Rem B. Edwards

What Caused the Big Bang? (Amsterdam - Atlanta: Editions Rodopi), 2002. Now available as a free Open Access book. Go to https://brill.com/view/title/31133?rskey=XLBC2D&result=1. The full text is also available below. REM B. EDWARDS, Ph.D., grew up in the small town of Crawfordville, GA. He attended Emory at Oxford, then graduated as a Philosophy major from Emory University with an A.B. degree in 1956. There he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Throughout graduate school, he was a Danforth Graduate Fellow, which paid for all his graduate education. He received a B.D. degree from Yale University Divinity School (YDS) in 1959 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University in 1962, where he studied under Charles Hartshorne. After completing his Ph.D. at Emory, he taught for four years at Jacksonville University in Florida, moved from there to the University of Tennessee in 1966, and retired from there partly in 1997 and partly in 1998. He kept an office on the University campus until the end of May, 2000. He was a U. T. Chancellor’s Research Scholar in 1985 and a distinguished Lindsay Young Professor between 1987–1998. He continues to be professionally active. His areas of specialization are Philosophy of Religion, American Philosophy, Medical Ethics, and Ethical Theory, with a special focus on Mental Health Care Ethics, Ethics and Animals, and Formal Axiology. He has published twenty two books including Reason and Religion (New York: Harcourt, 1972 and Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1979); Pleasures and Pains: A Theory of Qualitative Hedonism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979); with Glenn Graber, BioEthics (San Diego: Harcourt, 1988); with John W. Davis, Forms of Value and Valuation: Theory and Applications (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991); Formal Axiology and Its Critics (Amsterdam - Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995); Violence, Neglect, and the Elderly, co-edited with Roy Cebik, Glenn Graber, and Frank H. Marsh (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996); New Essays on Abortion and Bioethics, (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997); Ethics of Psychiatry: Insanity, Rational Autonomy, and Mental Health Care, (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997); Values, Ethics, and Alcoholism, co-edited with Wayne Shelton, (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997); Bioethics for Medical Education, co-edited with Dr. Edward Bittar, (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999); Dialogues on Values and Centers of Value (Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, 2001), co-authored with Thomas M. Dicken; and What Caused the Big Bang? (Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, 2001). What Caused the Big Bang received the “Best Book of 2001” award from the Editors of the Value Inquiry Book Series. His The Essentials of Formal Axiology was published in 2010 by the University Press of America. Published by Emeth Press in 2012 were his John Wesley’s Values—And Ours and his Spiritual Values and Evaluations. Process Century Press published his An Axiological Process Ethics in 2013. His What Today's Methodists Need to Know about John Wesley was published by Emeth Press in 2018. Edwards has also authored over a hundred articles and reviews. He was an Associate Editor with the Value Inquiry Book Series, published by Rodopi, responsible for books in Hartman Institute Axiological Studies special series. For a number of years he was co-editor of the Advances in Bioethics book series published by JAI Press. In 2008, he became the senior editor of the new Journal of Formal Axiology: Theory and Practice and continued this for ten years. Edwards was the President of the Tennessee Philosophical Association (1973–74), the Society for Philosophy of Religion (1981–82), and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (1984–85). He is a Charter Member and Fellow of the Robert S. Hartman Institute for Formal and Applied Axiology and served on its Board of Directors from 1987 to 2013, Emeritus member thereafter. In 1989 he became its Secretary/Treasurer; after October of 2007, he continued as its Secretary until October, 2009. He is a lifelong Methodist.