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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).
Recent Talks:  
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.
Recent Talks:  
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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