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Professor of Philosophy
School of Humanities

Office: 2047 HUM Building
Tel: (914) 251-6579
Fax: (914) 251-6559
Email: marjorie.miller@purchase.edu

Dr. Marjorie Miller is a professor of philosophy in the School of Humanities and a member of
the interdisciplinary women's studies and Asian studies faculties. Her interests include American, feminist, and Asian philosophy; issues in identity; and feminist theory. Her honors include awards for teaching and outstanding achievement, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Ford Foundation Fellowship.

Education

  • B.A., Jackson College
  • M.A., Tufts University
  • Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook

Positions

  • Assistant Professor, 1981-87, Purchase College, SUNY
  • Associate Professor, 1987-99, Purchase College, SUNY
  • Professor, 2000-present, Purchase College, SUNY
  • Adjunct Associate Professor (graduate courses), 1992, 1994, SUNY Stony Brook
  • Fulbright Professor, 1995-96, 1996-97, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Areas of Expertise
American philosophy (especially pragmatism and neo-pragmatism); feminist philosophy; Asian philosophy (especially Chinese and Buddhist philosophy).

Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa; Ford Foundation Fellowship and University Scholar, 1962-63; President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1976, SUNY Stony Brook; Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement and Dedication, 1976, SUNY Stony Brook; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1994-95, State University of New York; Jim Greenwood Faculty Development Fund Award, 1995; Fulbright Professor, 1995-96, Fudan University, People's Republic of China (second award granted for additional year, 1996-97).

Courses Taught
Purchase College: Junior Seminar; Gender and Power; Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy; Classical Chinese Philosophy; The Quest for Certainty; Identity and Difference; Ideas of Good and Evil; Freshman Seminar; Introduction to Philosophy/Ethics; Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philosophy and Technology, British Empiricism, Philosophy of Religion, American Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, Of Human Nature, Revolutions in Western Thought.

SUNY Stony Brook (graduate): A Feminist Reading of William James; Feminist Theory: Identity and Difference.

Fudan University, China (undergraduate): Pragmatic Sociology and American Society; Introduction to Western Moral Philosophy; Technology Values and Society; American Philosophy and American Society. Fudan University, China (graduate): American Conceptions of Experience and the "End of Philosophy"; Pragmatism and Neopragmatism; Introduction to American Philosophy and Society; Feminist Theory; Women's Studies US and China.

Research Interests
Issues in identity; feminist theory; pragmatism and neo-pragmatism; Chinese philosophy, especially the Song Dynasty.

Selected Publications

Co-editor (with Kathleen Wallace). Pragmatism and Feminism. Special double issue of Metaphilosophy. Basil Blackwell, London. January/April, 1996.

Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism: Had we But World Enough... Open Times. Winter, 1997. Guangzhou, PRC.

Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism: Had We But World Enough... Chinese translation by Zhang Qi Shan. Fudan Xuebao: She Hui Ke Xue Ban (Fudan Journal: Social Sciences Edition), No. 2, 1997. Shanghai, PRC. Published in Chinese.

Technology and Civil Society: The problem of control. Chinese translation by Yu Hai. Academic Monthly, June, 1996. Serial No. 325. Shanghai, PRC. Published in Chinese.

Rorty and the Postmodern Turn in American Philosophy. Chinese translation by Mo Wei Ming. Fudan Xuebao: She Hui Ke Xue Ban (Fudan Journal: Social Sciences Edition), No. 2, 1996. Shanghai, PRC. Published in Chinese.

The Category of `Habit' in Peirce's Semiotics. In: Thomas M. Olshewsky and Vincent Colapietro (eds.). New Papers on Peirce's Semiotics. Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.

Santayana and the Category "Women". Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy. Winter, 1994.

The Principle of Continuity in C.S. Peirce and Contemporary Decision Support Technology. In: Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., and Robert W. Burch (eds.). Frontiers in American Philosophy. Vol. 1, 1992. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, pp. 137-147.

Practice, Feminism, and Theory. Journal of Humanism and Ethical Religion, Winter, 1992.

Reconstruction as Rediscovery: Feminism and Pragmatism. The Monist, October, 1992.

Ladies and Gentlemen: Hypocrisy, Mystification, and Sexual Harassment. Soundings, Summer/Fall, 1992.

Pragmatism and Feminism: A Response. Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, Fall, 1991.

The Concept of Identity in Justus Buchler and Mahayana Buddhism. In: A. Marsoobian, K. Wallace, and R. Corrington (eds.). Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for an Ordinal Metaphysics. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1991.

Method and System in Justus Buchler and Chu Hsi: A Comparison. Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Summer, 1987.