Vaughana Macy Feary, Ph.D.
received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of
Arizona. Her areas of academic specialization are Ethics,
Social, Political and Legal Philosophy. She taught for
many years at Southern University in New Orleans and is
currently teaching Philosophy and Women's Studies at Fairleigh
Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey.
Vaughana has her own business
and does extensive training and consulting work for corporations,
psychiatric facilities, correctional facilities, museums,
women's centers/shelters, and hospitals. She does ethics,
diversity, sexual harassment, and compliance training,
and designs and delivers educational programs. She is
Program Director, and one of the founders, of Excalibur:
A Center for Applied Ethics. Among other projects, Excalibur
trains and supervises a corps of 40 volunteers recruited
from the corporate, academic, and criminal justice sectors
to reinforce the critical and moral reasoning of inmates
in Vaughana's programs in various correctional facilities.
Vaughana has extensive education in substance abuse, counseling,
and REBT. She has taught a course in philosophical counseling
at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is President of
the ASPCP and a Vice- President of APPA. Bar inaugural
address for the ASPCP this year was entitled "Philosophical
Practice and Multicultural Values."
Due to health problems, Vaughana is taking academic leave
for this year. She is currently working on a book, Medicine
for the Soul, Philosophical Perspectives on Surviving
Cancer and Other Illness.
Relevant recent publications
on counseling and organizational consultation include:
"The Right to Rehabilitation", in Perspectives
in Philosophical Practice (Leusden, Holland, 1997):
"The Role of Philosophical Counseling in Rehabilitating
Criminal Offenders" Inquiry Critical Thinking
Across the Across the Disciplines, Spring 1998 Vol.
XVII, No 3; "Crime, Business Ethics and Corporate
Communication" in Michael Goodman ed. Business
Communication for Executives, (New York, 1996); "The
Right to Freedom of Commercial Communication" (1992)
and "Sexual Harassment: Why the Corporate World Still
Doesn't Get It (1994), both in The Journal of Business
Ethics, and several anthologies; "Corporate
Communication and Privacy rights: Some Ethical Considerations
for the Communication Specialist, Global Communication,
(Fairleigh Dickinson Press); "AIDS Education in the
Workplace: Individual and Corporate Responsibility for
the Year 2000" Approaching 2000 (Fairleigh
Dickinson Press); "Virtue Based Feminist Philosophical
Counseling" forthcoming in the Proceedings of the
4th International Conference, and under consideration
by a journal.
Address:
37 Parker Drive
Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950
USA
Phone and Fax: 973-984-6692
Email: VFeary@aol.com
