Howard Tuttle

Adjunct Professor of Philosophy

cptut@networld.com

Department of Philosophy
University of Utah
260 S. Central Campus Drive
Orson Spencer Hall, Room 347
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Phone: (801) 581-3486

Electronic CV

Brief Biography: Howard Tuttle was born and raised in Salt Lake City, earned a B.A. in Philosophy and M.A. in Political Philosophy from the University of Utah, then M.A. in Government from Harvard University, a Certificate in Philosophy of Law and German Philosophy at the University of Vienna, and his Ph.D. at Brandeis University in the History of Philosophy. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico until retirement, though for a year he was Exchange Professor in Germany at the Universities of Essen and Duisburg.

During his UNM career he was Chair of the Philosophy Department, and specialized in teaching History of 19th and 20th Century German Philosophy from Kant through Heidegger, seminars in great figures, Greek Philosophy, Phenomenology, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of History, and Philosophy of Literature. (A complete list of courses taught will be found below.)

Presently he is Adjunct Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, since Summer 2005, having come out of retirement after completing the publication of his fifth book. He is currently teaching Ancient Greek Philosophy and 19th Century Philosophy The list of his publications follows, but they focus especially on Hegel and Dewey, then the comparative ideas of such 19th and 20th century thinkers as Dilthey, Heidegger, Ortega y Gasset, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard.

He lives now in Salt Lake City with his wife Carolyn, who has recently published a book of songs for Alzheimer's patients. They have two children, Carl (an astrophysicist in California) and Laura (a child psychiatrist in Washington, DC), and a granddaughter, Emily. Howard is also a published poet and author of a children's book. Other pursuits include travel to China, India, Japan, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Russia, Europe, South America, and Mexico; hiking, cross-country skiing, and jogging. He loves the state of Utah and his mountain cabin there.

Education

• University of Utah, B.A.
• University of Utah, M.A.
• Harvard University, M.A.
• University of Vienna, Certificate
• Brandeis University, Ph.D.

Professional Experience

• Harvard University, Teaching Fellow
• Boston University, Instructor in English
• Regis College, Instructor in History
• Brandeis University, Teaching Fellow
• University of New Mexico, Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy Department Chair, Professor Emeritus
• Universities of Essen and Duisburg, Germany, Professor of Philosophy
• University of Utah, Adjunct full Professor of Philosophy, 2005 to present

Books

• Wilhelm Dilthey's Philosophy of Historical Understanding: A Critical Analysis.
• Fire Night: A Story of Pompeii (Children's book).
• The Political in Hegel and Dewey.
• The Dawn of Historical Reason: The Historicality of Human Existence in the Thought of Dilthey, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset.
• The Crowd is Untruth: The Existential Critique of Mass Society in the Thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset.
• Human Life is Radical Reality.

Articles

• "The Epistemological Status of the Cultural World in Vico and Dilthey" in Giambattista Vico's Science of Humanity, ed., Tagliacozzo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1976, pp.242-250.
• "Comment on Lived Experience," Social Research. Vol. 43, No. 3, 1976, pp. 531-534.
• "Some Questions on R.G. Collingwood's Theory of Historical Understanding," Southwest Philosophical Studies. April, 1977, pp. 28-33.
• "The Problem of Natural Law in Aristotle," Southwest Philosophical Studies. April, 1978, pp. 75-79.
• "Existential Philosophy and Paul Tillich's Theology," Renaissance Universal Journal. Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter, 1980, pp. 173-180.
• "The Philosophical Genesis of Ideal Types," Southwest Philosophical Studies. April, 1980, pp. 18-23.
• "Ortega's Vitalism in Relation to Aspects of Lebensphilosophie and Phenomenology," Southwest Philosophical Studies. April, 1981, pp. 88-92.
• "Wilhelm Dilthey, A Hermeneutic Approach to the Study of History and Culture by Ilse Bulhof," Review Essay in History and Theory. Vol. XXI, No. 1, 1982, pp. 125-131.
• "The Negation of History," New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association, Southwest Philosophical Studies. April, 1982, Vol VII, pp. 1-15.
• The Idea of Subjectivity in Recent German Philosophy," Toward a Humanistic Science of Politics. Essays in Honor of Francis D. Wormuth, eds., Nelson and Sklar, New York: University Press of America, 1983, pp. 145-161.
• "A Critique of Heidegger's Doctrine of Historical Temporality," Southwest Philosophical Studies. Spring, 1983, Vol. VIII, No. 3, pp. 66-72.
• "The Idea of Life in Wilhelm Dilthey and Ortega y Gasset," Ortega y Gasset Centennial, University of New Mexico Madrid: Jose Porruce Turanzas, S.A. 1985, pp. 105-117.
• "La critica de Ortega y Gasset a la teoria del Ser de Heidegger," Revista de Occidente. Mayo, 1990, No. 108, pp. 61-69.
• "Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976: German Philosopher." St. James Press Guide to Biography. January, 1991, p. 354.
• "Some Issues in Ortega y Gasset's Critique of Heidegger's Doctrine of Sein," Southwest Philosophical Studies. Vol. 13, Spring, 1991, pp. 96-103.

