Lawrence M. Hinman, Director of the Values Institute and Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego, began teaching at the University of San Diego in 1975, immediately after receiving his Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago. He was promoted to the rank of full Professor in 1983. He also received an M.A. in Marriage and Family Counseling from the University of San Diego in 1989. He has received numerous awards at the University of San Diego for both teaching and research, and has authored or co-authored successful grant proposals to NEH, Hewlett Foundation, Exxon Foundation, Matchette Foundation, and the E. L. Wiegand Foundation..
Hinman is the author of two widely-used texts in ethics, Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory, 3rd ed. (Wadsworth, 2002) and Contemporary Moral Issues, 3rd ed. (Prentice-Hall, forthcoming in 2003). He has published numerous scholarly articles in ethics in journals such as Ethics, The Monist, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Criminal Justice Ethics, Computers and Soceity, Ethics and Information Technology, and Teaching Philosophy; he has also contributed to numerous anthologies in ethics. Translations of his articles have appeared in German and Italian. Hinman is a leading figure in applying ethical theory to such issues as war and peace, and organized a web page on "Resources on Just War Theory," which received over 27,000 page views since May 2000, as well as "Philosophers Speak Out on Issues of War, Peace, and Terrorism," as a response to the events of September 11, 2002. He also publishes op-ed pieces in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Hinman is also actively engaged in developing Ethics across the Curriculum programs at the University of San Diego and around the country. As part of the USD EAC program, he has brought such notable speakers to campus as Carol Gilligan, Daniel Callahan, Michael Walzer, and Michael Josephson. Most recently, he has been developing ethics-related workshops and components for middle school and high school students in the Pacific Northwest. He has received several grants in this area, including two grants from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation for fostering the development of ethics across the curriculum programs on the high school and middle school levels.
He has also organized several major conferences in philosophy, including Kantian Ethics: Interpretations and Critiques (January 2003), with Robert Pippin (Chicago), Thomas Hill (UNC), Steven Darwall (Michigan), Henry Allison (Boston); Allen Wood (Stanford), Barbara Herman (UCLA) and Andrews Reith (UC Riverside).
He is a past member of the APA Committee on Computing and Philosophy and will chair the APA Committee on Teaching and Philosophy in 2003-05, and has been on the Steering Committee for the Computing and Philosophy (CAP) Conference at Carnegie-Mellon for several years. He has recently been elected to the Executive Committee for the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 2003-06.
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