RAYMOND ANGELO BELLIOTTI
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PERSONAL: Born: June 17, 1948, Dansville, New York
Military Service: US Military Intelligence, 1971-1974
EDUCATION:
1982 J.D. (cum laude), Harvard Law School
1977 Ph.D. (4.00 cum. GPA), University of Miami
1976 M.A. (4.00 cum. GPA), University of Miami
1970 B.A. (cum laude), Union College
EMPLOYMENT:
Legal:
1982- 1984 Barrett Smith Schapiro Simon Armstrong, New York City, Attorney
1981 Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim, and Ballon, New York City, Summer Associate
Academic:
1999-present State University of New York at Fredonia, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
1991- 1999 State University of New York at Fredonia, Professor
1986- 1991 State University of New York at Fredonia, Associate Professor
1984- 1986 State University of New York at Fredonia, Assistant Professor
1983- 1984 Brooklyn Law School, Adjunct Associate Professor
1980- 1982 Harvard University, Teaching Fellow
1978- 1979 Virginia Commonwealth University, Assistant Professor
1977- 1978 Florida International University, Adjunct Assistant Professor
1976- 1978 Miami-Dade Community College South, Adjunct Instructor
1974- 1976 University of Miami, Teaching Assistant
Administrative and
Committee Experience:
2013-2014 Member, Task Force on Faculty Sabbaticals
2009-2010 Vice-President for Academics, UUP, SUNY Fredonia Chapter
2009-2010 Member, UUP New York State Committee on Academic Affairs
2009-2010 Academic Delegate, UUP New York State
2009-2010 Member, Faculty and Professional Affairs Committee Tenure-Track and Tenured Faculty Subcommittee
2000-2007 Chair, Department of Philosophy
2000-2004 Director, General Education
2000-2004 Chair, College Core Curriculum Committee
2011-present Chair, SUNY Distinguished Professors Promotion Selection Committee
1999-2011 Member, SUNY Distinguished Professors Promotion Selection Committee
2000-2004 Member, College Core Curriculum Assessment Committee
2000- 2002 Executive Committee, Tri-State Philosophical Society
2000- 2002 Member, Oral Communication Committee
1999- 2001 Member, SUNY Chancellor’s Awards Committee
1996- 1997 Chair, Kasling Lecture and Hagan Young Scholar Selection Committees
1996- 1997 Member, Presidential Search Committee
1995- 2002 Chair, Chautauqua Italian American Organization Cultural Committee
1996- 2002 Member, Biomedical Professions Council
1995- present Member, Kasling Lecture and Hagan Young Scholar Selection Committees
1994- 1997 Faculty Advisor, Il Circolo Italiano
1994- 1996 Member, Foreign Language Task Committee
1993- 1994 Chair, SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Selection Committee
1991- 1999 Bias-Related Incident Committee
1991- 1992 Member, Governance Committee
1990- 2009 Member, Rosa Parks Scholarship Selection Committee
1990- 1992 Chair, College Committee on Grading Standards
1990- 1992 Member, Columbus Quincentennial Committee
1990- 1991 Member, Planning and Budget Committee
1990- 1991 Member, Affirmative Action Subcommittee on Grievances
1989- 1990 Chair, College Senate
1989- 1990 Faculty Representative, College Council
1989- 1990 Member, Enrollment Management Committee
1991- 1993 Member, SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Selection Committee
1989- 1990 Member, SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Professor Selection Committee
1988- 1992 Elected Member, College Senate
1988- 1991 Member, Executive Committee, College Senate
1988- 1989 Vice-Chair, College Senate
1988- 1989 Vice-Chair, Governance Committee
1988- 1989 Chair, Italian American Culture and Heritage Committee
1985- 1993 Member, College Judicial Board
1984- 1996 Member, Pre-Law Advisory Committee
1984- 1990 Faculty Advisor, Philosophical Society
1978- 1979 Director, Richmond Area Philosophers
1975- 1976 Director, Miami Forum
CURRICULUM
INFORMATION:
Ph.D. Dissertation Title: An Analysis and Appraisal of the Moral Relevancy of the Distinction Between
Negative and Positive Duties
Dissertation Director: Dr. James W. Rachels
Areas of Specialization:
Philosophy: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law
Areas of Competence:
Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion, Existentialism, History of Philosophy,
Sex & Love, Meaning of Life, Nietzsche, Marx, Socrates, and Plato.
