Assistant Professor
Office: E&T A412
Phone: (323) 343-3182
Email: rdean@calstatela.edu
Office Hours
Introduction
I received my BA from the University of Oregon, and an MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I taught at Rutgers University for three years and at The American University of Beirut for seven years, before joining the philosophy department at CSULA in fall 2009.
Research Interests
I am interested in both the history of moral philosophy and contemporary ethical theory. I also have worked on issues in applied ethics, and I’m intrigued by recent empirical approaches to moral philosophy.
| Book |
| The Value of Humanity in Kant's Moral Theory, Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Articles |
| "Humanity as an Idea, as an Ideal, and as an End in Itself," Kantian Review, forthcoming |
| "A Plausible Kantian Argument Against Moralism," Social Theory and Practice, forthcoming |
| "Moral Education and the Ideal of Humanity," Kant and Education, eds. Klas Roth and Chris Surprenant (Routledge, 2011) |
| "Does Neuroscience Undermine Deontology?" Neuroethics, vol. 3, no. 1, April 2010 |
| "The Formula of Humanity as an End in Itself," in Blackwell Companion to Kant's Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2009 |
| "Glasgow's Conception of Kantian Humanity," Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 2, April 2008 |
| "Building Moral Robots," The International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 2, no. 2, 2004 |
| "Cummiskey’s Kantian Consequentialism," Utilitas, vol. 12, no 3, March 2000 |
| "A Defense of Constrained Maximization," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, vol. 36, no. 3, Summer 1997 |
| "What Should We Treat as an End in Itself?" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 4, December 1996 |
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