R. G. Frey Curriculum Vitae (Select Listings) Professor of Philosophy 737 South College Drive Department of Philosophy Bowling Green, OH Bowling Green State University Tel. 419-354-3934 Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Tel. 419-372-2117 Fax. 419-372-8191 E-mail. [email protected] Other Academic Appointments Senior Research Fellow, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, 1986- Senior Research Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., 1986-2000 Fellow, Westminster Institute of Ethics and Public Policy, London, Ontario, Canada,1991-1997. Education B.A., College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Philosophy, 1966. M.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Philosophy, 1968. D.Phil., University of Oxford, England. Dissertation: Rules and Consequences as Grounds for Moral Judgments. Supervisor: R. M. Hare, 1974. Academic Employment Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Liverpool, England. 1974-78. Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Liverpool, England. 1978-86. Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada. 1981-82. Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University. 1984. Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University. 1986- Fields of Research and Competence Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy; Applied Ethics, including Medical, Environmental, and Business ethics; History of Modern Philosophy, including 18th Century British Moral Philosophy and Epistemology; Social Philosophy. Teaching I teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in all the areas of my research and competence. 1 Dissertation Students and Placements Barbara Daly, 1993, ‟A Philosophical Approach to Resource Allocation in Health Care” Position: Associate Professor in School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University and School of Medicine, Center for Biomedical Ethics; Director of Clinical Ethics Service at University Hospitals; Chair of the Ethics Committee Thomas May, 1994, ‟Autonomy, Authority and Moral Responsibility” Position: Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies in Bioethics, Center for the Study of Bioethics Medical College of Wisconsin (2001) Mark Aulisio, 1996, “Intention, Foresight, and the Doctrine of Double Effects” Position: Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University and Director of Clinical Ethics at the MetroHealth Hospital System Piotr Boltuc, 1998, ‟Moral Partiality” Position: Chair and Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Springfield IL James Taylor, 2000, “Personal Autonomy: It’s Theoretical Foundations and Role in Applied Ethics” Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department College of New Jersey James Spence, 2001, ‟The Moral Foundations of the Duty to Rescue” Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Adrian College Jana Craig, 2002, ‟The Quality of Life: Its Content, Range and Moral Significance” Position: Director, Clinical Ethics Center, Memorial Health System and Department of Medical Humanities, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Aaron Simmons, 2006, “The Basic Moral Rights of Non-Human Animals” Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio Northern University Russell DiSilvestro, 2006, “Capacities and Moral Status” Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department California State University- Sacramento John Milliken, 2007, “The Authority of Virtue” Position: Social Philosophy and Policy Center, BGSU, Program Manager Books: Published Interests and Rights. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980. New York, Oxford University Press, 1980. 2 Rights, Killing, and Suffering. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1983. New York, Basil Blackwell, 1984. Utility and Rights, editor. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1985. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1984. Social Policy and Conflict Resolution, editor (with T. Attig, D. Callen). Bowling Green, Bowling Green State University, 1985. Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals, editor (with C. W. Morris). Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Violence, Terrorism, and Justice, editor (with C. W. Morris). Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Value, Welfare, and Morality, editor (with C. W. Morris). Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. Paperback issued in 2007. The Works of Joseph Butler. 2 Volumes. Edited by W. E. Gladstone. Reissued And Edited, together with a volume of essays by Gladstone on Butler, by R. G. Frey. Bristol, England, Thoemmes Press, 1995. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. (Jointly authored with Gerald Dworkin, Sissela Bok.) The Companion to Applied Ethics. (with C. Wellman). Oxford and Cambridge, MA., Basil Blackwell, 2003. (The large paperback of this work will be issued in December, 2004. Shortly thereafter, five shorter paperbacks under separate titles will be published from this material; all will appear at the same time as separate books.) (I have not listed translations of the above works.) Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Animals (with Tom L. Beauchamp). Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Books in Progress Intention, Causation, and Double Effect. ( It attempts to use the notion of causation, rather than that of intention, as a way of construing double effect and some of the distinctions relevant to that doctrine, including the act/omission and active/passive distinctions.) Ethics, Animals, and Medical Experimentation. ( It consists of a series of my essays, revised and supplemented, on topics in medical ethics and applied ethics generally. Virtue and Interest: Self-Love in the Moral Philosophy of Butler, Shaftesbury, and Hume. A Defense of Utilitarianism. (This project has been underway since I finished my 3 doctoral dissertation. Most of the projected work already exists, in one form or another, and much of the material that I write under other titles is ultimately, in fact, related to this ongoing work.) Officially Commissioned Books and Reports To Which I have Contributed Cost and Choice in Health Care: The Ethical Dimension. Ed. Albert Weale. London, King Edward Hospital Fund for London, England, 1988. Distributed by Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press. A report of a working party, 1986-88, to the King Edward Hospital Fund for London on the issues involved in and schemes of distribution for the allocation of scarce medical resources. Lives in the Balance: The Ethics of Using Animals in Biomedical Research. Ed. Jane A. Smith, Kenneth M. Boyd. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. A report of a working party, 1987-91, to the Institute of Medical Ethics, London, England, on the use of animals in scientific and medical research. Audio Tapes Property Rights (3-hour academic discussion on the nature of property rights and their extent in society). Knowledge Products, Nashville, TN, 1995. Ultimately, to be converted into a short book on property rights. General Editorships General Editor, For and Against. This is a series of books in applied ethics and applied philosophy generally that is published by Cambridge University Press both in the US and worldwide. I commission works for this series, which is ongoing. Editorship resigned in 2007 after ten years. Articles, Discussions “On Causal Consequences”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. IV, 1974, pp. 365-379. “Some Aspects To The Doctrine of Double Effect”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. IV, 1975, pp. 259-283. What A Good Man Can Bring Himself To Do” (abstract), Journal of Philosophy, vol. LXXII, 1975, p. 733. “Circumstances and Consequences”, The Personalist, vol. LVII, 1976, pp. 34-42. “Moral Rules”, Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 26, 1976, pp. 149-156. 4 “Judgments of Causal Importance in the Social Sciences”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 6, 1976, pp.245-248. 5 “Act-Utilitarianism: Sidgwick or Bentham and Smart?”, Mind, vol. LXXXVI, 1977, pp. 95-101. “The Vicarious Case of Unselfishness” (review article), Philosophical Books, vol. XVIII, 1977, pp. 1-6. “Animal Rights”, Analysis, vol. 37, 1977, pp. 186-189. “Interests and Animal Rights”, Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 27, 1977, pp. 254-259. “Can Act-Utilitarianism Be Put Into Practice?”, Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. I, 1977, pp. 49-58. “Kant and Survival”, Sophia, vol. XVI, 1977, pp. 18-23. “Moral Experts”, The Personalist, vol. LIX, 1978, pp. 47-52. “Did Socrates Commit Suicide?”, Philosophy, vol. 53, 1978, pp. 106-108. “Contributory Causation and the Objectivity of the Social Sciences”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 8, 1978, pp. 175-179. “Contributory Causation and Objectivity: A Final Installment”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 8, 1978, pp. 182-183. “Causal Responsibility and Contributory Causation”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. XXXIX, 1978, pp. 106-119. “What A Good Man Can Bring Himself To do”, Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. XII, 1978, pp. 134-141. “What Has Sentiency To Do With The Possession of Rights?”, in Animal Rights - A Symposium, eds. David Paterson, Richard Ryder (Arundel, Sussex, Centaur Press, 1979), pp. 106-111. “Rights, Interests, Desires, and Beliefs”, American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 16, 1979, pp. 233-239. “Leonard Nelson and The Moral Rights of Animals, in Vernunft, Erkenntnis, Sittlichkeit, ed. Peter Schroder (Hamburg, Felix Meiner Verlag, 1979), pp. 289-297. “Consequences in an Act-Utilitarianism”, Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 15, 1981, pp. 79- 83.