GEORGE H. TAYLOR. University of Pittsburgh School of Law 3900 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA

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1 GEORGE H. TAYLOR University of Pittsburgh School of Law 3900 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA CURRENT POSITIONS University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA present. Professor of Law with tenure. Faculty Distinguished Scholar, Past President, Society for Ricoeur Studies. This organization for English-speaking Ricoeur scholars currently has approximately 185 members from countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Philippines, Spain, and Turkey. EDUCATION Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. J.D. cum laude, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. M.A. 1976; doctoral work in Ethics and Society (interdisciplinary program in philosophy and social theory). Brown University, Providence, RI. B.A. with honors, Phi Beta Kappa. Interdisciplinary major with focus in philosophy. RELEVANT PRIOR EMPLOYMENT The Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Durham, NC. Law clerk, Professor Martha Minow, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. Research Assistant,

2 REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS Books Editor of PAUL RICOEUR, LECTURES ON IMAGINATION (in progress). Co-editor with Francis J. Mootz, III of GADAMER AND RICOEUR: CRITICAL HORIZONS FOR CONTEMPORARY HERMENEUTICS (Continuum, forthcoming 2011). Authored introductory essay and edited PAUL RICOEUR, LECTURES ON IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA (Columbia University Press 1986). A revised and updated introduction was published in the French translation of the original text, IDEOLOGIE ET UTOPIE (Editions du Seuil 1997). The book also has been published in Italian, Spanish, and Arabic editions. Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Papers The Relevance of Cognitive Science for Ricoeur s Theory of Narrative, solicited keynote paper presented at the first Latin America Ricoeur Conference: Politics, Ethics, and Education within Contemporary Institutions. Paul Ricoeur s Academic Works in Perspective, Guadalajara, Mexico, December 1, Ricoeur and Just Institutions, solicited keynote paper presented at a conference on Reading Ricoeur Once Again: Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy, Lisbon, July 7, Ricoeur v. Ricoeur, in FROM RICOEUR TO ACTION: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RICOEUR S THINKING (Todd Mei ed., forthcoming). Initial draft presented as solicited keynote paper at From Ricoeur to Action: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, June 23, Understanding as Metaphoric, Not a Fusion of Horizons, in GADAMER AND RICOEUR: CRITICAL HORIZONS FOR CONTEMPORARY HERMENEUTICS (Francis J. Mootz, III & George H. Taylor eds., Continuum, forthcoming 2011). Initial draft presented at Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, November 7, Legal Interpretation: The Window of the Text as Transparent, Opaque, or Translucent, 10 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL 700 (2010) (solicited article). Ricoeur and the Distinctiveness of Legal Hermeneutics, in RICOEUR ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES 84 (Scott Davidson ed., Continuum, 2010). Initial draft presented at a Conference on Paul Ricoeur: Poetics and Religion, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, October 31, Law and Creativity, in PHILOSOPHY AND AMERICAN LAW (Francis J. Mootz, III ed., Cambridge University Press, 2009). 2

3 The Challenge of Derrick Bell: Civil Rights From Movement to Organization and From Movement to Law, presentation to Center on Race and Social Problems, University of Pittsburgh, March 25, 2009 Equality and Diversity: Some Jurisprudential Considerations, solicited paper for Law and Social Theory Workshop, Law Department, London School of Economics, October 27, Objectification versus Reification in Ricoeur, Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, October 15, Imagination and the Displacement of Reason, Conference on Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Prague, May 14, Derrick Bell s Narratives as Parables, 31 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY REVIEW OF LAW & SOCIAL CHANGE 225 (2007). Ricoeur s Philosophy of Imagination, 16 JOURNAL OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHY 93 (2006). Draft presented at After Ricoeur Symposium, Oklahoma City University, October 20, Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities (with Michael J. Madison), 54 CLEVELAND STATE LAW REVIEW 141 (2006). Symposium on Cypersons, Propertization, and Contract in the Information Culture. Race, Religion, and Law: The Tension Between Spirit and Its Institutionalization, 6 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND JOURNAL OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER, AND CLASS 51 (2006). Draft presented at a Journal conference on Religion and Law, April 11, Author, Text, and Reader: A Response to Stanley Fish, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Faculty Workshop, November 30, Roundtable Discussant of Derrick Bell, Accepting Extinction: Will Christian Doctrine Prove Our Enemy Rather Than Our Salvation?, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, October 13, Legal Consciousness and Ricoeur s Theory of Imagination. A solicited draft of this paper was presented at a panel on Legal Consciousness at the biennial meeting of the International Association of Law and Mental Health, Paris, July Paradox and Parable in the Work of Derrick Bell, Derrick Bell Luncheon, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, October 2, Racism as the Nation s Crucial Sin : Theology and Derrick Bell, 9 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF RACE & LAW 269 (2004), reprinted in THE DERRICK BELL READER 433 (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds. 2005). 3

4 Approaches to Discrimination by Cognitive Theory. Paper presented at the Law and Society annual meeting, June Can a Theory of Interpretation Make a Difference?, 5 GRAVEN IMAGES 15 (2002). Justice as Transcendental? Paper presented at the fourth annual conference on Law, Culture, and Humanities, held at the University of Texas, March Critical Hermeneutics: The Intertwining of Explanation and Understanding as Exemplified in Legal Analysis, 76 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 1101 (2000). A solicited paper, published in a symposium issue on Critical Hermeneutics. Draft of paper was presented at a session on hermeneutics at the third annual conference on Law, Culture, and Humanities, held at Georgetown University, March Metaphor as the Origin of Meaning: The Challenge of Ricoeur s Hermeneutics. Paper presented at the Hermeneutics panel of the first annual conference on Law, Culture, and the Humanities, held at Georgetown University, March The Evolution of Legal Interpretation. Paper presented to the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, March Structural Textualism, 75 Boston UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 321 (1995). Textualism at Work, 44 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 259 (1995). Philosophic Deconstruction and the Law. Paper solicited by and presented to the Jurisprudence Section, AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January George H. Taylor, page 5 Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Papers (cont.) Deconstructing the Law, 1 YALE LAW AND POLICY REVIEW 158 (1982). DOCTORAL SUPERVISION Member of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Appointed July Doctoral Committee Member, Department of English (Rhetoric), Carnegie-Mellon University, 2009-present. Ph.D. Exams and Doctoral Committee Member, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. Exams and Doctoral Committee Member, Literary and Cultural Theory Program, Carnegie-Mellon University,

5 Informal Advisor, Ph.D. candidate in Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University,