ETHICAL AND MORAL SYSTEMS

Authors

humanism, metaphysics, ontology

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Robert D. Finch, University of Houston

Robert D. Finch was born in England. He went to Imperial College, University of London, where he studied physics. While at college he helped found a humanist club called the Huxley Society. Shortly after marrying Sheila in 1963 Bob obtained his Ph.D. and they emigrated from England to the United States, where Bob had a postdoctoral fellowship in the physics department at UCLA. He received an appointment on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston in 1965. He received the Biennial Award of the Acoustical Society of America in 1972, and was also made a Fellow of that Society in the same year. He served as Assistant Executive Director of the Governor's Energy Advisory Council from 1973 to 1975. He served as chairman of his department from 1976 to 1979. He is the author of some eighty technical publications and a textbook in Acoustics. He retired from the University in 1998 and is now professor emeritus. He was president of the Humanists of Houston from 1992 to 1997. He was chairman of the Chapter Assembly of the American Humanist Association from 1999 to 2006 and was on the AHA board of directors from 2000 to 2006. He has authored 16 papers in Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism.

Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Edited by Eric Steinberg, Hackett Publishing Company, 1977.