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Robert L. Holmes
Born (1935-12-28) December 28, 1935 (age 88)
Occupation(s)Professor, Scholar
Known forEthics
Political Philosophy
Board member ofFellowship of Reconciliation
AwardsFulbright Fellowship
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
University of Michigan
Academic work
Sub-disciplinePhilosophy of Nonviolence
InstitutionsUniversity of Rochester

Robert L. Holmes (December 28, 1935) is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, and an expert on issues of peace and nonviolence. Holmes specializes in ethics, and in social and political philosophy. He has written numerous articles and several books on those topics, and has been invited to address national and international conferences.

Early life

Holmes earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan.[1][2]

Career

The Rush Rhees Library at University of Rochester, as seen from the Eastman Quadrangle.

Holmes joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 1962.[3]

In 1998, Holmes was appointed to the newly established Rajiv Gandhi Chair in Peace and Disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, where he shaped the mission of the chair on instruction, research, and lectures.[4]

While serving on the faculty at the University of Rochester, his lectures were always eagerly anticipated by students of the humanities as well as the sciences. He received the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 2001 and the Professor of the Year Award in Humanities in 2006. At the 2007 convocation ceremony, Holmes was awarded the Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching. Also, Holmes is known for being one of the very few professors to receive perfect or near perfect reviews every year since the university began student review services in 2001.[5]

During the course of an academic career which has spanned over forty years, Holmes has held a variety of scholarly positions including: Fulbright Fellow at Moscow State University and Visiting professor at Notre Dame, Hamilton College and the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, he served as an editor of the philosophical journal Social Theory and Practice and participated on the national board of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He was also a longtime adviser to the University of Rochester Undergraduate Philosophy Council.[6] In 1992 he also served as president of the professional organization Concerned Philosophers for Peace which strives to improve international understanding and peace through scholarly analysis of the causes of war.[7]

Holmes is the author of several comprehensive texts on the subject of moral philosophy. Included among his publications is a collaborative work undertaken in 1968 with Lewis White Beck - a noted scholar on Kantian ethics (Philosophical Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy).[8][9] He also coauthored a work in 2005 with Barry L. Gan - Director of the Center for Nonviolence at St. Bonaventure University (Nonviolence in Theory and Practice).[10][11] In addition, he has published numerous papers in several academic peer-reviewed journals including: Analysis, Ethics, International Philosophical Quarterly,Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry, Mind, The Monist, The Philosophical Forum,and The Review of Metaphysics.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]

As of 2009, Holmes is semi-retired, although he still teaches at the University of Rochester during some semesters.[22]

Publications

External videos
video icon You may preview selections from Holmes' book The Ethics of Nonviolence - Essays by Robert L. Holmes Here on books.google.com

Texts

Included among Robert L. Holmes publications are the following texts:

  • Basic Moral Philosophy by Robert L. Holmes[23][24]
  • Introduction to Applied Ethics by Robert L. Holmes [25]
  • Kant's Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck Editor: Predrag Cicovacki. Contributor: Robert L. Holmes -"Consequentialism and its Consequences".[26]
  • Nonviolence in Theory and Practice by Robert L. Holmes and Barry L. Gan [27]
  • On War and Morality by Robert L. Holmes [28]
  • Philosophic Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy by Lewis White Beck and Robert L. Holmes [29]
  • Pacifism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence by Robert L. Holmes[30]
  • The Ethics of Nonviolence - Essays by Robert L. Holmes Editor: Predrag Cicovacki, Bloomsbury, USA on books.google.com[31]
  • The Augustinian Tradition Editor: Gareth B. Matthews. Contributor: Robert L. Holmes - "St. Augustine and the Just War Theory"[32]

Journal articles

Selected peer-reviewed articles published by Robert L. Holmes include:[33]

