Bio/CV
Me biking at Lake Patoka, Indiana, summer 2009
Radio talk show host: The Antimatter Radio Show. Author: three books. Filmmaker: two films. I was born in Michigan in 1970. Currently reside in West Lafayette, IN. Former teacher (college), teaching philosophy (specifically: Eastern philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, and the amalgamantion of Buddhism and physics). Married. Ardent Second Amendment activist. Political activist. Metaphysician. Religion: Buddhist. Political party: Constitution Party (formerly Libertarian). Music preference: Baroque. Art preference: cinepoems, street art. Reading preferences: metaphysics, philosophy, political, firearms. Main interests: metaphysical practices, guns, political activism, meditation. If you want to see a resume from my ‘other life’ (which gradually ended but came to its total halt in 2009), back from when I was a college teacher, here is my CV (resume):
Curriculum Vitae
Jeffrey Grupp
West Lafayette, IN
EDUCATION:
Purdue University, Ph.D., Philosophy (not completed, postponed midway through third year)
Planned PhD Dissertation: Quantum Deleuze (postponed)
Western Michigan University, M.A., Philosophy, 2003
MA Thesis: Some Questions about the Interconnectedness and Interrelatedness of Entities (Click to read)
MA Thesis Committee Chair: Quentin Smith.
MA Thesis Committee Members: William Vallicella, John Dilworth
University of New Mexico, B.A., Anthropology (Behavioral Ecology) (Minor in Philosophy), 1999
Note: I also have taken many classes in mathematics and physics (mathematics through calculus III, and physics through analytic/intermediate mechanics)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics
Buddhist Philosophy in India (100 C.E. – 900 C.E.),
Metaphysics
Anthropological and Economic Philosophical Issues
AREAS OF COMPETENCE:
Atomism
Eastern Philosophy
Philosophy of Physics, Space, and Time
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
12. “Buddhist Compassion and the Moral Nihilism of Quantum Non-matter,” this article was published in an edited volume, I believe in India, but I do not know where, since I lost track of what transpired with the article when it neared publication. I will be posting it’s publication location soon.
11. “Mereological Nihilism: Quantum Atomism, and the Impossibility of Material Constitution,” Axiomathes: An International Journal in Ontology and Cognitive Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2006, pp. 245-386.
10. “Blob Theory: N-adic Properties Do Not Exist,” Sorites, Vol. 17, 2006, pp. 104-131.
9. “God’s Spatial Unlocatedness Prevents Him From Being the Creator of the Universe. A New Argument for the Nonexistence of God,” Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2006, pp. 5-23.
8. “Western Analytic Metaphysics Reduces to a Philosophy of Brahman,” [Part 2], Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), 2005, Vol. XXI, No. 3, 2004, pp. 1-41.
7. “The R-Theory of Time, or Replacement Presentism: The Buddhist Philosophy of Time,” The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies (IIJBS), No. 6, 2005, pp. 51-122.
6. “Western Analytic Metaphysics Reduces to a Philosophy of Brahman,” [Part 1], Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), 2005, Vol. XXI, No.2, 2004, pp. 1-51.
5. “The Impossibility of Temporal Relations Between Non-Identical Times: New Arguments for Presentism,” Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 18, May 2005, pp. 91-125.
4. “The Impossibility of Relations Between Non-Collocated Spatial Objects and Non-Identical Topological Spaces,” Axiomathes: An International Journal in Ontology and Cognitive Systems, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 85-141(57).
3. “Compresence is a Bundle: A Problem for the Bundle Theory of Objects,” Metaphysica: The International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2004, pp. 63-72.
2. “Problems with the Platonist Exemplification Tie Between Located Entities and an Unlocated Entity,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Vol. XLIII, 2004, pp. 491-498.
1. “The Impossibility of an Exemplification Tie Between Particulars and Universals,” Metaphysica: The International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2003, pp. 27-38.
ARTICLE IN REFEREED PHYSICS JOURNAL: (Paper available soon)
“Grünbaum Did Not Solve Zeno’s Measure Paradox,” The Proceedings of the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 44-49.
