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).