CURRICULUM VITA
DONALD V. POOCHIGIAN
716 North 24th Street
Grand Forks, ND 58201
Telephone: (701) 775-9851
personal
Birthdate: 10-7-43
Married: Toni Poochigian
Three children
personal
Ph.D. 1971, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA (Government)
B.A. 1965, Fresno State College, Fresno, CA (Political Science)
academic positions
1999 - 2004, Chair of University of North Dakota Department of Philosophy and Religion
1989 - Present, University of North Dakota, Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Religion
1971 - 1989, University of North Dakota, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
1970 - 1971, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, MN, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
1969 - 1971, University of Minnesota at Morris, MN, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
areas of academic study
Majors:
Political Philosophy
American Government
Minors:
Methodology
Constitutional Law
publications
“The Federal Bureaucracy as a Formal Interest Representative System,” Midwestern Review of Public Administration, December, 1976.
“The Conception of Social and Political Development in Thomas Paine’s ‘Rights of Man,’” North Dakota Academy of Science, Proceedings, Volume 30, Part 2.
“A Defense of Sovereignty,” The North Dakota Quarterly, 48, Spring, 1980, 5-15.
Review of The Rewards of Public Service, Compensating Top Federal Officials, edited by Robert W. Hartman and Arnold R. Weber, in The Western Political Quarterly, XXXII, December 1980, 600-601.
Reviews of Understanding and Social Inquiry, edited by Fred W. Dallmayer, Thomas A. McCarthy; Steven R. Brown, Political Subjectivity, Applications of Q Methodology in Political Science; and Paul Snyder, Toward One Science, The Convergence of Traditions, published in Social Indicators Research.
“In Defense of Positive Government,” Current Issues in Political Philosophy: Justice and Welfare in Society and World Order, edited by Peter Kohl and Klaus Puhl (Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria: The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1996) 294-299.
“The Paradox of Acceptance,” in the 1995 Proceedings of The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy.
“The Patchwork Universe of Language,” in the 1996 Annals of the III International Latin-American Congress on Semiotics.
“To Resurrect a Ghost: In Defense of Psychological Dualism,” in The Paideia Project On-Line: The Paideia Archive, Philosophy of Mind, ed. Stephen Dawson (Boston: Twentieth World Conference of Philosophy, June 16, 1999) bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Mind/MindPooc.htm.
“Language as Descriptive Representation,” Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age, volume 2, edited by Peter Simons and Uwe Meixner (Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria: The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1999) 110-115.
“Science, Philosophy, and the Metaphysical,” Contemporary Philosophy, XXI, No. 1 & 2, (Jan/Feb 2000 & Mar/Apr 1999) 28-32.
“Ethical Mind,” in Toward a Science of Consciousness, eds. Tom Ziemke and Paavo Pylkkänen (Skövde, Sweden: Toward a Science of Consciousness, 2001) sec. ??.
“Liability as a Principle of General and Special Ethics,” General Aspects of Legal Philosophy: Theoretical Examinations and Practical Application, Archiv für Rechts-und Sozialphilosophie, November 26, 2002.
“Rationality in an Open Universe,” Conference Proceedings, ISSN#1539-7300 (Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, June 12-15, 2003)
“Semiotics as Sequence,” Proceedings of Metaphysics 2003, The Second World Conference, Rome, July 2-5, 2003, Metaphysics and Epistemology.
accepted for publication
“Free Will, Language, and Semiotics,” in The American Journal of Semiotics.
“Semiotics as Sequence,” in Proceedings of Metaphysics 2003.
“Law and Theory in Social Scientific Explanation,” in Actual Issues in History and Theory of Sociology.
academic activities
Commentator on a panel dealing with the political thought of Rousseau at the 1975 Midwestern Political Science Association Conference.
Chairperson of a panel entitled “Bending the Bureaucracy: From the Outside In or the Inside Out?” at the 1977 Midwestern Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “Natural Rights as Objective Moral Concepts” at the 1977 Meeting of the Minnesota Academy of Sciences.
Commentator on a panel entitled “Are There any Natural Rights?” at the 1978 American Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “A Theory of Contradictory Interests and Bureaucratic Representation” at the 1980 Western Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “Development of the Liberal Theory of Human Nature” at the 1980 Midwestern Political Science Association Conference.
Referee for February, 1981 issue of Public Personnel Management: Ethics in Government.
Presented a paper entitled “Outline of a Theory of Political Responsibility” at the 1981 Western Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “The Effects of Interest Contradiction on Bureaucratic Representation” at the 1981 Midwestern Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “Outline of a Theory of Political Morality” at the 1981 American Political Science Association Conference.
Commentator on a panel entitled “Political Obstacles to Management” at the 1981 Southern Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “Bureaucratic Responsibility” at the 1983 Southern Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “Thomas Paine’s Theory of Social and Political Development” at the 1985 Western Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “Welfare Rights and Natural Law” at the 1986 Southwestern Political Science Association Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “Meaning and Language: A Theory of Linguistic Genesis” at the 1992 Manitoba-North Dakota Linguistic Circle Conference.
Presented a paper entitled “The Semantical Basis of Language” at the 1994 Manitoba-North Dakota Linguistic Circle Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Presented a paper entitled “The Paradox of Acceptance” at the 1995 meeting of The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy in Lima, Peru.
