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University of Maryland -- B.A. 1962, major philosophy, minor English, with high honors, Phi Kappa Phi

University of Wisconsin-Madison--Ph.D. 1968, major philosophy, minor law
Thesis: The Limits of Empiricism: On the Possibility of a Private Language

1. Teaching fellow, University of Wisconsin, 1962-63
2. University Scholar, University of Wisconsin, 1963-64
3. Ford Area Foundation Fellow in Comparative Philosophical Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1964-65
4. Special Summer Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1965
5. WARF Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1965
6. Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Summer 1966
7. Summer Fellowship, Ohio State Development Fund, 1969
8. Philosophical Council Institute in Political and Legal Philosophy, Irvine, California, Summer 1969
9. Grant-in-aid from Ohio State Development Fund, Summer 1971
10. Assigned Research, Oxford University, England, Fall and Winter, 1971 72
11. Philosophical Council Institute in Early Modern Philosophy, Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island, Summer 1974
12. Hastings Institute Workshop in Medical Ethics, Manhattanville College, New York, June 22-29, 1975
13. Lilly Library Small Grant for Research, Indiana University, Summer 1977
14. Philosophical Council Institute in Law and Philosophy, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Summer 1977
15. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Residence for College Teachers, on îThe Supreme Court and Constitutional Change,î with C. Herman Pritchett, University of California-Santa Barbara, September 1977-June 1978
16. Occasional Fellow, University of Chicago, March 1979
17. Danforth Associate, 1978-87
18. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1979
19. Fellow, Program on Human Values and Ethics, University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, Spring 1980
20. Workshop for Teaching Philosophy, Philosophical Council, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Summer 1981
21. National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Ethical Issues in the Human Services, SUNY-Binghamton, Summer 1982
22. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, ěPolitical Experience and Political Thought in Revolutionary America,î Jack Rakove, History, Stanford University, Summer 1984
23. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, 1988-89
24. Director, Summer Institute on ěDavid Hume and the Enlightenment,î 1990, at Dartmouth College, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
25. Recipient of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize for Social Science and Public Policy for Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994)
26. Director, Program in Ethics Across the Curriculum, Winter 1998-Winter 2000, funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education
27. Director, Supplemental Grant for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Spring 2000-Spring 2001, funded by FIPSE
28. Director, NEH Focus grant for examining how best to institute a major in philosophy at a technological institute
29. Co-principal investigator, NSF grant on A Multidisciplinary Course in Nanotechnology: Principles, Applications, Ethics, and Social Change, NSF Grant No. SES-0304308, 2003-4
30. National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar in “The Early American Republic and the Problem of Governance,” sponsored by the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, June 6-30, 2005

• Teaching Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 1962-63
• Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, teaching own courses in logic, 1963-64 and 1965-66, and assisting Professor Julius Weinberg in a graduate course in Rationalism, Spring 1965
• Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1966-67
• Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, 1967-74
• Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, Fall 1968
• Associate Professor, Kalamazoo College, 1974-86
• Full Professor, Kalamazoo College, 1986-94, Chair, 1986-88
• Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Visiting, on leave from Kalamazoo College, 1990-94; Tenured in the Chair, 1994-

• American Philosophical Association, Subcommittee on Employment Services (1977-80), Central Division Program Committee (1982 & 1987), Subcommittee on Academic Careers, Chair (1992-1996)
• American Section, International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Membership Committee (1976-78), Nominating Committee (1977-79; Chair, 1997-), Executive Committee (1983-85)
• Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
• Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
• The Hume Society, Member of the Executive Committee, 1974-76 and 1982 84; Chair, 1984-85; President, 1986-1998
• The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, funded by FIPSE, founded 2000, President 2000-

• Co-director, Conference in Philosophy of Law, Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University, October 31-November 2, 1975
• Consultant to Ferris State College in making a television documentary on the PBB crisis in Michigan, Spring 1976
• Co-director, McGill Bicentennial Hume Congress, September 29-October 3, 1976
• Co-director, Conference in Philosophy, Law, and Medicine, Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University, October 15-17, 1976
• Consultant to the City of Riverview, Michigan in assessing the moral issues involved in deciding to terminate Social Security coverage for city employees
• Co-director, Conference in Business and Professional Ethics, Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University, Fall 1979
• Consultant for a documentary film on Indian fishing rights in the Great Lakes, ěA Difference of Rights,î with William Blanchard, Lansing Community College, 1981-82
• Director, ěJefferson Debatesî on the Constitution, funded by the Kalamazoo Consortium for Higher Education, 1986-87
• Co-director, Conference on Ethical and Procedural Issues Concerning University Research, Rochester Institute of Technology, September 30-October 1, 1991
• Director, Conference on Social Work Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, May 1992
• Co-director, Nineteenth Hume Conference, University of Nantes, France, Summer 1992
• Guest editor, Law and Philosophy , memorial issue for Michael Bayles, Vol. 12, No. 1
• Co-director, Conference on Accounting Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, May 6-7, 1993
• Guest editor, Business and Professional Ethics Journal , Spring and Summer 1994
• Co-director, Conference on Ethics and Health Care Reform, Rochester Institute of Technology, March 30-April 1, 1995
• Co-director, Conference on Hume and 18th-Century America, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, April 6-8, 1995
• Co-director, Second Conference on Accounting Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, April 13-14, 1995
• Guest editor, Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Fall 1995
