RUTH CHANG Department of Philosophy Rutgers University 1 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: Ruthechang@Gmail.Com Tel: 732 932 9861 Fax: 732 932 8617

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RUTH CHANG Department of Philosophy Rutgers University 1 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: [email protected] Tel: 732 932 9861 Fax: 732 932 8617

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor (with tenure) Philosophy Department RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick, New Jersey

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Balliol College, Oxford, England D.Phil., Philosophy, Junior Research Fellow

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts J.D., cum laude

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, New Hampshire A.B., summa cum laude

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure), RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2004- Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1998-2004 Assistant Professor, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, Camden, New Jersey (half-time with philosophy 1997-98) Visiting Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, Chicago, Illinois, 1995-96 Visiting Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Philosophy Department, Los Angeles, California, 1993-94 Junior Research Fellow, BALLIOL COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1991-96 Lecturer in Philosophy, WORCESTER COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1990-91 Lecturer in Philosophy, MAGDALEN COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1990

PUBLICATIONS

(i) Book: Making Comparisons Count (New York: Routledge, 2001), Studies in Ethics, series editor, Robert Nozick, 187pp.

Also published in digital form at the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (http://ora.ox.ac.uk/).

(ii) Edited Book: Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997)

(iii) Articles and work in progress:

22. ‘Normativity’, Symposium on Raz’s From Normativity to Responsibility, ed., David Enoch, Jerusalem Legal Studies, ms

21. ‘In Defense of Weighing Reasons’, eds., Barry McGuire and Errol Lord, Weighing Reasons, Oxford University Press, ms

20. ‘Incommensurability and Incomparability’, eds., Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson, Oxford Handbook in Value Theory, Oxford University Press, ms

19. ‘Do We Have Normative Powers?’ ms

18. ‘Grounding Practical Normativity: Going Hybrid’, Philosophical Studies, 2013

17. ‘Value Pluralism’, (revised and updated article in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, eds. N.J. Smelser and P.B. Bates, (philosophy editor, Philip Pettit), vol. 24, (Pergamon, Oxford, 2012)

16. ‘Commitments, Reasons, and the Will’, in Shafer-Landau, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 8, 2012

15. ‘Practical Reasons: The Problem of Gridlock’, eds. Barry Dainton and Howard Robinson, Companion to Analytical Philosophy (Continuum Press), 2012

14. ‘Are Hard Choices Cases of Incomparability?’, Philosophical Issues, vol., 22, no. 1, pp. 106-126, 2012

13. ‘Incommensurability (and Incomparability)’, International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell 2009, series editor, Hugh La Follette (6500 words)

12. ‘Reflections on the Reasonable and the Rational in Conflict Resolution’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 83, No. 1, July 2009, pp. 133-66

11. ‘Voluntarist Reasons and the Sources of Normativity’, Reasons for Action eds., Sobel and Wall, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 243-71

10. ‘Parity, Interval Value, and Choice’, 114 Ethics January 2005, pp. 331-50

9. ‘All Things Considered’ 18 Philosophical Perspectives, December 2004, pp. 1-22

8. ‘Can Desires Provide Reasons for Action?’ in Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, eds. R. Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler, and Michael Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 56-90

7. ‘Putting Together Morality and Well-Being’ in Practical Conflicts, eds. M. Betzler and P. Baumann, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 118-58

6. ‘The Possibility of Parity’ 112 Ethics July 2002, pp. 659-88

5. ‘Against Constitutive Incommensurability, or, Buying and Selling Friends’ 11 Philosophical Issues (annual special issues supplement to Nous), December 2001, pp. 33- 60

4. ‘Two Conceptions of Reasons for Action’ 62 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research No. 2, March, 2001, pp. 447-453

3. ‘Value Pluralism’ International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, eds. N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, (philosophy editor, Philip Pettit), vol. 24, (Pergamon, Oxford, 2001), pp. 16139-16145

