Arthur Zucker
Chair, Department of Philosophy
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Director, Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics at Ohio University
Ohio University
Ellis Hall, Room 202A
Athens, Ohio 45701
(740)593-4596  office
(740)593-4597  fax
zuckera@ohio.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Minnesota 1990
M.A. University of Wisconsin 1966
B.A. Rutgers 1963

Areas of Specialization or Competence

Medicine and Ethics (Applied Ethics); Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Biology; History of Genetics

Selected Publications

"The Bearable Newness of Nanoscience" in Fritz Allhoff and Latrick Lin (eds.), Nanoethics: Emerging Debates (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008).

"Ethical and Legal Issues in Dying" in David Balk (ed.), Handbook of Thanatology (The Thanatology Association, 2007).

"Ethical and Legal Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making," in David Balk (ed.). Handbook of Thanatology (The Thanatology Association, 2007).

"Philosophy of Medicine" in Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd edition, 2006.

"Medical Ethics" in Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd edition, 2006.

"Medical Ethics as Therapy" in Medical Humanities, 2006.

"In Jeopardy: Conflicts of Interest are Everywhere--Where are They?"Association for Applied and Practical and Professional Ethics Monograph, 2005.

Medical Ethics, for Pearson Custom Publishing, http://www.ssnewslink.com/, 2002.

An Introduction to Modern Philosophy, ed. A. Castell, D. Borchert, A. Zucker (New York: Macmillan, 1994), 7th edition, 2000.

Philosophy of Sex and Love: A Reader, with D. Borchert and R. Trevas, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1997).

An Introduction to Philosophy of Science, ed. A. Zucker (NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996).

Medical Ethics, A Reader, eds. A. Zucker, D. Borchert, D. Stewart (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1991).

Current Research Interests

• A text in philosophy of biology initially commissioned for the Prentice Hall Series, Foundations in Philosophy.
• A book on whether there is, must be, ought to be theory behind applied ethics. I will also discuss the trend toward using narratives in understanding morality.
• Ethics and nanotechnology.