Michael Koch

Curriculum Vita

Address
    Department of Philosophy
    State University of New York at Oneonta
    Oneonta, NY 13820-4015

Education

    D.A. -- Humanistic Studies, SUNY University at Albany

    • Primary Field: Philosophy
    • Second Field: Social and Political Theory
    • Expected completion date: May 1996
    • Director: Berel Lang, Professor of Philosophy
      SUNY University at Albany
    • Dissertation Title: "The Mannikin and Its Masks: The Negative Hermeneutics of Henry Adams"

    1982 -- Ph.D. program in Personality and Social Ecology
      University of Illinois

    B.A. -- Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
      Major: Psychology. Minor: Chemistry

    Languages
    • French - read
    • current studies of Greek and German

Professional Employment

Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy Department
State University of New York, College at Oneonta
1993 - present

Adjunct Lecturer, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
University at Albany
Spring 1994

Production Manager and co-owner
Shona Oysters, Eilean Shona, by Acharacle, Argyll, Scotland
1990 - 1992

Director Outdoor Education Program
Eagleton School, Great Barrington, MA
1988 - 1990

Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of Humanities
University at Albany
Fall 1986

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department
University at Albany
1985-86

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Psychology Department
University of Illinois at Champaign
1982

Areas of Specialization and Research

    Primary:
    • History of Philosophy: Pragmatism, Critical Theory
    • Continental Philosophy: Hermeneutics, Phenomenology
    • 20th Century Social and Political Philosophy
    • Philosophy of Social Sciences, Technology
    • Aesthetics

    Secondary:
    • History of Philosophy: Modern and Ancient
    • Metaphysics
    • Philosophy of World Religions
    • Literary Criticism
    • Critical Thinking
    • Feminist Philosophy and Gender Studies

    Interdisciplinary:
    • African Art and issues in cultural diversity
    • Assisted in a course on India and Japan
    • Background in anthropology, psychology, political science, English and American literature,literary and critical theory

Teaching Experience

State University of New York, College at Oneonta

    Spring Semester 1996
    • Phil 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
    • Phil 210 - Symbolic Logic
    • Phil 221 - History of Philosophy II: Modern Philosophical Thought

    Spring Semester 1995
    • Phil 101 - Introduction to Philosophy (two sections)

    Fall Semester 1994
    • Phil 101 - Introduction to Philosophy
    • Phil 103 - Introduction to Logic
    • Phil 240 - Intellectual Development of the United States

    Spring Semester 1994
    • Phil 101 - Introduction to Philosophy

    Fall Semester 1993
    • Phil 101 - Introduction to Philosophy (two sections)
    • Phil 103 - Introduction to Logic

    Spring Semester 1993
    • Phil 101 - Introduction to Philosophy (two sections)
    • Phil 240 - Social and Political Philosophy

SUNY University at Albany

    Spring Semester 1994
    • Hum 240 - Images and Issues of Diversity in the Visual Arts

    Spring Semester 1986
    (Graduate Teaching Assistant with full responsibility for course)
    • Phil 106 - World Views: The Modern Mind

    Fall Semester 1985
    (Graduate Teaching Assistant with full responsibility for course)
    • Phil 106 - World Views: Philosophy and Technology

University of Illinois at Champaign

    Fall Semester 1982
    (Graduate Teaching Assistant with responsibility for three sections)
    • Psy 101 - Introduction to Psychology
      (with video assistance and standard exams)

Lectures and Papers Presented

"Negative Dialectics and Zen No-thingness: Nishitani, Adorno and False Ontology"
Religious Studies Conference
Cornell University, April 9, 1994

"Bleak Hallways, Brilliant Dancer: Foucault and the Aesthetics of Self"
IGCS Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Modern Social Thought
Binghamton University, October 29-31, 1993

"The Myths of Mythologies"
Humanistic Studies Colloquia
University at Albany, April 12, 1986

Judge of Work of Others

Invited prepublication review of A Guided Tour of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy by Christopher Biffle for Mayfield Publishing Company

Invited review of Wisdom Lessons by Christopher Biffle for publication consideration by Mayfield Publishing Company

Current Work

Paper on "Marco's Letters: The EZLN and the Rhetoric of Nationalism in the age of Global Capitalism"

"The Manikin and Its Masks: The Negative Hermeneutics of Henry Adams"
DA Dissertation.

"Aristotle's Posterior Analytics: Reconstructive Rationality for Social Scientific Inquiry"

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