2008

The College’s new President recommends termination of Piper’s tenured full professorship to Board of Trustees. Piper opens solo exhibition, Everything, at Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York in absentia. Scans close to 1,000 family photos from family archive. Cambridge University Press formally accepts both Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume I: The Humean Conception and also Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Volume II: A Kantian Conception for publication. Piper goes on several retreats at Vedanta-Gesellschaft, Bindeweide. College Board of Adrian Photo credit: Albert LandauTrustees terminates Piper’s tenured full professorship in philosophy. AAUP again refuses to investigate. Cambridge University Press reneges on written agreement to demand no further cuts in Rationality and the Structure of the Self. Piper refuses to sign contract and instead publishes both volumes gratis at APRA website. The North American Kant Society quarterly newsletter announces its online publication. Piper advertises it in The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, The Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Review, Mind, Ethics, Political Theory, The European Journal of Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, and the Philosophy in Europe E-List. The United Kingdom Kant Society announces it at its website. Delivers “Zwei Ideale rationaler Motivation” at Leibniz-Universität Hannover. Does Visiting Residency at Paul Klee Sommerakademie in Bern, Switzerland. Attends Kant-Gesellschaft conference on Transcendental Illusion in Frankfurt, United Kingdom Kant Society conference on Space and Time at the University of Sussex. Produces Everything #19.3: New York Times Portrait of Megan Williams for Farimani magazine. Goes OUT TO LUNCH for entire month of September, begins memoir, makes it to 60th birthday, goes dancing at ACUD to celebrate. Ginger dies of kidney failure. Posts “Decision-Theoretic Legitimacy for Market Regulation” on Philosophy in Europe E-List, deals with fall-out. Delivers “Conceptual Art and Intellectual Intuition” at Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Completes full draft of memoir, Escape to Berlin.