Curriculum Vitae

Clark W. Butler

Professor of Philosophy

Purdue University—Fort Wayne Campus

ACADEMIC POSITIONS: 

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne,1970-75.

Member, Purdue University West Lafayette Graduate Faculty, 1970-.

Visiting Lecturer, European Studies, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England, 1974-75.

Associate Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 1975-80.

Visiting Scholar (Gast Forscher), Hegel Archiv, Ruhr University, Bochum, West Germany, Summer 1974,

1975-76.

Professor, Purdue University, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Campus, 1980-.

Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1986-1987.

Visiting Faculty (Professeur Associé), Department of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg,

France, 1987-88.

Graduate Faculty, Indiana University, Graduate Program in Liberal Studies, Indiana University-Purdue

University Fort Wayne, 1991-

Visiting Scholar, René Cassin International Institute for Human Rights and Library of the European Court

of Human Rights, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 1994-95.

Visiting Faculty (Professeur Associé), Institute of Political Studies (Science Po), Spring 2002.

Lecturer (Intervenant), short course, Faculty of Law, University of Strasbourg, January 2002.

ADMINISTRATION:

Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 1977-1983,

 2000-2004

Resident Director, Indiana University-Purdue University Overseas Studies Program at the

University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 1986-87.

Director, Human Rights Institute, IPFW Campus, 2004-.

Faculty Sponsor/Advisor/Liaison, IPFW-Science Po Strasbourg Exchange Program.

Resident Director, Summer II IPFW Strasbourg Overseas Human Rights Studies Program, Strasbourg,

France, July 2005-.

Member of Advisory Board, Indiana—Bloomington interdisciplinary doctoral minor in human rights

                studies.

Director, Center for Applied Ethics, Purdue University, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Campus, 2011-

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Co-Editor, CLIO, A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, 1976-1995; Philosophy

Editor, 1995-.

General Editor, Purdue University Human Rights Studies, 2007-2012.

EDUCATION:

American University in Cairo, Egypt, Egypt, Spring 1962.

Certificat d’études supérieures (C.E.S.) en philosophie générale et logique (French License Certificate), University of Tunis, Tunisia, 1964-65.

B.A. in philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, August 1966.

Ph.D in Philosophy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, August 1970.

ACADEMIC HONORS:

Valedictorian, Hollywood High School, 1962

Phi Beta Kappa, Junior Year, 1965

University of Southern California, B.A. magna cum laude, 1966

Oakley Doctoral Fellowship, University of Southern California, 1966-68

Outstanding Research Award, Purdue University—Fort Wayne Campus

RESEARCH GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORARIA:

Fulbright Travel Grant, Hegel Archiv, Ruhr University, Bochum, West Germany, Summer 1974

Summer Research Grant, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 1978, 2004.

Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 1979-80,

for translation of and commentary on Hegel's letters, $25,000.

Travel award and Lecture Honorarium, Centre National de Recherche  Scientifique (CNRS, France),

November 1987.

Travel Grant and Lecture Honoraria, Universities of Groningen, Nijmegen and Rotterdam in Holland,

Week of March 14, 1988.

I.U. Curriculum Development Grant for Graduate Certificate in Human Rights Studies, Center for Global

Change (Bloomington), $2000, February 2005

I.U. New Perspectives Grant for April 2006 international conference on moral education as human rights

education at IPFW, $6385, February 2006.

IPFW Student Government Association Grant of $9000 to underwrite travel expenses for presenters at the

                 September 2009 World Trade, World Poverty conference.

BOOK-LENGTH PUBLICATIONS:

G.W.F. Hegel (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977), 214 pp. World Authors Series.

Hegel: The Letters, translated by C. Butler and C. Seiler with commentary by C. Butler (Bloomington:

Indiana University Press, 1984), 740 pp. A life in letters.

Hegel's Logic: Between Dialectic and History (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996), 285 pp.

History as the Story of Freedom (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1997), 287 pp.

G.W.F. Hegel, Lectures on the Science of Logic (1830), translated with Introduction and Annotation by

Clark Butler (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2008).

Guantanamo and the Judicial-Moral Treatment of the Other (Purdue University Press, 2006). Edited

With Introduction by Clark Butler (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, January 2007).

