Professor J. Angelo Corlett

After this introduction you may search the links provided at the left for further information. Professor 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 almost 100 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); Race, Racism, and Reparations (Cornell, 2003); and Interpreting Plato's Dialogues (Parmenides, 2006). He is 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 has just published Race, Rights, and Justice (Dordrecht: Springer, 2009): Law and Philosophy Library, and has completed two more books currently under review: Heirs of Oppression and Why I am Not an Atheist.

Professor Corlett 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 make a positive difference in the lives of students and to provide them with the philosophical skills and temperament so that, as Socrates put it, they can be better for the rest of their lives.