Courses Taught: Introduction to Philosophy, Informal Logic, Contemporary Moral Problems,
Humanities, Renaissance Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of
Law, Ancient Philosophy, Rationalism and Empiricism, Biomedical Ethics,
Epistemology, Philosophy of Education, Current Moral Choices, Ethics,
Formal Logic, Jurisprudence, Lawyers’ Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy,
Crime and Values, Judicial Decisionmaking, Age of Reason, Marxist Thought, American Philosophy, Philosophy of Sport, Philosophy of Sex & Love, Philosophy of
War Seminar, Socrates Seminar, The Italian Americans, Nietzsche Seminar, Philosophy in the World, Plato Seminar, Roman Philosophy, Meaning of Life, Existentialism, Human Happiness, Machiavelli Seminar, Honors Seminar, and Senior Capstone Seminar.
Consultanships: Bioethics Consultant, University of California at Berkeley, Committee for the
Protection of Human Subjects, 1984-1989
Referee, Brown University Press, 1988-1989
Referee, Loyola University of Chicago Press, 1987-1989
Referee, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1988-1989, 1993-2001
Referee, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1986-1989, 1994
Referee, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993-1994
Referee, University Press of Kansas, 1994-1998
Referee, Bioethics (Australia), 1995-1996
Referee, American Business Law Journal, 1995-1996
Referee, W. E. Sharpe Publisher, 1995-1996
Referee, Oxford University Press, 1996-1998
Referee, SUNY Press, 1996-1998
Referee, Journal of Value Inquiry, 1996-2009, 2011-2012 Referee, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1997-1999
Referee, Northern Illinois University Press, 1999
Referee, Routledge Publishers, 2001-2002
Referee, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001-2002
Referee, International Commentary on Evidence, 2006-2007
Referee, Theological Studies, 2013-2014
Referee, University of Georgia Press, 2014-2015
HONORS AND AWARDS:
· SUNY Distinguished Academy Visiting Scholars Program, 2014-present
· SUNY Distance Mentored University Research Scholar, 2012-present
· Member, State University of New York Distinguished Academy, 2012-present
· Selected to present the 7th annualMurray L. Bob Memorial Lecture, Jamestown, NY, 2010.
· New York Council for the Humanities, Speakers in the Humanities
Program, 2006-2014
· SUNY Research Foundation Scholarship Recognition Award, 2002
· State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor, 1999-present
· Editorial Board, Rodopi Editions Value Inquiry Book Series, 2001-present.
· Editorial Advisors Board, Philosophy Now [Great Britain], 1998-present.
· Who’s Who Among American Teachers, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006.
· Kasling Lecture Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, 1995
· William T. Hagan Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, 1991
· State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991
· Harvard Law School Academic Fellowship, 1980-1982
· First Prize, Florida Philosophical Association Manuscript Competition, Graduate Division, 1976
GRANTS:
· SUNY Fredonia Professional Development Grant, 1987, 1992
· NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1986
· SUNY-UUP Faculty Development Grant, 1985, 1993, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014
· SUNY Fredonia Released Time Research Grant, 1985
· University of Miami Fellowship, 1976-1977
PUBLICATIONS:
Books: Justifying Law: The Debate Over Foundations, Goals, and Methods
(Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992).
Good Sex: Perspectives on Sexual Ethics (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993); Korean edition, translated by Professor Seunghoe Koo (Seoul, Korea: Minumsa Publishing Company, 2000).
Seeking Identity: Individualism versus Community in an Ethnic Context
(Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995).
Stalking Nietzsche (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998).
What is the Meaning of Human Life? (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Value Inquiry Book Series, Rodopi Publishers, 2001). Finalist for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy’s Book of the Year Award.
Happiness is Overrated (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004).
