Sharon Anderson-Gold

Sharon Anderson-Gold is chair at the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Background

Prior to becoming chair of the STS department in 2004, Dr. Anderson-Gold served as acting and associate dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department. Moreover, she was chair of the H&SS curriculum committee, and was the director of the First-Year Studies program (an interdisciplinary program for freshman taught by faculty). In 1999, Dr. Anderson-Gold became an STS faculty member. As a professor, she specialized in applied ethics and social/political philosophy.

Dr. Anderson-Gold has studied and is interested in the history of modern philosophy, Kantian ethics, bioethics, human rights, as well as social and political philosophy.

Published works

* 2001 - Anderson-Gold, Sharon. "Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Development in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant". State University of New York Press.
* 2001 - Anderson-Gold, Sharon. "Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights". University of Wales Press.
* 2002 - Anderson-Gold, Sharon. "Ambivalence and Identity in Black Culture". Race, Social Identity and Human Dignity, Vol. 16, Social Philosophy Today Book Series, ed. Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy Documentation Center (July 2002).
* 2003 - Anderson-Gold, Sharon. "Objectivity in Environmental Ethics. Truth and Objectivity in Social Ethics." Social Philosophy Today Vol. 18, ed. by Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy Documentation Center.
* 2003 - Anderson-Gold, Sharon. "Prophetic History". Geschichtsphilosophie, ed. by Johannes Rohbeck and Herta Nagl-Docekal. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG).

External links

* [http://news.rpi.edu/update.do RPI News and Information]
* [http://www.rpi.edu/dept/sts/faculty/Anderson_Gold/anderson.html STS Faculty: Sharon Anderson-Gold]