CH’s CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
Charlie Huenemann
Charlie.Huenemann@usu.edu
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: History of modern philosophy (especially Spinoza)
AREAS OF COMPETENCE: History of philosophy generally, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science
EMPLOYMENT:
2009-present Professor of Philosophy, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication, Utah State University.
2000-2009 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication, Utah State University.
2002-2006 Department Head, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication (2002-2006).
1994-2000 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication, Utah State University.
EDUCATION:
1994 Ph. D, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dissertation: “Spinoza’s Philosophy: Monism, Freedom, and Piety.” Advisor: Edwin Curley.
1989 M.A., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Thesis: “Two Kinds of Modal Realism.” Advisor: Fabrizio Mondadori.
1987 B.A., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee. Phi Beta Kappa.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
(book) God or Nature: Spinoza’s Radical Theology. Under contract with Acumen Publishing. Manuscript due by April 2010.
PUBLICATIONS
(forthcoming) (invited chapter) “But why was he a necessitarian?” Oxford Handbook for Spinoza, edited by Michael Della Rocca. Oxford UP.
(forthcoming) (invited chapter) “Nietzsche’s madness,” Oxford Handbook for Nietzsche, edited by Ken Gemes and John Richardson. Oxford UP.
(forthcoming) “Nietzschean Health and the Inherent Pathology of Christianity,” British Journal of the History of Philosophy
2009 Nietzsche: Genius of the Heart (self published through createspace.com)
This book is an introduction to Nietzsche’s life and thought. It is self-published due to its original, unorthodox style.
2008 Understanding Rationalism (Acumen Publishing)
This volume is part of Acumen’s Understanding Movements in Modern Thought series. The book explores the metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. It is aimed at college juniors.
2008 Interpreting Spinoza: critical essays (Cambridge University Press)
This is a scholarly anthology with Cambridge UP. The volume is dedicated to Edwin Curley. I contributed the introduction and an essay, “Epistemic Autonomy in Spinoza.” The table of contents is as follows:
Introduction, by Charlie Huenemann
1. Representation and Consciousness in Spinoza’s Naturalistic Theory of Imagination, by Don Garrett
2. Rationalism Run Amok: Representation and the Reality of Emotions in Spinoza, by Michael Della Rocca
3. “Whatever is, is in God”: Substance and Things in Spinoza’s Metaphysics, by Steven Nadler
4. Necessitarianism in Spinoza and Leibniz, by Michael V. Griffin
5. Epistemic Autonomy in Spinoza, by Charlie Huenemann
6. Spinoza and the Philosophy of History, by Michael A. Rosenthal
7. Democracy and the Good Life in Spinoza’s Philosophy, by Susan James
8. Spinoza’s Unstable Politics of Freedom, by Tom Sorell
9. Should Spinoza Have Published his Philosophy?, by Daniel Garber
Index
2004 “Why Not to Trust Other Philosophers,” American Philosophical Quarterly, volume 41, number 3 (July 2004), pp. 249-258.
2004 “Spinoza and Prime Matter,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, volume 42, number 1 (January 2004), pp. 21-32.
2004 “The Sage Meets the Zombie: Spinoza’s Wise Man and Chalmers’ The Conscious Mind,” Studia Spinozana, volume 14 (1998), pp. 21-33. [Published in 2004]
2001 (invited chapter) “The Middle Spinoza,” in Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, edited by John Biro and Olli Koistinen, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 210-220.
1999 New Essays on the Rationalists. Rocco Gennaro & Charles Huenemann, eds. (Oxford University Press). This included Huenemann, “Geometrical Containment and the Necessity of Finite Modes in Spinoza’s Metaphysics,” pp. 224-240.
1999 (invited chapter) “Spinoza and the Light of Scripture,” in Piety, Peace, and the Freedom to Philosophize, edited by Paul Bagley (The New Synthese Historical Library, vol. 47). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 45-66.
1997 “Spinoza’s Free Man,” Journal of Neoplatonic Studies, vol. VI, no. 1, Fall 1997, pp. 105-135.
1997 “Predicative Interpretations of Spinoza’s Divine Extension,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1 (January 1997), pp. 53-76.
