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Catherine Green, Associate Professor and Co-Chair
(Ph.D., Catholic University of America, 1996)

Interests: moral epistemology, ethics and genetics, philosophy of nursing

Current Research: ethics of genetic enhancements, phenomenological account of nursing, philosophical issues in informed consent.

Contact information: 816-501-4055
catherine.green@rockhurst.edu


 

Curtis Hancock, Professor
Joseph M. Freeman Chair in Philosophy
(Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago, 1985)

Interests: metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, political philosophy, history of philosophy

Current Research: philosophy of mind, religion and science, nominalism in the history of philosophy; philosophy of education

Contact information: 816-501-4017
curtis.hancock@rockhurst.edu


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Brendan Sweetman, Professor and Co-Chair
(Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1992)

Interests: philosophy of religion, contemporary European philosophy, ethics

Current Research: the role of religious arguments in politics, the religion science debate/dialogue, Gabriel Marcel's view of the person

Contact information: 816-501-4681
brendan.sweetman@rockhurst.edu

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Fr. Wilfred LaCroix, S.J., Professor
(M.A., STL, St. Louis University, 1969)

Interests: social ethics, global distribution of goods, ethics and science, war: just and religious

Current research: doctors and business, terrorists and the new religious vs. cultural war

Contact Information: 816-501-4107
WL.LaCroix@rockhurst.edu


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John F. Morris, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., St. Louis University, 1995)

Interests:  ethics, applied ethics, medical ethics, medieval philosophy, history of philosophy, natural law tradition

Current Research:  natural law and personalist ethics, stem cells and cloning, the common good

Contact Information:  816-501-4694
john.morris@rockhurst.edu

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Robert Vigliotti, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Fordham University, 2002)

Interests: twentieth century continental philosophy -- especially phenomenology and hermeneutics, history of philosophy, business ethics

Current Research:  the young Heidegger's background in Catholic thought and neo-Kantian philosophy, phenomenological approaches to ethics

Contact information: 816-501-4774
robert.vigliotti@rockhurst.edu


 

Tina Baceski, Visiting Assistant Professor

(Ph.D., St. Louis University, 2007)

Interests: ethics, history of modern philosophy, scottish enlightenment

Current Research:  Hume’s moral and political philosophy

Contact information: 816-501-4696

tina.baceski@rockhurst.edu

 
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