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VITA
SANDER H. LEE
Office: Philosophy, Parker Hall 302, Keene State College, 229 Main St.,
Keene, NH 03405-1402, (603) 358-2777 (o), (603) 358-2773 (Fax),
Home: 303 Ashuelot St., Ashuelot, NH 03441, (603) 239-8025
e-mail: slee@keene.edu
EDUCATION:
School Year Degree:
The George Washington University 1973 B.A. Double Major: Philosophy and Psychology
Universität Wien-Sommer Hochschule 1974 Diploma in German Studies
Georgetown University 1976 M.A. in Philosophy
Georgetown University 1978 Ph. D. in Philosophy
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:
Does Moral Freedom Imply Anarchism? A discussion of moral obligation
and its relationship to governmental authority.
Committee Chairman: Dr. Henry Babcock Veatch.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Ethics and Applied Ethics Film and Video Aesthetics
Metaphysics Phenomenology and Existentialism
Philosophy and the Holocaust Philosophy of Law
Social and Political Philosophy Philosophy of the World’s Religions
AREAS OF COMPETENCE:
Contemporary Analytic Philosophy Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Epistemology Logic
Modern Philosophy Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Philosophy of Language Philosophy of the Social Sciences
AWARD:
Keene State College Faculty Award for Distinction in Research and Scholarship (2006)
SCHOLARSHIP AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Scholarly Publications:
Scholarly Books:
1) Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed: Anguish, God and Existentialism, published by McFarland Publishing Co., 2002, ISBN 0-7864-1319-0.
2) Woody Allen’s Angst: Philosophical Commentaries on his Serious Films, published by McFarland Publishing Co., 1997, ISBN 0-7864-0207-5.
3) Inquiries into Values: The Inaugural Session of the International Society for Value Inquiry, editor. Volume 11 in the series “Problems in Contemporary Philosophy” published by The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. ISBN 0-88946-338-7
Forthcoming Essay:
1) “Was Odo a Collaborator?” in Star Trek and Philosophy edited by Kevin Decker and Jason Eberl, Open Court Press.
Published Essays:
1) “Meaning and Freedom on the Island” in Lost and Philosophy, edited by Sharon Kaye, Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture Series, Blackwell Pub., 2007.
2) “John Drake in Greeneland” in The Philosophy of TV Noir edited by Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble as part of the Philosophy and Popular Culture series published by the University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
3) “Hitchcock’s Existentialism: Anguish, Despair, and Redemption in Breakdown” in Alfred Hitchcock and Philosophy, edited by Dave Baggett, Open Court Press, 2006.
4) “Rights, Morality, and Faith in the Light of the Holocaust” in Genocide and Human Rights, edited by John Roth, Palgrave MacMillan, 2005, ISBN 1-4039-3547-5.
5) “The Dangers of Hedonism: A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy,” in Woody Allen and Philosophy, edited by Mark Conard and Aeon Skoble, Open Court, 2004, ISBN 0-8126-9453-8.
6) “Scapegoating, the Holocaust, and McCarthyism in Billy Wilder’s Stalag 17,”
Film and Philosophy, Volume 8, 2004 Special Interest Edition.
7) “Platonic Themes in Chris Marker’s La Jetée” in Film and Knowledge: Essays in the Integration of Images and Ideas edited by Kevin L. Stoehr, McFarland Publishing Co., 2002, ISBN 0-7864-1320-4. The essay may also be accessed at http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/4/jetee.html.
“Moral Relativism and Despair in Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear” in Perceptions of Religious Faith in the Works of Graham Greene edited by Thomas Hill, Peter Lang, 2001. ISBN 3906767884.
9) “Existential Themes in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors,
Woody Allen:A Casebook, edited by Kimball King, Routledge, 2001. ISBN 081533124X
10) “The Screaming of the Lambs: Philosophical Themes in Demme’s Silence of
the Lambs,” Explorations of Value, edited by Thomas Magnell, Value Inquiry
Book Series, Rodopi Press. ISBN 90-420-0254-9, 1997, pp. 189-198.
11) “Paternalism” in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics edited by Patricia Werhane and R. Edward Freeman, Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
12) “Value Inquiry: Philosophy and Film,” Introductory Editorial essay for a special issue The Journal of Value Inquiry on philosophic themes related to the contemporary visual arts, Vol. 29, No. 4, Dec. 1995.
