Morality, Responsibility, and the University: Studies in Academic Ethics

About the Authors

ABOUT THE AUTHORS ROBERT AUDI is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the author of Belief, Justification, and Knowledge (1988) and Practical Reasoning (1989). He writes chiefly in the areas of epistemology , philosophy of mind, and ethics. He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and has directed seminars for visiting philosophers under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. THEODORE M. BENDITT is Professor of Philosophy and dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Alabama at Birmingham . He has taught at Duke University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Law as Rule and Principle (1978) and Rights (1982), and of a number of articles in the areas of legal, moral, social, and political philosophy. NORMAN E. BOWIE is Professor of Corporate Responsibility at the University ofMinnesota. Previously he served as director ofthe Center for the Study of Values, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Business Administration at the University of Delaware. He is the former executive secretary of the American Philosophical Association. His books include Ethical Issues in Government (1981), Business Ethics (1982), Making Ethical Decisions (1985), and Equal Opportunity (1988). He is also the coauthor or coeditor of nine other books and a frequent contributor to scholarly journals. STEVEN M. CAHN is Professor of Philosophy and provost and vicepresident for academic affairs at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Previously he taught at Vassar College, New York University, and the University of Vermont, where he chaired the Department of Philosophy. He is the author of Fate, Logic, and Time (1967), A New Introduction to Philosophy (1971), The Eclipse of Excellence (1973), Education and the Democratic Ideal (1979), Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia (1986), and Philosophical Explorations: Freedom, God, and Goodness (1989). He has edited eight other volumes, including The 272 I ABOUT THE AUTHORS Philosophical Foundations of Education (1970), Classics of Western Philosophy (1977), and Scholars Who Teach: The Art of College Teaching (1978). NANCY ("ANN") DAVIS is Associate Professor of Philosophy and an associate of the Center for Values and Social Policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has published papers on various topics in moral philosophy, with emphasis on the connections between moral theory and moral practice. JUDITH WAGNER DECEW is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Alice Higgins Faculty Fellow for 1989-1990 at Clark University. Previously she taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has held research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Association of University Women, Harvard Law School, and the Radcliffe Bunting Institute. She has published papers on applied and theoretical ethics, philosophy of law, and deontic logic. PAUL D. EISENBERG is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has held visiting appointments at the University of illinois, Champaign, and at the University ofMassachusetts, Amherst. He has translated Spinoza's Treatise on the Improvement of the Understanding and has provided an extended textual commentary on it (1977). In addition to his other articles on Spinoza, he has also written on Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche, among others. ALAN GEWIRTH is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. His books include Reason and Morality (1978), Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications (1982), Marsilius of Padua and Medieval Political Philosophy (1951), and The Defensor Pacis ofMarsilius, which he translated with an introduction and appendices (1956). He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ALAN H. GOLDMAN is Professor of Philosophy and chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is author of Moral Knowledge (1988), Empirical Knowledge (1988), The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics (1980), and Justice and Reverse Discrimination (1979) and has contributed to many philosophical journals. DAVID A. HOEKEMA is Associate Professor ofPhilosophy at the University of Delaware and executive director of the American Philosophical Association. He taught previously at Saint Olaf College, Calvin Col- About the Authors I 273 lege, and Princeton University. He is the author of Rights and Wrongs: Coercion, Punishment, and the State (1986) and has contributed articles to philosophical journals on topics in the theory of punishment, the ethics of nuclear deterrence, and the philosophy of art. DAVID...