Mark H. Bernstein
(765) 742-7540 (Home); (765) 494-4295 (Office)
Email: mbernste@purdue.edu
Academic Training
Ph D. June 1982, (Philosophy) University of California Santa Barbara
M.A. June 1975, (Philosophy) California State University, Northridge
B.A. Jan. 1969, (Mathematics) Queens College, CUNY
Work Experience
2005 - Joyce and Edward E Brewer Professor of Applied Ethics at Purdue University
2004 - 2005 Peter T. Flawn Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
1999 - 2004 Professor of Philosophy
1989 - 1999 Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure), UT San Antonio
1983 - 1989 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UT San Antonio
1982 - 1983 Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University
1980 - 1982 Instructor of Philosophy, Ventura College
Publications
Books
Without A Tear: Our Tragic Relationship With Animals (Urbana and Chicago:University of Illinois Press, 2004)
(a) ch. 3 reprinted in At Issue: Is Factory Farming Harming America forthcoming by Gale, 2006
(b) ch. 3 reprinted in Theirs is the Kingdom (tr.in Czech), PRAH Press (Prague), ed. Jan Cejka, 2005.
On Moral Considerability : An Essay on Who Morally Matters (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Fatalism (Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 1992)
Volume
Guest-edited and introduced special edition, Free Will, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility (Philosophical Studies, Vol. 75, Nos. 1-2) Aug. 1994
Articles
"On the Dogma of Hierarchical Value", American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 43, no.3, July 2006.
"Can We Ever Be Really, Truly, Ultimately, Free?", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing) vol. 29, 2005.
"Is it Impossible to Relieve Suffering?", Philosophia vol.32, May 2005 (co-authored with Michael Almeida).
"Fatalism", in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed, Maryanne Cline Horowitz (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004).
"Neo-speciesism",Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 35, no.3, Fall 2004.
"Legitimizing Liberation", in Terrorist or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, (New York: Lantern Books, 2004), ed. by Tony Nocella.
"The Moral Community", in the International Animal World Encyclopaedia< (Kingsley Publishers, 2003), edited by Andrew Linzey.
"Lucky Libertarianism", Philosophical Studies, vol. 113, no.2, 2003 (co-authored with Michael Almeida).
"Marginal Cases and Moral Relevance", Journal of Social Philosophy, vol.33, no.4, Winter 2002.
"Fatalism" in The Oxford Handbook of Free Will, ed. Robert Kane Oxford University Press, Dec. 2001)
"Intrinsic Values", Philosophical Studies, vol.102, no.3, 2001
"Opportunistic Carnivorism", Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol.17, no.2., 2000 (co-authored with Michael Almeida)
"Explaining Evil", Religious Studies, vol. 34, 1998
"Well-being", American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 35, no.1, Jan. 1998 (excerpt in Foundatiuons of Environmental Philosophy: A Text with Readings, ed. Frederik Kaufman, McGraw Hill, 2003).
"Contractualism and Animals", Philosophical Studies, vol 86, no.1, April 1997
"Kanean Libertarianism", Southwest Philosophy Review vol. 11, no.1, 1995
"Toward A More Expansive Moral Community", Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 9, no.1, 1992
"Speciesism and Loyalty", Behavior and Philosophy, vol.19, no.1 Spring/Summer 1991
"Fatalism Revisited", Metaphilosophy, July, 1990
"Fatalism and Time", Dialogue (Canadian Journal of Philosophy), vol. 28, 1989
"Fatalism, Tense, and Changing the Past", Philosophical Studies vol. 56, 1989
"Involutional Determinism", The Monist, vol. 17, no.3, July 1988
"Moral and Epistemic Saints", Metaphilosophy, vol. 17, no. 283, April 1986
"Love, Particularity, and Selfhood", Southern Journal of Philosophy, Fall 1985
"Socialization and Autonomy", Mind, vol. 92, January 1983
"Moral Responsibility and Free Will", Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 19, no.1, Spring 1981
Critical Reviews
Animal Pragmatism (E. McKenna and A. Light, eds., Indiana University Press, 2004), Environmental Ethics (Spring 2006, v.28, no.1).
Suffering Belief, (A.M. Weisberger, Peter Lang), Religious Studies, forthcoming.
Welfare, Happiness and Ethics, (L.W. Sumner, Oxford University Press), Ethics, January, 2001
Darwinian Dominion: Animal Welfare and Human Interests, (Lewis Petrinovich, MIT Press), Ethics, April, 2000.
The Significance of Free Will, (R. Kane, Oxford University Press) Southwest Philosophy Review, vol. 13 no.2, 1997
Through the Moral Maze, (R.Kane, Paragon Press), Southwest Philosophy Review, vol.11, no.2, 1995
"Stubborn Puppets", a review of T. Honderich’s How Free Are You. Times Literary Supplement (London), Dec.31, 1993
Free Will and Values, (R. Kane, Suny Press), Nous, vol.23, no.4, Sept. 1989
Agency and Integrality (M. White, Dordrecht Reidel), Nous, vol.23, no.3. June 1989
Presentations (Selected List)
"Why Animals are Better Friends than You Think", TCU Philosophy Department, March 2004 (keynote speaker)
"Intrinsic Value", APA (Pacific Division), April 1999
"Marginal Cases and Moral Relevance", SMU Philosophy Department, Oct. 1998
"Explaining Evil", SSPP, April 1998
"Kanean Libertarianism", SWPS, Mar. 1994
"On Moral Considerability", SMU Philosophy Department, April 1992 (keynote speaker)
"Speciesism and Loyalty", SMU Philosophy Department, Nov.1989
"FatalismRevisited", APA (Pacific Division), 1988
"Fatalism", UT Austin Philosophy Colloquium, Oct. 1986
"Involutional Determinism", APA (Pacific Division), 1985
Awards
NEH ‛Extending the Reach’ Fellowship, Summers 2003, 2004.
NEH Summer Workshops, Moral Responsibility; Director: Peter French (1992)
Metaphysics and Action Theory; Director: Hector-Neri Castaneda (1984)
References:
Stewart Cohen Arizona State University Stewart.Cohen@asu.edu
John Fischer University of California, Riverside John.Fischer@ucr.edu
Robert Kane University of Texas at Austin rkane@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Andrew Linzey Oxford University andrew.linzey@blackfriars.ox.ac.uk
A.P. Martinich University of Texas at Austin martinich@mail.utexas.edu