Clyde Lee Miller Curriculum Vitae
Department of Philosophy
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794
(631) 632-7570
Email: clyde.miller@stonybrook.edu
Education
B.A. (Philosophy & Letters) - St. Louis U., 1960
M.A. (Greek & Latin) - St. Louis U., 1961
Ph.L. (Philosophy = M.A.) - St. Louis U., 1961
S.T.L. (Theology = M.A.) - St. Louis U., 1968
Ph.D. (Philosophy) - Yale Univ., 1974
Academic Honors & Awards
B.A., M.A., Ph.L.,S.T.L. magna cum laude
Jacob Cooper Prize in Greek Philosophy, Yale, 1974 (dissertation)
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1980
Danforth Associate, 1980-84
New York State/UUP Excellence Award, 1991
SBU School of Professional Development: Bentley Glass Great Teacher Award, 1996
SBU Academy of Teacher-Scholars Award, 1999
SBU Commendation for Graduate Student Mentoring, 2002
Grants
SUNY/UAC Summer Research Fellowships: 1975, '77, '78, '79, '81
SBU Grant-in-Aid: 1978, 1982-83
SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines Grant: 1979
NEH Translation Grant: summer, 1983
NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers Director's Grant: "Learning and Teaching in Plato's Protagoras and Meno." 1989, '91, '92, '93, ’95, ’96 (total = $391,445)
SBU Academy of Teacher-Scholars Award, 1999
Teaching Positions
1961-64 Secondary School Teacher, St. John's College, Belize.
1972-73 Half-time Instructor, Yale Univ.
1973-74 Lecturer, Stony Brook University
1974-80 Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
1980-2001 Associate Professor, Stony Brook University
- Professor, Stony Brook University
1980- Dissertation director for seven PhD. candidates
Professional Societies
American Philosophical Association
American Catholic Philosophical Association
American Cusanus Society, Executive Board member
Eckhart Society
Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Miller resumé, p. 2
PUBLICATIONS
Yale Dissertation: A Commentary on Plato's Protagoras. Ann Arbor, 1974.
Editor
Managing Editor, Theology Digest, 1967.
Book Review Editor, Cross Currents, 1975-85.
Editor, Acta XVIII (1993) “Old and New in the Fifteenth Century.”
Monographs
Reading Cusanus: Metaphor and Dialectic in a Conjectural Universe. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. Press, 2002.
The Art of Conjecture: Nicholas of Cusa on Knowledge. Washington D.C.: Catholic Univ. Press, 2021.
Translated Books
Nicholas de Cusa, Idiota de mente--The Layman: About Mind, with Introduction and notes. New York: Abaris Books, 1979.
Jean Gerson, De consolatione theologiae--The Consolation of Theology, with Introduction and notes. Norwalk, Ct.: Abaris Books, 1998.
Articles/Book Chapters/Essays
1."Religious Experience and Religious Mystique," The Critic 30 (1972): 19-26.
2."Ironic or Not?" American Philosophical Quarterly 13 (1976): 309-313.
3."Rule by One Man and Its Rewards: Aquinas' De regno 1," Acta 3 (1977): 53-64.
4."Union with the One: Ennead 6.9.8-11," The New Scholasticism 51 (1977): 182 -195.
5."Maimonides and Aquinas on Naming God," Journal of Jewish Studies 28 (1977): 65-71.
6."Two Mid-points in Plato's Protagoras," Modern Schoolman 55 (1977): 71-79.
7."World Hunger, Poverty and Ethics," Cross Currents 27 (1977): 308-320.
8."Meister Eckhart's Ironic Orthodoxy," Acta 4 (1978): 33-43.
9."Aristotelian Natura and Nicholas of Cusa," Downside Review 96 (1978): 13-20.
10."The Prometheus Theme in Plato's Protagoras," Interpretation 7 (1978): 22-32.
11."Nicholas of Cusa and Philosophic Knowledge," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 54 (1980): l55-163.
12."Metaphor and Simile in Nicholas of Cusa's Idiota de mente," Acta 8 (1981): 47- 59.
Miller resumé, p.3
13."Irony and the History of Philosophy," Poetics Today 4 (1983): 465-478.
14."A Road Not Taken: Nicholas of Cusa and Today's Intellectual World," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 57 (1983): 68-77.
