Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, Ohio 44555

(330) 941-3447 (office)
(330) 726-2502 (home)
bnwaller@ysu.edu

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A.,1975; Ph.D.,1979 Philosophy

State University of New York at Albany, 1970-1972

Louisiana Tech, B.A.,1968

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Ethics, Bioethics, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Logic, Philosophy of Mind, History of Modern Philosophy, American Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Youngstown State University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, 1990-present
Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, 2006-present

Elon College, Department of Philosophy,1978-1990
Chair, Department of Philosophy, 1982-1986
Daniels-Danieley Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1984-85

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Instructor, Philosophy, 1976-1977

PUBLICATIONS

You Decide: Current Debates in Criminal Justice (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, forthcoming).

With Robyn Repko, “Informed Consent: Good Medicine, Dangerous Side Effects,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics (forthcoming, 2008).

“Sincere Apology without Moral Responsibility,” Social Theory and Practice, Volume 33, Number 3 (July, 2007).

Consider Ethics, 2nd Ed. (New York: Longman Publishing, 2007).

You Decide: Current Debates in Introductory Philosophy (New York: Longman Publishing, 2007).

“Denying Responsibility without Making Excuses,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43 (2006): 81-89.

You Decide: Current Debates in Ethics (New York: Longman Publishing, 2006).

Coffee and Philosophy (New York: Pearson Longman, 2006).

You Decide: Current Debates in Contemporary Moral Problems (New York: Longman Publishing, 2006).

“Responsibility and Health,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Volume 14 (2005): 177-188.

Consider Ethics (New York: Longman Publishing, 2005).

Critical Thinking: Consider The Verdict, 5th Ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2005).

“Neglected Psychological Elements of Free Will,” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Volume 11 (June 2004): 111-118.

“Comparing Psychoanalytic and Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives on Control,” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Volume 11 (June 2004).

“Chanelle, Sabrina and the Oboe,” in Thomas A. Shipka, ed., Philosophy: Paradox and Discovery, 5th Edition (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004). Reprinted in Gary E. Kessner, ed., Voices of Wisdom, 6th Edition (Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth, 2006).

“Empirical Free Will and the Ethics of Moral Responsibility,”The Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 37 (2004): 533-542.

“Virtue Unrewarded: Morality Without Moral Responsibility,” Philosophia, Volume 31 (October 2004): 427- 447.

“The Almost Invisible Ghost in the Moral Responsibility Machine,” Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 29 (2004).

“The Sad Truth: Optimism, Pessimism, and Pragmatism,” Ratio, Volume 16, No. 2 (June 2003): 189-197.

“A Metacompatibilist Account of Free Will: Making Compatibilists and Incompatibilists More Compatible,” Philosophical Studies, Volume 112, Number 2/3 (2003): 209-224.

“The Psychological Structure of Patient Autonomy,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Volume 11 (2002): 257-65.

“Classifying and Analyzing Analogies,” Informal Logic, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2001): 199-218.

“Patient Autonomy Naturalized,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 44, Number 4 (Autumn 2001).

Fourth Edition of Critical Thinking: Consider The Verdict (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2001).

"Deep Thinkers, Cognitive Misers, and Moral Responsibility," Analysis, Volume 59, Number 4 (October 1999).

"Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Control," in Bruce A. Thyer, editor, The Philosophical Legacy of Behaviorism (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999).

Third Edition of Critical Thinking: Consider The Verdict (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998).

The Natural Selection of Autonomy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998).

Review of Timely Topics (by George N. Schlesinger), Philosophia, Volume 26, Numbers 3-4, March 1998.

"What Rationality Adds to Animal Morality," Biology & Philosophy, Volume 12, Number 3, July 1997.

"Moral Commitment Without Objectivity or Illusion," Biology & Philosophy, Volume 11, 1996.

"Authenticity Naturalized," Behavior and Philosophy, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 1995.

"Abortion and In Vitro Fertilization," Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 1995, pages 111-120.

"Pattern Proliferation in Teleological Behaviorism," Commentary on Howard Rachlin's "Self-Control: Beyond Commitment," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Spring 1995.

