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Bernard Gert

Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Emeritus
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1962

Rm #1 Thornton Hall
Bernard.Gert@Dartmouth.edu

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BERNARD GERT is Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Emeritus, Dartmouth College, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Research Professor, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is author of Common Morality: Deciding What to Do (2004), Paperback edition (2007) and Morality: Its Nature and Justification, Revised edition (2005). First author of Morality and the New Genetics: A Guide for Students and Health Care Providers, (1996) and Bioethics: A Systematic Approach, (2006), and editor of Man and Citizen, (Thomas Hobbes's De Cive and Chapters X-XV of De Homine) (1972, 1991).

Positions Held
  • 1959-62 Instructor in Philosophy, Dartmouth College
  • 1962-66 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
  • 1966-70 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
  • 1967-68 Visiting Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University
  • 1974-Fall Term Visiting Professor, Edinburgh University
  • 1985-86 Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 1995-Fall Term Visiting Professor, Nacional Universidad de La Plata and Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • 1992-98 Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values
  • 1970-2009 Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
  • 1976-present Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School
  • 1981-1992, 1998-2009 Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
  • 1971-74;1979-81, 1998-2001, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College

 

Last Updated: 10/26/09