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Dr. Michael Allen

Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Philosophy

Contact phone number: (603)535-2368
e-mail: mwallen@plymouth.edu

Administrative contact: Philosophy Department
Administrative contact phone number: (603)535-2203

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Profile

In addition to teaching ED 5010, Philosophy, Ethics and Education, Mike teaches part-time in the Philosophy Department, the Frost School for Continuing Education, and in the First-year Seminar Program. He wrote a dissertation entitled, "William James: Social Philosopher" and has presented 15 papers at national philosophy conferences. Mike enjoys the outdoors, cooking, and auto mechanics, and tries to remember Dewey's words about the importance of education: "Education is not preparation for life. It is life itself."

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Degrees and Education

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2003
• M.A. in Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, 1997
• B.A. in Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, 1995

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Research Interests

• American Philosophy
• Ethics
• Philosophy and Literature
• Contemporary Philosophy
• Modern Philosophy
• Existentialism

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Publications

• "John J. McDermott and the 'Bite' of the 'Existential Moment,'" in The Philosophy of John McDermott, eds. James Campbell and Richard Hart, (Fordham University Press, 2007)
• "Lewis Edwin Hahn," entry, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press, 2006)
• "Paul Arthur Schilpp," entry, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press, 2006)
• "William James, McDermott and Camus: Crisis and Context," Streams of William James, vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 9-12
• "Instrumental, Aesthetic, and Pedagogical Aspects of Lewis Hahn's Contextualist Vision," Comprehensive Harmony: International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Culture vol. 1 (Spring 2002): 145-152
• "Foreword," theme of "Time," in The Maine Scholar vol. 12 (Autumn 1999)
• "The Living Philosopher: An Interview with Lewis Edwin Hahn on the Occasion of His Ninetieth Birthday," with Janet Handy, Kinesis vol. 25, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 5-35
• "Relativism and James's Pragmatic Notion of Truth," Southwest Philosophy Review vol. 13, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 103-111
• "An Interdisciplinistory," The Maine Scholar vol. 8 (Autumn 1995): 183-194
• "The Parricide, the Pig, and the Pinto," The Maine Scholar vol. 6 (Autumn 1993): 27-42

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Associations, Boards and Committees

• Society for The Advancement of American Philosophy
• American Philosophical Society
• Humanities Council, PSU

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Academic Distinctions

• 2001-2002 Dissertation Research Award, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale