Dr. Robert Almeder is the inaugural appointment to the Alan McCullough, Jr., Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Political Philosophy at Hamilton College, recently endowed by the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation. The professorship is located in the Philosophy Department and brings specialists in ethics and political philosophy to campus for one-semester (or sometimes full-year) appointments. The McCullough professorship honors Hamilton alumnus Alan (Mac) McCullough, class of 1964.
Almeder is the editor, with James Humber, of Human Cloning (1998, Humana Press). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969. He taught previously at SUNY at Oswego, and then was appointed associate professor in philosophy at Georgia State University in 1972, and professor in philosophy in 1980.
Almeder received the Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor Award for College of Arts and Sciences in 1984, and for the University in l995. He received the Outstanding Educator of America Award in 1973 and is recipient of National Fellowship Award from the Council for Philosophical Studies, two SUNY research grants, and two Georgia Endowment for the Humanities grants to conduct public conferences on bioethical issues. Almeder also received a NSF/CDC grant for research on the method of quantitative risk assessment.
He is editor of The American Philosophical Quarterly and co-editor of the annual book series Biomedical Ethics Reviews. Almeder is the author of many books and articles, including The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: A Critical Introduction (1980); Blind Realism: An Essay on Human Knowledge and Natural Science (1991); Harmless Naturalism (1998); Death and Personal Survival (1992); Human Happiness and Morality: A Brief Introduction to Ethics (2000); Glossary of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (co-authored with James Fetzer, 1992); Business Ethics: Corporate Values and Society (co-edited with M. Snoeyenbos and J. Humber (revised edition 1992), and Biomedical Ethics and the Law (co-edited with J. Humber, 1979).
