Curriculum Vitae

Last updated: 29 December 2023

 

POSITIONS HELD

  • 2021: retired; adjunct professor, Nova Southeastern University.
  • 1988-2021: faculty (Associate Professor of Philosophy), Department of History and Political Science; College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Nova Southeastern University.
  • 1997-2005: Director, Division of Humanities, Nova Southeastern University.
  • 2005-2006: Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Instruction, College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University.

 

EDUCATION

  • B.A., Philosophy, 1978, University of Central Florida.
  • M.A., Philosophy, 1982, Michigan State University.
  • Ph.D., Philosophy, 1993, Michigan State University.
    • Dissertation Title: Sartre and Foucault on Knowledge and Practical Commitment.
    • Dissertation Supervisor: Dr. Richard Peterson.

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Association of University Professors
  • American Philosophical Association
  • American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
  • Florida Philosophical Association
  • Florida Bioethics Network
  • International Society for Philosophers
  • The Society for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy

 

WORKSHOPS/PANEL PARTICIPATION/PRESENTATIONS

“Business Ethics: Is This An Oxymoron?” Presentation. NSU Enterprise Ambassador Program, Nova Southeastern University, April 9, 1996.

“What is Bioethics?” Presentation. Master of Nursing/Nurse Practitioner Program, Florida International University, April 15, 1996.

“Defining Learning Outcomes.” Workshop. The New Learning Paradigm Faculty Symposium, Nova Southeastern University, May 21, 1996.

“Novice Bioethics Committees.” Presentation. Florida Bioethics Network Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 23, 1996.

“What Bothers Me About My Ethics Committee? How We Handle Those Problems.” Presentation. Florida Bioethics Network Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 23, 1996.

“Ethical Principles: Putting Them Into Practice.” Presentation. Hospice of Gold Coast Home Health Services Workshop, Pompano Beach, FL, November 14, 1996.

“Case Presentation: Drug Seeking Patient in the Emergency Department.” Presentation. Bioethics Conference, Broward General Medical Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, January 16, 1997.

“Living Wills: Case Study.” Workshop. Leadership Broward, Broward General Medical Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 20, 1997.

“Point–Counterpoint: Physician Assisted Suicide.” Panel discussion. Bioethics Conference, Broward General Medical Center, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 17, 1997.

“Ethical Issues for Healthcare Professionals.” Presentation. Summer Enrichment Program, College of Health, Florida International University, May 19, 1997.

“Basic Ethical Principles.” Presentation. Ethics Committee, North Broward Medical Center, Pompano Beach, FL, November 12, 1997.

“Basic Ethical Principles in the Health Care Setting.” Presentation. North Broward Medical Center, Palm Beach, FL, April 23, 1998.

“Physician Assisted Suicide.” Presentation. Hospice Care of Broward County, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, July 16, 1998.

“Bioethics and the Worldwide Web.” Workshop. Florida Bioethics Network 8th Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 22, 1998.

“Preventative Ethics.” Presentation. Internal Medicine Club, Miami, FL, November 20, 1998.

“Advance Directives: Your Right to Make Healthcare Decisions Under the Law in Florida.” Presentation. Broward General Medical Center, February 2, 1999.

“Institutional Review Boards.” Presentation. Law and Medicine Seminar, Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University, March 8, 1999.

“Preventative Law and Preventative Ethics.” Presentation. University of Miami Forum for Bioethics Seventh Annual Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 26, 1999.

“Ethics Alert: Choices When Values Collide.” Panel discussion. Area Agency on Aging Ethics Conference, May 14, 1999.

“Should We Stop Cloning Around? The Ethics of Cloning.” Presentation. Speaker’s Bureau of Broward County, July 14, 1999.

“Standards for Ethics Committee Consultation: How Does Your Institution Measure Up?” Panel discussion. Florida Bioethics Association Conference, Gainesville, FL, October 8, 1999.

“Ethical Issues in Nutrition Care.” Presentation. Broward County Dietetic Association, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 14, 1999.

“You Call That Good Research? IRBs and the Ethics of Research Design.” Presentation. Dialogue on Research Ethics series, University of Miami, November 19, 1999

“Institutional Review Boards: Historical Development.” Presentation. Law and Medicine Seminar, Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University, February 7, 2000.

“Ethics at the End of Life.” Presentation. End of Life Care Seminar, Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, March 11, 2000.

“Social and Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project.” Presentation. Rotary Club of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, November 1, 2000.

“DNR: Doctor’s Order or Advance Directive?” Presentation. Westside Regional Medical Center, Plantation, FL, June 7, 2001.

“Ethical Issues in Gene Typing Information.” Workshop. Pharmacogenomic Institute on Managed Care Strategies for Gene Drug Therapy. Nova Southeastern University, October 11, 2001.

