Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

Notes on Contributors

Fritz Allhoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Western Michigan University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Canberra, Australia). He has held visiting posts at the American Medical Association, University of Michigan, University of Oxford, and the University of Pittsburgh. His primary fields of research are applied ethics, ethical theory, and philosophy of biology/science. He has published work in the American Journal of Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, among other places. His latest books include What Is Nanotechnology and Why Does It Matter?: From Science to Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010; with Patrick Lin and Daniel Moore) and Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture (University of Chicago, 2012).

Andrew Altman is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. He specializes in legal and political philosophy and applied ethics. His publications include Critical Legal Studies (Princeton University Press, 1989) and A Liberal Theory of International Justice (with Christopher Heath Wellman; Oxford University Press, 2009). His articles on such topics as hate speech, sexual harassment, and international criminal law have appeared in Philosophy & Public Affairs and Ethics, among other leading journals. He is currently working on a book on pornography (with Susan J. Brison).

Arthur Isak Applbaum is Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University. Applbaum's work on legitimate political authority, civil and official disobedience, and role morality has appeared in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard Law Review, Ethics, and Legal Theory. He is the author of Ethics for Adversaries (Princeton University Press, 2000), a book about the morality of roles in public and profes­­sional life.

Bernard Boxill is Pardue Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is author of Blacks and Social Justice (Rowman & Allanheld, 1984), editor of Race and Racism (Oxford University Press, 2001), and has published numerous articles on themes in ethics, the history of political thought, and social and political philosophy.

Bob Brecher is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Brighton, and Director of its Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics. He has published over sixty articles in moral theory, applied ethics and politics, healthcare and medical ethics, sexual politics, terrorism and the politics of higher education. His latest book, Torture and the Ticking Bomb (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007) is the first book-length rebuttal of calls to legalize interrogational torture. Currently he is working on a theory of morality as practical reason, building on his earlier Getting What You Want? A Critique of Liberal Morality (Routledge, 1997). A past president of the Association for Legal & Social Philosophy, he is also on the Board of a number of academic journals as well as being a member of several Research Ethics Committees.

Susan J. Brison is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College and has held visiting appointments at Tufts, New York University, and Princeton. She is author of After Violence and the Remaking of the Self (Princeton University Press, 2002) and Speech, Harm, and Conflicts of Rights (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation (Westview Press, 1993).

Daniel Callahan is Senior Research Scholar and President Emeritus of the Hastings Center. He was its co-founder in 1969 and served as its president between 1969 and 1996. He is also co-director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy. Over the years his research and writing have covered a wide range of issues, from the beginning until the end of life. His recent books include What Price Better Health: Hazards of the Research Imperative (University of California Press, 2003) and Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System (Princeton University Press, 2009).

Andrew I. Cohen is Director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. His research focuses on contractarian social and political theory, themes in global justice, and reparations and apologies for historic injustice. His work has appeared in journals such as Philosophy and Public Affairs, The Journal of Social Philosophy, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy.

John Corvino is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Wayne State University in Detroit. His is the co-author (with Maggie Gallagher) of Debating Same-Sex Marriage (2012) and the author of What's Wrong with Homosexuality? (2013), both from Oxford University Press. A frequent speaker on sexuality, ethics, and marriage, Corvino posts articles and video clips at www.johncorvino.com.

Stephen L. Darwall is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Impartial Reason (Cornell University Press, 1983), The British Moralists and the Internal “Ought”: 1640–1740 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Philosophical Ethics (Westview Press, 1998), Welfare and Rational Care (Princeton University Press, 2002), The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality and Accountability (Harvard University Press, 2006).

R.G. Frey was Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He specialized in ethical and political philosophy and was the author of numerous books and articles on applied ethics, normative theory, and the history of eighteenth-century British moral philosophy, including Interests and Rights (Oxford University Press, 1980) and Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (with Gerald Dworkin and Sissela Bok; Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Robert P. George holds the McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence and is the founding director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He has served on the President's Council on Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has also served on UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology, of which he continues to be a corresponding member. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Among many other publications, he is the author of In Defense of Natural Law (Oxford University Press, 2001), Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (Oxford University Press, 1995), and The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002).

Sherif Girgis is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Princeton and a JD candidate at Yale Law School, where he is an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He has lectured and debated on social issues, and has published in academic and popular venues including the New York Times, the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Wall Street Journal, Public Discourse, National Review, and Commonweal. He is the lead author of the book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, published by Encounter Books in 2012.

Deborah Hellman is Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to joining the UVA faculty in 2012, she was the Jacob France Research Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. She writes about discrimination and equality, campaign finance and obligations of professional role. Hellman is the author of When is Discrimination Wrong? (Harvard University Press, 2008), which lays out a theory of discrimination, and a co-editor of The Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Douglas Husak (PhD, JD) is Professor of Philosophy and Law at Rutgers University where he is co-Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy. He is the author of The Philosophy of Criminal Law: Selected Essays (Oxford University Press, 2010), Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford Univer­­sity Press, 2008), Legalize This! The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs (Verso, 2002), and Drugs and Rights (Cambridge University Press, 1992). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Criminal Law and Philosophy.

Chandran Kukathas is Chair of Political Theory at the London School of Economics. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Hayek and Modern Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1989) and The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Patrick Lee is the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute of Bioethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Abortion and Human Life...