13) “Never Again: The Protection of International Human Rights,” The Social Power of Ideas, edited by Yeager Hudson and W. Creighton Peden, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995,
ISBN 0-7734-9043-4.
14) “Philosophical Themes in Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives”, Film and Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 1995.
15) “A Critique of Henry Veatch’s Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?,” A Quarter Century of Value Inquiry, edited by Richard T. Hull, Value Inquiry Book Series, Rodopi Press, 1994. ISBN 90-5183-672-4, 1994. This volume is drawn from the Presidental Addresses of the American Society for Value Inquiry over the entirety of its history. My address is reprinted, with permission, from Volume III, No. 1, Spring 1991 of Lyceum, the publication of the Saint Anselm’s College Philosophy Club.
16) “Repaying the Wronged,” Rights, Justice, and Community, The Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-9599-1, 1992.
14) “The Value of Universal Ignorance in Politics: An Alternative Account of Madison’s Justifications of Participatory Democracy,” Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. XIV, Number 2, March/April 1992.
17) “Alfred Hitchcock: Misogynist or Feminist?” Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, Vol. 9, Number 3, Summer 1990.
18) “Creating a Book Review Department,” editorial essay, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 25, Number 4, October 1991.
19) “The Law and Morality in War Crimes Trials,” To Be A Victim: Encounters with Crime and Injustice, Plenum Press, 1991, pp. 333-356. ISBN 0-306-43962.
20) “Democracy, Rights, & Conflict in the Soviet Union,” No. 6, Spring/Summer 1988, Democracy and Socialism.
21) “The Essence of the Human Experience in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet,”
Inquiries into Values and Ethical Views: The Inaugural Sessions of the International Society for Value Inquiry, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988,
pp. 569-584. ISBN 0-88946-338-7
22) “Philosophical Themes in Hitchcock’s Rear Window,” Special Issue on “Film and Philosophy,” Volume 7, Number 2, Winter 1988, Post Script: Essays in Film and The Humanities.
23) “An Epistemic Discussion of Democracy in The Federalist,” in The Federalist Papers: An Explanation and Defense of Ideas and Issues in the U.S. Constitution: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Value Inquiry, edited by James B. Wilbur, published by the State University College of Arts & Sciences at Geneseo, New York, 1988.
24) “Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality in Gandhi’s Social Thought,” The Journal of Social Philosophy. Vol. XVII, Number 3, Fall 1986 (appeared Spring 1987).
25) “Reverse Discrimination and Social Justice,” Philosophy Research Archives. Vol. XI,1985. (appeared March 1986)
26) “The Failure of Sex and Love in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre,” Philosophy Research Archives. Vol. XI,1985. (appeared March 1986)
27) “Existential Themes in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock,” Philosophy Research Archives. Vol. XI,1985. (appeared March 1986)
28) “The Central Role of Universality in a Sartrean Ethics,”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Vol. XLVI, No. 1,
September 1985.
29) “The Status of the Debate on Rights in the USSR,”
Studies in Soviet Thought. Vol. 30, No. 2, August 1985.
30) “Prospects for Peace: A Philosophical Approach,”
Peace and Change. Vol. X, No. 3/4, Fall/Winter 1984.
31) “Sartre’s Acceptance of the Principle of Universality,”
Philosophy Research Archives. Vol. X,1984.
32) “Henry B. Veatch and the Problem of a Noncognitivist Ethics,”
The Georgetown Symposium on Ethics: Essays in Honor of Henry Babcock Veatch, edited by Rocco Porreco. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1984.
ISBN 0-8191-3777-4.
33) ‘”Sense and Sensibility”: Sartre’s Theory of the Emotions,’ The Review of Existential Psychology & Psychiatry, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1983.
Book Reviews:
1) Echoes from the Holocaust: Reflections on a Dark Time, edited by Alan Rosenberg and Gerald Myers, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1989.
2) For Righteousness’ Sake: Contemporary Moral Philosophies, by A. Roy Eckardt, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1989.
3) Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity by Renée Weber, Idealistic Studies, Vol. XIX, No. 1, January 1989.
