January 9, 2019 Curriculum Vitae: Douglas C. Long 1

DOUGLAS CLARK LONG

419 Granville Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 942-1677

Department of Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-3312Email:

EDUCATION

Ph. D., Harvard University, March, 1963. Dissertation: “The Argument from Analogy for the Existence of Other Minds,” Harvard University, 1963, 376 pp.

Oxford: Corpus Christi College

Frederick Sheldon Travelling Fellowship from Harvard University, 1958-59.

M. A., Harvard University, 1955.

B. A., The University of Michigan, 1954. With highest honors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chair, Department of PhilosophyUniversity of North Carolina1996-2001

Full ProfessorUniversity of North Carolina1979-present
at Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Assistant Chair Department of Philosophy at UNC, 1979-89, 91-92.

Director of Graduate Studies Department of Philosophy at UNC, 1970-79, 91-92.

Visiting AssociateBrown University, 1969 Spring

ProfessorProvidence, Rhode Island

Associate ProfessorUniversity of North Carolina1967-1979

at Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Visiting Assistant University of Washington1965 Spring

ProfessorSeattle, Washington

Assistant Professor University of California at1962-67
Los Angeles, California

InstructorUniversity of California at 1960-62
Los Angeles, California

Graduate instructor Harvard University1959-60

HONORS

Phi Beta Kappa (junior year)
Phi Eta Sigma, National Freshman Honorary Society

Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1954)

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Why Life is Necessary for Mind: The Significance of Animate Behavior” in Self, Language,andWorld: Problems from Kant, Sellars, and Rosenberg: In Memory of Jay F. Rosenberg,J. O'Shea & E. Rubenstein, eds. (Ridgedview Publishing Company, 2010), 61-88.

Dorit Bar-On and Douglas C. Long, “Knowing Selves: Expression, Truth, and Knowledge,” Chapter 12, Privileged Access: Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge, edited by Brie Gertler, (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2003) 179-212. (Invited)

"Why Machines Can Neither Think Nor Feel," in Language, Mind, and Art: Essays in Appreciation and Analysis, in Honor of Paul Ziff, edited by Dale Jamieson, Synthese Library, vol. 240, (Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer, 1994), 101-119. (Invited)

"Agents, Mechanisms, and Other Minds," in Body, Mind, and Method, essays honoring Professor Virgil Aldrich, edited by Donald Gustafson and Bangs Tapscott (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidl, 1979), 129-148. (Invited)

"Particulars and Their Qualities," in Universals and Particulars: Readings in Ontology, ed. Michael Loux (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979), 264-84. Reprint of refereed article.

"The Philosophical Concept of a Human Body,"in The Philosophy of the Body: Rejections of Cartesian Dualism, ed. Stuart F. Spicker (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970), 121-136. Reprint of refereed article.

ARTICLES

"Knowing Selves: Expression, Truth, and Knowledge," Dorit Bar-On and Douglas C. Long, in Privileged Access, ed. by Brie Gertler (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003).

“Avowals and First-Person Privilege,” Dorit Bar-On and Douglas C. Long, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXII No. 2, March, 2001, 311-335. (Refereed)

Contribution concerning Peter F. Strawson’s metaphysics, A Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994), 474-475. (Invited)

Contribution concerning C. D. Broad’s metaphysics, A Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994), 63-65. (Invited)

"One More Foiled Defense of Skepticism," Philosophy andPhenomenological Research (June, 1994), 373-75. (Refereed)

ABSTRACT "One More Foiled Defense of Skepticism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1992) in The Philosophers’ Index, Vol 28, No. 4 (Winter, 1994), 164.

“The Self-Defeating Character of Skepticism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 52:1 (March, 1992), 67-84.(Refereed)

Abstract published in The Review of Metaphysics (March, 1992), 913.

"Is a Patient's Self-Determination an Inalienable Right?" Medical Ethics for the Physician (April, 1987), 7,10. (Invited)

"Disembodied Existence, Physicalism and the Mind-Body Problem," Philosophical Studies, 31 (1977), 307-316. (Refereed)

"The Bodies of Persons," The Journal of Philosophy, LXXI, No. 10 (May 30, 1974), 291-304.
(Refereed)

"Descartes' Argument for Mind-Body Dualism," Philosophical Forum, Boston University (Spring, 1969), 259-273. (Refereed)

"Particulars and Their Qualities," The Philosophical Quarterly (July, 1968), 193-206. (Refereed)

"The Philosophical Concept of a Human Body," Philosophical Review (July, 1964), 321-327. (Refereed)

"Second Thoughts: A Rely to Mr. Ginane," Mind (July, 1961), 405-411. (Refereed)

REVIEWS

1. Review of William Child, Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) for The Review of Metaphysics (March 1996), 641-642.

2. Review of Elizabeth Wolgast, Ethics of an Artificial Person: LostResponsibility in Professions and Organizations, Stanford University Press, 1992 for The Philosophical Review, 103:2 (April, 1994), 385-387.

