NELSON POLE

Nelson Pole is a Professor of Philosophy, Cleveland State University, where he has taught for over 30 years.

Dr. Pole received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Ohio State University in 1971. His undergraduate degree (1963) was from Monteith College of Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan). Monteith awarded what are now called Liberal Studies Degrees. His concentrations were in philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences.

Professor Pole is a past president of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers and of the Central Conference on Teaching Philosophy. He is a frequent presenter at workshops on the teaching of philosophy.

His primary interests in philosophy have been in philosophy of religion, engineering ethics, philosophy of science and technology, and logic and computers. His publications in the philosophy of science and in logic include articles in Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science and in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. Since the late 1980s, he has devoted himself to developing computerized resources for the teaching of philosophy. His major contribution is the LogicCoach family of computer programs for aiding students in mastering all of the standard topics in college level logic. It is distributed by the Wadsworth Publishing Company and is customized to accompany several of the texts that they publish.

His wife is an artist and they have four children, all boys. The oldest teaches English in South Korea and the others are still in various stages of their education.