DR. JOHN A. DOODY

Robert M. Birmingham Chair in Humanities
Associate Dean, First Year Studies
Director, Villanova Center for Liberal Education
Professor, Philosophy

OFFICE:    St. Augustine Center, Room 104, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.
Phone:        610.519.4691
Fax:             610.519.5410

AREAS OF INTEREST:   Social and Political Philosophy
                                            Critical Theory

HON 1050-01 Interdisciplinary Humanities II:  Philogophy - Spring 2008

ACS 1001 Honors ACS 1242 Spring 2007

ACS 1000-D01 - Visions of Freedom Delurey Learning Community - Fall 2006

HON 1051-01 Interdisciplinary Humanities II: Philosophy - Spring 2006

Honors Philosophy Syllabus Fall 2005

PHI 3850-001 - Philosophy of Sport Spring 2005

PJ 3200-001 - Justice and Sports Spring 2005

Honors Philosophy Syllabus Fall 2004

Core Humanities Visions of Freedom Syllabus Spring 2003

Core Humanities Syllabus Fall 2002


 

EDUCATION      Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
                              B.A., Mathematics, LaSalle College

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Fall 2006 - Present - DIRECTOR, Villanova Center for Liberal Education

Spring 2002 - 2003 - CHAIR, Humanities and Augustinian Traditions Department

Spring 2001 to present - ASSOCIATE DEAN, Core Curriculum, College of Arts and Sciences, Villanova University

September 1995- 2001 - ASSISTANT DEAN, Core Curriculum, College of Arts and Sciences, Villanova University

January 1992 to present DIRECTOR, Core Curriculum , College of Arts and 1995 Sciences, Villanova University

January 1992 to present  DIRECTOR, Core Humanities Seminar Program
Villanova University
An interdisciplinary writing program required of all  first year students in Arts, Sciences and Nursing

1985 - 1992 CHAIRPERSON, Department of Philosophy
Villanova University

1978 - 1984 DIRECTOR and CHAIRPERSON of Founding Committee
Master of Liberal Studies Program
Villanova University
An interdisciplinary graduate level program of studies in the arts, humanities and       social sciences.

1977 - 1982 DIRECTOR, Honors Program
Villanova University
An interdisciplinary liberal arts and science program serving 100 majors and offering 50 courses per year within the College of Arts and Sciences.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
September 1993 PROFESSOR, Philosophy Department
Villanova University

August 1989 VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Philosophy Department - December 1989 University of Notre Dame

September 1985 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Philosophy Department - 1993 Villanova University

September 1984 VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Philosophy Department - 1985 Haverford College, Haverford, PA

September 1974 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Philosophy Department - 1985 Villanova University

September 1969 INSTRUCTOR, Philosophy Department - 1974 Villanova University

PROFESSIONAL

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy;  Habermas and Critical Theory; MacIntyre; Marx; Philosophy of Sport

AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Philosophy of Science; Epistemology; Metaphysics; Aristotle; Aquinas

AWARDS AND HONORS NROTC
Presidential Scholarship, LaSalle College, 1961-65 Scholarship, 1961 (declined)
University of Notre Dame Awards:
University Fellowship, 1965-66
Graduate Assistant, 1966-68
Dissertation Fellowship, 1968-69
Carnegie Foundation Fellowship Grant, Summer 1971
Villanova University Summer Research Grant, 1973
Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, 1984
Lawrence C. Gallen Distinguished Faculty Service Award 1994 (Inaugural recipient)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Fullerton Club: Philosophy Club of Bryn Mawr/Haverford

OFFICES HELD
President, 1976-77
Secretary, 1974-76
National Collegiate Honors Council:
    Northeast Region Vice-President, 1978-79
    President, 1979-80

PUBLICATIONS

"Hanson and Radical Observation Thesis," Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Science Proceedings, 1975. Paper delivered at conference at Western Ontario University, London, Ontario, Canada.

"Sports, Language, and Reality," Proceedings of Alpha Kappa Delta

Sociological Research Symposium, 1977. Paper delivered at conference held at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

"The Persistance of the Four Temperments," Soundings, Fall 1983.
Co-authored with John Immerwahr.

"Recent Reconstructings of Political Philosophy," Philosophy Today, Fall 1984.

"Radical Hermeneutics, Critical Theory and the Political," International Philosophical Quarterly, Summer 1991.

"MacIntyre and Habermas on Practical Reason," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Spring 1991. This work in an earlier version also appears in Communitarianism, Liberalism, and Social Responsibility, ed. Peden and Hudson, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y., 1991.

"The Right Way to Think about the Rights of the Bill of Rights", in Studies in Social and Political Theory: Social Philosophy Today, Number 8, ed. Yeager Hudson and Creighton Peden, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y., 1993.

