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City University of New York Graduate Center
Douglas Lackey
Ph.D. Yale University
dlackey [at-sign-here] gc [put-a-dot-here] cuny [put-a-dot-here] edu
Links:
- Baruch College Philosophy Department
- Professor Lackey is also a playwright. For more information, please visit douglaslackey.com.
Research Interests
- The Ethics of War and Peace
- Aesthetics
- Ethics
- History of Philosophy
Courses Recently Taught
- Medieval Philosophy (Fall 2008)
- International Ethics (Fall 2007)
- Hegel (Spring 2006, Fall 2001)
- Systematic Metaphysics in the 20th Century (Fall 2004)
- Ethics, Economics and Business Ethics (Spring 2003)
- Virtue in Philosophy & Art: Antiquity to Renaissance (Spring 2001)
Representative Publications
- "Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence," (in James Rachel's Moral Problems, 1972)
- Russell, Bertrand. Essays in Analysis, Douglas Lackey, ed. (Allen and Unwin, 1973)
- "Missiles and Morals," (Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1982)
- Moral Principles and Nuclear Weapons (Rowman and Littlefield, 1984)
- "Taking Risk Seriously," Journal of Philosophy, 1986
- The Ethics of War and Peace (Prentice-Hall 1989)
- Ethic and Strategic Defense (Wadsworth, 1990)