Curriculum Vitae
Terrance MacMullan
Professor of Philosophy and Honors
Eastern Washington University
Philosophy Program, Reid 149
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA 99004
Phone:
(509) 359-6020
Fax:
(509)-359-4269
[email protected]
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy, Pragmatism.
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of Race, Latin American Philosophy, Ancient Mediterranean
Civilizations.
Education
University of Oregon, Eugene OR
Ph.D. in Philosophy, August 2002
Dissertation: Dewey and Du Bois: The Meaning and Consequence of Race
Hamilton College, Clinton NY
B.A. in Philosophy with Departmental Honors, Magna Cum Laude, May 1994
Honor’s Thesis:
“Habermas’ Discourse Ethic and the First Amendment”
Teaching Experience
2012- Present
Professor, Philosophy and Honors Programs,
Eastern Washington University.
2008- 2012
Associate Professor, Philosophy and Honors Programs,
Eastern Washington University.
2002- 2008
Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Honors Programs,
Eastern Washington University.
Summer 1998, 2000 Instructor, Philosophy Department, University of Oregon.
2000-2002
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Humanities Program, University of Oregon.
1995-2000
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Philosophy Department, University of Oregon.
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Awards and Honors
President’s Award, Eastern Washington University, 2010
Professor of the Year Merit Award, Eastern Washington University, 2010
Distinguished Professor for Service Merit Award, EWU, 2010
Distinguished Professor for Teaching Merit Award, EWU, 2010
Outstanding Faculty of the Year for Teaching Merit Award, EWU, 2010
Outstanding Faculty of the Year for Service Merit Award, EWU 2010
Outstanding Faculty of the Year for Scholarship Merit Award, EWU, 2010
ASEWU Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, 2008
Professor of the Year Merit Award, Eastern Washington University, 2007
Outstanding Faculty of the Year for Teaching Merit Award, EWU, 2007
Outstanding Faculty of the Year for Scholarship Merit Award, EWU, 2007
Grants
Research & Creative Work Grant (partial), Eastern Washington University, 2011
Research & Creative Work Grant (partial), Eastern Washington University, 2010
Research & Creative Work Grant (partial), Eastern Washington University, 2008
Research & Creative Work Grant, Eastern Washington University, 2006
Faculty Research Grant, Eastern Washington University, 2004
Graduate School Research Grant, University of Oregon, 2002
Philosophy Department Travel Grant, University of Oregon, 2002
Publications
Current Projects
Book Manuscript in development, Greater America: Philosophy and the Promise of
Inter-American Democracy
Book Chapter in development, “Dismounting the Tiger: From Empire to Global Citizen
through Pragmatism” for Global Citizenship, Governance, and Identity, Irene Langram
editor.
Journal Article in Development, “Pragmatism as Gunship Philosophy: José Vasconcelos on John
Dewey and Imperial Philosophy in the Americas.”
Books
The Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction, Indiana University Press. May
2009.
Scholarly Reviews of The Habits of Whiteness:
B. J. Hall, Choice: The Journal of the American Library Association (November
2009).
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Clancy Smith, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience (Spring
2010, Vol.9, No. 2).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Forthcoming,“Dividing Walls and Unifying Murals: Diego Rivera and John Dewey on
the Restoration of Art within Life,” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy.
“Habits of Hate: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Habits of Racism and Nativism,”
Journal of Hate Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2010/2011.
"Is There a White Gift?: A Pragmatist Response to the Problem of Whiteness,"
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2005.
“Beyond the Pale: A Pragmatist Approach to Whiteness Studies,” Philosophy and
Social Criticism, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005.
“Challenges to Cultural Diversity: Absolutism, Democracy and Alain Locke’s Value
Relativism,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Vol. 19, No. 2, 2005.
“On War as Waste: Jane Addams’ Pragmatic Pacifism,” The Journal of Speculative
Philosophy, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001.
Book Chapters and Reference Articles
Under Review, (Submitted August 2011) “The Fly Wheel of Society: Habit and Race in
the Pragmatist Tradition” in Automated Action: Essays on Habit from Aristotle to
Bourdieu, Tom Sparrow, editor. Fordham University Press, 2012.
[Forthcoming], “Jon Stewart as the New (And Improved!) Public Intellectual,” The Ultimate
Daily Show and Philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2013.
“Elegant Weapons for Civilized Ages: the Jedi and Warrior-Monks Throughout History”
in Star Wars and History, Nancy Reagin, editor. Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Entry on Lydia Maria Child, Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, John Shook,
editor. Continuum Press, 2012.
Entry on Risieri Frondizi, International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell Press, 2012.
“Global Citizenship Through Reciprocity: Alain Locke and Barack Obama’s Pragmatist
Politics,” in Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond,
Leonard Harris and Jacoby Carter, editors. Lexington Books, 2010.