Papers Delivered

• "Wilhelm Dilthey's Concept of Ideal Types as a Means of Synthesis in Understanding Sociohistorical Wholes" (read in absentia) for a discussion contribution for the XIVth International Congress of Philosophy, Vienna, 2nd Sept. 1968.
• "The Lived Experience," Institute for Vico Studies, Columbia University, January 30, 1976, NYC.
• "Thoughts on the 300th Anniversary of the Death of Spinoza," paper read to The Experiment in Jewish Learning, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 14, 1977.
• "Some Problems in R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy of Historical Understanding," New Mexico West-Texas Philosophical Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 16, 1977.
• "The Problem of Natural Law in Aristotle," New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association, El Paso, Texas, April 15, 1978.
• "Griechische Konzeptionen von Freiheit von den Vorsokratikern bis Plato," paper delivered to Humanities Faculty Seminar on Freedom at the University of Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Germany, May 15, 1979.
• "Dilthey and Ortega," American Philosophical Association Meeting, Boston, Dec. 29, 1980.
• "Ortega's Vitalism in Relation to Certain Aspects of Lebensphilosophie and Phenomenology," Ft. Worth, Texas, April 11, 1981.
• "The Philosophical Genesis of Ideal Types," New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association, Lubbock, Texas 1980.
• "Presidential Address: The Negation of History," New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association, April 3, 1982.
• "An Explication, Critique, and Application of Heidegger's Doctrine of Historical Temporality," New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association, April 11, 1983, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Participant in an international seminar of The International Cultural Foundation on Problems of Religion and Society, July 24 - Aug. 1, 1983, Nassau, Bahamas.
• "The Idea of Life in Wilhelm Dilthey and Ortega y Gasset," paper delivered at the International Symposium on Ortega y Gasset, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, No. 4, 1983.
• "Kierkegaard," St. John's Cathedral, Albuquerque, NM, Sept. 19, 1983.
• Address to plenary session of College Essay Finalists at University, Portales, New Mexico, April 18, 1985, "The Philosophy of History."
• "Ortega's Relation to Heidegger," American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1985, Washington, D.C.
• "The Question of Being--the thought of Heidegger and Ortega y Gasset," New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association, April 12, 1986, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
• "The Historicality of Human Nature in the Thought of Ortega y Gasset," American Philosophical Association, Dec. 29, 1986, Boston, Mass.
• "Hermeneutics and Historicality in the Thought of Vico and Heidegger," New Mexico West Texas Philosophical Society, Santa Fe, NM, April 11, 1987.
• Panel, "Phenomenology and History," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Univ. of Notre Dame, October 17, 1987.
• "The Doctrine of Reality in Ortega and Heidegger," New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Association, Santa Fe, NM, April 17, 1990.
• "The Idea of Human Life in the Thought of Ortega y Gasset," Ohio Philosophy Colloquium, Denison University, Granville, OH, Oct. 5, 1990.

Regular Courses Taught: USA and Germany

Introduction to Philosophy
Humanities I
Humanities II
Introduction to Logic
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
19th Century Philosophy
20th Century Continental Philosophy
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Philosophy of History
Philosophy and Literature
Political Philosophy From Plato to Hobbes
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Moral Issues in Great Literature

Seminars Taught: USA and Germany

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Political and Ethical Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
The Phenomenological Movement (material varies)
Ph.D. Seminar in Metaphysics
Plato: The Early and Middle Dialogues
Plato: The Late Dialogues
Aristotle
20th Century Political Theory
20th Century Theology
Heidegger's Being and Time
Husserl's Logical Investigations
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (2 semester course)
Kant: Topics
Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology
American Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau (Univ. Duisburg, Germany)
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (Univ. of Essen, Germany)
Three Existential Theologians: Tillich, Buber, Niebuhr

General Honors Courses
Herbert Marcuse
20th Century Theology: Paul Tillich
Moral Possibilities of Great Literature
Nietzsche

Served on the Advisory Boards of the Following Journals

• Environmental Ethics, 1980-1988
• Southwest Philosophical Studies, 1980-1996
• Advisory Board and Organization Committee for the publication of the activities of the International Symposium on Ortega y Gasset, UNM, 1983.
• Evaluated Santayana Project Proposal for the National Endowment for Humanities, August, 1988
• Review Board Member for Wadsworth Publishing Company in History of Philosophy, March 1989

Memberships

• American Philosophical Association, May 23, 1968-present
• Member Society for Phenomonology and Existential Philosophy 1971-present
• Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought, 1986-present
• Phi Sigma Tau, 1968-present
• International Cultural Foundation, 1983-present