• Consultant to Regents College of New York State for the creation of an upper-level division ethics course, 1994-1996
• Director, Conference on Technological Assaults on Privacy, Rochester Institute of Technology, April 18-19, 1996
• Director, Provost's Productivity Grant to provide material for the library to support Ethics Across the Curriculum, Spring 1996-Winter 1998
• Director, Provost's Productivity Grant to develop an interdisciplinary course, "The Challenger," involving the Colleges of Business, Liberal Arts, and Applied Science and Technology, Spring 1997-Summer 1998
• Guest editor, Ethics and Behavior, Summer 1997
• Director, Celebrating the Humanities!, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 1998, funded by the New York Council for the Humanities
• Director, Celebrating the Humanities!, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 1999, funded by the New York Council for the Humanities
• Co-director, Philosophical Issues in Ethics Across the Curriculum, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 14-17, 1999, funded by FIPSE, The New York Council for the Humanities, The Ethics Center at Utah Valley State College, and the Dr. James Dale Ethics Center at Youngstown State University
• Co-director, Conference in Ethics Across the Curriculum, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19-21, 2000, funded by FIPSE, The Hale Chair in Applied Ethics at RIT, The Ethics Center at Utah Valley State College, and the Dr. James Dale Ethics Center at Youngstown State University
• Director, Ethics and Politics: Celebrating the Humanities!, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 2000, funded by the New York Council for the Humanities
• Co-director, Twenty-ninth Annual Hume Society Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, August 6-10, 2002
• Director, Conference on Dred Scott: The Moral Foundations of the Constitution, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 18, 2002
• Outside reviewer for assessment of the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Georgia State University, February 2003
• Outside reviewer for assessment of the Department of Philosophy, SUNY-Oswego, April 2004
• Outside reviewer for assessment of the Department of Philosophy, SUNY-Plattsburgh, April 2004
• Program Committee for 31st Hume Society Conference, Tokyo, Japan
• Program Committee for CEPE2005, University of Twente
• Program Committee for Southeast Philosophical Society, 2005
• Program Committee for 32nd Hume Society Conference, Toronto, Canada
• Director, Conference on Institutional Integrity, Rochester Institute of Technology, April 21-22, 2005
• Co-director, Conference on Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Rochester Institute of Technology, May 4-6, 2006
• Consultant for the ethics component of an NSF project on statistics and math, directed by Darren Narayan (Mathematics & Statistics, RIT), July 2007
• Program Committee, CEPE2007: The Ethics of Virtuality, Simulation and Reproduction in a Global World, University of San Diego, July 12-14, 2007
• Organizing Committee, 2007 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, October 29-31, 2007
• Director, 9th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Dublin, Ireland, November 15-17, 2007
• Co-director, Thirty-fifth Annual Hume Society Conference, University of Iceland, August 5-10, 2008
• Organizing Committee, 2008 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering, London, Great Britain, November 10-12, 2008
• Co-director, Conference on Sustainability Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, May 1, 2009
• Program Committee for 36th Hume Society Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 2009
• Co-director, 11th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, RIT, November12-15, 2009
• Review articles for Hume Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Nous, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal, and other journals
• Panelist for program reviews for the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Reviewer for proposals for the National Science Foundation
• Outside reviewer for tenure and promotion for professors in other universities

• Michigan Council for the Humanities, 1976-77
• Kalamazoo Area Council for the Humanities, Project Director (1980-81) for the initial grant proposal creating the Council, Chair (1981-83), member of the Executive Committee (1983-85)
• Science for Citizens Center of Southwestern Michigan, Ethics and Values Advisory Committee, 1981-1984
• Kalamazoo Commission for Historical Preservation, 1986-88
• Executive Committee, Kalamazoo College, 1987-88, and all the major committees of the College at various times
• Committee on Oversight of Research at Rochester Institute of Technology, Chair, 1992-93
• Research Oversight Committee, 1993-, Chair, 1993-1997
• Faculty Council, 1995-1996; various committees of the Academic Senate, 1996-
• Dean Search Committee, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Chair, Fall 1998-
• Various committees in the College of Liberal Arts -- e.g. Policy Committee, 2000-01, Honors Committee, 2000-01; Assessment Committee, Chair, 2002-07; Subcommittee on Policies and Procedures, Chair, 2002-04; Policies and Procedures Committee, Chair, 2004-08, 08-11

1. Medical Responsibility: Autonomy, Informed Consent, and Euthanasia, ed. with Michael Pritchard, Clinton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1979
2. McGill Hume Studies, ed. with N. Capaldi and D. Norton, San Diego, California: Austin Hill Press, Inc., 1979
3. Profits and Professions: Essays in Business and Professional Ethics, ed. with J. Ellin and M. Pritchard, Clinton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1983
4. Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy, recipient of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize for Social Science and Public Policy, Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1994
5. Ethical Decision Making in Social Work, with Linda Reeser (Social Work, Western Michigan University), Allyn & Bacon, 2000
6. Ethics: Theory and Practice, with others, in its 4th edition, written for a course developed for Regents College, 2000
7. The Legal Philosophy of Michael Bayles, editor, anthology of his writings in philosophy of law, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
8. Health Care Reform: Ethics and Politics, ed. with Timothy Engstrom, Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006

1. "Hume's Scepticism," Dialogue, Vol. XII, NO. 1 (Spring 1973), pp. 87-99; reprinted in Stanley Tweyman, ed., David Hume: Critical Assessments, Routledge
2. "On the Consequential Claim that Hume is a Pragmatist," The Journal of Critical Analysis, Vol. IV, No. 4 (Jan/Apr 1973), pp. 141-153
3. ABSTRACT: "Rawls's Contractarianism," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXX, No. 18 (October 25, 1973), p. 658
4. "Hume on Personal Identity," Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XII, No. 2 (April 1974), pp. 181-193