4) The Moses of Rovno by Douglas K. Huneke, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume III, No. 1, 1988.
5) Sartre and Marxist Existentialism by Thomas Flynn, The Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. XVI, No. 2 (Summer, 1985).
6) The Foundation and Structure of Sartrean Ethics by Thomas C. Anderson, The Howard University Student Philosophy Journal, Vol. I, No. 1 (Spring 1985)
7) Rationality in Philosophy and Science by Charles Verharen, The Review
of Metaphysics, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4 (June 1984).
Modern Process Thought by James Gray, The Review of Metaphysics,
Vol. XXXVII, No. 3 (March 1984).
9) Dance of the Dialectic: A Dramatic Dialogue Presenting Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion by Edward Beach, The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2. (December 1982)
10) Alienation, Praxis, and Techne in the Thought of Karl Marx by Karl Axelos, The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XXX, No. 4. (June 1977)
Brief Publications in Print
1) “My Top Ten Films” in the Australian online journal Senses of Cinema, 2000. The essay may be accessed at http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/top_tens/archive00.html#lee
2) “Internet Explorer Does Not Make Bill Gates the Devil,” The Keene Sentinel,
May 24, 1998.
3) “Woody Allen’s Philosophical Allure”, The Newsletter of the American Society for Value Inquiry, Spring 1994, pp. 8-9.
4) “Silencing the Sexists,” Keene State Today, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1 & 2, Winter 1993, pp. 20-22.
5) “No more excuses about the Balkans,” The Keene Sentinel, December 21, 1992.
6) “Can Pro-choice Doctors Oppose Gender-based Abortions?,” The Keene Sentinel, June 19, 1989.
7) “Hannah & Her Sisters, A Philosophical Discussion,” The Howard University Student Philosophy Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 1986)
“Can You Accept a Job You Find Unethical?,” National Business Employment Weekly, August 19,1984.
9) “Anxiety and Liberation,” Science of Thought Review, Vol. LXI, No. 2, February 1982.
Newspaper articles about my work:
“Educators Learn to Teach the Horrific,” by Keith Meatto, The Concord Monitor, July 15, 2002.
“An Analysis of Woody Allen Films,” by Alice Fuld, Spotlight, The Keene Sentinel, March 20, 1997, pp 18-19.
“Lee studies the Master of Suspense,” Monadnock Profile, The Keene Sentinel,
October 31, 1992, pp 1, 18
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Fall 1986-Present: Professor, Philosophy, Keene State College, Keene, NH; Promoted to Full Professor, 4/17/92, Tenured, 8/27/90;
Spring 1980-86: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Howard University, Washington, D.C.;
Information on adjunct teaching experience prior to Spring 1980 is available upon request.
GRANTS, PROGRAMS:
Co-recipient of the 2006 Keene State College Faculty Award for Distinction in Research and Scholarship (with Klaus Bayr in Geography).
My program on “The Films of Woody Allen: A Philosophical Approach” appears in the Humanities Resource Center Catalog of the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
Project Humanist for “From Novel to Film,” a monthly series presented during the fall of 1999 at the Keene Public Library. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
I received a Faculty Development Grant for 1998-99 to support my activities with the World Congress of Philosophy.
Information on additional grants, programs, and honors prior to 1998 is available upon request.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Editorial Activities:
Consulting Editor, The Journal of Value Inquiry and the Value Inquiry Book Series, October 1993-Present;
Consulting Editor, Film and Philosophy, July 1993-Present;
Editor in charge of an issue of Film and Philosophy on Woody Allen, Special Edition 2000;
Editor in charge of a special issue of The Journal of Value Inquiry on Philosophy and Film, Vol. 29, No. 4, Dec. 1995;
Associate Editor in charge of book review department for The Journal of Value Inquiry, July 1990-October 1993;
Offices held in Professional Societies:
Coordinator for the sessions of the Society for the Philosophic Study of the
Contemporary Visual Arts held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2005-2007;
President of the Northern New England Philosophy Association, 2002-2003;
Vice President of the Conference of Philosophical Societies, December 1999-2001;
President of The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts, December 1989-1999;
President of the Conference of Philosophical Societies, December 1996-99;
International Coordinator for the sessions of the Conference of
Philosophical Societies and The Society for the Philosophic Study of the
Contemporary Visual Arts held in conjunction with World Congress of Philosophy sponsored by the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP) in Boston, MA, August 10-16, 1998. I also served as a member of the American Organizing Committee of the World Congress of Philosophy.
