Education
Duquesne University - Ph.D. (Philosophy) 1978, M.A. (Philosophy) 1973 (Honors)
New York University - B.A. (Philosophy) 1971 (Dean's List)

Grants
1995: Senior Consultant Annenberg/CPB Moral Mazes Project; CMU Courseware Curriculum Grant; 1990: Annenberg/CPB project (conference at Brown University); 1988: DEC (conference on the Use and Development of Interactive Multi-Media); 1986: NEH Summer Seminar (University of Virginia); 1985: TSU Summer Research Stipend; 1984: Matchette Foundation (conference on the History of Ethics); 1983: NEH Summer Seminar (Stanford University); 1980: NEH Summer Seminar (Purdue University)

Employment
1994 - Present: Carnegie Mellon University
Senior Researcher, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy (1995)
1991 - 1993: Executive Director, Center for Design of Educational Computing
1987 to 1991:
Project Scientist - Center for Design of Educational Computing
Assistant Director - Interuniversity Consortium for Educational Computing (87 - 89)
1981 - 1986: Towson State University
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Research Interests
Philosophical Foundations of Applied Ethics (Toulmin, Putnam, Habermas) and Pedagogical Foundations of Case-based Interactive Multimedia for Moral Reasoning

Selected Publications
Books
Editor (with Gouinlock & Sterba). Ethics in the History of Western Philosophy. St. Martin's/Macmillan, England (1990)
With Christopher Dreisbach. Study Guide for Barker's Elements of Logic (4th Edition/5th Edition) McGraw-Hill (1985/89)
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A Transcendental Critique of Ethics. University Press of America (1980)

Software
Co-Principal (with Covey, Bend & Roberts). A Right to Die? The Case of Dax Cowart (EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Award: Best Humanities Software, 1989) Falcon Software (CD-ROM version: Routledge, 1996)
Co-Principle (with Covey, Bend & Leizman). Art or Forgery? The Strange Case of Han van Meegeren (EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Award: Best Humanities Software, 1990) Intellimation.
With Christopher Dreisbach. Study Disks to Accompany Copi's Introduction to Logic (8th Edition) Macmillan (1990)

Articles, Notices, Reviews, Contributions

"Multimedia in Philosophy Teaching and Research" The Digital Phoenix: How Computers are Changing Philosophy (Blackwell, 1997).
"Computers" (entry) Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia (Garland Publishing, 1996)
Feminism and Pornography: A Dialogical Perspective Computer-Mediated Communication (January, 1996)
"Making MOSAIC Webs Work on the Course Level" (Syllabus Magazine, March '95)
Co-Editor (w. Tom Reeves). The Impact of Computers on Higher Education: A Global View (Special Issue of Educational Technology, Fall 1993)
"Shifting Paradigms in Educational Computing" EDUCOM Review, March '93
"Course Processing and the Electronic Agora" EDUCOM Review, March '92
With David Carrier. "Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on Technology and the History of Art History" (Leonardo, 1989)

Selected Conferences (since 1990)
1995 "Ethics, Pornography, and the Internet" (EDUCOM); "The Virtual Classroom: Web-based Multimedia Resources for Moral Reasoning" (10th Annual Computing and Philosophy Conference)
1994 Keynote Address: "Redesigning the Classroom" ( Syllabus); "New Projects in Ethics and Aesthetics" (9th Computing and Philosophy Conference); Keynote Address: "Redesigning the Classroom" (Informatics in Education, Brazil); "Interactive Multimedia" (American Theological Library Association); "Electronic Publications: A View from the Disciplines" (Society for Scholarly Publications); "Liberal Arts and the Information Revolution: Rethinking Curriculum in an Electronic Age" (Williams College)
1993 "The Issue of Abortion in America: A Multimedia Database" (8th International Computing and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon); Keynote Address: "Jump Starting the Revolution: Course Processing and Class-Specific Bulletin Boards" (Penn State); "The Use of Interactive Multimedia in Teaching and Research" (AAAS, Boston)
1992 Issues in Educational Computing (Helsinki University of Technology); "Course Processing" (Guest Lectures at the University of Twente, Netherlands)
1990 ADCIS coordinator: International Track -- The Impact of Computer Technology on Culture (San Diego); Coordinator and Chair: "Hypertexts in Philosophy "(5th International Conference on Computers and Philosophy, Stanford); "An Ethics Videodisc-- The Case of Dax Cowart" (American Association of Philosophy Teachers: 7 International Conference and Workshop, University of Indiana); East/West Invitational Seminar on New Technologies in Education (Leningrad, USSR); Coordinator and chair. Philosophy Comes To Electronic Bulletin Boards (APA Pacific Meeting)

Professional Offices
1994 - 97: APA Committee on the Use of Computers in Philosophy; 1988 - Present: Executive Director - Computing and Philosophy Conferences; 1990 - 92: ADCIS International Relations Committee; 1989 - 92: APA Committee on the Use of Computers in Philosophy; 1987 - 1992: Co-director - Interactive Learning Forum.

Courses
Knowledge and Values (80-205); Introduction to Ethics (80-205/80-130); Continental Philosophy (80-254); Ancient Philosophy; Introduction to Political Philosophy.

Honors Theses and Directed Research
Isodoro Asse, Martha Lacy, Harry Powell, William Wood

Service
Provide numerous talks and workshops relating to the classroom use of educational computing. Advise the College on classroom design. Have offered sessions during Faculty Orientation, before the Board of Trustees and during the President's Weekend.