Stuart M. Brown, Jr. papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-21-2820

Scope and content

Class schedules, lecture notes, photocopies of readings, and other course material for Biology and Society courses including Professional Ethics, 1983-1986; Biomedical Ethics, 1981; and Environmental Ethics, 1981-1982.

Scope and content

Includes letters and photographs deriving from Brown's military service during World War II, including time spent in Czechoslovakia.

Dates

1943-1986.

Creator

Brown, Stuart M., Jr. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Stuart MacDonald Brown, Jr. received a BA from Cornell in 1939 and a PhD in 1942. He served as an assistant, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in the Philosophy Department, becoming chairman in 1953. An authority in the philosophy of ethics and political theory, he served as editor of the Philosophical Review from 1950 to 1954 and from 1959 to 1961. In 1963 he was named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and vice president for Academic Affairs in 1968. In 1970, he was appointed to the latter position at the University of Hawaii. He returned to Cornell in 1974 to become the executive director of the the Humanistic Implications of Science and Technology Project in Cornell's Program on Science, Technology and Society. He became professor emeritus in 1987.