Faculty Profile
View All Faculty ProfilesO'Brien, Wendell, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Degrees, Licensures and Certifications: Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1992; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1985; M.T.S., Harvard University, 1982; B.A., Malone College, 1979
Research Interests:
normative ethics, the history of ethics, everyday ethics
Courses taught regularly:
PHIL 100 Beginning Philosophy
PHIL 313 American Philosophy
PHIL 320 Eastern Philosophy
PHIL 321 The Meaning of Life
PHIL 399 Special Classes
PHIL 410 Current Philosophy
Publications:
"How Not to Forgive," Philosophy Now (forthcoming, 2012)
“Thoreau and the Animals,” Between the Species VI (2006)
“Theories of Well-Being,” Cogito XII (1998), 139-143
“Meaning and Mattering,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXXIV (1996), 339-360
“ Butler, Hobbes, and Human Nature,” Vera Lex XIV (1994), 89-92
“Judgments of Character,” The International Journal of Applied Philosophy VII (1992-93), 15-19
“Butler and the Authority of Conscience,” History of Philosophy Quarterly VIII (1991), 43-57