Raymond J. Devettere

Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., St. John's Seminary; Ph.L., Ph.D., University of Louvain

Office hours:
Tue & Thu 3:15-3:45
Fri 3:15-6:15

Office: Administration Building, Room 344
Phone: 617-735-9787
Email: devettere@emmanuel.edu

Professor of philosophy at Emmanuel. Taught Health Care Ethics at the New England Baptist Hospital School of Nursing. Teaching a course in Christian ethics at Boston College since 1988. Member of the ethics committee at Newton-Wellesley Hospital since 1985. Presents Ethics Grand Rounds for physicians and house staff at NWH. Conducts a seminar on ethics for students at Tufts Medical School. Speaker on ethics for various groups.

Courses
PHIL1103 - Philosophy of Religion
PHIL1115 - Recent Moral Issues
PHIL2104 - Contemporary Conceptions of Human Nature
PHIL2113 - Health Care Ethics

Recent Publications & Professional Activity

Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics: Cases and Concepts. Georgetown University Press, 1995, 2nd edition 2000.

Introduction to Virtue Ethics: Insights of the Greek Philosophers. Georgetown University Press, 2002.