Professor George R. Lucas Jr
Professor of Philosophy/Associate Chair
(410) 293-6142
grlucas@usna.edu

Department of Leadership, Ethics, Law, & Character
Luce Hall (Mail Stop 7-B), 112 Cooper Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5022


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George R. Lucas, Jr.

Fall, 2004

 

Department of Leadership, Ethics & Law

U.S. Naval Academy, Mail Stop 7-B                                                   Home:  1601 Chickasaw Road

Annapolis MD 21012                                                                                      Annapolis MD 21012

grlucas@usna.edu                                                                                           (443) 254-6615

(410) 293-6142

 

 

Education

 

B.S., with Highest Honors in Physics, College of William and Mary, 1971.

M. Div., Garrett Theological Seminary, Northwestern University, 1974.

Ph.D., Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1978 (Dissertation: "Two Views of Freedom in Process Thought: A Study of Hegel and Whitehead").

 

 

 

 

Current and Recent Appointments

 

Professor of Philosophy, [Associate Chair (civilian) and Ethics Section Head, with tenure] Department of Leadership, Ethics & Law, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.  [1996-present]

 

Chair, American Philosophical Association Career Opportunities Committee (1999-2002).

 

Editor, Philosophy Series, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1990- present.

 

Editor, Ethics & the Military Profession (new series), State University of New York Press, 2003-present.

 

Consulting Editor in Philosophy, Grolier’s Encyclopedia Americana, 1996 - 2002.

 

Director of Special Projects (consultant), American Academy for Liberal Education, 1999 – present.

 

 

 

 

Previous Employment

 

Executive Director, American Academy for Liberal Education, Washington, D.C. [1998-1999; Academic administration; liberal arts accreditation; on leave of absence from USNA]

 

Visiting Professor  of Ethics, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057, 1996.  Adjunct Professor of Ethics, Spring semester, 1999.

 

Senior Fellow, Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown University [1996-2001]

 

Assistant Director, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC,   1991-1995.

 

Distinguished Visiting Professor and Fulbright Research Scholar , Katholieke Universiteit-Leuven (Belgium), 1989.

 

Professor  of Philosophy (tenured, 1988; promoted to full professor, 1989), Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 1987-1991 (on leave, Spring semester, 1991).

 

Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; 1986-1987.

 

Associate Professor of Philosophy (tenured) and Department Chairman, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, 1982-1987 (on leave, 1986‑87).

 

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Department Chairman, Randolph‑Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1978-1982.

 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia, 1977-1978.

 

 

 

 

Honors and Awards

 

Predoctoral

 

Omicron Delta Kappa, 1970.

Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha Chapter), 1971.

Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Award, 1971.

Senior physics thesis, "A Study of Gamma Ray Emission following Muon Capture in Even‑Even, Intermediate Z Nuclei," published in The Physical Review C, 7 (April 1973), 1678‑1686.

University Fellow, Northwestern University (Technological Institute), 1971.

Clinical Residency Fellowship in Medical Ethics, Institute for Religion and Human Development, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, 1974-75.

Summer traveling fellowship for language study:  University of Vienna, 1976.

Dempster Fellowships (United Methodist Church), 1976-77, 1977-78.

Bibliographical Fellowship, 1977-78.

 

Postdoctoral

 

  A.  Teaching Awards, Lectureships, Professional Recognition

 

Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching (Randolph‑Macon College), 1979. 

Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1981.

Chair of Logic, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; April 1‑6, 1989.

Biography included in Who's Who in America (47th and subsequent eds.); Who's Who in the World (15th and subsequent); Who's Who in American Education (3rd - 5th ed.).

 

 

  B.  Book Awards

 

Ph.D. dissertation accepted for publication in Scholars' Press Dissertation Series, sponsored by American Academy of Religion, 1979.

Book, The Genesis of Modern Process Thought, named to the 1983 list of "Outstanding Academic Books" by Choice.

Invited to contribute essays to each of three volumes of the "Library of Living Philosophers" series (H-G Gadamer, C. Hartshorne, P. Weiss).

