CURRICULUM
VITAE
Department
of Political Science
Northern
Telephone:
815-753-7049 (office), 847-224-6163 (cell phone)
E-mail:
larnhart@niu.edu
DATE
OF BIRTH:
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
in Political Science, 1977, The
M.A.
in Political Science, 1974, The
B.A.
(Majoring in Politics), 1971, The
AREAS
OF SPECIALIZATION
History of Political Philosophy (from Plato
to Hayek), Biopolitical Theory, Ethics of Biotechnology, Philosophy of Science
and Technology, Darwinian Ethics, American Political Thought
TEACHING
POSITIONS
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
Illinois, Department of Political Science, Assistant Professor, 1983-1987;
Associate Professor, 1987-1995; Professor, 1995 to present
The
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
Member of the Editorial Board for Interpretation: A Journal of Political
Philosophy, 1980-1985
Member of the Editorial Board for Politics and the Life Sciences, 1991 to
2000.
Section organizer for all the panels on
"Politics and the Life Sciences" at the 1992 convention of the
American Political Science Association in
Member of the Council of the Association
for Politics and the Life Sciences, 1992 to 2001.
Member of the Editorial Board for Evolutionary Psychology, a refereed
internet journal edited by Ian Pitchford
Invited participant at 30 colloquia sponsored
by the
Director of three colloquia (in
Associate Editor for The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, 4 volumes,
published in 2005 by Macmillan Reference USA
Member of the National Endowment for the
Humanities panel reviewing all research fellowship proposals in political
science and jurisprudence for 2005-2006.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Sponsor,
one of 70 university professors who can nominate graduate students for Earhart
Fellowships.
GRANTS
1971, Richard M. Weaver Fellowship,
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
1971-1974,
Hillman Fellowship,
1981,
Earhart Foundation, Book Publishing Subvention
1985, Northern
1988-1989, National Endowment for the
Humanities, Fellowships for University Teachers, for a year of research at
1992,
Earhart Foundation, Research Fellowship
1996, Participant, National Science
Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute on “The
Biology of Human Nature,”
1997, Participant, National Science
Foundation Chautauqua Short Course on "The Neurobiology of Mind,"
1997,
1999,
Earhart Foundation, Research Fellowship
2002-2003,
Earhart Foundation, Research Fellowship
2002,
2003, Liberty Fund, a grant of $44,500 to
support a conference (with 18 participants) on “Liberty in the Evolution of the
Human Brain” at the Westward Look Resort in Tucson, Arizona, April 1-4, 2004.
2004,
2005,
DISSERTATION SUPERVISION
Of the Ph.D. dissertations that I have
supervised at Northern Illinois University, four have been published as books: Laurie M. Johnson, Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism (DeKalb:
Northern Illinois University Press, 1993); Clifford Angell Bates, Aristotle’s “Best Regime”: Kingship,
Democracy, and the Rule of Law (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 2003); Marlene K. Sokolon, Political
Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion (DeKalb:
Northern Illinois University Press, 2005); and Stephen McCarthy, The Rhetoric of Tyranny: An Aristotelian
Analysis of Singapore and Burma (London: Routledge, 2006).
PUBLICATIONS
Aristotle
on Political Reasoning: A Commentary on the “Rhetoric”
(DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1981; paperback edition, 1986).
Political
Questions: Political Philosophy from Plato to Rawls,
first edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987), second edition
(Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1993), third edition (
Darwinian
Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998).
Darwinian
Conservatism (
"Language and Nature in
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations,"
Journal of Thought, 10 (July 1975):
194-199.
"William Crosskey and the Common
Law," Loyola of
"'The God-Like Prince': John Locke,
Executive Prerogative, and the American Presidency," Presidential Studies Quarterly 9 (Spring 1979): 121-130.
"The Rationality of Political
Speech: An Interpretation of Aristotle's Rhetoric,"
Interpretation 9 (September 1981):
141-154.
"Statesmanship as Magnanimity:
Classical, Christian, and Modern," Polity
16 (Winter 1983): 263-83.
"
"Teaching Political Philosophy as
Plausible Reasoning," News for the
Teachers of Political Science, American Political Science Association,
Spring, 1984, p. 8.
