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Background:
Susan Leigh Anderson received her A.B. from Vassar
College and Ph.D. in Philosophy from U.C.L.A..
One of the creators, and past director, of the
Stamford Campus Honors Program, she specializes
in Applied Ethics, Nineteenth Century Philosophy,
and Philosophy in Literature. She has published
three books in the Wadsworth Philosophers Series
(On Kierkegaard, On Mill and On
Dostoyevsky), logic software (ProofReader and ProofReader+),
and numerous articles on such topics as the Self,
free will, moral responsibility, medical and business
ethics, equality of opportunity, and the individualism
vs. collectivism debate. Her current research,
supported by the National Science Foundation, is
on “Machine Ethics.” It involves attempting
to make ethics computable so that it can be incorporated
into intelligent machines.
Expertise:
The Self, Applied Ethics, Critical Reasoning/Logic,
19th Century Philosophy, Philosophy in Literature
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