Biographical Information for Ralph Baergen

Education:

Ph.D. (Philosophy) Syracuse University, 1990

M.A. (Philosophy) Syracuse University, 1989

B.A. (Religion/Philosophy) University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada), 1983

Academic Status:  Tenured Full Professor. Joined Idaho State University faculty in 1993.

Publications:

Books

An Historical Dictionary of Epistemology (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Scarecrow Press [a division of Routledge], forthcoming)

Ethics at the End of Life (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001) [edited collection]

Contemporary Epistemology (Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 1995)

Articles in Referreed Journals

“Assessing the Competence Assessment Tool,” Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 13, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 160-164.

“Ethical Considerations for the Ocularist’s Practice,” Journal of Ophthalmic Prosthetics, vol. 6, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 7-10

“Paternalism, Risk and Patient Choice,” co-authored with Dr. Carolyn Baergen, DDS, Journal of the American Dental Association, vol. 128 (1997): 481-484.

“Surrogates and Uncertainty,” Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 6, no. 4 (1995): 366-371.

“Revising the Substituted Judgment Standard,” Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 6, no. 1 (1995): 30-38.

"Reliabilism and World-Counting" (co-author with John P. Hawthorne), Philosophia (December 1995): 377-388.

“The Influence of Cognition upon Perception,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 71, no. 1 (1993): 13-23.

“Perceptual Consciousness and Perceptual Evidence,” Philosophical Papers, vol. 21, no. 2 (1992): 107-119.

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals

Invited article: “The Rows of Upper and Lower Teeth: Stoic Images of Conflict and Cooperation,” Rendezvous, vol. 36, #2 (Spring 2002), 27-28.

Invited article: “Why the Humanities Need the Sciences,” Rendezvous, vol. 31, no. 2 (1997): 85-88.

Book Reviews

Invited review of D. Thomasma and T. Kushner, eds, Birth to Death: Science and Bioethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Research in Philosophy and Technology vol. 18 (1999): 279-282.

Current Committee Appointments:  Chair, Human Subjects Committee (Idaho State University's Institutional Review Board); Member, Pocatello Medical Ethics Committee; Member, Philosophy Committee

Private Consulting Work:  President & Senior Consultant, Baergen Consulting