Brown, Stuart M., Jr.

Stuart MacDonald Brown, Jr. received a BA from Cornell in 1939 and a PhD in 1942. He served as an assistant, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in the Philosophy Department, becoming chairman in 1953. An authority in the philosophy of ethics and political theory, he served as editor of the Philosophical Review from 1950 to 1954 and from 1959 to 1961. In 1963 he was named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and vice president for Academic Affairs in 1968. In 1970, he was appointed to the latter position at the University of Hawaii. He returned to Cornell in 1974 to become the executive director of the the Humanistic Implications of Science and Technology Project in Cornell's Program on Science, Technology and Society. He became professor emeritus in 1987.