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Curriculum VitaeGREGORY BASSHAMChair and Professor of Philosophy
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AOS: Philosophy of Law, Critical Thinking, Popular Culture and Philosophy
AOC: Environmental Ethics, Business Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Science and Religion, Philosophy of Education
B.A., University of Oklahoma , 1982 (Studies in Ethics and Religion)
M.A., University of Oklahoma , 1985 (Philosophy)
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1991 (Philosophy)
Adjunct Instructor, University of Notre Dame, 1991-92
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, King's College, 1992-1999
Associate Professor of Philosophy, King's College, 1999 – 2005
Professor of Philosophy, 2005 -
Chair, Philosophy Department, July 2003 – present
Director, King's College Center for Ethics and Public Life, July 2003 - 2005
Faculty Council Chair-elect, 2006-2007.
Faculty Council Chair, 2007-2008
A. Books:
More Harry Potter and Philosophy (coedited with David Baggett) (forthcoming Blackwell, 2010.)
The Hobbit and Philosophy (coedited with Eric Bronson) (forthcoming Blackwell, 2010).
Basketball and Philosophy (co-edited with Jerry Walls) ( University of Kentucky Press, 2007).
The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy (co-edited with Jerry Walls) ( Open Court , 2005) (translated into Portuguese).
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy (co-edited with Eric Bronson) ( Open Court , 2003) (translated into Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Turkish, and Hungarian).
Critical Thinking: A Student's Introduction (co-written with James M. Wallace, Henry Nardone, and William Irwin) ( New York : McGraw-Hill, 4 th edition forthcoming Fall 2009).
Original Intent and the Constitution: A Philosophical Study (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992).
B. Articles and Chapters in Books:
“Popular Culture in the Philosophy Classroom: A Modest Defense,” co-written with Michael Austin, forthcoming in APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy , Fall 2008.
“Lifelong Learning and the Duty of Self-Improvement,” forthcoming in Think .
“The Goal That Was and Wasn't,” co-written with Regan Lance Reitsma, Think , Summer 2008.
“Lewis and Tolkien on the Power of Imagination,” in David Baggett, Gary Habermas, and Jerry Walls, eds., C. S. Lewis as Philosopher (InterVarsity Press, 2008).
“Justice Scalia's Equitable Constitution,” Journal of College and University Law , Vol. 33, No. 1 (2006).
“Hardwood Dojos : What Basketball Can Teach Us about Character and Success,” in Walls and Bassham, eds., Basketball and Philosophy ( University of Kentucky Press, 2007). Co-written with Mark Hamilton.
“Running with the Seven C's of Success,” in Michael Austin, ed., Running and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2007).
“Teaching Ought Imperatives,” Informal Logic , Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer 2004): 11-16.
“Don't Play on Tilt! Avoiding Seven Costly Critical Thinking Errors in Poker,” in Poker and Philosophy , edited by Eric Bronson ( Open Court , 2006). Co- written with Marc Marchese.
”Some Dogs Go to Heaven: Lewis on Animal Salvation,” in Gregory Bassham and Jerry Walls, eds., The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy ( Open Court , 2005).
“Pissin' Metal: Malvo, Columbine, and the Matrix of Violence,” in William Irwin, ed., More Matrix and Philosophy ( Open Court , 2005). Co- written with Henry Nardone.
“Resist Not Evil: Jesus and Nonviolence,” in Jorge Gracia, ed., Mel Gibson's The Passion and Philosophy ( Open Court , 2005). Co-written with David Baggett.
“The Prophecy-Driven Life: Fate and Freedom at Hogwarts,” in David Baggett and Shawn Klein, eds., Harry Potter and Philosophy ( Open Court , 2005).
“Gracia on Divine Revelation,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78: 3 (Fall 2004): 485-87.
“Reformed Epistemology and Chinese Mysticism,” World Hongming Philosophical Quarterly (Dec. 2003).
“The Zen of Hitting,” in Eric Bronson, ed., Baseball and Philosophy ( Open Court , 2004).
“Tolkien's Six Keys to Happiness,” in Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson, eds., The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy ( Open Court , 2003).
“Depression, Informal Fallacies, and Cognitive Therapy: The Critical Thinking Cure?” (co-written with William Irwin), Inquiry 21 (3) (Spring 2002): 15- 21.
“Linked and Independent Premises: A New Analysis,” Frans H. van Emeren, J. Anthony Blair, and Charles A. Willard, eds., Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation , 2003.
