Visiting Researcher
Country: United States of America
Home Institution: The Catholic University of America
Boston University Host: Professor Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Area of Specialty: Neurobiology and Animal Behavior
ACADEMIC HONORS
NIH Post-doctoral Fellowship (1974)
Declined in favor of Assistant Professorship at Barnard College/ Columbia University
National Research Council Associateship (1976-79)
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. Research on the neural and behavioral control of food intake
TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
Boston University (2014)
Visiting Scholar (Fall 2014): (co-taught with Alfred Miller) Aristotle’s bio-psychology
(De Anima) from a modern perspective. Catholic University of America (2012),
Co-taught with Alfred Miller a graduate seminar on Aristotle’s De Anima
Boston University (2007-2009)
As visiting scholar in philosophy I co-taught with Alfred Miller philosophy of biology and Aristotle’s biology. Research and presentations of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and De Anima
Catholic University of America (2000-present)
Faculty Associate & Lecturer in Philosophy (graduate teaching areas with Alfred Miller: Aristotle, Heidegger). Focus is on Aristotle’s functional holistic approach to organismic life and its possible relevance for contemporary issues in the life sciences.
Self-employed writer/researcher in philosophy (1985-present)
Concentration on Aristotle and Heidegger, Presentations at Philosophical Conferences
Assistant Prof. of Biology, Barnard College, Columbia University (1974-80)
Taught biology for pre-medical students and research courses in neurobiology and animal behavior
Research Biologist, U.S. Food and Drug Admin., Washington, D.C. (1979-85) Design and execution of research program in neural and behavioral biology Consultant in regard to food intake and human behavior
Studies in health policy and health promotional strategies
Research Biologist, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,
Washington, D.C., National Research Council Associate (1976-79)
Design and execution of research program in neural and behavioral biology
Studienrat at Wilhelm-Gymnasium, Hamburg, Germany (1962-68) Taught biology, chemistry, social demography at Junior College level Trained teacher-interns in biology (1965-68)
PUBLICATIONS — BOOKS
KANT’S THEORY OF NATURAL SCIENCE: Translation, Introduction and Commentary (160- page) to P. Plaass’s Kants Theorie der Naturwissenschaft (with Alfred E. Miller), Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science #159, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
This work examines how Kant’s basic ontology from the Kritik der Reinen Vernunft is applied to establish a philosophical grounding of the fundamental principles of classical physics.
OPTIONS FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE: The Coming of Post-Clinical Medicine (with Alfred E. Miller), New York: Wiley, 1981.
This 478-page work explores the historical development of medical understanding and technology, its impact on the pattern of disease in societies and the consequences for providing health care in today’s societies.
TRIGEMINAL DEAFFERENTATION AND FEEDING BEHAVIOR PATTERNS IN THE PIGEON (Columba livia). Doctoral Dissertation, City University, New York. University of Michigan, 1974.
CHAPTERS and ARTICLES
“Aristotle’s Dynamic Conception of the Psuchē as Being-Alive” (with Alfred E. Miller), in
WAS IST ‘LEBEN’? Aristoteles’ Anschauungen zur Enstehung und Funktionsweise von Leben (Bamberg Conference on Aristotle’s Concept of Life, August, 2006), p. 55-88, ed.: Sabine Föllinger, Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2010
“Aristotle’s Metaphysics as the Ontology of Being-Alive and its Relevance Today” (with Alfred E. Miller) in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 20: 1-107, 2005
“Aristotle’s Entelecheia as a Paradigm for Today’s Health Problems” (with Alfred E. Miller) in Philosophy and Medicine, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Greek Philosophy and Culture, Cos, Greece, pg. 122-144, Athens, 1998
“Trigeminal Orosensation and Ingestive Behavior in the Rat” (with H.P. Zeigler and M.F. Jacquin) in Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology, 11: 65-196, 1985
SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
“Acquisition of Dietary Self-selection in Rats with Normal and Impaired Oral Sensation” (with J.F. Teates). Physiology and Behavior, 34: 401-408, 1985
“Oral Somatosensory Factors in Dietary Self-selection in Rats”. Behavioral Neuroscience, 98: 416-423, 1984
“Oral Somatosensory Factors in Dietary Self-selection after Food Deprivation and Supplementation” (with J.F. Teates). Behavioral Neuroscience, 98: 424-434, 1984
“Trigeminal Sensorimotor Mechanisms and Ingestive Behavior” (with H.P. Zeigler and M.F. Jacquin). Neuroscience and Behavioral Reviews, 8: 415-423, 1984
“Trigeminal Deafferentation and Ingestive Behavior in the Rat”. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 95: 252-269. 1981
“Behavioral Parameters of Body Weight Regulation in the Pigeon (Columba livia)”. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 92: 1014-1024, 1978
“Trigeminal deafferentation and feeding behavior patterns in the pigeon (Columba livia)” (with H.P. Zeigler and A.E. Miller). Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 92: 1025-1040, 1978
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Reconstructing Aristotle’s ‘Lost’ Paradigm for Today’s Bio-Psychology” (with Alfred E. Miller), Maria Stata Fund workshop, Boston University, Apr. 15, 2014
“The Changing Paradigm of Today’s Biology and its Aristotlelian Foundation” (with Alfred E. Miller), Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, March 31, 2008
“The Aporetic Approach of Metaphysics Zeta; How Everyday Experience Reveals the Fundamental Problems that Systematic Knowledge must Resolve” (with Alfred E. Miller), Boston University, Graduate Student Colloquium, Dec. 11, 2007
“An Aristotelian Analysis of Current Problems in the Foundations of Embryology” (with Alfred E. Miller), Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, Jan. 22, 2007
“Aristotle’s Ontological Account of Human Existence and Understanding: Its Modern Relevance” (with Alfred E. Miller), Three invited seminars, Boston University, Oct. 2006
Seminar I: The Dynamic Nature of Being-alive
Seminar II: Holistic Modes of Causation in Embryological Development Seminar III: The Representational Conception of Understanding Supplanted
“Why is there rather Movedness [Bewegtheit] and not simply Substance? A Response to Walter A. Brogan’s, Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being” (with Maria G. Miller), Heidegger Conference, Boston Univ., May 5, 2006
“Aristotle’s Dynamic Conception of Form: A New Philosophical Paradigm for Today” (with Alfred E. Miller), invited lecture at CUA, May 14, 1998
“Aristotle on Dunamis, Temporality and Time” (with Alfred E. Miller), Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Binghamton, Oct. 24, 1996
“Aristotle’s Ti Ēn Einai as Functionality: the Unity of Universal and Individual” (with Alfred E. Miller), American Philosophical Association, Seattle, April 4, 1996
“Orexis in Aristotle’s Theory of Perception” (with Alfred E. Miller), Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Binghamton, Oct. 21, 1995