Some Background on your Professor

Living and teaching over-seas and six years experience teaching on-line.
Seventeen years of teaching experience and publications.

Probably the most interesting thing I have done is having lived over-seas in Prague and the Czech Republic for seven years. Prague is a beautiful city and living in a post communist Central European country provided a very different take on the matters and the questions of life that can be invaluable in the study of philosophy. Part of doing philosophy is questioning assumptions and living in a very different part of the world helps spotlight some assumptions that you might not have seen otherwise. My first three years in Prague I taught at an American university, in English. I had almost no American students and was thus able to meet lots of Czechs students in addition to Russians, Slovaks, Poles and a handful of students from the Middle East, Far East and nearly every post-Soviet-bloc nation. During my last year of teaching land classes in Prague I started teaching on-line and have since moved all my current educational efforts to that front.

I have taught philosophy in colleges and universities for 17 years and have taught philosophy six years on-line. In 2002 I published a book entitled “Some Thoughts on Thinking” which is based upon a series of popular lectures I gave in the mid-to-late 1990’s. The focus of the book is on how to sort philosophy from religion, theology and science, the job of philosophy and how to sort arbitrary from non-arbitrary beliefs. I am currently finishing a second book entitled “A Crisis of Belief, Ethics and Faith” and I have an offer for publication for it from Universiity Press of America, the publisher of my first book.  I am also considering releasing it off the web for free and as an example of my work to help promote this web page, selling it as an e-book as this greatly reduces the costs and I may also consider other land or standard publishers. We will see when it is finished. (See Resume)