Curriculum Vitae of Ronald J. Bombardi, B.A., Ph.D.
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Name:	        Ronald Jude Bombardi

Address:        Department of Philosophy
                Middle Tennessee State University
                Murfreesboro, TN 37132
                615-898-2049

University      Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1975-84
Education:      Le Moyne College, Syracuse, 1970-72 & 1974-75

Degrees and     Ph.D. (Marquette University), 1984
Awards:         Arthur J. Schmitt Fellowship, 1978-79
                Marquette University Fellowship, 1977-78
                Commencement Honors in Philosophy Award, 1975
                B.A. (Le Moyne College), 1975

Teaching        Associate Professor of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State
Experience:     University, 1991-  .
 	            Courses: Philosophy of Science, Formal Logic, Oriental
                    Thought, History of Modern Philosophy, History of 
                    Ancient and Mediaeval Philosophy, Elementary Logic and 
                    Critical Thinking, Introduction to Philosophy, 
                    Aesthetics, Great Books of Western Culture.
	        Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State 
                University, 1984-91.
                    Courses: Philosophy of Science, Advanced Formal Logic, 
                    Oriental Thought, History of Modern Philosophy, 
                    Elementary Logic and Critical Thinking, Introduction to
                    Philosophy, Aesthetics, Great Books of Western Culture.
                Instructor of Continuing Education, Middle Tennessee State 
                University, 1985-  .
	            Courses: LSAT Review, GRE Preparation.
                Instructor of Philosophy, Marquette University, 1979-84.
                    Courses: Introduction to Logic, Symbolic Logic, 
                    Introduction to Philosophy.

Areas of	Philosophies of Language and Logic; Philosophy of Science,
Specialization:	History of Early Modern Philosophy

Languages:	Latin (good reading ability)
	        French (good reading ability)
	        German (fair reading ability)

Dissertation:	Empirical Science and the Foundations of Clinical Psychology

Professional	American Philosophical Association
Organizations:	Philosophy of Science Association
	        Tennessee Philosophical Association


Research (Articles, Lectures, Projects, etc.):	


	-- Article: "The Education of Searle's Demon" published in
           Idealistic Studies, Winter 1993 (Vol.23, No.1).

	-- Formal presentation: "Subjects and Subjunctives: Authority, 
	   Determinism, and the Grammar of Freedom" (Honors Lecture
	   Series, Middle Tennessee State University, 1/93)

	-- Article draft: "Parallelism and Complementarity Revisited: The Case
	   for Reading Bohr's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics as a 
	   Successor to Spinoza's Solution to the Psycho-Physical Problem."

	-- Formal presentation: "Poiesis, Liberty, and the Possibility of
	   Culture" (Honors Lecture Series, Middle Tennessee State University, 
	   9/91).

	-- Formal presentation: "Realism and Anti-realism in the Philosophy of
	   Mathematics" (Middle Tennessee State University Mathematics 
	   Organization, 2/90)

	-- Invited Paper: "The Education of Searle's Demon" (Philosophy Guest
	   Lecture Series, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 11/88).

	-- Invited Paper: "The Education of Searle's Demon" (Contemporary
	   Issues in Philosophy Lecture Series, Siena Heights College, 
	   Michigan, 4/88).

	-- Article: "Davidson in Flatland" published in the Australasian 
      	   Journal of Philosophy, 3/88.

	-- Invited Paper: "Truth, Translatability, and Conceptual Relativism"
	   (Quincy College, Illinois, 11/87).

	-- Formal presentation: "Artificial Intelligence: New Directions"
	   (Honors Lecture Series, Middle Tennessee State University 10/86).

	-- Formal presentation: "Davidson in Flatland" (Tennessee
	   Philosophical Association, 10/85).

	-- Project: Translation of Joseph Weizenbaum's Artificial Intelligence
	   program, ELIZA, from SLIP to BASIC for use in courses and/or 
	   presentations which deal with the foundations of programmed 
	   intelligence (11/85)

	-- Formal presentation: "Artificial Intelligence and Natural 
	   Selection," (Honors Lecture Series, Middle Tennessee State
	   University 10/85).

	-- Invited Paper: "Empiricism, Simulation, and Clinical Psychology"
	   (Philosophy Colloquium, Seton Hall University, New Jersey, 5/85).

	-- Formal presentation: "On Hodges' 'Ethics and the Tractatus'" 
	   (Tennessee Philosophical Association, 10/84).