{"id":59,"date":"2015-08-31T11:24:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/david-r-cummiskey\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T04:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:10:44","slug":"david-r-cummiskey","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/david-r-cummiskey\/","title":{"rendered":"David R. Cummiskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ph.D., M.A., University of Michigan; B.A., Washington College<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Cummiskey teaches courses on biomedical ethics, philosophy of law, and seminars on moral theory, contemporary liberalism, and Buddhist philosophy. His research and publications focus on Kantian and consequentialist approaches to moral philosophy, political philosophy, and intercultural ethics and bioethics. His most recent articles discuss the relationship between Buddhist and Kantian ethics, and Buddhist environmental ethics and political philosophy. He is currently working on a series of articles that develop the relationships among Buddhist perfectionism, emergent conceptions of agency, compatibilist conceptions of free will, Kantian accounts of self-constitution, and Humean constructivism.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/Cummiskey-CV-June-2023.pdf\">Cummiskey CV June 2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bates.academia.edu\/DavidCummiskey\">David Cummiskey&#8217;s Academia.edu page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Table of Contents<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#2\">Publications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#3\">Professional Presentations and Activities &#8211; selected<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#4\">Fellowships and Awards<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"2\">Publications<\/h3>\n<p><strong>BOOK<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordscholarship.com\/oso\/public\/content\/philosophy\/9780195094534\/toc.html\"><br \/>\nKantian Consequentialism<\/a>, Oxford University Press, 1996 available on Oxford Scholarship On-Line, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/bookdavid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"131\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ARTICLES and CHAPTERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>All journal articles and chapters were peer refereed, unless otherwise indicated.<br \/>\nClick on titles for a PDF of a document.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>On BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2020\/06\/Cummiskey-Ego-less-Agancy-Dharma-Responsiveness-without-Kantian-Autonomy-Zygon-June-2020.pdf\">Ego-less Agency: Dharma-Responsiveness without Kantian Autonomy<\/a>, <i>Zygon: Journal\u00a0of Religion and Science<\/i>, vol. 55.2; pp. 497-518; June 2020.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Cummiskey-Buddhist_Philosophy_A_Comparative_Approach-_Chapter_11_Buddhist_Modernism_and_Kant_on_Enlightenment_.pdf\">Buddhist Modernism and Kant on Enlightenment<\/a>&#8221; in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Buddhist+Philosophy%3A+A+Comparative+Approach-p-9781119068242\"><em>Buddhist Philosophy: \u00a0A Comparative Approach<\/em><\/a>, edited by Steven Emmanuel, Wiley-Blackwell Publisher; January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2017\/01\/02\/dependent-origination-and-the-value-of-nature\/\">Dependent Origination, Emptiness, and the Value of Nature<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">with Alex Hamilton (Bates &#8217;15),<\/span> J<em>ournal of Buddhist Ethics<\/em>; January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Cummiskey-Reasonable-Pluralism-Interculturalism-and-Sterba-on-Question-Beggingness.pdf\">Reasonable Pluralism, Interculturalism, and Question-Beggingness<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Journal of Ethics<\/em>, vol. 18.3, pp. 265-78; September 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Comparative_Reflections_on_Buddhist_Political_Thought_-Part_3F_35-1.pdf\">\u201cComparative Reflections on Buddhist Political Thought: Asoka, Shambhala &amp; the General Will\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0470658770.html\">A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0edited by Steven Emmanuel; Wiley-Blackwell Publisher, January 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/The-Law-of-Peoples-and-Right-to-War-Cummiskey.pdf\">The Law of Peoples&#8221; and Right to War:<\/a>\u00a0iFrom Islamic Jihad to Buddhist Pacifism n <em>The Morality and Global Justice Reader<\/em>, Michael Boylan (ed.); Westview Press, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Islamic and Buddhist Medical Ethics:\u00a0 Morality and Theology in Moral Reasoning&#8221; (invited) in\u00a0<em>Islam and Bioethics<\/em>, edited by Berna Arda and Vardit Rispler-Chaim, Ankara Turkey: Ankara University Press, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/competingconceptions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Competing Conceptions of the Self in Kantian and Buddhist Moral Theories,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Cultivating Personhood:\u00a0\u00a0 Kant and Asian Philosophy,\u00a0Stephen R. Palmquist (ed.),\u00a0<\/em>(Berlin:\u00a0 Walter de Gruyter, 2010).