User:Rickrepetti/Rick Repetti

Rick Repetti is an assistant professor of philosophy at Kingsborough Community College in the City University of New York, and a yoga and meditation instructor at Natural Balance Massage and Wellness Center in Marine Park in Brooklyn. Repetti is the author of The Counterfactual Theory of Free Will: A Genuinely Deterministic Theory of Soft Determinism (Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010), and articles on contemplative pedagogy, the ethics of teaching philosophy, Buddhism, meditation and free will.

Repetti is a founding member of the CUNY Contemplatives Network, and a member of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, the American Association of Philosophy Practitioners, and the American Philosophical Association. Repetti facilitates a meditation group for the entire Kingsborough Community College community (students, staff, faculty, and administrators) that meets twice a week on campus for meditation and dharma discussion. He is also faculty advisor for the campus branch of Student Worlds Assembly, anbd for the Philosophy Club, and he is the campus coordinator for the Salzburg Seminar International Studies Program and for the Vassar College Exploring Transfer Summer Scholarship program (where he taught, in the program, for two years).

Repetti conducts research on the use of meditation in the philosophy classroom, initial results of which support the view that meditation has a more powerful impact on students' philosophical attitudes than traditional Socratic debate does.

He is also an avid runner (and marathoner). Repetti conducts research on the use of meditation in the philosophy classroom, initial results of which support the view that meditation has a more powerful impact on students' philosophical attitudes than traditional Socratic debate does.

In his youth, Repetti was a student of Ram Dass, Hilda Charlton, and Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati (then "Joya"). He is also a 4th dan (yodan: 4th degree black belt) in traditional (pre-JKA, Japan Karate Association) Shotokan karate, having studied for many years in the Bushido Karate Dojo in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, under Sensei Warren Kaye (retired), and is now a (currently very inconsistent) student of MMA (mixed martial arts: kickboxing and grappling) at Tiger Schulman's. He is also an avid runner (and marathoner).