Gordon Hull

Gordon Hull

431 Catt Hall
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-5400

Email: ghull@iastate.edu

Courses – Case Studies - Articles – Forthcoming Articles – Working Papers - Conferences

Links – Computer Ethics Text

Teaching

Complete course materials are on WebCT

Here are the syllabi for the courses I am teaching in Fall 2007:

· Phil. 330 (Ethical Theory)

· Phil. 343 (Philosophy of Technology)

Many of the case studies I use in my 230 (Moral Theory and Practice) classes are available here.

Here is the textbook I wrote for a “Computers and Ethics” Course. I haven’t updated it since 2000.

· An Introduction to Issues in Computes, Ethics and Policy

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Research

Articles:

“Hobbes’s Radical Nominalism,” Epoché 11 (2006), 201-223.

“Capital sive natura: Spinoza and the Immanence of Empire,” International Studies in Philosophy 37 (2005), 29-48.

“Hobbes and the Pre-Modern Geometry of Modern Political Thought,” in Arts of Calculation: Numerical Thought in Early Modern Europe, eds. David Glimp and Michelle Warren (St. Martins/Palgrave, 2004), 115-135. <Preprint; Palgrave requires the following statement be displayed: “This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been reviewed or edited. The definitive version of this extract may be found in the work [cited above] which can be purchased from www.palgrave.com”>

“Digital Copyright and the Possibility of Pure Law,” qui parle 14 (2003), 21-47. <qui parle site> (or try: http://quiparle.berkeley.edu)

“Thoughts on the Fetishization of Cyberspeech and Turn from ‘Public’ to ‘Private’ Law,” Constellations 10 (2003), 113-134. <via Blackwell>

“Digital Media and the Scope of ‘Computer Ethics,’” in Virtual Morality: Morals, Ethics, and New Media, ed. Mark J. P. Wolf (New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 17-38.

“’Against this Empusa:’ Hobbes’s Leviathan and the Book of Job,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2002), 3-29. <via Taylor and Francis>

“Marx’s Anomalous Reading of Spinoza,” Interpretation 28 (2000), 17-31.

“’Reduced to a Zero Point:’ Benjamin’s Critique of Kantian Historical Experience,” The Philosophical Forum 31 (2000), 163-186. <via Blackwell>

“The Jewish Question Revisited: Marx, Derrida and Ethnic Nationalism,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 23 (1997), 47-78.

Forthcoming Articles:

“Overblocking Autonomy: The Case of Mandatory Library Filtering Software,” Continental Philosophy Review (special issue on philosophy of law, ed. Nick Smith)

“Loving Well: Affective Economics in Hobbes, Locke and Spinoza,” North American Spinoza Society Monograph.

“Platonism, Spinoza and the History of Deconstruction,” in Theory after Derrida, eds. Kailash C. Baral, R. Radhakrishnan and Bichitrananda Rayto.

Working Papers (on my SSRN page):

“Clearing the rubbish: Locke, the Waste Proviso, and the Moral Justification of Intellectual Property”

“Normative Aspects of a ‘Substantive’ Precautionary Principle”

“One View of the Dungeon: Torture and the Ticking Time Bomb between Governmentality and Sovereignty”

Conference Presentations:

“One View of the Dungeon: Torture and the Ticking Time Bomb between Governmentality and Sovereignty,” SPEP (Nov. 2007).

“Hobbes’s Leviathan and the Collapse of the Aristotelian Nature/Art Distinction,” Iowa Philosophical Society (Cedar Rapids, IA, Oct. 2007).

“Toward a Substantive Precautionary Principle,” Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Mini-Conference, Iowa State Univ. (June 25, 2007) (invited paper).

“Framing Spinoza’s Nominalism,” APA Central/North American Spinoza Society (April, 2007).

“Locke’s Shadow Example of Property,” Iowa Philosophical Association (Sept. 2006)

“Spinoza in a Fabulous Red Scarf: Judith Butler on the Fragility of Conatus,” SPEP (Oct. 2005)

“Property and Spinoza’s Scientia Intuitiva,” APA Eastern Division (Dec. 2004).

“’Platonism’ and Counter-Memorial, 1968,” SPEP (Oct. 2004).

“Early Modern Ghosts of Propter Quid,” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (Sept. 2004).

“Spinoza and the Immanence of Empire,” SPEP (Nov. 2003)

“Descartes contra Spinoza on Individuation,” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Sept. 2003)

“Spinoza and Hobbes Redux,” APA Eastern Division (Dec. 2002)

“Ockham on Quantification,” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (Sept. 2002).

“Machiavelli on Exemplary History,” Patristic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies Conference (Sept. 28-30, 2001).

“Hobbes and the Pre-modern Geometry of Modern Political Thought,” Arts of Calculation (10^th Annual Medieval, Baroque and Renaissance Colloquium, University of Miami, Feb. 2001); longer version given as an invited colloquium paper at University of Colorado, Denver (Oct. 10, 2001).

“Totality or Spinoza.” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Dec., 2000.

“Cyberspace and the Possibility of Pure Law.” Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nov. 9-10, 2000.

“Marx on the Covert Theology of Modern Liberalism.” Rethinking Marxism 2000, Sept. 21-24, 2000.

“Marx’s Anomalous Reading of Spinoza.” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Dec., 1999.

“De Bèze at the Limits of ‘Medieval’ Political Philosophy.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Oct. 28-31, 1999.

“Hobbes and the Book of Job.” APA Pacific Division Meeting, Mar. 31 – Apr. 3, 1999.

“Thinking through Sexual Difference: Toward a Non-Essentialist Reading of Irigaray.” Women and Power (Middle Tennessee State University), Feb. 19-20,1999.

“Bacon and Hobbes.” Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nov. 6-7, 1998.

“Whose Commitment, Which Community? MacIntyre and Argumentative Defense.” Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nov. 6-7, 1998.

“The Entmenschte Mensch: Marx’s Interrogation of Represented Bodies.” After the Body: An International Conference on Religion, Culture and Gender, Manchester, UK, June 22-25, 1998.

“Historicity, Contexture and Chairman Mao: Rethinking History and Necessity.” Thinking Through History, annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, March 31 – April 2, 1998.

Links

Historical Texts

· spinoza Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale)