Writings

Paul Jerome Croce

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Newspaper and Magazine Articles, General Audience Presentations

"Halloween on Minnesota Avenue: The Second-Most-Important Vote of the Fall Season" The DeLand Beacon (December 6-8, 2004)
"The US Roots of UN Scandal," Orlando Sentinel (November 26, 2004)
"The Bush Vote: Why?," Daytona Beach News-Journal (November 7, 2004)
"Saving Lieutenant Kerry: An Open Letter to the Candidate, The DeLand Beacon (October 7-10, 2004)
"Kinder, Gentler Republicans?," Daytona Beach News-Journal (September 5, 2004)
"New Policy Requires Wasting Resources," The Stetson Reporter (April 21, 2004)
"Obscenity Exposes Foolish Prejudices," The Stetson Reporter (March 24, 2004)
"Karen Winkle: American Studies Enriches a Lifelong Interest in History," Stetson University Magazine (Winter 2004), pp. 14-15
"The Halloween Outfits of West Minnesota Avenue," The DeLand Beacon (November 13-16, 2003)
"Race Issues Can Overshadow Other Key Election Discussions," Daytona Beach News-Journal (November 9, 2003)
"Lessons Learned by 'Distorter,'" The Stetson Reporter (October 15, 2003)
"Why Do We Bother Voting at All?" Daytona Beach News-Journal (October 5, 2003)
"International Politics Down the Street," Daytona Beach News-Journal (May 28, 2003)
"The Pragmatism of the American Spirit," Christian Science Monitor (March 14, 2003)
"What is Just About This War?" Daytona Beach News-Journal (February 26, 2003)
"Into the Dorms for Earth Week," Eureka! Newsletter of the Stetson Discovery Program (August 2002), p. 7.
"John Burnham and the History of Human Science" [Notes from the Chair], Forum for the History of Human Science vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer 2002), pp. 1-3.
"It's Good, But is it Human Science?" [Notes from the Chair], Forum for the History of Human Science vol. 13, no. 2 (Winter 2002), pp. 1-3
"The Right Response: More Than Two Choices," DeLand Beacon (November 6, 2001)
Religion Gives Hope, Morality Brings Action," The Stetson Reporter (September 26, 2001)
"Terrorists on Trial: Make Humiliation, Not War," DeLand Beacon (September 21, 2001)
"Reaching Out" [Notes from the Chair], Forum for the History of Human Science vol. 13, no. 1 (Summer 2001), pp. 1-2
"Michael Novak Speech Brings Angular Truth," The Stetson Reporter (February 28, 2001)
"Hints of Doubt About Knowing with Numbers," Public Perspective, February 2001
"Building Bridges" [Notes from the Chair], Forum for History of Human Science Newsletter vol. 12, no. 2 (Winter 2001), pp. 1-2
"The Personal Is Political; Let's Decide If It's Presidential," DeLand Beacon (November 3, 2000)
"VP Candidates Set the Tone: Bush, Gore Should Listen to Dad and Uncle Joe," DeLand Beacon (October 17, 2000)
"On Job Interviewing: Thinking from Both Sides of the Table," American Historical Association Perspectives (December 1999)
"The Conservatives Will Always Be With You," The Volusian (July, 1999)
"Invisible Fathers," The Stetson Reporter (November 12, 1997)
"If It's Certain, It Can't Be True: On the Evolution of Science and Religion in Nineteenth-Century American Culture," invited lecture, Iowa State University, November 1997
"Can Multiculturalism Unite Us?," The Responsive Community (Spring 1997)
"A Brief History of Manners," Public Perspective (December 1996) panelist, "Rosewood: The Tragic Reality, the Book, the Film, and American Culture in 1996," Caffe DaVinci, DeLand, Florida (March 1996)
"Hail to the (New) Chief" DeLand Beacon, January 20, 1993
"The Decline of Mass Culture" Public Perspectives vol. 3, no. 6, September-October 1992 [quoted in Michiko Kakutani, "Against the Tide: Making the Case for Shades of Gray," New York Times (June 18, 1993), and in Robert Samuelson, The Good Life and Its Discontents (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 211]
"If Grover Cleveland Could Give Advice" Daytona Beach News- Journal, February 1, 1992
"Honoring a Heritage: The Atlanta ... Cherokees?" Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 24, 1991
"Walt Disney: It Takes a Tough Boss to Make a Cuddly-Cute Cartoon," Daytona Beach News-Journal, October 17, 1991
radio interview on Johnny Carson's cultural impact, The Carol Arnold Show, KTOK Radio, Oklahoma City, October 10, 1991
"Put Democrats' Money Where Mouths Are," Orlando Sentinel, August 18, 1991
"Why We Care So Much About Our Celebrities," Daytona Beach News- Journal, August 4, 1991
"Billy Graham: Reading Between the Lines," Daytona Beach News-Journal, February 18, 1991
"Can Parents Ever Be Peers?" Orlando Sentinel, January 20, 1990
"Somber Democrats Must Celebrate Their Own Virtues," Orlando Sentinel, September 14, 1991
"From Abbie Hoffman in '60s to Joe Isuzu in '80s," Orlando Sentinel, April 19, 1991
"Bush's Patrician Populism," Orlando Sentinel, February 13, 1991
"Is America in Decline?," presentation at The Orlando Center for the Humanities, October 12, 1988

