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 LAWRENCE UDELL FIKE, JR. Joshua Tree, California 92252
EDUCATION
Title: "The Role of Custom in Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy."
B.A., December 1986, Philosophy with Departmental and School Honors, UCLA.
Areas of Expertise
Areas of Competence History of ethics; social justice; free will v. determinism; political philosophy; religious epistemology.
TEACHING
Crafton Hills College, Yucaipa, California. Logic; Introduction to Philosophy. January 2007-December 2007; August 2011 -
California State University, Los Angeles. Environmental Ethics (upper division); Symbolic Logic; Philosophy, Literature, and the Self (English/Philosophy Departments); Critical Thinking; Introduction to Philosophy. September 2005-June 2006.
Cypress College, Cypress, California. Practical and Theoretical Ethics; Critical Thinking; Introduction to Philosophy. August 1997-June 1999.
Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California. Introduction to Philosophy; Introduction to Humanities; Critical Thinking. September 1995-December 1997.
Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, California. Contemporary Moral Problems (upper division). September 1996-December 1996.
New York Institute of Technology, New York, New York. Problems of Philosophy; Technology, Society, and Values; Political Science (The American Political System). September 1990-May 1991.
Iona College, New York, New York. Ethics in the Delivery of Health Care; Critical Thinking. September 1990-January 1993.
Columbia University, New York, New York. Philosophical Classics; Enlightenment Ethics (upper division). (January 1990-May 1990.)
BOOKS
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Article. "Technology, Posture, and Practice: Value as Maker's Knowledge in Education, Rhetoric, and Work-Play" in Twentieth Century Values, F. T. Cust, editor, 1998. Link needs locating.
Article. "Desconstructing the Myth of Power," Essay Magazine, page 1, February 1992.
Poem. "New York Snow" in The Nebraska Review, Volume XVI, Number 2, Spring/Summer 1988, page 21.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited guest, KCDZ 107.7 FM, Joshua Tree, California. With songwriting partner Larry May. "How Poetry Is Transformed Into A Song on Network Television." August 22, 2010.
Host of The Garden Joshua Tree, California. March 2010-May 2010.
"Larry/Larry: A Night with Larry May and Larry Fike," Hi-Desert Playhouse, Joshua Tree, California. (Music, Poetry, Comedy, Philosophy.) July 31, 2005.
"How (Not) To Teach Ethics To Students of Business," Washington
"Science, Religion, and Our Other Values," YVCC Faculty Lecture Series. April 17, 2002.
Poetry - part of YVCC English Department Faculty Lecture Series performance. February 2, 2001 and March 14, 2001.
Poetry - featured reader. "In This Space: 50 Minutes in Dream Time" plus new poems. Jeremy's Beatnik Cafe, November 5, 2000.
Poetry - featured reader. New poems as well as selections from both Obstinate Air and Unheard Tick of Time. Borders Books Music & Cafe, Mission Viejo, California. No open reading. August 11, 1999.
"Technology, Teleology, and Toys: Value As Maker's Knowledge in Education, Rhetoric, and Work-Play." 27th Conference on Value Inquiry, Central Missouri State University, Center for Applied & Professional Ethics, Warrensburg, Missouri, April 22-24, 1999.
"In This Space: 50 Minutes in Dream Time." (Performance Art.) The Space, 2218 East 4th Street, Long Beach, California. December, 1998; March 12, 19, and 20, 1999.
"Some Thoughts on Self- and Other-Regard: Avoiding (Ascriptions of [Attitudes of] Blame." Southern California Philosophy Conference, University of California, Irvine. October 24, 1998.
"Response to Kurt Norlin's, 'Sociobiology and the Uncertain Future of Moral Philosophy,'" Southern California Philosophy Conference, University of California, Irvine. October 24, 1998.
"Enhancing Student Interest Through Website Construction and Use for Multi-Campus Part-Time Instructors," California State University, Long Beach, New Media Center Regional Conference, Learning and Instructional Technologies in Higher Education, Sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles, and California State University, Long Beach. Tuesday, October 20, 1998.
"Response to Michelle Grisat's Critique of Judith Butler." California State University, Fullerton, Annual Philosophy Symposium, March 21, 1998.
"Philosophical Reflections on Recent U.S. Trends in Education, Technology, Diversity, and the Workplace." Invited speaker, Landeszentralbank in Hessen, Bundesbank Deutschland. January 5-9, 1998.
"Actively Imagining Freedom From Resentment." Colloquium given at the Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton. November 17, 1997.
"Some Remarks on Value and Communication Technology," Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany. Colloquium presented to all English-speaking members of the Bundesbank. January 8, 1998.
"Why Write Poetry?" Reading with other Saddleback College faculty members, Borders Books, Mission Viejo, California. March 1, 1997.
"New York New York Larry Larry: A Night of Folk Rock & Poetry." Performance at ARK Studio & Gallery, Long Beach, California, with singer-songwriter Larry May. April 22, 1995.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Session Commentator, APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, California. April 22, 2011. Paper: "Dialectical Difficulties In Understanding Why We Should Regard the Principle of Alternative Possibilities As Worth Entertaining" (David Palmer).
Mentor Teacher, California State University, Los Angeles. Spring 2007.
Session Chair, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Portland, Oregon. March 22, 2006.
Producer/Organizer, "John Wesley Harding: A Concert." Pete's, Yakima, Washington, November 6, 2003.
Session Chair, Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Idaho, April 27-29, 2001.
Socrates Cafe founder and host, Inklings Bookshop, Yakima, Washington. Cafe meetings occured on the third Monday of each month from 7-8 p.m. 2000-2005.
Commentator, Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, November 11, 2000.
Producer/Organizer, "An Evening With John Wesley Harding and Larry May," YVCC Kendall Auditorium, April 22, 2000.
Session Chair, Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Idaho, March 24-26, 2000.
Session Chair, 27th Conference on Value Inquiry, Central Missouri State University, April 1999.
Commentator, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Berkeley, California, March 1999.
Facilitator, Alumni, California State University, Fullerton Annual Philosophy Symposium, "Democracy and Self-Interest." December 1997-March 1997.
Organizer, Saddleback Liberal Arts Reading Series, Borders Books, March 1997.
Judge, 13th Annual Writing Contest, Saddleback College, 1997-1998.
Judge, 12th Annual Writing Contest, Saddleback College, 1996-1997.
Academic Senator, Saddleback College, 1995-1996.
SONGWRITING
Windrift Songwriting Competition Winner: "Seeing Double." Aired on the CBS show, "NCIS," May 2005.
Great American Songwriting Contest Distinguished Achievement Award, Pop Category, 2002 ("Yellow Bird"). Aired regularly on television's, "One Life To Live" (clip).
Songs have also appeared on "Summerland," "The Days of Our Lives," "General Hospital," and "The Young And The Restless."
FELLOWSHIPS
Most Outstanding Advanced Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1992-1993.
President's Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1988-1990.
John Dewey Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1987-1988.
DISSERTATION SUMMARY
The moral imagination is fueled through our use of language, rhetoric. Hume recommended at the end of the Treatise that moral philosophers act as painters, depicting morally desirable states of affairs, the justification for which is the sentimental indentification experienced by agents who listen to the rhetoric. My dissertation is an attempt to embody, through careful use of language, the very ethic that it espouses. I view what I say within a possible, realizable social world, and one very different from the one in which we currently live.
SOME REFERENCES
Ricardo Chama, M.A., Chair of Foreign Languages, Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima, Washington.
Additional references available upon request.
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