PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANITIES

James O. Grunebaum

Emeritus Professor
(716) 882-6176
grunebjo@buffalostate.edu

Bio: Professor Grunebaum taught at Buffalo State from 1971 till 2005. He chaired the Department from 1977 to 1980. From 1987 to 1999 he directed the All-College Honors Program and in 1997 he earned the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Education:

Ph.D. (Philosophy):  The University of Chicago, 1970
M.A.    The University of Chicago, 1967
B.A.    Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1965

Publications:

Professor Grunebaum published two books: Friendship: Liberty, Equality, and Utility, State University of New York Press, Albany, 2003 and Private Ownership, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1987. He published more that a dozen articles in philosophy journals and made more than twenty five presentations at philosophy conferences in the United States, China and Turkey.