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George Agich
George Agich (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the BGeXperience Program at Bowling Green State University. He is also Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Ohio State University.
Professor Agich joined the faculty at Bowling green in 2005. Previously, he was Professor of Bioethics in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, F. J. O’Neill Chair in Clinical Bioethics, and Chairman (1997-2004) of the Department of Bioethics with a joint appointment in the Transplant Center at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF), Cleveland, Ohio. At the Cleveland Clinic, he became extensively involved in critical care ethics, established the Critical Care Ethics Liaison Service, and restructured the Ethics Consultation Service. He was also responsible for coordinating the Ethics Committees of the Cleveland Clinic Health System and served on the Liver Transplantation Selection Committee and the Advanced Heart Failure Therapeutics Committee (formerly the Heart Transplantation Selection Committee).
He has published on a wide range of topics including autonomy and dependence in old age, bioethics expert testimony, brain death, clinical ethics, ethics consultation, ethics of innovative treatments, ethics in long-term care, organ donation and transplantation, philosophical aspects of psychiatric nosology, quality improvement, and research ethics. He is currently working on a funded project on the ethical and social value issues in drug-eluting stents (des), focusing on the practical ethical lessons for nanoscale scientists.
He is co-director of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) Network on Ethics Education and the series of International Conferences on Clinical Ethics and Consultation: Cleveland (2003), Basel (2005), Toronto (2007), Rijeka, Croatia (2008), Taipei (2009), Portland, OR (2010). He is also on the Board of Directors of the IAB and serves as Chairman of the International Scientific Committee of the 9th World Congress of Bioethics scheduled for September 3-8, 2008 in Rijeka, Croatia.
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Christian Coons
Christian Coons received his Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees from the University of California, Davis. His Doctoral Dissertation was entitled "The Value of Individuals and the Value of States." His area of specialization is moral philosophy and he also has interests in epistemology.
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Albert Dzur
Albert W. Dzur (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is Associate Professor in the Political Science and Philosophy Departments at Bowling Green State University.
His research is in democratic theory and public ethics, with particular emphasis on the relationships between expert practices, legitimate authority, and citizen participation. He is the author of the book Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008). Other recent publications include: “Punishment and Democracy: The Role of Public Deliberation,” Punishment and Society (2007); “The Primacy of the Public: In Support of Bioethics Commissions as Deliberative Forums,” The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17 (2007); "The Value of Community Participation in Restorative Justice," Journal of Social Philosophy 35 (2004); "Revisiting Informal Justice: Restorative Justice and Democratic Professionalism," Law and Society Review 38 (2004); "Civic Implications of Restorative Justice Theory: Citizen Participation and Criminal Justice Policy," Policy Sciences 36 (2003); "Restorative Justice and Civic Accountability for Punishment," Polity 36 (2003).
In Fall 2009 he will be a MacCormick fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law in Scotland working on a book entitled Routine Adventures in Popular Sovereignty: Democracy, Punishment, and the Jury.
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Dr. Douglas Forsyth
Dr. Douglas Forsyth, is Associate Professor of History(Ph.D. Princeton University, 1987) at Bowling Green State University, and author of The Crisis of Liberal Italy: Monetary and Financial Policy, 1913-1922 (Cambridge University Press, 1993). He is co-editor (with Daniel Verdier) of The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered (Routledge, 2003); and (with Ton Notermans) of Regime Changes: Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Regulation in Europe from the 1930s to the 1990s (Berghahn, 1997). Prior to joining the Bowling Green faculty, Dr. Forsyth taught at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, he co-chaired the Italian Studies group. He is currently at work on a book-length project with the working title: Transparency: The Institutionalization of Information Flows in the Economies of Britain, Germany, and the United States since 1870.
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R.G. Frey
R.G. Frey (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.
Professor Frey has taught at the University of Liverpool, at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, and at the University of Toronto. He received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1970 and is a Fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. The author of numerous articles on moral, legal, and political philosophy, he has written for the leading philosophical journals, including American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Mind, Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophy.
His most recent books are Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (with Gerald Dworkin and Sissela Bok; Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Virtue and Interest: The Moral Philosophy of Joseph Butler (Oxford University Press, 1999). In addition, he is the author of Interests and Rights (Clarendon Press, 1980) and Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics (Basil Blackwell, 1983), and the coeditor, with Christopher W. Morris, of Liability and Responsibility: Essays in Law and Morals (1991), Violence, Terrorism, and Justice (1991), and Value, Welfare, and Morality (1993), all published by Cambridge University Press. He is the general and series editor of Cambridge University Press’s For and Against, a series of books in moral, social, political, and legal philosophy which feature two or more authors presenting opposing viewpoints on issues of contemporary importance.
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Timothy Pogacar
Timothy Pogacar (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is chairman of the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages at Bowling Green State University.
Professor Pogacar received his B.A. from Georgetown University in Spanish and Linguistics, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Russian and Slavic Languages and Literature. His main research interests are in twentieth-century Russian literature and Slovene literature. He is currently teaching Russian language, literature, and film as well as small business concerns in Russia, contemporary and traditional Russian culture courses, pre-college foreign language programs, and professional development on the WWW.
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Don K. Rowney
Don K. Rowney (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Professor of History at Bowling Green State University.
Professor Rowney specializes in the history of East European state policy and administration. A former Vice President of the International Committee of Soviet and East European Studies, he has held appointments at the USSR Academy of Sciences, the French National Center for Scientific Research, and the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan. He has also been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the International Research and Exchange Board. His books include Quantitative History: Selected Readings in the Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data (Dorsey, 1969); Russian and Slavic History (Slavica, 1977); Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1980); Soviet Quantitative History (SAGE, 1984); Transition to Technocracy: The Structural Foundations of the Soviet Administrative State (Cornell University Press, 1989); and Imperial Power and Development: Papers on Russian History from the III World Congress on Soviet and East European Affairs (Slavica, 1990). He is currently completing a book-length study of the state-economy relation in Russia during the industrial era.
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Michael Weber
Michael Weber joined the BGSU Philosophy Department in 2008. He previously taught at Yale University, having earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1998. His dissertation was a defense of the rationality of satisficing – choosing what is simply “good enough” instead of what is best. Since then, his work has focused on the role of emotions in ethical life and ethical theory, and on rational choice theory. More recently he has been working on issues in egalitarian theory.
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