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Sharon Anderson-Gold

Sharon Anderson-Gold

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Sharon Anderson-Gold
Professor and Department Head


Interests - Kantian ethics, history of modern philosophy, social and political philosophy, human rights, bioethics.


Courses

  • Spring 2003 - Philosophy of Law, Law Values and Public Policy
  • Fall 2003 - Philosophy of Law, Environmental Philosophy

Invited Lectures and Conference Papers

April 24-26, 2002. International Society of Environmental Ethics, invited commentator, American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States Response to Global Warming, at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Cleveland.

April 24-26, 2002. North American Kant Society, invited commentator “Corrupt and Dependent Agency” at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Cleveland.

October 4, 2002. “Prophetic History, Kant and Cosmopolitanism”, Pacific Meeting of the North American Kant Society, San Diego.

July 2002. “Sustainable Development: Towards a Politics of Place”, 19th International Conference on Social Philosophy, Eugene Oregon.

April, 2002. “Uprooting Evil: Building Ethical Communities” invited presentation, international conference on “The Anatomy of Evil”, Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.


Recent Publications

Anderson-Gold, Sharon. “Objectivity in Environmental Ethics”. Truth and Objectivity in Social Ethics . Vol. 18 Social Philosophy Today, ed. Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy Documentation Center, 2003

Anderson-Gold, Sharon. “Prophetic History”. Geschichtsphilosophie, ed. by Johannes Rohbeck and Herta Nagl-Docekal. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG), 2003

Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Development in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, published by State University of New York Press, 2001.

Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights, published by University of Wales Press, 2001.

“Ambivalence and Identity in Black Culture” in Race, Social Identity and Human Dignity, Vol. 16, Social Philosophy Today Book Series, ed. Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy Documentation Center, July 2002.
Contact info:
Office number: SA5118
Phone number:276-8837
Email Address:anders@rpi.edu
Last updated: 2007/04/09