“The Ethics of Cloning.” Presentation. Institute for Learning in Retirement. Nova Southeastern University. February 7, 2002.

“The Media: Hawk or Dove?” Panel dicussion. South Florida Chapter, Society for Professional Journalists, Nova Southeastern University, October 16, 2003.

“Involuntary Sterilization?” Panel discussion. Faculty Colloquium, Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University, January 25, 2004.

“Ethics in Journalism.” Panel discussion. Society of Professional Journalists, Southeast Regional Conference. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 26, 2004.

“Literature, Law, and Civil Disobedience.” Panel discussion. Faculty Colloqium. Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University, April 25, 2004.

“Linking Cultures, Communities and Places,” Panel moderator. Florida Environmental Ethics Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, February 11, 2005.

“Virtual Identity and Bioethics.” Panel discussion. Faculty colloquium. Nova Southeastern University, April 16, 2007.

“Error and Patient Safety.” Session chair. Fifteenth Annual University of Miami Clinical Ethics Conference, Miami Beach, FL, April 27, 2007.

“Last Lecture.” Nova Southeastern University, March 19, 2009.

“Why Democracy Needs the Humanities.” Humanities and the Urban Environment Lecture Series, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University, November 18, 2010.

“International Healthcare Ethics.”  American Medical Student Association conference.  Panel discussion.  Nova Southeastern University, October 13, 2012.

“What is Ethics?”  Mental Health Association of Southeast Florida.  Lauderhill, Florida, Workshop presentation.  December 13, 2013.

“What is Art? Part 1.”  Presentation. Lifelong Learning Institute. Nova Southeastern University. March 24, 2015.

“What is Art? Part 2.”  Presentation. Lifelong Learning Institute. Nova Southeastern University. March 31, 2015.

“Basic Questions in Philosophy 1: Who Am I? The Problem of Personal Identity.”  Presentation. Lifelong Learning Institute. Nova Southeastern University. January 4, 2016.

Basic Questions in Philosophy 2: What Can I Do?  The Problem of Free Will.”  Presentation. Lifelong Learning Institute. Nova Southeastern University. February 29, 2016.

“Basic Questions in Philosophy 3: What Should I Do?  The Problem of Morality.”  Presentation. Lifelong Learning Institute. Nova Southeastern University. March 28, 2016.

“Basic Questions in Philosophy 4: Why Should I Care? The Problem of Life’s Meaning.”  Presentation. Lifelong Learning Institute. Nova Southeastern University. April 25, 2016.

“Why Big-Time College Athletic Prgrams are Unethical.”  Presentation.  Lifelong Learning Institute.  Nova Southeastern University.  February 20, 2017.

“National Security Ethics: One or the Other, or Both?” Presentation.  Presentation.  College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 39th Residential Institute, Nova Southeastern University.  September 22, 2018.

“Human Animals.”  Presentation.  Nova Southeastern University Museum of Art.  November 10, 2018.

“Academic Tribalism: Why Undergraduate Majors Should Be Abolished.”  Presentation.  College of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, Intellectual Conversations series, Nova Southeastern University.  January 2, 2019.

“Human Animals.”  Presentation.  Lifelong Learning Institute.  Nova Southeastern University.  February 28, 2019.

“Animal Law and Ethics in the Modern World.”  FLorida International University Law Student Animal Defense Fund.  April 2, 2019.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“A Look at Causality,” Florida Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, 1978.

“Needs versus Rights: State Subsidized Abortions,” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, March 1985.

“Sartre and Marcus Aurelius,” Invited paper presented to the Graduate Seminar in the History of Philosophy, Michigan State University, December 2, 1986.

“Reflections on the Current State of Philosophy,” Faculty/Senior Philosophy Colloquium, Albion College, April 25, 1988.

“The Science of Gender and the Gender of Science,” Women’s Studies Symposium, Nova University, September 15, 1989.

“Medical Futility: Fact or Value?” North Broward Hospital District Biomedical Ethics Conference, November 5, 1994.

“Response to The Separatist Thesis.” Professional Ethics Symposium, Nova Southeastern University, September 28, 1995.

“Ethical Dilemmas in Geriatric Care Management,” Geriatric Care Management–The Profession of Caring Conference, Lynn University, May 9, 1996.

“The Incompetent Patient: Children and Minors,” Center for Ethics Research, Education, and Consultation of SE Florida; Seminar, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, August 23, 1996.

“Basic Ethical Principles,” Florida Bioethics Network 6th Annual Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 23, 1996.

“The ‘Art’ of Medicine and the ‘Science’ of Ethics,” Florida Bioethics Network 8th Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 21, 1998.

“Core Concepts in Bioethics,” Florida Bioethics Network 9th Annual Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, June 24, 1999.