Publications and Presentations on Teaching

Theresa Fish, "Focus on Education: 'Darwinism and the Divine in American Culture,'" Science and Theology News (May 2004): p. 23
Poster presentation on the course "Darwinism and the Divine in American Culture" and on Stetson's Values Commitments, Interpreting Evolution: Scientific and Religious Perspectives conference (June 2001)
"The Modern Mind: Mental Science, Social Theory, and Methodology" [Forum on Undergraduate Syllabi], Intellectual History Newsletter vol. 14 (1992), pp. 77-79
"Narratives of the Past: Involving Students in the Interpretations of Marginal and Mainstream American Texts," Southern American Studies Association meeting, February 1991

Reviews of Scholarly Books

review of Jeffrey Sklansky, The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920, in Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences (2005)
review of Wayne Proudfoot, ed., William James and a Science of Religions: Reexperiencing The Varieties of Religious Experience, in Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society (2005)
review of Scott Pratt, Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy, in Journal of American History (September 2003)
review of Gail Hamner, American Pragmatism: a Religious Genealogy, in Religious Studies Review (2003)
review of Charles Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited, in the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter (forthcoming)
review of Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences and in the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter (forthcoming)
review of Christoper D. Green, Marlene Shore,and Thomas Teo, eds. The Transformation of Psychology: Influences of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Technology, and Natural Science in Isis (2002)
"A Useful Excentricity: William James's Engagement with Science" [a review essay of The Correspondence of William James, vols. 1-9], in Isis (2002)
review of David Lamberth, William James and the Metaphysics of Experience in The International Journal for Philosophy and Religion 51 (2002):65-67
review of Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse, Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender in American Historical Review (2001)
review of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 11 (1863), Frederick Burkhardt, et al., eds. in Quarterly Review of Biology (March 2001)
review of Craig James Hazen, The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century in Journal of American History (March 2001)
review of Robert Roth, S.J., Radical Pragmatism: An Alternative in The Review of Politics (Winter 2000)
"Beyond the Warfare of Science and Religion in American Culture --and Back Again" [a review essay on ten recent books in the history of science and religion: Peter Harrison, The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science; Margaret Welch, The Book of Nature: Natural History in the United States, 1825-1875; Stephen G. Alter, Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century; Ronald L. Numbers, Darwinism Comes to America; Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion; James Gilbert, Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of science; Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature; Paul K. Conkin, When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes and American Intellectuals; David A. Hollinger, Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History; Chet Raymo, Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion], in Religious Studies Review vol. 26, no. 1 (2000), pp. 29-35
"His Scholarly Essence; or, A Philosophical Authority on Peirce in Search of a Wider Audience" [a review of Kenneth Laine Ketner, His Glassy Essence: An Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce, in the Massachusetts Historical Review (1999)
