Ethics: Reason, Morality and Public Policy

G.M. Brown, Ph. D.

About the Author

G.M. Brown teaches philosophy in the Honors Program at the University of Florida and in the Department of Humanities and Foreign Languages at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Fl.

Professor Brown received her Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in psychology and philosophy from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., in 1991, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Florida in 1999.

She was recognized as the Graduate Student Teacher of the Year at the University of Florida in 1999. She received the Anderson Scholar Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003.

Her areas of specialty include metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology, though she is interested in virtually every area of philosophy.

She has taught a wide variety of courses in philosophy, including Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, Contemporary Moral Issues, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Foundations of Contemporary Scientific Thought, and Theory of Knowledge. She currently teaches two of the most popular courses in the Honors Program at UF: The Tao of Star Trek and Freud & Philosophy.

In additional to philosophy, her academic interests include poetry, literature, theology, archeology, evolutionary biology, and theoretical physics.

Her publications include Reason, Morality, and Public Policy and The Examined Life. She is currently working on her third book, Philosophy and Faith.