Ronald A. Lindsay
Center for Inquiry — Amherst, NY
Ronald A. Lindsay, J.D., Ph.D. is by training and experience both a lawyer and a philosopher. An honors graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, he practiced for twenty-six years with the national law firm of Seyfarth Shaw LLP prior to joining the Center for Inquiry, where he is now President and CEO. Dr. Lindsay has authored numerous appellate briefs, including amicus briefs in several prominent Supreme Court cases. He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating that can be awarded to an attorney. With respect to philosophy, Dr. Lindsay received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University, specializing in bioethics. He has had articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and The American Journal of Bioethics. His book Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas was published by Prometheus Books in June 2008.
Dr. Lindsay has spoken before numerous audiences and has appeared on radio and television to discuss both issues in bioethics and constitutional law controversies.
Ron also works as a part-time comedian, as seen below:
- Humanistic and naturalistic ethics
- Philosophy of theism and atheism
- Religion and politics
- Religious extremist movements
- Religious liberty, and the civil rights of the non-religious
- Secular humanism
- Separation of church and state
- The Center for Inquiry
- The existence of God
- The humanist and skeptic movements
