Books:
SOLDIER BOY: the War Between Michael and Lucifer (Victoria,
B.C.:Trafford Publishing, 2007)
Anti-Abortionist at Large: How to Argue Intelligently about
Abortion and Live to Tell About It. ( Victoria, B.C.:Trafford
Publishing, 2002)
Reason and Dignity (Washington, DC: University Press of America,
1981)
Christian Married Love, edited and with an introduction by Raymond
Dennehy (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1981)
Political Liberty. An inquiry into the nature of
political liberty within the context of the debate between negative
and positive liberty. Unpublished monograph.
An Introduction to Metaphysics. Unpublished manuscript for
classroom use.
The Subject As the Metaphysical Ground of Maritain's
Personalism. Doctoral dissertation, University of
Toronto, 1973.
Articles:
"How Maritain May Have Bridged the Gap Between Metaphysics and
Activism" in Notes et documents: Institut International Jacques
Maritain
Vol 20 May -- August, 2011; rpt. in slightly amplified form in
Distinctions of Being: Philosophical Approaches to
Reality, Nikolaj Zunic (ed.) )(Washington, D.C.: Catholic
University of America Press, 2012)
Foreword to Jacques Maritain, CHRISTIANITY AND DEMOCRACY and THE
RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE NATURAL LAW (San Francisco: Ignatius Press,
2011, 1996), pp. vii -- xiii
"The Right (and Wrong) Way to Ration Health Care," OSV Newsweekly,
August 9, 2009; rpt. as "Health Care Rationing Should Not Be
Justified by Unethical Beliefs" in Medical Ethics, Noel Merino ed.
(Detroit: Greenhaven Press,2010)
"Philosophy of Religion" in The New Catholic Encyclopedia
(2009)
"Proofs for the Existence of God" in the New Catholic Encyclopedia
(2009)
"Abortion and Ideology" in The Human Person and a Culture of
Freedom, Edited by Peter A. Pegan Aguiar & Terese Auer, O.P.
(Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009);
rpt. in Anthology of Papers of the Catholic Academy of Sciences in
the USA, L.T. Grady (ed.) 2010
Lecture edited by Raymond Dennehy and Anthony O.
Simon: "Personality and Opinion" by Yves R. Simon Logos,
Spring 2009, pp. 80-93
"The Illusion of a Freedom Separated from Moral virtue" in THE
JOURNAL OF INTERDISICPLINARY STUDIES, XIX No.1/2 2007, 19-39. Oleg
Zinam Award for Best Essay in JIS for 2007
"Contraception and Homosexuality" in CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING NEWSLETTER, Summer, 2007.
"Liberal Democracy As a Culture of Death: Why John Paul II Was
Right" TELOS No. 134 (March, 2006)
"Advice For Thomists," The Maritain Notebook (American Maritain
Association Newsletter), Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring, 2005;
Reprinted in Insight, "Peanuts and Thomists,"
http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/dennehy_thomists_june05.asp,
June 2005.
"Cutting Through Anti-Life Rhetoric," CELEBRATE LIFE ,May-June,
2004
"Can Jacques Maritain Save Liberal Democracy from Itself?" in Truth
Matters: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain, edited by John G.
Trapani, Jr. (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America
Press, 2004)
"Physician-Assisted Suicide and Democracy" in the Journal of
Interdiscplinary Studies, Vol. XV, No. 1/2 (September, 2003)
"The Loss of the Knowing Subject in Contemporary Epistemology," in
Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing, ed. by Douglas A. Ollivant
(Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press,
(2002)
"Maritain's Reply to Gilson's Rejection of
Critical Realism," A Thomistic Tapestry: Essays in Memory of
Étienne a volume in honor of Armand Maurer, ed. by Peter Redpath,
(New York, Value Inquiry Book Series, 2002) pp. 57-80
"Ethical Challenges in the Next Millennium: Can the Church Stop the
Drift Toward the 'Culture of Death' "? Catholic
San Francisco, Feb. 8, 1999, 15 & 21
"Don't Let Them Clone Einstein!" San Francisco Foghorn
(University of San Francisco campus paper)
"Peter Singer's 'The Moral Status of the
Embryo'" National Catholic Register, April 25-May1,
1999
"Advice for Thomists," Maritain Newsletter, Spring, 1999
"Yves R. Simon's Metaphysics of Action," Acquaintance with
the Absolute, ed. by Anthony O. Simon (New York: Fordham University
Press, 1998), 19-56
"Confessions of an Aging Anti-Abortionist," Crisis Magazine, Jan.