Human Rights Ethics (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008) 291 pp.

An Introduction to the Logic of Hegel (National Social Science Press, 2008). 140 pp. Digital and printed

             versions. A teaching manual.

Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition. ed. C. Butler (West Lafayette: Purdue

University Press, 2012), 256 pp.

The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote (Prometheus Books, NJ, 2012), 276 pp.

Human Rights Ethics and the Classical Ethical Theories, completed, classroom tested (textbook).

ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, ARTICLE REVIEWS:

1. “Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth,” Maghreb Digest, no. 4 (April 1966), pp. 84-89, Review

Article.

2. "The Mind-Body Problem: A Non-Materialistic Identity Thesis," Idealistic Studies, vol. 2, no. 3

 (September 1972), pp. 230-248

3. "Technological Society and Its Counterculture," Inquiry, Vol. 18. no. 2 (Spring 1975), pp. 195-212

4. "On the Reducibility of Dialectical to Standard Logic," The Personalist, vol 54, No. 4 (Autumn 1975),

414-430.

5. "On the Impossibility of Metaphysics without Ontology," Metaphilosophy, vol. 7, no. 2 (April 1976), pp. 116-132

6."Hegel and Freud: A Comparison," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 35, no. 4 (June

1976), pp. 506-522

7. "L'Hégélianisme interprété comme un matérialisme historique," Hegel Jahrbuch, 1976, pp. 257-262

8. "Panpsychism: A Reconstruction of the Genetic Argument," Idealistic Studies. vol. 8, no. 1 (January

1978), pp. 33-39

9. "Hegel's Dialectic of the Organic whole as an Application of Formal Logic" in Art and Logic in Hegel's

 Philosophy (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1980), pp. 212-232, together with a reply by J. N.

 Findlay. Book chapter, being a revised version of journal article 4 above.

10. "Heuristic Dogmatism," Contemporary Philosophy, Fall 1979, pp. 7-9. Reprinted as "Philosophy: What

               it is and Why" in Statements, edited by Kathleen Squadrito (Boston: Ginn, 1984), pp. 1-10.

11. "Hegel, Altizer and Christian Atheism," Vol. 41, no. 2, Encounter (Christian Theological Seminary,

Indianapolis), Vol. 41. No. 2, pp. 103-128.

12. "Towards an Historical Materialist Account of our own Time," Rennaissance Universal, Vol. 2, (Spring

1980), pp. 188-209.

13. "Castaneda on Psychological Egoism," Proceedings of the 8th InternationalConference on Unity of the

 Sciences (New York: International Cultural Foundation, 1980), vol. 1, pp. 187-190. Response to

paper by Hector Castaneda.

14."Motion and Objective Contradictions," American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2 (April 1981),

                pp. 131-139

15. "On Rosenbaum's Philosophy of Human Rights," Journal of Social Philosophy, January 1983, pp. 58-62

16. "The Dialectical Hermeneutic Method," Dialectics and Humanism, 1983, no. 4, pp. 117-127

17. "Michael Rosen on Hegel's Dialectic," Owl of Minerva, (Fall 1983), pp. 112-116

18. "Peaceful Coexistence as the Nuclear Traumatization of Mankind," Philosophy and Social Criticism,

                nos. 3-4, vol.10, nos. 3-4. (Winter 1984), pp. 81-94

19."The Place of Process Cosmology in Absolute Idealism," Owl of Minerva, Vol.  16, No. 2 (Spring

                1985), pp. 161-74

20."Hermeneutic Hegelianism," Idealistic Studies, Vol. 14, no.2 (May 1985), pp. 121-135

21. "On Previously unpublished Texts Between Kant and Hegel in Jena," Owl of Minerva (Fall 1987), pp.

                105-111

21. "History as the Story of Freedom," Theoretische Geschiedenis (Holland), vol. 16, no.3 (1989), pp.

297-309

22. "Hegel and Indirect Proof," The Monist, vol. 75, no. 3 (July 1991), pp. 422-437

23. "Preface to 'William Desmond: Beyond Hegel? Discussion and Response," CLIO, Vol. 20, no. 4

                (Summer 1991), pp. 299-303. Editorial introduction to special journal issue.

