Welcome to Bruce Umbaugh's Web Pages
Here, you can
- see my contact info, course
descriptions, or syllabi
- look at advice and follow links for parents
concerned about their children and the Net
- learn about the X-Ray Net mailing list on cyberspace, its infrastructures, their educational, ethical, and cultural import, and related stuff that interests me, leap to the latest version of the X-Ray Net Web log, or search the X-Ray Net Web logor
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Conduct your own search at amazon.com, where proceeds from purchases may benefit the Philosophy Department's online teaching, or search specifically for
Computer Ethics and Philosophy books, Internet Culture books, relevant Technology books, Internet and Privacy books, Philosophy of Technology books, or Eno's music, Music by Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, George Clinton, Gil Scott-Heron, or negativland.
The time where I live is:
About me
I earned a BA in Philosophy from the Honors Tutorial College of Ohio
University, and an MA and PhD in philosophy
from the University of Maryland, College
Park. I've been at Webster since 1994, and live in St. Louis, Missouri.
I drink coffee,
and I have brewed
beer (though not lately, I'm afraid).
I belong to the American Philosphical
Association, the Philosophy of Science Association, the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. I regularly attend Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. I serve on the advisory
board for No
Dogs or Philosophers Allowed, the world's foremost philosophy talk
show. I have taught critical thinking at CollegeTown
MOO, and I also sometimes spend time at MediaMOO
and The WELL. I administer the College of Arts and Sciences Web conferencing system. My new book, On Berkeley, on the British empiricist and idealist philosopher George Berkeley, would make a great gift for your thinking friends and family members.
Among my current projects
- I'm on leave.
Recently, though, I have
- Served on the Program Committee for CFP2000 and chaired its student competition
- Written or given presentations about
- Building a Virtual Teaching/Learning Community (HTMLified slides from a presentation by Andrew W. Davis, Art Sandler, Emily E. Thompson, Bruce Umbaugh, and Keith E. Welsh at the Council of independent Colleges National Conference, June 1999)
- "People as Subjects and Objects: Contrasting Market and Academic Research" (In the Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy: challenging the assumptions, available online as part of the ACM Digital Library.)
- Been teaching
- been developing a consequentialist treatment of human rationality
- been thinking about social authority and knowledge
- been making sense of the notion of virtual community
- been maintaining the X-Ray Net mailing list and weblog on cyberspace (and some other) stuff that interests me
- been preparing my courses for the Spring 2001 (!) term:
Other links (old and largely out of date but I somehow can't yet bring myself to delete this section)
(Aren't some of those second-generation Web pages lovely today?)
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