Tom Beauchamp

This article deals with the moral philosopher Tom Beauchamp. For other people, see Thomas de Beauchamp .

Tom Lamar Beauchamp (* 1939 in Austin , Texas ) is an American moral philosopher with the work focusing on bioethics and David Hume . He currently teaches (as of Nov. 2012) at Georgetown University and has a research assignment at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics . He is credited with a leading role in the preparation of the Belmont Report (1978). He subsequently wrote the Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1979) with James Childress - the four-principle model based on principles ethics - and thus created one of the first monographs in this developing field of research. The work was later translated and reprinted many times. He is co-editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy , the International Encyclopedia of Ethics, and the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews .

He first studied philosophy at Southern Methodist University , where he graduated with an MA in 1963. By 1966 he qualified in a theological course for a BD at Yale University , finally successfully completing a Ph.D. program in philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in 1970 .

Web links

• Profile at the University of Georgetown
• Profile at the Kennedy Institute

Fonts

• Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Oxford University Press, 1979)
• Standing on Principles: Collected Essays (Oxford University Press, 2010).
• Hume and the Problem of Causation (Oxford University Press, 1981), co-author: Alexander Rosenberg.
• Philosophical Ethics (McGraw-Hill, 1982).
• Frontiers of Biomedical Ethics (Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1999)
• A History and Theory of Informed Consent (Oxford University Press, 1986), Co-author: Ruth R. Faden.
• Medical Ethics (Prentice-Hall, 1984), coauthor: Laurence McCullough.
• The Virtuous Journalist (Oxford University Press, 1987), co-author: Stephen Klaidman.
• Case Studies in Business, Society, and Ethics (Prentice-Hall, 1983).
• The Human Use of Animals (Oxford University Press, 1998), co-authors: F. Barbara Orlans, Rebecca Dresser, David B. Morton and John P. Gluck.
• The Clarendon Hume and Oxford Philosophical Text Editions of Hume:
  • An Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
  • An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000)
  • A Dissertation on the Passions and The Natural History of Religion (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007)
• The Oxford Philosophical Texts Edition for Students:
  • An Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (Oxford: OUP, 1998)
  • An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford: OUP, 1999)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of publications (PDF; 179 kB)