"Work-Family Conflict: A Virtue Ethics Analysis," (co-written with Marc Marchese and Jack Ryan), Journal of Business Ethics 40 (2) (October 2002): 145-154.
“The Religion of The Matrix and the Problems of Pluralism,” in William Irwin, ed., The Matrix and Philosophy (2002).
“Emotional Appeals in the Film ‘12 Angry Men,'” in Frans H. van Emeren, Rob Grootendorst, J. Anthony Blair, and Charles A. Willard, eds., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (1999) (co-authored with Henry Nardone).
“Freedom's Politics: A Review Essay of Ronald Dworkin's Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution ,” Notre Dame Law Review 72 (1997): 1235-1276.
“Using the Film JFK to Teach Critical Thinking,” College Teaching 45 (1997): 10-13 (co-authored with Henry Nardone).
“Feminist Legal Theory: A Liberal Response ,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 6 (1992): 293-319.
“Rethinking the Emerging Jurisprudence of Juvenile Death ,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 5 (1991): 467-501.
“Ehring's Theory of Causal Asymmetry,” Analysis 46 (1986): 29-32.
C. Book Reviews:
Review of Mark C. Murphy, Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics , forthcoming in The Journal of Catholic Social Ethics.
Review of Robert A. Delfino (ed.), What Are We to Understand Gracia to Mean? Realist Challenges to Metaphysical Neutralism , American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming 2007).
Review of Joseph Desjardins (ed.), Environmental Ethics: Concepts, Policy, and Theory, Teaching Philosophy 24:1 (March 2001): 86-87.
“It Means What They Said: A Review of Keith E. Whittington, Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review ,” The Review of Politics 62: 3 (Summer, 2000): 588-90.
Review of Geoffrey Scarre , Utilitarianism , Teaching Philosophy 23:2 (June 2000): 210-13.
“Interpretive Babel : A Review of Steven D. Smith, The Constitution and the Pride of Reason ,” The Review of Politics 61:1 (1999): 159-60.
Review of Robert Lowry Clinton, God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism , The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 599 (September 1998): 188-89.
Review of Douglas Soccio, Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy , Teaching Philosophy , 21:3 (1998): 275-76.
“Morality and the Constitution: A Review of Graham Walker's Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects ,” Review of Politics 53 (1991): 718-21.
Selected Presentations and Other Scholarly Activities (Since 2000)
“Lewis and Tolkien on the Power of the Imagination,” Messiah College , February 24, 2006
“Teaching Students to Think Critically about Advertising,” ISETL-2005, Cocoa Beach , FL , October 2005
“Quantum Physics and Eastern Mysticism,” First World Hongming Philosophy Conference, Honolulu , July 2004 (with Derrick Boucher).
“The Zen of Hitting,” 16 th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, June 2004.
Chair, Session on Carolyn Korsmeyer's “Probable Philosophies and Impossible Plots” Conference on Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture, Buffalo , April 2004.
“The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy:” talks and book signings at Harvard University , UPenn, Covenant College , Fall 2003.
“Fifteen Classroom-tested Techniques for Promoting Active Learning,” 33 rd Annual ISETL Conference, Ft. Collins, CO, Oct. 2003 (with Henry Nardone).
“Using the Plous Test to Teach Critical Thinking and the Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making,” 13 th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville , Feb. 2002 (with Marc Marchese).
“Using Role-Playing to Teach Critical Thinking about Moral Relativism,” 13 th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville , Feb. 2002 (with Henry Nardone).
“The Religion of the Matrix and the Problems of Pluralism,” Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association, Bloomsburg, Nov. 2001.Assessment Workshop, Bucks County Community College , Jan. 2002 (with Jean O'Brien).
Chair, session on Jorge Gracia's How Can We Know What God Means?, American Catholic Philosophical Association, Albany , Nov. 2001.
“Reformed Epistemology and Chinese Mysticism,” 12 th International Congress of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Beijing , July 2001.
“Teaching Critical Thinking across the Curriculum,” In-service workshop, LCCC, August 2001.
“Critical Thinking as the Keystone of the Curriculum,” The King's College Course-Embedded Assessment Institute, Oct. 2000 (with Jim Wallace and Amy Parsons).
“Using the Plous Test to Teach Critical Thinking and the Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making,” 20 th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, Sonoma State University , July 2000 (with Marc Marchese).
“An Integrated Approach to Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking,” 20 th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, Sonoma State University , July 2000 (with Jean O'Brien and Bob Paoletti).