Portrait

Michael Green

Partial Curriculum Vita


Address

    Department of Philosophy
    State University of New York at Oneonta
    Oneonta, NY 13820-4015
    E-mail: Greenmk@Oneonta.edu

Education

    Ph.D. - Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1979
    B.A. -- Philosophy, University of Kansas, 1973

    Thesis Title

    • The Practical Contradictions and the Categorical Imperatives:
      Using Nature To Typify Freedom

    Thesis Purpose
    • To develop a new understanding of the two types of practical contradiction in Kant's practical philosophy by using natural analogues of purportedly possible practical worlds

    Languages
    • Latin and German

Academic Positions

Professor
SUNY College at Oneonta
9/95 - present

Associate Professor
SUNY College at Oneonta
9/88 - 8/95

Assistant Professor
SUNY College at Oneonta
8/81 - 8/88

Assistant Professor
Marquette University
8/79 - 5/81

Lecturer
Indiana University Northwest
1/76 - 5/79

Areas of Specialization and Research

    Primary:
      Ethics; Philosophy of Action; Applied Ethics; Issues In: War, Abortion, World Hunger and Racism and Sexism; Political and Social Philosophy; History of Philosophy (Ethics, Plato, Aristotle, Medieval, Rationalists, Hume, Kant, 19th Century Philosophy); African Philosophy; Business Ethics; Native American Philosophy

    Secondary:
      Logic; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Law; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Religion; Religious Ethics; Marxism; Oriental Philosophy; Philosophy of Biology

    Interdisciplinary:
    • 19 hours of Biology at the University of Chicago. I am interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the Humanities.
    • The extensive use of computers in my logic section, using programs that I wrote and developed.
    • Participant in design and teaching of an interdisciplinary course entitled, "War and Morality."
    • Interdisciplinary Team taught honors courses on Contemporary Moral Issues, Fifth Century Greece, the French Revolution, World War I, and The Future.
    • Taught an interdisciplinary course on African Philosophy, Spring 1992.

    Curriculum Development:
    • Developed computer-aided instruction modules for Introduction to Logic course.
    • Syllabus for "Emerging African Philosophy" published in Faculty Forum, Vol XVIII, No. 3, Summer 1992, pp. 58-59.

Publications

Books:

forthcoming: Cross-Rhythms of African Philosophy
Under contract with Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

Issues in Native American Cultural Identity (editor)
Center for the Semiotic Study of Law, Politics, and Government
(NY: Peter Lang. 1995).

Articles:

forthcoming: "Surrounded by Savages: Marking the Limits of Civilization"
Race and Representation, edited by Dr. Timothy Youngs
London, Longman Press.

"Images of Justice"
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
Vol. VII, No. 21, 1994, pp. 241-251.

"Cultural Identity and the Twenty-first Century"
Issues in Native American Culture Identity, Michael K. Green, editor
Center for the Semiotic Study of Law, Politics and Government
New York: Peter Lang, 1994.

"Cultural Themes in European Philosophy, Law, and Economics"
History of European Ideas
Vol. 19, Nos. 4-6, 1994, pp. 805-810.

"Images of Native Americans in Advertising, Some Moral Issues"
Journal of Business Ethics
Vol. 12, 1993, pp. 155-162.

"Fairness in Hierarchial and Entrepreneurial Firms"
Journal of Business Ethics
Vol. 11, 1992, pp. 877-882.

"Kant on Moral Self-Deception"
Kant-Studien
Vol. 83, No. 2, 1992, pp. 149-169.

"War, Innocence and Theories of Sovereignty"
Social Theory and Practice
Vol. 18, No. 1, 1992, pp. 39-62.

"Management Models and Morality"
Proceedings of the Council for Employee Rights and Responsibilities, 1991.

"Law, Forms of Life, and Metaphysical Metaphors"
Action and Agency, edited by Roberta Kevelson
New York: Peter Lang, 1991, pp. 139-161.

"Reciprocity and the Employment Contract"
Proceedings of the Council for Employee Responsibilities and Rights, 1990, pp. 40-49.

"Happiness, Blessedness, and Transcendence"
Proceedings of the Seventh International Kant Congress
edited by G. Funke and T. M. Seebohn
Penn State University Press, 1990, pp. 466-470.

"Utopia, Dysutopia, History and Revolution"
Proceedings of the Second Annual Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Conference, XXIV, 1986, pp. 49-61.