1998, 20-21
"Maritain's Realistic Defense of the Importance of the
Philosophy of Nature to Metaphysics," 107-129 in THOMISTIC PAPERS
VI, Edited by John F.X. Knasas (Houston, TX: Center for Thomistic
Studies, University of St.Thomas, 1994)
"Bodenheimer's Empirical Theory of Natural Law," Vera Lex
XIV, nos. 1& 2 (1994), 18-21
"Always the Metaphysician: Maritain's Ontology of
Anti-Racism , Jacques Maritain and the Jews, Robert Royal (ed.)
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), 36-50
"Bodenheimer's Theory of Natural Law: The Conflict of a
Divided Intellectual Allegiance," University of California (Davis)
Law Review 26, #3 (1993), 619-52
"The Philosophical Catbird Seat: A Defense of Maritain's
Philosophia Perennis," The Future of Thomism, Deal Hudson (ed.)
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), 65-76
"Being Is Better than Freedom" in Freedom in the Modern World, ed.
by Michael D. Torre (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
1989), pp. 253-262.
"Unreal Realism," The Thomist 55, 4 (1991), 631-55
"Rescuing the Natural Law from the Rationalists" in Vera Lex, Vol.
X, No. 1, 1990, 14-16
"The Elimination of God in the Contemporary World," Creative Love;
the Ethics of Human Reproduction, edited by John Boyle (Front
Royal, VA: Christendom Press, 1989).
"Maritain's Intellectual Existentialism: An Introduction
to His Metaphysics and Epistemology" in Understanding Maritain,
edited by D. Hudson and W. Mancini (Atlanta: Mercer University
Press, 1987).
"The Universality of the Analogy of Being in Contemporary
Metaphysics," in Existential Personalism, Proceedings of the
American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. 60, 1986, pp.
65-76.
Introduction to G.K. Chesterton's St. Thomas Aquinas in
C.K. Chesterton: Collected Works (San Francisco: Ignatius Press,
1986), Vol. II.
"The Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus," Pope John
Paul II Lecture Series in Bioethics, edited by F. Lescoe and D.
Liptak (New Britain, CT: Mariel Publications, 1986), Vol. II, pp.
7-34.
"The Ontological Basis of Certitude," The Thomist, Vol. 50, No. 1,
January 1986, pp. 120-150.
"Philosophy and Society" in Philosophy, Psychology and
Spirituality, edited by James W. Kidd (San Francisco: Golden
Phoenix Press, 1984), pp. 77-87.
"Understanding Maritain: His Epistemological Doctrine
of Judgment and His Metaphysical Doctrine of the Subject," Notes et
Documents, Institut International J. Maritain numero 7,
juillet-septembre, 1984, pp. 123-43
"Sex, Survival and Culture," The Linacre Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3,
August 1983, pp. 262-271. (Reprinted in International Review of
Natural Family Planning, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1984, pp.
44-56.)
"Liberal Education, Vocationalism, and Democracy," Thought, Vol.
57, No. 225 (June 1982), pp. 182-195.
"Reply to Mr. Schedler on Human Rights," The New Scholasticism,
Vol. 55, Autumn 1981, pp. 488-494.
"The Social Encyclicals: What Has Heaven to Do with Earth," Faith
and Reason, Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall 1982, pp. 232-245.
"The Rosary and Human Progress," Intermountain Catholic, May 1,
1981, p. 11+
"Laborem Exercens: John Paul II's Answer to Secular
Humanism," The Migrant Echo, Fall 1981, pp. 488-494.
"The Pessimistic Origins of the Anti-Life Movement," Studies,
Spring 1981, pp. 8-15.
"The Mission of the Catholic University," New Oxford Review,
September 1980.
"The Philosophy of Human Experimentation," The New Scholasticism,
Vol. 52 (1978), pp. 80-90.
"The Ontological Basis of Human Rights," The Thomist, No. 42
(1978), pp. 434-463.
"The Threat Posed by the Decline of Liberal Arts Education," San
Francisco Examiner, Wednesday, June 9, 1976, p. 35 (guest
editorial).
