Paul Carrick

Paul Carrick, Ph.D, teaches Philosophy at Gettysburg College and Harrisburg Area Community College. At Harrisburg, he served as founding director of the Honors Program. Carrick became "Professor Emeritus" in 2012. He specializes in bioethics, history of philosophy, comparative religion, environmental ethics, logic, and philosophy of science. A graduate of University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, he studied arts and sciences as an undergraduate at Michigan State University. In 2005, he was named Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at St. Andrews University, Scotland. His latest publications link medical and environmental ethics to international law and public health policy. A devoted teacher, Carrick won the NISOD Teaching Excellence Award from University of Texas, Austin. His lectures and published work have won recognition from the American Library Association, Georgetown University, and the Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine, Penn State University College of Medicine, among others. Several of his national and international conference papers now appear as individual chapters published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Praeger Press, and Routledge.