Bruce Paternoster, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
856-256-4822
paternoster@rowan.edu 

Bruce Paternoster received his Ph.D. in 1973. After a brief period as Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, Camden, he returned to his native state of Indiana to teach at the University of Evansville. Remaining at UE for fourteen years, Paternoster left as Department Chair in 1990 to become the first full-time Assistant Dean of Glassboro State College, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There he participated in the exciting transition of GSC to Rowan University. In 1998, Bruce took a position at the Princeton-based Educational Testing Service, where he managed staff in a number of outcomes assessment tests, including the Major Field Tests, the Test of English for Foreign Learners (TOEFL), and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Teaching was never far from his mind, so when he retired from ETS in 2007, Paternoster returned to Rowan as an adjunct instructor. He currently occupies a temporary full-time position teaching courses in Philosophy of Science, World Philosophy, Symbolic Logic, and Philosophy of Medicine. His principal areas of interest and research are Plato's uses of allegory and myth and, in general, the role played by models and metaphors in the growth of knowledge.