EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts University of Pennsylvania (1962)

American Civilization

Law Degree: J.D. University of Pennsylvania (1965)

Law

Master of Arts University of Pennsylvania (1967)

Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh (1971)

Philosophy

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Instructor, Duke University, 1970-72

Assistant Professor, Duke University, 1972-75

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 1975-78

Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1978-83

Visiting Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Fall, 1979

Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1983-present

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1980-83.

Dean, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1984-98.

Acting Chair, Department of English, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006-2007.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Minor in Philosophy and Law

ACADEMIC RECORD

BOOKS

Law as Rule and Principle: Problems of Legal Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 1978). Chapter 1 ("Legal Realism") reprinted in Dale A. Nance, Law and Justice: Cases and Readings on the American Legal System (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1994), pp. 59-72. Part of Chapter 5 ("Natural Law") available for custom publishing in Symposia: Readings in Philosophy (CD ROM).

Rights (Rowman and Littlefield, 1982).

Philosophy Then and Now, co-editor with N. Scott Arnold and George A. Graham (Basil Blackwell, 1998). Contributor of chapter entitled "Government."

ARTICLES

1. "The Public Interest," Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol.2, No.3 (Spring, 1973), pp. 291-311.

2. "Warnock's Reasons," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.51, No.3 (December, 1973), pp. 253-257.

3. "Happiness," Philosophical Studies, Vol.25, No.1 (January, 1974), pp. 1-20.

4. "On 'Levels of Rules and Hart's Concept of Law'," Mind, Vol.83, No.331 (July, 1974), pp. 422-423.

5. "Legal Theory and Rules of Law," Western Ontario Law Review, Vol.13 (1974), pp. 1-21.

6. "The Concept of Interest in Political Theory," Political Theory, Vol.3, No.3 (August, 1975), pp. 245-258.

7. "A Problem for Theodicists," Philosophy, Vol.50, No.194 (October, 1975), PP. 470-474.

8. "Law and the Balancing of Interests," Social Theory and Practice, Vol.3, No.3 (Spring, 1975), pp. 321-342.

9. "A Functional Theory of Law," Western Ontario Law Review, Vol.14 (1975), pp. 149-169.

10. "Egoism's Inconsistencies," The Personalist, Vol.57, No.1 (Winter, 1976), pp. 43-50.

11. "Authority and Authorization," in Authority: A Philosophical Analysis, ed. by R. Baine Harris (University of Alabama Press, 1976), pp. 45-53.

12. "Benefit and Harm," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol.37, No.1 (September, 1976), pp. 116-120.

13. "Newcomb's 'Paradox'," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol.27, No.2 (June, 1976), pp. 161-164 (with David J. Ross).

14. "Threats and Offers," The Personalist, Vol.58, No.4 (October, 1977), pp. 382-384.

15. "Philosophy, Law, and Humanities," Humanities in Society, Vol.1, No.3 (Summer, 1978), pp. 245-259.

16. "Compromising Interests and Principles," in NOMOS XXI: Compromise in Ethics, Law, and Politics, ed, by J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (New York University Press, 1979), pp. 26-37.

17. "Liability for Failing to Rescue," Law and Philosophy, Vol.1 (1982), pp. 391-418. Also published in Justice, Rights, and Tort Law, ed. by Michael D. Bayles and Bruce Chapman (Reidel Pub. Co., 1983), pp. 211-238.

18. "Surrogate Gestation: Law and Morality," in Biomedical Ethics Reviews 1983, ed. by James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder (Humana Press, 1983), pp. 47-68.

19. "The Demands of Justice," Ethics, Vol.92, No.2 (January, 1985), pp. 224-232. Published with modifications and commentaries as "The Demands of Justice: The Difference that Social Life Makes," in Economic Justice: Private Rights and Public Responsibilities, ed. By Kenneth Kipnis and Diana T. Meyers (Rowman & Allanheld, 1985).

20. "The Rule of Precedent," in Precedent in Law, ed. by Laurence Goldstein (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), pp. 89-106.