2. ‘Comparison and the Justification of Choice’ 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1998, pp. 1569-98

1. ‘Introduction’ in Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason, ed. Ruth Chang (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), pp. 1-34

(iv) Reviews and miscellany: Review of Christine Delphy, Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression, 11 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 1988, pp. 268-76 Podcast with Luke Muehlhauser, February 7, 2010, What is Morality? at http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=6873 Videoed Panel Speaker, ‘What is Civility?’ Rutgers Inaugural Civility Initiative, Fall 2010 Interviewed by John Protevi at New Apps http://www.newappsblog.com/new-apps- interviews/, 2012 Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy entry, ‘Incommensurability, including incomparability’, 2012 Entry in Exhibition Catalog by Prudence Whittlesey, Artist. Portraits of Philosophers. forthcoming. 4

(vi) Long-Term Projects: Making it Matter, invited to publish in the Oxford Ethics Series, Oxford University Press.

INVITED TALKS

Syracuse Philosophy Colloquium, Syracuse, NY, Fall 2013 Reasons in Ethics and Epistemology Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, Spring 2013 Panel Speaker, Conference on Diversity in Philosophy, University of Dayton, OH, Spring 2013 Keynote Speaker, University of California, San Diego Graduate Conference, San Diego, CA, Spring 2013 Keynote Speaker, Rocky Mountain Graduate Conference, Boulder, Colorado, Spring 2013 University College, London, Conference on Joseph Raz’s From Normativity to Responsibility, London, United Kingdom, Spring 2013 Workshop for Women in Philosophy, New Paltz, New York, Fall 2012 Princeton Conference on Weighing Reasons, Princeton, NJ, Fall 2012 University of Toronto Moral and Political Workshop, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2012 Toronto Philosophy Colloquium, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2012 Purdue University Colloquium, West Lafayette, IN, Fall 2012 CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium, New York, NY Fall 2012 Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2012 Keynote Speaker, University of Lund Conference, Lund, Sweden, Fall 2012 Bellingham Conference, Bellingham, WA, July 2012 Pfingstkurs Lecture Series, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (a series of 6 lectures), May 2012 Pacific APA, Session on Reasons and Action with Steve Darwall and Kieran Setiya, commentary by Julia Markovitz, Seattle, WA, Spring 2012 Fordham University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, New York, NY, Spring 2012 New York University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, New York, NY, Spring 2012 Keynote Speaker, Marist Philosophy Conference, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 30-31, 2012 Keynote Speaker, Scots Philosophical Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, Fall 2011 Selected Speaker, Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop, Madison, WI, Fall 2011 Keynote Speaker, Joint Arche/CSME Graduate Conference, Oslo, Sweden, Fall 2010 KTH & University of Stockholm Colloquium Series, Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2010 MIT Colloquium Series, Cambridge, MA Fall 2010 UCLA Law and Philosophy Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2010 Project Civility Speaker, Rutgers University, Multi-purpose Room, New Brunswick, NJ, Fall 2010 University of Maryland Colloquium Series, College Park, MD, Fall 2010 University of Vermont Colloquium Series, Burlington, VT, Fall 2010 Workshop on Value Theory, Reykjavik, Iceland, Summer 2010 5

