TERRENCE M. KELLY, Ph. D.

 

 

ACADEMIC POSITION:

 

Term Instructor

University of Alaska Anchorage

3211 Providence Dr.

Anchorage, AK 99508

907-786-4438

907-786-4309 (fax)

aftmk@uaa.alaska.edu

 

 

EDUCATION

Saint Louis University               1992-1998                               Ph.D. Philosophy

Saint Joseph's University                                 1988-1992                               B.A.  Philosophy

 

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

2004-2005   Department Chairperson, California State University East Bay           

2004-2005   Associate Professor, California State University East Bay

1998-2004   Assistant Professor, California State University East Bay

 

 

      PUBLICATIONS

 

·         “The Cruel Cunning of Reason: The Modern/Postmodern Conflict in 24.” In 24 and Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing, 2007)

·         “Practical Rationality in Social Scientific Explanation: The Case of Residential

            Segregation.”  Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (1) (March 2004).

·         “Unlocking the Iron Cage: Public Administration in the Democratic Theory of Jürgen

            Habermas.”  Administration and Society 36 (1) (March 2004).

·         “Sociological not Political:  Rawls and the Reconstructive Social Sciences.”   Philosophy of the Social Sciences 31(1) March 2001.

·         "The Unhappy Liberal: Critical Theory without Cultural Dopes."  Constellations: The International Journal of Democratic and Critical Theory 72 (2) September 2000. (Special issue on the theory of ideology)

·         “The Fall of Ideology” with James Bohman. Constellations: The International Journal of Democratic and Critical Theory 72 (2) September 2000.  (Introduction to special issue on theory of ideology).

·         “New Public Management and the Demise of Popular Sovereignty.” With Mary Timney Administration Theory and Praxis 22(3) September 2000.

·         "Intelligibility, Rationality, and Comparison: The Rationality Debates Revisited"  with James Bohman in Philosophy and Social Criticism 22 (1) 1996.

 

 

IN PROGRESS

 

Ethnogenealogy: Critical Theory Without Cultural Dupes

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

·         “Overcoming the Reflexive Buffering of Asymmetrical Power Relations” Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, September 2006.

·         “The Makah Whaling Conflict: Understanding Native American Sovereignty”  First Friday Lecture Series, March 2005.  California State University East Bay.

·         “Practical Rationality in Social Scientific Explanations: The Case of Residential Segregation According to Race.”  Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable.  University of Missouri- St. Louis.  March 2003.

·         “Paranoia is Only Good Sense When Everyone is Out to Get You: Notes from the Panopticon.” Conference on Terror and Justice.  California State University Hayward. April 2002.

·         “Beware Those Who Fight Monsters: Individual Rights and the War Against Terror. Colloquium on War and Terrorism.  California State University Hayward.  November 2001.

·         “Unlocking the Iron Cage:  Habermas and Public Administration” Public Administration Theory Network 2001. Leiden, June 2001.

·         “Putting the Public Back into Public Administration: Popular Sovereignty, Deliberative Democracy and the Administrative State.”  The American Political Science Association. August 2000.

·         “Unlocking the Iron Cage:  Habermas and Public Administration” at The Conference in Honor of Jong Jun.  California State University, Hayward May 2000.

·         “Sociological, not Political: Reconstructing Everyday Intuitions in the Habermas/Rawls Debate.” at the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable. University of Missouri- St. Louis, April 2000.

·         “Professionalism and Public Management: The Demise of Democratic Deliberation?”  with Mary Timney at the Public Administration Theory Network 2000, Ft. Lauderdale, January 2000.

·         “Putting the Public Back into Public Administration” with Mary Timney at the 1999 Critical Theory Roundtable, University of Toronto October 1999.

·         “Ordinary Injustice: The Unhappy Consciousness in Liberal Societies” at the 1999 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, May 1999

·         “Power and Persuasion:  The Role of Deliberation in Social Transformation” at the 1999 Pacific    Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 1999.

·         “Shadows on Concrete: The Arrangement of Social Space as Ideology” Society for Philosophy   and Geography, 1997 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 1997.

·         “Beyond the Camera Obscura: Ideology as Reflexive Reproduction" at the Czech Academy of Science, Prague May 1997.

·         "What is Postmodern Ideology?" Invited Lecture: University of  Frankfurt, May 1997.

·         "Critical Theory in Modernity/Postmodernity" at the Midwest Critical Theory Roundtable, Northwestern University, October, 1995.

·         “Intelligibility, Rationality, and Comparison: The Rationality Debates Revisited" with James       Bohman at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's Collaborations Conference, April, 1993.

 

 

PUBLIC LECTURES

 

·         “Ethics and Politics”   United Universalist Unitarians, Anchorage, AK November 2007

·         “The Nature of Friendship” United Universalist Unitarians, Anchorage, AK February 2007.

·         “Are Contingent Commissions Ethical?” Alaska Association of Insurance Underwriters, March 2006.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

·         Referee for The American Journal of Political Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, The Journal of Science and Law

·         Conference Coordinator: 2001 International Critical Theory Roundtable

·         Guest Editor: special issue of  Constellations: The International Journal of Democratic and Critical Theory (2001)

·         NEH Institute Administrator:  Summer 1998

·         Assistant Coordinator: 1997 International Critical Theory Roundtable

 

 

SERVICE

 

·         2008    Philosophy Club Academic Advisor

·         Judge, Alaska Native Oratory Society Regional Competition. March 1, 2008

·         Judge, Anchorage Bar Association High School Mock Trial Competition.  March 2007.

·         Nominee University of Alaska Anchorage Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award