Sharon Anderson-Gold (November 18, 1947 – September 26, 2011) was a professor and chair at the Science and Technology Studies Department at

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Biography

Prior to becoming chair of the STS department in 2004, Anderson-Gold served as acting and associate dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department. She was chair of the H&SS curriculum committee, and was the director of the First-Year Studies program. In 1999, she became an STS faculty member, specialized in

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and social and political philosophy. She also showed interest in the history of modern

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, Kantian ethics, bioethics, or

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Death

Sharon Anderson-Gold died from cancer on September 26, 2011, aged 63. She was survived by her husband Howard Gold and their sons, Jason Harris Gold and Jordan Benjamin Gold.

Works

* 2001 :''Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Development in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant''. State University of New York Press. * 2001 :''Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights''. University of Wales Press. * 2002 : ''Ambivalence and Identity in Black Culture''. Race, Social Identity and Human Dignity, Vol. 16, Social Philosophy Today Book Series, ed. Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy Documentation Center (July 2002). * 2003 :''Objectivity in Environmental Ethics. Truth and Objectivity in Social Ethics.'' Social Philosophy Today Vol. 18, ed. by Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy Documentation Center. * 2003 : ''Prophetic History''. Geschichtsphilosophie, ed. by Johannes Rohbeck and Herta Nagl-Docekal. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG).

References

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