"Death and Dying: A Symposium." Papers edited and with an
introduction by Raymond Dennehy and Francis Filice, The Camillian,
February, 1975
"Maritain's Theory of Subsistence: The Basis of His
'Existentialism,' " The Thomist, No. 39 (1975),
542-574.
"A Tribute to Jacques Maritain: Philosophical Activist," Social
Justice Review, October 1973.
"The Social Encyclicals and the 'Population
Bomb,' " Social Justice Review, October 1972.
"Love and Procreation," THE SANTA CLARA (University of Santa Clara
campus paper), May 7, 1967.
Book Reviews:
"Truth" is a Divine Name: Hitherto Unpublished Papers of Edward A.
Synan, 1918-1997. Introduction and Edition by Janice
Schultz-Aldrich (Amsterdam-New York, 2010: Value Inquiry Book
Series, Vol. 222) in Revue of Metaphysics September, 2011
Bernard Schumacher, Death and Immortality in Contemporary
Philosophy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011) in
Revue of Metaphysics Vol. 64, Number 4 -- 2011
Brendan Sweetman, Religion and Science: an Introduction (New York
& London: Continuum Books, 2010) Amazon Book Review
Michael B. Gill, The British Moralists on Human Nature and the
Birth of Secular Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006) Heythrop Journal (forthcoming)
James R. Otteson, Actual Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2006), Heythrop Journal (forthcoming)
Paul Schollmeier, Human Goodness: Pragmatic Variations on Platonic
Themes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Heythrop
Journal Vol. 51 #2
Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology, ed. by Giovanni
Boniolo & Gabriele de Anna (Cambridge University Press: New
York, 2006) Heythrop Journal, 8 August 2012
Hans-Georg Moeller, The Moral Fool: A Case for Immorality (New
York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2009) in the International
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2, June, 2010
Curle, Clinton Timothy, Humanite: John Humphrey's
Alternative Account of Human Rights (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2007), Review of Metaphysics, March 2009, Vol. LXII, 3,
#247
Brendan Sweetman, Why Politics Needs Religion: the Place of
Religious Arguments in the Public Square (Downers Grove, Illinois:
IVP Academic, 2006), National Catholic Bioethics Center, Winter
2009, Vol 9, #4
The Malebranche Moment: Selections from the Letters of Étienne
Gilson & Henri Gouhier (1920-1936), Tr. & edited by Richard
J. Fafara (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press, 2007),
Heythrop Journal, Vol. 50, No.2
George Sher, IN PRAISE OF BLAME (Oxford University Press, 2006)
INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Vol. XLV11, No. 1, issue No.
185, 125-28
DOES HUMAN RIGHTS NEED GOD? Elizabeth M. Bucar & Barbara
Barnett (Eds.), PHILOSOPHI CHRISTI vol. 9, no.1 (2007),
235-240
Erik J. Wielenberg, VALUE AND VIRTUE IN A GODLESS UNIVERSE
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) INTERNATIONAL
PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY March 2006, Vol.46, No.1.
Howard P. Kainz, Natural Law: an introduction and re-examination,
The Review of Metaphysics, vol. LIX no.2 (December 2005)
434-435
Jude P. Dougherty, Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile,
Homiletic and Pastoral Review, April 2005
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Philip the Chancellor, Albert the
Great, and Thomas Aquinas, Tr. by R.E. Hauser (Toronto, Ontario:
Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2004) The Review of
Metaphysics, Vol. LVIII, No. 3, Issue 231,
James V. Schall, S.J., Roman Catholic Political Philosophy (Lanham,
Md.: Lexington Press, 2004) Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
Quarterly, (Winter, 2004) Vol. 27, Number 4, Winter 2004
Yves R. Simon, A Critique of Moral Knowledge, Catholic Social
Science Review Vol. IX 2004
Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics: a pluralistic view, International
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4, Issue No. 176, December
2004
Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of The
Biotechnology Revolution, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol
XVI no. 1/2 2004
Candace Vogler, Reasonably Vicious, International Philosophical
Quarterly, Vol.44, No. 2, June 2004
Faith and the Life of Intellect. Edited by Curtis L. Hancock and
Brendan Sweetman. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America
Press, 2003) American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 77,
Fall 2003, #4
Richard Joyce, The Myth of Morals, International Philosophical
