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Dr. George Cronk Coordinator Department of Philosophy & Religion Bergen Community College Paramus, NJ 07652 |
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Married to Dr. Sherida Yoder, Professor of English, Felician College
Children: Amanda Ann Cronk, Alexandra Georgianna Cronk, Anita Julianna Cronk
Education:
Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), Ph.D. (philosophy) (4.0 GPA)
Rutgers University School of Law (Newark), J.D. (member of the New Jersey Bar and practicing attorney, 1985-present)
Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), M.A. (history)
William Paterson University (Wayne, NJ), B.A. Cum Laude (history & sociology)
Professional Career:
Teaching
Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, 1972-present. Hired as Assistant Professor in 1972; promoted to Associate Professorship with Tenure in 1975; promoted to Full Professorship in 1981.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA.
Teaching Assistant and Graduate Fellow in Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
Instructor in History, Union College, Cranford, NJ.
Teaching Assistant and NDEA Graduate Fellow in History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Law
Attorney at Law, solo practice (estates & taxation), August 1991-present (trading as "George Cronk, J.D., Ph.D., Attorney at Law").
Senior Associate, Waters, McPherson, McNeill, Attorneys at Law, Secaucus, NJ, 1986-1991.
Law Clerk, Waters, McPherson, McNeill, Attorneys at Law, Secaucus, NJ, September-December 1985.
Honors & Awards:
Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Bergen Community College, designated in 1995
NJ Department of Higher Education Fellowship on the Academic Profession, 1989-1991
Mid-Career Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University, 1987-1988
Phi Kappa Phi
University Fellowship, Southern Illinois University
National Defense Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University
Kappa Delta Pi Academic Scholarship
Kappa Delta Pi
Professional Memberships:
American Philosophical Association
Christian Legal Society
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association
Community College Humanities Association
New Jersey State Bar Association
Society of Christian Philosophers
Community College General Education Association
Research Interests:
Areas of Specialization: history of philosophy; philosophical theology; philosophical anthropology; epistemology; traditional and modern logic; comparative religions; biblical studies; church history; philosophies of India and China; European intellectual and cultural history.
Areas of Competence: social and political philosophy; ethics; philosophy of education; philosophy of law; Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Marxism; American philosophy; aesthetics; philosophy of science.
Current Work: Research on internet instruction and learning; presentation of online courses in philosophy. See the following online courses:
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy & Religion, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ 07652
E-mail Addresses and Web Sites:
http://www.bergen.edu/faculty/gcronk
Phone Numbers:
Bergen Community College: 201-447-7167, 201-612-5370
Law Office: 973-238-1009
Chief Publications: (For a complete publications list, click here.)
Books
On Shankara. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company (Wadsworth Philosophers Series), 2003.
Fundamentals of Modern Logic. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil Publishing, Inc., 2002.
The Message of the Bible: An Orthodox Christian Perspective. Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1990.
The Philosophical Anthropology of George Herbert Mead. New York: Peter Lang, 1987.
Anthologies (including translations)
Readings in Philosophy: Eastern & Western Sources. (General Editor: George Cronk; Associate Editors: Tobyn De Marco, Peter Dlugos, and Paul Eckstein) Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil Publishing, Inc., 2d ed., 2004.
Philosophy East & West: Classical & Modern Sources. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Inc., 2000.
Readings in Eastern Philosophy. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2d ed., 1999.
Eight Philosophical Classics.(Translations by George Cronk) Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2d ed., 1998.
Articles
"How to Put Religious
Studies on the Map at a Community College," in Bulletin of the Council of Societies for
the Study of Religion (February & April 2005),
27-31.
"George Herbert Mead," in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "American Philosophers," Vol. 270, "American Philosophers Before 1950." Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2002.
"George Herbert Mead," in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. James Fieser (1999), http://www.utm.edu/research/iep ("M").
Introduction to and line-by-line commentary on "The Gospel of John" in The Orthodox Study Bible: New Testament and Psalms. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993.
"Teaching Philosophy in the Community College: Curse or Blessing?," The American Philosophical Association Newsletter on the Teaching of Philosophy (January 1980), 14-19.
"James and the Problem of Intersubjectivity: An Interpretive Critique," in The Philosophy of William James, ed. W.R. Corti (Hamburg, Germany: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1976), 221-244.
"A Symbolic Interactionist Account of the Process of Psychotherapy," Darshana International: An International Quarterly (Spring 1974), 17-25.
"Symbolic Interactionism: A Left-Meadian Interpretation," Social Theory and Practice (Spring 1973), 313-333.
"Vicissitudes," Kinesis (Spring 1970), 106-124.
"Mechanistic-Materialism and the Genesis of Modern Skepticism," Kinesis (Fall 1969), 15-25.