“The Truth Hurts–Or Does It?” Eight Annual University of Miami Clinical Ethics Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 10, 2000.

“Essential Ethics for Ethics Committees.” Florida Bioethics Network Fall Conference, Jacksonville, FL, October 19, 2000.

“Health as Norm and Bioethical Standard,” South Florida Bioethics/Health Law Working Group. Nova Southeastern University, January 16, 2001.

“DNR: Doctor’s Order or Advance Directive?” Critical Care Conference, Memorial Hospital West, Pembroke Pines, FL, October 4, 2001.

“Enron, Health Care, and the Banality of Evil.” Florida Bioethics Network Spring Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 7, 2003.

“Can there be a Regional (Caribbean) Philosophy?” Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium, University of the West Indies, Barbados, March 31, 2005.

“Hollywood Demonization and TV Glorification of Physicians.” Film and History Conference, Chicago, November 1, 2008.

“Film, Friendship, and Philosophy.” Film-Philosophy Conference, Liverpool, England, July 7, 2011.

“Vengeance Between Friends: Aristotle and Film.”  Third Global Conference, Revenge: A Persons Project, Mansfield College, Oxford, England, July 18, 2012.

“Bad People and Good Friends: Crime Films and Aristotle.”  Forty-Fourth Annual PCA-ACA Conference, Chicago, April 19, 2014.

“Animal and Human Friendships in Film.”  First Global Conference,The Human-Animal Bond, Mansfield College, Oxford, England, July 15, 2014.

 

PUBLICATIONS

“Needs versus Rights: State Subsidized Abortions,” The Michigan Academician, (v.18, n.3, July 1986), 357-364.

“Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker: Papers Presented at the 5th Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter by Y. Yovel.” Book review. Modern Schoolman, (v.66, n.1, 1988), pp.84-86.

“Autonomy and the Moral Tradition: The Foundation of the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990,” The Record, (v.43, n.10, November 1991), 15, 40.

“Synopsis of a Practical Guide: Guidelines for Ethics Committees,” The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, (V.84, n.8, November 1997), 506-509.

“Response to ‘The Case of Mr. B.,” Network News: The Newsletter of the Florida Bioethics Network, (98-2, April 1998), 6.

“How Honest Are You?” Scholastic Choices, (V.15, n.3, Nov./Dec. 1999), 27.

“Shakespeare on Management: Leadership Lessons for Today’s Managers by Paul Corrigan.” Book review. The Journal of Leadership Studies, (v.7, n.8, Winter 2000), 135-136.

“Ethical Issues in Human Cloning: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives by Michael C. Brannigan.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. March 7, 2001. www.mentalhelp.net.

“Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. May 16, 2001. www.mentalhelp.net.

“The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook: Case Studies, Commentaries and Activities by Michael Parker and Donna Dickenson.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. September 1, 2001. www.mentalhelp.net.

“Death and Compassion: A Virtue-Based Approach to Euthanasia by Liezl van Zyl.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. October 18, 2001. www.mentalhelp.net.

“Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don’t by Alan H. Goldman.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. February 28, 2002. www.mentalhelp.net.

“Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity by William V. Harris.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. July 22, 2002. www.mentalhelp.net.

“Re-Creating Medicine: Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine by Gregory Pence.” Book review. Journal of Value Inquiry, v.36, n.4, 2002, 573-577.

“Philosophy and Living by Ralph Blumenau.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. February 1, 2003. www.mentalhelp.net.

“Philosophy and This Actual World by Martin Benjamin.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. June 6, 2003. www.mentalhelp.net.

“The Big Questions: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life by Lou Marinoff.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. October 7, 2003. www.mentalhelp.net.

“The New Idea of a University by Duke Maskell and Ian Robinson.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. April 29, 2004. www.mentalhelp.net.

“Universities: The Recovery of an Idea by Gordon Graham.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. June 4, 2004. www.mentalhelp.net.

“Eros and the Good: Wisdom According to Nature by James S. Gouinlock.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. November 24, 2004. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Practically Profound: Putting Philosophy to Work in Everyday Life by James Hall.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. July 28, 2005. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Therapy for the Sane by Lou Marinoff.” Book review. Europe’s Journal of Psychology. Volume 1, Number 4, November 2005.

“Bikers Take a Turn at Philosophy.” Book review. Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. March 26, 2006.

“Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art by Alexander Nehamas.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 12, Issue 27, July 1, 2008. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Can there be a Regional (Caribbean) Philosophy?” In Conversations in Philosophy: Crossing the Boundaries, edited by F. Ochieng’-Odhiambo, R. Burton, and E. Brandon. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

“Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists by Susan Neiman.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 13, Issue 11, March 10, 2009. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius by May Sim.” Book review. Teaching Philosophy. Volume 32, Number 2, June 2009.