<\/p>\n<p><strong>On KANTIAN ETHICS and CONSEQUENTIALISM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2020\/04\/Consequentialism-IEE-2020.pdf\">Consequentialism<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0Wiley-Blackwell&#8217;s <em>International Encyclopedia of Ethics<\/em>, April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Korsgaard%E2%80%99s-Rejection-of-Consequentialism-%E2%80%93-Cummiskey1.pdf\">Korsgaard\u2019s Rejection of Consequentialism<\/a>&#8221; (with reply from Korsgaard) in <em>Metaphilosophy<\/em> <em>42.4, July 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/digcontractconse.pdf\">Dignity, Contractualism, and Consequentialism<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Utilitas<\/em> Vol. 20, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/justice.pdf\">Justice and Revolution in Kant&#8217;s Political Philosophy&#8221;<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/justice.pdf\"><em>Rethinking Kant<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<em>Current Trends in American Kantian Scholarship<\/em>; Cambridge Scholar Publishers 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/gewirth1.pdf\">Gewirth&#8217;s Kantian Consequentialism<\/a>&#8221; in\u00a0<em>Gewirth: Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community<\/em>, Michael Boylan editor, Roman and Littlefield, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/kantian.pdf\">Kantian Consequentialism<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Ethics<\/em> vol.100 no.3, April 1990; pp. 586-615.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Consequentalism-Egoism-and-the-Moral-Law-4320067.pdf\">Consequentialism, Egoism, and the Moral Law<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Philosophical Studies<\/em> vol.57, Fall 1989; pp. 111-134.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/desert1987.pdf\">Desert and Entitlement: A Rawlsian Consequentialist Account<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<em>Analysis<\/em> vol.47 no.1, January 1987; pp. 15-19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On INTERCULTURAL MEDICAL ETHICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/genealogy.pdf\">The Genealogy of Informed Consent<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>International Association of Bioethics, Newsletter<\/em>, November 2008 (invited) .<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/healthcarejustice1.pdf\">Health Care Justice:\u00a0 The Social Insurance Model<\/a>\u201d in\u00a0<em>International Public Health Policy and Ethics<\/em>;\u00a0Springer Publishers 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Confucian-Ethics-EJAIB12006-.pdf\">Confucian Ethics: Responsibilities, Rights, and Relationships<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<em>Eubios Journal of Asian\u00a0and International Bioethics<\/em> vol. 16 no. 1; January, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Declaring-Death-EJ52005-.pdf\">Declaring Death, Giving Life<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<em>Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics <\/em> vol. 15 no. 3; May 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/righttodie1.pdf\">The Right to Die and the Right to Health Care<\/a>\u201d in\u00a0<em>Public Health Policy and Ethics<\/em>, Michael Boylan (ed); Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Co-Author, Report on Maine Health Care Services:\u00a0 (invited) &#8220;A Problem Of Vision: Toward a Basic Health Care Program for Maine Residents,&#8221; The Department of Human Services BioEthics Advisory Committee, December 1991; published by the Maine State Government, 53 pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Reference-Failure-and-Scientific-Realism-687883.pdf\">Reference Failure and Scientific Realism: A Response to the Meta-Induction<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science<\/em> vol.43 no.1, March 1992; pp. 21-40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOK REVIEWS (invited)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ndpr.nd.edu\/news\/consequentialism-new-directions-new-problems\/\">Consequentialism:\u00a0 New Directions, New Problems<\/a>, by Christian Seidel (ed.), (Oxford University Press, 2019) in <em>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<\/em>, October 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Buddhism-and-Politiccal-Theory.pdf\">Buddhism and Political Theory<\/a>\u00a0by Matthew J. Moore<em>\u00a0<\/em>(Oxford University Press, 2016) in <em>Review of Politics <\/em>vol. 79.3, 2017<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/06\/Alison-Hills-The-Beloved-Self-review.pdf\"><em>The Beloved Self:\u00a0 Morality and the Challenge from Egoism <\/em><\/a>by Alison Hills (Oxford University Press, 2010) in <span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica W01 Italic', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><i>Analysis Reviews, <\/i>February 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Prebuilt\/mendolareview.pdf\"><em>Goodness and Justice:\u00a0 A\u00a0 Consequentialist Moral Theory<\/em>,<\/a> by Joseph Mendola, (Cambridge:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 2006); in\u00a0<em>Utilitas<\/em> vol. 21.4, December 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/06\/Shelly-Kagan-Normative-Ethics-review.pdf\">Normative Ethics<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by Shelly Kagan (Westview Press, 1998) in\u00a0<em>Ethics<\/em> vol. 110 no. 2, January 2000.