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Thomas W. Clark - CV
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1982 - Graduate study in philosophy, Tufts University Medford, MA, Daniel
C. Dennett, advisor.
1969 - B.A., Amherst College, Amherst, MA (psychology).
Current - Founder and director,
Center For Naturalism, conducting public education, policy development,
community building and research on scientific naturalism.
Current - Editor,
Naturalism.Org, among the Web's most
comprehensive resources on scientific naturalism, its implications and
applications.
Current - Host and founder,
Philosophy
Cafe @ Harvard Book Store.
Selects topics and readings; leads and moderates monthly discussions of
contemporary philosophical and social issues for the Boston area’s best attended
philosophy cafés.
Current - Sound engineer, Boston, MA . Established sound recording
company,
Location Recordings. Production of archival and commercial recordings
for Harvard and Tufts Universities, the Handel & Haydn Society and other Boston
area ensembles, choruses, composers and musicians.
1992-2004 - Research associate, Health & Addictions Research, Inc.,
Boston, MA. Managed research projects on substance abuse trends and
program evaluation. Responsible for survey and ethnographic data
collection, evaluation design and implementation, conducting focus groups,
instrument design, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, report writing.
1988-92 - Research assistant, Project Outreach, North Charles Foundation,
Cambridge, MA. Collected, cleaned, coded, and entered data for a
drug treatment and intervention plan for Rhode Island. Analyzed needs
assessment questionnaires, conducted phone interviews, produced data summaries
and reports.
1976-85 - Percussionist and pianist, the Fantasy Jugglers, Boston, MA.
Presented stage shows for colleges, corporations, television, and public events.
1971-76 - Head repairman, Boston String Instrument Company, Boston, MA.
Established own violin and cello repair business. Worked on a freelance
basis for Horst Kloss, master violin maker, and for the Boston University Music
Department.
Publications & Presentations
2007
"Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses,"
presentation for Center for Inquiry - Southern Arizona, Tucson, October 21.
"Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and the Physical Mind,"
presentation for the Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics lecture series, September 26,
Burlington, MA campus.
Encountering
Naturalism, podcast for Point of Inquiry with DJ Grothe, Center for Inquiry.
Faith in
hiding: is there a secular case for banning abortion?, in the July-August
Humanist.
Review
of Walter Glannon's Bioethics and the Brain for
American Journal of Bioethics, V7 #5, May 2007.
Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses, paperback,
Somerville, MA: Center for Naturalism
"Reforming criminal justice: the case against free will and
retribution." Presentation with Robert Gulack at Touro Law School,
Huntington, NY, February 20, 2006 (audio file
here).
"The natural disaster of poverty." Presentation for the
Ethical Society of Boston, Cambridge, MA, April 2, 2006 (audio file
here).
The specter of brain science. Free Inquiry, April/May 2006.
Naturalism vs. supernaturalism: how to survive the culture wars.
Humanist, May-June, 2006.
Gandhi in question (2 books on Gandhi reviewed). Humanist,
July-August, 2006.
Review
of Lee M. Silver's
Challenging Nature. New England Journal of Medicine, July 27,
2006
Choice and free will: beyond the disease model of addiction. Join
Together invited commentary, September, 2006.
Holding mechanisms responsible.
Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics, Fall, 2006, V13 #3.
2005
Killing the observer. Journal
of Consciousness Studies,
12 (4/5), May/June 2005,
http://www.naturalism.org/kto.htm.
Encountering naturalism: science, self, and society.
Presentation at New England College,
http://www.naturalism.org/self_to_society.htm.
Hodgson's black box. For
a special issue on free will in
Journal of Consciousness Studies,
February, 2005,
www.naturalism.org/hodgson.htm.
Causality, victimhood and empowerment: holding addicts
accountable.
Brown
DATA, February, 2005,
http://www.naturalism.org/addictio.htm#Causality.
Crime and causality: do killers deserve to die?
Free Inquiry, V25 #2 (2005)
at
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=clark_25_2.
Facing facts: policy implications of the humanist commitment to science.
In Toward a New Political Humanism, Barry Seidman, ed., Prometheus Books,
NY,
http://www.naturalism.org/progressivepolitics.htm.
Debunking enlightenment. Review of Rational Mysticism, by John
Horgan (2003), in
Free Inquiry V24 #2. Web:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/clark_24_2.htm
Naturalism, choice and creativity: transcending free will. Presentation at
38 Cameron,
Cambridge, MA. February 12, 2004, at
http://www.naturalism.org/choice_and_creativity.htm.
