Fred Frohock, Ph.D.

Department Chair and Professor

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Office: Jenkins Room 314E

Degrees

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Political Theory & Philosophy; 1966
• M.A., University of Florida (International Relations)
• B.A., University of Florida (Political Science)

Specialties:

• Political Philosophy/Theory
• Bioethics
• Law

Research Interests

• An account of public reason as reason-of-state
• The boundaries and overlaps defining religion and politics
• The scope of human rights in bioethics and global politics

Selected Publications:

• Books:

• Beyond: On Life After Death (University Press of Kansas, 2010)
• Bounded Divinities: Sacred Discourses in Pluralist Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2006)
• Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism (University of Chicago Press, June 2000)
• Public Reason: Mediated Authority in the Liberal State (Cornell University Press, Fall 1999)
• Healing Powers: Alternative Medicine, Spiritual Communities, and the State - Morality and Society Series (University of Chicago Press, Fall 1992) — paperback edition published in June, 1995

Articles:

• “An Alternative Model of Political Reasoning,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (February 2006)
• “Sacred Texts,”Religion 33 (January 2003), pp. 1-21
• “Moving Lines and Variable Criteria: Differences/Connections Between Allopathic and Alternative Medicine,” invited article as end piece in the September 2002 issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science devoted to alternative medicine
• “Words and Things: Religious and Political Domains,” The Journal of Religion (July, 2002)
• "The Boundaries of Public Reason," American Political Science Review (Dec. 1997)
• "Conceptions of Persons," Social Theory and Practice (Spring 1997)

Teaching & Professional Experience:

• Papers & Panels:

• “Theory into Practice: Realpolitik as Political Morality,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 19, 2010
• Chair and organizer of a panel discussion, “A Retrospective Look at Bioethics from the 21st Century,” Association for Politics / Life Sciences annual meeting, October 11-13, 2007, Cincinnati, OH
• Speaker at a Conference, “Human Rights for the 21st Century,” May 11-13, 2007, New York City. Paper title: “Human Rights and Stem Cell research: An Emerging Set of Limits for Rights Vocabularies?”
• “Public Reason as Reason-of-State,” paper presented at the annual national meeting of the Midwest Political Association, April 12-15, 2007, Chicago, Illinois
• Two invited lectures at the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs, NYC: March 12, 2007: “Secular and Sacred Forms of Political Reason,” and March 14, 2007: “Bioethical Issues”

• Undergraduate Teaching:

• God, Science, and Politics
  Philosophy of Law
  Political Fiction and Film
  Introduction to Political Theory
  Ideals and Realities: Bioethics, Religion and Politics
  Democracy: Theory and Practice

• Graduate Teaching:

• Rawls and Political Philosophy
  Logic of Political Inquiry
  Contemporary Normative Theory
  Formal Theories of Decision
  Healing Practices (undergraduates also)
  Ethics and the Health Professions