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“Jon Stewart as the New Public Intellectual,” The Daily Show and Philosophy, Blackwell
Press, 2007.
Entry on W.E.B. DuBois for Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, Routledge Press,
2007.
Entry on Lydia Maria Child for Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers,
Thoemmes Press, 2005.
Essays on Epicurus and Heloise and Abelard in Philosophy: A Passion for Wisdom,
Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.
“What is Male Embodiment?,” Revealing Male Bodies: Phenomenological and
Inscriptive Accounts of Male Embodiment. Indiana University Press, 2002.
Editing
Revealing Male Bodies: Phenomenological and Inscriptive Accounts of
Male Embodiment, Co-Editor with Nancy Tuana et al. Indiana University Press, 2002.
Book Reviews
Review, Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America, Enrique Krause, Teachers
College Record, July 2012.
Review, On Race and Racism: Confessions in Philosophy, edited by Roy Martinez,
Teachers College Record, January 2011.
Review, Pragmatism, Nation and Race, edited by Chad Kautzer and Eduardo Mendieta,
Teachers College Record, March 2010.
Review, Pragmatism and the Problem of Race, edited by Bill Lawson and Donald
Koch, Journal of Speculative Philosophy Vol. 20, No. 1 (2006): 62-65.
Book note, Pragmatism and Political Philosophy by Michael Festenstein,
Ethics Vol. 109, No. 3 (1999): 693.
Book note, Radical Pragmatism by Robert Roth, S.J., The Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy Newsletter No. 83 (June 1999): 82.
Presentations
Conferences and Workshops
Invited Presentations on Habits of Whiteness, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, October
2012.
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Invited Presentation, “Dividing Walls and Unifying Murals: Diego Rivera and John
Dewey on the Restoration of Art within Life”, International Conference on Dewey in
Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, México D.F., January 13, 2012.
Invited Presentations on Habits of Whiteness, Colby College, Waterville ME, October 17,
2011.
“Habits of Hate: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Habits of Racism and Nativism,”
Second International Conference on Hate Studies, Gonzaga University, Spokane WA,
April 2011.
Keynote, “Connecting the Circuit: Community as the Source and End of Research,” 13th
Annual Student Research and Creative Works Symposium, Eastern Washington
University, Cheney WA, May 2010.
“Author Meets Critics” on Habits of Whiteness, Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy, Charlotte NC, March 2010.
“Global Citizenship Through Reciprocity: Alain Locke and the Campaign Rhetoric of
Barack Obama,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy, College Park TX, March 2009.
Invited Presentation, “Global Citizenship Through Reciprocity: Alain Locke and the
Campaign Rhetoric of Barack Obama,” Annual Meeting of the Alain Locke Society,
George Washington University, Washington DC, November 2008.
“So Cornel West, Rush Limbaugh, and Jon Stewart Walk into a Bar…”: Public
Intellectuals, SAAP, and the Need for Another Recovery of Philosophy,” Annual
Meeting of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, San Antonio TX,
March 2006.
Summer Institute for the Study of American Philosophy, University of Oregon,
Eugene, July 2005.
“Challenges to Cultural Diversity: Absolutism, Democracy and Alain Locke’s Value
Relativism,” Annual Meeting of The Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy, Bakersfield CA, March 2005.
"St. Jane's Fall from Grace: Jane Addams and the Consequences of Feminism During
War,” Women’s Center Speaker Series, Eastern Washington University, Cheney
Washington, May 2003.
“Dewey and Du Bois on the Meaning of Difference,” Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy, Western Divisional Meeting at the American Philosophical
Association, Seattle, March 2003.
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“Treasure Hidden in the Field: The Significance of Biblical Metaphor within W.E.B. Du
Bois’s Conception of Race,” Annual Meeting of The Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy, Portland, Maine, March 2002.
“Burnt Cork and White Privilege: From Irish to White on the Minstrel Stage,”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Oregon, April 2001.
“Appalled to Action: A Pragmatist Model of Whiteness Studies,” Annual Meeting of The
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Las Vegas, March 2001.
“Woman’s Experience of War: Jane Addams’ Pragmatic Response to War,” American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Berkeley, April 1999.
“Woman’s Experience of War: Jane Addams’ Pragmatic Response to War,” Annual
Meeting of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of
Oregon, February 1999.
“Impulse, Habit, and Reflection: A Deweyan Response to White Racism,” Annual
Meeting of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Marquette
University, March 1998.
“History, Memory, and Redemption: The Irish Minstrel Tradition in 19th Century
America,” Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Chico State College, September 1997.
“Educational Philosophies of W.E.B. DuBois and bell hooks,” Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy, Western Divisional Meeting at the American
Philosophical Association, Berkeley, March 1997.
“White Lies: Solutions to White Racism,” Concerned Philosophers for Peace, University
of Missouri, October 1996.
