Ronnie Z. HawkinsBiographical sketch:
I am currently an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where I teach courses in environmental ethics, bioethics, philosophy of science, existentialism, and other subjects. I have a degree in medicine (M.D.) as well as a doctorate in philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Florida in Gainesville, and I completed a residency in anatomic pathology at Yale. My interest has always been to bring together discourses that understand humans as biological beings, in evolutionary and ecological context, with those that consider humans philosophically but often fail to make contact with the physical and biological dimensions of reality. Some of my recent publications include: Seeing Ourselves As Primates. Ethics and the Environment 7 (2002): 60-103.http://weblinks1.epnet.com/externalframe.asp?tb=1&_ug=dbs+0+ln+en%2Dus+sid+15C50904%2D17A6%2D4173%2D8874%2D3942C7B8CFC5%40Sessionmgr2+24F4&_uh=btn+N+idb+aphish+jdb+aphjnh+op+phrase+ss+ID++%22FL8%22+24B7&_us=bs+%7BJN++%22Ethics++%26++the++Environment%22++and++DT++20020901%7D+ds+%7BJN++%22Ethics++%26++the++Environment%22++and++DT++20020901%7D+dstb+ES+fcl+Aut+ri+KAAACBZD00013978+sm+ES+3D82&fi=aph_7733401_&tp=CP&bk=R&tn=11&lpdf=true&pdfs=260K&es=cs%5Fclient%2Easp%3FT%3DP%26P%3DAN%26K%3D7733401%26rn%3D5%26db%3Daph%26is%3D10856633%26sc%3DR%26S%3DR%26D%3Daph&fn=1&rn=5 Cultural Whaling, Commodification, and Culture Change. Environmental Ethics 23 (2001): 287 306. Stem Cell Research and Respect for Life. Florida Philosophical Review, (2001): 49-62.http://www.cas.ucf.edu/philosophy/fpr/journals/volume1/issue1/hawkins.pdf John R. Searle, The Construction of Social Reality. Book review. Ethics, Place and Environment 4 (2001): 57-60. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. Book review. Ethics, Place and Environment 4 (2001): 73-76.
The Millennium Bug--In Retrospect. Short Communication. Ethics, Place and Environment 3 (2000): 299-301. Reproductive Choices: The Ecological Dimension. Reprinted with revision in Contemporary Moral Problems, edited by James White. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000, pgs. 186-99. Reprinted with revision in The Environmental Ethics and Policy Book: Philosophy, Ecology, and Economics, edited by Donald VanDeVeer and Christine Pierce. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2nd edition, 1998, pgs. 421-31. An Evolutionary-Ecofeminist Perspective on Xeno- and Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation. Published on the World Wide Web, The Paedeia Project Online: Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 10-16, 1999. Bioethics and Medical Ethics Section.http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Bioe/BioeHawk.htm Waiting for the Millennium Bug. Ethics, Place and Environment 2 (1999): 267-74. Irene Diamond, Fertile Ground: Women, Earth, and the Limits of Control. Book review. Ethics, Place and Environment 2 (1999): 118-20. Ecofeminism and Nonhumans: Continuity, Difference, Dualism, and Domination. Hypatia 13 (1998): 158-97.http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/949/882/33208550w2/purl=rc1_ITOF_0_A20869175&dyn=19!xrn_300_0_A20869175?sw_aep=orla57816 Intergroup Justice: Taking Responsibility for Intragroup and Intergroup Oppressions. Ethics and the Environment 3 (1998): 1-40. Intergroup Justice: Considering Multiple Oppressions, Species Extinction, and Genocide as Unjust Group Relations. Published on the World Wide Web, Proceedings of the Conference Environmental Justice: Global Ethics for the 21st Century, Melbourne, Australia, October 1-3, 1997. Justice, Society and Nature sectionhttp://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/envjust/papers/allpapers/hawkins/home.htm