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Present Position

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota

Academic Background

Ph.D. - 1972 Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota

Areas of Research Interest

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Personal Identity

Books Published

"Persons, Souls, and Death: A Philosophical Investigation of an Afterlife" (McFarland and Co., Inc., 2009)

The Conscious Self: The Immaterial Center of Subjective States (Prometheus Books, 2006)

Making Sense of It All: An Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry (Prentice-Hall, 1999; 2nd Edition, 2003).

Perception, Mind and Personal Identity: A Critique of Materialism (University Press of America, 1994).

Death and Consciousness (McFarland & Co., 1985). This work was later published in paperback form (Ballantine, 1989), and then in a French translation (Robert Laffont Publishers, Paris, 1992).