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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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Linda M. GallicchioAssociate Director for Business Outreach |
Linda M. Gallicchio joined the Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University in Fall 2007 as associate director for business outreach. Gallicchio’s focus is to build relationships and collaborations with businesses, the professions, chambers of commerce, civic organizations, school districts and government. She is working to coordinate multidisciplinary teams at Clemson that will partner across the above groups on projects and programs to reach as many as possible with lessons/messages/discussions about ethics, critical thinking and effective decision making. She will also capitalize on attracting speakers to campus and creating opportunities to bring those same speakers out to the communities.
Gallicchio received her MBA, with distinction, (form) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has more than 22 years of experience in managerial and executive roles across a variety of industries and at another land-grant 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 FellowInterim Director, CAI |
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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David B. JonesAdministrative Assitant |