A.
Pablo Iannone, Professor of Philosophy at Central Connecticut State
University,
studied engineering, mathematics, philosophy and literature at the
Universidad
Nacional de Buenos Aires, received a B. A. in philosophy with an honors
minor
in Latin American Studies from U.C.L.A. and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in
philosophy
with a minor in the history of science from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He also pursued
graduate studies in business and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State, and has
had extensive business experience in Argentina and the United States.
Iannone
has taught, in Canada, at Dalhousie University; in Lima, Perú at
the Inca
Garcilaso de la Vega University, and in the United States, at the
University of
Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Texas at Dallas, Iowa State
University,
and the University of Florida. He is a PHI
BETA KAPPA, received the Kemper K.
Knapp Graduate Teaching Award,
and the Amoco Foundation Outstanding Teaching
Award, and is a member of
the American Philosophical Association. Since 1987, he has often served
as
research project referee for the National Science Foundation and the
National
Endowment of the Humanities. In the mid-1990s, he acted as Liaison
between the
Fundación Integración of Argentina and the Connecticut
State University System
and Connecticut System of Community Technical Colleges, for the
conceptualization and development of various joint projects, and
assisted the
Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development in the
search for
a State of Connecticut Trade Representative in Argentina. Since 2000,
he has
represented CCSU as a member of the Metro Hartford Chamber of
Commerce's
International Business Council.
His
philosophical publications include five authored books: Business and Global Society (Global
Publications, 2003), Technology and Global
Society (Global
Publications, 2002), Dictionary of World
Philosophy (Routledge,
2001), Philosophical Ecologies: Essays in
Philosophy, Ecology, and Human Life
(Humanity Books, 1999) and Philosophy as
Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics
and Policy Making (Humanities Press/Humanity Books, 1994); plus
updated and
expanded Spanish versions of the first
two: Los negocios y la sociedad global (Fondo
Editorial-Universidad
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2007), and Tecnología y
sociedad global (Fondo
Editorial-Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2008), and three
edited books,
combining text and selections: Through Time
and Culture: Introductory
Readings in Philosophy (Prentice
Hall, 1994), Contemporary Moral Controversies
in Business (Oxford University
Press, 1989), and Contemporary Moral
Controversies in Technology (Oxford
University Press, 1987). He has also
published philosophical reviews and articles in the U.S. and abroad,
most
currently, "Globalization and the Humanities," which received the International Award
for Excellence in
the Humanities, having been
initially presented on February 25, 2007, at the Symposium on New Directions in the Humanities
held at Columbia
University between February 24 and February 26 2007, and published in
Australia
in The
International Journal of The Humanities in 2007; "Inclusion
and
Exclusion in Hispanic Literature, Thought, and Life," published in
Perú in Exégesis (Posgrado de la
Universidad
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2007);
"Information Overload: Walking the Threshold Tightrope" in Rocci
Luppicini and Rebecca Adell, Co-editors, Handbook
of Research on Technoethics
(IGI Global, 2008); “Globalization
and Latin American Thought,“ in Blackwell Companion to Latin
American
Philosophy, Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte, and
Otávio Bueno, eds.,
(Blackwell, forthcoming in 2009); and “Reclaiming the Green Continent:
Ecology,
Globalization, and Policy and Decision in Latin America,” International
Journal of Technoethics, forthcoming in 2009. In
literature, he has
published a book of poetry in Spanish in Argentina, Astérida (Gog y Magog,
1973), a book of interconnected stories (amounting to a novella) in
English, The
Room with Closets: Tales of a Life Divided (Vagabond Press,
2006)—which
received Silver Medal in the category
Multicultural Fiction-2007 Independent
Publisher Book Awards—, and previous versions of stories from
this book
in English, Spanish, or both, as well
as poems. Among the stories, "South" appeared in Fernando
Alegría and
Alberto Ruffinelli, eds., Paradise Lost or
Gained? The Literature of Hispanic Exile
(Arte Público, 1991), "Margarita's Wedding" was awarded
Honorable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary Short Story category of
the 1998
Writer's Digest Writing Competition, "El Vuelo de Batata,"
"El Casamiento de Margarita, and "El Cuarto de los Placares,"
appeared in the Argentine electronic publication Textos de la Víspera, and
"The Dead Cat: Schrödinger's Experiment" in the Review of Art, Literature,
Philosophy, and the Humanities.
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