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REM B. EDWARDS

REM B. EDWARDS, Ph.D., received his A.B. degree from Emory University in 1956, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While in graduate school, he was a Danforth Graduate Fellow. He received a B.D. degree from Yale University Divinity School in 1959 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University in 1962. He taught for four years at Jacksonville University in Florida, moved from there to the University of Tennessee in 1966, and retired from there partly in 1997 and partly in 1998. He kept an office on the University campus until the end of May, 2000. He was a U. T. Chancellor’s Research Scholar in 1985 and a distinguished Lindsay Young Professor from 1987-1998. He continues to be professionally active.
His areas of specialization were Philosophy of Religion, American Philosophy, Medical Ethics, and Ethical Theory, with a special focus on Mental Health Care Ethics, Ethics and Animals, and Formal Axiology.
He is the author or editor of twenty one books including Reason and Religion (New York: Harcourt, 1972 and Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1979); Pleasures and Pains: A Theory of Qualitative Hedonism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979); with Glenn Graber, BioEthics (San Diego: Harcourt, 1988); with John W. Davis, Forms of Value and Valuation: Theory and Applications (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991); Formal Axiology and Its Critics (Amsterdam - Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1995); Violence, Neglect, and the Elderly, co-edited with Roy Cebik, Glenn Graber, and Frank H. Marsh (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996); New Essays on Abortion and Bioethics, (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997); Ethics of Psychiatry: Insanity, Rational Autonomy, and Mental Health Care, (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997); Values, Ethics, and Alcoholism, co-edited with Wayne Shelton, (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997); Bioethics for Medical Education, co-edited with Dr. Edward Bittar, (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999); Dialogues on Values and Centers of Value (Amsterdam - New York: Editions Rodopi, 2001), co-authored with Thomas M. Dicken; and What Caused the Big Bang? (Amsterdam - New York: Editions Rodopi, 2001). What Caused the Big Bang received the “Best Book of 2001” award from the Editors of the Value Inquiry Book Series. His The Essentials of Formal Axiology was published in 2010 by the University Press of America. Awaiting publication are his Developing Your Christian Values, co-authored with David Mefford and Vera Mefford, and his own Spiritual Values and Valuations, and John Wesley’s Values—And Ours Edwards has also authored over eighty articles and reviews.
He is an Associate Editor with the Value Inquiry Book Series, published by Editions Rodopi, where he is responsible for the Hartman Institute Axiological Studies special series. For a number of years he was co-editor of the Advances in Bioethics book series published by JAI Press. He did significant editorial work on the following books published in Rodopi=s Hartman Institute Axiological Studies: Frank G. Forrest, Valuemetrics!: The Science of Personal and Professional Ethics, 1994; Robert S. Hartman, Freedom to Live: The Robert Hartman Story, 1994; Armando Molina, Our Ways: Values and Character, 1997; Gary Acquaviva, Violence, Values, and Our Future, 2000; Robert S. Hartman, The Knowledge of Good, 2002, co-edited with Arthur Ellis; Leon Pomeroy, The New Science of Axiological Psychology, 2005; Gary Gallopin, Beyond Perestroika: Axiology and the New Russian Entrepreneurs, 2009. In 2008, Edwards became the senior editor of the new Journal of Formal Axiology: Theory and Practice.
Edwards has been the President of the Tennessee Philosophical Association (1973-74), the Society for Philosophy of Religion (1981-82), and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (1984-85). He is a Charter Member and Fellow of the Robert S. Hartman Institute for Formal and Applied Axiology and has served on its Board of Directors since 1987. In 1989 he became its Secretary/Treasurer; after October of 2007, he continued as its Secretary until October, 2009. He continues as a Webmaster for the website of the Robert S. Hartman Institute. He is a lifelong Methodist.