ERMINE L. ALGAIER IV Website: ermine.algaier.wordpress.com Department of Philosophy Dugan Hall, 200H 883 Broadway Street University of Massachusetts, Lowell Lowell, MA 01854 ermine_algaier@uml.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2017-18 Katharine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellow in Descriptive Bibliography, Houghton Library, Harvard University 2016-17 Adjunct Instructor, University of Massachusetts - Lowell 2015-17 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Divinity School 2006 Program Assistant, Antioch Buddhist Studies in Japan, Antioch College EDUCATION 2015 Ph.D. Religious Studies, Temple University 2006 M.A. Philosophy, Brock University 2003 B.A. Religious Studies (minor: Philosophy), Youngstown State University Dissertation: William James s Early Radical Empiricism: Psychical Research, Religion, and the Spirit of Inner Tolerance Committee: Lucy Bregman (Chair), Joseph Margolis (Philosophy), Terry Rey (Religion), Eli Goldblatt (English) Abstract: This study offers a revisionist history of James s philosophy by illustrating how his early radical empiricism is informed by a social-epistemological sensitivity to marginalized 19 th heterodox religious and scientific communities. SPECIALIZATION AOS: American Philosophy (esp. William James) and Asian Philosophy / Religion AOC: Theory and Method in Religious Studies, Continental Philosophy, 19 th Century Alternative Religions in America Interests: Death and Dying, Digital Humanities, Environmental Philosophy PUBLICATIONS Books (Under Contract) Reconstructing the Personal Library of William James: Markings and Marginalia from the Harvard Library Collection. American Philosophy Series. Rowman & Littlefield. Refereed Articles (submitted) Crafted Texts and Historical Contexts: Rethinking the Inclusivity of James's The Will to Believe. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 1 of 6 E rmine L. Algaier IV
2015 Reconstructing James s Early Radical Empiricism: the 1896 Preface and the Spirit of Inner Tolerance. William James Studies. Vol. 11: 46-63. 2015 The Natural World: Naess, Dōgen, and the Question of Limits. Environmental Ethics. 37:1 (Spring): 99-118. 2014 Epistemic Sensitivity and the Alogical: William James, Psychical Research, and the Radical Empiricist Attitude. The Pluralist. 9:3 (Fall): 95-109. Books Chapters and Contributions (forthcoming) Reenvisioning James s 1897 Ingersoll Lecture on Human Immortality: a Radical Empiricist Defense of Irrationality. In The Cries of the Wounded: William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Moral Life, edited by Jacob Goodson. Roman & Littlefield. 2017 William James and Psychical Research. In Understanding James, Understanding Modernism, edited by David H. Evans. New York: Bloomsbury. Book Reviews 2013 Review of William James and the Art of Popular Statement, by Paul Stob. William James Studies. 10 (2013): 1-4. 2005 Review of Religion in Ohio: Profiles of Faith Communities, by T.S. Butalia and D. Small. E Pluribus: Newsletter of the Pluralism Project. 2:2 (Fall): 2-3. In Progress Josiah Royce s Personal Library: An Annotated Bibliography The Librarian s Waste-book : Reflections on Reconstructing Royce s Personal Library 17pgs. Markings and Marginalia: New Advancements in Reconstructing William James s Personal Library 14pgs. AWARDS, GRANTS, AND PRIZES Grants and Funding 2016 Josiah Royce Society, (Inaugural) Matching Research Grant. 2016 Crowd Funding ($2950), for The Josiah Royce Library Recovery Project, https://josiahroycelibrary.wordpress.com/ 2016 Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Travel Grant. 2014 Graduate Student Research Grant in American Philosophy, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy for archival work. 2 of 6 E rmine L. Algaier IV
Prizes and Awards 2014 Young Scholar Prize for Essay that Best Explores James s Thought, William James Society. 2014 Douglas Greenlee Prize for Best Paper Presented by a Young Scholar at Annual SAAP Meeting, 41st annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 2012 Nominee: Graduate Assistant Excellent in Teaching Award, Temple University Fellowships and Scholarships 2014 Grad Fund for Excellence, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University 2014 Religion Department, Graduate Travel Fund, Temple University 2010-12 Temple University Teaching Assistantship, Department of Religion, Temple University 2008-10 Research/Teaching Assistantship, Department of Religion, Temple University 2011 Grad Fund for Excellence, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University 2011 Religion Department, Graduate Travel Fund, Temple University 2007-10 Summer Language Scholarship, Department of Religion, Temple University 2004-05 International Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Brock University CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES 2017 Reenvisioning James s 1897 Ingersoll Lecture on Human Immortality: a Radical Empiricist Defense of Irrationality, The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 44th Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL, March 16-18. 2017 The Librarian s Waste-book : Reflections on Reconstructing Royce s Personal Library, The Josiah Royce Society session at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Baltimore, MD, January 4-7. 2017 Markings and Marginalia: New Advancements in Reconstructing William James s Personal Library, The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy session at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Baltimore, MD, January 4-7. 2016 Irrationality as the Prius : William James on Mediumship and Exceptional Phenomena, Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 19-22. 2016 Targeted Audiences and Hidden Agendas: a Revisionist Reading of William James s Conception of Religion, Northern New England Philosophical Association (NNEPA), Keene State College, NH, October 14-15. 2016 Bumping Heads: Perry s Misreading of James s Phrenological Art of Character Reading, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Lincoln, NE, April 13-16. 3 of 6 E rmine L. Algaier IV