5. "Galileo on the Moons of Jupiter," Annals of Science, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1974), pp. 165-169
6. Review of David Lyons, In the Interest of the Governed: A Study of Benthamís Philosophy of Law and Utility, in Philological Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Fall 1975), pp. 898-899
7. "Hume's Ontic Commitments," The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 102 (January 1976), pp. 39-47
8. "The Function and Limits of Legal Authority," in Authority: A Philosophical Analysis, ed. R. Baine Harris, University of Alabama Press (Alabama: 1976), pp. 112-131
9. "Just procedures and just results," Kalamazoo College Magazine, 1976
10. "David Hume: Naturalist and Meta-sceptic," in Hume: A Re-evaluation, ed. James King and Donald Livingston, Fordham University Press (New York: 1976), pp. 23-49
11. "Philosophy and Public Policy: A Look at PBB," The Michigan Connection (Newsletter for the Michigan Council for the Humanities), Spring 1977, pp. 7 & 12
12. "Persons and Punishment," in Equality and Freedom: International and Comparative Jurisprudence, ed. Gray Dorsey, Oceana Publications & A. W. Sijthoff (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: 1977), pp. 219-225
13. "Hume's Causal Scepticism," in David Hume: Bicentenary Papers, ed. G. P. Morice, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh: 1977), pp. 156-166
14. "Relationships Between Philosophy and Business and Professional Ethics," with M. Pritchard, Business and Professional Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Fall 1978), pp. 7-9
15. Review of Harry M. Bracken, Berkeley, in Bibliography of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, n.s. 1977, pp. 168-169
16. "Justifying Environmental Legislation: A Response to Professor Bayles," in Law and the Ecological Challenge: AMINTAPHIL II, ed. Eugene E. Dais, Wm. S. Hein & Co. (Buffalo: 1978), pp. 144-149
17. "Rawls and Other Beings," in Law and the Ecological Challenge: AMINTAPHIL II, ed. Eugene E. Dais, Wm. S. Hein & Co. (Buffalo: 1978), pp. 205-216
18. "In Defense of Hume's Appendix," in McGill Hume Studies, Austin Hill Press (San Diego: 1979), pp. 89-99
19. "The Constitution and Contract Theory," in Values in Law, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Value Inquiry, SUNY-Geneseo, 1980, pp. 184-203
20. "Justice and the Treatment of Animals: A Critique of Rawls," with M. Pritchard, Environmental Ethics, Vol. 3 (Spring 1981), pp. 55-61
21. "Response to 'Children's Rights and Parents' Virtues," in Child Nurturance, ed. A. C. Cafagna, R. T. Peterson, and C. A. Stadenbaur, Philosophy, Children and the Family, Vol. I, Plenum Press (New York: 1982), pp. 175-177
22. "One Consequence of Hume's Nominalism," Hume Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (November 1982), pp. 102-118
23. "Issues of Privacy in Medicine," Medical Humanities Report, Michigan State University (Vol. 4, No. 3), pp. 2-4
24. "Management and Ethical Decision-making," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 3 (1984), pp. 287-291
25. "Commentary: Cummins on Hume and Berkeley," Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society, Vol. 10 (1985), Special Issue on Berkeley, pp. 108 111
26. "Patients and Privacy," The Social and Health Review, No. 3 (1986), pp. 92 & 95
27. "Hume and the Constitution," in Constitutionalism: The Philosophical Dimension, ed. Alan S. Rosenbaum (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988), pp. 31-53
28. Review of Alan Schwerin, The Reluctant Revolutionary, Bulletin of the Hume Society, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (Spring 1990), p. 5
29. "David Hume's Political Revolution," in Law and Enlightenment in Britain, Vol. III of Enlightenment, Rights and Revolution, ed. Tom D. Campbell (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1990), pp. 31-44
30. Review of Galen Strawson, The Secret Connexion, in The Bulletin of the Hume Society, Vol. XIV, No. 2 (Fall 1990), p. 6
31. "Frozen Embryoes and Frozen Concepts," in Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1991, ed. James Humber and Robert Almeder (Clifton, N. J.: The Humana Press, 1991), pp. 59-88
32. "Subordinates and Moral Dilemmas," Business and Professional Ethics, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 3-22
33. "Research Funding and the Value of Science," with John T. Sanders, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. II, No. 1 (Spring 1992), pp. 33-50
34. "Constitutional Argument and Contract Theory," Praktische Vernunft und Theorien der Gerechtigkeit, Vol. II, special edition of Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992), pp. 185-194
35. "Comments on Cases," in Teaching Engineering Ethics: A Case Study Approach, ed. Michael Pritchard (Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan: 1992), NSF Grant #8820837
36. " The Constitution and the Nature of Law,"Law and Philosophy, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 5-32; this issues includes a brief introduction on Michael Bayles
37. "The Myths of Academia: Open Inquiry and Funded Research," with John T. Sanders, The Journal of College and University Law, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Winter 1993), pp. 227-250
38. "Hume and the Experimental Method of Reasoning,"Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 10, No. 1 (January 1994), pp. 29-37
39. "Accounting Ethics," foreword for a joint issue in accounting ethics, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 13, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring & Summer, 1994), pp. 3-8
40. "Hume on Spatial Contiguity," Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 1995), pp. 49-64
41. "In the Face of Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy," Prize Address for the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize in Social Science and Public Policy, Occasional Paper Series, #5, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College
42. "Moral Issues in Accounting," with Bruce Oliver (Accounting, RIT), introduction to special issue of Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer 1995), pp. 3-11
43. "Constitutional Adjudication and Contract Theory," Archiv fur Rechts und Sozialphilosohie, Beiheft 60, Law, Justice and the State III: Problems in Law, ed. Arend Soeteman and Mikael M. Karlsson (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995), pp. 98-112
44. "Monopoly with Sick Moral Strangers," in Reading Engelhardt,: Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., ed. Brendon Minogue, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, and James E. Reagan (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997), pp. 95-112
45. "Liberalism and Radical Critiques of the Law," in Radical Critiques of the Law, ed. Stephen Griffin and Robert Moffat (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1997), pp. 205-214
46. "False Light," in Liberty, Equality, and Plurality, ed. Larry May, Jonathan Schonsheck, and Christine Sistare (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997), pp. 171-190.