21. "Liberal Morality," Synthese, Vol.72, No.2 (August, 1987), pp. 237-247. Published with minor changes in Rechtstheorie, Beiheft 11: Technical Imperatives and the Crisis of the Legitimacy of Law, ed. by Werner Krawietz, Antonio A. Martino, and Kenneth I. Winston (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991), pp. 101-109.

22. "The Research Demands of Teaching in Modern Higher Education," in Morality, Responsibility, and the University: Studies in Academic Ethics, ed. by Steven M. Cahn (Temple University Press, 1990), pp. 93-108. Reprinted in A Professor’s Duties: Ethical Issues in College Teaching, ed. by Peter J. Markie (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), pp. 201-216.

23. "The Endless Dialectic of Legal Thought," Dialogue XXXIV (1995), pp. 815-820.

24. "Modest Judicial Restraint,"Law and Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 3 (May, 1999), pp. 243-270. Reprinted in Leiser, Burton M. and Campbell, Tom D., Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice (Ashgate, 2001), pp. 153-73.

25. "Rights: Civil and Economic,"Rechtstheorie, Vol. 30, No, 3 (1999), pp. 401-10.

26. "Mental Illness and Commitment," in Humber, James M. and Almeder, Robert F., Mental Illness and Public Health Care (Humana Press, 2002), pp. 3-24.

27. "The Virtue of Pride: Jane Austen as Moralist,"Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Sept., 2003), pp. 245-57.

28. "Acting in Concert or Going It Alone: Game Theory and the Law,"Law and Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 6 (November, 2004), pp. 615-630.

29. "Normality, Disease and Enhancement," in Harold Kincaid and Jennifer McKitrick, editors, Establishing Medical Reality: Essays in the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Biomedical Science (Springer, 2007), pp. 13-22.

30. "Revenge,"The Philosophical Forum, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4 (Winter, 2007), pp. 357-363.

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS PRESENTED

1. "Remarks on the Suppression of Genetic Studies on Race and Intelligence," at symposium of The Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, American Philosophical Association (Western Division), April, 1974.

2. "Authority and Authorization," American Philosophical Association (Western Division), April, 1975.

3. Comment on Professor Jesse Choper's "Compromise and the Constitution," American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, December, 1976.

4. "Rights and Claims: Inserting the Wedge," American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), December, 1976.

5. "Responsibility for Induced Desires," (comment on F. Schoeman), American Philosophical Association (Western Division), April, 1978.

6. Comment on B. Levenbook's "D-theories, Discretion, and the Justification of Adjudication," American Philosophical Association (Western Division), April, 1979.

7. Comment on E.M. Adams' "The Ground of Human Rights," American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), December, 1980.

8. "The Draft and Forced Labor," at symposium of The Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), December, 1980.

9. "Legal Entrapment," Comment on Lee's and Altman's "Legal Entrapment," American Philosophical Association (Western Division), April, 1981.

10. "Liability for Failing to Rescue," University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1982.

11. "The Demands of Justice," AMINTAPHIL, January, 1983.

12. "The Demands of Justice," American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), December, 1983.

13. "Liberalism in Moral and Social Thought," 13th World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Kobe, Japan, August, 1987.

14. "The Relationship Between Teaching and Research," American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), March, 1988.

15. "Community in the Liberal State," AMINTAPHIL, October, 1990.

16. "Modest Judicial Restraint," IVR-99: 19^th World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, New York, June, 1999.

17. "Rights: Civil and Economic," IVR-99: 19^th World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, New York, June, 1999.

18. "Normality, Disease, and Enhancement," Conference on Philosophical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences, sponsored by UAB Center for Ethics and Values in the Sciences, Birmingham, May 14, 2004.

RECENT UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

"Why Respect Matters"

"Fanny's Moral Limits"

"Six Issues for Sentimentalism"

RECENT SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Outside UAB

President, Jane Austen Society of North America, Alabama Region

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, reaffirmation of accreditation: The College of William and Mary, Georgia State University

External Reviewer, Philosophy programs: Baruch College (CUNY)

Within UAB

Honors Council (UAB Honors Program)