Leonardo A. Zaibert

607 Baldy Hall

Department of Philosophy

SUNY at Buffalo

Amherst, NY 14120

Phone: (716) 743-9315

E-mail: laz@acsu.buffalo.edu Personal

Born: Caracas, Venezuela; 1966.

Married to Davgla Rodríguez.

Current Employment

Research Assistant to University at Buffalo Research Foundation for the project "Property Rights and Economic Development: A Study on Comparative Legal Ontology".

Education

1992-present State University of New York at Buffalo Ph. D. in Philosophy, expected Nov. 96.

1991-1992 Universidad Simon Bolívar, Venezuela Graduate courses in Philosophy.

1984-1989 Universidad Santa María, Venezuela J. D. Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Law, Comparative Law, Ethics, Theory of Action.

Areas of Competence

History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Logic, Epistemology, Latin American Philosophy.

Publications

"On Deference and the Spirit of the Laws", Archiv f[[cedilla]]r Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, forthcoming, Fall 1996.

"Philosophy of Law in Latin America", in Christopher B. Gray, ed., Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia (with Jorge J. E. Gracia), forthcoming, Fall 1996.

"Process Teleology: John Dewey's Reconstructed Virtue Ethics" (in Spanish), Revista Venezolana de Filosofía, 32 (1995): 143-163.

Review of Tom L. Beauchamp's, "Intending Death: The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia", Journal of Value Inquiry, forthcoming, Fall 1996.

"Normative Insufficiency of Alan Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency" (in Spanish), Apuntes Filosóficos, 4 (1994): 195-210.