"Counter-Revisionism in the History of American Science and Religion," a review essay of When all the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes and American Intellectuals, by Paul K. Conkin (1998) and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History, by David A. Hollinger (1996), [email protected] (January 10, 2000).
review of Linda Simon, Genuine Reality: A Life of William James in Isis: The Journal of the History of Science Society (1999)
"Boys to Men: Masculinity, Character, Power" [a review essay of Kim Townsend, Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others] in Intellectual History Newsletter (1999)
review of Ruth Anna Putnam, ed., The Cambridge Companion to William James in the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter (1998)
review of Richard E. Wentz, John Williamson Nevin: American Theologian in Zeitschrift fur Neuere Theologiegeschichte/Journal for the History of Modern Theology (1998)
review of Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History in Journal of American History (1998)
review of Harold Bloom, The American Religion in Nova Religio (1997)
review of Eugene Taylor, William James on Consciousness in American Historical Review (1997)
review of Robert Wozniak and Eugene Taylor, eds., Pure Experience: The Response to William James in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (1997)
"Neo-Classic Bricolage" [a review essay on Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg, eds., A Companion to American Thought], Intellectual History Newsletter (1996)
review of Laura Dassow Walls, Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science in Journal of the Early Republic (1996)
review of John P. Diggins, The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority in American Studies International (1996)
review of Doris Olin, William James: Pragmatism in Focus in Chrysalis: Journal of the Swedenborg Foundation
review of Daniel Yankelovich and I. M. Destler, eds., Beyond the Beltway: Engaging the Public in U. S. Foreign Policy in Transaction: Social Science and Society (1996)
review of Daniel Bjork, William James: The Center of His Vision in the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter (1995)
review of Robert Roth, British Empiricism and American Pragmatism: New Directions and Neglected Arguments in Journal of American History (1994)
review of Joseph Brent, Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life in American Studies (1994)
review of Reinterpreting the Legacy of William James, Margaret Donnelly, ed. in Contemporary Psychology (1994)
review of Peter Byrne, Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion: The Legacy of Deism in Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1993)
review of George Cotkin, William James: Public Philosopher in American Literary Realism (1993)
review of Clive Bush, Half Way to Revolution: Innovation and Crisis in Henry Adams, William James, and Gertrude Stein in the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Newsletter (1992)
review of Robert Fuller, Americans and the Unconscious in the Newsletter for the History and Sociology of Marginality in Science (1991)
review of Eugene Fontinell, Self, God, and Immortality: A Jamesian Investigation in the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion (1990)
review of Walter Rauschenbusch: American Reformer in Religious Studies Review (1989)
seven essays in Religion and the Life of the Nation: American Resources (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989)
review of Gerald E. Myers, William James: His Life and Thought in Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1987)
review of Richard Forrer, Theodicies in Conflict: A Dilemma Puritan Ethics and 19th Century American Literature in Journal of the American Academy of Religion (1987)