"
"Abraham Lincoln's Biblical
Liberalism," The St. John’s Review
36 (Summer 1984): 25-39.
"Moral and Intellectual Virtues in
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics,"
Polis (The Society for Greek
Political Thought) 6 (1987): 127-137.
"Aristotle's Biopolitics: A Defense
of Biological Teleology against Biological Nihilism," Politics and the Life Sciences 6 (1988): 173-225 (with commentaries
and author's response).
"The Deliberative Rhetoric of The Federalist," Political Science Reviewer 19 (Spring
1990): 49-86.
"Aristotle, Chimpanzees, and Other
Political Animals," Social Science
Information 29 (1990): 477-557.
"Feminism, Primatology, and Ethical
Naturalism," Politics and the Life
Sciences 11 (August 1992): 157-78 (with commentaries and author's
response).
"The Darwinian Biology of
Aristotle's Political Animals," The
American Journal of Political Science 38 (1994): 464-485.
"A Sociobiological Defense of
Aristotle's Sexual Politics," International
Political Science Review 15 (1994): 389-416.
"The New Darwinian Naturalism in
Political Theory," American
Political Science Review 89 (1995): 389-400. (A synopsis of this article appeared in The Wilson Quarterly, autumn, 1995.)
"Nature and Culture in Feminist
Biology," Politics and the Life
Sciences 14 (1995): 163-64 (a commentary on an article).
"Does the Moral Sense Require
Religious Belief?" The Long Term
View 3 (Fall, 1996): 9-15.
"George Anastaplo on Non-Western
Thought," Political Science Reviewer
26 (1997): 214-247.
"The Search for a Darwinian Science
of Ethics," Science & Spirit
9 (1998): 4-7.
"The New Darwinian Naturalism in
Political Theory," Zygon: Journal of
Religion and Science 33 (1998): 369-393.
(This is a reprint of an article first published in the American Political Science Review in
1995.)
"Evolution and Ethics," Books and Culture, November, 1999, pp.
36-39.
"Defending Darwinian Natural Right,"
Interpretation 27 (2000): 263-77.
"Conservatives, Darwin, and
Design," First Things, November,
2000, pp. 23-28, 30-31 (with comments by Michael Behe and William Dembski and
the author’s response).
"Thoughts on Darwinian Natural
Right: A Response to Sutherland and Hughes," The Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (2000): 80-86.
"
"Designing Critics: A Review of the
Conference on 'Design and Its Critics'," Skeptic, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2000, pp. 20-22.
"Evolution and the New
Creationism," Skeptic, vol. 8,
no. 4, 2001, pp. 46-52.
"Stealing
"The Truth, Goodness, and Beauty of
Darwinism," Zygon: Journal of
Science and Religion 36 (2001): 77-92.
"Thomistic Natural Law as Darwinian
Natural Right," Social Philosophy
& Policy 18 (2001): 1-33. For a summary of this article, see “A
Medieval Sociobiologist,” The Wilson
Quarterly, Spring 2001, p. 95.
"Assault on Evolution," Salon.com, the feature article for
“Natural Right and Biotechnology,” The Claremont Review of Books, winter
2002, pp. 36-39. This is an essay-review
on Francis Fukuyama’s Our Posthuman
Future.
“Why Males Rule,” The
“Four Arguments in the Intelligent Design
Debate,” Zygon: A Journal of Science and
Religion, vol. 38, December 2003. This
is an essay-review on William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs
of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design.
“Human Nature is Here to Stay,” The New Atlantis, Number 2, Summer,
2003, pp. 65-78. A summary of this
article appeared in The Chronicle of
Higher Education, vol. 50 (
“Darwinian Conservatism,”
“Darwinian Conservatism as the New
Natural Law,” The Good Society, vol.
12, no. 3, 2003, pp. 14-19.
“Natural Law and the Darwinian
Conservatism of Sex Differences,” Perspectives
on Political Science (forthcoming)
"Mathematics and the Problem of
Intelligibility." In Law and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of
George Anastaplo, eds. John A. Murley, Robert L. Stone, and William T.
Braithwaite, pp. 19-32.
