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Roger Paden
Roger Paden received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1981. He specializes in Political Theory, Ethics, and Environmental Ethics and has published over 50 articles in these fields in such journals as Social Theory and Practice, Public Affairs Quarterly, Ethics and International Affairs, and Philosophy and Geography. These include: “Urban Planning and Multiple Preference Schedules: On R. M. Hare's ‘Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning,’” “Social Security, Social Insurance, and Social Justice,” “Rawls’s Just Savings Principle and the Sense of Justice,” “Reciprocity and Intergenerational Justice,” “Hare’s Reductive Justification of Preference Utilitarianism,” “Medical Technology and a Narrativist Conception of a Good Life and a Good Death,” “Free Trade and Environmental Economics,” “Against Grand Theory in Environmental Ethics,” “Deconstructing Speciesism: The Domain Specific Nature of Moral Judgment,” “Nature and Morality,” “Welfare Policy and ‘the Moral Depravity of the Poor’,” “Moral Metaphysics, Moral Revolutions, and Environmental Ethics,” “Hare’s Ethical Formalism,” “Drug Testing and the Nature of Athletics,” and “Abortion and Sexual Morality.” He has also written a book entitled, Mysticism and Architecture: Wittgenstein and the Palais Stonborough (Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)) and is working on a book on the political philosophy and urban planning, entitled, Ideal Cities and Utopian Societies.