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Expert Profile: Charles K. MacKay

Expertise: 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.)
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

2008-11-14 hi: Were I you, I could use the Gettier/justified true belief issue. It seems so right, at first glance, that the emergence of problems with it is both disappointing and exciting. There is a good deal...

2008-10-30 Hegel and racism: As we now understand racism, virtually everyone who lived in Hegel's time was a racist. I also think he shared those prejudices, but probably didn't think about interracial relations; his mind was on other...

2008-10-29 giving and taking offense: Of all the philosophers, the one who addresses this the most is Kant. See: http://www.wutsamada.com/alma/ethics/rachelsa.htm After you've skimmed that, you might want to look at Kant's "Groundwork...

2008-10-29 Political Philosphy: There are lots of possible parallels, but three obvious ones are these: Both of them believe that there is a definite, identifiable human nature, with definite conditions of happiness and unhappiness...

2008-10-20 War?: "Winning a war" depends on the war's objectives. In World War II, for example, the Unites States and its allies insisted on "unconditional surrendur" as the definition of "winning the war." By that standard...