Nicholas Capaldi

The Legendre-Soule Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics

Address: 6363 St. Charles Avenue, Box 15
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504)864-7957
Fax: (504)864-7970
Email: capaldi@loyno.edu
Office: Miller 322

Education
Academic/Industry Experience
Course Descriptions
Research Interests
Publications
Personal Information

Education

B.A., University of Pennsylvania (Philosophy)
Ph.D., Columbia University (Philosophy)

Academic/Industry Experience

Corporate Experience

Stocks and Bonds: Bache & Co., Wall Street, New York, N.Y.
Insurance: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York

Academic Experience

Loyola University New Orleans - Legendre-Soule Dinstinguished Chair in Business Ethics. (Fall 2002 - present).
University of Tulsa - McFarlin Endowed Professor of Philosophy & Research Professor of Law. Founder and former director of Legal Studies.
Queens College, City University of New York - Full Professor
National University of Singapore - Visiting Professor (1985 - 86); External Examiner (1986-88).
State University College at Potsdom, New York - Professor and Chair, Philosophy Deparetment.

Honors and Awards

Pennsylvania State Senatorial Scholarship
Philadelphia Board of Education Scholarship
Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Adam Leroy Jones Fellowship, Columbia University
National Endowment for the Humanities
CUNY Research Grant
Earhart Foundation Grant
Mellon Fellow for cross disciplinary research and teaching in Economics
Fellow, Humanities Institute, University of Edinburgh National
Endowment for the Humanities "Rethinking the Curriculum: World Studies Approaches"
Will and Ariel Durant Chair in the Humanities (Saint Peter’s College) Research Scholar, Social Philosophy & Policy Center, Bowling Green State University (summer, 1996)
Senior Research Fellow, Liberty Fund (1996-97)
Visiting Professor, United States Military Academy at West Point (1997-98)
Templeton Foundation Award, Freedom Project, Course on Freedom and Authority in the Western Inheritance, 2001-2002

Course Descriptions

Business Ethics

Research Interests

Principal research and teaching interest is in public policy and its intersection with political science, philosophy, law religion, and economics. He is a member of the editorial board of six journals and has served most recently as editor of Public Affairs Quarterly. He is an internationally recognized Hume scholar and a domestic public policy specialist on such issues as higher education, bioethics, business ethics, affirmative action, and immigration. Those students who have served as his research assistants have gone on to Vanderbilt University, The London School of Economics, Harvard University, Fordham University, Princeton University, Rice University, and Georgetown University.

Professor Capaldi is currently writing an intellectual biography of John Stuart Mill for Cambridge University Press. In addition he is creator and editor of MasterWorks in the Western Tradition, a series of books on major thinkers being published by Peter Lang.

Publications, Proceedings, and Papers (Selected)

Publications (selected): author of 6 books, over 50 articles, and editor of six anthologies.

Work on Affirmative Action and on Employment Law

OUT OF ORDER: Affirmative Action and the Crisis of Doctrinaire Liberalism (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1985), 201pp. reviewed: Review of Metaphysics (1986); Interpretation (1986); Reason (1986); Vera Lex (Winter/Spring 1989)
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: SOCIAL JUSTICE OR UNFAIR PREFERENCE? (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), 130 pp. Co-authored with Albert G. Mosley. Point/Counterpoint series. Anthologized (1999).
Dallas Institute, May 2000, lectures for attorneys on "Rights" and "Affirmative Action"
"Affirmative Action: A Philosophical Critique," Cogito (1984), pp. 61-92)
"For Affirmative Action, Against Quotas," Free Inquiry (Winter, 1985-86), p. 50.
"Affirmative Action," in Commerce and Morality, ed. Tibor Machan (Totowa, New Jersey: Roman and Littlefield, 1988), pp. 197-212.
"The Liberal Paradigm in Affirmative Action Law," (1998) Loyola University Law Review , vol. 43, No. 4 (Winter 1998), pp. 525-568.
"Jackie Robinson and Affirmative Action," Washington Star, May 6, 1979, op.ed.
"Twisting the Law," Policy Review (Spring, 1980), pp. 39-58. Reprinted in the Congressional Record, vol. 126 (1980), No. 135.
IMMIGRATION: Debating the Issues (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1997). 324pp.
"Hume’s Account of Property," Reason Papers, Summer (1990), pp. 47-73.
"What’s Wrong with Solidarity?" Rechtsphilosophische Hefte Nr. 4 (1995), pp. 65-80"Was stimmt nichtmit der Solidaritat" (1998) Solidaritat,: Begriff und Problem, ed. Kurt Bayertz (Fannkfurt am Main; Suhrkamp), pp. 86- 110. European vs. American Commercial Models.
"A Catholic Perspective on Organ Sales," Christian Bioethics, 2000, Vol.6, No. 2, pp. 135-147.
"The History and Philosophy of Equality," in Liberty & Equality, edited by Tibor Machan (Palo Alto: Hoover Institution Press, 2002)

Religion:

"From the Profane to the Sacred: Why We Need to Retrieve Christian Bioethics," (1995) inaugural issue of Christian Bioethics, pp. 65-8
"Restoring the Natural Law Tradition," in Maritain and the U.N.: Human Rights, Human Nature, and Politics, eds. Peter A. Redpath and Joel Rosenthal (forthcoming, to be published by Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs)
"Catholic Metaphysics in the Wake of the Collapse of the Enlightenment Project," pp. 45-72, Proceedings of the Metaphysics for the Third Millennium Conference (2001)

Liberty Fund Colloquia (selected)

1987 (Houston) Chair, The Profit Motive in Medicine
1989 (Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA) Hume and Smith
1989 (Houston) Chair, Personal Responsibility and Personal Freedom in Medical Care
1991 (New Orleans) Chair, Liberty, Responsibility, and the Redistributive State
1991 (Santa Monica) Co-Director, Liberty, Self-Development and the Limits of State Action in John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt
1991 (Tulsa) Director, Negative and Positive Liberty in T.H. Green
1991 (Houston) Chair, Liberty and Responsibility in Health Care Systems
1991 (Freiburg, Germany) Bertrand de Jouvenal–Ethics of Redistribution
1992 (Alexandria) Christianity, Markets, and Liberty
1993 (Houston) Chair - Human Nature and Health Care
1993 (Charleston) Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments
1994 (Aspen) Director, Colloquium for Business Leaders and Journalists on Poverty
1995 (Big Sky, Montana) Director, Colloquium for Business Leaders and Journalists on Poverty
1995 (Tulsa) Director, Mill’s Principles of Political Economy
1997 (Indianapolis) Ethics of Business
1998 (Guatemala) Business Ethics
1998 (Charleston) Director, Classical Liberalism and Its Critics: Locke and Hegel
1998 (New Orleans) Moderator, Mandeville
(Guatemala) Adam Smith and the Scottish Civil Law Tradition
2000 (Alexandria, VA) Co-Director European Economic Unification and Political Freedom
2001(Montana) Moderator, Political Economy
2001 (New Orleans) Director and Moderator, Development of Liberal Culture, for High School Teachers – Importance of Liberty in a Commercial Society

Talks (Recent)

"The Moral Dimension of the New Economy," lecture for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute as part of their conference Free Enterprise and the New Economy, Berkeley, October 2000 (e-commerce)
2001 "How Commerce Has Changed the World," lecture for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Boston, October 21, 2001
Cancun, Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 8-10, 2002: "Why Intellectuals are Hostile to Commercial Societies"
Philadelphia Society meeting April 13, 2002: "Renewal of the Market Order"

Personal

All professional sports represented by Philadelphia teams; gastronomy and wine; Francophile; favorite color is blue.