Robbie Kubala Department of Philosophy [email protected] 512.964.3210

Research Interests AOS: ethics, aesthetics AOC: moral psychology, American pragmatism, philosophy of science

Employment University of California, Santa Cruz 2019- Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Columbia University 2018-2019 Core Lecturer in Contemporary Civilization

Education Columbia University 2011-2018 PhD, Philosophy (defense: May 4, 2018) Dissertation: Non-Ideal Practices: An Essay on Ethical Theory and Deliberation Committee: Philip Kitcher (sponsor), Michele Moody-Adams, Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr)

University of Cambridge, Peterhouse (Marshall Scholar) 2010-2011 MPhil, History and Philosophy of Science, First Class

St Andrews and Stirling Graduate Programme (Marshall Scholar) 2009-2010 MLitt, Philosophy, with Distinction

Boston College, College of Arts and Sciences 2005-2009 BA, Philosophy, summa cum laude

Articles Desire 2020 The Proustian Mind, ed. Thomas Stern & Anna Elsner (Routledge)

Literary Intentionalism: A Shared Interpretive Policy 2019 Metaphilosophy, Vol. 50, Issue 4: 503-15

Grounding Aesthetic Obligations 2018 British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 58, Issue 3: 271-85

Valuing and Believing Valuable 2017 Analysis, Vol. 77, Issue 1: 59-65 (selected for Oxford Philosophy Journals’ ‘Best of 2017’ collection) 1 Love and Transience in Proust 2016 Philosophy, Vol. 91, Issue 4: 541-57

Philosophy, Literature, and Emotional Engagement: A Response to Nanay 2015 Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 73, Issue 2: 196-200

Reviews Review of Dominic McIver Lopes, Being for Beauty 2019 Estetika, forthcoming

Review of Richard Moran, The Philosophical Imagination 2018 European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 26, Issue 3: 1180-3

Review of Rafe McGregor, The Value of Literature 2017 Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 75, Issue 3: 311-4

Academic Awards and Honors 2016 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs, for Rethink (shared) 2016 GSAS Teaching Scholars Program, Columbia University (declined) 2015 GSAS Exchange Scholar, 2013 Benjamin Wolstein Fellowship Fund, Columbia University 2012 George John Bowdery Memorial Fund in Philosophy, Columbia University 2009 Marshall 2009 John Bapst, S.J., Philosophy Medal, for “outstanding overall performance in philosophy courses,” Boston College 2009 Mary A. and Katherine G. Finneran Commencement Medal, for “outstanding success in studies and contribution to the enrichment of college and student life,” Boston College 2008 Phi Beta Kappa, Boston College 2007 Peter Gray Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Psychology, Boston College 2005 Presidential Scholars Program, Boston College

Teaching Primary Instructor (Santa Cruz) Contemporary Moral Problems, Winter 2020 Aesthetic Normativity (graduate seminar), Winter 2020 Advanced Ethics, Spring 2020

Primary Instructor (Columbia) Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West, 2018-2019 Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 Philosophy of Literature, 2015

Teaching Assistant (Columbia) Philosophy of Language and Mind (Akeel Bilgrami), 2015

2 Ethics (Macalester Bell), with two discussion sections, 2014 History of Modern Philosophy (Patricia Kitcher), with discussion section, 2014 Contemporary Moral Problems (Macalester Bell), 2012 and 2013 Introduction to Philosophy (Elliot Paul), 2013

Service Referee, Noûs; Analysis; Utilitas; Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy; British Journal of Aesthetics; Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences; Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism; American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting

Co-Founder and Facilitator, Rethink: A Philosophy Community Outreach Program, 2013- 2016

Co-Organizer, Science, Value, and Pragmatism: A Conference in Honor of Philip Kitcher, Columbia University, February 2017

Book Review Editor, American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal, 2012-2016

Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Representative, Columbia University, 2013-2014

Graduate Student Representative, Columbia University Department of Philosophy, 2013-2014

Co-Organizer, 12th Annual Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy, April 2012

Talks Partiality as a Non-Ideal Practice Florida International University, Fall 2019 APA Central Division Meeting, Denver, February 2019 (symposium) NYU Center for Bioethics, March 2018

Practice-Based Accounts of Aesthetic Normativity American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Phoenix, October 2019 BSA Connections: Aesthetics in the Reasons Revolution, Edinburgh, May 2019

Moral Theory and Moral Unfreedom APA Eastern Division Meeting, New York, January 2019 (poster) Felician Ethics Conference, October 2017

Fittingness and Value: A Two-Level Theory of (Some) Aesthetic Normativity American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, October 2018 APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2018 British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Oxford, September 2017

3 Grounding Aesthetic Obligations Aesthetic Normativity Conference, Salt Lake City, May 2017 APA Central Division Meeting, Kansas City, March 2017 American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Seattle, November 2016

Two-Level Consequentialism, Regret, and the Reactive Attitudes Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & the Mind Association, Cardiff, July 2016 International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Lille, July 2016

Highest-Order Consequentialism (with Max Hayward) Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, August 2016 (poster, unable to attend) International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Lille, July 2016 (sole presenter)

The Self-Effacement of Ethical Theory Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Sassari, September 2015 (awarded a €250 Young Scholar Prize)

Could It Be Worth Thinking About Proust on Love? British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Cambridge, September 2015 Felician Ethics Conference, April 2015 Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism Seminar Series, March 2015 Love’s Passion Workshop, University of Hertfordshire, September 2014

Philosophy, Literature, and Emotional Engagement British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Oxford, September 2014 American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, March 2014

Local Debunking Arguments Summer School on Epistemology and Cognition, University of Groningen, August 2014 (awarded a €300 Scholarship)

Judging Valuable Felician Ethics Conference, April 2014 Understanding Value, University of Sheffield, July 2013

Dewey on Functional Beauty American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2011

Professional Membership American Philosophical Association American Society for Aesthetics

Languages English—native German—intermediate reading

4 Ancient Greek—intermediate reading French—elementary reading Spanish—intermediate reading

References Philip Kitcher John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University [email protected]

Michele Moody-Adams Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory, Columbia University [email protected]

Macalester Bell Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College [email protected]

Dominic McIver Lopes Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia [email protected]

Julie Crawford (teaching reference) Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities, Columbia University [email protected]

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