Professor
Room 388
Telephone: 617.552.3853
Fax: 617.552.3874
Email: JLAGarcia@aol.com
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D.:Yale University, 1980; B.A.: Fordham University, 1972.
Professional Career
Before coming at Boston College in 2000 as a tenured professor, I taught at Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Georgetown University, and at the University of Notre Dame.
Fields of Interest
- My research has focused on normative moral theory, including the
concepts of goodness, desert, and virtue, and on articulating and
defending a "virtues-based, role-centered, and patient-focused" moral
theory, while critiquing consequentialist and other alternatives.
- In the last decade, I have written an influential series of articles philo-sophically developing what I call a "volitional" conception of racism, and am currently arguing for a deflationary approach to race and ethnicity, and for narrow limits to what can be socially constructed.
- I've addressed such bioethical issues as euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, artificial nutrition and hydration, and ethnic perspectives on medical ethics.
Some Courses Taught
Normative Theories, Virtue & Action, Normative Conflict, Values & the Good, 20th Century European Moral Philosophy, Utilitarianism, Language & Ontology of Morals, Recent Metaethics, Recent Neo-Kantian Moral Theory, Introduction to Black Philosophy, Philosophy & Race.
Some Other Professional Activities
- Du Bois Institute, Harvard University: Non-resident Fellow (2003-2005, 2006-continuing).
- American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Executive Committee: Member, 2005-2008.
Some Recent Publications
- "Health versus Harm: Euthanasia and Physicians' Duties," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, forthcoming.
- "Being Unimpressed with Ourselves: Reconceiving Humility," Philosophia, forthcoming.
- "Racial and Ethnic Identity?" in Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity, edited by J. J. E. Gracia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), forthcoming.
- "Revisiting African-American Perspectives and Medical Ethics," in African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity, edited by Lawrence Prograis & Edmund Pellegrino (Washington: Georgetown University Press), 2007 forthcoming.
- "Practical Reason and Its Virtues," in Intellectual Virtue, edited by Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 81-107. |
