Portrait

Anthony Roda

Partial Curriculum Vita


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

Education

    B.S. --- Mathematics, St. Peter's College, 1962
    M.A. -- Philosophy, Washington University, 1964
    Ph.D. -- Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 1968

    Master's Thesis

    • "Croce's Aesthetics"
    • Director, Lewis E. Hahn - Philosophy, S.I.U.

    Doctoral Dissertation
    • "Cognitive Structures"
    • Committee:
      Lewis E. Hahn - Philosophy, S.I.U. (Director)
      George T. McClure - Philosophy, S.I.U.
      Wayne A. R. Leys - Philosophy, S.I.U.
      Willis More - Philosophy, S.I.U.
      Lonnie R. Shelby - Professor of History
        and Dean of Liberal Studies, S.I.U.

    Languages
    • Italian (fluent speaking, reading, writing)
    • German (primarily philosophical reading)
    • Spanish (reading)

Academic Positions

Professor
SUNY College at Oneonta
1991 - present

Associate Professor
SUNY College at Oneonta
1970-1991

Assistant Professor
SUNY College at Oneonta
1969-1970

Instructor of Philosophy
SUNY College at Oneonta
1967-1969

Teaching Assistant
Southern Illinois University
1964-1967

Areas of Specialization and Research

    Primary:
    • Epistemology
    • American Philosophy
    • Giambattista Vico
    • Immanuel Kant

    Secondary:
    • Value Theory (Aesthetics; Ethics; Social and Political Philosophy)
    • History of Philosophy
    • Logic

    Special Qualifications:
    • Knowledge of Southern Italian Culture and Italian Philosophy

    Travel:
    • Italy, Greece, France, Ireland

Awards

NEH Summer Seminar: June 20-August 5, 1994
"Dante and the Philosophy of Education in the Middle Ages"
Yale University

NEH Summer Institute: June 17-July 26, 1991
"Yale Boccaccio Institute"
Yale University

NEH Summer Institute: June 19-July 28, 1989
"Petrarch and Petrarchism"
Yale University

NEH Summer Institute: June 30-August 8, 1986
"Dante's Divine Comedy"
Dartmouth College

Sabbatical Leave: Spring 1974, Spring 1981, Fall 1987, and Spring 1994
SUNY College at Oneonta

Assistantship in Philosophy: 1964-1967
Southern Illinois University

Scholarship in Philosophy: 1963-1965
Washington University

Henrietta Heerman Fellowship in Philosophy: 1963-1964
Washington University

Second in Freshman I: 1959
St. Peter's College

Salutatorian: January 1959
Dickinson High School
Jersey City, NJ

Publications

Editor and author of the Preface
Educational Change, Spring 1996, pp. i- xii.

Editor and author of the Preface
Educational Change, Spring 1995, pp. iv-vii.

Review of "Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge," by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Philosophy and Literature, 19.1 (April 1995): 194- 195.

"The Demos and the Dictator"
Singuliers.

"The Federalist Papers: Political Principles and Educational Consequences"
Singuliers.

Review of Berel Lang's "Philosophy and the Art of Writing"
Philosophy and Literature 13 (April 1989): 191- 192.

"Comments on Wyschogrod's Death and Contemporary Philosophy"
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Spring 1976.

"The Federalist Papers: Political Principles and Educational Consequences"
Educational Change, Fall 1987, pp. 53-64.

Translation of "The Triumph at the Berlin Olympiad"
from La Grande Storia del Calcio Italiano.
Soccer Hall of Fame Archives, Spring 1984.

"The Nature of Man and Scientific Research"
Synopses of Seminars and Panels Presented During Academic Year 1976-1977, pp. 3-5.

Translation of Giovanni Piana, "History and Existence in Husserl's Manuscripts"
Telos XIII (Fall 1972), pp. 86-124.

Translation of Paolo Gambazzi, "Dialectic of Abstract and Concrete in Whitehead"
Telos VII (Spring 1971), pp. 122-128.

Conferences, Papers, and Panels

Chaired: "Asian Perspectives in an Undergraduate Curriculum"
at the New York Conference on Asian Studies
SUNY Buffalo, September 15-16, 1995

Chaired: "Rousseau's Émile: An Occasion for a Reconsideration of the Foundation of Education in Light of the Present Social and Academic Climate"
N.Y.S. Foundation of Education Association Meeting
SUNY Cortland, April 21-22, 1995

"The Varieties of American Experience"
1. Reflection on Graduate School Experience
2. The Future of Philosophy and How Graduate Education Now Can Prepare Students for the 21st Century.
Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), April 12-14, 1991

"Vico's New Science, The Master Key for the Social Sciences"
Ninth Annual Conference of The Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science and the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy
CUNY - Baruch College, October 26-28, 1990

"Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Boston Seer, Creator of the American Vedas"
Vedanta Congress in honor of the 1200th anniversary of Shankara's birth
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, April 15-18, 1990

"Fortuna in Machiavelli's Prince"
Interpreting The Italian Renaissance
SUNY Stony Brook, March 1-3, 1990

"Values and the Future of Education"
N.Y.S. Foundation of Education Association Meeting
SUNY New Paltz, April 21-22, 1989

"The Federalist Paper: Education and Manipulation"
N.Y.S. Foundation of Education Association Meeting
Russell Sage College, April 11, 1987

"Indian Influences on American Thought"
New York Conference on Asian Studies
SUNY New Paltz, October 18, 1986

"Peirce's Theory of Signs"
Statistics Seminar
SUNY Oneonta, April 11, 1986

Welcoming remarks
N.Y.S. Foundation of Education Association
SUNY Oneonta, April 11, 1986

Commentator for Jerzy Z. Hubert's "Wieman and Vedantic Thought"
H.H. Wieman Centennial Conference
Southern Illinois University, August 16-19, 1984

"Freedom: An American Sage and a Hindu Brahmin"
Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Association
Boston, December 28, 1983

Commentator for Michael Keeley's "Theories of Organization and Management: An Ethical Analysis"
SUNY Conversation in the Disciplines, "Ethics and the Market Place: An Exercise in Bridge Building, or On The Slopes of the Interface"
SUNY Geneseo, April 15-16, 1983

"Vico, Peirce and Dewey"
College de Poissy, France, December 1980

Commentator for Eliot Deutsch's "Goodness and Art"
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Meeting
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Association
New York, December 1979

"Doing and Knowing in Vico and Aurobindo"
New York Conference on Asian Studies
SUNY Buffalo, Fall 1977

Commentator for Dr. Edith Wyschogrod's "Death and Contemporary Philosophy"
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Meetings
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Association
December 28, 1975

Memberships

American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division)
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Dante Society of America
Institute for Vico Studies
New York State Foundation of Education Association

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