Curriculum Vitae for Robert
D. Lane
WORK HISTORY:
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Present: Honorary
Research Associate, Philosophy |
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1969
- 2000 Instructor, Counsellor, Chairman, Coordinator, Director Malaspina
University-College
Retired |
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1966 -
1969 Assistant Professor of English
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1964
- 1966 Graduate Student
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1962 -
1964 Personnel Supervisor The Boeing Company |
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1961
- 1962 Truck dispatcher and Labor Foreman The Haskell Company |
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1957 -
1961 University Student |
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1953
- 1957 Grunt - Sgt. United States Marine Corps, Korean veteran |
RELATED POSITIONS:
- Recipient of the 2008
Outstanding Service Award from VIU.
- Founding Director, The
- Parks Commissioner, City of
- Founding Director and Executive
Secretary,
- Board Member, BC Civil
Liberties Association
- Managing Editor,
- Founding Director and
President,
- Member
- Member of Veterans for Peace,
EDUCATION:
- 1953 High School Diploma,
- 1959 A.A. Math degree with
honors,
- 1961 B.A. English degree with
honors,
- 1966 M.A. English with
distinction,
- 1967 LTC Standard Teaching
Credential in Junior College teaching,
- 1976 M.A. Philosophy,
ACTING:
- 1967 Various parts in reading
theatre productions of Under Milkwood, No Exit,
The Lady's Not For Burning.
- 1968 Mr. Augenblick
in The Last Word,
- 1971 Directed The Bald Soprano.
- 1978 Antonio, in Twelfth Night,
directed by Ed Brubaker, produced by
PUBLICATIONS in recent years:
- 1994 Reading the Bible:
Intention, Text, Interpretation, University Press of
Second editiion (re-issue) iUniverse, May 2004. Textbook for English 273, Fall 2012
- 1994 Review of The Making of
the Messiah, by Robert Sheaffer, Humanist
in
- 1994 "Finding
Patterns in Hemingway and Camus: Construction of Meaning and Truth,"
co-authored with Steven M. Lane, a paper accepted by the
Hemingway/Fitzgerald Societies for the International Conference in Paris,
France, and delivered at the conference.
- 1994 Review of Practical
Ethics, 2nd edition, by Peter Singer; in Philosophical Books,
35, No. 4, October, 1994.
- 1995 Euthanasia: the debate
continues, co-authored with Richard Dunstan, published by the
- 1996 Review of A
Philosophical Testament, by Marjorie Grene,
in Canadian Philosophical Journal.
- 1995 "The Book of
Job" a lecture for the Liberal Studies class.
- 1996 "Beckett's Godot: A Bundle of Broken Mirrors" for the North
American Beckett Festival, at the University of Victoria, now a chapter in
The Beckett Papers, published by University of Victoria press.
- 1997 Web master for all IPP
pages.
- 1998 "Nursing a Healthy
Skepticism," paper presented at workshop on Health Care, Feb. 1998.
- 1998 editor, "Myth and the
Meaning of Life" and "Where to Look for God" by Dr. John
Crane, as part of the
- Editor of the Chapbook series
for the
- 1998 review of Perspectives
on Power by Noam Chomsky, in Humanist in Canada, Autumn 1998,
No. 126.
- 1999 "Three Day Job,"
short story in Platte Valley Review, Spring
1999.
- 2000 "Lost and
Found," short story in Platte Valley Review,
Spring 2000 issue.
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2000 "Billy," short
story in Platte Valley Review, Winter
2000 issue.
- 2004 "Billy" reprinted in Humanist
in Canada.
- 2005 "Most Canadians want
Assisted Suicide Legalized" in Assisted Suicide: Current
Controversies, Greenhaven Press, USA.
- 2006 Redneck,
a selection of short stories.
complete list of publications
available.
Public Lectures:
- 1967 "Albert Camus: the
Absurd Hero,"
- 1968 "Literary
Interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount,"
- 1971 "Julius Caesar: the
Politics of Love,"
- 1974 "I Gotta Use Words When I Talk to You," lecture for
- 1976 "Speech Acts,"
- 1979 "What is
Philosophy?"
- 1979 "Don't Eat the
Menu,"
- 1980 "Camus and the
Absurd," a sermon for the Unitarian Fellowship of
- 1986 "Obligation, Anarchy,
and the B.C. Lions," MCFA Lecture Series on political philosophy.
- 1988 "The Book of
Job," lecture for the Humanists in
- 1988 "Abortion
Debate," UBC, June, 1988.
- 1988
- 1989 "Deconstructing
Pretense: The Irrelevant Curriculum,"
- 1990 "Physcians,
Patients, and Paternalism," a paper delivered at
- 1991 "Julius Caesar: the
politics of love" - invited lecturer at the
- 1992 "King Lear:
Atheism, Theism, and Shakespeare's Deeper Vision" - invited panelist
at the
- 1992 "The Ethics of Ethics
Committees," invited panelist at a general forum for the
- 1994 "Descartes'
Meditations" a lecture for the Liberal Studies class.
- 1995 "Morality and the
Book of Job" a lecture for the Liberal Studies class.
- 1995 "On Reading the
Bible" a sermon for the Unitarian Fellowship of
- 1996 "Beckett's Godot: A Bundle of Broken Mirrors" for the
North American Beckett Festival, at the
To read the Beckett paper click here.
1997 "Matthew's Jesus - and Moses"
public lecture.
1998 Nursing a Healthy Skepticism invited
speaker for health care symposium,
1998 "Metaphors be with you . . . comments
on Matthew and Revelation" public lecture.
1999 "Civil Liberties and the Mental
Health Act" invited
2000 "Religious Naturalism" a sermon
for the Unitarian Fellowship of
2001 "Descartes' Dream" invited
speaker for the Unitarian Fellowship of
2001 "Fact and Fiction" the Spanish
Civil War and For Whom the
2001 "Descartes' Dream: Mind, matter, and
mathematics" lecture for Liberal Studies at Malaspina U-C.
2001 "Euthanasia: religion, law,
morality" invited speaker for the
2002 "What can philosophy do,
for Heaven's sake?" sermon for the Unitarians of
2003 “What Matters?” lecture for the
philosophy club.
2004 “Good, God, and Nietzsche”
lecture for the philosophy club.
2005 “Big Bro' is watching!
Philosophers' Café.
2006 Episyllogism
- a philosopher's Blog.
2007 - 2012 Reviews on
line: fiction and
non-fiction
2010 Insects & Robots -
quirky radio show.
2012 Tell Me a Story - sermon for the Unitarians of Nanaimo.
2012 October
2012 "The Christmas Story" - Sermon for the Unitarian Fellowship - here.
updated
January 12, 2013.