Dr. Richard M. Buck Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Mount Saint Mary's University 300 Bradley Hall 301-447-5368 Office Hours (fall 06): MW 11:00-12:30; M,T,W 3:30-4:30 Curriculum Vitae Minor in Legal Studies

Teaching and Research Interests

• Social and Political Philosophy
• Ethics
• Business Ethics
• Philosophy of Law
• Contemporary Jewish Philosophy (esp. the work of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik, ZT"L

 Courses

 Fall 2006

• PHIL 211: From Cosmos to Citizen
• PHIL 301: Moral Philosophy: Exemplifications in Business
• PHIL 400: Political Liberalism: Rawls and his Critics

Spring 2007

• PHIL 212: From Self to Society--Individual and Community
• PHIL 301: Moral Philosophy: Business Ethics
• PHIL 326: Philosophy of Law

Research
"Religion, Identity, and Political Legitimacy," (currently under review)
"Beyond Retribution: Reasonable Responses to Terror," in War and Terrorism (ed. John R. Rowan, Philosophy Documentation Center, 2004)
"Sincerity and Reconciliation in Public Reason," in Communication, Conflict, and Reconciliation (ed. Cheryl Hughes and James B. Wong, Philosophy Documentation Center, 2003)

Reviews
Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, Why Deliberative Democracy? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), in Contemporary Political Theory (forthcoming)
Shaun P. Young, Beyond Rawls: An Analysis of the Concept of Political Liberalism (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003), in The Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 38 (2004), 425-431.
Brian S. Hook and Russell R. Reno, Heroism and the Christian Life (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), in Journal of Religion and Society, vol. 4 (2002).