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PHILOSOPHY AND ITS PUBLIC ROLE
Essays in Ethics, Politics, Society and Culture


Edited and Introduced
by William Aiken and John Haldane




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Notes on the Contributors

William Aiken is Professor of Philosophy at Chatham College, Pennsylvania. He has published in several areas of applied philosophy, principally on quality of life issues and environmental ethics, in journals such as Applied Philosophy and Environmental Values and in various edited collections. He is co-editor (with Hugh LaFollette) of two well-known collections of essays: Whose Child? (1980) and World Hunger and Morality (1995).
John Arthur is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Law at Binghamton University, SUNY. His areas of research include philosophy of law and political philosophy. He is the author of The Unfinished Constitution: Philosophy and Constitutional Practice (1989) and Words That Bind: Judicial Review and the Grounds of Modern Constitutional Theory (1995); and editor of many volumes including Color, Class, Identity: The New Politics of Race (1996), and Morality and Moral Controversies (2002).
Bob Brecher is Reader in Moral Philosophy in the School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton. He is former President of the UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and founding editor of Res Publica . He is the author of Getting What you Want? A Critique of Liberal Morality (1998) and editor and co-editor of several collections including Liberalism and the New Europe (1993) and The University in a Liberal State (1996).
Richard Brook is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include the history of modern philosophy, and moral theory. He is the author of Berkeley’s Philosophy of Science (1973), and of a number of essays in moral theory and applied ethics published in Ethics , Journal of Philosophy , Philosophy and Public Affairs and Southern Journal of Philosophy .
David Carr is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Educating the Virtues (1991), Professionalism and Ethical Issues in Teaching (2000) and Making Sense of Education (2003). He is also editor of Education, Knowledge and Truth (1998) and co-editor (with Jan Steutel) of Virtue, Ethics and Moral Education (1999) and (with John Haldane) of Spirituality, Philosophy and Education (2003).
James Child is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. His interests include moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law, business ethics, and philosophical issues in international relations. He is author of articles in Business Ethics Quarterly , Criminal Justice Ethics , Ethics , Monist and Public Affairs Quarterly . His books include Nuclear War: The Moral Dimension and with Donald Scherer, Two Paths Towards Peace .
Geoffrey Cupit is Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He works in the fields of moral, social and political philosophy and has authored a number of articles on issues to do with justice in Australasian Journal of Philosophy , Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Ethics , Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophy . His book on the subject is Justice as Fittingness (1996).
Wendy Donner is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, Canada. Her main areas of interest are in moral, social and political philosophy, and the history of liberalism. She is the author of articles in these fields in various journals and collections, and of the study The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill’s Moral and Political Philosophy (1991). Her next book will also be on Mill.
Anthony Ellis was Chair of the Moral Philosophy Department in the University of St. Andrews where he was also co-founder and first Academic Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs. Thereafter he became Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair in Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published in a number of areas of philosophy, but now works mainly in the philosophy of law. He is currently editor of the journal Philosophical Books .
Daniel Farrell is Professor of Philosophy and sometime Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University. He works in the areas of political, social and legal philosophy and has published extensively on the issues of threats, deterrence and punishment in journals such as Ethics, Nous , Philosophical Review and Social Philosophy and Policy .
Bart Gruzalski was Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, before co-founding in California the Pacific Center for Sustainable Living. He has published on moral theory and applied ethics in Australasian Journal of Philosophy , Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Environmental Ethics , Ethics , Mind and Philosophical Studies . His most recent books are On the Buddha (2000) and On Ghandi (2001).
John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy in the University of St Andrews where he is also Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. He has also been Royden Davis Professor of Humanities at Georgetown University. He is the author (with J.J.C. Smart) of Atheism and Theism (second edition 2003), An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Religion (2003), Faithful Reason (2004), and editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs (2000) and other volumes.
Jonathan Jacobs is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Division of Humanities at Colgate University, New York State. He has wide-ranging interests but works mainly in the areas of moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. His books include A Philosopher’s Compass (2000), Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice (2001) and Dimensions of Moral Theory (2002).
Rex Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas and was also Professor of Political Theory and Government in the University of Wales Swansea. His fields of interest are political and legal philosophy, and philosophy of history. He is the author of Historical Explanation: Re-enactment and Practical Inference (1977), Rawls and Rights (1985) and A System of Rights (1993). He has also edited the revised edition of R.G. Collingwood’s Essay on Metaphysics (1998).
Terence McLaughlin is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Institute of Education, University of London and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. He is also currently Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. He has published widely in Philosophy of Education, and has co-edited a number of collections including Education and the Market Place (with David Bridges 1994) and Education in Morality (with Mark Halstead 1999).
Andrew Moore is a Senior Lecturer and in the Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, New Zealand. He also chairs New Zealand’s National Ethics Advisory Committee. His research and publications are on ethics, political philosophy, and practical ethics, and include recent essays in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy , Bioethics and Health Care Analysis ; and in edited collections on Well-being and Morality , and Time and Ethics .
Lisa Portmess is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. Her areas of research include the philosophy of law, and applied ethics. She is the co-editor of two volumes of essays on vegetarianism: Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer (1999) and Religious Vegetarianism: From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama (2001).



Introduction
William Aiken & John Haldane
Background
Like the first volume in this series ( Values, Education and the Human World ), the present collection of essays grew out of activities of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs . Since its establishment in 1984 the Centre has run a visiting fellowship programme which in its first twenty years brought some seventy fellows to St Andrews to work on various issues in ethics, moral psychology and social and political philosophy. More than half of this number have come from North America and it seemed apt, therefore, to arrange a conference of former fellows in the United States.
This the Centre did in 2002 with a grant from the Philosophical Quarterly and with the hospitality of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The meeting was held in the former residence of Andrew Mellon, the famous Pittsburgh banker and industrialist and sometime Secretary of the US Treasury. As well as providing a beautiful location, having once been home to a major public figure and now being part of an academic institution the setting was apt to the theme of the conference. We are grateful to the President of Chatham Dr Esther Barazzone for permission to use the Mellon House and for her encouraging welcome to the meeting. We are grateful also to the Philosophical Quarterly for its finan