15."Nicholas of Cusa's De ludo globi: Symbolic Roundness and Eccentric Life Paths," Acta 10 (1983): 135-147.
16."Nicholas of Cusa's The Vision of God," in An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe, ed. P. Szarmach. Albany: 1984, pp. 293-312.
17."Perception, Conjecture and Dialectic in Nicholas of Cusa," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1990): 35-54.
18."The Icon and the Wall: Visio and Ratio in Nicholas of Cusa's De visione Dei," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 64 (1990): 86 -98.
- "Nicholas of Cusa's On Conjectures (De conjecturis)," in Nicholas of Cusa: In Search of God and Wisdom, ed. G. Christianson & T. Izbicki. Leiden: 1991, pp. 119-140.
20.“God’s Presence: Some Cusan Proposals,” in Nicholas of Cusa on Christ and the Church, ed. G.Christianson & T.Isbicki. Leiden: 1996, pp. 241-249.
- “Albertus Magnus”;“Nicholas of Cusa,” in Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.M. Jeep. New York: 2001, pp. 8-10, 565-567.
22. “Meister Eckhart in Nicholas of Cusa’s 1456 Sermon: Ubi est qui natus est rex Iudeorum?” in Nicholas of Cusa and His Age: Intellect and Spirituality, ed. T.Izbicki & C. Bellitto. Leiden: 2002, pp. 105-125. (Includes translation of Latin sermon.)
23. “Knowledge and the Human Mind” in Introducing Nicholas of Cusa, ed. C.M.Bellitto, T.Izbicki, & G.Christianson. NY/Mahwah, NJ: 2004, pp. 299 -318.
- “Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009. Online: <http//plato.stanford.edu/entries/cusanus>. Revised 2021.
- “Form and Transformation: Christiformitas in Nicholas of Cusa,” Journal of Religion 90 (2010): 1-14.
- “The Future of Cusanus Studies: Some Proposals,”American Cusanus Society Newsletter 25 (2008): 48-50.
- “Nicholas of Cusa” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed., Daniel Patte. Cambridge, 2010, p. 869.
- “False Consciousness” in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. R.L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Vol. 2, pp. 552-554.
- “God as Li Non-Aliud: Nicholas of Cusa’s Unique Designation for God.”
Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 41, no. 1 (2015): 24@-40.
30.“The Metaphor of Light and the Light of Metaphor in Nicholas of Cusa.” In Nicholas of Cusa and Times of Transition: Essays in Honor of Gerald Christianson, edited by Thomas M. Izbicki, Jason Aleksander, and Donald F. Duclow, 286-300, Leiden: Brill, 2019.
31.”Conjectural Knowledge and Metaphor--Implications of Nicholas of Cusa’s De coniecturis.” In Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series, vol. 13, edited by Joel T. Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach, 193-204. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019.
- “The Cusanus Map and Nicholas of Cusa’s Cosmographicus.” Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeiträge der Gesellschaft 35 (2020):377-393.
- “Pilgrimage and Seeing the Icon in De visione Dei” In Mystical Theology and Platonism In the Time of Cusanus. Essays in Honor of Donald F. Duclow. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 201, edited by Jason Aleksander, Sean Hannan, Joshua Hollmann, & Michael Moore, 150-159. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Book reviews
- Moral Education in Theory and Practice, R.Hall & J. Davis; Moral Development, R.Duska & M.Whelan: Cross Currents 25 (1976): 458-460.
- The Genesee Diary, H.Nouwen: Cross Currents 26 (1976): 217-218.
- The Church and the Homosexual, J.J.McNeill: Cross Currents 26 (1977): 453 -455.On Being Human,A.Varga; The Moral Choice,D.Maguire; Abortion and the Roman Catholic Church,S.Nicholson: Cross Currents 26(1977): 453-455.
- Many-Dimensional Man, J.Ogilvy: Cross Currents 29 (1979): 83-86.
- Meister Eckhart on Divine Knowledge, C.G.Kelley: International Studies in Philosophy 11 (1979): 215-216.
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Philosophy 18 (1980): 346-347.
- Five Translations of Nicholas of Cusa, J.Hopkins: Cross Currents 32 (1982): 366 -369.
8.Nicholas of Cusa's Metaphysic of Contraction, J.Hopkins: Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (1985): 103-104.
9.Meister Eckhart:Thought and Language, F.Tobin: Journal of Religion 67 (1987): 550-551.
