John Silber
 President Emeritus, Boston University; University Professor; Professor of Law, School of Law; Professor of Philosophy and International Relations, College of Arts and Sciences.
B.A., Trinity University; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Dr. Silber is an internationally recognized authority on ethics, on the philosophy of law, and on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. His works include "The Ethical Significance of Kant's Religion," "Being and Doing: A Study of Status Responsibility and Voluntary Responsibility," "Human Action and the Language of Volition," "Procedural Formalism in Kant's Ethics," "The Natural Good and the Moral Good in Kant's Ethics," "Obedience to the Unenforceable," and "From Thebes to Auschwitz: Moral Responsibility in Sophocles and Wiesel." Straight Shooting: What's Wrong with America and How to Fix It was published by Harper and Row in 1989; a German edition, Ist Amerika zu retten?, was published by Ullstein in 1992, and a Japanese edition was published in 1993. Dr. Silber is a leading spokesman for a rational, comprehensive system of financing higher education. In 1996, Governor William Weld appointed Dr. Silber to serve as chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Education, the state's policy-making board for public education below the collegiate level; he served as chairman until 1999.
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