"Fichte, Habermas and Luc Ferry", in Political Theory: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, ed. Lenore Langdorf and Stephen Watson, SUNY Press, 1999

BOOK REVIEWS

"Weber's Positivism," The Review of Politics, 1984. Book review of

Anthony T. Kronman's Max Weber.

PAPERS DELIVERED

"Derrida and the Violence of Law." Delivered at St. Anselm's College, April 1995.

"Does Habermas' Theory of Socialization Remain an Idealist Project?", Delivered at Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Conference, November, 1991.

"Fichte, Habermas and Luc Ferry," Delivered to the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October, 1991.

"I Believe in the Church of Baseball," Delivered to The Philosophic Society for the Study of Sports, October, 1991.

"Luc Ferry and the Question of Human Rights," Delivered to the 8th International Conference on Social Philosophy, August, 1991.

"Baseball in America: A Sociological Perspective," Delivered to the Third Annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture, June, 1991.

"Habermas and Derrida: The Nature of Radical Politics," Delivered at Midwest Radical Activists and Scholars Conference, October, 1990.

"The Debate between Liberalism and Communitarianism," Delivered to the 7th International Conference on Social Philosophy, August, 1990.

"Radical Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: Beyond the Forms of Critique." Delivered to Conference on Catholic Philosophy and Hermeneutics, Conception, Missouri, February, 1990.

"Marxism and Postmodernism." Delivered to the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, January, 1990.

"The Political as Moral: A Reexamination." Delivered to the American Catholic Philosophical Association at its annual meeting in March, 1989.

"The Ideology of Work and Play." Delivered to the American Cultural Association in March, 1988.

"Interpretive and Functionalist Social Science: Aristotle and Marx." Delivered to the Philadelphia Area American Catholic Philosophical

Association Meeting in October, 1987.

"Human Nature and Human History: Marx an Historicized Aristotelian." Delivered to the Claremont Institute for Political Philosophy at their annual meeting at the American Political Science Association in

September, 1987.

"What Can Business Do for Philosophy?" Delivered to the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Business College Deans in October, 1985.

"Political Science and Political Theory: Autonomous and Non-Autonomous Enterprises." Co-authored and delivered with Justin Green to the American Science Association in August, 1985.

"The Individual and Community." Delivered to the Conference of Philosophy and Social Science at Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, April, 1985.

"The Reconstruction of Political Theory." Delivered to the Villanova University Social Science Forum, April, 1985.

"The Question of Marxism and Liberalism." Delivered to the Villanova University Nineteenth Century Society, September, 1984.

"After Weber: Habermas or McIntyre?" Delivered at Duquesne University, November, 1983.

"Christopher Lasch on Narcissism and the Me-Too Generation."

Villanova University Honors Junior Week Series, January, 1980.

"What Can Philosophy Do for Science?" Invited paper presented to National Physics Honor Society, St. Joseph's University Chapter, April, 1976.

"Sellars and the Myth of the Given." Delivered at the Villanova Philosophy Department Colloquia Series, 1975.

"Causality and Human Action." Delivered at Villanova Philosophy Department Colloquia Series, 1973.

PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING

Consultant to Human Organization Sciences Institute, Villanova University, as moderator and evaluator. Projects included Pennsylvania Department of Aging review of Family Caregiver Support Program, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Program on Public Safety and Haverford Township School District Committee to develop a Philosophy of Sports, 1988-89.

Consultant to Public Agenda Foundation, New York City, as moderator and field work researcher. Projects included "Soviet and U.S. Relations on War and Disarmament" and "Criminal Justice and the Prison System in America,"

Consultant to Gallaudet College, National University for Speech and Hearing Handicapped, Honors Programs Faculty Teaching Development, May, 1981.

Consultant to Mansfield State College, Honors Program Development, September, 1978.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

CBS TELEVISION SERIES: "SPORTS: FACT AND FICTION'

Associate Producer, Lecturer and Host of this television series of 39 one hour shows which aired on CBS in Philadelphia. This originally aired from September to December 1977 and was repeated from March to June, 1978 and December 1978 to March 1979.  This series was based on my Philosophy of Sport course which I originally developed at Villanova in 1976-77.

SERVICE FOR VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY (SELECTED)

Arts and Sciences Rank and Tenure Committee

Arts and Sciences Strategic Planning Committee

University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee, past Chair

Faculty Council, past Chair and Vice-chair

Faculty Committee on Salaries and Fringe Benefits, past Chair

Middle States Committee on Mission, Goals and Objectives

Board of Trustees Committee on Academic Policy

University Senate Committee on Planning and Priorities

Freshman Orientation Seminar Program, past Chair

Presidential Scholarships for the Underrepresented Committee

Cultural Film Series

Lindback Committee, Chair

Connolly Center Board of Governance