The Science of Modern Virtue: On Descartes, Darwin, and Locke

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Larry Arnhart is Presidential Research Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature and Darwinian Conservatism. Jeffrey P. Bishop, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University. He is the author of The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying. Tobin L. Craig is Assistant Professor of Political Theory and Science Policy at James Madison College at Michigan State University. He has published essays on Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis and on the relationship of technology and utopianism. Samuel Goldman is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Religion Department at Princeton University. He is revising his dissertation on Leo Strauss and Enlightenment critiques of religion for publication. Marc D. Guerra is Associate Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Assumption College. He is the author of Christians as Political Animals: Taking the Measure of Modernity and Modern Democracy and editor of Reason, Revelation, and Human Affairs and of Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome. Lauren K. Hall is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rochester Institute of Technology. She has written on topics in modernity including biotechnology, as well as on the political thought of Edmund Burke. 320 About the Contributors Ralph Hancock is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University and President of the John Adams Center for the Study of Faith, Philosophy, and Public Affairs. He is the author of Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics and of The Responsibility of Reason: Theory and Practice in a Liberal-Democratic Age. Sara M. Henary is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. She is currently working on a book manuscript with the working title Nature and Convention in Locke’s Political Philosophy. Thomas Hibbs is Dean of the Honors College and Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture at Baylor University. He has published three books on Thomas Aquinas and is currently writing a book on Pascal. Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government and International Studies at Berry College. Among his books are Postmodernism Rightly Understood, Aliens in America, Stuck with Virtue, Homeless and at Home in America, and Modern and American Dignity. Daniel P. Maher is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. Some of his recent publications appear in Review of Metaphysics, Hermathena, Society, and Nova et Vetera. Paul Seaton, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Baltimore, Md. His area of expertise is political philosophy, with a special concentration on French thought. James R. Stoner, Jr., is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism and Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism. This page intentionally left blank. ...