Is there an observing self? Guest editorial, Science and
Consciousness Review, February, 2004, at
http://www.sci-con.org/editorials/20040201.html
Toward a positive naturalism. Presentation for the Center for Inquiry,
Buffalo, December 18, 2003. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/presentations.htm
Causality, compassion, and control: the ethical
implications of naturalism. Presentation for the Ethical Society of
Boston, November 23, 2003. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/ethical_implications.htm
Keeping the streets mean for addicts. Join Together Online
commentary, April 25. Web:
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/features/reader/0,1854,563007,00.html
Empirical constraints on the concept of consciousness: commentary
on Crick and Koch’s "A framework for consciousness."
Guest editorial, Science
and Consciousness Review, April, 2003, at
http://www.sci-con.org/editorials/20030404.html
Against retribution. Review essay on Placing Blame,
by Michael Moore.
Human Nature Review, 2003, Volume 3:
466-479. Web:
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/twclark.html
Science and freedom.
Free Inquiry V22 #2. Web:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=clark_22_2
Spirituality without faith. Humanist V62 #1.
Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/spiritua1.htm
Discovering true
feelings of ecstasy.
Boston Globe Sunday Focus op-ed on MDMA, September 10, 2000.
Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/ecstasy.htm
Who wrote the book of life?
Humanist, V60 #5. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/currents.htm#Who%20Wrote%20the%20Book%20of%20Life?
Playing God, carefully.
Humanist, V60 #3. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/currents.htm#PlayingGod
Keeping the dogs of determinism at bay.
Philosopher’s Magazine, V6 #2.
Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/determin.htm
Extreme pleasure’s excessive price.
Boston Globe Sunday Focus op-ed on heroin in Massachusetts,
October 10, 1999. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/heroin.htm
Materialism and morality:
the problem with Pinker, Humanist V 58, #6. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/morality.htm
To help addicts, look beyond the fiction
of free will, The Scientist,
12 (16), p. 9.
http://www.naturalism.org/addictio.htm#Stigma
Function and phenomenology: closing the explanatory gap. In J. Shear
(Ed.), in Explaining Consciousness – The Hard Problem (pp. 45-60).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Originally appeared in
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1995, V2, #3, pp. 241-54. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/consciou.htm
The freedom of Susan Smith. In
W.R. Winterowd & G.R. Winterowd (Eds.), The Critical Reader, Thinker, and
Writer, 2nd Edition (pp. 502-509). London: Mayfield Publishing
Company. Originally appeared in Humanist, 1996, V56, #2, pp. 8-12.
Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/freewill2.htm
Fear of mechanism: a compatibilist
critique of The Volitional Brain, in Libet, B., Freeman, A.,
Sutherland, K., eds., The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free
Will, London: Imprint Academic. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/fearof.htm
Death, nothingness, and subjectivity. In
D. Kolak & R. Martin (Eds.), The Experience of Philosophy, 3rd
Edition (pp. 480-490). New York: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Originally appeared in Humanist, 1994, V54, #6, pp. 15-20. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/death.htm
Secularism and sexuality: the case for
gay equality. Humanist, V54, #3, pp. 23-29. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/sexualit.htm
Culture and objectivity.
Humanist,
V54, #5, p. 38. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/multicul.htm
Faith, science and the soul: on the
pragmatic virtues of naturalism. Humanist, V53, #3, pp. 7-12. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/faithsci.htm#faith
Humanism and postmodernism: a
reconciliation. Humanist, V53, #1, pp. 18-23. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/Humanism.htm
Relativism and the limits of
rationality. Humanist , V52, #1, pp. 25-32. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/relativi.htm
Clark, T. and Lamont, C.,
Free choice and naturalism: a written exchange. Humanist, V50, #3,
pp. 18-24. Web:
http://www.naturalism.org/freewill1.htm
Book Reviews (selected, see
here for others)
The
Problem of the Soul, Owen Flanagan; for Human Nature Review
The
Natural Selection of Autonomy, Bruce Waller
The Illusion of Conscious Will, Daniel Wegner; for Science and
Consciousness Review
Addiction is a Choice,
by Jeffrey A. Schaler
Skeptics
and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion, Chet
Raymo
Publications with Health and Addictions Research, Inc.
Soldz, S. Clark, T., Celebucki, C., Walker D. (2002). Decreased youth tobacco
use in Massachusetts 1996-1999: Evidence of tobacco control effectiveness.