“Introducing Greek Philosophy by M.R. Wright.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 14, Issue 23, June 22, 2010. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Epicureanism by Tim O’keefe.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 14, Issue 31, August 3, 2010. www.mentalhealth.net.

“The Meaning of Friendship by Mark Vernon.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 14, Issue 32, December 21, 2010. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Why Democracy Needs the Humanities.” Quadrivium. Issue 3, Winter 2011.

“Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film by Irving Singer.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 15, Issue 21, May 24, 2011. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Moral Theory at the Movies: An Introduction to Ethics by Dean Kowalski.” Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 16, Issue 30, July 24, 2012. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Friendship: A Central Moral Value by Michael H. Mitias.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 17, Issue 1, January 1, 2013. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Vengeance Between Friends: Aristotle and Film” in What Is the Problem With Revenge? edited by Andrew Baker, Selina E. M. Doran, and Mary Ann O’Grady.  Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013.

“Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life by Massimo Pigliucci.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 17, Number 13, March 26, 2013. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Virtue Ethics by Nafsika Athanassoulis.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 17, Number 36, August 27,2013. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Aristotle on Practical Wisdom by C.D.C. Reeve.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 18, Number 32, December 31, 2013. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus by John M. Cooper.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 18, Number 23, June 3, 2014. www.mentalhealth.net.

“The Roman Search for Wisdom by Michal K. Kellogg.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 18, Number 43, October 21, 2014. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Evolved Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience by Frans B.M. de Waal et al.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 19, Number 6, February 3, 2015. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Animal and Human Friendships in Film” in Who’s Talking Now: Multispecies Relations Analysis from Humans and Animals’ Point of View, edited by Chiara Blanco and Bel Deering.  Oxford, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015.

“The Domestication of Language: Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal by Daniel Cloud.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 19, Number 30, July 24, 2015. www.mentalhealth.net.

“The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice edited by Harry Brighouse and Michael McPherson.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 20, Issue 10, March 8, 2016. www.mentalhealth.net.

“A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism by Andrew F. Smith.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 20, Issue 27, July 5, 2016. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Forgiveness and Love by Glen Pettigrove.”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 21, Issue 1, January 3, 2017. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Developing the Virtues: Integrating Perspectives by Julia Annas, Darcia Narvaez, and Nancy E. Snow (editors).”  Book review. Metapsychology Online Review. Volume 21, Issue 22, May 30, 2017. www.mentalhealth.net.

“Can Humans and Robots be Friends?” Dialogue and Universalism. No.2, 2018.

“After Dinner Conversation – Bioethics,” editor. 2024.

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Critical Thinking
  • Moral Issues
  • Biomedical Ethics
  • Media Ethics
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Science and Technology
  • Existentialism
  • Women and Political Theory
  • Human Nature
  • Philosophy of History
  • Classical Mythology and Philosophy
  • Ethics and Sport
  • Aristotle’s Ethics
  • Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
  • History of Rhetoric
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Art
  • Political Theory

 

RELATED ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

  • 1980-1981: Editorial Assistant, Philosophy of Science Association.
  • 1981-1982: Research Assistant, Institute for Research on Teaching.
  • 1989-2001: Bioethics Committee member, Broward General Medical Center.
  • 1993-present: Board of Advisors, Florida Bioethics Network.
  • March 1996: Peer reviewer for Theoretical Medicine.
  • 1996-1999: NSU Institutional Review Board, Vice-Chair.
  • 1997-2001: Bioethics Committee member, Hospice Care of Broward County.
  • April-June 1997: Independent Evaluator, Florida Humanities Council.
  • 1997-1998: member, editorial board, Moral Musings.
  • 1997-present: member, board of advisors, Florida Bioethics Network.
  • June 2000: Peer reviewer for Trames.
  • June 2000: Peer reviewer for Oxford University Press. Manuscript reviewed: Weston, A Practical Companion to Ethics.
  • 2000-2001: member, Florida Department of Corrections Bioethics Committee.
  • December 2001: Peer reviewer for Prentice-Hall.
  • January 2002: Peer reviewer for Prentice-Hall.
  • October 2002: Peer reviewer for Prentice-Hall.
  • May 2003: Peer reviewer for Broadview Press.
  • March 2004: Peer reviewer for Prentice Hall.
  • December 2004: Peer reviewer for Broadview Press.
  • August 2008: Peer reviewer for Florida Philosophical Association conference.
  • August 2011: Peer Reviewer for Florida Philosophical Association conference.
  • June 2012: Peer reviewer for Westview Press.  Simon, The Ethics of Coaching.
  • August 2013: Peer reviewer for Florida Philosophical Association.