1997 (invited article) “Ernst Mach,” 4500-word article for The Encyclopedia of Empiricism, Don Garrett and Edward Barbanell, eds. Greenwood Publishing, pp. 225-236.
1997 “Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, the Heat Death of the Universe, and the Meaning of Life,” Encyclia, the journal of the Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 74, pp. 148-156.
1996 “Spinoza’s Corporeal Substance,” Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 39-50.
1995 “Modes Finite and Infinite in Spinoza’s Metaphysics,” Monograph #3, North American Spinoza Society, pp. 3-22.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
2009 “Nietzsche’s Critical Psychological Naturalism,” Nietzsche on Mind and Nature conference, St. Peter’s College, Oxford.
2008 “Valuing from Life’s Perspective,” main program, American Philosophical Association, Central Division
2007 “Spinoza’s Theological Project,” North American Spinoza Society, Baltimore.
2007 “Epistemic Autonomy in Spinoza,” Interpreting Spinoza conference, University of Michigan.
2006 “Epistemic Autonomy in Spinoza (revised),” Utah Philosophical Association.
2005 “Epistemic Autonomy in Spinoza,” Pacific Northwest / Western Canadian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Simon Fraser University.
2003 “Grief and Consolation in Early Modern Philosophy,” Southern California Philosophy Conference, UC-Riverside.
2000 “Spinoza and Occasionalism,” North American Spinoza Society.
2000 “Spinoza’s Corporeal Substance as Substrate,” Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Wake Forest University.
2000 “Cassirer, Einstein, and the Apriori,” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Alberta.
2000 “Truth in philosophy,” Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Idaho.
2000 “Spinoza and Prime Matter,” Society for Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University.
1999 “Spinoza’s Eternity of the Mind (revised),” North American Spinoza Society.
1999 “Mach’s Science of Functions as Kantian Architectonic,” Northwest Philosophy Conference, Washington State University.
1998 “Spinoza’s Eternity of the Mind,” Southeast Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic.
1998 “The Middle Spinoza,” Intermountain Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Colorado.
1997 “Geometrical Containment in Spinoza’s Metaphysics,” main program, American Philosophical Association, Central Division.
1997 “Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, the Heat Death of the Universe, and the Meaning of Life,” Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences. (Awarded “Best Paper” in Letters division)
1996 “Spinoza’s Corporeal Substance: Ethics, Ip15s,” main program, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.
1995 “Spinoza: Substance, Mode, Pantheism,” Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Rollins College.
1994 “Modes Finite and Infinite in Spinoza’s Metaphysics,” North American Spinoza Society.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
2009 Intermountain Philosophy Conference, Utah State University
2007 Interpreting Spinoza conference, University of Michigan
2000 Intermountain Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Utah State University
1997 Intermountain Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Utah State University
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
2009 Participation in Liberty Fund conference, “Liberty and Necessity in Emerson and Nietzsche.”
2009 “Nietzsche’s Natzschuralism,” Utah Valley University. (Keynote address for Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.)
2009 “Nietzsche’s Natzschuralism,” University of South Carolina.
2008 Participation in Liberty Fund conference, “Religion, Freedom, and Citizenship in Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise.”
2008 Commentator and panel participant, Spinoza “miniconference,” main program, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.
2007 “Nietzschean Health,” Macalester College.
2006 (panel discussion) “Academic Freedom,” Utah Philosophical Association.
2006 “Teaching Metaphysics to Mormons,” University of Utah.
2005 “Epistemic Authenticity,” Weber State University.
1997 “Teaching Spinoza’s Political Works to Undergraduates,” panel discussion, North American Spinoza Society.
1996 “Technology and Progress,” Boise State University.
1994 “Spinoza and the Fixed and Eternal Things,” University of Utah.
INVITED COMMENTARIES ON CONFERENCE PAPERS:
2005 Matthew Wion, “Spinoza’s Holism,” North American Spinoza Society.
2004 Martin Lin, “Spinoza’s Proofs of the Existence of God,” main program, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.
1997 Paul Hoffman, “Descartes’s Spinning Top,” main program, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division.
