Dr. Richard Field

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Education

• Ph.D. Philosophy; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1987
• M.A. Philosophy; Michigan State University, 1981
• B.A. Philosophy; State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, 1979

Courses Taught

• 39-171 Introduction to Philosophy
• 39-275 Introduction to Ethics--Professional Ethics
• 39-276 Introduction to Ethics--Bioethics
• 39-376 History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
• 39-377 History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
• 39-401 Senior Seminar
• 39-475 Aesthetics
• 39-490 Advanced Topics: The Philosophy of John Dewey
• 39-570 Metaphysics
• 39-579 Independent Study in Philosophy
• 39-590 Advanced Topics: Friedrich Nietzsche

Academic Interest

• American Philosophy
• Early Modern Philosophy
• Value Theory 

Scholarly Activity

Selected Publications

• Coeditor with Elizabeth R. Eames: S. Morris Eames, Experience and Value: Essays on John Dewey and Pragmatic Naturalism, (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003).
• "Pragmatic Failure and the Attribution of Belief," Journal of Philosophical Research, 32 (2007), 133-43.
• Coauthor with Thomas Alexander, "John Dewey," Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 270: American Philosophers Before 1950 (Bruccoli-Clark, 2003), 56-88.
• “Descartes on the Material Falsity of Ideas,” Philosophical Review 102 (July 1993), 309-33.

Selected Presentations

• “Belief and Pragmatic Failure,” Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, April, 2003.
• "Dewey's Theory of Education, Higher Education, and Experiential Learning," Missouri Western State College, 16 November 2001.
• “Contextualism and Constitutive Questions of Value,” paper presentation, Conference: The World in Perspective, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 25-26 September 1998.

Student Group Advisement

• Stoa Talks

Other Professional Experiences

• Founding member, International Pragmatism Society, 2006-Present
• Southwestern Philosophical Society, 1999-Present
• American Philosophical Association, 1982-Present