Commentator or Panelist
“Pragmatism and Anthropology,” Commentator, American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle WA, April 2012.
Chair and Emcee, Host Plenary Panel with Mr. Jess Walter, Annual Meeting of the
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Spokane WA, March 2011.
“Categorizing Philosophies,” Commentator, Annual Meeting of The Society for the
Advancement of American Philosophy, East Lansing, MI, March 2008.
"Pragmatism and Its Others," Commentator, William James Society Session at the
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, California,
April 2007.
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“Daoist Skepticism: Epistemic Inquiry in the Writings of Zhuangzi,” Commentator.
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, Moscow, Idaho, May 2004.
“Does Race Travel?,” Session Chair. American Philosophical Association Pacific
Division Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 2002.
Without Race, Panelist. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting,
San Francisco, California, March 2001.
“Do Not Block the Way of Inquiry,” Commentator. American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting, Berkeley, California April 1999.
“Teaching Anti-Racism,” Panelist, Radical Philosophy Association, San Francisco
State University, October 1998.
Classes Taught
Honors 101: The Intellectual Tradition: Ancient World: Intensive, eight credit class on the
history, religions, philosophy, and literature of the Ancient Western World.
Philosophy 210: Critical Thinking: An introductory class on the foundations of Western Logic.
Explores the means and ends of argumentation and considers deductive and inductive reasoning,
argumentation’s relation to emotion, and various ethical issues that arise within arguments.
Philosophy 211: Introduction to Philosophy: A survey of the defining problems and debates of
the Western philosophy. The subject matter is drawn from a range of historical eras and
geographies including ancient Greek philosophy, early Christian theology, Enlightenment
thought of eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, as well as twentieth century American
philosophy.
Philosophy 311: Social and Political Philosophy: A survey of the great thinkers and debates of
social and political philosophy. Exploration of the works of seminal thinkers in the canon of
Western Political Philosophy including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke,
Rousseau, Kant, Mill, and Marx. Also entails readings on leading theories of justice including
contractarianism, utilitarianism, socialism, libertarianism, feminism, and environmentalism.
Philosophy 322: Contemporary Western Philosophy: A survey of Nineteenth and Twentieth
Century philosophy and philosophers. One of the most important questions addressed by the
class will be how to use reason after the collapse of the Enlightenment. Some of the most
prominent philosophers studied in the class include Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Stuart
Mill, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, William James,
W.E.B. DuBois, John Dewey, Simone De Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas.
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Philosophy 430: Special Periods: 19th and 20th Century American Philosophy: This course is
designed to introduce intermediate students to the American philosophical tradition. We will
consider approaches to traditional philosophical problems unique to the American condition. The
readings included in this course address questions about the justification of belief and its
relationship to conceptions of identity, race, and community.
Philosophy 430: Special Periods: Latin American Philosophy: This course is an advanced
seminar on the philosophical traditions of Latin America that starts with a survey of the
indigenous, colonial and scholastic traditions of Mexico and Peru. It then explores the political
thought of the independence movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. Next it engages the legacy
of positivist, feminist, existentialist and pragmatist philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries in
the region. In exploring the incredible variety of Latin American philosophy we will not only
engage arguments addressing traditional philosophical fields such as ethics, metaphysics and
epistemology, but we will also delve deeply into questions of identity, race, and community.
Administrative and Committee Service
Coordinator, Philosophy Program. Fall 2012- present.
CALE Faculty Liaison, EWU Veteran’s Resource Center, Fall 2012- present.
Member, MLL Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Spanish, Fall 2012- Spring 2013.
Member, MLL Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Spring –Summer
2012.
Faculty Participant, EWU Library’s Student Research Skills Program, September 7-9, 2011.
Faculty Advisor, EWU chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Philosophy Honors Society.
(Fall 2009 – Present)
Session Chair, Oral Session 16: Philosophy, Student Research and Creative Works Symposium,
EWU, 2011.
Member, Departmental Personnel Committee, Department of Modern Language, Literatures and
Philosophy (Fall 2008-Present).
Past-President, Faculty Organization (Summer 2009-Spring 2010)
-Member, Rules Committee
-Member, Executive Committee
Co-Chair and Founder, Military Students Advisory Committee. (Spring 2008- Spring 2010)
President, Faculty Organization (Summer 2008-Spring 2009)
-Chair, Faculty Senate
-Chair, Executive Committee
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-Chair, Rules Committee
-Faculty Organization Representative, Board of Trustees Student Affairs
Sub-Committee.
-Member, Course Scheduling Review Committee
-Member, President’s Council
-Ex-Officio Member, Faculty Organization Legislative Committee
Member, Philosophy/MLL Search Committee for Assist. Professor in Philosophy. (Spring 2008)
Vice-President, Faculty Organization. (Summer 2007-Spring 2008)
-Chair, Faculty Organization Legislative Committee
-Faculty Organization Representative, Board of Trustees Student Affairs
Sub-Committee.
