Professor
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, War and Morality
CONTACT INFORMATION:
805 McClung Tower University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-0480
telephone: (865) 974 - 7200; fax (865) 974 - 3509; e-mail: scohen@utk.edu
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1970
MATERIAL TAUGHT WITH RELATIVE FREQUENCY:
Introduction to Philosophy
Foundations of Western Thought up to 1500
War and Morality
Ancient Philosophy (undergraduate and graduate)
Medieval Philosophy (undergraduate and graduate)
BOOKS PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING:
Arms and Judgment: Law, Morality, and the Conduct of War in the Twentieth Century (Westview, 1989).
Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996).
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, REVIEWS SINCE 1990:
"Aristotle on Elemental Motion," Phronesis (1994).
"Moral Philosophy, International Law, and the deaths of Innocents," in Just War, Nonviolence, and NuclearDeterrence, ed. Richard Werner (Longwood, 1991).
"Luck and Happiness in the Nicomachean Ethics," Soundings (1990).
"New Evidence for the Dating of Aristotle's Meteorology, 1-3," Classical Philology (1990).
Various reviews.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS, REPORTS, ETC. SINCE 1990:
"Aristotle and a Star Hidden by Jupiter," Sky and Telescope (1992).
"Defining a Higher Education: the Curriculum Question," in Points of View on Higher Education, v. 3, ed.Stephen Barnes (Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).
PRESENTATIONS SINCE 1990:
"Aristotle on Elemental Motion," apa Pacific Division, 1994.
"Morality and Military Leadership," USAF Air University and War College, 1992.
"War and the Justification of Civilian Casualties," Notre Dame Institute for International Peace
OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY SINCE 1990:
Editor, Chapter XI, Points of View on Higher Education, v. 3, ed. Stephen Barnes (Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED:
Officers' Duties (1993)
Direct Perception (1987)
Essentialism (1978)
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE:
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Stokely Institute (1992).
College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Service Award (1993).
PUBLIC SERVICE:
Various lectures to local churches and synagogues on the Greek view of the soul, medieval theology, etc.
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