St. Bonaventure University

Faculty Emeriti


Reilly, Richard

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  • ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
    Philosophy
    ACADEMIC SCHOOL
    School of Arts and Sciences

    TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
    Professor Emeritus, Philosophy
    CONTACT
    OFFICE
    COURSES TAUGHT
    • PHIL 102. Introduction to Philosophy 
    • PHIL 210. Metaphysics 
    • PHIL 325. Philosophy of Law 
    • Philosophy of Buddhism
    ACADEMIC DEGREES
    • Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973
    • M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968
    • A.B., University of Notre Dame, 1966
    OTHER EDUCATION
    Management Development Program, Harvard University
    PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
    Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Buddhism, Philosophy of Law
    ACCOMPLISHMENTS
    • Ethics of Compassion, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
    • Three dozen conference papers/journal articles in ethics and action theory.
    TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
    Guide students in thinking deeply and systematically on issues of life-importance.
    CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
    I am finishing a paper on issues relating to “free will.” I am in the middle of a paper-project on legal responsibility & punishment. My sabbatic leave project (2009) will compare Thomas Aquinas and Mahayana Buddhism on “the unity of the virtues.”
    PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
    I lead a meditation group on campus and am director of the Dzogchen Ati Ling Meditation Center in Jamestown.  Over the next couple of years, I hope to oversee the establishment of a meditation-retreat center in Olean.  I am a 20+ year member of Rotary International and I currently chair the Faculty Senate at St. Bonaventure.
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