3. Review of Virgil C. Aldrich, The Body of a Person, (University Press of America, 1988), for International Studies in Philosophy , 24, 1 (Jan. 1992), 113.

4. Review of Michael Tye, The Metaphysics of Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 51, 4 (Dec. 1991).

5. Review of D. M. Armstrong and Norman Malcolm, Consciousness andCausality (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984) in Teaching Philosophy, 10:1 (March, 1987), 83-86.

6. Review of Colin McGinn, The Character of Mind, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982 for Teaching Philosophy, 7:4 (October, 1984).

7. Critical Review of Renford Bambrough, Moral Scepticism andMoral Knowledge for Nous, Vol. 18, No. 1 (March, 1984).

8. Critical Review of Descartes: Critical and Interpretive Essays, ed. by Michael Hooker (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978) for Noûs, Vol. 17 (March, 1983), 99-104.

9. Review of James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, and George S. Pappas, Philosophical Problems and Arguments: An Introduction, third edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, In., 1982), for Teaching Philosophy, 6:1 (January, 1983), 82-84.

10. Review of Barry Stroud, Hume for Noûs (September, 1982).

11. Review of I. Dilman's Matter and Mind for International Studiesin Philosophy, IX (1977), 168-170.

12. Review of Other Minds, a booklet in the Open University Press Series on philosophical problems, in Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall, 1975), 190-192.

13. Review of "Other Minds," a film in the Open University Film Series, in Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall, 1975), 179-181.

Memorial notice for E. Maynard Adams in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, May 2004, pp. 159-60.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

"Why Life is Necessary for Mind: The Significance of Animate Behavior," presented at a conference entitled "Self, Language, and World: Theses in the Philosophy of Jay Rosenberg," held September 11-12, 2008 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

"Knowledge and Self-Knowledge," presented at the Aldrich colloquium on Self-Knowledge, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 4-7, 2002.

“Is There an Alternative to Dualism and Physicalism?” a presentation to the Philosophy Club, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 17, 2001.

Commentary on David Sanford, “Ames’s Chair and Descartes’s Bed” and Nancy Daukas, “Contextualism and Skepticism,” North Carolina Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Guilford College, February 23, 2001.

“Between Dualism and Physicalism,” as part of a symposium on Philosophy East and West, Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, in Boston, Massachusetts, December 29, 1999.

Invited with Dorit Bar-On to UCLA for a workshop for faculty and graduate students on the topic of our Pacific Division APA paper, May 20-28, 1998.

“Knowing Selves” presented with co-author Professor Dorit Bar-On as the lead paper in an invited Symposium on Self-Knowledge at the meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, March 26, 1998. Commentators: Professors Rogers Albritton, UCLA and Richard Moran, Harvard University. Chair, Professor Steve Reynolds.

“Knowing Selves,” Part I, Nov. 7, 1997 and Part II, Nov. 14, 1997, delivered to the Department of Philosophy with co-author, Professor Dorit Bar-On.

Member of faculty of the Young Executives Institute for 1989 on The Ethics of Business Management for managers of firms in the southeast, Kenan Center, March 13, 1989.

Commented on "Agency" by Donald Gustafson at Central Division of APA, May 2, 1987. Chairman: Myles Brand.

"B. F. Skinner and the Modern Mind," part of a series on “Makers of the Contemporary American Mind”, sponsored by the Division of Extension and Continuing Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April, 1984.

"The Self-Defeating Character of Skepticism," the Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, Feb. 11, 1982.

Participant in a symposium on Our Knowledge of Other Minds with George Schlesinger and James Fetzer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, March 4, 1981.

"The Social Responsibility of Business," management seminar at Burroughs-Wellcome Company, Research Triangle Park, Dec. 4, 1980.

"Disembodied Existence and the Mind-Body Problem,” The second annual lecture in the B. Frank Hall series at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, April 26, 1976.

"Knowledge of One's Own Actions," Furman University, May, 1974

Commented on "Strawson on Disembodied Existence" by Max O. Hocutt, the Western Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 27, 1973.

Invited speaker, "Our Knowledge of Human Agency," Colloquium on the Philosophy of Mind at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, April 14-16, 1972.

"Agents and Mechanisms," the Annual Joint Philosophy Colloquium with Brown University, Amherst College, and the University of Massachusetts, in Providence, RI, May 1969.

"Agents and Mechanisms," Department of Philosophy at The University of Connecticut, May, 1969.

"Knowledge of One's Own Actions," Philosophy Conference, Arizona State University, March 6, 1969. Commentator: Professor Bruce Aune, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Commented on "Rejection of the Rule Model of Action" by Ruth Macklin, American Philosophical Association, Western Division, St. Louis, may 1968.

"Descartes' Argument for Mind-Body Dualism," the American Philosophical Association meetings, Eastern Division, 1967. (Refereed)

TEACHING RECORD

Specialties: philosophy of mind; epistemology; action theory; metaphysics; bioethics.