ARTICLES IN NON-REFEREED JOURNALS: (Click on paper title to read)
“Some Questions about the Exemplification Tie Between Universals and Particulars,” Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society, Vol. 21, 2002-2003.
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS: (Click on paper title to read)
“The Impossibility of Justified Macroscopic Empirical Basic Beliefs: A Defense of Nonradical Skepticism“
“Deleuzian Platonism is Quantum Reality”
“Rortian-Freudian Individualism“
“Tufaylian Metaphysics and Platonism“
CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED: (Click on paper title to read)
“The Impossibility of God,” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, February 24-25, 2006.
PRESENTED COMMENTARIES: (Click on paper title to read)
2. “There are no Causal Relations or Causal Processes: A Response to Devlin’s Criticism of Salmon,” invited commentary, Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, October 2005.
1. “David Schenk’s ‘New Referential Version of the Date Theory of Time’,” invited commentary, Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, September 2003.
DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIA OR TALKS: (Papers available soon)
2. “A New Argument Against Extended Philosophical Atoms,” Illinois Institute of Technology, Lewis Department of Humanities, Colloquium Series, May 5, 2006.
1. “Atomic Buddhism: Quantum Energy and the Nonexistence of Matter,” April 19, 2006. UCLA, Digital Media Arts Building, 11000 Kinross Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
AWARDS:
2. All-University Research & Creative Scholar Award, Western Michigan University, 2003.
1. Heraclitean Society Essay Prize, 2003, for “Some Questions about the Exemplification Tie Between Universals and Particulars.” Amount awarded: $200. Published in Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society, Vol. 21, 2002-2003. (Click on paper title to read)
POSITIONS:
Independent researcher (March 2009 – )
Adjunct Faculty in Philosophy, Purdue University, North Central (August 2007 -March 2009)
Courses:
Religions of the East
Introduction to Ethics
Religions of the West
Great Issues
Adjunct Faculty in Philosophy, Purdue University, Calumet (January 2007 – December 2008)
Courses:
Introduction to Ethics
Ethics for the Professions
Adjunct Faculty in Philosophy, Indiana University Northwest (August 2004 – June 2007)
Courses:
Philosophy P100, Introduction to
Philosophy
Philosophy P105 / P150, Elementary
Philosophy P140, Introduction to Ethics
Philosophy P310, Topics in Metaphysics
Philosophy P334, Buddhist Philosophy
Philosophy P393, Biomedical Ethics
Adjunct Faculty in Philosophy, Grand Valley State University (August 2004 – May 2005)
Courses:
Philosophy 101, Introduction to Philosophy
Instructor, Western Michigan University, Dept. of Comparative Religion (August 2004 – August 2005)
Courses:
Adjunct Faculty in Philosophy, Indiana University South Bend (January 2004 – May 2004)
Courses:
Philosophy P105/P150, Elementary Logic
Philosophy P140, Introduction to Ethics
Adjunct Faculty in Philosophy, Western Michigan University (January 2004 – May 2004)
Courses:
Philosophy 350, The Modern Worldview
Instructor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University (January 2002 – December 2003)
Courses:
Philosophy 255, Science, Technology and Values
Philosophy 220, Critical Thinking and Introduction to Logic
Instructor of Philosophy, Kalamazoo Valley Community College (August 2002 – December 2003)
Courses:
Philosophy 203, Introduction to Logic
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
4. Referee for Dialectica and Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics
3. Guest Editor for “Theories of Simples.”. Special Issue for Philo: Journal of Philosophy, 2006
2. Associate Editor: Philo: Journal of Philosophy, June 2004 to March 2006
1. Member of the Editorial Board of Philo: Journal of Philosophy, June 2003 to June 2004
STUDENT RESEARCH SUPERVISION:
Supervised an independent study on the philosophy of time for Joshua Upson of Western Michigan University in 2004. (Upson was later awarded Presidential Scholar Award at Western Michigan University, 2005)
