Jovan Babic

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Babic, Jovan (1951 - )

Babic, who earned his doctorate at the University of Belgrade in Serbia, became professor of ethics and Chair of the Department of Philosophy there.

A MacArthur Foundation grant brought him to the United States in 2000 to collaborate on a writing project on the ethical dimensions of transitional justice, and he spent three years at Portland State University in Oregon as a visiting scholar and professor. Dr. Babic has returned annually there to teach philosophy courses in the Summer Session.

He has published two books, Kant and Scheler (1986), and Morality and Our Time (1998, 2nd ed. 2005), both in Serbian, and over sixty academic articles (among which are: "Justifying Forgiveness", Peace Review, Vol 12. No. 1, 2000; "Die Pflicht nicht zu lügen - eine vollkommene, jedoch nicht auch juridische Pflicht", Kant-Studien, Vol 91, 2000; "Foreign armed Intervention: Between Justified Aid and Illegal Violence", Humanitarian Intervention: Moral and Philosophical Issues, ed by A. Jokic, Broadview Press, Calgary 2003; and "Toleration vs. Doctrinal Evil in Our Time", The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 8, 2004).

He signed Humanist Manifesto 2000.