Taught large introduction to philosophy and introduction to ethics classes;
Taught upper level undergraduate and graduate classes in philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, free will and action theory, as well as the proto-seminar.

Introduced the undergraduate course in bioethics into the curriculum of the philosophy department in 1978 and taught it nearly every year since, training graduate students to teach their own classes in the subject.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND LEAVES

IBM Course Development Award for use of technology in the classroom, 2001.

University Research Grant, 1982-84.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for

Independent Study and Research for 1976-77.

Topic of research: The Union of Mind and Body:The Ontology of Persons.

National Science Foundation Grant for research on the

relevance of physiological studies to problems in the

philosophy of mind, Spring, 1967.

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1954.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division 1960-67, Eastern Division 1967-present.

North Carolina Philosophical Society

The Duke-UNC Medical Ethics Research Group

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Chair of a symposium on metaphysics at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March 28, 2005.

Chair of a session on philosophy of mind including two symposia at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, Calilfornia, March 27, 2003.

Chair, colloquium on The Semantics of Conditional Statements and Temporal Objects, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March 29, 2001.

Chair of colloquium on Epistemology, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 8, 2000.

Invited to return as a judge at the Third Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Conference, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC, April 14-15, 2000.

Chair of colloquia on Medical Ethics, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in Berkeley, California, April 1, 1999.

Invited as one of two judges at the First Annual Southern Appalachian Undergraduate Conference, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC, April 17-18, 1998.

Chair of two colloquia on the philosophy of mind, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1996.

Chair of a colloquium on personal identity at the annual meetings of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in New York, December, 1975.

Outside examiner, Honors Program, University of Virginia.

Referee for Simon and Schuster, Prentice Hall, Wadsworth, Routledge, McGraw-Hill, Dushkin/MacGraw-Hill, McMillan, Oxford University Press

Referee for Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Member of four-member panel conducting external review of the Department of Classics, UNC-Chapel Hill, Feb. 1-3, 2004.

Member of Committee M of Curriculum Review, 2001

Member Distinguished Professor Advisory Committee, Oct. 2001

Chair of the Council of Chairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999-2000; Vice-Chair, Conference of Chairs, 1998-99.

Discussion leader in summer reading program, Aug. 2001.

Summer School Administrator for Philosophy, 1996-2000.

Chair of the Nomination Subcommittee of the Humanities for the academic year, 1981-82. The committee had the responsibility of awarding fellowships to prospective graduate students.

Member of the Board of Arts and Sciences, UNC, Chapel Hill, 1984-87.

Member of the Committee on International Programs, which oversees the offering of off-campus courses in foreign countries, 1984-87.

Chair, Program Committee for the annual Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy, 1981, 1983, 1990, 1991.

TEACHING RELATED ACTIVITIES ON UNC CAMPUS

Presentation, in cooperation with Professor Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, on Moral Issues concerning Stem Cell Research for the Emerging Leaders Program, at UNC, March 30, 2005.

Member of a panel discussion for a Spectrum Symposium on Stem Cell Research for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at UNC-CH, Oct. 27, 2004.

Talk at Craige Dormitory, UNC campus, “Cloning,” 2003.

Participant in Camp New Hope Freshman Orientation Program, August 2002.

Presentation on my work in the Philosophy of Mind to the undergraduate philosophy club at UNC, 2001.

Conducted a two-hour lecture discussion, “Current Issues Concerning Withholding Treatment, Physician Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia,” Division of Physical Therapy, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, March 19, 1993.

Lecture discussion, “Medical Ethics,” Division of Physical Therapy, School of Medicine, UNC-CH, April 7, 1992.

Participant in panel discussion, “AIDS and Ethics,” with Dr. James Bryan (Medicine) and Prof. Susan Pierce (Nursing), Mar 25, 1991. This is part of a campus-wide course entitled “AIDS: Principle, Practices and Politics.” It is offered to undergraduate, professional, and graduate students jointly by the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, and Arts and Sciences.

Talk at Craige Dormitory, UNC campus, “Euthanasia,” April 11, 1990.

Lecture to Political Science 45 The Nature and Function of the Law, on the topic of Active and Passive Euthanasia, Nov. 16, 1989.

"The Rights of Patients and Their Families Regarding Euthanasia,” Human Rights Week, sponsored by the University of North Carolina Campus Y, Nov. 12, 1989

Presentation of “A Framewok for Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care Decision-Making,” to graduate nurses, School of Nursing, March 21, 1989

Presentation on the ethics of animal experimentation to faculty and student advisors in the Health Professions Advising Office, UNC Campus, Feb. 23, 1989.

Lecture-discussion at Prof. Ruth Mitchell’s Physical Therapy class, UNC Medical School, on the topic of euthanasia, Feb. 19, 1987.

Conducted Clinical Scholars Seminar on Bioethical Decision Making at the UNC school of Medicine, Dec. 4, 1985.

“Euthanasia,” the program of Human Rights Week co-sponsored by the Campus Y and Carolina Union, UNC campus, Nov. 18, 1985.