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2001-2002 Professor of the Year Award
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Dr. Gary
Watson
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The winner of the 2001-02 UHP Professor of the Year Award is Dr. Gary Watson from the department of Philosophy. This award recognizes outstanding faculty who participate in the University Honors Program. Students may nominate their favorite Honors professor to be the UHP Professor of the Year. Official nomination forms are available in the Honors office. |
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Degrees |
PhD Philosophy 1972 Princeton University BA Philosophy (Magna Cum Laude) 1968 University of Washington |
| Research Areas | My general area of specialization is moral & political theory, with a special emphasis on issues in human agency & moral psychology. My specialization primarily concerns the problems of free will and moral responsibility. |
| Publications | "Free Agency" Journal of Philosophy, 1975; "Skepticism about Weakness of Will", Philos. Review, 1977; FREE WILL (ed.) 1982 (Oxford); "FREE WILL & Free Action", Mind, 1987; "Two faces of Responsibility", Philosophical Topics, 1996; "Soft Libertarianism & Hard Compatibilism" Journal of Ethics, 1999. |
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Biography |
Research Specialization:
Moral Philosophy and Theory of Agency. "Excusing Addiction," Law And Philosophy, in press, 2000; "Disordered Appetites," Addiction: Entries and Exits, forthcoming 2000; "Free Agency," Journal of Philosophy, 1975, (reprinted Oxford University Press, 1982, Cornell University Press, 1989, Oxford University Press, 1989); "Skepticism about Weakness of Will," The Philosophical Review, 1977, (reprinted Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1986, Ashgate 1999); "Responsibility and the Limits of Evil," Cambridge University Press, 1987, (reprinted Cornell University Press, 1993); "On The Primacy Of Character," MIT Press, 1990, (reprinted Edinburgh University Press, 1997); "'Some Considerations in Favor of Contractualism," Cambridge University Press, 1998; "Kant on Happiness in the Moral Life," Philosophy Research Archives, 1983. |
Past UHP Professors of the Year . . .
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Virginia Vizthum: 1993-94 |
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