James P. Sterba
Professor of Philosophy
Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574)-631-5231
E-Mail: sterba.1@nd.edu
Office: 225 Malloy/316 Kroc Institute
Office Hours: 3:30-4:30 Mondays; 1:00 - 2:00 Tuesdays
Education:
Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Areas of Interest:
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy
of Peace and Justice
Selected Bibliography
Books:
- Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? (2008)
- The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics (Oxford 2005)
Affirmative Action and Racial Preference (Oxford 2003) - Three Challenges to Ethics (Oxford 2001)
- Justice for Here and Now (Cambridge 1998) -- 1998 Book of the Year Award
- Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy (Wadsworth 1994)
- How to Make People Just (Rowman & Littlefield 1988)
Edited Books:
- Ethics, 2nd edition (Blackwell, 2009)
- Morality in Practice, 7th edition (Wadsworth 2004)
- Terrorism and International Justice (Oxford 2003)
- Justice: Alternative Political Perspectives, 4th ed. (Wadsworth 2003)
- Social and Political Philosophy: Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives, 3rd edition, (Oxford 2002)
- Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers, (Oxford 2000)
- Earth Ethics, 2nd edition (Prentice-Hall 1999)
- Feminist Philosophies, 2nd edition (Prentice-Hall 1998)
Recent Articles:
- "Completing the Kantian Project: From Rationality to Equality," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association (2008)
- "Free Iraq: End the U.S. Occupation," Free Inquiry (2005)
- "Justice and Welfare," Reason Papers with a reply by Tibor Machan (2004)
- "Global Justice for Humans and for All Living Beings and What Difference It Makes," Journal of Ethics (2004)
- "Defending Women's Rights Internationally," Human Rights in philosophy and Practice (2002)
- "On the Possibility of Grounding a Defense of Ecofeminist Philosophy," Ethics and the Environment with a reply by Karen Warren (2002)
- "Reconciling Public Reason and Religious Values," Social Theory and Practice (1999)
- "Understanding Evil: American Slavery, the Holocaust and the Conquest of the American Indians" Ethics (1995)
Additional Information:
Sterba has published 24 books, and over 150 articles. He is past president of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, the North American Society for Social Philosophy, past president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, and past president of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, American Section. He has been visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester and at the University of Lativa in the then Soviet Union on a Fulbright Award. He has also been visiting distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, the University of California at Irvine, and Santa Clara University.
