FRED D. MILLER, JR.
Executive Director
fmiller@socialphilosophy.org
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Fred D. Miller, Jr., Executive Director of the Center, received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Washington. Since 1972 he has been a member of the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, where he teaches Greek philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics and political economy. He has had research fellowships at Harvard University; the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Princeton University; St. Andrews University; and Jesus College, University of Oxford. He has also held visiting professorships at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Washington, and the University of Waterloo.
In 1981, Professor Miller became the first Executive Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center. In addition, he is Associate Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy. He is the author of Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics (Oxford University Press, 1995). He has also published articles on Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers as well as on modern political philosophy in journals including Philosophical Review, the Review of Metaphysics, Philosophical Quarterly, and Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. His recent publications on classical philosophy include “Ancient Political Thought,” “Plato on the Rule of Reason,” “The Platonic Soul,” “Aristotle’s Theory of Political Rights,” “Aristotelian Autonomy,” “Aristotelian Statecraft and Modern Politics,” “Moral Character and Democratic Capitalism,” and “Natural Law, Civil Society and Government.” He has contributed articles on Plato and Aristotle to the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought, the Cambridge Companion to Ancient Political Thought, the Blackwell Companion to Plato, the Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, the Oxford Handbook to Aristotle, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu), and The Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy.
Professor Miller has coedited numerous books on moral and political philosophy with Ellen Frankel Paul and Jeffrey Paul for Cambridge University Press and Basil Blackwell. He is also coeditor of A Companion to Aristotle’s Politics (Blackwell, 1991); Freedom, Reason, and the Polis: Essays in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2007); and A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics, volume 6 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence (Springer, 2007). He served as President of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 1988-2004.
Ellen Frankel Paul
JEFFREY PAUL
Associate Director
Jeffrey Paul founded the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University with Fred D. Miller, Jr., in 1981. He is presently Associate Director of the Center and Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.
Professor Paul joined the Philosophy Department at BGSU in 1980. He received his doctorate in philosophy at Brandeis University in 1974. He has also taught philosophy at Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati. In 1981, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Professor Paul is the coeditor, with Richard A. Epstein, of Labor Law and the Employment Market (Transaction, 1985). He has published essays on ethics and political philosophy in The Monist, Philosophical Review, the Personalist, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, the Review of Metaphysics, Reason Papers, Orbis, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the History of Political Thought, the Hastings Center Report, and in John Gray and Z.A. Pelczynski’s collection Conceptions of Liberty in Political Theory. His collection Reading Nozick was published by Rowman and Allanheld in 1981. He is Associate Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy, as well as a coeditor of many collections of essays on moral and political philosophy published by Cambridge University Press.
The Social Philosophy and Policy Center has a support staff consisting of:
John Milliken, Program Manager (jmilliken@socialphilosophy.org)
Tamara Sharp, Administrative Editor (tsharp@socialphilosophy.org)
Terrie Weaver, Administrative Secretary (tweaver@socialphilosophy.org)
Mary Dilsaver, Secretary I (mdilsaver@socialphilosophy.org)
Peter Bornschein, Research Assistant (petergb@bgsu.edu)
Terrence Watson, Research Assistant (tcwatso@bgsu.edu)
and Nicole Hollingshead, Student Assistant.
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ELLEN FRANKEL PAUL
Deputy Director and Editor of Publications
epaul@socialphilosophy.org
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Ellen Frankel Paul is Deputy Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. She received her doctorate from the Government Department at Harvard University in 1976. She has served as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and as a member of the political science departments at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is currently Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University.
Professor Paul has established a substantial publication record. Her books include Moral Revolution and Economic Science, Studies of the Third Wave, Property Rights and Eminent Domain, and Equity and Gender: The Comparable Worth Debate. She is co-editor, with Jeffrey Paul, of Why Animal Experimentation Matters (Transaction, 2001), editor of Totalitarianism at the Crossroads (Transaction, 1990), and co-editor, with Howard Dickman, of Liberty, Property, and the Future of Constitutional Development (SUNY Press, 1990), Liberty, Property, and Government: Constitutional Interpretation Before the New Deal (SUNY Press, 1989), and Liberty, Property, and the Foundations of the American Constitution (SUNY Press, 1989). She is editor-in-chief of the Center's flagship journal Social Philosophy & Policy, and co-editor with Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Jeffrey Paul, of numerous books on social and political philosophy for Cambridge University Press. She has also published extensively in numerous journals, including the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Society, The Good Society, Public Affairs Quarterly, NOMOS, Yale Law and Policy Review, Philanthropy, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Political Studies, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, among others. She is also the author of numerous chapters in books and entries in encyclopedias.
Professor Paul has received numerous honors and awards, including membership on the Leo Strauss Dissertation Committee of the American Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association Nominating Committee, membership on the board of the Raymond Aron Society, and the Olscamp Research Award from Bowling Green State University. Most notable is her appointment by President Reagan as United States Representative to the United Nations Commission for Social Development.
Jeffrey Paul