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Dr. Bashshar Haydar
Professor of Philosophy

Email: bahji[at]aub.edu.lb
Ext. 4268

Qualifications:
BA AUB 1985, MA/PhD Columbia University 1996

Research Interests:
Moral/Political Philosophy and Aesthetics.

Publications:
 “The Consequence of Rejecting the Moral Relevance of the Doing-Allowing Distinction,” Utilitas (2010) 22: 222-227.  

·         “Special Responsibility and the Appeal to Cost,” The Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 17, Number 22, 2009.

·         “The Case Against Faction,” (co-written with Oliver Conolly) forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature, Volume 32, Number 2, October 2008.

·         “Politics, Literature, and Character,” (co-written with Oliver Conolly) Philosophy and Literature, Volume 32, Number 1, April 2008.

·         “Literature, Value, and Knowledge,” (co-written with Oliver Conolly) Philosophy and Literature, Volume 31, Number 1, April 2007.

·         “The Ethics of Fighting Terror and the Priority of Citizens,” Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 2, Issue 3, 2005.

“Irreversible Generalism: A Reply to George Dickie,” (co-written with Oliver Conolly) The British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 45, No 3, July 2005.

·         “Extreme Poverty and Global Responsibility,” Metaphilosophy, Vol. 36, Nos. 1/2, Jan. 2005.
This article was reprinted in Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice, Eds. Christian Barry and Thomas Pogge, Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

·         “The Good the Bad and the Funny: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Humor,” (co-written with Oliver Conolly) The Monist, Vol. 88, January 2005.

·         “Aesthetic Principles,” (co-written with Oliver Conolly) British Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 43, No.2, April 2003.

·         “The Moral Relevance of Cost,” Philosophical Studies, Vol. 112, No. 2, January 2003.

·         “Forced Supererogation and Deontological Restrictions,” Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2002.

·         “Consequentialism and the Doing-Allowing Distinction” Utilitas Vol.14. No. 1, March 2002.

·         “Narrative Art and Moral Knowledge,” (co-written with Oliver Conolly) British Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 41, No. 2, April 2001.

 
 
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