William Kline

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William Kline


EDUCATION


Ph.D. May 2000 Philosophy, Bowling Green State University

M.A. May 1993 Philosophy, Bowling Green State University

B.A. May 1990 Economics, Grove City College (Magna Cum Laude)

 

POSITIONS

Center for Liberty Studies

    President and Co-Founder , 2006 - present

Molloy College

    Assistant Professor, 2003 – 2006

    Director, Center for Business Ethics, 2003 - 2006 

Central European University Graduate School of Business, Budapest, Visiting Lecturer,  
Summer 2005

Central Michigan University

     Assistant Professor, 2000 - 2003

     Director, International Center for Applied Ethics, 2002 - 2003

     Director, East European Initiatives, International Center for

       Applied Ethics, 2000-2002

Bowling Green State University, adjunct instructor, Spring 2000

University of Toledo, adjunct instructor, 1997-1998; Fall 1999

Fort Hays State University, full time visiting instructor, Spring & Summer 1999

Firelands College, adjunct instructor, Spring 1998

Eötvös Loránd Tudomány Egyetem, Budapest (Hungary), visiting instructor, 1996- 1997

European Business Polytechnik, Budapest (Hungary), visiting instructor, Spring 1997

Eötvös Loránd Tudomány Egyetem Teacher's College, Budapest (Hungary), visiting instructor, Fall 1996

Pazmany Peter University, Piliscsaba (Hungary), visiting instructor, Fall 1996

Tiffin University, adjunct instructor, Spring 1996

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Referee for the Journal of Business Ethics, 2005 - present

Referee for the Journal of Value Inquiry, 2005 - present

Director, Center for Business Ethics at Molloy College, 2003 - 2006

 - Organizing large scale events including:

    The 33rd annual Conference on Value Inquiry: Market Values and Moral Values, April 2006

    Business Ethics Week consisting of 6 presenters and over two hundred participants, March 2005

- Inviting, marketing and hosting distinguished speaker series. Speakers included

    Harvey Pitt, Alan Hevesi, and Michael Novak

- Recruiting for Business Ethics Center advisory board

- Design and Construction of center website

- Editing and publishing of Business Ethics e-journal

- Developed new ethics course for the Financial Planning Association of Long  Island

- Working with Public Relations department on center and program advertising

 - Responsible for the development and balancing of center budget

International Center for Applied Ethics, Central Michigan University,
   Executive Director 2003
   Director of East European Initiatives 2001-2002.

 - Organizing speakers, public relations and advertising for the International  Center for Applied Ethics, 2002 - 2003

 - Allocating, and accounting for, the International Center for Applied Ethics'  budget, 2002 - 2003

 - Community outreach, specifically working with the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of  Commerce and the Mid Michigan Development Corporation on   "Character Counts" initiatives in local businesses and schools, Spring  2003

 - Developing relationships with Applied Ethics Centers in Central and Eastern Europe

 

PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES

“Business as an Ethical Standard” – Association of Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2008

“Hume's Theory of Justice: How Moral Obligation Survives the Sensible Knave” - New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association Meeting, The College of New Jersey, March 2007

"Metanorms and Markets" - American Catholic Philosophical Association AnnualMeeting, Dennison University, October 2006

"Morality and the Ability to Choose" - Bank of New York Continuing Professional Education Seminar, Southampton, NY, August 2006

"What is a Market Value" - 33rd Conference on Value Inquiry: Market Values and Moral Values, Rockville Centre, NY, April 2006

“Is There a Free Market Business Ethics?” – Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2005

"Creating an Ethical Culture in Your Business: An Alternate to Litigation" - Hauppauge Industrial Association 17th Annual Long Island Business Trade Show & Conference, May 2005

“An Examination of Motivationally Effective Business Norms” – Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2005

“Learning to Cooperate” – ethics seminar presented to the Long Island Division of CB Richard Ellis, Inc., December 2004

“Business Ethics” – presented to the American Society of Training and Development, June 2004

“A Brief History of Business Ethics” – presented to the Bank of New York, Financial and Estate Planning Seminar, May 2004

Ethics Panelist for the Investment Management Consultant Association’s Spring Professional Development Conference, Boca Raton FL, April 2004

“Professional Ethics in Local Government” - presented to approximately 50 of the top Nassau County Executives, April 2004

"The Purpose of Business," - European Business Ethics Network 16th Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, August 2003

"How Technology Misses the Point," - a reply to "A Technological Fix for the Abortion Controversy" by Patrick Hopkins - presented at the International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Louisiana State University, February 28th, 2003

"Ethics & Campaign Contributions" - presented to Michigan state senators, Lansing MI, February 5th, 2003

"Professional Ethics and Elected Officials" - presented to Michigan state legislators, Lansing MI, November 14th, 2002

"Indeterminisim & Free Will" (Commentary) - Mid South Philosophy Conference, Spring 1999

"Why Intuitionism is not Dead," - George Mason University, Summer 1997

 

PUBLICATIONS

"Flourishing Through Trade" in Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl: Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty, edited by Aeon J. Skoble (Lexington Books, 2008).

Review of Daniel K. Finn, The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice, in the Journal of Value Inquiry, Forthcoming.

"Collapsing Goods and the Milieu of Innovation" the Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 40, Numbers 2-3 , September 2006, pp. 181-193.

"Business Ethics from the Internal Point of View", Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 64, Number 1, March 2006, pp. 57-67.

With David Schmidtz, review of Henry S. Richardson Practical Reasoning About Final Ends in International Studies in Philosophy, XXVIII/4, pp. 144- 145

"It's Not Obvious: How Rational Agents use Salience" in Praxiology: The International Annual of Practical Philosophy and Methodology Vol 6, edited by Wojciech W. Gasparski and David Botham, Transaction Publisher: New Brunswick 1998, pp. 77 - 89

 

COURSES TAUGHT

Business Ethics; Philosophy of Business, Bio-Medical Ethics; Philosophy of Law; Introduction to Ethics; Moral Problems; Introduction to Philosophy; Critical Thinking; American Culture; Ways of Knowing (distance learning); Bio-Medical Ethics (distance learning)

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Office of International Education Travel Grant, CMU, for travel to Hungary, Summer2002

Faculty Teaching and Program Development Grant, CMU, for Research on Central European Models of Business Ethics, December 2001

ACTR/ACCLS Summer Language Fellowship for Hungarian, Summer 2001

Foreign Language and Area Fellowship for Hungarian Language Study, Summer 2000

Institute for Humane Studies Graduate Research Fellowship, Summer 1997

American Institute for Economic Research Tuition Grants, 1989; 1990; 1994

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

"Finding Funding Prospects with The Foundation Directory Online", one day workshopon researching foundation funding, The Foundation Center, NY, November 18, 2005

"Proposal Budgeting Workshop", one day workshop on writing budgets for grant proposals, The Foundation Center, NY, September 9, 2005

Proposal Writing Seminar", one day seminar on writing grant proposals, The Foundation Center, NY, March 14, 2005

"Ethics Symposium" NASD Institute at Wharton two day seminar on ethics in the securities industry, October 9-10, 2003

 

 

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