"Robotics, The Liberal Arts, and Humanizing Work"
Proceedings Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute
Vol. 1, April 1986, pp. 117-121.

"A Kantian Evaluation of Taylorism in the Workplace"
Journal of Business Ethics
Vol. 5 (1986), pp. 165-169.

"Kant, Crimes Against Nature, and Contraception"
The New Scholasticism
LVII, (3), 1983, pp. 317-330.

"Marx on Utility and Right"
Political Theory, Vol. 11, No. 3
August 1983, pp. 433-446.

"Using Nature to Typify Freedom: The Application of the Categorical Imperative"
International Studies in Philosophy
Fall 1982, pp. 17-26.

"Man, The Good and the Metaphysical Foundations of the Social Sciences,"
Auslegung: A Graduate Journal of Philosophy
Vol. I, 1978.

Leadership Case Studies:
(with Teaching Notes)

Monster Slayer: Leadership and Organizational Life-Cycle
by Michael K. Green
(Oneonta, NY: Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, 1994).

Faust: The Dark Side of Leadership
by Michael K. Green and Wendell Frye
(Oneonta, NY: Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, 1994).

Old Spider Woman: Human Relations Leadership
by Michael K. Green and Margaret Maguire
(Oneonta, NY: Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, 1993).

Chief Joseph: Bureaucratic, Entrepreneurial and Synergistic Leadership
by Michael K. Green and Roy Savoian
(Oneonta, NY: Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, 1993).

Clausewitz: On War, Leadership and Strategy Formulation and Implementation
by Michael K. Green and Wendell Frye
(Oneonta, NY: Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, 1993).

The Speeches of Churchill
by Michael K. Green and Donald Birn
(Oneonta, NY: Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, 1993).

King David and Multicultural Leadership
by Michael K. Green and Gary Herion
(Oneonta, NY: Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, 1993).

Book Reviews:

An invited book review of Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry James by Joanne Jacobson for Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

An invited book review of Race, Class and Gender in 19th Century Culture by Maryanne Cline Horowitz for Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 16, (2), 1992, pp. 200-206.

An invited book review of The Untamed Tongue by Thomas Szasz in Ethics, Vol. 102, No. 1, October 1991, p. 213.

An invited book review of Persons, Rights, and Corporations by Patricia Werhane in the Journal of Business Ethics, 8 (1988).

An invited book review of Genetic Counseling: Facts, Values, and Norms by Capron, et. al., in The Linacre Quarterly, November 1980.

Literary Works:

"The Elephant," a poem published in Poetic Voices of America, edited by William H. Trent (Sisterville, WV: Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum, 1989), p. 255.

International Lectures

"Should the Nation-State Survive?" presented at the Fourth International Society for the Study of European Ideas Conference held in Graz, Austria, August 1994.

"Moral Problems Presented by Media Portrayals of Native Americans," presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference in York, England, August 1993.

"Kropotkin, Social Orders, and Metaphysical Metaphors" presented at the conference on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Kropotkin held in Moscow, Russia, December 1992.

"Forms of life and Pluralistic Paradigms in Law and Ethics" presented at the Third International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas held in Aalborg, Denmark, August 1992.

"War as Metaphysics and as a Mode of Consciousness" presented at the American Popular Culture Convention held in Winchester, England, July 1991.

"War in Transition" read at the International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, held in Leuven, Belgium, September 1990.

"Happiness, Blessedness, and Transcendence" presented at the Seventh International Kant Conference in Mainz, West Germany, April 1990.

"Forms of Life, Games, and Models of Metaphysics" presented at the Popular Culture Conference in Toronto, March 1990.

"Kropotkin: An Anarchist's Conception of the Rise and Fall of Elitist and Popular Cultures" presented at the Popular Culture Association Convention in Montreal, March 1987.

Memberships

American Philosophical Association
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
North American Kant Society
American Popular Culture Association
North American Society for the Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Creighten Club, the New York State Philosophical Association
Dante Society
Interdisciplinary Values and Indigenous Cultures Network
Southern Marketing Association

Honors

Phi Beta Kappa
Vice-President, Philosophy Club, University of Kansas
Robinson Essay Competition Winner, 1973
Man of the Year Award from Battenfeld Scholarship Hall, 1970
Merit Increases
Promotion to Professor, 1995
Sabbatical - Spring 1988, Fall 1994
Attended First Global Ethics Summit for Business Leaders, Columbus, Ohio, March 1992

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