47. "Privacy and Personal Identity," Ethics and Behavior, Vol. 7, #3 (September 1997), 195-205
48. "Fairness' Revisited: Does The Accounting Profession Provide a Helpful Example?", with Roger Bartlett (California State at Sacramento), Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 17-36
49. "Causation/Power," The Encyclopedia of Empiricism, ed. Edward Barbanell & Don Garrett (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 63-68
50. "Hard Cases and Natural Law," in Law, Justice and Culture, ed. Andre Jean Arnaud & Peter Toller (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998), 49-55
51. "Privacy and the Appropriation of Identity," in Goren Collste, Ethics in the Age of Information, Technology Centre for Applied Ethics, Linkoping, 2000), pp. 70-86.
52. Review of Suicide and Euthanasia: Historial and Contemporary Themes, ed. Baruch A. Brody & Suicide: Right or Wrong?, ed. John Donnelly, in Teaching Philosophy, forthcoming
53. "The Dispute Between Liberals and Communitarians," in Liberalism and Community, ed. Robert Moffat, Cornelius Murphy, and Noel Reynolds, The Edwin Mellen Press, forthcoming
54. "Social Equality and Real Equality of Opportunity," for the volume, Ideals, Values, and Humanity: Studies in the Thought of Warren Steinkraus, ed. Walter Wright, Value Enquiry Book Series by Editions Rodolpi, forthcoming
55. "Civility and Stability," in Civility and Its Discontents: Essays on Civil Virtue, Toleration and Cultural Fragmentation, ed. Jonathan Schonsheck, University of Nebraska, forthcoming
56. "Representation and Misrepresentation: Tufte and the Morton Thiokol Engineers on the Challenger," with Roger Boisjoly, David Hoeker, and Stefan Young, Science and Engineering Ethics, forthcoming January 2001
57. "The Changing Forms of Psychiatric Care," in ‘Mental Illness and Public Health Care,’ Biomedical Ethics Review, forthcoming 2001,

1. ěPBB: What we ought to do,î Kalamazoo Gazette, July 21, 1976, p. A7
2. "An Unhealthy System: Health care must, and should, change,"Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, New York, March 22, 1995, p. 7A
3. "How are we to respond to such horror?,' (On the impregnation of a comatose woman), Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, New York, January 21, 1996, p. 13A
4. "Downsizing," Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, New York, July 9, 1996
5. "What's going on here? RIT focuses eye on CIA, other research," Democrat & Chronicle, November 6, 1996, p. A25
6. "Ethics and public policy collide in judgments of capital punishment," Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, New York, October 2, 2000, p. 7A

1. ěThe method of language-games,î Ohio State University Leighton Philosophy Club, Summer 1969
2. ěPersonal Identity,î Ohio University-Zanesville, Fall 1970
3. ěHumeís Appendix and Personal Identity,î Ohio State University Colloquium, Spring 1971
4. ěHumeís Theory of Relations,î Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meetings, Spring 1972; printed in Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association, 1972, pp. 16-27
5. ěHumeís Scepticism,î American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Spring 1972
6. ěJustifying Environmental Legislation: A Response to Bayles,î AMINTAPHIL Conference on Law and the Ecological Challenge, Spring 1973
7. ěHumeís Two Definitions of Cause,î American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, Spring 1973; versions of this paper were read at an Ohio State University Colloquium, Summer 1970, and at Western Michigan University, Fall 1970
8. ěRawlsís Contractarianism,î American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Winter 1973; versions of this paper were read at Western Michigan University, Fall 1972, at an Ohio State University Colloquium, Summer 1973, and at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, March 1975
9. ěJustice and the Treatment of Animals: A Critique of Rawls,î with Michael Pritchard, American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Spring 1974; a version of this paper was read at an Ohio State University Colloquium, Winter 1973
10. ěKant on Hume on Causation,î Conference on the Heritage of Kant, Western Michigan University & Kalamazoo College, Winter 1974; printed in The Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society, Vol. I, No. 4 (1974), pp. 281-94
11. ěHumeís Immaterial Self,î Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Toronto, Spring 1974
12. ěComments on ëA Perspective on Novelty in Evolutionary Developmentí,î Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meetings, Spring 1974
13. ěHumeís Scepticism Concerning Causation,î Third Hume Conference, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1974
14. ěHumeís Ontic Commitments,î American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Spring 1975; a version of this paper was read at the University of Southern California, Spring 1974, and at Western Michigan University, March 1975
15. ěPersons and Punishment,î Eighth World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, St. Louis, Missouri, July 24-29, 1975 and at Western Michigan University, October 1975
16. ěThe Ideological Background of the American Revolution,î University of Dayton Colloquium on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, September 19-20, 1975
17. ěIn Defense of Humeís Appendix,î in a symposium with Terrence Penelhum (Calgary) and Nathan Brett (Toronto), Fourth Annual Hume Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 1975; presented at California State at Northridge, May 1978
18. Symposium on Passive Euthanasia, Michigan State University, February 1976
19. Comment on ěBerkeleyís Inherence Principle,î by Nathan Oaklander (University of Michigan-Flint), Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, March 1976
20. ěThinking of Humeís Uniformity Thesis,î American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, New Orleans, March 1976; presented at the University of Southern California, March 1978 and at the Hume Society Meetings, Dublin, Ireland, August 1981
21. ěHumeís Causal Scepticism,î Edinburgh Bicentennial Hume Conference, August 1976
22. ěComment on ëThe Social Background of Humeís Science of Human Natureí,î by James Moore (Concordia), McGill Bicentennial Hume Congress, Montreal, Fall 1976
23. Comment on ěLimited Government and Property Rights,î by D. A. J. Richards (Fordham), AMINTAPHIL Conference on Minimal Government, Des Moines, Iowa, Fall 1976