10.Nicholas of Cusa,The Catholic Concordance, ed.&tr. P.E. Sigmund; Francisco de Vitoria, Political Writings, ed.&tr. A.Pagden & J.Lawrance: Canadian Philosophical Review 12(1992):393-395.
- Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus, D.F.Duclow: International Philosophical Quarterly 48(2008): 263-264.
- Becoming God:The Doctrine of Theosis in Nicholas of Cusa, N.Hudson, Renaissance Quarterly 60(2008): 1424-1425.
- Tracing Nicholas of Cusa’s Early Development: The Relationship between De concordantia catholica and De docta ignorantia, J.de Guzman Miroy, Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2010): 185-186.
- Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues, J. Angelo Corlett, Review of Metaphysics 64 (2010): 380.
- Logos and Revelation: Ibn ‘Arabi, Meister Eckhart and Mystical Hermeneutics, Robert Dobie, International Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2011): 125-126.
- Reform, Representation and Theology in Nicholas of Cusa and His Age, H.Lawrence Bond and Gerald Christianson, Renaissance Quarterly 66 (2013): 276-277.
- Nicholas of Cusa and the Aristotelean Tradition: A Philosophical and
Theological Survey (2020) Ed. Emmanuele Vimercati and Valentina Zaffino.
- Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays (2003), Gail Fine. In press.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
A & S Curriculum Committee, 75-77
Federated Learning Communities Program, Faculty Member ‘76-78, 80-82; Master Learner, ‘84-85
Freshman Learning Communities Program--Community of Ideas,
Course and Program Seminars ‘98-99,
Seminar Director & Faculty Co-ordinator ‘98-99
Chair, Senate Student Life Committee, 87-88
Chair, Undergraduate Council (=Education & Teaching Policy Committee), ‘90-91
Chair, Senate Nominations Committee, 91-94
Faculty Advisor, Multidisciplinary Studies Program, 90-91,’97
Chair, Dean’s Committee on Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Programs, 98
General Faculty Advisor, New Freshmen & Transfer Student Orientations, ’97 -present
Advisory Committee on Freshman Orientation, 95-97, 04
SPD Council, 99-2012
Dean’s Committee for Departmental Teaching Award, 00-01
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Personnel, College of Arts & Sciences (CAS), 01-12: Advise Dean regarding faculty searches, tenure and promotion
cases, merit and promotion raises, leaves and sabbaticals, miscellaneous personnel matters.
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) AA/EEO Committee, 01-12
SBU President’s Diversity Council, 01-09
Director, CAS Mentoring Program for New Faculty, 01-12
CAS Dean’s Committee for Improving Faculty Salaries, 01-02
Keynote Speaker, Golden Key Honors Society, 01 & Alpha Tau Freshman Honors Society,’02, ’03, 04
Author of Stony Brook Response to AAU Survey on the Humanities, ’02
Member, Humanities Institute Executive Board, ’01-12
Campus Officer and Coordinator, Selection Committee for SB Summer NEH Fellowship Candidates, ’01-12
Member, Senate Committee on Research, ’02-04
Chair, Search Committee for CAS Assistant Dean for Curriculum, 04
Member, Search Committee for CAS Advancement Officer, 05
Member, University Ray of Light Awards Committee for Community Giving, ‘06
Member, Provost’s and Deans’ Committee on Campus Climate, 07
Co-chair, First Year Matters Committee on Roles & Purposes, ’07-08
Member, Task Force on New Faculty Orientation, 08
Presenter, Publication and Tenure, FDP Recipients, SUNY Central Office of Diversity, Albany ‘10
ACLS New Faculty Fellows Post-Doc Program, Campus Coordinator, ’10-12,
ACLS New Faculty Fellows Post-Doc Program, Referee ‘10-12
Member, Faculty Committee on Health Professions, 11-12
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Undergraduate Program Director, 1973-78, 82, 87-88
Acting Chair and Chair, 1984, 1988-89, 1993, 1999
Solzberg Library Committee, 1985-93
Director, Solzberg Philosophy Library, 1993-2001
Obtained Schievella Research Collection for Solzberg Library, 1993
Chair, History of Philosophy Exam Committee, 1994-96, ’99, 2002-present
Chair, Recruitment Committee, 87-88
Liaison with Main Library for Acquisitions in Philosophy, 80-90
UUP Department Representative, 95-01
Philosophy Department Job Placement Director, 99-01
Member, Working Group for Templeton Grant on Trust, ’06-07
CAS Strategic Planning Committee, 10
PhD. Prospectus Committee, 11
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (1981-2020)
1-“Irony and the History of Philosophy,” SBU Philosophy Dept. Colloquium, March, 1981.