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2010\/07\/Review-of-Allen-Wood-Kants-Ethical-Thought.pdf\">Kant&#8217;s Ethical Thought<\/a><\/em> by Allen Wood (Cambridge University Press, 1999) in <em>Philosophical Books<\/em> 42 (4):294-296, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/philosophy\/files\/2019\/06\/Harris-Dignity-and-Vulnerability-book-review.pdf\">Dignity and Vulnerability<\/a><\/em> George Harris (University of California Press, 1997) in <em>The Philosophical Review<\/em>, January 1999.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mill&#8217;s Principle of Utility<\/em> by Necip Fikri Alican (Rodopi, 1994); in\u00a0<em>Ethics<\/em>, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><em>Absolutism and its Consequentialist Critics<\/em> by Joram Graf Haber, ed.\u00a0 (Rowan and Littlefield, 1994); in\u00a0<em>Ethics<\/em>, 1995.<\/p>\n<p><em>Animal Experimentation: The Moral Issues<\/em> by Robert M. Baird and Stuart Rosenbaum, eds. (Prometheus Books, 1991); in\u00a0<em>Ethics<\/em>, 1994.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"3\">Professional Presentations and Activities &#8211; selected<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Kantian Necessity of a Property-Owning Democracy\u201d <em>American Philosophical Association<\/em>, Denver Colorado, February 2023<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u201cThe Limits of Consequentailizing\u201d Plenary Session on Shelly Kagan,\u00a0<em>Northern New England Philosophical Association <\/em>College of the Holy Cross, November 2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuddhist Perfectionism and Korsgaard on Self-Constitution\u201d <em>International Conference on Confucianism, Buddhism, and Kantian Moral Theory,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>Institute for Confucian and East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul, South Korea, September 5-8, 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEgo-less Agency: Dharma-Responsiveness without Kantian Autonomy\u201d &#8211;\u00a0 Author meets Critics session on Repetti\u2019s\u00a0<em>Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will<\/em>. APA-Eastern,\u00a0<em>International Society for Buddhist Philosophy,<\/em>\u00a0New York, January 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cRegenerative Bioethics and the Mission of Medicine\u201d UNESCO\u00a013th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law; Jerusalem, November 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelf-Constitution, Narrative Identity, and Normativity,\u201d National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on <em>Self-Knowledge in Eastern and Western Philosophies<\/em>, Charleston South Carolina, June 1, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuddhist Perfectionism and Korsgaard on Self-Constitution,\u201d\u00a0<em>Columbia Society on\u00a0<\/em><em>Comparative Philosophy<\/em>, Columbia University, NY, May 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegenerative Bioethics and the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction,\u201d\u00a0<em>Age and Longevity in\u00a0<\/em><em>the 21st Century, <\/em>Global Bioethics Initiative, United Nations NYC, April 2018<\/p>\n<p>Plenary Session Chair, \u201cDarwall: Morality and the Second-Person Standpoint,\u201d Northern New England Philosophy Association; Stonehill College MA, November 2017<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe End of Aging: Ethical and Existential Issues,\u201d\u00a0<\/em><em>Great Falls Forum<\/em>, Lewiston Maine, October 20, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Fallacy of Double Effect,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Northern New England Philosophy Association, Keene State NH, October 14, 2016<\/p>\n<p><em>Defense of Consequentialism<\/em> Symposium, Commentator, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco CA, April 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKant and Buddhism on Enlightenment,\u201d Panel Discussion: <em>What is Enlightenment? Reflections\u00a0<\/em><em>on Kant\u2019s Answer<\/em>, University of Southern Maine, Portland ME, February 2016<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suicide Prevention and Patient Autonomy,&#8221; Ethics Roundtable, Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, September 2015<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hospice Care and the Doctrine of Double Effect,&#8221; CHANS Home