Sydney University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Sydney, Australia, Summer 2010 MacQuarie University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Sydney, Australia, Summer 2010 Melbourne University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Melbourne, Australia, Summer 2010 Social and Political Theory Seminar, Research School of the Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2010 Research School of the Social Sciences, Philosophy Department Seminar Series, Australian National University Seminar Series, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2010 Union College Colloquium Series, Schenectady, NY, Spring 2010 St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality, St. Louis, MO, Spring 2010 Sofia International Philosophy Conference – Action Theory, Huatulco, Mexico, Jan 2010 North Carolina State Colloquium Series, Raleigh, NC, Fall 2009 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind, Invited Speaker, Spring 2009 Keynote speaker, Rutgers-Lund conference, Spring 2009 University of Minnesota Colloquium, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2008 Virginia Commonwealth University Colloquium, Fall 2007 Wayne State Colloquium, Detroit, MI, Fall 2006 Centenary Fellow Lecturer, Scots Philosophical Club, conference on Reason and Value, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, Summer 2006 SPAWN speaker, University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY, Spring 2006 Dubrovnik Conference on Moral Philosophy and Value Theory, sponsored jointly by Ohio State University, the University of Maribor, and the University of Riyeka, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Spring 2006 Ruth Evelyn Parcells Memorial Lecturer on Ethics (public lecture), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Spring 2006 Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2006 University of Washington, Kline Conference on Practical Reason, St. Louis, MO, Spring 2006 Bryn Mawr College Colloquium, Bryn Mawr, PA, Spring 2006 Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 2004 Melbourne University Colloquium Series, Melbourne, Australia, Summer 2004 Australian National University Colloquium Series, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2004 Conference on Reasons and Rationality, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2004 Australian Association of Philosophy, South Molle Island, Queensland, Australia, Summer 2004 Moral Psychology Workshop, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, Summer 2004 Brown University Colloquium Series, Providence, RI, Spring 2004 Oxford University Moral Philosophy Seminar Series, Oxford, England, Spring 2004 St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, Spring 2004 University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, Spring 2004 Harvard University Philosophy Colloquium Series, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2004 University of California at Davis Colloquium Series, Davis, CA, Spring 2004 6

MIT Philosophy Colloquium Series, Cambridge, MA, Fall 2003 Philamore Group, Philadelphia, PA, Spring 2003 Tulane University Colloquium, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2002 Swarthmore College Colloquium, Swarthmore, PA, Fall 2001 Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, NYU, New York, NY, Spring 2001 Invited Main Session, Eastern Division APA, December 2000 CUNY Graduate Center Colloquium, New York, NY, Spring 2000 Rutgers Undergraduate Philosophy Club, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998 Dartmouth College Philosophy Colloquium, Hanover, NH, 1998 Conference on Well-Being at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1998 Symposium on Incommensurability and Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA 1998 UCLA Law and Philosophy Group, Los Angeles, CA,1996 Conference on the Philosophy of Joseph Raz, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1993 University of Chicago Philosophy and Law Discussion Group, Chicago, IL, 1995 Conference on Incommensurability and Value in Philosophy, Economics, and Law, Normandy, France 1994 Wolfson Philosophy Society, Oxford, England, 1992 University of Southern California Law Center - Oxford Law and Philosophy Workshop, Oxford, England, 1991 Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA, 1991 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & Mind Association, graduate paper, Durham, England, 1991

COMMENTS, WORKSHOPS, DISCUSSION GROUPS

Co-convenor, Workshop on Comparative Chinese Philosophy: Values, with Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Spring 2013 Commentator on Jonas Olson ‘How to Understand Mackie’s Argument from Queerness’, SPAWN, Syracuse University, NY, August 2012 Commentator on Richard Holton “Modelling Belief on Intention”, Chapel Hill Workshop on the Rationality of Belief and Desire, Chapel Hill, NC, Spring 2011 Organizer and Chair, ‘The Pentagram of Love,’ with Harry Frankfurt, David Velleman, Rae Langton, Michael Stocker, and David Wong, Eastern Division APA, Fall 2008 Co-organizer (with John Broome and Maurice Salles) and Speaker, International Conference on Incommensurability and Value in Philosophy, Economics, and Law, Normandy, France, 1994 Workshop on Objectivity, Chapel Hill, NJ, Spring 2008 Mid-Eastern Analytic Philosophy Group in Ethics (MARGE), New York, NY, Fall 2007- 2010 Ethical Philosophy Society discussion group (ELFS), Fall 2005-2010 Workshop on Value, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Fall 2006 Conference on Practical Reason, Bowling Green, OH, Spring 2006 7