2- “Metaphor & Simile in Cusanus’ Idiota de mente,” ACTA Conference,
SUNY/Binghamton, April 1981.
- “Metaphor and Simile in Cusanus’ Idiota de mente,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1981
- “Feeding the Hungry, the Moral Dimension,” Univ. of Connecticut, Dept. of Agriculture, April 1982.
- “The Icon and the Wall: Visio and Ratio in Cusanus’ De visione Dei,” ACTA Conference, SUNY/Binghampton, April 1982.
6-“The Icon and the Wall,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1982.
7-“The Icon and the Wall,” USB Religious Studies Program Faculty Colloquium, May 1982.
8-“Irony in the History of Philosophy,” Philosophy Dept., LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY, Oct.1982.
9-“The Icon and the Wall,” Conference on Faith and Reason, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, Oct. 1982.
10-“The Icon and the Wall,” Medieval Club of New York, Baruch College, NYC, Nov. 1982.
11-“Nicholas of Cusa and Today’s Intellectual World,” annual meeting of ACPA, NYC, April 1983.
12-“Eccentric Lives on a Concentric Map: Cusanus’ De ludo globi,” ACTA Conference, SUNY/Binghamton, April, 1983.
13-“Can Cusanus’ Epistemology Be Separated from his Ontology?” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1983.
14-“Cusanus’ Ironic Metaphors,” USB History Dept. Medieval Series, Nov. 1983.
15-“Envy & Jealousy,” USB Philosophy Dept. Prime Time talk, April, 1985.
16-“Nicholas of Cusa’s De visione Dei,” Philosophy Dept., University of Essex, U.K., Oct. 1985.
17-“The Icon and the Wall,” University College, London, U.K., Dec. 1985.
18-“The Ethics of Allowing to Die,” Douglaston College, Queens, NY., April, 1986.
19-“The Inseparability of Epistemology and Ontology in the Thought of Nicholas of Cusa,” International Society for Neoplatonic Studies at APA Central Division meetings, St. Louis, Mo., May, 1986.
20-“Hopkins and Blumenberg on Interpreting Cusanus,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1986.
21-“Where is the Consolation in Gerson’s De consolatione theologiae?” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA, Oct. 1986.
22-“Imagery in Cusanus’ De pace fidei,” American Cusanus Society Biennial Meetings, Gettysberg, PA, Oct. 1986.
23-“Perspective and Conjecture in Nicholas of Cusa,” American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, NYC, Dec. 1987.
24-“Dialectic and Symbolism in Nicholas of Cusa,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1988.
25-“Self-Deception in Gerson’s De consolatione theologiae,” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, Sept. 1988.
26-“Envisioning the Worlds of Nicholas of Cusa,” Imagining New Worlds Conference, Lehman College, Bronx, NY, May, 1989.
27-“A Vademecum to Gerson’s De consolatione theologiae,” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA, Sept. 1989.
28-“The Icon and the Wall,” American Catholic Philosophical Association Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, March 1990.
29-“The Presence of God: Some Cusan Proposals,” USB Philosophy Dept., Sept. 1990.
30-“The Presence of God: Some Cusan Proposals,” American Cusanus Society Biennial Meeting, Gettysburg, PA, Oct. 1990.
31-“The Presence of God: Some Cusan Proposals,” Philosophy Dept., St. John’s Univ., Queens, NY, Feb. 1991.
32-“The Presence of God: Some Cusan Proposals,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, CA. April, 1991.
33-“Homeric References in Plato’s Protagoras,” New Jersey Philosophical Society, Rutgers University, December 1991.
34-“Moral Development and Adolescents,” Lecture to Three Village School District Administrators, May, 1992.
35-“Fieri posse in Cusanus’ De venatione sapientiae,” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Villanova Univ. Villanova, PA, Sept. 1993.
36-“Fieri posse in Cusanus’ De venatione sapientiae,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1994.
37-“Conjectures, Numbers and Elements in De coniecturis II,” American Cusanus Society Biennial Meeting, Gettysburg, PA, Oct. 1994.
