Vita
 
 

John Robert Hardwig

ADDRESS:

Department of Philosophy                                                     810 Oak Grove Lane
801 McClung Tower                                                                 Knoxville, TN 37919
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN  37996-0480
(865) 974-3255

E-MAIL:  jhardwig@utk.edu

EDUCATION:

            Yale University, 1959-63, B.A.

            University of Texas, 1963-1967, Ph.D.
                    January, 1975, Philosophy

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION/COMPETENCE:

Biomedical ethics, ethics, social and political philosophy, epistemology.

EMPLOYMENT:

Wellesley College, 1967-69
University of Tennessee, 1969-74
Humboldt State University (CA), 1975-78
University of Tennessee, 1978-79
Maryville College, 1979-82
East Tennessee State University, 1982-2000
University of Tennessee, 2000-present

PRESENT POSITION:

Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

HONORS:

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1989-90.

Foundation Research Award (the best publication by a member of the ETSU faculty), 1985.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar ("Theory of the Passions in Descartes, Spinoza, Hume and Rousseau," Amelie Rorty, Director) Williamstown, NY, 1980.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Yale University, 1963.
 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

BOOK

IS THERE A DUTY TO DIE? AND OTHER ESSAYS IN BIOETHICS, Routledge (1999).
  (Mainly articles previously published.)

 

ARTICLES:

             “Going to Meet Death—The Art of Dying in the Early Years of the 21st Century” forthcoming in Hastings Center

             Report.

 

             “The Stockholder; A Lesson for Business Ethics from Bioethics?” forthcoming in Journal of Business Ethics.

 

              “Socrates’ Conception of Piety—Teaching the Euthyphro”  Teaching Philosophy 30(3), 259-68, (2007).

 

              “The Medicalization of Death” A.P.A. Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 6(1), 3-10 (2006).

              "Rural Health Care Ethics: What Assumptions and Attitudes Should Drive the Research?" [Invited Commentary]                 American Journal of Bioethics, 6, (no. 2), 53-55 (2006).

 

              "Futility and Families -- Forestalling Demands for Futile Treatment"   Journal of Clinical Ethics, 16 (no. 4),

             328-337 (2005).

 

   (with David Doukas, M.D.) "Using the Family Covenant in Planning End-of-Life Care:  Obligations and Promises

   of Patients, Families and Physicians"  Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 51, 1155-1158 (2003).

 

   “The End Game” Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, 15 (no. 4),
   60-65 (2000).

 

   “Spiritual Issues at the End of Life:  A Call for Discussion” Hastings Center
   Report, 30 (no. 2), 28-30 (2000).

           Reprinted in: Rudolph S., Coping With Death, Gale, 2003.

 

   "Dying Responsibly -- A Response to Callahan, Churchill, and Cohn & Lynn"
   In Hardwig, J., Is There a Duty to Die?, Routledge, 1999.

 

   "Is There a Duty to Die?" Hastings Center Report , 27 (no. 2), 34-42 (1997).

[NOTE: Biomedical Ethics Reviews (vol. 17,1999) is devoted entirely to discussion of this article.]

     Reprinted in: Arras J. & Steinbock B., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine,
                  5th ed., Mayfield, 1998.

     Reprinted in: Boss, J. A., Moral Problems Anthology, Mayfield, 1998.

     Reprinted in: Kuhse H. & Singer, P., Bioethics: An Anthology, Blackwell, 1999.

     Reprinted in: Hunter, K., Perspectives: Death and Dying, Crosswise Publishing, 1999.

     Reprinted in: Boss, J. A., Analyzing Moral Issues, Mayfield, 1999.

     Reprinted in: Hinman, L., Contemporary Moral Issues, 2nd ed., Mayfield, 2000.

     Reprinted in:  Wang, R., Reason & Insight: Western and Eastern Perspectives on the Pursuit of Moral                          Wisdom (Wadsworth, 2001).

     Reprinted in: Steinbock B., Arras J. and London A.J., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine 6^th ed., McGraw-                    Hill, 2003.

     Reprinted in: Reynolds, Ethical Issues, Wadsworth , 2004.

     Reprinted in:  Boss, Analyzing Moral Issues 3^rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004.

                          Reprinted in:  At Issue:  How Should One Cope With Death?  Gale, 2005.

                          Reprinted in White J.B., Contemporary Moral Problems Thomson-Wadsworth, 2006.

 

 

   "Autobiography, Biography and Narrative Ethics" in Nelson H., ed., Stories and Their Limits: Narrative    Approaches to Bioethics (Routledge, 1997).

 

   "Dying at the Right Time -- Reflections on Assisted and Unassisted Suicide" in LaFollette, H., ed., Ethics in    Practice (Blackwell, 1996, 2002, 2006).

 

   "Elder Abuse, Context, and Ethics" in Cebik, L.B., Edwards R.B. et al., eds., Violence, Neglect, and the Elderly    (JAI Press, 1996).

 

   "Privacy, Self-Knowledge, and the Commune; Toward an Epistemology of the Family," in Nelson, H., ed., Feminist    Reflections on the Family (Routledge, 1996).

 

   "SUPPORT and the Invisible Family," Special Supplement, Hastings Center Report, 25 (no. 6), S23-S25 (1995)

 

   "Toward an Ethics of Expertise," in Wueste, D., ed., Professional. Ethics and Social Responsibility (Rowman &    Littlefield, 1994).

 

   "The Problem of Proxies With Interests of Their Own," Utah Law Review, 1992, 803-818 (1992).  

Reprinted in Journal of Clinical Ethics, 4, 20-27 (1993).

Reprinted with additions as "Justice in the Family," in Hackler, C., ed., Health Care for an Aging Population SUNY, 1994.