Present
Position: Professor, Department of
Philosophy
Phone: 305-348-3346
(Department secretary: 305-348-2185)
FAX:
305-348-1799
Philosophy
of Law, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Florida International
University, 1992-present. (Until the Fall of 1995 the Department was the Department of
Philosophy & Religion)
Associate
Professor, Department of
Visiting
Associate Professor, Corcoran Department of Philosophy,
Assistant
Professor, Department of
Lecturer,
Department of Philosophy,
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Kentucky, 1972-78 (on leave, 1974-75).
Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia,
1970-71.
Ph. D.,
1972,
Graduate
Fellow, 1969-70, The
M.A.,
1969,
B.A.,
1967,
“Oaths and the Pledge of Allegiance:
Freedom of Expression and the Right to Be Silent,” American Section of the International Association for Philosophy
of Law and Social Philosophy,
“The Cheshire Cat: Gay Marriage, Religion, and Coercion by
Exclusion,” American Section of
the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Washington
University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 3, 2006.
“Different People, Different Justice,” for judges in “Perceptions
of Justice,”
“Suffering
Injustice: the Equal Worth of Victims,” for judges in “Perceptions of Justice:
The Art of Judging,”
“Human
Rights and the Rule of Law: Sovereignty and the International Criminal Court,”
American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and
Social Philosophy,
“Human
Rights and the Rule of Law: Sovereignty and the International Criminal Court,”
Symposium on The International Criminal Court,
“Scalia v. Dworkin,” “Philosophical
Perspectives on Judging,”
“The
Equal Worth of Victims: Maintaining the Distinction Between Social Values and
the Uniqueness of the Individual,” The 29th Conference on Value
Inquiry (sponsored by The American Society for Value Inquiry, the International
Society for Value Inquiry, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Oklahoma State
Univ.), Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 25, 2001.
“The
Fiction of Sovereignty and the Reality of the Rule of Law,” IVR-99 World
Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, The World Trade Center,
New York, NY, June 25, 1999.
“Tolerance,
Liberalism, and Community,” Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy,
“Poverty,
Equality, and Taxation Under the Rule of Law: A Tension Within
Classical-Liberalism,” American Section of the International Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy,
“Philosophical
Reflection, Tolerance, and Community,” American Section of the International
Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy,
“The
Rule of Law,” Colloquium, Corcoran Department of Philosophy,
“Children’s Rights, Childless Adults, and Community Membership,”
American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and
Social Philosophy,
“Protestant
Hermeneutics and the Rule of Law: Gadamer and Dworkin,” Thirteenth Annual Meeting, International
Association for Philosophy and Literature,
“Constitutional
Integrity and Compromise,” American Section of the International Association
for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania,
October 31-November 2, 1986.
“Rules of Law, Principles of Equity, and Ronald Dworkin’s Philosophy of Law,”
“Harming
Children and Varieties of Autonomy,” Eighth Plenary Conference, American
Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social
Philosophy,
“Two
Conceptions of Minimal Social Morality: Comments on MacCormick
and Feinberg,” Symposium on the Polity and Values, Fontainbleau
Hotel,
“Children’s Rights and Childless Adults,” Conference on
Philosophy, Children, & the Family,
“Infant
Rights and Consent to Medical Research on Children: A Reply to Professor
Wellman,” Sixth Plenary Meeting, American Section of the International
Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Amherst, Mass., March
11, 1978.
“Utopias
and the Status of Children,” Fifth Plenary Meeting, American Section of the
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy,
“The Authority to Educate,” Society for Philosophy and Public
Affairs,
“Heizer’s Account of Hare’s Ethical
Theory,” Kentucky Philosophical Association, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 15, 1975.
“Professor de Boer on Deflating Plato’s Forms,”
“The Value of Individuals,”
“Dignity and Price: Kant and the Incommensurability of Values,”
“Self and Others in Rawls’s Contract,”
Right Conduct: Theories and
Applications, 2nd
Edition, edited by Michael Bayles and Kenneth Henley.
New York:
Random House, 1989 (1st edition, 1983).
“The Cheshire Cat: Same-Sex Marriage,
Religion, and Coercion by Exclusion” in Coercion
and the State, (an AMINTAPHIL volume), edited by David A. Reidy and Walter J. Riker.
“Sovereignty,
Augusto Pinochet and Legal Positivism,” Human Rights Review (Transaction
Press,
“Human
Rights and the Rule of Law: Sovereignty and the International Criminal Court,”
in Universal Human Rights: Moral Order in a Divided World, edited by
David A. Reidy and Mortimer N. S. Sellers.
“Tolerance,
Liberalism, and Community,” The Paideia
Archive, Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy,
“The
Rule of Law,” in The Philosophy of Law: An
Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher B. Gray.
“Poverty,
Equality, and Taxation Under the Rule of Law: A Tension Within
Classical-Liberalism,” in
“Abstract
Principles, Mid-level Principles, and the Rule of Law,” Law and Philosophy,
vol. 12, February, 1993, pp. 121-132.
“The
Impersonal Rule of Law,” The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence,
vol. 5, July, 1992, pp. 299-308.
“Children’s Rights, Childless Adults and Community Membership,” in
Perspectives on the Family, edited by Michael D. Bayles,
Robert C.L. Moffat and Joseph Grcic.
