Wisconsin Network for Ethics
Faculty Directory
| Claudia Card card@wisc.edu cf(608) 263-3726 |
Department: Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy5139 Helen C. White Hall (600 N. Park St.) |
| Interests: | I work on evil(s), (in)justice, Kantian ethics, and moral character. |
| Recent Publications: | The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002); "Recognizing Terrorism," The Journal of Ethics (forthcoming 2006); "Genocide and Social Death" in Setting the Moral Compass, ed. Cheshire Calhoun (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). |
| Recent Talks: | Kant Symposium: Moral Choices in the Age of Terrorism -- Kant on
Religion, Ethics, and Politics, UW, Madison, WI, Nov. 11-13, 2004; "Kant's Theses Regarding Radical Evil," Chapel Hill Colloquium (UNC), Oct. 14-16, 2005; "Torture in Ordinary Circumstances," Santa Catarina University, Florianopolis, Brazill, August 2004. |
| Courses: | Philosophy 442 Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust; Philosophy 941: Response to evil & suffering: ethics of Schopenhauer & Nietzsche; Philosophy 549: Great Moral Philosophers. |
| Greg Downey gdowney@wisc.edu 225-3809 |
Assistant
Professor, Journalism & Mass Comm / Library & Info Studies 5016 Vilas Hall |
| Interests: | I am interested
professional ethics and social justice issues concerning the production and
consumption of information and communication technology across space and
time, especially related to "information labor" and the way such labor is
valued or devalued, made visible or rendered invisible, promoted as diverse
or derided as biased. |
| Recent Publications: | Greg Downey, “The place of
labor in the history of information technology revolutions,” in Aad Blok and
Greg Downey, eds., Uncovering labor in information revolutions, 1750-2000
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Greg Downey, Telegraph messenger boys: Labor, technology, and geography, 1850-1950 (New York: Routledge, 2002). |
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| Courses: | Spring 2006: Journalism 201, Introduction to mass communication (strong emphasis on ethics and social justice in the entertainment, journalism, and advertising/public relations media industries) |
| Michael
Bernard-Donals mfbernarddon@wisc.edu 263-3766 |
Nancy Hoefs
Professor of English 7187 Helen C. White Hall |
| Interests: | My interests
include rhetoric and ethics after Auschwitz, and the problems inherent in memory and forgetting. |
| Recent Publications: | _An Introduction to
Holocaust Studies: History, Memory, Representation_ (Prentice Hall 2006) _The Disaster of Memory_ (UW Press, 2004) _Between Witness and Testimony_ (SUNY Press, 2004) |
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| Norman Fost MD MPH ncfost@wisc.edu 608-263-8562 |
Professor, Pediatrics and
Medical History and Bioethics; Director, Program in Bioethics CSC H4/452 |
| Interests: | Ethical/legal issues in health care; use of performance enhancing drugs; access to Growth hormone; human subjects research; genetic screening |
| Recent Publications: | Allen DB. Fost N. hGH for short stature:
ethical issues raised by expanded access. Journal of Pediatrics.
144(5):648-52, 2004 (May).