Quarterly vol. 43, no. 2, June 2003
Brendan Sweetman (ed.), The Failue of Modernism: The Cartesian
Legacy & Contemporary Pluralism American Catholic Philosophical
Association Journal, vol. 75, no. 4, Fall 2001
Brenda Almond, Exploring Ethics, International Philosophical
Quarterly, Spring 1998
John Searle, The Construction of Social Reality (New York, NY: The
Free Press, 1995) Crisis Magazine, May 1996
James Arraj, Metaphysics and Maritain, ACPA Journal, Spring
1996
Jacques Maritain, The Degrees of Knowledge (MacInerny edition),
Maritain Newsletter, November, 1995
Yves Simon, Introduction to the Metaphysics of Knowledge, The
Thomist 56 #1 (1992)
George Weigel The Final Revolution (New York: Oxford University
Press, Inc., 1992) Albanian Catholic Bulletin, April Issue,
1993
Peter Kreeft, A Summa of the Summa Homiletic and Pastoral Review,
May 1992
Stanley Jaki, Science and Creation & The Only Chaos, Homiletic
and Pastoral Review, July 1992
Jacques Maritain, Introduction to Philosophy, Homiletic and
Pastoral Review, June 1990
Deal W. Hudson & Matthew J. Mansini (eds.) Understanding
Maritain: Philosopher and Friend, Homiletic and Pastoral Review,
Aug.-Sept. 1989
Ernan McMullin (ed.) Evolution and Creation, The Thomist 52 #3
(1988)
James V. Schall, The Politics of Heaven and Hell, The World &
I, Vol. I #1, 1985
Jacques Maritain, Notebooks, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, July
1985
M.A. Krapiec, I-Man: An Outline of Philosophical Anthropology,
Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Nov. 1984
Robert Newton-Smith, The Rationality of Science, The Thomist 48 #3
(1984)
Charles Curran, Moral Theology, National Catholic Reporter 19 #17
(Feb. 18, 1983)
Yves R. Simon, Work, Society,and Culture, Notes et Documents,
Institut International "J. Maritain," #14, Jan-Mar. 1979
Invited Presentations:
"Abortion and the End of
Democracy" -- Debate with Malcolm Potts at the University of
California, Berkeley, Wheeler Auditorium, Sept. 26, 2011 (47th
consecutive semester debating the topic of abortion in that class,
Public Health 116)
"Five Ways that Abortion
Threatens Liberal Democracy ("...Devalues the Person")
Public Lecture at Bodwin
College, April 28, 2007
"Arguments Against Abortion," La Croix Lecture Series,
Rockhurst University, Spring 2004
"The Culture of Death and the Treachery of the Elites," United
Faculty for Life Lecture Series, Marquette University, November,
17, 2004
Delivered 4 public lectures on moral virtue at Stanford
University during the month of Oct,1994 sponsored by The Stanford
Review and "Students United for Life."
Oct.4: "Moral Virtue in a Pluralistic Society"
Oct.11: "Chastity: The Much Misunderstood Virtue"
Oct.18: "Moral Virtue and the Natural Law"
Oct.25: "Personal Virtue and Public Policy: Does the Private
Morality of Our Public Leaders Matter?"
"The Return of the Vampire: Count Dracula's Horrible
Misdeeds with the Unborn for Fetal Tissue Transplants," Al Gelinas
Memorial Lecture, St. Mary's College (Moraga, CA), April
1991
"The Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus," John
Paul II Lecture Series in Bioethics, Holy Apostles College and
Seminary, Spring 1985
"The Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus," James L.
Hagerty Lecture, St. Mary's College (Moraga, CA), May 14,
1985
"Maritain and the Responsibilitiy of the Philosopher in
Society," Cardinal Newman College, St. Louis, MO, March 24, 1984;
"Maritain the the Relationship Between Philosophy and Theology,"
Cardinal Newman College, March 25, 1984
"Understanding Maritain" Honoring the 100th year of
the Birth of Jacques Maritain, Gannon University, October 29,
1981
"Confessions of a Middle Age Philosopher: Or Life Inside the
Existential Vice," Insight Lecture Series, Mercer
University, October 12, 1981
Appearance before the subcommittee of the U.S. Department of Health
and Welfare regarding federal funding for fetal tissue transplants
and laboratory reproduction; Federal Building, San Francisco, 1978
"The Mission of the Catholic University in Contemporary
Society," The Inaugural Address for the St. Ignatius Institute,
University of San Francisco, November 11, 1976
Presentations:
Respondent to Alasdair MacIntyre's presentation, "Yves
R.Simon: Thomist and Sans-Culotte" University of Chicago, Oct. 11,
2000
"The Church and Homosexuality," public debate with Father David
Rickey, an "openly gay" Episcopal Priest, University of San
Francisco, April 10, 2000
Abortion debate at University of California, Berkeley, before a
class of 700 students, March 20, 2000; this was my 24th semester
debating abortion before that class.
