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William C. Charron
Professor
Classical Modern, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Game Theory
Humanities Bldg., Rm. 307
1-314-977-3155
Curriculum Vitae

William C. Charron (Ph.D., Marquette, 1966) is the editor of The Modern Schoolman. His areas of interest are classical modern philosophy: Hobbes through Kant; theory of games, economic and political philosophy, philosophy and literary criticism of T. S. Eliot. His publications include:

  • "Greeks and Games: The Ancient Forerunners of Mathematical Game Theory," Forum for Social Economics Vol. 29, No. 2. 2000: 1-32
  • "Eliot's Theory of Opposites: Kant and the Subversion of Epistemology," (with Jewel Spears Brooker) in T.S. Eliot and Our Turning World, edited by Gary McDowell and Jewel Spears Brooker (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001)
  • "Public Reason, Meditation, and Markets: Kant Against Rawls" in Critic of Institutions: Horizons of Justice, ed. by Ralph Lindgren (New York, Berlin: Peter Lang, 1996): chapter 2, pp. 21-49
  • "T.S. Eliot: Aristotelian Arbiter of Bradleyan Antinomies," The Modern Schoolman, Vol. 73, No. 1: 91-114
  • "Convention, Games of Strategy, and Hume's Philosophy of Law and Government" in David Hume: Critical Assessments, 6 Volumes, ed. by Stanley Tweyman, Volume V (London and New York, Routledge, 1994); reprint of article in American Philosophcial Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4 1980: 327-334
  • "On the Self-Refuting Statement `There is No Truth': A Medieval Treatment," Vivarium, Vol. 31, No. 2, 1993: 241-66. (With John P. Doyle)
  • "Semiotics and Some Legal Definitions," Semiotica, Vol. 32 No. 1, 1980: 35-51
  • "Death: A Philosophical Perspective on the Legal Definitions," Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 1975, No. 4: 979-108. This article is cited in two court decisions, five law reviews, and the President's Commision for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavior Research (Washington, D.C. 1981: 31)
  • Editor of Special Issue: T.S. Eliot and Philosophy, The Modern Schoolman, Vol. 73, No. 1, 1995.

He is the treasurer of the T. S. Eliot Society, a member of the Hume Society, and Chairman of the St. Genevieve Chapter of the French Heritage Society.

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