24. ěBusiness Ethics,î Business-Academia Dialogue, Kalamazoo College, March 1977
25. ěNozickís Minimal Government,î Symposium at Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, March 1977
26. ěDisillusionment and the Process of Education,î Symposium on Education in a Disillusioned World, California State at Fullerton, March 1978
27. Comment on ěOn Beginning to Exist: Humeís Two Questions,î by Jese Bernardete (Syracuse), American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, March 1978
28. ěAbortion and the Right to Privacy,î Conference on Privacy, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, April 1978
29. ěMedical Ethics and Scientific Experimentation,î Conference in Bio-medical Ethics, Nazareth College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 1978
30. ěAnimals and Rawls,î University of Michigan-Flint, March 1979
31. ěOn Having Rights and ëA Right to Lifeí,î Hope College Series on Public Lectures on Caring and Curing: The Humanities and Medicine, October 10, 1979
32. ěAccountability, Liability, and Responsibility,î AMINTAPHIL Conference on Accountability, Austin, Texas, October 12-14, 1979
33. ěApplied Philosophy: The Underlying Rationale,î American Philosophical Association Special Colloquium arranged by the APA Teaching Committee, December 1979
34. ěThe Constitution and Contract Theory,î Political Science Section, Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, March 1980
35. ěRawls and the Original Position,î Philosophy Section, Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, March 1980
36. ěIntrusion and disclosure in medical settings,î Program on Human Values and Ethics, University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, April 1981
37. ěStraightsburgh and Prostitution: Principled Decision-making,î AMINTAPHIL Conference on Harm, London, Ontario, April 1981
38. ěPerfect Patients, Perfect Physicians,î in a series on Everyday Health Decisions: Whose Choice and How?, Borgess Hospital, Kalamazoo, Michigan, February 1982
39. ěThe Moral Majority: A Revolutionary Movement,î at various local organizations in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo (e.g. AAUW)
40. ěDo We Need a Square Tomato: Business Ethics and Conflicts,î at various local organizations
41. ěWhose Life Is It Anyway?î, panel presentation on the moral issues raised by the play, Kalamazoo, Michigan, funded by the Kalamazoo Area Council for the Humanities, October 1981 & March 1982
42. ěIssues of Privacy in Medicine,î Medical Humanities Program, Michigan State University, April 1982
43. ěAnimals and Humans, Evolution and Reason,î Hume Society Conference, York University, Toronto, August 1982
44. ěComments on Property and Global Justice,î AMINTAPHIL Conference on On Economic Justice, University of Florida, Gainesville, January 1983
45. ěPrivacy,î Department of Philosophy, Western Ontario, October 1983
46. ěLegal Minds,î Hume Society Conference, University of Iceland, August 1984
47. ěGrocers, Philosophers, and Ethics,î Symposium on Ethics and the Academy, Albion College, October 1984
48. ěChildren: Their Right to Medical Treatment,î Panel Discussion with Drs. C. Shabino & S. Bach, Bronson Methodist Hospital, November 1984
49. ěCummins on Hume and Berkeley,î comments on paper by Phil Cummins (Iowa), Conference on Berkeley, Kalamazoo College-Western Michigan University, March 1985
50. ěBridging the Gap: The Humanities, Business, and the Professions,î Panel discussion of presentation by Thomas Beauchamp (Georgetown), March 1986
51. ěHume on Verbal Disputes,î comment on E. Steinbergís ěHume on Liberty, Necessity and Verbal Disputes,î Hume Society Conference, Edinburgh University, August 25-26, 1986
52. ěThe Constitution and Contract Theory,î AMINTAPHIL Conference on the Constitution, Temple University, Philadelphia, November 1986
53. ěThe Constitution and the Nature of Law,î Conference on the Bicentennial of the Constitution: A Celebration, Hofstra University, April 23-25, 1987
54. Comments on John R. Snowden, ěInnocents and Innocence: Moral Puzzles of Professional Status and Culpable Conduct,î Conference on Moral Problems in the Profession, University of Nebraska, March 1990
55. ěSubordinates and Moral Dilemmas,î Rochester Institute of Technology, April 1990; The Second Annual Critical Perspectives Symposium: Regulation, and Profeesionalism in Accounting, New York, March 23-24, 1991
56. ěDred Scott: Morality and the Rule of Law,î Wooster, Denison, Oberlin and Kenyon Annual Spring Colloquium, April 1990; versions of this paper were read at Hope College, November 1990, and at Rochester Institute of Technology, April 1991
57. ěRawls and Constitutional Adjudication,î Western Ontario, May 1990; various versions of this paper have been presented elsewhere (e.g. McGill University, March 1991)
58. ěDescartes and Hume on Causal Relations,î Kalamazoo College Faculty Colloquium, May 1990; NEH Institute on David Hume and the Enlightenment, July 1990; University of Cincinnati Colloquium on Hume, May 1991; SUNY Oswego, December 1991; University of Florida, February 1992; University of Tulsa, February 1994; University of Oklahoma, February 1994; Oklahoma State University, February 1994
59. ěThe structures and implications of Humeís arguments regarding causation,î NEH Institute on David Hume and the Enlightenment, July 1990
60. ěHume and the Experimental Method of Reasoning,î Midwest American Society for Eighteenth Century-Studies, Annual Meeting, Western Illinois University, October 11-13, 1990; Southwestern Philosophy Society Meeting, New Orleans, November 11-13, 1993
61. ěThe Dispute Between Liberalism and Communitarianism,î AMINTAPHIL Meeting, University of Utah, October 1990
62. ěHume on Animals,î Comments on a presentation at the Hume Society Meeting, APA Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, March 1991
63. ěResolving Ethical Dilemmas in Multi-Cultural Families,î with Linda Reeser (School of Social Work, Western Michigan University), 15th Annual Conference Michigan Chapter, National Association of Social Work, Troy, Michigan, May 9-11, 1991
64. Four workshops for faculty on ěHume and the Enlightenment,î funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, May 21-23, 1991
65. ěConstitutional Argument and Contract Theory,î International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, 1991 Congress, G–ttingen, Germany, August 1991
66. ěOn Loss of Trust,î National Conference on Ethics and the Professions, University of Florida, January 30-30-February 1, 1992
