VITA

Ron Yezzi

Department of Philosophy

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Mankato, Minnesota 56001

e-mail: yezzi@mnsu.edu

Education

• S.B., physics, University of Chicago, 1960
• M.A., philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 1963
• Ph. D., philosophy, Southern Illinois University, 1968
• Master's Thesis: Modality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
• Doctoral Dissertation: The Application of Mathematics to Concepts in Physics: Four Theories (A Study of Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, and Whitehead)

Teaching Experience

• Instructor in Philosophy, University of Tennessee, 1965-1966
• Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Tennessee, 1966-1969
• Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Mankato State University, 1969-1971
• Associate Professor in Philosophy, Mankato State University, 1971-1979
• Professor of Philosophy, Mankato State University, 1979-2002
• Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2002-

Other Experience

• Consultant for the Minnesota Humanities Commission, 1977-1979
• Member of Business Ethics Endowment Committee, Philosophy Dept., MSU, 1990 to 2002
• Member of Ethics Committee, Lake Shore Inn Nursing Home, Waseca, MN, 1993 to present
• Member of Institutional Review Board, Mankato State University, 1994 to 1999

Areas of Interest

Social and political philosophy, ethics, business ethics, medical ethics, logic, philosophy of science, history of western philosophy, American philosophy, philosophy of history

Publications

• Medical Ethics: Thinking About Unavoidable Questions, (New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1980)
• ______, Japanese Edition (Tokyo: Igaku-Shoin/Saunders, Ltd., 1985)
• Directing Human Actions: Perspectives on Basic Ethical Issues (Lanham: University Press of America, 1986)
• "Prescribing Drugs for the Aging and Dying," in James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder, eds., Biomedical Ethics Reviews 1987 (Clifton: The Humana Press, 1987)
• "Review of Steven Cahn's Philosophical Explorations: Freedom, God, and Goodness," Teaching Philosophy 13: 2 June 1990

G. Bruno & Co. Publications (my publishing company)

• A Primer of Practical Logic (Mankato: G. Bruno & Co., 1989)
• William James: Selected Writings, edited with an Introduction and Study Guides by Ron Yezzi, (Mankato: G. Bruno & Co., 1991)
• Practical Logic (Mankato: G. Bruno & Co., 1992), second edition of A Primer of Practical Logic
• Practical Ethics (Mankato: G. Bruno & Co., 1993)
• Philosophical Problems: God, Free Will, and Determinism (Mankato: G. Bruno & Co., 1993)
• Philosophical Problems: The Good Life (Mankato: G. Bruno & Co., 1994)

Local Publications

• "Making Universities Relevant," Sophia 7:1, Winter, 1971
• "Is It Ethical to Risk the Total Destruction of Humanity," Gathering Post, May, 1982

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