Health and Hospice Care, Brunswick Maine, August 26, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prospect Utilitarianism: A Defense of Utilitarianism from the Original Position,&#8221; Commentator, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Vancouver, April 2015<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pediatric Care: Responding Ethically to the Risks Posed by Unvaccinated Children,&#8221; Ethics Roundtable, Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, February 2015<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The End of Aging: Ethical and Existential Issues,\u201d\u00a0Faculty Lecture, Bates College Alumni Reunion, June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessional Responsibility: When Conscience and Patient Care Conflict,&#8221;\u00a0Ethics Roundtable, Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, May 2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding the End of Aging: The Medical, Ethical, &amp; Existential Dimensions,\u201d\u00a014<sup>th<\/sup> Asian Bioethics Conference: Ethics in Emerging Technologies. Loyola College, Chennai India, November 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201dTransformative Research and Teaching,\u201d\u00a0Panel Discussion, Parents Weekend, Bates College, September 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaring for Difficult and Drug-Dependent Patients,\u201d\u00a0Ethics Roundtable, Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, March 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterculturalism, Multiculturalism, and Biomedical Ethics,\u201d\u00a0Phillips Fellowship Presentation, Bates College, December 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReasonable Pluralism, Interculturalism, and Question-Beggingness,\u201d\u00a0APA Committee on Public Philosophy, Symposium:<em> \u201cCan Philosophy Provide a Foundation for Public Policy or Is It Question-Begging All the Way Down?\u201d \u00a0<\/em>American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, Dec. 2012<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterculturalism, Bioethics, and Informed Consent,\u201d 11<sup>th<\/sup> World Congress of Bioethics,\u00a0International Association of Bioethics, Rotterdam Netherlands, June 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201dEarly Modern Ethics\u201d Symposium, Chair and Comments on Sterba\u2019s \u201cCompleting\u00a0the Kantian and Hobbesean Project in Ethics,\u201d American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Seattle, April 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntercultural Ethics and Public Policy: the French Ban on Islamic Headscarves,\u201d\u00a0Works in Progress Series, Publicly-Engaged Academic Projects, Harward Center for\u00a0Community Partnerships, Bates College, March 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201dInterculturalism, Asian Values, and Kantian Justice,\u201d\u00a0Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore, February 2012<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Medical Marijuana: Ethical Issues,\u201d Ethics Roundtable, Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, January 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a Nurse with a PhD wants to be called Doctor,\u201d\u00a0Ethics Roundtable, Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, October 2011<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstructing an Islamic Juridical Council in the United States,\u201d Roundtable: \u00a0<em>Where Religion, Policy, and Bioethics Meet: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Islamic Bioethics and End-of-Life Care, <\/em>University of Michigan, April 2011<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal Justice, Public Reason, and Intercultural Ethics,\u201d\u00a0North American Society for Social Philosophy, American Philosophical Association,\u00a0Boston Mass, December 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Provider-Patient Relationship: Competent Patients &amp; Their Irrational and Costly Choices,\u201d\u00a0<em>Annual Ethics Retreat<\/em>, Maine General Medical Center, Waterville Maine, Sept. 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u201dDouble Effect: When and Why Killing is Wrong,\u201d\u00a0University of Maine, Orono, October 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u201dDouble Effect and its Critics: Beyond the Basics,\u201d\u00a0<em>Palliative Care and Ethics: Enhancing the Foundations of Care<\/em>; Maine Medical Center 4<sup>th<\/sup> annual Palliative Care Conference; Harraseeket Inn, Freeport Maine, June 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslamic and Buddhist Medical Ethics: Morality and Theology in Moral Reasoning,\u201d\u00a0<em>3<sup>rd<\/sup> Islam and Bioethics International Conference<\/em><em>, <\/em>Ankara University\u00a0\u00c7olakli-Antalya Turkey, April 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEthics Committees: Form, Composition, and Function,\u201d\u00a0Clinical Ethics Committee, Educational Program, Central Maine Medical Center,\u00a0Lewiston Maine, March 