Scholarly Presentations

"The Will to Believe Before the Will to Believe," for the panel "Rethinking Our American Thinker: Three Phases of William James," Organization of American Historians meeting, April 2006 (pending)
"Religion, Values Voters, and the Work of American Studies," for the panel "Religion and the American Studies Classroom," international American Studies Association meeting, November 2005 (pending)
Invited panelist, "Roundtable Discussion on Religion and the American Studies Classroom," international American Studies Association meeting, November 2002
(with John Jett) "Thinking Like a Market: The Way We Think vs. the Way We Act," Florida Environmental Education Symposium, February 2002
"In Search of William James's Medical Thesis: Physiological Science and Water-Cure Therapies," national History of Science Society meeting, November 2001
"The Grip of Old Methods: The Public Travail of Science and Some Advice from Pragmatism," Interpreting Evolution: Scientific and Religious Perspectives conference, June 2001
"Roots of the Complementary Compromise: William James's Assessment of the Scientific Materialism in his Medical Education," Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science meeting, February 2001
"William James on the Healing Arts," national History of Science Society meeting, November 2000
"Spilled Religion: Swedenborgian Contributions to Modern Culture," First Annual Swedenborg Lecture, Urbana University, February 2000
"The Cultural Impact of Walt Disney," London Correctional Facility, February 2000
"Spirit in Nature: William James's Ecospirituality," European Association for American Studies meeting, April 2000
"Science, Religion, and Convictions: William James from Crisis to Construction," meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences, June 1999
"Belief Without Certainty: The Young William James in Search of a Cultural Philosophy," national Organization of American Historians meeting, April 1999
"Intellectual Inquiry and the Longing for Certainty: William James Before Celebrity," national American Historical Association meeting, January 1999
"Irresistible Metaphysical Affirmations: The Young William James Between Uncertainty and Conviction," invited paper, The Highlands Institute Third International Conference on Philosophical Theology, July 1998
"Probabilities and Pragmatism: The Uses of Science in the Development of Theory," invited seminar, Iowa State University, November 1997
"Spirit in the Skull: William James's 1878 Lectures on the Brain and the Mind," national Society for the Scientific Study of Religion meeting, November 1997 (declined)
"If It's Certain, It Can't Be True: On the Evolution of Science and Religion in Nineteenth-Century American Culture," invited lecture, Iowa State University, November 1997
"From Self to Soul in a Secular Age: Religion in the Psychologies of Josiah Royce, William James, and Mary Whiton Calkins," Cheiron, the International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, June 1997
"The Making of a Pluralistic Religious Faith: William James's Assessment of His Father," national Society for the Scientific Study of Religion meeting, November 1996
"Between Swedenborgianism and Science: William James on Religion and Human Nature," national American Academy of Religion meeting, November 1996
"How to Make Our Ideas Scientific: Charles Sanders Peirce in Search of an Audience," poster presentation at the national Organization of American Historians, March 1995
"Before We Can All Get Along: The Case for Intellectual Non-Violence," Fourth Annual Multicultural Institute, Stetson University, January 1995
"Science and the Moral Religion of William James," Mallery Lecture, Rutgers University, October 1995
"William James and 'The More': Science Embraces the Ineffable," national History of Science Society meeting, October 1994
"Didactic Science and Public Persuasion: William James as Pop Psychologist," national History of Science Society meeting, December 1992
"From Virtue to Morality: Republicanism in the Texts and Contexts of William James," national Organization of American Historians meeting, April 1992
"Spirit in Nature: Lifting the Veil on Swedenborg's Influence," national American Academy of Religion meeting, November 1991
"Carl Barks and Uncle Walt: The Disney Studio and the Suppression of the Artist" (co-authored with Joseph Witek), national American Studies Association meeting, November 1990
"William James, Darwinism, and the Probabilistic Revolution," Cheiron, the International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences meeting, June 1990
"William James's Scientific Education: A Case Study in the History of the Probabilistic Revolution," national History of Science Society meeting, October 1990
"Chance Thinking: William James and the Probabilistic Revolution," Interface '89: Humanities and Technology meeting, October 1989
"Prelude to Pragmatism: William James's Psychology of the Active Mind," national Organization of American Historians meeting, April 1989
"Walt Disney in Person and Production," national Popular Culture Association meeting, April 1989
"Toward a Modernist View of Science: William James on the Role of Belief in Scientific Theory," Interface '88 meeting, October 1988
"The Will to Emote: The Role of Morality and Motivation in William James's Essay on the Emotions," Cheiron meeting, June 1988
"The Personal Religion of William James," California American Studies Association meeting, April 1988
"William James's Assessment of His Father: The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James," Florida College Teachers of History meeting, March 1988
"From Romantic to Almost Modern: Religion and Esthetics in the Art of Henry David Thoreau and George Inness," Intextuality: Literary and Cinematic Representation meeting, February 1988
"Philanthropy and Social Change," national Roothbert Foundation Fellowship Conference, 1986
"The Truth of Ethical Narrowness: The Nature and Merits of Absolutism and Relativism," New England Ethics Colloquium, 1982

