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Recent Research Activities

 

Publications:  

“Buddhist Ethics,” Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, SAGE Publications, forth coming  5/20/07. 

“Ethics and Mechanics: Towards a New Paradigm,” Humanity at the Turning Point: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom, ed. Sonja Servomaa, Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, 2006.

“Mme de Condorcet’s Letters On Sympathy,” Presenting Women Philosophers,eds. Cecile Tougas and Sara Ebenreck, Temple University Press, 2000, 225-237.

Book Reviews:

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding The Debate, eds. Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Volume 98,
Number 2, Spring 1999 

Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things, Mary Ann Warren APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Volume 98, Number 1, Fall 1998

Work in Progress:

Book: Sophie Grouchy de Condorcet: Letters on Sympathy and Social Progress, with the letters translated by James E. McClellan III.  Under review by The American Philosophical Society.

Talks and Paper Presentations:                   

“Ethics and Mechanics: Towards a New Paradigm,” International Society for Universal Dialogue, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, July 18, 2005.

Presentation and Panel Discussion: “Deadly Enemies Screening of a Documentary on the Development of Biological Warfare in the United States and the Soviet Union.” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Fourteenth Annual Meeting, San Antonio Texas, February 26, 2005.

“Sophie de Condorcet,” presentation and panel discussion: Unsung Women of the Enlightenment, San Jose State University, March 4, 2004.

“Psychology and Ethics in Buddhism,” College of San Mateo, October 24, 2004.

Panel: Commentary on Nel Noddings: Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy.  
International Philosophy of Education Society Conference, New College, Oxford University Oxford, England.  April 12, 2003

“Buddhist Economics,” Alumni Philosophy Conference, San Jose State University.
April 26, 2003

Radio Interview: Buddhist Thought and Social Change, Program: The Future, KAZU Public Radio, September 23, 2002.

“Buddhist Ethics and Social Reform,” Kannon Do Zen Center, Mountain View, CA.
August 14, 2002

“Buddhist Ethics,” Alumni Philosophy Conference, San Jose State University.
April 27, 2002

“The Role of Sympathy in Sophie Grouchy de Condorcet’s Moral Philosophy,” Society for Woman in Philosophy Conference, San Jose State University. November 17, 2001

“Should Scientists Ever Attempt to Clone a Human Being?” Annual Oxford Consortium
Bioethics, Oriel College, Oxford University, Oxford England,  April 4-7, 2000.                        

“Truth Telling”, Jersey City Medical Center, NJ. September 17, 1999.

Panel: The Science & Ethics of Cloning
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. December 1, 1999

“Sophie Grouchy Marquise de Condorcet”, The 2nd Annual New York City Conference
On The History of  Philosophy & Religion, Panel: Women Philosophers of the Past:
A Trio From the Early Modern Period Hunter College, New York, NY.  May 1-3, 1998

Other Professional Activities:

Readers Review of text Proposal: Philosophy: The Classic Readings, David E. Cooper for Blackwell Publishing, January 12, 2004

Readers Review of text Proposal: Theories of Human Nature: An Introduction to Philosophy, for Wadsworth Publishing Co,  September 2003.

 


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