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKorsgaard\u2019s Rejection of Consequentialism,\u201d\u00a0Keynote Panel on the work of Christine Korsgaard, Northern New England Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, University of New Hampshire, Durham, October 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal Justice\u201d chaired and organized <em>International Affairs Conference,<\/em> Presentation:\u00a0\u201cThe Freeing of Isaac\u201d Star Island Conference Center, Portsmouth NH, July 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompeting Conceptions of the Self in Kantian and Buddhist Moral Theories,\u201d\u00a0<em>Kant in Asia Conference<\/em>, Hong Kong, China, May 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslamic Medical Ethics II: End of Life Issues\u201d Critical <em>Care Ethics Education Series,\u00a0<\/em>Maine Medical Center, Portland Maine, December 2008<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInclusive Public Reason Defended\u201d Commentator,\u00a0American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, CA, April 2008<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProposals for Health Care Reform\u201d <em>Ethics Committee: Continuing Education,\u00a0<\/em>Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, February 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making Time Fly By: Tips on Fostering Student Engagement,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Teaching Development Panel<\/em>, Bates College, February 2008<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslamic Medical Ethics I: Basic Issues\u201d Critical <em>Care Ethics Education Series,\u00a0<\/em>Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston Maine, November 2007 and\u00a0Maine Medical Center, Portland Maine, July 2007<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformed Consent and the Family\u201d <em>Real Time Ethics in Clinical Practice Series<\/em>,\u00a0Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, May 2007<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuddhism, Hastening Death, and the Irrelevance of Double Effect,\u201d\u00a0<em>The 8<sup>th<\/sup> World Congress of Bioethics<\/em>, Beijing, China, August 2006<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDignity, Contractualism, and Consequentialism&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens Greece; June 2006<\/li>\n<li>International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Dartmouth College; August 2005<\/li>\n<li>Pomona College, Claremont California; October 2004<\/li>\n<li>Beijing International Conference on <em>Kant&#8217;s Moral Philosophy in Contemporary Perspectives<\/em>, Peking University, Beijing China; May 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe Curious Case of Terri Schaivo,\u201d &#8211; Timely Topic Series,\u00a0<em>International Affairs Conference<\/em>, The Isles of Shoals, Portsmouth, NH; July 2005<\/p>\n<p>Authors Meets Critics Book Session, Michael Boylan\u2019s <em>A Just Society,\u00a0<\/em>Society of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston Mass, December 2004<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Right to Health Care and the Right to Die, &#8220;Tsinghua University, Beijing China; May 2004<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedical Ethics in Japan\u201d presentation Midcoast Hospital, Brunswick Maine, April 2004<\/p>\n<p>\u201dSex, Suicide and Two Conceptions of Dignity,\u201d\u00a0American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Seattle Washington; March 2002<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consequentialism, Contractualism, and the Dignity of Humanity,\u201d\u00a0University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2002<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDignity, Double Effect, and the Right to Die,\u201d conference on Maine\u2019s Death with Dignity Act,\u00a0Bioethics Center of the University of New England, Westbrook; June 2000<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutonomy, Dignity, and the Right to Die,<strong>\u201d<\/strong> Presentation, Bates College, March 2000<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Oregon Death with Dignity Act,\u201d presentation Mid Coast Hospital,\u00a0Brunswick, March 2000<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBernard Gert on Moral Ideals: Comment on Baron,\u201d\u00a0Conference on the Moral Philosophy of Bernard Gert, Dartmouth, May 1999<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKorsgaard\u2019s Practical Identity Argument,\u201d\u00a0Commentator, American Philosophical Association, Berkeley, California, April 1999<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKantian Community,\u201d\u00a0American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Boston MA, Sept.1998<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gewirth and Contemporary Kantian Ethics,&#8221;\u00a0Conference on the Moral Philosophy of Alan Gewirth at Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, November 1997<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Author Meets Critics&#8221; Book