The Philosophy of Baseball: How to Play the Game of Life (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006).
Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy: The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2008).
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Laughing Lion & The Strutting Fox (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008).
Roman Philosophy and the Good Life (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009).
Dante’s Deadly Sins: Moral Philosophy in Hell (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2011).
Posthumous Harm: Why the Dead are Still Vulnerable (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011).
Shakespeare and Philosophy: Lust, Love, and Law (Amsterdam, Netherlands, Value Inquiry Book Series: Philosophy, Literature and Politics, Rodopi Publishers, 2012).
Jesus or Nietzsche: How Should We Live Our Lives? (Amsterdam, Netherlands, Value Inquiry Book Series: Ethical Theory and Practice, Rodopi Publishers, 2013).
Jesus the Radical: The Parables and Modern Morality (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013).
Machiavelli’s Secret: The Soul of the Statesman (Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press, 2015).
Why Philosophy Matters: 20 Lessons on Living Large (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2015).
Power: Oppression, Subservience, and Resistance (Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press, 2016).
Articles: “Negative Duties, Positive Duties, and Rights,” The Southern Journal of
Philosophy 16 (1978): 581-588
“Machiavelli and Machiavellianism,” Journal of Thought 13 (1978): 293-300
“Do Dead Humans Have Rights?” The Personalist 60 (1979): 201-210. Reprinted in The Crisis in Health Care, edited by Nancy F. McKenzie (New York: Meridian Books, 1990).
“Perspectives on Death,” Sociological Research Symposium 9 (1979): 256-258
“A Philosophical Analysis of Sexual Ethics,” Journal of Social Philosophy 10
(1979): 8-11. Reprinted in Philosophy for a Changing Society, edited by
Creighton Pedan (Advocate Press, 1983); Ethics: Theory and Practice, edited
by M. Velasquez and C. Rostankowski (Prentice Hall 1985); Social Ethics, edited by Thomas Mappes and Jane Zembaty (McGraw Hill, 1982); Moral
Choices: Ethical Theories and Problems, edited by Joseph Grcic (West
Publishing Co, 1989); Philosophy: A Text with Readings, edited by
Manual Velasquez (Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1994); Philosophy: Concepts
and Assumptions, edited by S. Spector (Simon & Schuster, 1997): and
The Moral Life, edited by Louis Pojman (Oxford University Press, 2000)
“Women, Sex, and Sports,” The Journal of the Philosophy of Sport [Canada]
6 (1979): 67-72. Reprinted in Philosophic Inquiry in Sport, edited by William
Morgan and Klaus Meier (Human Kinetics Publishers, 1988); Ethics in Sport, edited by William Morgan, Klaus Meier, and Angela Schneider (Human Kinetics Publishers, 2003, 2007)
“The Moral Symmetry Principle and the Duty Correspondence Principle,”
The Journal of Critical Analysis 7 (1979): 135-142
“Lawyers, Ethics, and Advocacy,” Values in the Law (1980) (Proceedings:
XIV Conference on Value Inquiry)
“Morality and In Vitro Fertilization,” Bioethics Quarterly 2 (1980): 6-19
“Contributing to Famine Relief and Sending Poisoned Food,” The Philosophical
Forum 12 (1980): 20-32.
