Associate Professor of Philosophy, Interim Chair 2001-2002
Office: Winningham 114B
Phone: (704) 547-2164
Fax: (704) 547-2172
E-Mail: rhtoenje@email.uncc.edu
Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Southern California in 1977. M.A. in Philosophy from St. Louis University in 1967. B.A. in Classics and Philosophy from St. Louis University in 1966.
Business Ethics and contemporary theories of social justice. Interests include teaching modern existentialism. Special interest in issues regarding character and virtue ethics and academic integrity.
Moral motivation in business ethics, a Rawlsian contractualist approach to the question "Why be moral in business?"Existentialist notions of freedom and commitment applied to contemporary philosophic analyses of forgiveness and trust.
"Toward A Critical Habit of Mind: The Course in Critical Thinking at UNC-Charlotte," APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (Summer, l987), p. 8.Book Review: Equality (Key Ideas Series) by Bryan S. Turner. Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. XVII, No. 3, (Fall l986), pp. 53-54."Economic Rights: Rawls and the American Catholic Bishops," accepted for publication in Social Philosophy Research, l988."Religion and Handgun Ownership," co-authored with Ronald Vogel and Robert Little, submitted for publication in a criminology journal."The Engineer and The Societal Dilemma: A Team Taught Interdisciplinary Approach," co-authored with R. Coleman and T. Forrest. 1990 ASEE-SE Section Proceedings (April, 1990), pp. 2325-239."Integrating Liberal Learning into Technical Education," co-authored with Coleman, Thought and Action, Vol. V, No. 2 (Fall, 1989), pp. 49-54."The UNC Charlotte Code of Student Academic Integrity: A Code That Works Where An Honor Code Will Not," in Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), one of hundreds of model program descriptions collected by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). This is a fifteen page analysis, attached to which are the Code and the document "On Guilt and Punishment," which are also published in the UNCC Faculty Handbook. (AASCU/ERIC MODEL PROGRAMS INVENTORY PROJECT #196.)
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