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Charles K. MacKay

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I can answer a number of questions in philosophy; my academic concentrations (graduate school at Cornell) are ethics, political philosophy, and 19th-century German philosophy (Marx, Hegel, and hangers-on.)

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EDUCATION:

BA, New College, 1971, Philosophy and Religion
Awarded four graduate fellowships upon graduation

MA, Cornell University, 1974
Social and Political Philosophy, Danforth Fellowship

All course work and dissertation drafts completed for Ph.D. Cornell University, 1971-1975, Social and Political Philosophy, Danforth Fellowship

Courses in statistics and microeconomics, George Washington University and The American University, 1976-1978

EXPERIENCE: Health Insurance Specialist 2005 - Present
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service
US Department of Health and Human Services

Allentown Business School Instructor (Computer Science) 2003 - 2005

Northampton Community College
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy 2003 -2005

Lehigh County Community College
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

PUBLICATIONS:

Medicare Made Easy (with Charles B. Inlander) Addison-Wesley, 1989

Good Operations, Bad Operations (with Charles B. Inlander) Viking Press, 1993

Health Rebooted: Information Changes Everything (in press), 2008

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Recent Answers from Charles K. MacKay

2009-10-08 Philosophy and pharmaceutical ethics:

See: http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Pharmacy-Ethics-Robert-Veatch/dp/0195308123 http://www.piribo.com/publications/pharmacy/dale_applebes_pharmacy_law_ethics.ht I found these by searching Google

2009-08-19 nietzsche:

Nietzsche always has an ironic, sarcastic side to his writing, even when he is at his most serious. The passages you quote from from Ecce Homo, his last book. It was written just before he went mad

2009-08-13 Philosophy:

Try this on for size: http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/RE/R-B2--00.HTM The idea in the first two proofs is that we can't have an infinite regress. The idea in the third is that nothing comes

2009-08-06 Ethics and Cults:

It depends on whether you're inside or outside the cult. If you're inside, it's obviously ethical to inculcate people. You have the truth, it has to be shared, the individual's salvation depends on it

2009-08-06 Scientists are the explorers:

Explorers in the past (Columbus, Hudson, etc.) tested the assumptions of their time (Hudson --there was a northwest passage to the Orient (turned out to be false)and also found out totally unexpected things

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