Agnes Charlene Senape McDermott

Background

McDermott, Agnes Charlene Senape was born on March 11, 1937 in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Charles G. and Conjetta (Ranieri) Senape.

Education

Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1964. Postgraduate, University California, Berkeley, 1960—1961.

Postgraduate, University Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1965. Postgraduate, University Wisconsin, 1967—1969.

Career

Instructor mathematics Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, 1962-1963. Assistant professor philosophy State University of New York-Buffalo, 1964-1965, Hampton Institute, Virginia, 1966-1967. Assistant professor University Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1967-1970.

Associate professor philosophy University New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1970-1980, professor, dean graduate studies, 1981-1986. Dean in residence Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, 1985-1986. Provost, vice president academy affairs City University of New York, 1986-1989, professor philosophy, 1986-1991.

Dean for academy and student affairs, consultant Albuquerque Academy, 1991-1993. Independent consultant Corrales, since 1993. Visiting associate professor University Washington, Seattle, 1974, University California-Berkeley, 1973-1974, University Hawaii, Honolulu, 1975.

Visiting professor University California-Berkeley, 1980. Visiting professor Semester at Sea, University Pittsburgh, fall 1994. Board director Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Lecturer, panelist in field.

Achievements

• Avocations: skiing, fly-fishing, published writer of fiction.
  
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Works

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• article

  • "Materials for an Archaeological Analysis of Richard Campsall's Logic"

    (in De Ortu Grammaticae: A Tribute to Jan Pinborg, John Be...)

    1980

  • Spanish translation of "A Comparative Investigation of the awareness of duhkha

    (in Proceedings of the International Conference of Orienta...)

    1977

  • "Notes on the Assertoric and Modal Propositional Logic of Pseudo-Scotus"

    (Journal of the History of Philosophy, July, 1972, pp. 273...)

    1972

  • "Dependent Co-Arising" in K.N.Jayatilleke Commemoration Volume

    (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Ceylon)

    1981

  • "Comparative Investigation of the Awareness of duhkha"

    (in Philosophy East and West, October, 1977.)

    1977

  • "Marginalia on van Heijenoort's 'Subject and Predicate'

    (Philosophy East and West, July, 1974, pp. 269-74)

    1974

  • The Sautrantika Arguments against the traikalyavada in the light of the Contemporary Tense Revolution"

    (Philosophy East and West, July, 1974, pp. 193-99.)

    1974

  • "Pratityasamutpada: Who Rides a Tiger"

    (Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol.8, #4, December, pp. 4...)

    1981

  • "Towards a Pragmatics of Mantra Recitation"

    (Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 3 # #.)

    1975

  • "Of Catless Grins and Sundry Related Matters"

    (Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 2 #1, pp. 16-20.)

    1973

  • "Mr. Ruegg on Ratnakirti"

    (Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 2, 1972, pp. 167-74)

    1972

  • "Empty Subject Terms in Late Buddhist Logic"

    (Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 1, #1, pp.23-30)

    1970

  • "Yogic Direct Awareness as Means of Valid Cognition" in Buddhist Meditation in Theory and Practice, (Richard Robinson Memorial Volume)

    (University of Hawaii Press)

    1978

• book

  • Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of Boethius of Dacia"s Treatise on the Modes of Signifying

    ((Studies in the History of Linguistics, vol,23, John Benj...)

    1980

  • Comparative Philosophy, Selected Essays

    (University Press, Washington, D.C.)

    1983

  • Ratnakirti's KsanabangasiddhiVyatirekaatmika: An Eleventh Century Buddhist Logic of Exists

    1969

• Encyclopaedia Article

  • "Ratnakiriti's Contraposed Proof of Universal Momentariness"

    (In Encyclopaedia of India's Philosophies, Vol. IV (Karl ...)

• review

  • Review of G. Nuchelman's Judgment and proposition.

    (In Historiographica Linguistica IX: 1/2, 1985.)

    1985

  • review of G. Nuchelman's Late Scholastic and Humanistic Theories of the Proposition

    (In Historiographia Linguistica, IX: 1, 1983)

    1983

  • Review of Stephan Beyer's The Cult of Tara

    (In Philosophy East and West, October , 1975)

    1975

  • Review of Herbert V. Guenther's Buddhist Philosophy in Theory and Practice

    (In Philosophy East and West, July, 1973)

    1973

  • Review of Language in Indian Philosophy and Religion

    ((H.G. Coward, ed.)Journal of Asian Studies, Autumn, 1979)

    1979

Membership

Board member Peanut Butter & Jelly Foundation. Member lay research review committee Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, New Mexico. Member New York Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Philosophical Association (executive committee 1977-1980), Association Asian Studies (executive committee 1977-1980), American Oriental Society, Western Association Graduate Schools (president 1986-1987), Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Mu Epsilon.

Personality

McDermott is best described by her ex-husband, Vincent McDermott, as

"a teacher that turns them on., rigorous in her own thought and exacting of her students. She carries the tight critical apparatus of her background as a mathematician and logician into all her scholarly investigations....Her mind and formidable wit intrigue colleagues,students and general audiences alike....Charlene is an inimitable restless soul, alive to the thinking processes of mankind, now and in the past, in the East and in the West"

Interests

• Skiing, fly fishing.

Connections

Children: Robert C., Lisa G., Jamie C.

Father:

Charles G. Senape

Mother:

Conjetta (Ranieri) Senape

child:

Robert C. McDermott

child:

Jamie C. McDermott

child:

Lisa G. McDermott

grandchild:

Desmond J McDermott