewey, Kant.

PAPERS PRESENTED:

“Bergson’s critique of conceptualization,” Florida Philosophical Association, 1959.
“On Whitehead’s ‘realism,’” Florida Philosophical Association, 1961.
“Values and community,” University of Hartford Symposium on Ethics,
1981. (Broadcast on Connecticut Public Radio).
“Toward a triadic ethics,” Consortium Symposium “Themes in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce,” 1982.
“The charioteer has no wings” (Study of Plato’s Phaedrus ), Northern New England Philosophical Association, October 1988.
“Ethics in higher education,” Tunxis Community College, April 1989.
“Humor in Plato,” University of Hartford seminar on humor, May 1989.
“The involved self,” Northern New England Philosophical Association, October 1989.
“According to nature: nature as a moral category,” University of Hartford Humanities Center Lecture Series, March 1990.
“Images of the line in Plato’s Symposium,” Northern New England Philosophical Association, October 1990.
“Towards a pragmatic ethics,” Institute of Philosophy, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, January 1991.
“The essence of American Pragmatism,” Moscow State University, USSR, January 1991.
Lecture on Critical Thinking and other humanities courses for technical students, Radio-technical Institute of MAI (Radiovtuz), Moscow, USSR, January 1991.
“Plato’s disclaimers,” Northern New England Philosophical Association, October 1991.
“Rights and citizenship: The instrumentality of the community.” Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research 1996 Annual Conference, Estes Park, Colorado, August 1996.
“Decisional truth: William James and 'passional' belief.” Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research 1997 Annual Conference, Estes Park, Colorado, August 1997.

PUBLICATIONS:

“Vulgarity,” Ethics 91 (October 1980). (Reprinted in Ethics and personality: essays in moral psychology, ed. John Deigh. University of Chicago Press 1992).
“Values and community,” in A symposium on ethics, University Press of America, 1982.
“The charioteer has no wings,” (expanded version of NNEPA paper) in The presence of feeling in thought, ed. M. Moen and B. den Ouden (Peter Lang, 1991).
“Community and individual: an instrumental approach,” Dialogue and humanism, Vol. V, No. 3/1995, pp. 12-–21.
“Rights and citizenship: The instrumentality of the community,” Contemporary philosophy, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 & 3, March/April & May/June 1996, pp. 23-27.