"Noncognitivist Moral Realism," Philosophia, Volume 24, Numbers 1-2, December 1994, pages 57-75.

With Brendan Minogue, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, and Larry Udell, "Individual Autonomy and the Double-Blind Controlled Experiment: The Case of Desperate Volunteers," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Volume 20, 1994, pages 43-55.

"Unravelling and Reweaving Free Will: A Review of The Non-Reality of Free Will," Behavior and Philosophy, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1993, pages 95-97.

Second Edition of Critical Thinking: Consider The Verdict (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1993).

"Review of Walton's Slippery Slope Arguments," in Mind, 1993.

"Natural Autonomy and Alternative Possibilities," American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 1, January 1993, pages 73-83.

"Responsibility and the Self-Made Self," Analysis, Volume 53, January 1993, pages 45-51. Translated into Polish and published in Philosophy of Morality, by Fundacja ALETHEIA, 1997.

"In Defense of Freedom without Responsibility: Response to Critics," Behavior and Philosophy, Volume 20, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1992, pages 83-87.

"Moral Conversion Without Moral Realism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Number 3 (1992), pages 129-137.

"Review of On Becoming Responsible," Review of Metaphysics, Spring, 1992.

"Advocacy and Fallacy," The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 6, Number 2, Winter 1991, pages 47-51.

Freedom Without Responsibility, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). Sections of this book have been reprinted in Philosophy: Paradox and Discovery, 4th Edition, Thomas A. Shipka, editor (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995.)
"From Hemlock to Lethal Injection: The Case for Self- Execution," The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 1989, pages 53-58.

"Uneven Starts and Just Deserts," Analysis, Volume 49, Number 4, October 1989, pages 209-213. Reprinted in Reason and Responsibility, 9th edition, Joel Feinberg, editor (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995).

"Denying Responsibility: The Difference it Makes," Analysis, Volume 49, Number 1, January 1989, pages 44-47.

"Free Will Gone Out of Control," Behaviorism, Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 1988, pages 149-157.

Critical Thinking: Consider The Verdict (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1988).

"Hard Determinism and the Principle of Vacuous Contrast," Metaphilosophy, Volume 19, Number 1, January, 1988, pages 65-69.

"Just and Nonjust Deserts," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 25, Number 2, Summer 1987, pages 229-238.

"The Virtues of Contemporary Emotivism," Erkenntnis, Volume 25, 1986, pages 61-75.

"Critical Review of Aspects of Time," Philosophia, Volume 16, Number 1, April 1986, pages 111-114.

"Deliberating About the Inevitable," Analysis, Volume 45, Number 1, January 1985, pages 48-52.

"Determined Self-Intervention," New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 3, Number 1, January 1985, pages 19-26.

"Daniel Dennett on Responsibility," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 1984, pages 413-423.

"Purposes, Conditioning, and Skinner's Moral Theory," The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 14, Number 3, October 1984, pages 355-362.

"Determinism and Behaviorist Epistemology," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 20, Number 4, Winter 1982, pages 513-532.

"Mentalistic Problems in Cicourel's Cognitive Sociology," The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 12, Number 2, July 1982, pages 177-199.

"Skinner's Two Stage Value Theory," Behaviorism, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 1982, pages 25-44.

"Carnap and Quine on the Distinction between External and Internal Questions," Philosophical Studies, Volume 33, Number 3, April 1978, pages 301-312.

"Chomsky, Wittgenstein, and the Behaviorist Perspective on Language," Behaviorism, Volume5, Number 1, Spring 1977, pages 43-59.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Eastern and Central Divisions of the American Philosophical Association, Southern Association for Philosophy and Psychology, Mid-South Philosophy Conference; invited university lectures on topics in free will and moral responsibility; numerous local and regional presentations/lectures/workshops on bioethical issues, environmental ethics, issues of social ethics, and critical thinking.

EDITORIAL WORK
Consulting Editor, Behaviorism, 1985-1997.

Editorial adviser/reviewer for Blackwell's, Longman’s, M.I.T. Press, Oxford University Press, Prentice-Hall, Wadsworth, Behavior and Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Environment and Values, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Journal of Philosophical Research, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and Philosophia.