67. Panel on the Ethics of Resource Allocation, in a Conference on Medicine in the Modern Age: Medical Ethics for a Changing World, McGill University, Montreal, February 7-9, 1992
68. ěThe Myths of Academia: Open Enquiry and Funded Research,î with John T. Sanders, First Annual Conference, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Indianapolis, March 6-7, 1992
69. Panelist on ethics in the media, First Annual Conference, Association for Practial and Professional Ethics, Indianapolis, March 6-7, 1992
70. ěMoral Problems in Social Work,î with Linda Reeser (School of Social Work, Western Michigan University), Western Michigan University, April 3, 1992
71. ěHumean Skepticism: Response to ëConceptual Divergences in Sextus and Humeí,î American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Louisville, April 23-26, 1992
72. ěHume on Persons and Passions,î Conference on Passions, Persons, Powers, University of California at Berkeley, April 30-May 2, 1992
73. ěSocial Equality and Real Equality of Opportunity,î The Warren Steinkraus Lectures on Human Ideals, SUNY-Oswego, October 3, 1992; presented at Wells College, February 1993
74. ěHard Choices and Just Solutions,î Fourth International Interdisciplinary Conference, Justice in Health Care: Medicine, Ethics, and Economics, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, October 15-16, 1992
75. Invited discussant at a roundtable at the Hume Conference at the Santa Clara University, February 1993
76. ěAccounting: The Public Trust,î Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Second Annual Meeting, University of Maryland, March 1993
77. ěHume on Probable Reasoning,î Comments on Claudia Schmidt, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, March 1993
78. ěProfessionalism and Integrity,î Professional Engineering Society, Rochester, New York, March 1993
79. ěBorn a Man, Died a Grocer,î Guest Speaker, Beta Gamma Sigma Induction Class of 1993, Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Business, May 1993
80. ěResolving Ethical Problems in Working with Multi-Problem Families,î with Linda Reeser (School of Social Work, Western Michigan University), Conference on Rhetoric and Reality, Michigan Chapter, National Association of Social Workers, Traverse City, Michigan, May 1993
81. ěConstitutional Adjudication and Contract Theory,î Sixteenth World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, ěLaw, Justice and the State,î University of Iceland, May 26-June 2, 1993
82. Comments on ěThe Human Genome Program: Legal, Ethical and Social Implications of Human Genetic Researchë by Peter A. Lalley, 1993 Faculty Colloquium Series, Rochester Institute of Technology, December 6, 1993
83. ěFalse Presumptions in Environmental Thinking,î Oklahoma State University, February 1994
84. ěThe Moral Significance of Dred Scott,î Phi Alpha Theta, The History Honorary Society, Oklahoma State University, February 1994
85. Lectures in engineering ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, March 18 24, 1994, Fall 1995
86. ěThe Ethical Responsibilities of Teaching and Supporting Student Writing,î Rochester Institute of Technology, March 1994
87. ěCloning and Genetic Engineering of Human Embryos: Science and Society in Conflict?î, Panel Discussion, The Biotechnology Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, for the Paul Baker Show on WXXI, March 29, 1994
88. ěThe Significance of Community Networks in Resolving Ethical Dilemmas,î with Linda Reeser (School of Social Work, Western Michigan Universtiy), Michigan Chapter, National Association of Social Work, May 12, 1994
89. ěTrust and the Rule of Law,î International Conference on Ethics in the Public Sector, ěCitizenís Trust and Authoritiesí Choices,î Center for Ethics and Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, June 15-18, 1994
90. ěHumeís Theories of Belief,î 21st International Hume Society Conference, Rome, Italy, June 1994
91. ěPrenatal Screening and Testing: Public Policy Issues,î panal discussion, Conference on Health Care Reform: Images and Ideals/Changes and Choices, Society for Health and Human Values, 1994 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, October 1994
92. ěFalse Light,î AMINTAPHIL, 1994 Meeting, University of Charleston, November 1994
93. ěIn the Face of Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy,î Prize Lecture, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College, November 1994
94. ěTracking Harms: Resolving Cases in Social Work,î Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College, November 1994
95. ěMaking Decisions About Waste,î Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, November 1994
96. ěSystemic Moral Problems in Business and the Professions,î Conference on Ethical Issues in Finance, University of Florida, January 1995
97. ěMorality and the Environment,î The Author Series, St. John Fisher, Rochester, New York, February 2, 1995
98. ěEnvironmental Decision-making,î Annual Conference, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Crystal City, Virginia, March 3-4, 1995
99. Breakfast with the Author, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Crystal City, Virginia, March 3-4, 1994
100. ěPBB Revisited: Making Reasonable Decisions in Situations of Doubt,î Center for the Study of Ethics, Western Michigan University, March 17, 1994
101. ěHume on Factions,î comment on Frederick von Halthoonís ěDid Hume Inspire Madison to Write Federalist No. X?î, Conference on Hume and 18th Century America, College of William and Mary, Virginia, April 6-8, 1995
102. ěHard Cases and Natural Law,î Seventeenth World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Bolognia, Italy, June 16-21, 1995
103. ěëThe most puzzling puzzleí: Comments on Maria Montes, Hume, and James,î 22nd International Hume Society Conference, Park City, Utah, July 25-29, 1995
104. ěMonopoly with Sick Moral Strangers,î Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., The Ethics Center, Youngstown State University & The Center for Ethics, St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, September 29-30, 1995
105. ěEthics in Politics,î Paul Baker Talk Show, WXXI, February 16, 1996
106. ěError-provocative designs: ethics in engineering,î Colloquium in the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, March 12, 1996
107. ěEthics in Engineering Design,î three lectures, March 18-20, Rochester Institute of Technology
108. ěRape, Pregnancy, and the Comatose Woman,î on ěAlive at 5,î Channel 8 TV, Rochester, New York