-Member, Faculty Organization Executive Committee
-Member, Rules Committee
-Member, Faculty Senate
Faculty Representative, President’s Advisory Committee on Diversity. (Spring 2005- Spring
2008)
Senator, Department of Modern Literatures, Languages and Philosophy. (Spring 2004 – Spring
2007)
Member, Search Committee for Director of Honors Program. (August 2006 – March 2007)
Coordinator, Philosophy Program. (Winter 2003- Winter 2006)
At Large Member, General Education Review Committee. (April 2005- June 2006)
Co-Chair, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Philosophy. (Winter –
Summer 2005)
Chair, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Philosophy. (Winter –
Summer 2004)
Community and Outreach Experience
Guest, “Just a Theory: Dewey in Mexico” hosted by Kevin Decker, KPBX, Spokane WA,
November 27, 2011, Original Airdate.
Panelist, Faculty Panel for Students, EWU New Student Orientation, September 19, 2011.
Moderator, Academic Honors Convocation, June 10, 2011
Faculty Mentor, (one student presentation), Student Research and Creative Works Symposium,
EWU, May 2011.
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Faculty Mentor, (one student presentation), National Council for Undergraduate Research,
Ithaca, NY, 2011.
Facilitator, EWU Campus Climate Workshop, April 28, 2010.
Faculty Mentor, (two student presentations), Student Research and Creative Works
Symposium, EWU, May 2010.
Session Moderator, Philosophy in Pop Culture Panel at Get Lit!, Spokane, WA, April 17, 2010.
Co-Host, “Just a Theory: April Fool’s Edition” with Dr. Tony Flynn and Dr. Kevin Decker, KPBX,
Spokane WA, March 21, 2010, original airdate.
Guest, “Sound Living,” hosted by Ed Bremer, KSER, Everett, WA. January 15, 2010, original
airdate.
Guest, “Just a Theory: Habits of Whiteness” hosted by Dr. Tony Flinn, KPBX, Spokane WA.
October 8, 2009, original Airdate.
Public Book Reading from Habits of Whiteness. Auntie’s Books, September 15, 2009,
Spokane, WA.
McNair Scholars Mentor, Mr. Chris Miclat, “Ladybug on the Leaf: The Contributions of
African American Women to the Civil Rights Movement.” Summer 2009.
Faculty Mentor, (four student presentations), Student Research and Creative Works
Symposium, EWU, 2008.
Reader, with Dr. Kevin Decker, “The Bookshelf: Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and
Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002 for The Fellowship of the Ring, by Jeff Alexander and
Tom Bissell. KPBX, September 24, 2008, original airdate.
Public Lecture with Kevin Decker, “A Fistful of Zen: The Daily Show and Philosophy.”
Auntie’s Books, February 20, 2008, Spokane WA; EWU PUB, December 4, 2007.
Faculty Mentor, (two student presentations), Student Research and Creative Works
Symposium, EWU, 2007.
Judge, Communications Panel, Creative Works Symposium, May 16, 2007.
Trip Leader, EWU Honors Program Europe Trip, Greece, March 2007.
Society and Ethics, KEWU “Perspectives”, KEWU, Eastern Washington University, Cheney
WA, February 24, 2006.
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Moderator, Campus Diversity Action Work Sessions, Eastern Washington University, Cheney
WA, February 22, May 4 and May 18, 2006.
Public Lecture with Kevin Decker on Asian Philosophy and Star Wars, Eagle Outpost,
Cheney WA, November 17, 2005.
Public Lecture with Kevin Decker on Transcendentalism before EWU Theater Department
Performance of “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail,” November 12, 2005.
Participant, Eastern Washington University Resident House Call Program, October 25, 2005.
Participant, Eagle Horizon Program, “Socrates and the Art of Living: Why Philosophy is
Exciting and Dangerous”: East Valley High School, Spokane Valley, March 2005;
Ferris High School, Spokane April 2005.
Panelist, Presidential Debate, October 13, 2004.
Trip Leader, EWU Honors Program Europe Trip, England and Ireland, March 2003.
Professional Memberships and Service
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Inter-American Philosophy, Texas A &M University,
2012-present.
Member, Inter-American Affairs Committee, Society for the Advancement of American
Philosophy, 2012-present
Advisory Board Member for Race and Ethnicity, The Pluralist’s Guide to Philosophy
(Summer 2010- Present).
Co-Host, with Dr. Kevin Decker, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy, Spokane WA, March 2011.
Outside Editorial Reader, Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society. Spring 2009 to Present.
Member, American Philosophical Association, 1996 to Present.
Member, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 1997 to Present.
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