Scholarly Articles

"Creationism/Creation Science" The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan, eds. (Continuum International Publishers, 2004)
"William James" The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan, eds. (Continuum International Publishers, 2004)
"Calming the Screaming Eagle: William James as Brother and Friend to Warriors in the Civil War," New England Quarterly (March 2003): 5-37
"Spirit in Nature: William James's Ecological Imagination," "Nature's Nation" Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis, Hans Bak and Walter W. Hölbling, eds. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2003): 114-25
"WWJD: Would William James Doubt?" Streams of William James vol. 3, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 15-16
"Intellectuals," Encyclopedia of American Studies, George Kurian, et al., eds. (Grollier, 2001) "Protestant Ethic," Encyclopedia of American Studies, George Kurian, et al., eds. (Grollier, solicited)
"Psysiology as the Antechamber to Metaphysics: The Young William James's Hope for a Philosophical Psychology," History of Psychology (expected: November 1999)
"William James's 'Is Life Worth Living?'" in The Religions of the United States in Practice, Colleen McDannell, ed. (Princeton University Press, 2001)
"Keepers of the Veil: Life Stories of Cassadaga's Senior Residents" in The Spiritualist Community of Cassadaga, Florida (University Press of Florida, 2000)
"William James," The Oxford Companion to United States History, Paul Boyer, ed. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
"Charles Sanders Peirce," Encyclopedia of Psychology, Alan E. Kazdin, ed. (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
"Charles Sanders Peirce," American National Biography, John A. Garraty, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1999)
"Probabilistic Darwinism: Louis Agassiz vs. Asa Gray on Science, Religion, and Certainty" Journal of Religious History (February 1998)
"Between Spiritualism and Science: William James on Religion and Human Nature," Zeitschrift fur Neuere Theologiegeschichte/Journal for the History of Modern Theology (Winter 1998)
"William James," The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia, Marc Rothenberg, ed. (Garland Publishers, forthcoming)
"Accommodation Vs. Struggle," The W.E.B. DuBois Encyclopedia, Mary Young, ed. (Greenwood Press, 1997)
"Science and the Moral Religion of William James," Catalog of the Honors Program, Rutgers University, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, volume 2, number 1 (September 1996)
"Intellectual Historians in the Academic Public Square," Intellectual History Newslettter (Summer 1996)
"From Virtue to Morality: Republicanism in the Texts and Contexts of William James," Journal of American Studies of Turkey (Fall 1995)
"The Scientific Education of William James," History of the Human Sciences vol. 8 no. 1 (February 1995), pp. 9-27
"Polarizing America: The Erosion of Mass Culture," Transaction: Social Science and Society vol. 30, no. 5 (July/August 1993), pp. 11-16 [published as the center of debate for a special issue on "Polarizing American Culture," with six essays responding to mine; my response to these essays, on "American Culture," is a letter to the editor in vol. 31, no. 2 (January/February 1994), pp. 4-6; reprinted in An American Mosaic: Rethinking American Culture Studies, edited by Marshall Fishwick (New York: American Heritage, 1996)]
"From History of Science to Intellectual History: The Probabilistic Revolution and the Chance-Filled Universe of William James" Intellectual History Newsletter vol. 13 (1991), pp. 19-32
"A Clean and Separate Space: Walt Disney in Person and Production" Journal of Popular Culture vol. 25, no. 3, (Winter 1991), pp. 91-105
"A Scientific Spiritualism: The Elder Henry James's Adaptation of Emanuel Swedenborg's Thought," in Swedenborg and His Influence (Bryn Athyn, PA: Academy of the New Church, 1989), pp. 251-262
"A Scientific Spiritualism: The Elder Henry James's Adaptation of Emanuel Swedenborg's Thought," in Swedenborg and His Influence (Bryn Athyn, PA: Academy of the New Church, 1989), pp. 251-262
"Money and Morality: The Life and Legacy of the First William James," New York History vol. 68, no. 2 (April 1987), pp. 174-190

Whole Books

Science and Religion in the Era of William James, Volume 1: Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880, University of North Carolina Press, June 1995 (simultaneous hardcover and paperback issue).
Science and Religion in the Era of William James, Volume 2: Conciliating Truth and Change, 1860-1884, University of North Carolina Press, under contract