Member of the Board of Directors for International Relations of The International Society for Value Inquiry, 1993-Present;
President of The International Society for Value Inquiry, August 1988-August 1993;
International Coordinator for the sessions of the International Society for Value Inquiry held in conjunction with the meetings of the World Congress of Philosophy in Helsinki, Finland and Moscow, Russia, August 14-28, 1993. This activity was funded by a grant from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation given in support of my professional activities during my sabbatical leave in the spring and summer of 1993;
Additional Information on past professional activity is available upon request.
PRESENTATIONS, MEETINGS, AND WORKSHOPS:
Recent Activities:
I presented “Madison’s Justifications of Participatory Democracy” on Wednesday, November 7 as part of Keene State College’s 2007 Citizenship Symposium. On Thursday, November 8, I served as a member of a panel on “Animation as Political and Social Constructions.”
I will teach two sessions as part of a week-long Summer Institute on the Holocaust on the campus of Keene State College, July 9-15, 2008. Funding will be provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
I traveled to formerly important centers of Jewish culture and to the locations of several concentration and death camps in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, May 24-June 12, 2007. This activity is supported by a KSC Faculty Development Pool grant.
I presented a paper titled “Faith and Reason in the TV Show Lost” at the meetings of the Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 18-21. I also chaired a session.
I presented a paper titled “Allied Intelligence and the Holocaust: Ethical Implications” as part of the Rivier College Humanities Series on April 4, Rivier College, Nashua, NH.
I participated in a panel on Survivor Testimony with Therese Seibert and Paul Vincent at the 37th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Cleveland, OH, March 9-13, 2007.
I participated in the international scholarly workshop on Intelligence and the Holocaust, scheduled for July 31 to August 11, 2006, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
I taught two sessions as part of a week-long Summer Institute on the Holocaust on the campus of Keene State College, July 9-15, 2006. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
I led a discussion of philosophy and popular culture as an invited speaker to Professor Tony Stavely’s course PSYC 495 Psychology & Popular Culture on the campus of Keene State College, May 31, 2006.
I participated in the Integrative Studies workshop on Thinking and Writing first semester courses on the campus of Keene State College, May 22-26, 2006. Funding was provided by the Davis Foundation.
I served as Keynote Speaker to the Interdisciplinary Conference on Philosophy and Religious Studies held on the campus of the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, April 7-8, 2006. I spoke on ethical issues related to the Holocaust.
I participated in a panel discussion of research methods for Professor Kirsten Isgro’s course COMM 376 Communication Theories on the campus of Keene State College, September 14, 2005.
I led a discussion of euthanasia as an invited speaker to Professor Beatriz Torres’ course COMM 490 Health Communication on the campus of Keene State College, July 5, 2005.
I presented “Rights, Morality, and Faith in the Light of the Holocaust” at the annual meetings of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, March 24, 2005.
I presented “Hitchcock’s Heideggerean Breakdown” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Philosophical Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts held in conjunction with the Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, March 24, 2005.
I participated in the Lessons & Legacies Conference at Brown University, Providence, RI, November 4-7, 2004. This conference is sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation.
I taught two sessions as part of a week-long Summer Institute on the Holocaust on the campus of Keene State College, July 11-16, 2004. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
I led a discussion of Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha at the Fitzwilliam Public Library, February 9, 2004. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Council for the Humanities as part of their “What Is New Hampshire Reading” series.
I presented “Rights, Morality, and Faith in the Light of the Holocaust” at the annual meetings of the Northern New England Philosophy Association, Keene State College, September 20, 2003.
I was a Fellow of the Eighth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University, June 22-July 3, 2003.
I presented “Some Philosophical Reflections on Issues of Justice in War Crimes Trials,” presented a paper titled “Issues of Justice in War Crime Trials” at a conference in Washington D.C. on “Historical Justice in International Perspective” sponsored by the German Historical Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, March 26-29, 2003.
