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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

Education/Credentials

Bachelor of Arts, Philosphy and Religion, New College, 1971 Master of Arts, Social and Political Philosophy, Cornell University, 1975

Awards and Honors

Danforth Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

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Recent Answers from Charles K. MacKay

2012-01-25 Phantom Limbs & Epistemology:

Your prof has opened one of the most fascinating areas in philosophy, which has occupied philosophers for centuries. Its important here to take into account what developments in neurology and cognitive

2012-01-02 Human Morality:

You're asking a question about the arc of human history, which is a pretty tall order. I think that we could definitely reach common ground around the ideas of John Rawls ("A Theory of Justice") and Peter

2011-12-18 plato's political texts:

Basically, all of Plato's thought on these issues is in "The Republic." Anything anywhere else is just scattered asides, although it is possible to find the basic ideas that are used in The Republic in

2011-11-29 the interconnectedness of nature:

I think when you think "void" you're envisaging something like a vacuum tank -- nothing inside it, but a something to bound the nothing. "Nothing" is a concept fraught with oddities. See: http://plato

2011-11-29 philosophy/concept of number:

It's foolish to put limits on what we might discover, but I can safely say that at the moment, no one is close to a proof about the origin and existence of numbers. Technically speaking, we could never

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