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Andrew Fiala, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy

Director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State

California State University, Fresno
2380 E. Keats. Ave M/S MB 105
Fresno, CA 93740

Office: MB 109
EMAIL: afiala@csufresno.edu
Phone: (559) 278-2124

Curriculum Vitae: FialaVita2009

Public War, Private Conscience: The Ethics of Political Violence (Continuum, 2010)

The Just War Myth: The Moral Illusions of War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)
What Would Jesus Really Do? The Power and Limits of Jesus' Moral Teachings (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)
Tolerance and the Ethical Life (Continuum, 2005)
Practical Pacifism (Algora Press, 2004)
The Philosopher's Voice: Philosophy, Politics, and Language in the 19th Century (State University of New York Press, 2002)

Scholarly Articles	Opinion Pieces
"Animal Welfare" in Critical Food Issues (Praeger, 2009)	“Getting Back to Basics in Budget Crisis” Fresno Bee, August 22,2009.
“God, Reason, and Ethics: Love and the Good Samaritan” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 15:2 (Fall 2008), 72-81.	“Morality, Memory, and Memorial Day” San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2009.
“Pacifism” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.	“Science Raises Difficult Moral Questions” Fresno Bee, March 14, 2009.
“The Vanity of Temporal Things: Hegel and the Ethics of War” in Studies in the History of Ethics, February 2006.	“Justice or Liberty: Must We Choose?” Fresno Bee, August 30, 2008.
"Toleration" in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2004)	Religious Freedom in Fresno, San Francisco Chronicle, January 17, 2008
“Terrorism and the Philosophy of History: Liberalism, Realism and the Supreme Emergency Exemption” in Essays in Philosophy (2002)	"Why Torture Lessens us All" Fresno Bee, November 9, 2007
	"On Seeing the Suffering We Cause," Common Dreams, March 30, 2007
	"Philosophy, the Pope, and Interfaith Dialogue," Fresno Bee, September 23, 2006
	"King Preached Non-Violence Too," Op-Ed (San Francisco Chronicle) January 16, 2006
	War on Terror, Op-Ed (Fresno Bee) September 10, 2005

Philosophy in the Contemporary World (Andrew Fiala is the General Editor of this journal; for more information see www.spcw.info )

Student Survival Guide for Philosophy (at Wadsworth Press website, written by Andrew Fiala)