Denis G. Arnold

See Also: CAPE | Research & Writing

My Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota and I joined the department in 2003. Below is an abbreviated c.v. I serve as Director of Graduate Studies in the Philosophy Department and Director of UT’s Center for Applied and Professional Ethics (CAPE).

Additionally, I am Adjunct Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration where I teach the core ethics unit in the MBA program.

Research Interests

Issues in the ethics of global capitalism such as labor practices; environmental practices; pharmaceutical marketing and pricing; and the power of multinational corporations.  Key concepts in social, political, and moral philosophy such as autonomy; coercion; exploitation; moral alienation; respect for persons; and human rights.  Ethical issues concerning the allocation of health care resources such as rationing; cost in relation to value; and the role of the market.

Recent, representative books

• The Ethics of Global Business, Blackwell forthcoming.
  
  
• Co-editor, Ethical Theory and Business, 8th ed., Prentice Hall, 2009 (in print January 2008).
  
  
• Co-editor, Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Management Responses to Global Labor Challenges, Praeger 2003.

Recent, representative articles

• "Working Conditions: Safety and Sweatshops" (10,000 word entry) in The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, eds. George Brenkert and Tom Beauchamp.  Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  
  
•  “The Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations" in David Crowther and Nicholas Capaldi, eds., Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility, Ashgate, forthcoming.
  
  
• “The Ethics of Global Outsourcing” in Gabriel Flynn, ed., Leadership and Values for Business: European and American Perspectives.  Springer, forthcoming.
  
  
• “International Business Ethics” (6,000 word entry).  Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, ed. Robert W. Kolb.  Sage, 2007.
  
  
• “Respect for Workers in Global Supply Chains:  Advancing the Debate Over Sweatshops.”  With Norman E. Bowie.  Business Ethics Quarterly 17:1 (January 2007): 135-145.
  
  
• “Corporate Moral Agency.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXX: “Shared Intentions and Collective Responsibility,” 2006: 279-291.
  
  
• “Worker Rights and Low Wage Industrialization: How to Avoid Sweatshops.” With Laura P. Hartman. Human Rights Quarterly 28: 3 (August 2006):  676–700.
  
  
• “Business, Ethics, and Global Climate Change.” With Keith Bustos .  Business & Professional Ethics Journal, 24: 1&2 (Summer/Fall 2005): 103-130.
  
  
• “Beyond Sweatshops:  Positive Deviancy and Global Labor Practices.”  With Laura P. Hartman.  Business Ethics:  A European Review, 14:3 (July 2005): 206-222.
  
  
• “Libertarian Theories of the Corporation and Global Capitalism,” Journal of Business Ethics, 48 (December 2003): 155-173 .
  
  
• “Moral Imagination and the Future of Sweatshops.”  With Laura P. Hartman.  Business & Society Review 108: 4 (Winter 2003): 425-461.
  
  
• “Human Rights and Business: An Ethical Analysis.” In Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions, Rory Sullivan ed., Greenleaf 2003.
  
  
• “Sweatshops and Respect for Persons.” With Norman E. Bowie.  Business Ethics Quarterly 13: 2 (April 2003): 221-242. 
  
  
• “Coercion and Moral Responsibility.”  American Philosophical Quarterly, 38: 1 (January 2001): 53-67.

Recent, representative presentations

• "The Ethics of Direct-To-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising."  The Prudential Lecture in Business Ethics.  Rutgers University, Spring 2007.
• "Corporate Moral Agency."  Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA 2006.
  
  
• "The Ethical Obligations of Corporations Concerning Global Climate Change," American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2006.
  
  
• “The Ethics of Outsourcing.”  American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Portland , OR , March 2006.
  
  
• “Multinational Corporations and Global Justice.”  American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York , NY , December 2005.
  
  
• “Does ISCT Reduce to Ethical Relativism?” Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Honolulu , HI , August 2005.
  
  
• “Business Ethics and Global Climate Change in the Energy and Transportation Sectors,” University of Minnesota and the Center for Ethical Business Cultures Conference on “Business and Environmental Sustainability,” Minneapolis, MN, April 2005.
  
  
• “The Ethical Norms of Global Business:  Contracts or Rights?”  Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania Conference on “Contractarian Approaches to Business Ethics:  The Evolution of Integrative Social Contracts Theory,” Philadelphia, PA, November 2004.
  
  
• “Kantian Foundationalism and Human Rights” as part of the session Kantian Ethics and Business:  Reflections on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of Kant’s Death.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics, New Orleans, LA, 2004.
  
  
• “Exploitation, Human Rights, and Global Sweatshops.” Global Justice Mini-Conference, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, CA, March 2004.
  
  
• "Beyond Sweatshops:  Positive Deviancy and Global Labor Practices.” With Laura P. Hartman.  (1) Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA, August 2003.  (2) Third World Congress of Business, Economics, and Ethics, Melbourne, Australia,  July 2004. (3) Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics, New Orleans, LA, August 2004.  This paper was given the Award for “Best Paper” at the 2004 Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting.
  
  
• “Libertarian Theories of the Corporation and Global Capitalism.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics, Seattle, WA, August 2003. 
  
  
• “Moral Imagination and the Future of Sweatshops.”  With Laura P. Hartman.  University of Minnesota and the Center for Ethical Business Cultures Conference on Moral Imagination, Minneapolis, MN, May 2003. 

Teaching Interests

Ethical theory; business ethics; biomedical ethics; social and political philosophy; history of ethics. In addition to graduate and undergraduate courses in the Philosophy Department, I teach the core ethics component in the MBA program in the College of Business Administration .

Recent Professional Service

• Society for Business Ethics Liaison to the American Philosophical Association (five year term).
• Book Series Editor: Perspectives in Business Ethics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Business Ethics & Society, Sage Publishers.
• Editorial Board, Business Ethics Quarterly.

Contact Information

Denis G. Arnold
Associate Professor &
Director, Center for Applied and Professional Ethics
806 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0480

Phone: 865-974-7219
Fax: 865-974-3509

Email: darnold1@utk.edu