George Schedler
Chair and Professor, Philosophy
Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
email:
geosched@siu.edu; phone: 618-5366641
AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Ethics, introductory logic, Marx, political and social philosophy
EDUCATION
B.A., Saint Mary's College of California, 1967
M.A., University of California, San Diego, 1970
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1973
J.D. cum laude, Southern Illinois University School of Law, 1987
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1973-77
Associate Professor (tenured), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, August, 1977
Professor, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1984-present
Chair, Philosophy Department, 2003-present
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“Should there be an Apology for American slavery?” Public Affairs Quarterly, vol 21, no. 2 (April 2007)
"Does Ethical Meat Eating Maximize Utility?" Social Theory and Practice, vol. 32, no. 4 (October 2005), 499-511."Responsibility for and Estimation of the Damages of American Slavery," The University of Memphis Law Review, vol. 33, no. 2 (Winter 2003), 307-3351.
Racist Symbols and Reparations; Philosophical Reflections on Vestiges of the American Civil War, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.
Fall, 2008 complete syllabus
Practice Test 1, Answer 1
Practice Test 2, Answer 2
Practice Test 3, Answer 3
chapter 11--corrected version
additional answers to exercises in text
