Bart Schultz

Bart Schultz is Senior Lecturer in Humanities (Philosophy), Special Programs Coordinator for the Graham School of General Studies, and Director of the Humanities Division's Civic Knowledge Project. He has taught in the College at the University of Chicago for twenty years, designing a wide range of core courses as well as courses on John Dewey, Political Philosophy, and Happiness. He has also published widely in philosophy, and his books include "Essays on Henry Sidgwick" (Cambridge, 1992), "Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe" (Cambridge, 2004), and "Utilitarianism and Empire" (Lexington, 2005). He is currently developing a public ethics program that will involve multiple service learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to get involved, in educationally relevant ways, with the larger southside community.

CV (PDF)


Contact

office: Gates-Blake 126
office phone: 773/702-6007
email: rschultz@uchicago.edu

Selected Publications

  • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sidgwick/
  • http://www.utilitarian.net/sidgwick/about/200703--.pdf
  • Bertrand Russell in Ethics and Politics
    Ethics, Vol. 102, No. 3 (Apr., 1992), pp. 594-634 (Link)
  • Persons, Selves, and Utilitarianism
    Ethics, Vol. 96, No. 4 (Jul., 1986), pp. 721-745 (Link)
  • Larmore and Rawls
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 1, 89-120 (1999) (Link)
  • Comment: The Private and Its Problems-Pragmatism, Pragmatist Feminism, and Homophobia
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 2, 281-305 (1999) (Link)
  • Introduction: Bertrand Russell in Ethics and Politics, the Vicissitudes of Growth and Power
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 2, 157-161 (1996) (Link)
  • Bertrand Russell in Ethics and Politics, Philosophy and Power
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 3, 317-321 (1996) (Link)
  • Voice, Gender, Sex: Pragmatism Old and New
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 29, No. 2, 206 (1999) (Link)
  • Introduction
    Russell Hardin; Bart Schultz
    Ethics, Vol. 104, No. 1 (Oct., 1993), pp. 4-6 (Link)
  • Essays on Henry Sidgwick
  • Utilitarianism and Empire (with G Varouxakis)

Please see my CV (PDF) for a complete list of publications.

Selected Reviews by Bart Schultz

  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Reviewed Work(s): Rawls and Rights by Rex Martin
    Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Oct., 1988), pp. 155-159 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Reviewed Work(s): Realizing Rawls by Thomas W. Pogge
    Political Theory, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 118-123 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Reviewed Work(s): Patterns of Moral Complexity by Charles E. Larmore
    Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 (Jan., 1989), pp. 423-426 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Reviewed Work(s): Democracy and Technology by Richard E. Sclove
    Ethics, Vol. 107, No. 2 (Jan., 1997), pp. 364-366 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Reviewed Work(s): John Stuart Mill: A Biography by Nicholas Capaldi
    Ethics, Vol. 115, No. 3 (Apr., 2005), pp. 601-605 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Reviewed Work(s): Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton
    Ethics, Vol. 115, No. 4 (Jul., 2005), pp. 838-842 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Reviewed Work(s): Practical Ethics: A Collection of Addresses and Essays by Henry Sedgwick by Sissela Bok
    Ethics, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Apr., 1999), pp. 678-684 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Reviewed Work(s): Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy by Jean Bethke Elshtain
    Ethics, Vol. 113, No. 2 (Jan., 2003), pp. 407-410 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Bart Schultz
    Mill on Nationality (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy - Volume 41, Number 4, October 2003, pp. 567-568 (Link)

Selected Reviews of Bart Schultz's Work

  • Author(s) of Review: Peter Singer
    Reviewed Work(s): Essays on Henry Sidgwick by Bart Schultz
    Ethics, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Apr., 1994), pp. 631-633 (Link)
  • Author(s) of Review: Marcus G. Singer
    Reviewed Work(s): Essays on Henry Sidgwick by Bart Schultz
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 533-537 (Link)

Recent Courses

21400. Happiness
Open to college students. From Plato to the present, notions of happiness have been at the core of heated debated in ethics and politics. Is happiness the ultimate good for human beings, the essence of the good life, or is morality somehow prior to it? Can it be achieved by all, or only by a fortunate few? These are some of the questions that this course engages, with the help of both classic and contemporary texts from philosophy, literature, and the social sciences. This course includes various video presentations and other materials stressing visual culture (A) _R. Barton Schultz . Spring 2007, Spring 2005.

21600. Introduction to Political Philosophy
Open to college students. What would a just liberal democratic political order involve, and is that the best or only form of "legitimate" government? What are the best, reasoned justifications for such a political order, and how utopian or distant from present realities is the political philosophizing behind such justifications? Does a just liberal democratic society require that citizens be friends, or equals, or autonomous choosers, or free of particular identities or political passions? How would it reconstruct gender and sexuality? And what are the duties of citizens when the political order falls short of this ideal? How should this ideal guide current political practice and determine the role of countries such as the U.S. in world politics? In an age of terror and globalization, when many view the U.S. as a new empire, how optimistic can one be or should one be about the fate of the distinctively modern ideal of a just liberal democratic society? This course will address these questions and others, taking as a point of departure the political theories of John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, and Martha Nussbaum. Winter 2006.

21600. Introduction to Political Philosophy
Open to college students. What would a just liberal democratic political order involve, and is that the best or only form of "legitimate" government? What are the best, reasoned justifications for such a political order, and how utopian or distant from present realities is the political philosophizing behind such justifications? Does a just liberal democratic society require that citizens be friends, or equals, or autonomous choosers, or free of particular identities or political passions? How would it reconstruct gender and sexuality? And what are the duties of citizens when the political order falls short of this ideal? How should this ideal guide current political practice and determine the role of countries such as the U.S. in world politics? In an age of terror and globalization, when many view the U.S. as a new empire, how optimistic can one be or should one be about the fate of the distinctively modern ideal of a just liberal democratic society? This course will address these questions and others, taking as a point of departure the political theories of John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, and Martha Nussbaum. Spring 2008.

What Is Civic Knowledge?
The Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago is an exciting educational experiment devoted to uniting the knowledge communities on the South Side of Chicago; its innovative and creative programs help develop community connections and the circulation of knowledge across racial, class, and social boundaries. Educators, activists, community organizers and many others will find this course both inspirational and practical, as they engage in critical exchanges about the CKP educational model and the ways in which it has helped improve the dynamic between the University of Chicago and its surrounding community. The course changes every quarter, since it involves a series of workshops (often with prominent guest speakers) providing an intensive exposure to some of the particular CKP programs, such as its afterschool program Winning Words. This quarter, the emphasis will be on the core CKP concern to devise strategies for enhancing the role of discussion and Socratic conversation in disadvantaged educational settings, from middle school to adult education. (University of Chicago/Graham School of General Studies)