Philosophy
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Ronald E. Santoni
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Ronald E. Santoni is the Maria Theresa Barney Chair Emeritus
of Philosophy at Denison University in Ohio
and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He received
his B.A. degree from Bishop’s University in Canada,
his M.A. from Brown University and his Ph.D. from Boston University.
He has been a Visiting Scholar (1986, 1990, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006)
and a Visiting Lecturer (1990) in The Faculty of Philosophy at University of
Cambridge, England; a member of the High Table at King’s College, Cambridge
(1999); a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (1986); a Royal Society of
Canada Overseas Fellow at the University of Paris (Sorbonne); and, on five
occasions, either a Research Fellow, Visiting Fellow, or Visiting Scholar at
Yale University. A three time recipient of the Robert C. Good Faculty Research
Fellowship at Denison, he is an Associate Fellow
of Berkeley College, Yale University.
In addition
to his recently published work on Sartre, entitled Sartre on Violence –
Curiously Ambivalent (Penn State University Press, 2003), he is author of Bad
Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre’s Early Philosophy (Temple
University Press, 1995), co-editor of the Doubleday Anchor book, Social and
Political Philosophy, editor of Religious Language and The Problem of
Religious Knowledge, and contributing author to fourteen books, including Current
Issues in Philosophy; Towards the Understanding and Prevention of
Genocide; Nuclear War: Philosophical Perspectives; Genocide: A
Critical Bibliographic Review; The Institution of War; Just War,
Nonviolence, and Nuclear Deterrence; Violence and Human Co-existence;
Hiroshima’s Shadows; Jean-Paul Sartre – Das Sein und Das Nichts
(a detailed analysis of each part of Being and Nothingness by a group of
13 international scholars); Über Sartre: Perspektiven und Kritiken
(2005); Sartre Today: A Centenary Celebration (2006); and Sartre: Le
Philosophe, l’intellectuel, et la politique (2006).
A scholar
of the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, Santoni has also published over 155
articles, commentaries and reviews in diverse professional philosophical
journals and national magazines. Articles have appeared in journals in Russia, Germany, Poland, Sarajevo and France, as well as in North America. In addition, he has presented numerous papers
and commentaries on Sartre and other philosophical topics at national and
international meetings of professional philosophical societies. In June 2004,
he presented a paper at The University of Paris (Sorbonne) following the
“presentation” of his new book, Sartre on Violence – Curiously Ambivalent,
by Michel Rybalka. In May 2005, he was one of the two invited American scholars
to speak at an International Conference at Université D’Amiens/Picardie in France,
honoring the centenary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s birth.
Committed
to the integration of scholarship with social concern, he has been an invited
speaker at national and international conferences dealing with the morality of
violence, war, human co-existence, and nuclear deterrence. He has been past
President of both Concerned Philosophers for Peace and International
Philosophers for the Prevention of Nuclear Omnicide (IPPNO), (now called
International Philosophers for Peace), as well as Vice-president of American
and Japanese Professionals Against Nuclear Omnicide (American Division). In
2006, he rejoined the membership of the National Executive Committee of
Promoting Enduring Peace, a committee on which he had previously served for
more than a decade.
A member of
the Executive Committee of The North American Sartre Society and coordinator of
the Sartre Circle,
he is also on the Executive Committee of the Institut für Axiologische
Forschungen, and has been a member of the International Advisory Council of the
Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. Further, he has been a member of
the Board of Editors of the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies and a
consulting referee for other professional journals and presses.
His
biography has been included in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s
Who in American Education, Directory of American Scholars, Contemporary
Authors, among other national and international biographical reference
books.
