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Dr. James Spence
Associate Professor, Philosophy/Religion
jspence@adrian.edu
517-265-5161, x3854

Ph.D., Bowling Green State University

Specialist in moral and political philosophy, applied ethics

Publications, exhibits, presentations:

Publications, exhibits, presentations:

“What's Wrong With Cloning a Dinosaur? On Nature as a Source of Moral Authority” in Dean A. Kowalski, ed. The Philosophy of Steven Spielberg: Visions of the Human Condition, (University Press of Kentucky, October 2008)

“Who Belongs in the Moral Community?”, Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy, (April 2008)

“The Moral Lives of Reservoir Dogs” in Richard Greene, ed. Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy,   (Open Court Press, October 2007)

“What Nietzsche Can Teach You”, in Blessing and Tudico, eds. Philosophy, Film, and the Meaning of Life, (Open Court Press, April 2005)

Review of Gill, The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics, (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Philosophy in Review, Vol 29, No 6 (Dec. 2009)

Review of Kries, The Problem of Natural Law (Lexington Books, 2007),The Journal of Church and State, Volume 51, Issue 3, Pp. 520-522 (summer 2009)

“Thinking Carefully About Ethical Questions”, Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum 13th Annual International Meeting - Saint Louis MO (November 3-5, 2011)

“Two Methods of Moral Science: moral philosophy in the early modern period”, Adrian College ACCET program, 1/11

“Ethics, Moral Codes, and The Law”, Adrian College Ethics Institute 8/09

“Bound By Law, Bound By Ethics: the role of the clinical ethicist” (w/ Heidi Forster, J.D.) Youngstown State University, Society for Health and Human Values Annual Spring Regional Meeting, 4/98

“Medical Futility as a Justification for Withholding or Withdrawing Treatment”, Cleveland Clinic, Bioethics Grand Rounds, 12/97

 

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