Workshop on Value, Columbia University, New York, NY, Fall 2005 Commentator, paper by Jesse Prinz, Brown Conference on Practical Reason, Providence, RI, Spring 2005 Conference on ‘The Ethics of Joseph Raz’, Columbia University, New York, NY Spring 2002 Workshop on Value Theory, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 2004 Conference on Vagueness in Philosophy and Law, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1999 Commentator, paper by Frank Michelman, Princeton Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1999 Commentator, paper by Robert Audi, Ethical Intuitionism Conference, Keele University, England, 1999 Commentator, paper by Michael Smith, Conference in Honor of Bernard Gert, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1999 Columbia University Workshop on Formalism and Autonomy in Law and the Arts, New York, NY1998 Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference, various locations, 1996-1999 Commentator on Liam Murphy’s ‘Beneficence’, University of Southern California Law Center – Oxford Law and Philosophy Workshop, Oxford, England, 1993

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

National Humanities Center, Glaxo-Smith Kline Fellowship and NEH Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2009-10 Centenary Fellow, Scotts Philosophy Club, University of Glasgow, 2006 Harvard University Fellowship in Ethics, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2003-04 (declined in 1999-00) Centenary Fellow, Scots Philosophy Club, University of Edinburgh, 2003 Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2002-03 Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1999-00 Research Council Grant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999-00 Junior Research Fellowship, Balliol College, Oxford, 1991-93; 1994-95 Harvard University Award for Distinction in Teaching, 1987

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Associate Editor Nous Board of Editors Legal Theory Social, Political and Legal Studies Referee (many of the below multiple times) Cambridge University Press 8

Oxford University Press Princeton University Press Routledge Press Columbia University Press Thomson/Wadsworth Press Ethics Mind Nous Philosopher’s Imprint American Philosophical Quarterly Philosophical Quarterly Synthese Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Utilitas Ratio Economics and Philosophy Canadian Journal of Philosophy Legal Theory Law and Philosophy Journal of Political Philosophy Journal of Ethical Theory Theoria British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Social Choice and Welfare Erkenntnis Journal of Philosophical Research Referee for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Gravitation Grant (167.5 million euros), 2012-13 Selection Committee on Fellowships, National Humanities Center, 2012 Member, The Women in Philosophy Taskforce, 2011- Consultant, Films for the Humanities, Ethics Video, 2002 Member, APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers, 2007-2010 Member, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America Member, Society for Women in Philosophy Member, Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs Member, American Philosophical Association

DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Department Offices: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Vice-Chair, Rutgers Philosophy, implementation of Core Curriculum 2011- Director of Graduate Admissions, Rutgers Philosophy, 2007-09, 2010-11

