Location: AL-432
Phone: (619) 594-6251
Email: acorlett@mail.sdsu.edu

Office Hours:
Mon-Tues 9:45pm-11pm, or until the last student is seen.

Publications

Refereed Books:

Racism and Responsibility (In progress).

Rights, Justice, and Liberty (Under review).

Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues (Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2005).

Terrorism: A Philosophical Analysis (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003). Philosophical Studies Series, Volume 101.

Race, Racism, and Reparations (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).

Responsibility and Punishment (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers and Springer, 2001, 2004, 2006). Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, Volume 9.

Analyzing Social Knowledge (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers, 1996).  Endorsed by Steve Fuller and Margaret Gilbert.

Refereed Articles:

“Interpreting Plato Socratically” (In progress).

 “What’s Love Got to do With It? A Reply to Professor Ronald Sundstrom, ‘Love and Racism: A Comment on Corlett, Race, Racism, and Reparations’” (Under review).

 “Epistemic Responsibility” (Under review).

 “The Foundations of Social Epistemology” (Under review).

 “Was 9/11 Morally Justified?” (Under review).

 “Forgiveness, Apology, and Punishment” American Philosophical Quarterly, 43 (2006), forthcoming.

 “The Philosophy of Joel Feinberg,” The Journal of Ethics, 10 (2006), forthcoming.

 “Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy,” in Jorge Gracia, Editor, Black Ethnicity/Latino Race? forthcoming.

“Ruminations on Reparations” in Howard McGary, Editor, Reparations (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, forthcoming).

“The Good Professor,” Journal of Academic Ethics, 4 (2006), forthcoming.

“Race, Racism, and Reparations,” Journal of Social Philosophy, XXXVI (2005), forthcoming.

“Ethical Issues in Journal Peer-Review,” Journal of Academic Ethics, 3 (2005), forthcoming.

 “’For All My Niggaz and Bitches’,” in Hip Hop and Philosophy, Tommie Shelby and Derrick Darby, Editors (LaSalle: Open Court, 2005), forthcoming.

“The Marxist Critique of Human Rights,” Essential Guide to Human Rights, Christien van den Anker, Emma Dowling and Rhona Smith, Editors (Hodder Arnold, 2004), forthcoming.

“Is The Passion of the Christ Racist? Due Process, Responsibility, and Punishment,” The Passion of the Christ and Philosophy, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Editor (LaSalle: Open Court, 2004), pp. 101-10.

“Making More Sense of Retributivism: Desert as Responsibility and Proportionality,” Philosophy (Royal Institute of Philosophy, London), 78 (2003), pp. 277-85.

“Wrongdoing, Reparations, and Native Americans,” in Rodney C. Roberts, Editor, Injustice and Rectification (New York: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 147-64.

“Foundations of a Theory of Hate Speech,” Wayne Law Review, 48 (2002), 1-34.

 “The Nature and Value of the Moral Right to Privacy,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 16 (2002), pp. 329-50.

 “Collective Moral Responsibility,” Journal of Social Philosophy, XXXIII (2002), pp. 573-84. Reprinted in Aleksandar Jokic, Editor, From History to Justice (New York: Peter Lang, 2001), pp. 305-18.

“Latino/a Identity,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, 1 (2001), pp. 97-104.

“Reparations to Native Americans?” in Aleksander Jokic, Editor, War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing (London: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), pp. 236-69.

“Making Sense of Retributivism,” Philosophy (Royal Institute of Philosophy, London), 76 (2001), pp. 76-110.

“Surviving Evil: Jewish, African, and Native-Americans,” Journal of Social Philosophy, XXXII (2001), pp. 207-23.

“Is There a Moral Duty to Die?” Health Care Analysis (London), 9 (2001), pp. 41-63.

“Dworkin's Empire Strikes Back!” Statute Law Review (Oxford), 21 (2000), pp. 43-56.

“Political Violence and Collective Responsibility,” Filozofske Studije (Serbia), XXXII (2000).

“Latino Identity and Affirmative Action,” in Jorge J. L. Gracia and Pablo DeGrieff, Editors, Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 223-34.

“Secession and Native Americans,” Peace Review, 12 (2000), pp. 5-14.

“Analyzing the Moral Duty to Die,” Biomedical Ethics Review (Totowa: Humana Press, 2000), pp. 117-34.

“Latino Identity,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 13 (1999), pp. 273-95.

“The Morality and Constitutionality of Secession,” Journal of Social Philosophy, XXIX (1998), pp. 120-28.

“Analyzing Racism,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 12 (1998), pp. 23-50.

“Epistemologia Sociale e Filosofia Sociale,” (“Social Epistemology and Social Philosophy,”) Fenomenologia e societa (Lead article in a special issue devoted to social epistemology), XXI (1998), pp. 2-10.

“A Marxist Approach to Business Ethics,” Journal of Business Ethics, 17 (1998), pp. 99-103.

“Interpreting Plato's Dialogues,” The Classical Quarterly, 47 (1997), pp. 423-37.

“What is Civil Disobedience?” Philosophical Papers, XXVII (1997), pp. 241-59.

