The Rutland Institute for Ethics's faculty have a wealth of experience teaching ethics and working with practitioners on ethical issues in their professions. In addition, several faculty members have published widely in the field of applied ethics.
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Dr. Daniel E. WuesteDirector |
Daniel E. Wueste is Director of the Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University in South Carolina. He did his graduate work in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.A., 1979) and Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D., 1985). His research and writing focus on issues in three areas: legal philosophy, social and political philosophy, and professional ethics. Wueste has a special interest in what ethicists can learn from legal philosophers and vice versa. His first article pursuing this interest, "The Realist's Challenge in Professional Ethics: Taking Some Cues From Legal Philosophy," was published in the journal Professional Ethics.
Wueste has conducted workshops and seminars on practical and professional ethics, academic integrity, and ethics across the curriculum on many college campuses including a workshop, “Ethics in Academia,” at the University of Kuwait in May 2006. He was the keynote speaker at the Conference on Institutional Integrity at the Rochester Institute of Technology in April 2005. (His address, “We Need to talk…About Institutional Integrity,” is forthcoming in a special issue of Business and Professional Ethics, guest edited by Wade Robison, Ezra A. Hale Chair in Applied Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology.)
Wueste’s work has appeared in various journals including Cornell Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Teaching Ethics, and Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing. He is the author of the chapter on professional ethics in The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, 2nd edition, the chapter on biomedical ethics in the Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and the editor of Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994).
Wueste is President of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Academic Integrity when it was an independent non-profit organization. CAI, formerly at Duke University, is now part of the Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University.
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Dr. Kelly C. SmithC. Calhoun Lemon Fellow |
Kelly C. Smith is associate professor of philosophy. He received his M.S. in zoology (genetics) from Duke University in 1992, followed by his Ph.D. in philosophy, also from Duke, in 1994. Since then he has pursued research on a number of interdisciplinary topics including the concept of disease in medicine, the relationship between religious faith and scientific reasoning, ethical issues surrounding the search for life on other planets, and the ethical implications of new genetic technologies. His work has been published in numerous professional journals including The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, Biology and Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and The Journal of the American Medical Association. He has taught a variety of courses ranging from Business Ethics to Evolution to Statistics. He is committed to the idea that the humanities and the sciences have something interesting to say to each other.
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Dr. Stephen SatrisC. Calhoun Lemon Fellow |
Stephen Satris is associate professor of philosophy. Satris joined Clemson in 1986. He did his graduate work in philosophy at the University of Hawaii (M.A., 1971) and Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (Ph.D., 1984). He designed and teaches a course at Clemson on ethics in architecture. He teaches Introduction to Ethics, Moral Philosophy, and Ancient Philosophy on a regular basis.. His books include Ethical Emotivism (Nijhoff, 1987) and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Moral Issues, 9th edition (Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2004) -- a text widely used at colleges and universities throughout the United States. His work has appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of the History of Ideas, Teaching Philosophy, Ethics, Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Choice, Philosophy Today and the Journal of Value Inquiry.
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Dr. Charles StarkeyRutland Institute Fellow |
Charles Starkey joined the Department in 2003, having previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2001. His primary research interests are in value theory and moral psychology, and his current research examines the nature of moral experience and its relation to perception and cognition. Such research includes the relevance of emotion to moral agency and moral character. In addressing these issues, draws upon of traditional ethical theory, the philosophy of mind, and empirical psychological research. His ancillary interests include the history of philosophy, ethical issues arising from technologies, and the nature and value of autonomy -- particularly the role it plays in professional ethics and current ethical issues. Recent presentations at national conferences include "On the Scope of Moral Perception" and "Emotion and the Persistence of Character Traits."
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Dr. Teddi FishmanRutland Institute FellowDirector, Center for Academic Integrity |
Teddi Fishman serves as Director of the Center for Academic Integrity, a center housed within the Rutland Institute for Ethics. She earned M. A. degrees in both Professional Communication and English from Clemson University in 1995 and 1996 respectively before completing a Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University in 2002. Teddi’s research is interdisciplinary and addresses such diverse topics as the rhetoric of police writing, identity in online environments, and the teaching of multi-media literacy. She has taught a similarly varied range of courses including Classical Rhetoric, Science, Technology, and Society, and Digital Publishing. Her research has been published in a number of edited collections as well as in online and print journals including Kairos and The Journal of Managerial Accounting. One of the core beliefs that unites her eclectic and seemingly disparate collection of professional endeavors and achievements is the belief that personal and systemic integrity in education, communication, and media are essential for the maintenance of a successful, sustainable, and just society.