24. "Hegelian Panentheism as Joachimite Christianity," in Hegel's Philosophy of Religion, edited by David

Kolb, SUNY Press, 1992, pp. 131-142

25."Empirical vs. Rational Order in the History of Philosophy," Owl of Minerva, vol. 26, no. 1 (Fall 1994),

pp. 31-37

26. "The Reducibility of Ethics to Human Rights," Dialogue and Universalism (University of Warsaw),

                vol. 5, no. 7 (1995), pp. 29-241.

27. "The Right to Freedom of Thought and its Modalities," Human Coexistence and Sustainable

                Development  (Editions Montmorency: Montreal, 2001), Vol. 2, pp. 50-55.

28. "Human Rights: The Ethics Behind the International Legality," Philo, Vol. 4, nos. 1-2 (2002), pp. 3-22.

29. "Jack Donnelly on Human Rights," CLIO, vol.33, no. 1 (Fall 2003), pp. 107-113.

30. "Hegel’s Science of Logic in an Analytic Mode,” Cardoza Public Law and Ethics Journal, vol. 3, no. 1

(2004),  pp 173-187. Reprinted in Hegel’s Theory of the Subject, ed. David Carlson London: Macmillan Palgrave, London, 2005), ch. 13.

31. “Soft American Empire vs. Playing the E.U.-U.N. Card,” Guantanamo Bay and the Judicial Treatment

 of Aliens, ed. Clark Butler (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2006), pp. 1-12.

32. “Translator’s Introduction,” in G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on Logic (1831) (Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 2008). vii-xxiii. Editorial introduction.

33. “Diyalektik Yontem ve Freud,” Monokl (Istanbul), no 4 (2008), pp. 187-197. Revised version of 1976

article 6 above, “Hegel and Freud: A Comparison,” in Turkish translation.

 34. “Moral du respect des droits de l’homme comme base du droit des droits de l’homme,”

              L’Observateur des Nations-Unies (Université Marseilles-Aix en Provence), vol. 25, no. 2 (2008),

                pp. 1-21.

35. “Panpsychsim and the Dissolution of Dispositional Properties,” Southwest Philosophy Review, vol.

                26, no. 2 (2010), pp. 87-108.

36.“Lectures on the Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Cours Fondamental (Strasbourg: Institut

International des Droits de l’Homme, 2008), 11 pp. Invited lectures published from proceedings of

the International Institute of Human Rights’ Intensive Graduate Course, Strasbourg, 2008.

37. “The Coming World Welfare State Which Hegel Could Not See,” Hegel and Global Justice, ed. A.

                Buchwalter (New York: Springer, 2012), vol 10, pp. 155-176.

38. “Children’s Rights: A Historical and Conceptual Analysis,” in Child Rights: The Movement,

                International Law, and Opposition, ed. C. Butler (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2012),

pp.15-36.

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HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

-Guantanaomo Bay and the Judicial-Moral Treatment of the Other, December 2005

-The Rights of the Child, Home Schooling, and Moral Education, April 2006-

-World Poverty, 2009.

-The Crisis of American Democracy, 2012.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS:

“Defense of Ethical Naturalism,” Indiana Philosophical Association, October 1972.

“Technological Society and Its Counterculture,” American Philosophical Association,

Eastern Meeting Atlanta, December 1973

“Dialectical Logic as a Particular Application of Formal Logic,” Hegel Society of America, October 1974. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

"Panpsychism: A Reconstruction of the Genetic Argument," Faculty Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, April 1975

"L'Hégélianisme interprété comme un matérialisme historique," Internationale

Hegel-Gesellschaft, Lisbon, Portugal, August 1976

Commentary on paper by Thelma Levine on Freudian concept of identification in Relation to Fichte and Hegel, Association for the Philosophical Study of the Unconscious, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Meeting, Boston, December 1976

"Christian Atheism, Altizer and Hegel," Seminar on the Future of Religion, Inter-University Centre for Post-Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, April 1979

"Heuristic Dogmatism," Western Conference on Teaching of Philosophy, American

Philosophical Association, Western Meeting, Cincinnati, April 1978

"The Dialectical Method: Hermeneutic and Explanatory Uses," Seminar on Dialectical

Methodologies in the Human Sciences, Inter-University Center for Post-Graduate

Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, August 1979

"Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Journal," Modern Language Association, Midwestern Meeting, Indianapolis, November 1979

"Castaneda on Psychological Egoism," 8th International Conference on Unity of Sciences,

Los Angeles, November 1979. Reply to paper by Hector Castaneda.

