Biography:

University professor; administrator. Born– October 23, 1940, Philadelphia, Pa. Married– Anne Rosamund Shaw, February 3, 1968.  Children–one. Education– University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1962, LL.B, 1965, M.A., 1967 and Ph.D., 1971. Taught at Duke University, 1970-1975; University of Southern California 1975-1978; University of Alabama in Birmingham 1978-84; ;  chairman of the Department of Philosophy at UAB 1980-84. Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at UAB, 1984-98.  Visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, 1979. Published many articles in professional journals. Member of the American Philosophical Association; member and president of the Alabama Chapter of the Jane Austen Society. National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Humanist Fellowship, 1974-75.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1982; Marquis Who’s Who online.

Publication(s):

Law as Rule and Principle. Stanford, Calif.; Stanford University Press, 1978.

Rights. Totowa, N.J.; Biblo and Jannen, 1982.

Joint_Publications;

Philosophy Then and Now.  Malden, Mass:  Blackwell, 1998.

Contributor;

Human Rights in Philosophy and Practice.  Ashgate, 2001.

Morality, Responsibility, and the University:  Studies in Academic Ethics.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1990.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Theodore M. Benditt is held by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Archives.