Education

Salve Regina College B.A.

Loyola University M.A.

Providence College M.A.

Walden University Ph.D.

Interests

My abiding interest is ethics, specifically the application of ethics to issues within American life. Our political/cultural instincts for individualism and self-interest offer a challenge to traditional ethics, in that the latter often emerges either from a secular matrix of collective well-being and happiness, or from a religious tradition of loving God and neighbor. A new application of ethical insights is needed. As we face challenges in medical care, or in technology, or in international relations, I see a new age dawning in applied ethics.

Memberships

Rhode Island Philosophical Society

American Association of University Professors

Society on the Social Implications of Technology

Chair, International Berkeley Society Conference, Newport, R.I., June 2008.

Editorial Board: Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought

Editorial Board: Contemporary Philosophy

Publications/Papers

“Ethics Across the Curriculum: On Being Bilingual,” Carlow Round Table, Sligo and Dublin, Ireland, June 2009. Presentation

“Toleration, Logic, and Offense”48th annual conference, Realia Institute, Portland, Maine, August 2008. Presentation

My most recent publications, which appear in philosophical journals and quarterlies, are these: "Philosophy, Law, and Morality"; "Emerson, Virtue and Evil: Thoughts for a Rescue Operation"; "Are There Reasons To Be Moral?"; "John Cotton and the Work-Ethic"; "Collingwood, History, and Evidence"; "Jefferson's Wall and the Question of Religion". Article

Research and Scholarly Achievements

Currently, I'm examining the work of ethical institutes, as they currently exist in the United States. Ethical institutes give valuable service not merely to the student of ethics but to professional individuals established in their careers. I'd like to see SRU be the center of an ethics institute.

Awards

Recipient, Sister M.Therese Antone Faculty Recognition Academic Excellence Award, 2007