Fost N. Reconsidering the dead donor rule: Is it important that organ donors be dead? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14(3):249-260, 2004. Fost N. Steroids Are Only Fair. (OpEd). Newsday, Feb 29, 2004 (p A56) |
| Recent Talks: | "Conception for Donation" (Mayo Clinic, Jul 2005) "Physicians' and Pharmaceutical Companies" (Pediatric Academic Socieities, May 2005) "Who Cares if Barry Bonds Uses Performance Enhancing Drugs?" (Univ of Pittsburgh, Feb 2005) |
| Courses: | MHB 558, Ethical issues Raised by Biomedical Technology |
| Paula Gottlieb plgottli@wisc.edu |
Full Professor of Philosophy
and Affiliate Professor of Classics, Department of Philosophy, 5185 Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 |
| Interests: | I am especially interested in virtue ethics, ancient and modern. |
| Recent Publications: | "The Practical Syllogism": Essay for the
Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Ethics, edited by Richard Kraut, Blackwell's, forthcoming, December 2005. Chapter on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics for Central Works of Philosophy vol 1: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy ed. John Shand, Acumen publishing, March 2005. An analysis and commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics books 1 and 2 for Project Archelogos (www.archelogos.com), 2001. |
| Recent Talks: | "Aristotle and Moral Dilemmas" invited
paper at an invited Symposium on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics at the Pacific APA, 2004, with commentators Christopher Rowe and Susan Sauve Meyer. Comment on Gisela Striker's "Aristotle's Ethics as Political Science" at the Chicago conference on Aristotle's Practical Philosophy: A Conference on Aristotle's Ethics, Politics, and Poetics, April 2004. |
| Courses: | Philosophy 830, Aristotle's Ethics Philosophy 454, Plato's Republic |
| Daniel M. Hausman dhausman@wisc.edu 263-5178 |
Professor, Department of Philosophy 5197 Helen C. White Hall |
| Interests: | I am interested in egalitarianism, economic justice, well-being and how to evaluate health as better or worse. |
| Recent Publications: | Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy (jointly with Michael McPherson, Cambridge University Press, March, 2006). |
| Recent Talks: | Comment on "Social Responsibility for Health," Harvard Medical School, November, 2005. |
| Courses: | Philosophy 341, Contemporary Moral Issues Philosophy 955, Health, Welfare and Preference |
| Name: Molli Rolli email: mlrolli@wisc.edu office phone: 265-8130 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry Office address: B6/585, CSC |
| Interests: | Medical ethics including research and human subjects. |
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| Carolina Sartorio acsartorio@wisc.edu 263-0254 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy 5195 Helen C. White |
| Interests: | I am interested in the concept of moral responsibility and,
more generally, the intersection between ethics and metaphysics. |
| Recent Publications: | "Causation and Ethics," forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of Causation, H. Beebee, C. Hitchcock, and P. Menzies (eds.), Oxford UP. "How to Be Responsible for Something without Causing It," Philosophical Perspectives 18, 1, 2004. "A New Asymmetry between Actions and Omissions," Nous 39, 3, 2005. |
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| Courses: | Phil 960, "Causal Powers and Reality" (will include a discussion of the causal efficacy of moral facts) |
| Russ
Shafer-Landau shaferlandau@wisc.edu 608-263-3727 |
Professor, Dept
of Philosophy 5169 Helen C. White Hall |
| Interests: | I am interested in the foundations of ethical theory, and in issues surrounding punishment and reparations in the philosophy of law |
| Recent Publications: | Moral Realism: A Defence
(Oxford University Press, 2003) Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (Oxford University Press, 2004) The Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology (co-edited with Terence Cuneo, Blackwell, 2006) |
| Recent Talks: | "Is Morality a Fiction?"
Seoul National University, Korea May 2005 "Liberalism and Paternalism" Conference on the Philosophy of Joel Feinberg, Georgia State University April 2005 |
| Courses: | Philosophy 241 Introduction to Ethical Theory |
| Margaret L.
Schwarze (Gretchen) schwarze@surgery.wisc.edu 263-2020 |
Instructor
Department of Surgery G5/315 CSC 600 Highland Ave |
| Interests: | I am interested
in clinical medical ethics, informed consent and medical decision-making. |
| Recent Publications: | Lang P, Schwarze ML,
Alexander GC. New technologies meeting old professional boundaries: The emergence of carotid artery stenting. J Am Coll Surg, 2005 Jun; 200(6):854-60. |
| Recent Talks: | Surgery Grand Rounds
October, 2005 "Patient preferences for infrainguinal bypass surgery." Association for Academic Surgeons: Winter meeting: February 2006, San Diego: A comparison of patient and physician beliefs about the rishs and benefits of infrainguinal bypass surgery: What role should optimism play? |
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| Erik Olin
Wright email: wright@ssc.wisc.edu office phone: 2-0068 |
Vilas
Professor, Sociology Office address: 8112D Social science |
| Interests: | I am interested in the Marxist tradition of social theory and sociological research, with a specific interest on class. I am particularly interested in the problem of institutional designs for advancing the goals of a radical egalitarian, democratic vision of alternatives to capitalism. |
| Recent Publications: | Deepening Democracy:
institutional innovations in empowered participatory governance (with
Archon Fung), London: Verso: 2003. Approaches to Class Analysis, edited by Erik Olin Wright. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) "The Shadow of Exploitation in Max Weber?s Class Analysis,? American Sociological Review, December 2002 |
| Recent Talks: | "Envisioning Real Utopias" and "Taking the 'Social' in Socialism Seriously" (talks in Sweden, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy May 2005) |
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