1993/94 Pergamon Prize awarded by Elsevier Science Publishers and the Editors of the History of European Ideas for essay, "Is Hermeneutics Philosophy?" (Essay for Gadamer volume)

 

  C.  Fellowships

 

NEH Summer Institute fellow, "War and Morality," University of Massachusetts‑Amherst, 1979.

NEH Summer Seminars fellow, "Philosophy and History," University of Virginia, 1980.

American Theological Library Association Fellowship, 1979.

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1982.

NEH Summer Institute fellow, "Kantian Ethical Thought," The Johns Hopkins University, 1983.

Provost's Research Award, Clemson University, 1988.

Fulbright Research Fellowship (Belgium), 1989.

University Summer Research Fellowship, Clemson University, 1990.

Chosen by NEH to attend senior executive management seminar in Denver, CO (graduate credit in management awarded through the American Council on Education), 1992.

Selected as first recipient of NEH "Independent Research, Study, and Development" award (sabbatical release time), 1993.

 

  D.  Grants

 

Project Director, NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, “War & Morality:  Re-thinking the Just War Tradition for the 21st Century,” U.S. Naval Academy (June 1-25, 2004).  $151,200 from NEH, plus $40,000 in additional funding from USNA Class of 1964 and the Center for Professional Military Ethics, USNA.  30 participants; 25 guest faculty, including Michael Ignatieff, Henry Shue, James Turner Johnson, Martin L. Cook, Shannon E. French, and a range of political scientists, senior government and military officials, and international relations and international law scholars.

 

Project Director, “Trends in the Liberal Arts Core,” $310,000 from FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) and $50,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for study general education reform and core curriculum requirements for undergraduates at 66 participating colleges and universities in all four (old) Carnegie categories:  1999-2002.

 

Project Director, “A New Model of Accreditation for Liberal Arts Colleges and Programs,” $600,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, $450,000 from The Pew Charitable Trusts for programmatic and institutional accreditation based upon “educational audit” of student work and demonstrated student competency in core liberal arts subject areas: 2000-2003.

 

Project Director, “Accrediting General Education components of Online Baccalaureate Degrees,” $889,000 from the U. S. Department of Education’s LAAP (“Learning Anytime, Any Place”) program to develop student learning-based model of accreditation for new distance education degree programs nationwide.

 

Project Director, NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "The Philosophical Uses of Historical Traditions," Clemson University (June‑July, 1990).  $156,300 direct grant from NEH; $26,000 in matching funds from participating institutions; $2,500 from local groups for a summer public lecture series in the humanities.  25 participants and 10 other guest faculty (Jerome Schneewind, Martha Nussbaum, Stanley Rosen, Alasdair MacIntyre, Lynn Joy, Arthur Danto, George Allan, Robert Neville, John Smith, and Donald Phillip Verene).

 

Project Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "Metaphysics and the Modern World: Whitehead and His Critics," University of Santa Clara (June‑August, 1986).  $115,000 outright funding from NEH, plus $46,000 in matching funds from participating institutions, for 26 participants and 4 other guest faculty (John E. Smith, Donald W. Sherburne, Edward Pols, and Robert C. Neville).

 

Project Director, Conferences grant of $18,400 from the Division of Research Programs, NEH, for international symposium on "Hegel and Whitehead," hosted at Fordham University, June 2-6, 1984.

 

Project Director, 3-year Curriculum Coherence grant from Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities.  $183,000 awarded in 1983 (for 1983-86) to develop and enhance teaching of required Core Curriculum courses in Ethics, Western Civilization, and Writing Across the Curriculum at Santa Clara University.

