Curriculum Vitae for Robert D. Lane

WORK HISTORY:

Present: Honorary Research Associate, Philosophy

1969 - 2000 Instructor, Counsellor, Chairman, Coordinator, Director Malaspina University-College 900 5th Street Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5S5 Retired July 31, 2000

1966 - 1969 Assistant Professor of English Southwestern Oregon Community college Coos Bay, Oregon

1964 - 1966 Graduate Student University of California Santa Barbara, California

1962 - 1964 Personnel Supervisor The Boeing Company Seattle, Washington

1961 - 1962 Truck dispatcher and Labor Foreman The Haskell Company Santa Barbara, California

1957 - 1961 University Student

1953 - 1957 Grunt - Sgt. United States Marine Corps, Korean veteran

RELATED POSITIONS:

• Recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Service Award from VIU.
• Founding Director, The Institute of Practical Philosophy.
• Parks Commissioner, City of Nanaimo, 2003 to 2006
• Founding Director and Executive Secretary, Vancouver Island Society for Practical Philosophy
• Board Member, BC Civil Liberties Association
• Managing Editor, Island, January, 1978 to 1987.
• Founding Director and President, Vancouver Island Literary Society, 1980 - 1987.
• Member Nanaimo and Region Hospital Society; member steering committee for ethics.
• Member of Veterans for Peace, Coos Bay, Oregon, 1967 - 1969

EDUCATION:

• 1953 High School Diploma, Wray, Colorado
• 1959 A.A. Math degree with honors, Santa Barbara City College
• 1961 B.A. English degree with honors, University of California
• 1966 M.A. English with distinction, University of California
• 1967 LTC Standard Teaching Credential in Junior College teaching, California
• 1976 M.A. Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.

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, Southwestern Oregon Community College production.
• 1971 Directed The Bald Soprano.
• 1978 Antonio, in Twelfth Night, directed by Ed Brubaker, produced by Malaspina College.

 PUBLICATIONS in recent years:

• 1994 Reading the Bible: Intention, Text, Interpretation, University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London, ISBN 0-8191-9114-0, January 1994. Now available on-line at the University of Pennsylvania. Second editiion (re-issue) iUniverse, May 2004.

• 1994 Review of The Making of the Messiah, by Robert Sheaffer, Humanist in Canada, Spring 1994.

• 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 Institute of Practical Philosophy, October, 1995.

• 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 Institute of Practical Philosophy

• Editor of the Chapbook series for the Institute of Practical Philosophy.

• 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.

• 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," South Western Oregon Community College Lecture Series.

• 1968 "Literary Interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount," South Western Oregon Community College Lecture Series.

• 1971 "Julius Caesar: the Politics of Love," Gresham Lecture at the Institute of Renaissance Studies, Ashland, Oregon.

• 1974 "I Gotta Use Words When I Talk to You," lecture for Simon Fraser University Philosophy Club.

• 1976 "Speech Acts," Malaspina College Faculty Lecture.

• 1979 "What is Philosophy?" Malaspina College Philosophy Club.

• 1979 "Don't Eat the Menu," Malaspina College Faculty Lecture.

• 1980 "Camus and the Absurd," a sermon for the Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo.

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, Nanaimo.

·         1998 "Metaphors be with you . . . comments on Matthew and Revelation" public lecture.

·         1999 "Civil Liberties and the Mental Health Act" invited speaker Port Alberni mental health association.

·         2000 "Religious Naturalism" a sermon for the Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo.

·         2001 "Descartes' Dream" invited speaker for the Unitarian Fellowship of Nanaimo.

·         2001 "Fact and Fiction" the Spanish Civil War and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

·         2001 "Descartes' Dream: Mind, matter, and mathematics" lecture for Liberal Studies at Malaspina U-C.

·         2001 "Euthanasia: religion, law, morality" invited speaker for the Bowen Park seniors.

·         2002 "What can philosophy do, for Heaven's sake?" sermon for the Unitarians of Nanaimo.

·         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 - 2009  Reviews on line: fiction and non-fiction

• 2010 Insects & Robots - quirky radio show.

updated Aug. 27, 2011.