Other: Co-Organizer with Tao Jiang, Rutgers Religion and Philosophy Consortium, 2012- Aresty Research Mentor (program to help undergraduates do research), 2012-13 External Member, SAS Mellon Post-Doctoral Committee, 2012, 2013 Rutgers Philosophy Department Climate Committee, 2012- Elected to Board of Directors, 80-20 PAC, 2011-13 (resigned in protest) Volunteer, Academic Planning Days for accepted students, Rutgers University, 2011-12 Volunteer, Scholars Days, Rutgers University, 2011-12 Selection Committee Member, National Humanities Center, 2011-12 Rutgers Committee on Undergraduate Education, 2010 – Rutgers Project Civility Panelist, 2010 University Appointments and Promotions Committee, 2010-2012, 2012-13 Volunteer Teacher, Rutgers Byrne Seminar, 2008 Rutgers Hiring Committee, 2008-09 Rutgers Day, Volunteer, 2008, 2009, 2010 Chair, Rutgers Renovations of New Buildings, 2008-11 Rutgers Fulbright Advisor, 2008-2012 Rutgers Graduate Committee, 2007-09 Rutgers Faculty Advisory Board to External Fellowships, 2007-08 Rutgers Humanities Area Committee, 2008-11 Chair, Rutgers Committee for the Hiring of Outstanding Women, 2007-08 Rutgers Day Speaker, A Day of Academics for Alumni, 2005 Chair, Rutgers Colloquium Committee 2005-2008 Rutgers Undergraduate Committee 2005 - 2007 Advisor, Phi Sigma Tau Undergraduate Philosophy Honor Society, 2005-07 Rutgers Hiring Committee 2005-07 Rutgers TA/GA Grievance Committee 2005-07 Rutgers Philosophy Representative, Undergraduate Fair, Fall 2005, Spring 2012 Committee of Review of the Graduate School, 2005-06 Rutgers Graduate Admissions Committee, 2002-2011 Federal Appointee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, New Jersey Advisory Board on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., 2002-05 Rutgers University Search Committee, Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies, 2002-03 80-20 Political Action Committee, Washington, D.C., 2001-2010 Volunteer, ACT, America Votes, and MoveOn.Org, 2004-05 Women and Rutgers Committee, 2002-03 Ethics Curriculum Reform Committee, 2001-03 Department Librarian, 1999-00 Organizer, Committee on Women and Teaching, 1998 Undergraduate Committee, 1998-99 Ethics Hiring Committee, 1997-2003 Reader and examiner in graduate area tests (ethics; philosophy of law), 1997-1999 Licensed to practice law in New York and Washington, D.C.

TAUGHT COURSES 10

Rutgers University Sophomore Seminar: Hard Choices Ethics and Practical Reason Ethical Theory & Metaethics Introduction to Ethics History of Ethics Ethical Theory Current Moral and Social Issues Seminar on Practical Normativity (with Derek Parfit) Seminar on Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain (with Larry Temkin) Seminar in Meta-ethics Seminar on Human Rights (with James Griffin) Seminar on Value and Reasons (with Derek Parfit and visits by Peter Railton and Michael Smith) Jurisprudence Honors course ‘Practical Reasoning’ Honors course ‘How Should I Live?’ Byrne Seminar ‘Love and Reason’ Independent studies – Graduate (Andrew Sepielli, Josh Armstrong, Preston Greene, Nick Beckstead, Kurt Sylvan); Undergraduate (Nimrod Grinvold, Joy Li) Aresty Research Program – Parfit on the Repugnant Conclusion

University of Chicago Law School Philosophy and Anglo-American Jurisprudence

University of California at Los Angeles Introduction to Ethical Theory Philosophy of Action Undergraduate Seminar on Value Theory Philosophy of Law

University of Oxford Moral and Political Philosophy Mill Philosophy of Mind Introduction to Logic Epistemology Feminist Jurisprudence University Schools lectures in Moral and Political Philosophy

NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

Legal Consultant. LEGAL RESEARCH NETWORK, Los Angeles, CA, 1994. Co- authored (with Clyde Spillenger) nationwide analysis of expert testimony case law. 11

Summer Litigation Associate. PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON, & GARRISON, New York, NY, 1989. Researched Texas and Louisiana death penalty law and initiated successful strategy in obtaining pardon for death row inmate; wrote memoranda in complex commercial litigation involving safety device employed in nuclear power plants.

Summer Litigation Associate. ROBINS, KAPLAN, MILLER & CIRESI, St. Paul, MN, 1988 and 1989. Wrote briefs and motion papers in medical malpractice and personal injury cases.

Summer Law Associate. WINTHROP, STIMSON, PUTNAM & ROBERTS, New York, NY, 1987; and OPPENHEIMER, WOLFF & DONNELLY, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN, 1986. Drafted brief for state supreme court appeal; wrote briefs and research memoranda in medical malpractice and product liability suits.

Computer Programmer/Analyst. 3M COMPANY, INCORPORATED, St. Paul, MN, 1984. Analyzed decision support system needs for marketing management; wrote and implemented software for the marketing division.