Received Ph.D. from Tulane University in 1991. Faculty member at Gonzaga since 1992. Member of the Philosophy Department from 1992 through 2008. Assumed the Aram Chair in the school of Business Administration in 2008. Specializes in professional ethics,...
Ph.D., Philosophy, Tulane University
M.A., Philosophy, Tulane University
B.S., Mathematics, Francis Marion University
MBUS 614: Fundamentals of Business Ethics
MBUS 683: Current Issues in Business Ethics
ENTR 409: Ethics and Moral Leadership
BUSN 480: Fundamentals of Business Ethics
BUSN 485: Senior Seminar in Ethics
Articles
Pepper, M.B., Leithauser, A., Loroz, P.S., & Steverson, B. (2014). “Responding to Hate Speech on Social Media: A Class Leads a Student Movement,” International Journal of Cyber Ethics.
“Finding God (Good) in Everything, Inculturation and Teaching Business Ethics in a Jesuit School of Business,” Journal of Jesuit Business Education, vol. 4 (June 2013).
“New Venture Legitimacy Lies and Ethics: An Application of Social Contract Theory,” Journal of Ethics & Entrepreneurship, vol. 3, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 73-92. Co-authored with Matt Rutherford & Paul Buller.
“Vulnerable Values Argument for the Professionalization of Business Management,” Business & Professional Ethics Journal, volume 31, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 51-77.
“Biogeography and Evolutionary Emotivism,” Ethics, Place, and Environment, volume 11.1 (March 2008): 33-48.
“Evolutionary Emotivism and the Land Ethic,” appearing in Environmental Philosophy as Social Philosophy, annual volume in the book series Social Philosophy Today, vol. 19 (April 2004): 65-77.
“On Norton’s Reply to Steverson,” Environmental Ethics, 19 (Fall 1997): 335-336.
“Temporary Employment and the Social Contract,” The Online Journal of Ethics I, St. Thomas University (1996).
“On the Reconciliation of Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics,” Environmental Values, 5 (November 1996): 349-361.
“Contextualism and Norton’s Convergence Hypothesis,” Environmental Ethics, 17 (Summer 1995): 135-150.
“Ecological Modeling and Ecocentrism,” Environmental Ethics, 16 (spring 1994): 71-88.
Book Chapters
“Systems Theory and the New Ecophilosophy,” Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, MIT Press, June 2012.
“Contextualism and Norton’s Convergence Hypothesis,” in Ben Minter, editor, Nature in Common? Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy (Temple University Press, March 2009).
Anthologized Work
“Contextualism and Norton’s Convergence Hypothesis,” in Ben Minter, editor, Nature in Common? Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy (Temple University Press, March 2009).
“On the Reconciliation of Anthropocentric and Nonanthropocentric Environmental Ethics,” in Michael Boylan, editor, Environmental Ethics, part of the Basic Ethics in Action series (Prentice Hall, 2001)
“Temporary Employment and the Social Contract,” in David Adams & Edward Maine, eds., Business Ethics for the 21st Century (McGraw-Hill, 1997).
Reviews
Review of Joseph Raz, The Practice of Value, in Philosophy in Review, (February 2007).
Review of Naess and Rothenberg, Is It Painful to Think? Conversations with Arne Naess, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, June 1994.
Review of Scherer, ed., Upstream/Downstream: Issues in Environmental Ethics, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, October 1994.
Book Review, for MacMillan Press, of Earth Ethics: Introductory Readings on Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics, by James Sterba, Fall 1993.
Book Review, for Wadsworth Publishing Co., of Moral Issues in Business, fourth edition, by William Shaw and Vincent Barry, 1991 (as part of revising process for fifth edition).