“Moral Assessment and the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources,” Man and
Medicine: The Journal of Values and Ethics in Health Care 5 (1980): 251-262
“Reply to Palmer and Hyman,” Man and Medicine: The Journal of Values and
Ethics in Health Care 5 (1980): 270-272
“Negative and Positive Duties,” Theoria [Sweden] 47 (1981): 82-92
“The Philosophical and Ethical Dimensions of Parent-Initiated Schools,”
Journal of Social Philosophy 12 (1981): 3-7
“Values in the Courtroom: Two Kinds of Judicial Systems,” Westminster Institute
Review [Canada] 1 (1981): 3-5
“Killing, Letting Die, and Thomson,” Critica {Mexico] 14 (1982): 61-74
“Sports, Sex-Equality, and the Media,” in Women, Philosophy, and Sport, edited
by B. C. Postow (London: Scarecrow Press, 1983)
“Toward a Theory of Judicial Decisionmaking: A Synthesis of Ideologist
Jurisprudence and Doctrinalism,” The Catholic Lawyer 28 (1983): 215-252
“Baby Fae: A Beastly Business,” Journal of Medical Ethics [England]
11 (1985): 178-183 (coauthored). Reprinted in Peter Singer and Helga
Kuhse (eds.), Bioethics News 6 (1986): 18-23
“Gloom and Doom: Executing the Eighth Amendment,” The International
Journal of Applied Philosophy 3 (1986): 43-57
“Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother and To Thine Own Self Be True,”
The Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (1986): 149-162
“The Rule of Law and the Critical Legal Studies Movement,”
University of Western Ontario Law Review [Canada] 24 (1986): 67-78
“Is Law a Sham?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
48 (1987): 25-44
“Critical Legal Studies: The Paradoxes of Indeterminacy and Nihilism,”
Philosophy and Social Criticism 13 (1987): 145-154
“Our Adversary System: In Search of a Foundation,” Canadian Journal
of Law and Jurisprudence 1 (1988): 19-34
“Parents and Children: A Reply to Narveson,” The Southern Journal of
Philosophy 26 (1988): 285-292
“Marxism, Feminism, and Surrogate Motherhood,” Social Theory and
Practice 14 (1988): 389-417
“Radical Politics and Nonfoundational Morality,” International Philosophical
Quarterly 29 (1989): 33-51
“Blood is Thicker than Water: Don’t Forsake the Family Jewels,”
Philosophical Papers [South Africa] 18 (1989): 265-280
“Beyond Capitalism and Communism: Roberto Unger’s Superliberal
Political Theory,” Praxis International 9 (1989): 321-334
“Two Paradoxes for Machiavelli,” in Terrorism, Justice and Social Values,
edited by Creighton Pedan and Yeager Hudson (Lewiston, NY:
The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990) (coauthored)
“Sexual Morality,” in A Companion to Ethics, edited by Peter Singer
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991)
“Marxist Jurisprudence: Historical Necessity and Radical Contingency,”
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 4 (1991): 145-164
“Moral Decisionmaking in Medicine,” Theoretical Medicine 12 (1991):
281-293 (coauthored)
“The Legacy of Marxist Jurisprudence,” in Radical Philosophy of Law,
edited by Stephen Gold and David Caudill (Atlantic Highlands, NJ:
Humanities Press International, 1995)
“Are All Modern Wars Morally Wrong?” Journal of Social Philosophy
26 (1995): 17-31
“Campus Speech Codes,” in Censorship, edited by Lawrence Amey, Timothy
Hall, Carl Jensen, Charles May, and Richard Wilson (Pasadena, CA:
Salem Press, 1997)
“Ethnic Studies,” in Censorship, edited by Lawrence Amey, Timothy
Hall, Carl Jensen, Charles May, and Richard Wilson (Pasadena, CA:
Salem Press, 1997)
“Who Are We?” in Ambassador [Italy] 29/30 (1996): 18-21. Reprinted in
Italian Heritage News 3 (1998): 4-10; Race and Ethnic Relations,
edited by John A. Kromkowski (New York: McGraw Hill, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
“The Marxist Critique of Marriage,” in Philosophy of Sex and Love,
edited by Robert Trevas, Arthur Zucker, Donald Borchert (Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc. 1997)
“Legal Interpretation and Argumentation,” in The Philosophy of Law:
An Encyclopedia, edited by Christopher Gray (New York: Garland
Publishing, 1999)
“Justification in Legal Argument,” in The Philosophy of Law:
An Encyclopedia, edited by Christopher Gray (New York: Garland
Publishing, 1999)
“Community and the Constitution,” in The Philosophy of Law:
An Encyclopedia, edited by Christopher Gray (New York: Garland
Publishing, 1999)
“Sexual Morality in Five Tiers,” in Sexuality, edited by Karen Lebacqz
(Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1999). Reprinted in Human Sexuality,
edited by Tina Miracle, Andrew Miracle, and Roy Baumeister (Englewood