Kenneth Liberman

Professor

Address: 833 PLC University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403	Phone:	(541) 346-5008
	Fax:	(541) 346-5026
	Email:	liberman@uoregon.edu

Professor Liberman's book, Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture, will be published in 2003 by Rowman and Littlefield. He has two more book in progress. In Spring 2004, he will be a Fulbright scholar in India, where he will lecture for six months at Pondicherry University. A translation of his essays on intercultural communication is in preparation. Professor Liberman has also received a Williams teaching award for Fall 2003.

Research Interests

practices of reasoning in non-Western societies
intercultural communication
cross cultural studies of self and identity
neocolonialism and the survival of indigenous cultures

Teaching Areas

ethnomethodology
race and ethnic relations
phenomenology and postmodernism

Courses Taught

SOC 335	Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
SOC 435	Interaction and Social Order
SOC 445	Sociology of Race Relations

Selected Books

2007 Husserl's Criticism of Reason, With Ethnomethodological Specifications, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

2004 Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture, An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning, Rowman and Littlefield.

1985 Understanding Interaction in Central Australia, London: Routledge.

Selected Articles

2008 “The Reflexivity of the Authenticity of Hatha Yoga,” in Jean Byrne and Mark Singleton (Eds.), Yoga: Contemporary Perspectives, London: Routledge, pp. 102-117.

2008 “The Virtues of Sophistry: Sophistry In and As Its Course,”Argumentation: an International Journal on Reasoning (Selected Proceedings of the 6th conference of the International Association for the Study of Argument, Springer) 22. pp. 59-70.

2008 "Thinking as a Public Activity," in David Francis and Steve Hester (Eds.), Orders of Ordinary Action, London: Ashgate, pp. 159-73.

2007 "An Inquiry into the Intercorporeal Relations Between Humans and the Earth," in Suzanne L. Cataldi and William S. Hamrick (Eds.), Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy: Dwelling on the Landscapes of Thought, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp 31-49.

1999 "The Social Praxis of Communicating Meanings," Text 19, No 1, pp. 57-72.

1999 "The Dialectics of Oppression: A Phenomenological Perspective," Philosophy Today 43, No. 3, pp 272-282.

Education

Ph.D. -- California, San Diego