Professor of Philosophy
College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program

Samuel Gorovitz, former dean of Arts and Sciences, led in the development of the field of medical ethics. He has also published extensively on other topics in philosophy and public policy.  His advice on college governance and on health policy has been widely sought, and he has given more than 200 invited lectures in over a dozen countries.  He led an NEH summer seminar for college teachers in 1984, an NIH regional workshop on research with human subjects in 1989, and several other summer seminars and institutes.  His publications include more than one hundred and twenty articles, reviews and editorials in philosophical journals, medical journals, public policy journals, and newspapers. He is a co-author of Philosophical Analysis (Random House, 1964, 1969, 1979) and an editor of several anthologies. His two most recent books are Doctors' Dilemmas: Moral Conflict and Medical Care ( Oxford , 1985) and Drawing the Line: Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital (Oxford, 1991; Temple 1993). In fall 1996, he served as the Baker-Hostetler Professor of Law at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, and in fall 1998 was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.  Since 1988 he has served, by gubernatorial appointment, on the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.  He was Dearing-Daly Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the SUNY Upstate Medical University from 2001-2004.  He is Founding Director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse , and for 2004-05 was Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist in Residence at Yale.