"The Loss of the Knowing Subject in Contemporary Epistemology,"
1999 International Meeting of the American Maritain
Association:"Maritain, Gilson, and The Many Ways of Knowing,"
(Oct.21-24,1999) Berkeley,CA, Oct.23,1999
"The Ugly, the Foul, the Disgusting, the Nasty, the Filthy, the
Gluey, the Viscous, and the Nauseous," American Maritain
Association International Conference, Newton, Massachusetts,
Oct.24, 1997
"Was Thomas Aquinas a Naïve Realist?" 32nd International Congress
on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, May 1997
"Is the Medieval Doctrine of the Primacy of the Common Good
Utilitarian?," 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
University of Western Michigan, May 10, 1996
"Epistemology: Its Practical Importance for Seminary Education,"
American Catholic Philosophical Association Convention, Redondo
Beach, CA, April, 1996
"Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Democratic Incident," Fleishhacker
Lecture in Philosophy, University of San Francisco, April 7,
1995
Liberty Fund Conference on "Liberty, Punishment, and
Responsibility" Ritz Carlton, Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, CA,
Nov.4-6, 1995
"Moral Absolutes in a Democracy"; one in a series of invited
lectures on Pope John Paul II's encyclical, The Gospel of
Life, St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco, Nov. 8,
1995
"The Epistemology of Democracy," American Maritain National
Conference at New York University, Nov.11, 1995
"Reflections of an Anti-Abortionist," keynote address at the
Northern California Collegiate Student Prolife Conference, Stanford
University,Feb. 26, 1994
Delivered 4 public lectures on moral virtue at Stanford University
during the month of Oct,1994 sponsored by The Stanford Review and
"Students United for Life."
Oct.4: "Moral Virtue in a Pluralistic Society"
Oct.11: "Chastity: The Much Misunderstood Virtue"
Oct.18: "Moral Virtue and the Natural Law"
Oct.25: "Personal Virtue and Public Policy: Does the Private
Morality of Our Public Leaders Matter?"
"A Plea for Honesty," Fellowship of Catholic Scholars National
Conference, Orange, CA, September 26,1993
The Philosophical Catbird Seat: A Defense of Maritain's
Philosophia Perennis," American Maritain National Conference,
Fordham University, Oct.25, 1993
"The Return of the Vampire: Count Dracula's Horrible
Misdeeds with the Unborn for Fetal Tissue Transplants," Al Gelinas
Memorial Lecture, St Mary's College, Moraga, CA, April,
1991
"Is There a Moral Justification for Abortion?," 2nd public debate
with Mary Ann Warren, University of San Francisco, March,
1990
"Abortion"; a public debate with Richard Grossball, counsel for the
San Francisco ACLU, the University of California, Hastings School
of the Law, San Francisco, November, 1999
"Being is Better Than Freedom," American Maritain Association
National Conference, University of Notre Dame, Oct. 1988
Liberty Fund Conference on "Freedom in the Writings of Yves R.
Simon" at the University of South Carolina, April, 1988
"The Contemporaneity of Maritain's Existence and the
Existent," Presidential Address, American Maritain Association,
Montreal, Oct. 1987
"Abortion"; a public debate with Margaret Crosby, legal Counsel for
the San Francisco ACLU, University of California, Hastings School
of the Law, San Francisco, March 1987
"The Universality of the Analogy of Being in Contemporary
Metaphysics," American Catholic Philosophical Association
Convention, Baltimore, April, 1986
"The Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus," John Paul
II Center for Bioethics, Hartford, CT, April 10, 1985
"The Biological Revolution and the Myth of Prometheus," James L.
