Dan Little

Daniel Little is chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He serves as professor of philosophy at UM-D and as faculty associate at Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Previous positions of academic leadership include service as vice president for academic affairs at Bucknell University (1996-2000) and as associate dean of the faculty and professor of philosophy at Colgate University (197996). He served as professor of philosophy at Colgate and Bucknell, with teaching experience as well at Wellesley College and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. He received his A.B. and B.S. from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University (1977). His research interests fall within the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, with particular focus on empirical Asian studies. His books include The Scientific Marx (University of Minnesota Press, 1986), Understanding Peasant China (Yale University Press, 1989), Varieties of Social Explanation (Westview Press, 1991), On the Reliability of Economic Models (edited) (Kluwer, 1995), and Microfoundations, Method, and Causation: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Transactions Publishers, 1998). During 1989-91 he held a.Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation fellowship in international peace and security, which he spent as Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. He is currently writing a book called Development Ethics, a discussion of some of the normative issues raised by processes of economic development in the developing world. Dan has two children. Joshua is a medical student at the University of Michigan and Rebecca is a first-year student at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Dan's significant other is Bernadette Lintz. Bernadette has recently joined the faculty of humanities at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Bernadette's area of specialization is nineteenthcentury French literature.