“Corporate Punishment and Responsibility,” Journal of Social Philosophy, XXVIII (1997), pp. 86-100.

“Parallels of Ethnicity and Gender,” in Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference, and Interplay, Edited by N. Zack (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 83-93.

“Can Terrorism Be Morally Justified?” Public Affairs Quarterly, 10 (1996), pp. 163-84.

“Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Damage,” Environmental Ethics, 18 (1996), pp. 195-207.

“Marx and Rights,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 33 (1994), pp. 377-89.

“Goldman and the Foundations of Social Epistemology,” Argumentation, 8 (1994), pp. 145-56.

“The Problem of Collective Moral Rights,” The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 7 (1994), pp. 237-60.

“Foundations of a Kantian Theory of Punishment,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 31 (1993), pp. 263-83. Abstract published in Kant-Studien.

“Racism and Affirmative Action,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 24 (1993), pp. 163-75.

“The Right to Civil Disobedience and the Right to Secede,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 30 (1992), pp. 17-28.

“Collective Punishment and Public Policy,” Journal of Business Ethics, 11 (1992), pp. 207-16.

“Epistemology and Experimental Cognitive Psychology,” New Ideas in Psychology, 9 (1991), pp. 327-34.

“Some Connections Between Epistemology and Cognitive Psychology,” lead symposium article in New Ideas in Psychology, 9 (1991), pp. 285-306.

“Social Epistemology and Social Cognition,” Social Epistemology, 5 (1991), pp. 135-49.

“Epistemology, Cognitive Psychology, and Goldman,” a lead symposium article in Social Epistemology, 5 (1991), pp. 91-100. 

“A Dialectical Interpretation of the Concept of Art as Mimesis in the Republic,” Idealistic Studies, 21 (1991), pp. 155-69.

“Does Ambiguity Lurk Behind the Veil of Ignorance in Rawls' Original Position?” in J. Angelo Corlett, Editor, Equality and Liberty: Analyzing Rawls and Nozick (London: Macmillan Press, Ltd., and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), pp. 174-95.

“Knowing and Believing in the Original Position,” Theory and Decision, 27 (1989), pp. 241-56.

“Is Kripke's Puzzle Really a Puzzle?” Theoria, 55 (1989), pp. 95-113.

“Corporate Responsibility and Punishment,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 2 (1988), pp. 1-16.

“Schefflerian Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility,” Journal of Business Ethics, 7 (1988), pp. 631-38.

Refereed Critical Discussions:

“Evil,” Analysis, 64 (2004), pp. 81-4.

“Fingarette and the Disease Concept of Alcoholism,” Theoretical Medicine, 11 (1990), pp. 243-50.

“The ‘Modified Vendetta Sanction’ as a Method of Corporate-Collective Punishment,” Journal of Business Ethics, 8 (1989), pp. 937-42.

“Alienation in Capitalist Society,” Journal of Business Ethics, 7 (1988), pp. 699-701.

“French on Corporate Punishment: Some Problems,” Journal of Business Ethics, 7 (1988), pp. 205-10. Anthologized in Anthony Serafini, Editor, Ethics and Social Concern (Paragon House, 1989); Thomas I. White, Editor, Business Ethics: A Philosophical Reader (New York: Macmillan, 1993), pp. 287-93; Deborah Poff and W. Wiluchow, Editors, Business Ethics in Canada, 3^rd Edition (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1999).

“Perloff, Utilitarianism, and Existentialism: Some Problems With Self-Interest and Personal Responsibility,” American Psychologist, 43 (1988), pp. 481-3.

“Albee, Rawls, and Justice,” American Psychologist, 42 (1987), pp. 826-8.

Refereed Anthology:

Equality and Liberty: Analyzing Rawls and Nozick (London: Macmillan Press, Ltd., and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991).

Invited Philosophical Publications:

“Review of Thompson, Taking Responsibility for the Past,” Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, 23 (2003), pp. 302-04.

“Review of Cane, Responsibility in Law and Morality,” Mind, 112 (2003), 328-331.

“Review of Holt, The Problem of Race in the 21^st Century,” Philosophical Inquiry (Greece), 23 (2001), pp. 161-7.

“Review of Melzer, Weinberger and Zinman, Editors, Multiculturalism,” Ethics, 110 (1999), p. 249.

“Review of Francisco Gonzalez, The Third Way, Journal of the History of Philosophy, XXXV (1997), pp. 458-60.

“Collective Punishment,” Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, Edited by Patricia Werhane and R. Edward Freeman (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), pp. 117-20.

“Collective Responsibility,” Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, Edited by Patricia Werhane and R. Edward Freeman (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), pp. 120-5.

“Political Integration, Political Separation, and the African-American Experience: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X on Social Change,” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 21 (1995), pp. 191-208.

“Review of William R. Shadish and Steve Fuller, Editors, The Social Psychology of Science,” Philosophical Psychology, 8 (1995), pp. 199-201.

“On the Recruitment of African-Americans into Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, 93 (1994), pp. 15-9.

“Review of Larry May, The Morality of Groups,” Journal of Business Ethics, 8 (1989), pp. 772, 792, 816.