Tobacco Control.
Clark, T. and Elliott, E., (2001)
Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, December, 2001.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Proceedings, December 2001 Conference
on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Work Group,
National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Soldz, S., Kreiner, P., Clark, T., and Krakow, M. (2000). Tobacco use among
Massachusetts youth: Is tobacco control working? Preventive Medicine, 31,
287-295.
http://www.srnt.org/events/abstracts99/Tobacco%20Use%20Among%20Massachu.htm
Soldz, S., Clark, T., Stewart, E.,
Miller, B. (2000) Trends in Tobacco Use Among Public School Students in
Massachusetts: Triennial Prevalence Survey, 1984-1999. Boston:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Soldz, S., Clark, T., Stewart, E.,
Miller, B. (2000) Trends in Alcohol Use and Gambling Among Public School
Students in Massachusetts: Triennial Prevalence Survey, 1984-1999. Boston:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Soldz, S., Clark, T., Stewart, E.,
Miller, B. (2000) Trends in Drug Use Among Public School Students in
Massachusetts: Triennial Prevalence Survey, 1984-1999. Boston:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Clark, T., Elliott, E. and Soldz, S.,
(2000) Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, December,
2000.
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. Proceedings,
December 2000 Conference on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Community
Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Clark, T., Elliott, E. and Soldz, S.,
(1999) Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, December,
1999.
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. Proceedings,
December 1999 Conference on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Community
Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Soldz, S., Kreiner, P., Clark, T. (1999) Tobacco Trends among
Massachusetts Youth: Is Tobacco Control Working? Poster presented at
the American Public Health Association, Chicago, IL.
Soldz, S., Kreiner, P., Clark, T. (1999) Tobacco Trends Among
Massachusetts Youth: Is Tobacco Control Working? Paper presented at
the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.
Clark, T., Elliott, E. and Soldz, S.,
(1999) Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, June, 1999.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Proceedings, June 1999 Conference on
Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Work Group, National
Institute of Drug Abuse.
Clark, T., Caspi, Y., Soldz, S., and
Krakow, M. (1998) Preventing Adolescent Substance Use in Massachusetts: A Focus
Group Study, July 1998. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health,
Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.
Soldz, S., Clark, T. (1998) Trends in Cigar Use among Massachusetts Adolescents.
Presentation to Cigar Regulatory Hearing of the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health, Boston MA. Also presented to the Massachusetts Department
of Public Health Tobacco Researchers Workgroup.
Clark, T., Elliott, E. and Soldz, S.,
(1998) Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, December,
1998.
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. Proceedings,
December 1998 Conference on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Community
Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Briton, N., Clark, T., Krakow, M.,
Soldz, S., Baker, A., and Posner, J. (1997) Adolescent Tobacco Use In
Massachusetts: Trends Among Public School Students 1984-1996. Boston:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Briton, N., Clark, T., Krakow, M.,
Soldz, S. (1997) Adolescent Substance Use In Massachusetts: Trends Among Public
School Students 1984-1996. Boston: Massachusetts Department of Public
Health.
Clark, T., Krakow, M., and Elliott, E.
(1997) Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, December,
1997. U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Proceedings, December 1997 Conference on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse,
Community Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Clark, T., Krakow, M., and Elliott, E.
(1996) Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, December,
1996. U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Proceedings, December, 1996 Conference on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse,
Community Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Clark, T., Krakow, M., and Elliott, E.
(1995) Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, December,
1995. U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Proceedings, December, 1995 Conference on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse,
Community Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Clark, T., Galloway, D., Elliott, E.,
and Krakow, M. (1995) Women in Residential Drug Treatment: Focus
Groups in Massachusetts. Boston: Department of Public Health.
Clark, T., Wirth-Cauchon, J., Goldrosen,
and Krakow, M. (1995) Illicit Drug Use in Massachusetts: Findings
from Focus Groups with Methadone Clients and Outreach Workers 1994-1995.
Boston: Department of Public Health.
Clark, T., Krakow, M., and Elliott, E.
(1995) Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, June, 1995.
U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Proceedings, June, 1995
Conference on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Work
Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Shukitt-Hale, B., Clark, T., Williams,
C., and Krakow, M. (1994) Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drug Use
Trends Among Massachusetts Public School Adolescents 1984-1993. June,
1994. Boston: Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Clark, T., and Krakow, M (1994).
Drug use trends in Greater Boston and Massachusetts, June, 1994. U. S.
Department of Health and Human Services. Proceedings, June, 1994
Conference on Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Work
Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse.
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