Lisa Bellantoni, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., M.A., Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
B.A., Philosophy, Allegheny College

AREAS OF INTEREST:

Ethics and Social Philosophy: applied ethics (especially Bioethics); ethics and           technology; theories of justice; moral progress and obligations to future persons; moral agency, autonomy, and psychology.
           

COURSES:

Critical Thinking, Theories of Justice,  Introduction to Ethics, Business & 
Professional Ethics. Bioethics, Virtue Ethics (Senior Seminar), Time, Love 
& Memory (Honors Seminar); Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, Truth and 
Beauty, Humanity 2.0 (Honors Seminar); Contemporary  Moral Problems;
21st Century Ethics (Honors Seminar); Philosophy & Popular Culture

RECENT PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS:

Moral Progress: A Process Critique of MacIntyre, State University of 
New York Press, 2000.

“Whitehead on Pluralism and Practical Faith,” Whitehead’s Philosophy:
Points  of Connection, Donald W. Sherburne and J.A. Polanowski, ed.s,
State University of New York Press, 2004.

“Whitehead, Alfred North.” “Being.” Entries, Encyclopedia of American
Philosophy, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, forthcoming, 2007.

“Are we Good Enough? The Paradox of Genetic Enhancement,” Proceedings
of  the American Philosophical Association’s Conference on Ethics and the Life
Sciences, Philosophy Documentation Center, pp. 267-73, 2006.

Review:  And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape End of the Life,
by Sharon Kaufman, Schribner, 2005, in Metapsychology Reviews on-line, 2006.

Review: Freedom vs. Intervention: Six Tough Cases, by Daniel E. Lee, Rowan &
Littlefield, 2005, in Metapsychology Reviews on-line, 2006.

“What Good is a Pragmatic Bioethic?” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,
2003 (vol. 28, Nos. 5-6) pp. 615-33.

“What are Persons Made Of?” Proceedings of the America Catholic         Philosophical Association. 2002, vol. 76, pp.265-75.