SUNY Oswego - Philosophy Department: Faculty and Staff

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Jean Chambers, Ph.D. Brown University (Chairperson). (jchambe1@oswego.edu)
Specializations: Ethics, Social Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Philosophical Issues of Feminism.
Selected publications:

(2003) "Women's Right to Choose Rationally: Genetic Information, Embryo Selection, and Genetic Manipulation," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 12 (4).
(2001) "A Cybernetic Theory of Morality and Moral Autonomy," Science and Engineering Ethics, 7 (2).
(2001) "May a Woman Clone Herself?" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 10 (2).

Robert Card, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Web Site - rcard@oswego.edu)
Specializations: Ethical Theory, Philosophy of Law, Biomedical Ethics, Business Ethics.
Selected publications:

(2005) "Individual Responsibility Within Organizational Contexts." The Journal of Business Ethics, 62 (4): 397-405.
(2005) "Making Sense of the Diversity-Based Legal Argument for Affirmative Action." Public Affairs Quarterly, 19 (1): 11-24.
(2004) "Consequentialism, Teleology, and the New Friendship Critique." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 85: 149-172.
(2000) "Infanticide and the Liberal View on Abortion." Bioethics 14 (4): 340-351.[With a response by Mary Anne Warren, "A Response to Robert Card," Bioethics 14 (4): 352-359]

Craig DeLancey Ph.D. Indiana University. (Web Site - delancey@oswego.edu).
Specialization: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Cognitive Science.
Selected publications:

(2006) "Ontology and Teleofunctions: A Defense and Revision of the Systematic Account of Teleofunctions." Synthese, 150 (1): 69-98.
(2006) "Action, The Scientific World View, and Being-in-the-World." In A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (Blackwell Companions in Philosophy). Hubert Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall, editors. New York: Blackwell.
(2005) "On Emotions and the Explanation of Behavior," with Adam Kovach. Nous, 39 (1): 106-122.

Charles Echelbarger, Ph.D. Ohio State University. (Web Site - echel@oswego.edu).
Specializations: History of Modern and Recent Philosophy, Contemporary Metaphysics.
Selected publications:

(1997) "Hume and the Logicians," in Logic and the Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy, Patricia Easton (Ed.), Vol. 5 of North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy, Atascadero, Ridgeview Press.
(1988) "David Hume On Deduction," Philosophy Research Archives.
(1981) "An Alleged Legend," Philosophical Studies.

K. Brad Wray. Ph.D. University of Western Ontario. (kwray@oswego.edu).
Specializations: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Social Science, especially the social epistemology of science, functional explanation and collective intentionality.
Selected publications:

(2007) "Kuhnian Revolutions Revisited." Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 158 (1): 61-73.
(2007) "A Selectionist Explanation for the Success and Failures of Science." Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Vol. 67 (1): 81-89.
(2007) "Evaluating Scientists: Examining the Effects of Sexism and Nepotism," in Value-free Science: Ideal and Illusions? Edited by Harold Kincaid, John Dupré, and Alison Wylie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 87-106.
(2002) "The Epistemic Significance of Collaborative Research," Philosophy of Science, Vol. 69 (1): 150-168.

PART-TIME FACULTY

Richard Cocks, Ph. D. University of Cincinnati. (rcocks@oswego.edu).
Specializations: History of Philosophy, Ethics

David Horacek, Ph.D. candidate, Syracuse University.
Specializations: Metaphysics, Epistemology.

William Mott, Ph.D. candidate, Syracuse University. (wmott@oswego.edu).
Specializations: Ethics, Theory of Knowledge.

Lori Nash, M.A. University of Toronto.
Specializations: History of Modern Philosophy, The Philosophy of Aristotle

EMERITUS FACULTY

Rodney P. Byrne, Ph.D.
Specializations: Philosophy of Science, History of Science

Robert D. Carnes, Ph.D.
Specializations: Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

STAFF

Pat Meleski, Secretary

Robert Card, Jean Chambers, Lori Nash, Charles Echelbarger, Brad Wray, and Craig DeLancey.