Asian Studies Minor

 
 

MARIE-LOUISE FRIQUEGNON

Department of Philosophy 277 Avenue C - Apt 7E
William Paterson University New York, New York 10009
Wayne, New Jersey 07470 (212) 473-0365

EDUCATION

B.A. Barnard College Philosophy 1965
M.A. New York University Philosophy 1967
Ph.D New York University Philosophy 1974
Dissertation title: Religious Vision: Truth or MetaphorDissertation Advisor: Professor Chauncey Downes


EMPLOYMENT

William Paterson University - Professor of Philosophy 1995- Present
- Associate Professor of Philosophy 1974-94
- Assistant Professor of Philosophy 1969-74
Long Island University - Instructor in Philosophy 1968-69
Brooklyn College, CUNY - Instructor in Philosophy 1968-69
New York City Community College - Instructor in Philosophy 1967-68
New York City Department of Welfare - Case Worker 1965-67

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Ethics for Modern Life, 5th edition, with R. Abelson Sept. 1994

St. Martin's Press, New York editions of '75, '82, '86, '90, '94.

The Philosophical Imagination, with M. Lockwood and R. Abelson,

St. Martin=s Press, New York

Clarity and Vision, with R. Abelson Spring 1999

Shantarakshita, Wadsworth 2000

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

"Paradoxes of Determinism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1972.

"Metaphor in Religion and Art," Journal of Critical Analysis, 1971.

"Pursuing Paradox," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1974.

"The Artist and the Demon," in Sociology of the Arts, Ed. M. Weil, 1975.

God and Other Programs," Religious Studies, 1979.

"Right and Responsibilities of Young People," Thinking, February 980.

"Kohlberg at the Gap," in Philosophy, Childhood and the Family, Plenum Press, 1982.

"Childhood's End: The age of Responsibility, Thinking, February 1984.

"Tibetans Don't Oppose Technological Change" Letter, New York Times, September 1988.

"The Transforming Buddha" in The Journal of Ethical Culture, Fall 1990.

"Philosophical Problems of Child Abuse" with Wilavene Ecker in Victims of Crime, Plenum Press, 1991.

"Children's Responsibilities" in Thinking Children and Education, ed. Matthew Lipman, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1993.

AEthics of the Global Village@ in Questioning Matters, ed. Daniel Kolak, Mayfield 2000.

ABuddhism in Kalmykia@ with Maris Abelson, forthcoming Pema Mandala, Spring 2000.

REVIEWS

The Sufis by Indries Shah, Journal of Critical Analysis, 1971.

Insight and Illusion, by P.M.S. Hacker, Journal of Critical Analysis, 1976

Causality and Scientific Explanation, by William Wallace, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1977.

Causality and Determinism by H. von Wright, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1977.

What is a Child in Thinking vol 13, No. 1 1997

PAPERS READ TO CONFERENCES

"The Paradoxes of Determinism," American Philosophical Association, Midwestern Division, 1969.

"The Religious Perspective," American Philosophical Association, Midwestern Division, 1970.

"Religion and Art," New York University Philosophy Club, 1971.

"Wittgenstein's Notion of Criteria," New Jersey Philosophical

Association, 1972.

"Witchcraft and Truth," New Jersey Philosophical Association, 1973.

"The Cosmological Argument," University of S. Florida Colloquium, 1976.

"Ramanuja's Concept of a Person," Suffolk County Community College, 1976.

"Zimmerman on Fingarette and Freud," New Jersey Philosophical Association, 1978.

"Women, Negative Freedom and Social Justice," University of S. Florida Colloquium, 1978.

"Children's Rights," New Jersey Philosophical Association, 1978.

"Kohlberg at the Gap," Machette Foundation Lecture, University of Manchester, 1979.

"The Moral Development of Children," International Philosophical Society, Paris, 1979.

"Rights and Responsibilities of Young People," New Jersey Philosophical Association, 1979.

"Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development," Michigan State University, 1980.

"Childhood," Ocean County Community College, 1980.

"The Ethics of Mainstreaming," Eastern Division, American Philosophy of Education Association, Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania, November 1980.

"What is a Child?" University of S. Florida Philosophy Club, January 1991.

"American Family Traditions and Conflicts," American Culture Association, Cincinnati, March 1981.

"The Ethics of Child abuse," Pace University, Spring 1981.

"Family Traditions and Children's Rights," Conference on Human Rights, Tallahassee, October 21, 1981.

"Philosophy of Childhood," Museum of Philosophy, Pace University, October 30, 1981.

"What is a Child?" New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, 1982.

"The Criminal Responsibility of Young People," Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs CUNY, April 1982.

"Juvenile Culpability," NYU Law School (Conference on Juvenile Criminal Responsibility), March

1983.

"Other People's Children," Rutgers Newark, Fall 1983.

"The Logic of Dignaga," Rutgers, New Jersey Regional Philosophical, Fall 1985.

"Buddhism," St. David's Church, October 1987.

"Buddhism and Western Religion, Ethics and Science," Lehigh

University, October 1987.

Moderator - Panel on Plato and Aristotle, Baruch College, October 1987.

Moderator - Panel on Plato and Aristotle, Baruch College, October, 1988.

Moderator - Panel on Plato and Aristotle, Baruch College, October 1989.

"Shantaraksita and the Precursors of Sankara", Congress of Vedanta, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, April 1990.

"Shantaraksita, Sankara and the Problem of Nihilism", Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, November 1990.

"Wittgenstein and Dzoghen" - WPC Faculty Colloquium, November 1990.

"Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy" and "Sikhism, a Comment" at Society for Ancient and Islamic Philosophy, Baruch College, October 1991.

"Appearances of Monism and Theism in Tibetan Buddhism", WPC Philosophy Colloquim, November 1991.

"Buddhist Ethics", Binghamton, Fall 1993.

"The role of the Teacher in Buddhist Philosophy", Cornell, Spring, 1994.

"Violence, Juveniles and Plato", WPC and Binghamton, Fall 1994.

AMorality and Mysticism in Buddhism@, Binghamton, Fall 1995.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

William Paterson University Conference: Philosophy and the Child, November 20, 1981.

Member, Advisory Board, Institute and Museum of Philosophy, Pace University.

Academic Development Committee - 1981-82, 1982-83.

Conference Coordinator: Conference on Juvenile CriminalResponsibility NYU Law School, March 19, 1987.

Language Study: Sanskrit and Tibetan, 1985-Present.Visiting Scholar, South Eastern Institute, Columbia University, Spring 1987-88.

Senate, Graduate Council 1987-88.

Library Committee Philosophy Dept., 1988-Present.

Hiring Committee, Philosophy Department, 1987-Present.

Executive Committee, WPC Teachers Union (AFCT), 1986-Present.

Counselor for Minority Students, 1990.

Advisor, Poetry Coffee House, 1991

Assessment Committee, 1994.

Report of Human Rights in Tibet and Chiapas, Mexico, Green Party, New York City,

April 15, 1999

WORK IN PROGRESS

Translation from Tibetan of poems of Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche Homage to the Buddha (with Toy Tung)

New Edition Ethics for Modern Life (with Raziel Abelson)

Philosophy of Childhood - Forthcoming Wadsworth Press

The Logic of the Lotus - Forthcoming Wadsworth Press