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Deen Chatterjee

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Senior Fellow of Law

Deen K. Chatterjee is Senior Advisor and Professorial Fellow in the S.J.Quinney College of Law and a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City. Earlier he was a member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Utah. His areas of specialization are justice and global initiative, ethics of war and peace, and philosophy of religion and culture. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the University of Washington, The New School University, and the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Shipboard Education, where he sailed around the world for a semester on the Institute's "floating campus." He has also been a Faculty Fellow at the University of Utah and Eccles Faculty Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center, a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at the University of Oregon, an NEH Fellow at the Summer Institute of The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard on a David P. Gardner Faculty Fellowship.

Professor Chatterjee has been twice awarded the Thomas D. Dee II Endowment Grant for Teaching Enhancement at the University of Utah, most recently in 2006-07. In addition, he is a recipient of the ASUU Student Choice Teaching Award in 2010-2011 and, also in the same year, the Annual Faculty Award from the Center for Disability Services in recognition of his support of students with disabilities on campus. In 2000, he was awarded the Barbara and Norman Tanner Faculty Mentor Grant for the Prevention of Violence.

Professor Chatterjee is the Faculty Advisor of SHIFT (Secular Humanism, Inquiry and Freethought)--a campus student organization. Earlier, he was the Faculty Advisor of the campus chapters of Freethought Society and Amnesty International.

Scholarship Highlights

Books

The Ethics of Preventive War (Cambridge University Press 2013)

Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (Rowman and Littlefield 2007)

The Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (Cambridge University Press 2004)

Ethics and Foreign Intervention, with Don Scheid (Cambridge University Press 2003)

Book Chapters

"Human Rights as Utopia?" (Section VII, Commentary on Vasuki Nesia, NYU), in Human Rights: Moral or Political?, ed. Adam Etinson (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

"Technology, Information, and Warfare: Prospects and Challenges in the 21st Century," (with Wayne McCormack) in The Ethics of Information Warfare, eds. Luciano Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo ( Organized by the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics in collaboration with the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Program, Cambridge University Press, 2013)

"Enough About Just-War, What About Just-Peace?: The  Doctrine of Preventive Non-
Intervention," in The Ethics of Preventive War, ed. Deen Chatterjee (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

"Foreign Policy, Human Rights, and 'Preventive Non-Intervention'," in Between
Cosmopolitan Ideals and State Sovereignty, eds. Ronald Tinnevelt & Gert Verschraegen (Palgrave, MacMillan, 2006)

Book Reviews

Heather Widdows, Global Ethics: An Introduction, in The Journal of Moral Philosophy (forthcoming)

William Galston and Peter Hoffenberg, Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives, in Ethics and International Affairs (forthcoming, spring 2013)

Articles

"Deciding on Preventive War: Amartya Sen's Idea of Justice," Philosophy and Social Criticsm (forthcoming)

"Veiled Politics: The Liberal Dilemma of Multiculturalism," The Monist (95) 1, 2012

"Reciprocity, Closed-Impartiality, and National Borders: Framing (and Extending) the Debate on Global Justice," with a responding article by Amartya Sen, Social Philosophy Today (27) 2011

"The Conflicting Loyalties of Statism and Globalism: Can Global Democracy Resolve the Liberal Conundrum?", Metaphilosophy (40) 1, 2009; reprinted in: Global Democracy and Exclusion, eds. Ronald Tinnevelt and Helder De Schutter (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

Encyclopedia

Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Global Justice (in two volumes, 1200 pages: Springer 2011)

Book Series

Series Editor, Studies in Global Justice (eleven volumes published so far, three in preparation)

Journals

Advisory Editor, The Monist 86:3

Editorial Board:

  Journal of Social Philosophy

  Journal of Global Ethics

Invited Talks

Keynote Address, Graduate Conference on Global Justice and Ethics, New York University (2012)  (with response from an invited faculty panel)

Plenary Presentation, Conference on Contemporary Buddhist Ethics, Columbia University (2011)
(responding to Professor Karl Potter)

Recent Invited Presentations:

Carnegie Council Fellows Panel on Culture and Universal Norms, New York, 2012; Yale Political Theory Workshop, 2010; Political Science Speaker Series on Climate Justice at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 2010; Global Justice Symposium, The British Academy, London, 2009; Symposium on Global Justice, APA, Chicago 2009; Texas A & M  Philosophy Colloquium, 2009; National Symposium on Global Justice, University of Washington, 2009; National Symposium on Sexual Selves, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 2009

Professional Service

National

Member, American Philosophical Association's Advisory Committee on Applied Ethics (2006-09)

Member, American Philososphical Association's Search Committee for the APA Executive Director, 2002

Member, American Philosophical Association's Committee on International Cooperation (1989-93, 1996-99)

International

Co-chair, Section on Philosophy and Globalization, at the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy (Athens,  Greece, July 2013)

Co-chair, Applied Ethics Section, XXI World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul, Turkey, 2003)

Co-director (with Martha Nussbaum),  International Conference on Tagore's Philosophy of Education (Kolkata, India, 2006)

Local

Director and Moderator, Democracy in South Asia Forum, University of Utah (2009 - present)

Chair, Organizing Committee, Tanner Human Rights Center's 2012 International Conference: Global Justice: Economic Inequality, Crisis, and the Common Good

Co-director, Dee Lecture Series on Poverty and War, S.J. Quinney College of Law (2007)

Project Director, International Conference on Ethics and National Boundaries, University of Utah (1998)

Project Director, National Conference on Violence and Non-Violence, University of Utah (1998)

Special Projects

Selected Op-Ed/Editorials

Documentary Film

Professor Chatterjee and the noted film producer/director Trent Harris were jointly awarded a Documentary Studies Grant at the University of Utah to make a film on the plight of child soldiers in Sierra Leone. The film, recently completed and featured in various events, is titled "Sierra Leone: Diamonds, Cannibals, Children with Guns."

Travel

Professor Chatterjee travels widely as a hobby and as part of his profession. Along with his various conference and project engagements nationally and internationally, his recent travels included a visit to Costa Rica (summer 2012) where, as a trustee of Pax Natura, he attended an award ceremony with the President of Costa Rica at her residence in San José.