9001 Stockdale
Highway | Bakersfield, CA 93311-1099
Department of Philosophy and Religious
Studies
Degrees
B.A.: University of California, Santa Cruz, 1980.
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1986.
Professional Affiliations
CURRENT POSITIONS:
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
California State University, Bakersfield
Executive Director, Kegley Institute of Ethics
Adjunct Faculty—Hospital Ethicist
Department of Medicine, Kern Medical Center
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Ethics; Applied Philosophy (Especially Medical and Professional Ethics
and Ethics in News Media); Social and Political Philosophy.
AREAS OF COMPETENCE:
Phenomenology and Existentialism; Philosophy of Law.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (In Chronological Order):
Hospital Ethics Consultant and Member, Bioethics
Committee, Kern County Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, 1987-.
Hospital Ethics Consultant and Member, Bioethics Committee, Mercy Healthcare, Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, 1989-.
Ethics Consultant and Member, Bioethics Committee, Bakersfield Memorial
Hospital, Bakersfield, CA, 1991-1997.
Educational Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Kern County Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, 1992-.
Member, Institutional Review Board, Kern County Medical Center, 1992-.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 1993-.
Hospital Ethics Consultant and Member, Bioethics Committee, San Joaquin
Community Hospital, Bakersfield, CA, 1994-.
Editorial Reviewer, Social Theory and Practice, 1999-.
Editorial Reviewer, Journal of Ethics, 2000-.
Member, Institutional Review Committee, Clinica Sierra Vista, 2001-.