"Hegel and Ethical Naturalism," Institute for Philosophical Research, Estes Park, Colorado, August 1980

"G.B. Shaw and the Problem of the Hegelian Philosopher as an Artist," The Speech

Communication Association, National Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 1983

"Hegel on Actual Occasions," Purdue University, Philosophy Colloquium Series, West

Lafayette, November 1983

"The Dialectical-Hermeneutic Method," Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism,

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December, 1983

"The Place of Process Cosmology in Absolute Idealism," International Symposium on Hegel and Whitehead, Fordham University, June 1984

"L'Idée de la Logique de Hegel dans l'histoire de la philosophie," The Last Hegel Seminar of Professor Jacques D'Hondt, University of Poitiers, May 1987

"Hegel et le matérialisme dialectique," Symposium on Hegel and Marx under direction of

Professor G. Planty-Bonjour at the Centre de documentation et de recherche sur Hegel,

et Marx,, University of Poitiers, November 1987

"Hegel, History and the Logic," University of Groningen, University of Nijmegen, Erasmus (invited tour of Dutch Universities)

University Rotterdam, Week of March 14, 1988 (invited tour of Dutch universities).

"History as the Story of Freedom," University of Groningen, University of Nijmegen, Week of March 14, 1988 (invited tour of Dutch universities)

"History and the Science of Logic," Session organized by the Hegel Society of America,

World Congress of Philosophy, Brighton, England, August 24, 1988

"Europe, the United States, and German Reunification," Fort Wayne Center for the

Performing Arts Auditorium, in the program of Germanfest Week, June 16 1990

"Hegelian Panentheism as Joachimite Christianity," Hegel Society of America Conference, McGill University, Montreal, October 1990

"On German National Character," invited lecture for Germanfest Week, June 1991, with

responses from a panel of speakers representing the Indiana University-Purdue

University Fort Wayne German faculty

"Human Rights and the Idea of a Universal Audience," First World Congress on

Universalism, University of Warsaw, Poland, August 1993

"Empirical versus Dialectical Order in the History of Philosophy," Session organized by the Hegel Society of America, World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia, August

1993

"Alleged Problems the United Nations Cannot Solve with National Sovereignty," René

Cassin International Institute for Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, July 1994.

"The Reducibility of Ethics to Human Rights," invited paper, Second World Congress of

International Society for Universalism, Orlando, Florida, August 14-18, 1995

"Revising the Story of Freedom," Second World Congress of International Society for

Universalism, Orlando, Florida, August 14-18, 1995.

“Ethics and Human Rights,” Philosophy Department Lecture Series, Indiana University-

Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 7, 1996.

“Ethics and Human Rights,” DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, April 1997,

“Natural Rights and Human Rights,” September 18, 1998, Conference on Human Rights

and Democratization, Binghamton University (SUNY), New York.

"The Right to Freedom of Thought and its Modalities," Conference on Sustainability and Human Development, University of Montreal, 2000.

“Human Rights and Historical Materialism,” Invited address on occasion of winning the campus 2005 Outstanding Research Award, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne Campus.

“Four Lectures on the Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights,” Summer Intensive Graduate Course, Rene Cassin International Institute of Human Rights, University of Strasbourg, 2006, 2007, 2008.

“From Speculative to Systematic Philosophy: Hegel in the Pythagorean Tradition,” International Hegel Congress, Basesehir University, Istanbul, November 14-16, 2008.

“Dialectical Logic and Psychoanalysis, Association for the Philosophical Study of the Unconscious, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Meeting, 2009.

“Healthcare as a Human Right,” Anderson University, Anderson, Indiana, September éé, 2010.

“American Crisis, World Crisis,” Conference on the Crisis of American Democracy, Human Rights Institute, Fort Wayne, April 27-28, 2012.

“Christian Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Heresy,” Campus Ministry, Fort Wayne Campus, April 25, 2013.

“Human Rights Ethics,” World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, 2013