 

 

 

Courses Taught

 

  A.  Undergraduate (one semester or one quarter, except as noted)

 

[Note:  on sabbatical, AY 2002-2003]

 

SM 121 Intro Differential Calculus for Engineers (Fall, 2001; scheduled for Fall, 2004)

SM122 Intro Integral Calculus & Differential Equations for Engineers (Spring 2002; scheduled for Spring 2005)

 

NE 203 Moral Reasoning for Naval Leaders (Fall, 1996-Spring, 2004)

Introduction to Ethics

Ethics and Public Policy

History of Ethics (two semesters)

Biomedical Ethics

Ethical Issues in Technological Development

Business Ethics (Georgetown University:  Spring, 1996, Fall, 1996, Spring, 1998)

Seminar:  Kant's Ethics & Social Philosophy

Seminar:  War and Morality

Seminar:  Poverty and Famine (team-taught w/ Prof. Onora O’Neill, Spring, 1984)

 

NP 230 Introduction to Philosophy (Fall, 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2002)

NP 336 Introduction to World Religions (Spring, 2000; scheduled for Fall 2004)

Late Modern Philosophy: Kant to Wittgenstein

NP 340 Philosophy of Science (Spring, 1997, Spring, 2000, Fall, 2001, Spring 2002; scheduled for Fall 2004)

Seminar:  20th Century Analytic Philosophy (Moore to Rawls)

Seminar:  Hegel's Phenomenology

 

  B.  Graduate

 

Whitehead's Philosophy (Emory University, Fall, 1986)

Contemporary Options in Metaphysics (Emory University, Spring, 1987)

Fulbright research seminar:  Perception, Causality, and Induction (for the faculty of the Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Kathol. Univ.--Leuven, Belgium; Spring, 1989)

Graduate student seminar:  Causality--the History of an Idea (Leuven, Spring, 1989)

 

 

 

 

Professional Affiliations

 

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, 1977- present.

American Academy of Religion, 1978-1986

Hegel Society of America, 1982-1992

Metaphysical Society of America, 1984-2000.  Program Chairman, 1986; elected to the Executive Council, 1989-92, Program Committee, 1997-98.  MSA Delegate to American Council of Learned Societies, 1997-2000.

Fulbright Alumni Association, 1992-present (lifetime member).

Referee for:  Wadsworth Press (ethics textbooks); Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Politics, Philosophy East and West, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Process Studies, American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series.

 

 

 

Academic Service, Administration,  and Other Responsibilities

 

Associate Department Chair, Leadership, Ethics & Law (2001-present)

Ethics Section Head (1999-present)

Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee, 1999-2004

Faculty Research Award Selection Committee, 1999-2002

Dean’s Assessment Task Force (Middle States Association), 1999-2002

Midshipmen Development Board, 2003-present.

Volunteer Discussion Leader, USNA Integrity Development Seminar Program, Spring, 1996-Spring, 2001.

Member, Integrity Development Seminars Coordinating and Advisory Committee, USNA, 1996-2000.

Member, Character Development Advisory Council, USNA, 1996-2000.

Faculty Representative, USNA Faculty Senate (from Division of Professional Development), 1996-98.  Faculty Senate Secretary (1997-98)

Officer in Charge, Command Seamanship Training Squadron, USNA, 1996-2002; scheduled for Spring 2004

Chair, Ethics Search Committee,  (1996-97, 1997-98; 1999-2000; 2000-2001).

 

Member, National Endowment for Humanities Senior Assessment Team, 1993-95

Co-chair, NEH External Customer Survey Assessment Team, 1994-95

 

University Faculty Senator, College of Liberal Arts, Clemson University (1988-1990)

College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee, Clemson University (1988-1990)

Philosophy Department representative, University Assessment and Accreditation Committee (1989-90)

 

Philosophy Department Search Committee Chairman, Santa Clara University (1983-85)

Philosophy Department Chairman, Santa Clara University (1985-87)

Western Culture Core Curriculum Committee, Santa Clara University (1984-86)

Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Advisor (1983-86)

 

Philosophy Department Chairman, Randolph-Macon College (1980-82)

Freshman-Sophomore Core Advisor, Randolph-Macon College (1979-82)

Philosophy Major Advisor, Randolph-Macon College (1980-82)

Long Range Planning Committee, Randolph-Macon College (1980-82)

Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Advisor (1979-82)