1995 Olli Koistinen, “Weakness of Will in Spinoza’s Theory of Human Motivation,” North American Spinoza Society.
1995 Steve Parchment, “The God/Attribute Distinction in Spinoza’s Metaphysics: A Defense of Causal Objectivism,” main program, American Philosophical Association, Central Division.
1993 Comment on Heidi Ravven, “Posing the Ethical Problem,” North American Spinoza Society.
BOOK REVIEWS:
2008 Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution, in Journal of the History of Philosophy.
2006 Damasio, Looking for Spinoza, in Politics and the Life Sciences.
2005 Kolakowski, The Two Eyes of Spinoza, in The Review of Politics.
2004 Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel, in German Quarterly.
2003 Casebeer, Natural Ethical Facts, in Politics and the Life Sciences.
2003 Beiser, German Idealism, in German Quarterly.
2002 Rescher, Kant and the Reach of Reason, in German Quarterly.
2002 Bayer, Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms, in The Philosophical Review.
1994 Nadler, ed., Causation in Early Modern Philosophy, in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
PARTICIPATION IN SCHOLARLY PROGRAMS:
2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: “Emerson at 200: Literature, Philosophy, and Democracy”
1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: “Central Themes in Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz”
GRANTS:
2008 Sabbatical, Utah State University, for the project Nietzsche: Genius of the Heart.
2000-2001 Sabbatical, Utah State University, for the project “Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and the Task of Philosophy.”
1997-1998 Faculty Research Grant ($14,000), Utah State University, for the project, “The Foundations of Logical Positivism.” This project supported book purchases and travel to Harvard’s Widener Library to research philosophical developments in 19th-century Germany and Austria. It also provided $5,000 to Utah State University’s Merrill Library to enhance its holdings in philosophy.
1995-1996 Faculty Research Grant ($13,000), Utah State University, for the project, “Spinoza’s Integration of Physics and Theology.” This project supported book purchases and microfilm resources to research the influence of the early development of physics on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677. It also provided $5,000 to Utah State University’s Merrill Library to enhance its holdings in philosophy.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
American Philosophical Association
North American Spinoza Society
TEACHING:
Awards Teacher of the Year, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication, 2007.
Researcher of the Year, Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication, 2009.
Researcher of the Year, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, 2009.
Courses taught
Introduction to Philosophy, Humanities Breadth Course: Civilization, Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Intermediate Symbolic Logic, Deductive Logic, Early Modern Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Kant and His Successors, Nineteenth-century Philosophy, Twentieth-century Philosophy, History of Scientific Thought, Philosophy of Science, Existentialism, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind and Body, several “Special Topics” courses.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
• Department Head, Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication (2002-6)
• Member, USU Faculty Senate (2006-8)
• Ombudsman, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (2006-8)
• Member, General Education Curriculum Committee (2005 – )
• Consultant, US Student Fulbright Screening Committee (for Germany) (2006)
• Member, USU Connections panel (2005, 2006)
• Member, Board of Directors, Utah Philosophical Association (2006 – )
• Co-chair, Division of Letters, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters (2004-6)
• Member, Liberal Arts Advisory Committee (2006 – )
• Member, Information Literacy Committee (2006 – )
• Member, Ad hoc search committee for French section (2006-7)
• Member, tenure and promotion committee for C. Scheer (Music) (2008 – )
• Member, tenure and promotion committee for W. Shepherd (Art) (2005 – )
• Member, tenure and promotion committee for C. Rego (Portuguese) (2006 – )
• Member, tenure and promotion committee for J. Strickler (Political Science) (2006 – )
• Member, Search Committee (Department Head) (2006)
• Member, Search Committee (Dean of College of HASS) (2001)
• Member, Search Committee (German) (1999)
• External referee/reviewer for Inquiry, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Acumen Publishing.
• Initiated, organized, and chaired the Philosophy Program’s colloquium series in the years 1996-2000, and 2005-present. Each of these series brought 5-7 speakers to Utah State University over the course of each academic year.
• Founded and continue to maintain usuphilosophy.com. This is an informal blog promoting philosophical discussion and interest in the Philosophy program at USU.
LANGUAGES:
• German (advanced)
• Latin (intermediate)
• Ancient Greek (intermediate)