“Protestant
Hermeneutics and the Rule of Law: Gadamer and Dworkin,” Ratio Juris: An
International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, vol. 3,
March, 1990, pp. 14-28.
Reprinted in Gadamer and Law, edited by Francis J. Mootz.
“Constitutional Integrity and Compromise,” in Philosophical
Dimensions of the Constitution, edited by Diana Meyers and Kenneth Kipnis. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1988, pp. 134-155.
Review
of N.E. Simmonds, Central Issues in Jurisprudence,
Canadian Philosophical Reviews, vol. 8, April, 1988, pp. 155-157.
“Critical
Review of Neill MacCormick, H. L. A. Hart,” Vanderbilt
Law Review, vol. 35, March, 1982, pp. 471-480.
“Infant Rights and Consent to Medical Research on Children: A Reply to Professor Wellman,” Archiv fur Rechts und Sozialphilosophie, Beiheft Neue Folge Nr. 12, Wiesbaden:
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1979, pp. 129-136.
“The Authority to Educate,” in Having Children: Philosophical and Legal Reflections on
Parenthood, edited by Onora O’Neill and William
Ruddick.
“The
Binding Force of Morality,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 12, Winter, 1978, pp. 301-306.
“Children
and the Individualism of Mill and Nozick,” The Personalist, vol. 59, October, 1978, pp. 415-419.
“Cartesian
Ethics,” The Philosophical Forum, vol. 9, Summer,
1978, pp. 429- 439.
“The
Value of Individuals,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol.
37, March, 1977, pp. 345-352.
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, “Perceptions of Justice,”
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, “Perceptions of Justice: The Art of Judging,”
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, “Perceptions of Justice: The Judge’s Role in American
Law, Culture, and Politics,”
Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Philosophical Perspectives on
Judging,”
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, Philosophical Perspectives on Judging, 2001 Florida
College of Advanced Judicial Studies, Palm Harbor, Florida, Sept. 10- 12, 2001.
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, Philosophical Perspectives on Judging, 2000 Florida
College of Advanced Judicial Studies, Orlando, Florida, May 8-9, 2000.
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, Humanities and the Judicial Process Specialty Course, The Conference of Circuit Judges and the
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, Humanities and the Judicial Process Specialty Course, The Conference of Circuit Judges and the
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, Humanities and the Judicial Process Specialty Course,
The Conference of Circuit Judges and the Florida Court Education Council, Palm
Beach Gardens, Florida, June 23-25, 1988.
Lecturer
and Discussion Leader, “Law as Integrity,”
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “On
Interpreting the Constitution,”
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, “Freedom and
the Rule of Law: The English Foundations, 1300-1700,”
“War and
Judging One’s Own Cause,” presented at a colloquium sponsored by the Jack D.
Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies,
“The
Double-Edged Sword of Equal Protection in Elections,” presented at a symposium
sponsored by the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship
Studies,
“The
Role of the Victim in Criminal Law,” lecture and discussion, Faculty Lunchtime
Symposium, sponsored by the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and
Citizenship Studies, Florida International University, Feb. 22, 2001
Workshop
on Victims’ Rights, Victim’s
Lecturer,
Summer Humanities Institute for Teachers,
Primary author of proposed curriculum “Inhabiting Other Lives,”
Humanities Institute for Teachers (Rockefeller Foundation), 1989.
This proposal was successful in securing support from the Rockefeller
Foundation, and served as the underlying concept for the series.
Lecture,
“Morals and Ethics: A Philosophic Overview,” Elders Institute, Oct. 12, 1988
(Kick-off lecture for Fall series on “20th
Century Dilemmas”)
Presentation,
“Ethical Issues in Rationing Perinatal Care,” South
Florida Perinatal Network,
Lecture
on “Philosophies People Live By,” Elders Forum, July 7, 1983
Lecture
on “Human Nature: Good or Evil?” Elders Institute, Feb. 16, 1983
Lecture
on “Contemporary Sexual Morality,” Elders Forum, Sept. 3, 1981
Lecture on
“The Concept of Political Representation,” American Issues Forum, Surfside
Community Center, Jan. 19, 1982.
Lecture,
“
Presentation
and discussion leader, “Ethical Decisions and Working With
the Dying,” Hospice, Wesley Foundation,
Lecture,
“The Good Life for the Mentally Retarded Person: A Philosophical View,”
Panelist,
Conference on “Building the Earth: An Environmental Ethic,”
Lecture
and Discussion Leader, “Philosophical Approaches to Aging,” Temple Emanu-El,
Co-organizer
and panelist, Matchette Foundation Public Conference
on Medical Care and Ethics: “Medical Care As A Social
Resource: Allocation & Decision Making,”
Panelist,
Conference on “The Challenge of Databanks to a Free Society,”
Chair of
the Nominations Committee and member of the Executive Committee, Amintaphil (American Section, International Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy), 1989-91.
Acting
Executive Director, Amintaphil (American Section,
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy),
1976-77.
Chairperson,
Symposium on “Realism and Possible Worlds,” Twelfth Annual Philosophy
Colloquium,
Chairperson,
Symposium on “Knowledge and Deracination,” Tenth Annual Philosophy Colloquium,
Philosophy of Law. The
Philosophy of the