2016 Crafted Texts and Historical Contexts: Rethinking the Inclusivity of James's The Will to Believe. 43rd annual meeting of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Portland, OR, March 3-5. 2016 (Talk) Reconstructing William James s Personal Library: the 'Crank Literature' Collection." The Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Feb. 2 2015 (Discussant) Traditional Papers on William James. 42nd annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Grand Rapids, MI, March 5-7. 2015 William James and 19th Century American Spiritualism: the Early Years, Summer Institute in American Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland, June 8-13th. 2014 Reconstructing James s Early Radical Empiricism: the 1896 Preface and the Spirit of Inner Tolerance, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, December 27-30. 2014 Rereading James s Early Radical Empiricism: Historical and Methodological Reconsiderations of the Ingersoll Lecture, New England-Maritime division of American Academy of Religion, Boston College, Boston, MA, April 26. 2014 Epistemic Sensitivity and the Alogical: William James, Psychical Research, and the Radical Empiricist Attitude, 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Denver, CO, March 6-8. 2014 William James and the 1897 Ingersoll Lecture: a Radical Empiricist Reading, Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, July 10. 2011 The Natural World: Naess, Dōgen, and the Question of Limits, 46th Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawai i, Honolulu, HI, May 28. 2005 Nishida and Sartre on Non-thetic Self-Determination; Or the Critique of the Eye that Cannot See Itself, Building Bridges: East-West Graduate Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Nov. 4-5. Panel Organizer and Chair 2017 William James and W.E.B. Du Bois, William James Society session at 44th Annual meeting of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Birmingham, AL, March 16-18. 4 of 6 E rmine L. Algaier IV
2015 William James, Politics, and Religion, American Academy of Religion National Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 21-24. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016- Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Lowell 2013 Instructor, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University 2007-13 Instructor, Department of Religion, Temple University 2008 Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Temple University 2006-07 Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Youngstown State University 2004-05 Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Brock University COURSES TAUGHT University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Department of Philosophy 2016-17 Buddhist and Zen Philosophy Chinese Philosophy Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to World Religions Philosophy of Death and Dying Temple University, Department of Religion / Department of Philosophy / Intellectual Heritage 2007-13 Asian Behavior and Thought (x2) Death and Dying (x10) Introduction to Asian Religions Introduction to World Religions Mosaic II: Intellectual Heritage Philosophy East/West Philosophy of Religion Socially Engaged Buddhism Youngstown State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies 2006-07 Critical Thinking Introduction to Philosophy TEACHING ASSISTANT Brock University, Department of Philosophy 2004-05 Bioethics Chinese Philosophy Introduction to Philosophy (x3) Pre-Socratic and Platonic Philosophy EDITORIAL & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Archival Research 5 of 6 E rmine L. Algaier IV
2015-17 Postdoctoral Fellow, Reconstructing William James s Personal Library, Harvard Divinity School 2016 Project founder and Principle Researcher, The Royce Library Recovery Project, https://josiahroycelibrary.wordpress.com/ Journals 2016 Managing Editor, William James Studies Copy-editing & Indexing 2010 Dr. Shigenori Nagatomo, Religion, Temple University Manuscript: Motoyama, Hiroshi. The Buddha s Satori. Translated by Shignori Nagatomo and John Krummel. California: California Institute for Human Science. 2009 Dr. Shigenori Nagatomo, Religion, Temple University Manuscript: Motoyama, Hiroshi. Being and the Logic of Interactive Function. Translated by Shigenori Nagatomo and John Krummel. Tokyo: Human Science Press. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2015-17 Secretary-Treasurer, William James Society 2015-16 Committee Member, WJS Young Scholar Prize, William James Society 2016 Webmaster, William James Studies 2015-17 Webmaster, William James Society 2014 Reviewer, William James Studies 2012 Graduate Student Representative, Department of Religion, Temple University PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS & INSTITUTES 2015 The Summer Institute in American Philosophy, Dublin, Ireland; June 8-13. 2013 The Summer Institute in American Philosophy, Eugene, OR, July 8-13. 2012 The University of Tokyo & University of Hawai i: Summer Residential Institute in Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawai i, Manoa, July-August. 2012 Researching & Teaching Buddhism Workshop, Faculty Development Workshop for Asian Studies Program, Temple University, May 2. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Academy of Religion American Philosophical Association Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy William James Society (Lifetime Member) **Research Statement, Teaching Statement, and other materials available upon request** 6 of 6 E rmine L. Algaier IV