Presented a paper entitled “In Defense of Positive Government” at the August 11-18, 1996, 19th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchbeg am Wechsel, Austria.
Presented a paper entitled “The Patchwork Universe of Language” at the 1996 III International Latin-American Congress on Semiotics in São Paulo, Brazil.
Presented a paper entitled “On the Nature of Signs: A Theory of the Semiotics of Meaning” at the 1996 Manitoba-North Dakota Linguistic Circle Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Accepted to deliver a paper entitled “The Role of Government in a Free Market Economy” at the 1997 Conference on Civil Society and Social Reconstruction, at the Universitad Santa Maria la Antigua, Panama, Panama. Unable to present my paper because of hospitalization in February, 1997.
Accepted to deliver a paper entitled “Semiotics and Language” at the 6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies in Guadalajara, Mexico. Unable to present my paper because of hospitalization in July, 1997. Paper was to be published.
Presented a paper entitled “Ethical Discrimination: A Critique of Generality” at the 1998 26th Conference on Value Inquiry in Montevallo, Alabama.
Presented a paper entitled “To Resurrect A Ghost: In Defense of Psychological Dualism” at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, Massachusetts.
Presented a paper entitled “Language as Descriptive Representation” at the October 23-24, 1998, Manitoba-North Dakota Linguistic Circle conference.
Presented a paper entitled “Science, Philosophy, and the Metaphysical,” at the August 1-6, 1999 Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research Annual Summer Conference in Breton Woods, New Hampshire.
Presented a paper entitled “Language as Descriptive Representation” at the August 15-21, 1999, 22nd International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchbeg am Wechsel, Austria.
Presented a paper entitled “The Cultural Traditions of Semiotics and Semiosis” at the October 22-23, 1999, Manitoba-North Dakota Linguistic Circle conference in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Presented a paper entitled “Relative Ethics as a Value” at the March 31-April 2, 2000, meeting of the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society, Irving, Texas.
Presented a paper entitled “Relative Ethics as a Value” at the April 13-15, 2000, 28th Conference on Value Inquiry, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas.
Presented a paper entitled “The Paradoxical Character of Consent” at the May 11-14, 2000, International Conference of Social Theory, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
Presented a paper entitled “The Linguistic Turn and the Crisis in Philosophy,” at the 52nd Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon (November 10-11, 2000).
Presented a paper entitled “Ethical Mind,” at the conference “Toward a Science of Consciousness” in Skövde, Sweden (August 6-11, 2001).
Poster presentation of a paper entitled “Consciousness and Scientific Mind,” at the conference “Toward a Science of Consciousness” in Tucson, Arizona (April 8-12, 2002).
Presented a paper entitled “Order as a Condition of a Universal Ethics,” at the conference “Social Theory 2002” in Dubrovnik, Croatia (1-4 July, 2002).
Presented a paper entitled “Thomas Paine and the Theory of Republican Economics,” at the 31st Conference on Value Inquiry: The History of Value Inquiry, The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota (April 10 - 12 , 2003).
Presented a paper entitled “Rationality in an Open Universe,” at the 2003 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences in Honolulu, Hawaii (June 12-15, 2003).
Chairperson of a panel entitled “Economics 9:45 - 11:15” at the 2003 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences in Honolulu, Hawaii (June 12-15, 2003).
Presented a paper entitled “Semiotics as Sequence,” at the conference “Metaphysics 2003" in Rome, Italy, (July 2-5, 2003).
Presented a paper entitled “Human Nature and Human Rights,” at the XXIst World Congress of Philosophy in Istanbul, Turkey (August 10-17, 2003).
Presented a paper entitled “The Metaphysics of Objective Ethics,” at the 32nd Conference on Value Inquiry: Values, Rational Choice, and the Will in Stevens Point, Wisconsin (April 1 - 3, 2004).
Presented a paper entitled “Discord and Concord,” at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the International Social Theory Consortium in Toronto, Canada (June 6 - 9, 2004).
Presented a paper entitled “Law and Theory in Social Scientific Explanation,” at the Social Theory section of the European Sociological Association conference on What is Theory For? On the Relationship Between Social Theory and Empirical Research in Paris, France (September 16 - 17, 2004).
Presented a paper entitled “A Democratic Critique of Freud’s Aristocratic Psychotherapy,” at The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society conference on “Psychoanalysis and Democracy” in New York, New York (October 15 - 17, 2004).
Presented a paper entitled “Law and Theory in Social and Natural Science,” at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association in Winnipeg, Manitoba (7-9 October 2005).
To present a paper entitled “On Abstraction,” at The Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities in Honolulu, Hawaii (January 13 - 16, 2005).
To present a paper entitled “The Paradox of One and Many,” at the International Conference On Philosophy sponsored by The European Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research in Athens, Greece (1-3 June 2006).
awards
Outstanding Teacher Award, University of North Dakota, 1973.
professional organizational membership
American Philosophical Association
The Society for Ethics
American Society for Value Inquiry
International Economics and Philosophy Society
courses taught
Introduction to Philosophy
Contemporary Moral Issues
Ethics
Philosophy of Law
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language
Twentieth Century Philosophy
American Philosophy
Business and Public Administration Ethics