Welcome to Professor J. Angelo Corlett's home page. After this introduction you may search the links provided at the left for further information.

Dr. Corlett is a philosopher specializing in ethics (moral, social, political and legal philosophy, including apology, capital punishment, civil disobedience, forgiveness, hate speech, indigenism, Latino/a identity, political violence, privacy, punishment, race, racism, reparations, responsibility, rights, secession, and terrorism); and epistemology. He is the author of over 75 articles and books on these and other topics, including the books: Analyzing Social Knowledge (Rowman & Littlefield: 1996); Responsibility and Punishment (Kluwer's Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, Volume 9: 2001, 2004, 2006); Terrrorism: A Philosophical Analysis (Kluwer's Philosophical Studies Series, Volume 101: 2003); and Interpreting Plato's Dialogues (Parmenides, 2006). I am also the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review (Springer: 1997-present), as well as the editor of Equality and Liberty: Analyzing Rawls and Nozick (Macmillan: 1991).

He enjoys teaching enthusiastic students who take learning seriously--and even those who don't. He teaches ethics, philosophy of law and epistemology from the analytical style of doing philosophy. Having taught for over 20 years now, he nonetheless finds that teaching itself is an exciting learning experience! It never becomes boring not only because of the content, but because of the seemingly endless varieties of ways in which knowledge can be communicated to students. He teaches to try to make a positive difference in the lives of students, to provide them the philosophical skills and temperament so that, as Socrates put it, they can be better for the rest of their lives.

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October 31, 2006 - A new article on the necessary and sufficient conditions of forgiveness...[READ MORE]
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