I facilitated a session on “Sustaining Engaged Classroom Discussion” as part of the “Just Desserts” discussion series sponsored by the KSC Faculty Resource Center, February 7, 2003.
I presented “Scapegoating, the Holocaust, and McCarthyism in Billy Wilder’s Stalag 17,” at the meetings of American Society of Aesthetics, Miami, FL, October 30-November 2, 2002.
I appeared as the guest on The Front Porch, a half-hour radio interview program on New Hampshire Public Radio. The segment, titled Unpacking Woody Allen, aired on September 17, 2002. It is available for listening online at www.nhpr.org.
I presented “The Films of Woody Allen: A Philosophical Approach,” at Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation, Bethlehem, NH, August 6, 2002. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council;
I taught two sessions as part of a week-long Summer Institute on the Holocaust on the campus of Keene State College, July 7-12, 2002. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council;
I presented “Moral Relativism and Despair in Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear,” at the meetings of The Northern New England Philosophical Association, Clark University, Worcester, MA, October 19, 2001.
I presented “Moral Relativism and Despair in Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear,” at a Third Tuesday Discussion Session on the campus of Keene State College, November 13, 2001.
I led a discussion of Concepts of the “Just War” as part of the Teachers’ Institute on Vietnam and the American War on the campus of Keene State College, July 17, 2001. Funding was provided by the Freeman Foundation.
I presented “Philosophical and Cultural Themes in The Fugitive,” at the meetings of The Popular Culture Association, Philadephia, PA, April 11-14, 2001. I also chaired a session.
I led a discussion of Rex Stout’s The Doorbell Rang at the Peterborough Public Library, April 1, 2001. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
I presented the annual Howard Jefferson Lecture in Philosophy at Clark University, Worcester, MA, March 24, 2001.
I presented “Notions of the Selflessness in Sartrean Existentialism and Theravadin Buddhism” to the Multicultural Committee Luncheon on the campus of Keene State College, November 29, 2000.
I presented “Woody Allen’s Angst: Philosophical & Psychological
Reflections” at Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, April 3, 2000. Funding was provided by the Psychology and Philosophy Departments of Plymouth State College;
I taught a College of Life-Long Learning course on Eastern Religion on the campus of Keene State College, March 3-April 28, 2000;
I presented “The Films of Woody Allen: A Philosophical Approach,” at Rivier College, Nashua, NH, October 25, 1999. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council;
I served as a member of a panel discussing the films of Billy Wilder at the meetings of The Conference of Philosophic Societies held in conjunction with the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA, Dec. 27-30, 1999.
I served as a member of a panel discussing the films of Billy Wilder at “Third Tuesday” session sponsored by the English Department, on the campus of Keene State College, Nov. 9, 1999.
I facilitated a discussion of Double Indemnity as part of the series “From Novel to Film” at the Keene Public Library, September 16, 1999. Funding was provided by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
Information on activities prior to 1999 is available upon request.
SERVICE TO KEENE STATE COLLEGE:
Chair, Keene State College Faculty Award for Distinction in Research and Scholarship Committee, 2007;
Co-coordinator, Holocaust Studies Program, 2007-08;
Co-Chair, Integrated Studies Ethics Roundtable and Assessment Committee,
2006-Present;
Member, Criminal Justice Minor Committee, 2006-Present;
Chair, Chair, Communication, Journalism, Philosophy Search Committee, Fall 2006;
Chair, Communication, Philosophy 4 Credit Conversion Subcommittee, 2005-Present;
Participant, Integrative Studies pilot program on Thinking and Writing first semester courses 2005-2008.
Chair, Communication, Journalism, Philosophy Department, Spring 2005;
Chair, Communication, Journalism, Philosophy Search Committee, Spring 2005;
Chair, Communication, Journalism, Philosophy Department, 2001-2002;
Chair of various Communication, Journalism, Philosophy DPEC Committees,
1996- 2005;
Chair, Holocaust Studies DPEC Committee, Spring 2003;
Member, Holocaust Studies Council, Fall 2000-Present
Member, Criminal Justice Minor Committee, 2005-Present
Member, Academic Technology Committee, 2000-2002;
Co-Chair, General Education Task Force, 1996-1998;
Information on activities prior to 1996 is available upon request.
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