Daryl Close

Daryl Close holds a joint appointment as Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio. He has served as the Director of the Division of Natural and Social Sciences and as Faculty Coordinator for the Honors Program. His previous appointments include Tiffin University, where he chaired the Division of Arts and Science as well as the Department of Philosophy for many years, Ohio Northern University, LaSalle College, and Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Close graduated in philosophy from Lafayette College (1971) and earned the M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University (1975, 1976). He is co-author with Nicholas Meier of Morality in Criminal Justice (Wadsworth, 1995) and of various journal articles in the philosophy of perception, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. Dr. Close served on the Board of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers from 1984 to 2006, co-edited the Association’s publication, AAPT News, for more than 14 years, and served as President of that organization from 2002-2004. Dr. Close is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Mind Association, the Society for Machines and Mentality, and the Association for Computing Machinery, as well as other professional organizations. He is a Public Library Trustee for the State of Ohio, and serves on the Board of the Mohawk Community Library in Sycamore, Ohio. Dr. Close has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 Lenssen Prize, an award for the best paper on teaching philosophy published in 2008-2009.