Robert Paul Churchill Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Prof.
Robert Paul Churchill
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Philosopher, ethicist, logician, educator, author, and academic
Period:	1974–present
Elton Professor
Education:	B.A. (Liberal Arts, 1969), M.A. (Philosophy 1973), PhD (Philosophy 1975)
Alma Mater:	Johns Hopkins University
Thesis Title:	Civil Disobedience: Definition and Justification
Thesis Url:	https://philpapers.org/rec/CHUCDD
Thesis Year:	1975
Doctoral Advisor:	Maurice Mandelbaum
Discipline:	Philosophy
Sub Discipline:	ethics, politics, logic
Workplaces:	George Washington University
Main Interests:	Ethics, global studies, ethnic violence, terrorism, war, gender violence, masculinity, history of western philosophy, poverty, human rights, social and political philosophy

Robert Paul Churchill is an American philosopher, ethicist,^[1] logician, educator, author, and academic. Churchill's career at George Washington University spanned forty two years from 1975 to 2017. He served as Elton Professor of Philosophy at GWU from 2014 to 2017, and as chair of the department of philosophy twice (1986–1988 and 1992–1994), and as director of the peace studies program from 1997 to 2001.^[2] Churchill was the president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace and the American Society for Value Inquiry, and the founder of the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World and its director for eight years.^[3]

Churchill is known for his work, often interdisciplinary, on human rights,^[4] war,^[5] ethics,^[6] logic,^[7] politics,^[8] and social philosophy.^{[9] [10]}

Bibliography

Select books

• Women in the Crossfire: Understanding and Ending Honor Killing, (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, June, 2018^[11]
• Human Rights and Global Diversity, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006), 152 pp. Pub. rights acquired 2014 by Routledge/Taylor & Francis
• Human Rights and Political Obligations, SafariX Online content from Human Rights and Global Diversity. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006
• Democracy, Social Values and Public Policy, ed. and intro., with Milton Carrow and Joseph Cordes. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998), 291 pp.
• The Ethics of Liberal Democracy: Morality and Democracy in Theory and Practice, ed. and intro., (New York and London: Berg Publishers, 1994). Pub. rights acquired 2012 by Bloomsbury Academic, 209 pp.
• Logic: An Introduction, 2nd Rev. ed. of Becoming Logical, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 635 pp. Pub. rights acquired 1996 by Wadsworth/Thomson, and then Palgrave Macmillan.
• Becoming Logical: An Introduction to Logic, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), 595 pp

Select papers and book chapters

• "Human Rights and International Law," Handbook of Nonviolence and Pacifism, Andrew Fiala, ed. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2018.
• “Mythology, Mental Health, and a Culture of Violence,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 23, no. 2 (Fall 2017).
• "Salvaging Human Rights: A Critical Commentary on Michael Boylan’s Theory of Natural Human Rights," Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy 8, no. 2 (Fall 2016), 33–40.
• "Salvaging Human Rights: A Critical Commentary on Michael Boylan’s Theory of Natural Human Rights," Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy 8, no. 2 (Fall 2016), 33–40
• "Liberal Toleration," The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy, edited by Andrew Fiala. London and New York, 2015, pp. 139–53.
• "The Ethics of Teaching and the Emergence of MOOCS: Should Philosophers Support the MOOC?" Philosophy in the Contemporary World 21, no. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 1–14.
• "Becoming Moral Agents: On the Personal and Communal Worldview Imperatives," Morality and Justice, Reading Boylan's A Just Society, John-Stewart Gordon, ed. Lanham and London: Lexington Books, 2009, pp. 15–29.
• "Moral Toleration and Deep Reconciliation," Philosophy in the Contemporary World 14, no. 1 (Spring 2007), 99–113.
• "Is There a Paradox of Altruism?" co-authored with Erin Street, The Ethics of Altruism, Jonathan Seglow, ed., (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2004).
• "Wars for Human Rights: Do They Violate National Sovereignty?" Sensabilities: La Roche College Center for the Study of Ethics 4, no. 1 (Fall 2000), pp. 1, −6-7.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Philosopher, Ethicist Robert Paul Churchill Speaks on Oct. 13 – SUNY Cortland . www2.cortland.edu.
2. Web site: Robert Paul Churchill The George Washington University - Academia.edu . gwu.academia.edu.
3. Web site: About the Author . global.oup.com.
4. Book: Churchill, Robert Paul . Human rights and global diversity . 2006 . Pearson Education . 978-0-13-040885-3 . Basic ethics in action . Upper Saddle River, NJ.
5. Book: Bailey . Alison . Community, Diversity, and Difference: Implications for Peace . Smithka . Paula J. . 2002-01-01 . BRILL . 978-90-04-45867-3 . 10.1163/9789004458673_027.
6. Churchill . Robert P. . September 1983 . Nuclear Arms as a Philosophical and Moral Issue . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . en . 469 . 1 . 46–57 . 10.1177/0002716283469001006 . 0002-7162.
7. Book: Churchill, Robert Paul . 1986 . Becoming Logical: An Introduction to Logic . philpapers.org . en.
8. Book: Churchill, Robert Paul . 1994 . The Ethics of liberal democracy: morality and democracy in theory and practice . philpapers.org . en.
9. Churchill . Robert P. . 1980–1981 . Dworkin's Theory of Constitutional Law . Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly . 8 . 47.
10. Churchill . Robert Paul . The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World . 2021 . Commentary and Questions by Robert Paul Churchill . Philosophy in the Contemporary World . 27 . 2 . 31–33 . 10.5840/pcw20212727 . 1077-1999.
11. Churchill . Robert Paul . 2019-10-01 . Response to My Critics . Philosophy in the Contemporary World . en . 25 . 2 . 53–65 . 10.5840/pcw201925216.