109. ěBosnia, Quebec, and Dred Scott,î Annual Philosophy Lecture, Siena College, Loudonville, New York, April 11, 1996
110. ěLife and Death: Assisted Suicide, Abortion, and Persistent Vegetative States,î Suny-Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, April 22, 1996
111. Invited Comments on Marcia Baron, Utah Philosophy Conference on Impartiality, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 3-4, 1996
112. ěPrivacy and Public Access,î Librarian Association, Lake Placid, New York, May 23, 1996
113. "Liberal Democracies and Decision-making," AMINTAPHIL, October 31 November 2, 1996, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
114. Comments on ěBerkeleyís Argument from Perceptual Relativity,î by Faaborg, American Philosophical Association Western Division Meetings, San Francisco, March 1997
115. ěMoral Reactions, Perception, and Awareness,î Comments on a paper by Margaret Holland, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Pittsburgh, April 1997
116. "Privacy and Personal Identity," conference at the University of Link–ping, Sweden, June 9-11, 1997
117. "Privacy and Appropriation," conference at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 11-13
118. Invited address, ěNature and Convention,î 24th Annual Hume Society Conference, Monterey, California, July 29-August 2, 1997
119. ěConstitutional Democracy and Civil Societies,î Conference on Eastern European Civil Society, Rochester Institute of Technology, September 24, 1997
120. "Berkeley on Qualities," American Philosophical Society Pacific Division Meetings, Los Angeles, March 25-29, 1998
121. Utah Valley State College, Visiting Scholar, to give a seminar on David Hume, May 14-15, and a seminar on Practical and Professional Ethics, May 18-22
122. "Deep Scepticism: The Mind's Incoherence," Comments on Phil Cummins, 25th Hume Society Conference, Stirling, Scotland, July 20-25, 1998
123. "Civility and Stability," Amintaphil Conference, Montreal, September 24-27, 1998
124. "Systematic Moral Problems and the Professions," revised version of paper delivered at the University of Florida in 1996, Conference on business Ethics, DePaul Univerdsity, Chicago, October 28-31, 1998
125. "Resolving Injustices Within Families," Conference on Informal Influences on Moral Development: Family, Faith, Media, and Community,' Association for Moral Education, Dartmouth College, November 18-22, 1998
126. "Internal and External Ethical Problems," Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum, Utah Valley State College, December 10-11, 1998
127. "Representation and Misrepresentation: Tufte and the Morton-Thiokol Engineers on Challenger," with David Hoekman and Stefan Young, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Washington D.C., February 1999; also at the Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, March 21-24, 1999; the Conference on Moral Education in a Diverse Society, at Duke University, April 9-11, 1999
128. "Ethics Across the Curriculum," Liberty Hill Breakfast Series, February 17, 1999; the Atheneum, Rochester Institute of Technology, March 2, 1999
129. Comments on Graciela DePierris, "Causal Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume's Enquiry," American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meetings, March 31-April 3, 1999
130. "A Constitutive Condition of Constitutions," IVR Conference, New York, June 1999
131. "The Unruly Member," 26th Hume Society Conference, Cork, Ireland, July 1999
132. "Calvin to Hobbes: Xenotransplantation and Transmogrification," Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1-5, 1999
133. "Digital Monads," The Fourth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies, Rome, Italy, October 5-9, 1999
134. "Can a Person Be In A Persistent Vegetative State?", Conference on Coma and Brain Death, Havana, February 22-25, 2000
135. "Deep Skepticism and Backgammon," Amintaphil, San Diego, March 9-11, 2000
136. "Alienation," invited paper, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Spring 2000
137. "Web Predicates and Moral Space," The Fifth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies, Dartmouth College, June 2000
138. "Impeaching a President," Invited Lecture, The Center for US. Studies, Stiftung Leucorea Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, June 3, 2000
139. Community Lecture, "Error, Uncertainty and Ethics in Environmental Decision Making," RIT, October 17, 2000
140. "Iíve been framed!," Invited paper for the Second Annual Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum, Salt lake City, University of Utah and Utah Valley State College, October 19-22, 2000
141. "Considering The Death Penalty," Thursday Thinkers, Friends of the Library, Rochester, NY, February 15, 2001
142. "The Unity of Hume's Thought," invited paper, Pacific Division Meetings, The Hume Society, April 2001
143. Invited comments on "Whither Empiricism," Mind and Action III Conference, Lisbon, May 2001
144. "Ethics in Computer Engineering," ETHICOMP 2001: Systems of the Information Society, Technical University of Gadansk in Poland,, Gdansk, Poland, June 18-20, 2001
145. “Fairness and the Electoral Process in a Constitutional Democracy,” IVR, June 2001, Amsterdam
146. “Reasoned Beliefs and Walking Miracles,” Panel discussion on Jennifer Herdt’s Religion and Faction in Hume’s Moral Philosophy, 28th Hume Society Conference, July 2001, Victoria
147. Roundtable Discussion on Terrorism in America, Rochester Institute of Technology, September 17, 2001
148. Panelist in the Applied Ethics Symposium, Roberts Wesleyan College, October 18, 2001
149. Panelist on “America’s Response to Terrorism,” Rochester Institute of Technology, October 17, 2001
150. St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, Business Ethics Breakfast Seminar, “Downsizing: It’s a Fact -- Now What?”, Rochester NY, November 16, 2001
151. “Internal and External Moral Relations,” 3rd Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, University of Florida, January 29-February 3, 2002
152. Invited panelist for discussion of Ethics Across the Curriculum: A Practice Based Approach, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, March 2002
153. “The Moral Crisis in Health Care,” 30th Annual Conference on Value Inquiry, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 4-6, 2002
154. “Ethics Across the Curriculum: Tit-for-Tat Plus,” University of Salisbury, April 26, 2002