Hagerty Lecture,St. Mary's College, Moraga,CA
May14,1985
"The Ontological Basis of Certitude," afternoon presentation to the
St. Mary's College Philosophy Dept., May 14, 1985
"Maritain's Theory of Natural Law," Maritain Session,
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Long Beach,
CA March 24, 1884
"Maritain's Respect for Truth and Freedom," Panel
Discussion, American Maritain Association National Conference,
Princeton University, Oct.28, 1983
"The Changing and the Unchanging in Thomas Aquinas'
Natural Law Doctrine," 8th International Conference on Patristic,
Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Villinova University, Sept.24,
1983
"Maritain and the Responsibility of the Philosopher in Society" and
"Maritain on the Relationship Between Philosophy and Theology,"
Cardinal Newman College, St. Louis, MO, March 24-25, 1983
"Sex, Survival, and Progress," symposium on sexuality and the
family, University of San Francisco, Feb.26, 1983
"Understanding Maritain," symposium honoring 100th year of Jacques
Maritain's birth, Gannon University, Erie, PA, Oct. 30,
1981
"Intellect and Will in Society," American Maritain Association
Conference on Human Rights, Washington, D.C., May,1978
"Confessions of a Middle-Age Philosopher Or Life Inside the
Existential Vise," Insight Lecture Series, Mercer University,
Atlanta, GA, Oct.12, 1981
"Abortion: Pro & Con," public debate with Mary Ann Warren,
University of San Francisco, November 30, 1979.
"The Mission of the Catholic University in Contemporary Society,"
Inaugural Address for the St.Ignatius Institute, University of San
Francisco, Nov. 11, 1976
Public Appearances:
Many radio and television appearances, as well as talks before
community groups, to discuss or debate ethical topics of
contemporary interest, such as abortion,physician-assisted suicide,
and laboratory reproduction. The following is a partial list.
Bay TV (San Francisco); debated Mike Marshall on the California
"Defense of Marriage" ballot measure, January 28, 2000
PBS show "Uncommon Knowledge"; one of a three-member panel
discussing the ethical and social aspects of cloning. Jan.21,
2000
Uncommon Knowledge with guest Raymond Dennehy
April 29, 2000 Recorded on April 29, 2000
with guests Raymond Dennehy; Hank
Greely; and Michael J. Werner
"Mosaic" KPIX San Francisco: 60 minute interview explaining the
Catholic Church's position on euthanasia and
physician-assisted suicide, January, 1999
"Sci-Fi Channel"; one of a three-member panel discussing the ethics
issues involved in sperm banks, April, 1998
"Sci-Fi Channel," one of three-member panel discussing the ethics
of cryonics, April, 1997
Bay TV (San Francisco); 2 successive appearances to discuss ethical
aspects of 2 contemporaneous events: (1) had to do with the removal
of one-half the brain of a 9 year old boy suffering from
Rasmussen's Enncephaly;(2)addressed the issue of moral
responsibility regarding Gred Lougainis' revelation that
he was HIV positive when he bled into the diving pool, as a result
of a head injury, at the Olympics but failed to disclose his
condition to the officials.
"Nightcast" KGO TV (San Francisco); one of a three-member panel
debating the "French abortion pill, July 1990
"Nightcast" KGO TV (San Francisco); one of four-member panel
discussing "Ethics in Public Life," following the Congressman Jim
Wright scandal, June, 1989
CNN; interviewed about the Pâgan case in New York City and the
rights of parents to select the kind of treatment for their minor
children, June, 1989
"People Are Talking" KPIX TV (San Francisco); panelist discussing
the ethics of fetal transplants, October, 1988
"Express" KQED(San Francisco);debate with Derek Humphry on the
"right to die," December 3, 1986
KGO TV (San Francisco);debate with Bill Press on "Should
Contraceptives Be Made Available on High School Campuses?":
December 1, 1985
"People Are Talking" KPIX (San Francisco); debate with a one, Mr.
Pritchard, and his attorney over his efforts to obtain court
permission to remove the feeding tube from Mrs. Pritchard who was
in a persistent vegetative state, June, 1985
"You Decide" KPIX TV (San Francisco); "Should the Terminally Ill Be
Allowed to Kill Themselves?": debate with Derek Humphery, October
2, 1983
VIACOM 20(Marin County); debate with Margaret Crosby, Legal Counsel
for the San Francisco ACLU on the legalization of abortion, June
1981
"What Do You Think?" KGO TV (San Francisco); debate with Derek
Humphry, Founder and President of the Hemlock Society, on the
legalization of suicide for the terminally ill, June, 1980
"Viewpoint" KGO TV (San Francisco); Panelist discussing sex change
operations, May, 1978
