 | William Ruddick
Professor
of
Philosophy, Bioethics;
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Philosophy
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
Phone:
(212) 998-8329
Fax:
(212) 995-4179
Email:
Ph.D. 1964 Harvard; M.A. 1963 Oxford; A.B. 1953 Princeton.
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WILLIAM RUDDICK (Ph.D., Harvard) is Professor of Philosophy, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, and Co-director of the Program in Philosophy and Medicine. He specializes in philosophy of science and in applied ethics, especially in Medicine. Publications include: "'Biographical lives' revisited and extended" (J. of Ethics 2005), "Prejudice against 'unbalanced families'" (Amer. J. of Bioethics 2001), "Hope and Deception" (Bioethics 1999), "Family and Ethics" (Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Craig 1998), ""Parenthood: Three concepts and a principle" ("Morals, Marriage, & Parenthood," ed. L. Houlgate 1998), "Do doctors undertreat pain?" (Bioethics 1997 ), "Social self-deceptions" (Perspectives on Self-Deception, ed. A.O.Rorty 1988). He has edited Philosophers in Medical Centers (Society for Philosophy & Public Affairs 1980) and (with O.O'Neill), Having Children (Oxford UP 1979).
He is currently writing a book, tentatively entitled: Medical Pieties: Life, Hope, and Trust and is developing (with Dale Jamieson and Helen Nissenbaum) a new Master's degree program in Bioethics: Medicine, Environment, and Technology to begin in Fall 2007.Curriculum vitae
Online Papers
- "'Biographical Lives' revisited & extended," J. of Ethics July 2005
- "Hope and Deception," Bioethics 13:3/4 (1999)
- "Do doctors undertreat pain?," Bioethics 11:3/4 1997
- "Parenthood: Three concepts and a principle," Morals, Marriage, and Parenthood, ed. L.D.Houlgate 1998
- "Medical Ethics," Encyclopedia of Ethics, eds. L. & C. Becker, 2nd edition (1998)
- "Commemorating 9/11: Anesthesia, Buffing, & Footprints" (draft)
- "Death for doctors" (draft)
Recent Courses
Undergraduate
Life and Death
Medical Ethics
Aesthetics
Topics in Ethics & Political Philosophy: Autonomy and Trust
Graduate
Life and Death
Philosophical Problems in Medicine
Aesthetics
Advanced Introduction to Bioethics (2006)
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