155. Lectures on David Hume, invited week-long series of lectures on the philosophy of David Hume, University of Helsinki, August 2002
156. “Calvin and Hume,” Comments for the 29th Annual Hume Society Conference, University of Helsinki, August 6-10, 2002
157. “Taney’s Moral Argument for Slavery,” Conference on Dred Scott: The Moral Foundations of the Constitution, Rochester Institute of Technology, October 11, 2003
158. Presidential Address, Annual Conference of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Clemson University, October 24-27, 2003
159. “Habeas Corpus,” Amintaphil Conference on Rights, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., November 21-24, 2003
160. “Much Obliged,” Conference at the University of Otago, January 2003
161. “Harrassment and Hostility,” Hale Ethics Series, Spring 2003
162. “How to resolve harassment problems,” Hale Ethics Series, Spring 2003
163. “Nano-ethics,” University of South Carolina, Darmstadt Germany
164. “Ethics Across the Curriculum,” Keynote address, the University of Clemson Convocation, August 19, 2003
165. “Professional Relations,” SEAC 4th Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, October 2003
166. “A Potential Module for Dissemination of Information, Education, and Research,” with Diane Hope and Paul Petersen, NSF Workshop, December 3 5, 2003
167. “Ethics and Imaging,” University of South Carolina, March 2004
168. “A Multidisciplinary Course in Nanotechnology: Principles, Applications, Ethics, and Social Change,” with Diane Hope, Paul Petersen, Tom Smith, and KSV Santhanam, American Chemistry Society, March 28-April 1, 2004
169. “Stability and Incoherence in Hume’s Treatise,” Hume Society 30th Annual Conference, Japan, August 2-7, 2004
170. “Liberal Arts and Technology,” College of Liberal Arts Celebration of the 175th Anniversary of RIT, October 11, 2004
171. Presidential Address, SEAC 6th Annual Conference, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, October 14-17, 2004
172. “Collateral Damage,” AMINTAPHIL, Stanford University, October 14-17, 2004; rapporteur.
173. “Throwing Dice and Other Decision Procedures,” SUNY New Paltz, Philosophy Club, November 11, 2004
174. Workshop on Ethics Across the Curriculum, SUNY New Paltz, November 12, 2004
175. “Hume As Critic: Hume, Descartes, and Adam,” Conference on Hume and His Critics: A Conference on the Scottish Enlightenment, Baylor University, Waco, April 14-16, 2005
176. “Bioinformatics and Privacy,” Third International Program on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, Rochester New York, June 4-6, 2005
177. Panelist on Ethics Education in Bioengineering, Third International Program on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, Rochester New York, June 4-6, 2005
178. “Nanobiotechnology and Decision Making,” Third International Program on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, Rochester New York, June 4-6, 2005
179. “Lessons from Hume: A History of the Society,” Hume Society conference, Toronto, July 19-23, 2005
180. “Cartesian Causal Connections,” Western New York History of Philosophy Group, Syracuse University, September 11, 2005
181. 7th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Presidential Address. Sarasota, Florida, November 18, 2005
182. “Moral Powers,” SEAC conference, November 17, 2005
183. “Academic Integrity,” Academic Integrity: A New Look at Law, Policy and Practice, SUNY-Albany, Albany, NY, March 23-24, 2006
184. “Flipping for Health Care,” University of Missouri-Rolla, April 19, 2006
185. “Hume and High Rhetoric,” 33rd International Hume Conference, August 7-10, 2006, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz Germany
186. “The Great Right: Habeas Corpus,” Amintaphil Conference, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, November 2-5, 2006
187. “Civil Disobedience and the Civil War: Ethics in History,” 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Dartmouth College, November 16-18, 2006
188. Presidential Address: “Moral Issues in Higher Education,” 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Dartmouth College, November 16-18, 2006
189. “Health Care Reform: Ethics and Politics,” with Timothy Engstrom, President’s Breakfast Series at Liberty Hill, February 8, 2007; St. John Fisher, April 10, 2007; Grand Rounds, Highland Hospital, May 29, 2007
190. “Professional Ethics and Nanotechnology,” University of Pennsylvania-Lock Haven, March 1, 2007
191. “A Game-plan for Introducing Ethics Across the Curriculum,” University of Pennsylvania-Lock Haven, March 2, 2007
192. “Bionanotechnology and Health Concerns,” University of Pennsylvania-Lock Haven, March 2, 2007
193. “Nanobiotechnology, Ethics and Risks,” 4th International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, April 21-22, 2007
194. “Diversity of Character,” Keynote address, 6th Annual Conference on Diversity, Rochester Institute of Technology, April 23, 2007
195. “Hume on Beliefs and Dispositions,” 34th Annual Hume Conference, Boston Massachusetts, August 7-12, 2007
196. “Cartesian Causal Connections: A Puzzle,” PUC-RIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 21, 2007
197. “Hume, Descartes, and Adam,” III Coloquio Hume, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Belo-Horizonte, Brazil, August 28-31, 2007
198. “Ethics Across the Curriculum: Becoming a Pro,” Union College, October 24, 2007
199. “Design Problems and Ethics,“ WPE-2007 Workshop, Philosophy and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, October 29-31, 2007
200. “Moral Children,” Panel discussion on Ethics in the Schools, 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Milltown Institute of the National University of Ireland, November 15-17, 2007
201. “Truth and Trust,” Hale Ethics Series, Rochester Institute of Technology, March 20, 2008
202. “Speaking Freely,” AMINTAPHIL Conference, September 25-28, 2008, Villanova University
203. “In the Zone,” 10th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, Towson University, November 14-16, 2008; accepted for the Conference on Academic Integrity, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
204. “Nanobiotechnology and Health Concerns,” The Fifth International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Polytechnic Institute of New York University April 3-5, 2009
205. “Likeness,” Conference on Berkeley, Cornell University, May 9, 2009
206. “Hume’s Impartial Histories,” 36th Annual Hume Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 2009