Ronald Sandler Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Northeastern University 371 Holmes Hall Boston, MA 02115-5000 Tel: (617) 373-3619 Fax: (617) 373-4359 r.sandler@neu.edu CV

Ronald Sandler is an associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, a researcher in the Nanotechnology and Society Research Group, and a research associate in the Environmental Justice Research Collaborative at Northeastern University. His primary areas of research are environmental ethics, ethics and technology, ethical theory, and Spinoza.

Sandler has taught courses on subjects ranging from philosophy of religion to ethics after Darwin and from contemporary moral issues to the history of philosophy. He is an affiliated faculty member of Northeastern University’s Environmental Studies and Jewish Studies programs. He was one of four recipient’s of Northeastern University’s Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2004-2005 academic year.

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Recent Publication

Nanotechnology: The Social And Ethical Issues

Published by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Project on Emerging Technologies in January 2009, this report by Ronald Sandler emphasizes ways in which social and ethical issues intersect with governmental functions and responsibilities including science and technology policy and funding, regulation and research support. Sandler provides in the report a typology of the social and ethical issues associated with nanotechnology and discusses several specific issues of each type.

Read more about the report here

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Selected Publications

Sandler, R., Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2007).
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Sandler, R. and Pezzullo, P., eds., Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement (MIT Press, 2007). (Publisher’s Website)

Sandler, R., “Nanotechnology and Human Flourishing: Toward a Framework for Assessing Human Enhancements,” in Jotterand, F., ed., Nanotechnology: Framing the Field (Springer, in press).

Sandler, R., “GM Food and Nanotechnology,” in Cutter, A. M. and Gordijn, B., eds., In Pursuit of Nanoethics: Transatlantic Reflections on Nanotechnology (Springer, in press).

Sandler, R., “Nanotechnology and Social Context,” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 27, 6 (2007): 446-54.

Sandler, R. and Bosso, C., “Tiny Technology, Enormous Implications,” Issues in Science and Technology 23, 4 (2007): 28-30.

Sandler, R., “A Theory of Environmental Virtue,” Environmental Ethics 28, 3 (2006): 247-64.

Sandler, R. and Kay, W. D., “The GMO-Nanotech (Dis)Analogy?” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society 26 (2006): 57-62.

Sandler, R., “What Makes a Character Trait a Virtue?” Journal of Value Inquiry 39, 3-4 (2005): 383-97.

Sandler, R. and Cafaro, P., eds., Environmental Virtue Ethics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
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Crane, J. and Sandler, R., “Identity and Distinction in Spinoza’s Ethics,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86, 2 (2005): 188-200.

Sandler, R., “Intuitus and Ratio in Spinoza’s Ethical Thought,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13, 1 (2005): 73-90.