See also

References

  1. ^ University of Rochester - Faculty - Robert L. Holmes Professor Emeritus Professor of Philosophy - PhD. University of Michigan on sas.rochester.edu
  2. ^ "Currents--November 9, 1998". www.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  3. ^ "Currents--November 9, 1998". www.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  4. ^ "Currents--November 9, 1998". www.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  5. ^ "St. Bonaventure University - Noted Expert on Nonviolence to to talk abut social inequality Thursday at St. Bonaventure - Robert L. Holmes Biography on sbu.edu
  6. ^ "St. Bonaventure University - Noted Expert on Nonviolence to to talk abut social inequality Thursday at St. Bonaventure - Robert L. Holmes Biography on sbu.edu
  7. ^ Concerned Philosophers for Peace - Officers- Presidents on peacephilosophy.org
  8. ^ Philosophical Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy Lewis White beck and Robert L. Holmes. Prentice Hall, 1968 on books.google.com
  9. ^ University of Rochester -"Philosopher, Scholar Lewis White Beck Dies" on Rochester.edu.news
  10. ^ St. Bonaventure University Profiles - Barry L. Gan: Director of the Center for Nonviolence on sbu.edu
  11. ^ Nonviolence in Theory and Practice by Robert L. Holmes and Barry L. Gan Waveland Press 2005 on books.google.com
  12. ^ Robert L. Holmes on scholar.google.com
  13. ^ The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy - "The Limited Relevance of Analytical Ethics to the Problems of Bioethics" Robert L. Holmes. Oxford Academic Vol. 15 No. 2 April 1990 p. 143-159 on scholar.google.com
  14. ^ Analysis - "Is Morality a System of Hypothetical Imperative" Robert L. Holmes Oxford University Press Vol 34 No. 3 January 1974 p. 96-100 on scholar.google.com
  15. ^ The Philosophical Forum Quarterly- "The Metaethics of Pacifism and Just War Theory" Robert L. Holmes. Wiley-Blackwell January 27, 2015 p. 2-15 on scholar.google.com
  16. ^ The Review of Metaphysics - "John Dewey's Moral Philosophy in Contemporary Perspective" Robert L. Holmes. Philosophy Education Society. Vol 20. No. 1 September 1966 p. 42-70 on scholar.google.com
  17. ^ The Journal of Value Inquiry - "John Dewey's Social Ethics" Robert L. Holmes. Vol. 7 No. 4 December 1973 p. 274-280 on scholar.google.com
  18. ^ The Monist - "The Development of John Dewey's Ethical Thought"Philosophy Documentation Center Vol. 48 No. 3 July 1964 p. 392-406 on scholar.google.com
  19. ^ Ethics - "University Neutrality and ROTC"Robert L. Holmes. University of Chicago Press Vol. 83 No. 3 April 1973 p. 177 on scholar.google.com
  20. ^ International Philosophical Quarterly - "Just War: Principles and Causes" Robert L. Holmes. Philosophy Documentation Center Vol 37 No. 4 December 1997 p. 483-484 on scholar.google.com
  21. ^ Mind - "The Case Against Ethical Naturalism" Robert L. Holmes. Oxford University Press Vol 73 N. 290 April 1964 p. 291-295 on scholar.google.com
  22. ^ University of Rochester - Faculty - Robert L. Holmes Professor Emeritus Professor of Philosophy on sas.rochester.edu
  23. ^ Jr., Paulo Ghiraldelli, (February 2008). Contemporary pragmatism. Rodopi. pp. 111–. ISBN 978-90-420-2371-0. Retrieved 9 August 2011.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ Basic Moral Philosophy. Robert L. Holmes. Holly J. Allen - Wadsworth Cengage Learning, CA, 2007 ISBN 978-0-495-00797-5 on books.google.com
  25. ^ Introduction to Applied Ethics Robert L.Holmes. Bloomsbury, New York 2018 on books.google.com
  26. ^ Kant's Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck Editor: Predrag Cicovacki. Contributor: Robert L. Holmes -"Consequentialism and its Consequences" ,University of Rochester Press, 2001 p. xii, p. 227ISBN 1-58046-053-4 on books.google.com
  27. ^ Nonviolence in Theory and Practice by Robert L. Holmes and Barry L. Gan Waveland Press, 2005 on books.google.com
  28. ^ On War and Morality Robert L. Holmes. Princeton University Press 1989 ISBN 0-691-07794-0 on books.google.com
  29. ^ Philosophica Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy Lewis White beck and Robert L. Holmes. Prentice Hall, 1968 on books.google.com
  30. ^ Holmes, Robert L., (December 2016). Paficism: A Philosophy of Nonviolence. Bloomsbury. pp. 368–. ISBN 978-1-4742-7983-3. Retrieved 4 December 2016.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  31. ^ The Ethics of Nonviolence - Essays by Robert L. Holmes Editor: Predrag Cicovacki Bloomsbury Academic, New York 2013 on books.google.com
  32. ^ The Augustinian Tradition Editor: Gareth B. Matthews. Contributor: Robert L. Holmes - "St. Augustine and the Just War Theory" University of California Press, London, 1999 p. 323 ISBN 0-520-20999-0 on books.google.com
  33. ^ Robert L. Holmes on scholar.google.com
  34. ^ The Philosophical Forum Quarterly- "The Metaethics of Pacifism and Just War Theory" Robert L. Holmes. Wiley-Blackwell January 27, 2015 p. 2-15 on scholar.google.com
  35. ^ International Philosophical Quarterly - "Just War: Principles and Causes" Robert L. Holmes. Philosophy Documentation Center Vol 37 No. 4 December 1997 p. 483-484 on scholar.google.com
  36. ^ The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy - "The Limited Relevance of Analytical Ethics to the Problems of Bioethics" Robert L. Holmes. Oxford Academic Vol. 15 No. 2 April 1990 p. 143-159 on scholar.google.com
  37. ^ Analysis - "Is Morality a System of Hypothetical Imperatives?" Robert L. Holmes Oxford University Press Vol 34 No. 3 January 1974 p. 96-100 on scholar.google.com
  38. ^ Ethics - "University Neutrality and ROTC"Robert L. Holmes. University of Chicago Press Vol. 83 No. 3 April 1973 p. 177 on scholar.google.com
  39. ^ The Journal of Value Inquiry - "John Dewey's Social Ethics" Robert L. Holmes. Vol. 7 No. 4 December 1973 p. 274-280 on scholar.google.com
  40. ^ The Review of Metaphysics - "John Dewey's Moral Philosophy in Contemporary Perspective" Robert L. Holmes. Philosophy Education Society. Vol 20. No. 1 September 1966 p. 42-70 on scholar.google.com
  41. ^ The Monist - "The Development of John Dewey's Ethical Thought"Philosophy Documentation Center Vol. 48 No. 3 July 1964 p. 392-406 on scholar.google.com
  42. ^ Mind - "The Case Against Ethical Naturalism" Robert L. Holmes. Oxford University Press Vol 73 N. 290 April 1964 p. 291-295 on scholar.google.com



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