Session on <em>Kantian Consequentialism,\u00a0<\/em>Thomas Hill, Jr., Holly Smith, and David Cummiskey,\u00a0American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Berkeley, California; March 1997<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Role of Medicine at the End of Life: International Perspectives and Policies,&#8221;\u00a0International Affairs Conference, the Isles of Shoals, Portsmouth, NH; July 1996<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is Maine Ready for Physician Aid in Dying&#8221; Maine Medical Association,\u00a0Annual Meeting. The Balsams, Dixville Notch, NH; January 1995<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kantian Revolution\u201d Colby College, May 1995<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Physician Assisted Dying: Identifying the Issues&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor Maine, May 1995<\/li>\n<li>Maine Bioethics Network, Bates College; March 1995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Should Consequentialism be Afraid of its own Shadow?&#8221;\u00a0Commentator, American Philosophical Association, Central, Kansas City MO, May 1994<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dignity and Price&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of New Hampshire, March 1994<\/li>\n<li>Maine Philosophical Institute, April 1994<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Why Consequentialism is a Theory of the Right,&#8221;\u00a0Commentator, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 1993<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Kantian Derivation of Consequentialism,&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research Triangle Ethics Group, Chapel Hill, NC, April 1993<\/li>\n<li>Pomona College, Claremont CA, March 1992<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Kantian Internalism and Consequentialism,&#8221;\u00a0University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 1993<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Liberalism, Feminism, and the Objectivity of Morals,&#8221;\u00a0University of Maine at Farmington, May 1992.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kant&#8217;s Theory of Coercion,&#8221;\u00a0University of New Hampshire Colloquium on the History of Philosophy, September 1989<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kant&#8217;s Refutation of Consequentialism,&#8221;\u00a0American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, April 1988<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consequentialism, Egoism and the Moral Law,&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, March 1988<\/li>\n<li>Northern New England Philosophy Association, October 1987<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Kantian Consequentialism: A Critique of Side-Constraints,&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, March 1987<\/li>\n<li>Northern New England Philosophy Association, October 1986<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Dessert and Entitlement,&#8221;\u00a0Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March 1986<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Right to Die: Liberty and Responsibility&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>University of Tennessee Memorial Research Hospital, Knoxville (Spring 1986)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moral Issues Concerning Placebos,&#8221;\u00a0University of Tennessee Memorial Research Hospital, Knoxville (Fall 1985)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"4\">Fellowships and Awards<\/h3>\n<h5>FELLOWSHIPS:<\/h5>\n<p>Charles F. and Evelyn M. Phillips Faculty Fellowship, Bates College (2011-2012)<\/p>\n<p>National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1991-1992)<\/p>\n<p>Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Newcombe Fellowship (1984-1985)<\/p>\n<h5>GRANTS and AWARDS:<\/h5>\n<p>Christian A. Johnson Fund for Sabbatical Support and Akers Fund, Bates College (2018-19)<br \/>\nResearch and Travel:\u00a0 <em>Buddhist Perfectionism, Kantian Liberalism, and Justice<\/em><\/p>\n<p>National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on <em>Self-Knowledge in Eastern and\u00a0<\/em><em>Western Philosophies<br \/>\n<\/em>Charleston South Carolina (May 20-June 2, 2018)<\/p>\n<p>Faculty Development Grant and Barlow Grant (2013-14)<br \/>\nAsian Bioethics Association, Chennai India<br \/>\nSite visits: SITA, Madurai India, and ISLE, Kandy Sri Lanka, off-campus study programs<\/p>\n<p>Mellon Innovation Grant, <em>Intercultural Ethics<\/em><br \/>\nResearch Grant for the Study of Islam in France \u00a0(Fall 2011)<\/p>\n<p>Harward Center for Community Partnerships<br \/>\nResearch Grant for Publicly-Engaged Academic Projects (2011-12)<\/p>\n<p>Mellon Innovation Grant: Working Group in Philosophy and Psychology (2008-09 &amp; 2009-10)<br \/>\nResearch Grant Co-Author and Principal Organizer for Speaker Series and Faculty Seminars: Joshua Greene, Paul Bloom, Joshua Knobe, Walter Glannon, Alva Noe, Roy Baumeister, Adina Roskies. 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