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Wayne Alt
Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy

CCBC at ESSEX

D-222

410.780.6451

walt@ccbcmd.edu

ACADEMIC DEGREES

v      Ph.D. Philosophy: Ohio State University, 1976

v     M. A. Chinese Language and Culture: Ohio State University, 1984

v     M. A. Chinese Intellectual History: Princeton University, 1990

v     B. A. Psychology: Ohio Wesleyan University, 1967

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

 

Chinese Philosophy, Ethics, and History of Philosophy

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

 

Logic, Chinese Language, Buddhism

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

v     Associate Professor of Philosophy: 9/96 – present

The Community College of Baltimore County at Essex

v     Adjunct Professor of History: 9/97 – 2001

The Maryland Institute College of Art

v      Assistant Professor of Philosophy: 9/91 - 9/96

Essex Communtiy College

v     Lecturer in Philosophy: 9/90 - 6/91

Loyola College, Baltimore, MD 21210

v      Lecturer in Humanities: 6/90 - 8/90

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030

v      Associate Professor of English: 1/88 - 6/88

Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan 

v      Lecturer in Chinese Culture: 9/85 - 6/86

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43201

v      Visiting Instructor of Chinese Language: 9/84 - 6/85

Denison University, Granville, OH

v      Teaching Associate in Chinese Language & Culture: 9/82 - 8/84

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43201

v     Associate Professor of English: 9/78 - 8/81P

Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan

TRANSLATIONS

"A Cry in Beijing, For Liberty -- or Death!" in Baltimore Sun, July 3, 1989, p. 11A; translated and edited from  "Diary of the Beijing Student Hunger Strike" in Outlook Weekly, 5/29/89 & 6/5/89.           

A Translation of an Eight-Legged Essay by Ch'u Ching-ch'un entitled "That Which is Mandated by Heaven is Called Nature," in, The Columbia University Anthology of Chinese Literature, edited by Victor Mair, New York, Columbia University Press, 1994.

 

PUBLICATIONS

"Ritual and the Social Construction of Sacred Artifacts: An Analysis of Analects 6.25," in Philosophy East & West, Volume 55, No. 3, July, 2005.

"Zhuangzi, Mysticism, and the Rejection of Distinctions," in Sino-Platonic Papers, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, No. 100, February, 2000.

"Philosophical Sense and Classical Chinese Thought," Review article of A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, by Chad Hansen in Asian Philosophy, Vol.  6, No. 2, July, 1996.  

"New Translations of the Old Master(s)," Review article of three recent translations of the Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, in  Philosophy East and West, Vol. 44, No. 2, April, 1994.

"Revisiting the Shop of Confucius," Review article of  The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage And Its Modern Adaptation,  in Asian Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 1994. 

"The Huai-nan Tzu Alteration," in The Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 2, June, 1993.

"Review of Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation," in Asian Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 2, January, 1991.   

"Logic and Language in the Chuang Tzu," in Asian Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 1, January, 1991.

"The Eight-Legged Essay: Its Reputation, Structure, and Limitations," Tamkang Review Vol. 17, No. 2, June, 1986.

"There is No Paradox of Desire in Buddhism," in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 30, No. 4, October, 1980.

PUBLIC TALKS

"Morality and the War in Iraq"
"Is it Possible to End World Poverty," Presentation given for Ethics Day at CCBC Essex, April 5, 2006.

"Morality and Mass Murder," Presentation given for Ethics Day at CCBC Essex, April 20, 2005.

"The Ethics of Online Discussion in Web-Enhanced Instruction," Presentation given for Ethics Day at CCBC Essex, April 20, 2004.

"Ritual and the Social Construction of Sacred Artifacts: An Analysis of Analects: 6.25," Talk given to The Early China Roundtable at Lehigh University, October 19, 2002.

"How to Talk about Rights." Presentation given for Ethics Day at CCBC at Essex, April 16, 2002. OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

"What Makes a Suicide Terrorist Tick?" Talk and Power Point presentation to the Department of Social Sciences Colloquium on the Events of 9/11, CCBC Essex, November 7, 2001. POWER POINT PRESENTATION

"Do We Have to Believe in God to be Ethical?" Talk presented for Ethics Week at The Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics, The University of Baltimore, March 6, 2001. OUTLINE OF PRESENTION

"Introduction to The Tao Te Ching." Talk and calligraphy demonstration presented to the Social Sciences Colloquium at CCBC Essex, March 26, 2001. OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

"If God exists, everything is permitted.”  Power Point Talk presented for the Fourth Annual Ethics Day at The Community College of Baltimore County at Essex, April 4, 2000.

"Was Zhuangzi an Enemy of Reason?" paper read on January 6, 1998 at The Third International Research Conference in Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

"Should Ethics Be Morally Neutral?" paper read at the Essex Community College Social Sciences Colloquium,  April 26, 1966.

"Chuang Tzu and Amoralism," paper presented to the International Society for Chinese Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December 28, 1996.

"Mind Body Dualism," guest television appearance on “No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed,”  October 9, 1994.

"Master Lu Chu's Demonstration of a Noble Note," read at the twenty-fifth anniversary conference of The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, July 28, 1993.

"The Tao Te Ching: The Best of Translations," paper read at The Community College Humanities Association, Eastern Division Meeting, November 13, 1992.

"The Ma-wang-tui texts of the Tao Te Ching," read at the Essex Community College Social Sciences Colloquium, November 20, 1992.

"A Plea for ‘Humanity’," presented to the philosophy colloquium at Loyola College in Maryland, April, 1991.

“The Dispute over ‘1 divides into 2’ and ‘2 form into 1’,” presented to the Ohio State University Colloquium on Chinese Studies, February, 1986.

"Descartes’ Cogito Certainty," presented to the Ohio State University Philosophy Colloquium, January, 1976.