"Human Nature--One, Two, or None?:
Feminism and Primatology." In Human Nature and Politics, eds. Albert
Somit and Joseph Losco, pp. 137-66.
"Aldo Leopold's Human Ecology."
In Conservation Reconsidered, ed.
Charles Rubin, pp. 103-32.
"Roger Masters: Natural Right and
Biology." In Leo Strauss, the
Straussians, and the American Regime, eds. John Murley and Kenneth
Deutsch.
"Thomistic Natural Law as Darwinian
Natural Right." In Natural Law and Modern Moral Philosophy,
eds. Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, and Jeffrey Paul, pp. 1-33.
“The Incest Taboo as Darwinian Natural Right.” In Inbreeding,
Incest, and the Incest Taboo, edited by Arthur Wolf and William Durham, pp.
190-217.
“The Darwinian Moral Sense and Biblical
Morality.” In Evolution and Ethics: Human
Morality in Biological & Religious Perspective, edited by Philip
Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company,
2004), pp. 204-220.
Articles in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, 4 volumes, ed.
Carl Mitcham (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005): “Atlantis, Old and New,” 1:132-34; “Francis
Bacon,” 1:165-68; “Biotech Ethics,” 1:227-32; “Brave New World,” 1:247-50;
“Rene Descartes,” 2:499-502; “Evolutionary Ethics,” 2:715-20; “Evolution-Creationism
Debate,” 2:720-23; “Human Nature,” 2:952-56; “Nature,” 3:1295-98; “President’s
Council on Bioethics,” 3:1482-86
Articles in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (
A
list of book reviews is available upon request
CONFERENCE
PAPERS AND WRITTEN LECTURES
"Reasoning with the Passions:
Aristotle on Emotion in Rhetorical Argument." A paper presented at the 1977 Annual Meetings
of the
"The
Federalist as Aristotelian Rhetoric."
A paper presented at the 1979 Annual Meetings of the
"Consenting to Property: Capitalism,
Legitimacy, and the Economic Theory of Property Rights." A paper presented at the 1980 Annual Meeting
of the
"Statesmanship as Magnanimity:
Classical, Christian, and Modern." A paper presented at the 1981 Annual
Meetings of the American Political Science Association,
"Charles Darwin and the Declaration
of
"Was the Vietnam War
Just?" A paper presented at the
1983 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago,
September 1-4.
"Aristotle,
"The Aristotelian Rhetoric of
"Abraham Lincoln's Biblical
Liberalism." A paper presented at
the 1985 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association,
"The Problem of Teleology in
Aristotle's Biopolitics." A paper
presented at the 1986 Annual Meetings of the
"Aristotle's Biopolitics." A paper presented at the 1986 Annual Meetings
of the American Political Science Association,
"Nihilism and Bioethics:
"Is Darwinian Evolution a Deadly
Truth?" A lecture at
"The Deliberative Rhetoric of The Federalist." A paper presented at a conference sponsored
by the
"Slavery and the Biology of Natural
Right." A paper presented at the
1989 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"Aristotle, Chimpanzees, and Other
Political Animals." A paper
presented at the 1989 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science
Association,
"A Sociobiological Defense of
Aristotle's Sexual Politics." A
paper presented at the 1990 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science
Association,
"Explaining
"Lincoln and Darwin on Biology and
Slavery." A paper presented at a
Conference on Lincoln and Slavery sponsored by the Basic Program in the Liberal
Arts of the University of Chicago, Alpine Valley Lodge, Wisconsin, May 17-19,
1991.
"Feminism as Primatology." A paper presented at the 1991 Annual Meetings
of the American Political Science Association, August 29-September 1.
"War and Natural Justice." A lecture at St. Mary's
"A Darwinian Defense of Aristotelian
Naturalism." A paper presented at
the 1993 conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy,
and Social Studies of Biology,
"How Animals Move from 'Is' to
'Ought'." A paper presented at the
1993 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"The New Darwinian Naturalism in
Political Theory." A paper
presented at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association,
"A Darwinian Theory of Slavery and
the Moral Sense." A paper presented
at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the
"Darwinian Natural Right." A paper presented at the 1995 convention of
the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 31-September 3.
"Does the Moral Sense Require
Religious Belief?" A paper
presented at the 1995 convention of the