38-Commentary on two papers on Plato, American Catholic Philosophical Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., April, 1994.
39-“Dialectical Thinking in De docta ignorantia III,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1996.
40-“Are Cusanus’ “Four Sermons in the Spirit of Eckhart” really in the spirit of Eckhart?” American Cusanus Society Biennial Meeting, Gettysburg, PA, Oct. 1996.
41-“Cusanus and Eckhart on Eternity and Time,” USB Philosophy Dept., Oct 1996.
42-“Nicholas of Cusa’s ‘De deo abscondito’,” American Cusanus Society Biennial Meeting, Gettysburg, PA Oct 1998.
43-“Nicholas of Cusa’s ‘De deo abscondito’,” Philosophy Department, USB, Nov 1998.
44-“Cusanus & Dionysius,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May, 2000.
45-“Metaphor and Dialectic in Cusanus. Thoughts on De li non aliud,” Medieval Academy Annual Meeting, Tempe AR, March, 2001.
46-“Commentary on Wilhelm Dupre’s ‘The Living Image of God’,” Conference on Nicholas of Cusa 1401-2001, Catholic Univ. of America, October, 2001.
47-“God as ‘Finis sine fine’ in Cusanus’ De visione Dei,” Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, March, 2002.
48-“Literal and Metaphorical in Cusan Perception,” Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Conference, Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA, September, 2002.
49-Respondent, Two Recent Books on Nicholas of Cusa, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March, 2003.
50-“Literal and Metaphorical in Cusan Conjecture,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2003.
51-“Nicholas of Cusa: A Neoplatonism of His Own,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York City, April, 2004.
52-“Conjecture and Metaphor in Cusan Thought,” Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department, SUNY/Stony Brook, October 2004.
53-Respondent, Philosophy Department Book Party for my monograph, Reading Cusanus, SUNY/Stony Brook, November 2004.
53-Respondent and Commentator, Miller’s Reading Cusanus Session, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Cambridge, England, April, 2005.
54-“Two Christmas Sermons: Jean Gerson and Nicholas of Cusa on ‘Verbum Caro Factum Est’,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2005.
55-“What Sort of Cusan Metaphor is the Coincidence of Opposites?” Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 2006.
56-“Christiformitas in Nicholas of Cusa” (Carl Arthur Piepkorn Keynote Lecture) American Cusanus Society Biennial Meeting, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg, PA., October, 2006.
57-“Power, Trust and Friendship,” Templeton Foundation Seminar Series on Trust in Science and Religion, SUNY Stony Brook, March, 2007.
58-“God as the Non-Aliud or Not-Other: Another Way to Cusan Mysticism,” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Villanova Univ., Villanova, PA, October, 2007.
59-“Does Nicholas of Cusa’s De beryllo Mark a New Direction in His Thinking?” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, March, 2008.
60-Panelist: “The Future of Cusanus Studies,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2008.
61-“Cusanus and Aristotle,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March, 2009.
62-“The Conjectural Universe and the Coincidence of Opposites,” Texas A & M Philosophy Department, College Station, TX, March 2010.
63-TLT SB Video Interview: “Challenges in Teaching First-year College Students”: https://tlt.stonybrook.edu/FacultyServices/IiE/Lists/Show%20List/DispForm.aspx?ID=31.
64-“Aristotle in Nicholas of Cusa’s De beryllo,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 2012.
65-“Nicholas of Cusa’s Mapmaker: Power & Vision in Compendium c.8,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2012.
24-“Conjecture and Metaphor in Nicholas of Cusa,” International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (SAGP/SSIP), New York, NY, October 2013.
25-“The Metaphor of Light and the Light of Metaphor in Nicholas of Cusa,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March, 2014.
26-“The Cusanus Map and Nicholas of Cusa’s Cosmographicus,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April, 2014.
27-“Metaphor and Conjecture in Nicholas of Cusa,” Meeting of Medieval Society with ACPA, Boston, MA, October 2015.
28-“Two Recent Books on Nicholas of Cusa,” Cusanus Society Biennial Meeting, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg, PA, October, 2017.
29-“When Two Go Together. Homer in Plato’s Protagoras” Paper on Zoom for 2022 International Plato Society Meeting, spring 2022.
Reviewer of Book Manuscripts and Proposals (for Catholic University Press Papers for several Journals (2015-Present).