Dr. Robert Francis Allen

Curriculum Vitae

15 September 2005

9901 Marion

Redford, MI 48239-2015

(313) 937-2788

allen1rf@cmich.edu

Education

• Ph.D., (Philosophy) Wayne State University, 1991, Dissertation: Language Games: A Defense of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy   

• B.A., (Psychology) University of Michigan, 1981

Teaching Positions 

• Adjunct Professor, University of Detroit Mercy, 1990-

• Teaching Fellow, 1985-90, Wayne State University

Area of Specialty

• Metaphysics (Ontology, Free Will)

Areas of Competence

• Philosophy of Language, Logic, Philosophy of Religion

Publications

• “The Mereology of Events: Allen Contra Lombard” (forthcoming, Sorites)  

• “Free Will and Indeterminism: Robert Kane’s Libertarianism,” (Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 30, 2005)

• “Robust Alternatives and Responsibility” (The Journal of Moral Philosophy, vol. 1, Spring 2004)

• “St.Augustine’s Free Will Theodicy and Natural Evil” (Ars Disputandi, 2003)

• “Identity and Becoming,” (The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. XXXVIII, Fall 2000)

•  "Re-examining Frankfurt Cases," (The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. XXXVII #3, Fall 1999)

•  "Absolutism vs. Relativism in Contemporary Ontology," (Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 23, 1998)

• "Responsibility and Motivation," (The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. XXXV #3, Fall 1997)

•  “A Supplement to Venn Diagrams,” (American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring 1997)

• "Working Backwards with Copi's Inference Rules," (American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy,  Spring, 1996)

Presentations

American Philosophical Association:

• “Robust Local Alternatives” (2003 Pacific Division Meeting)

• “Free Will and Indeterminism: Robert Kane’s Libertarianism,” (2002 Eastern Division Meeting)

•  “Agent Causation and Ultimate Responsibility,” (2002 Pacific Division Meeting)

•  “Representation and Possibility,” (2002 Central Division Meeting)

• “Thorpe on Sharing Reasons,” (2001 Pacific Division Meeting)

• “Lombard on the Time of an Event: A Rebuttal,” (1999 Eastern Division Meeting)

• "The Necessity of Identity," (1999 Central Division Meeting)   

• “Free Agency and Self-Esteem,” (presented at the 1998 Central Division Meeting) 

• "Rawlsian Affirmative Action: Compensatory Justice as Seen from the Original Position,” (1998 Pacific Division Meeting)

• "Absolutism vs. Relativism in Contemporary Ontology," (1997 Central Division Meeting)

• "Freedom, Responsibility, and Motivation: What Frankfurt and  Gaslighting Cases Show," (1996 Central Division Meeting)

   Central States Philosophical Association:

• “Lombard on the Time of an Event: A Rebuttal,” (1999 Meeting)

• “Free Agency and Self-Esteem,” (1997 Meeting)

• "Rule-Following and Dispositions," (1996 Meeting)

• "Absolutism vs. Relativism in Contemporary Ontology," (1995 Meeting)

    World Congress of Philosophy:

• "Rawlsian Affirmative Action: Compensatory Justice as Seen from the Original Position,” (1998 Congress)

•  "The Necessity of Identity," (1998 Congress)

    Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference

• “Autonomy and Transcendence”  (to be presented at the 2006 Conference on Responsibility and Agency)

• “The Subject is Qualia” (2005 Conference on Time and Identity)

• “Kane on Free Will and Indeterminism,” (2001 Conference on Free Will and Determinism)

    Works in Progress

• “Free Agency and Self-Esteem”

• “The Subject is Qualia”

• “Autonomy and Transcendence”

• “Dispositions, Rule-Following, and Infinity”

• “Rawlsian Affirmative Action: Compensatory Justice as Seen from the Original Position”

• Philosophical Problems: An Introduction to Analytical Philosophy