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Lauren Freeman

Department of Philosophy • University of Louisville • [email protected]

AREAS OF Phenomenology, Bioethics, Feminist Philosophy SPECIALIZATION

AREAS OF Philosophy of Emotion, Applied Ethics, History of Philosophy (Ancient) COMPETENCE

EDUCATION

2010 Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston University Dissertation: “Ethical Dimensions in ’s Early Thinking” Committee: Prof. Daniel O. Dahlstrom (director), Charles Griswold, C. Allen Speight, Robert Bernasconi (external reader)

2002 M.A., Arts & Social Sciences, University of Chicago Thesis: “The Failed Quest for Unity in Fichte’s Subjective Idealism and Schelling’s Objective Idealism: Epistemological and Ontological Questions” Committee: Robert Pippin (director), Robert Richards

2001 B.A., Classics, Contemporary Studies; University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada

EMPLOYMENT

2013- Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, Department of Philosophy

2010-2013 Assistant Professor (Limited Term), Concordia University, Department of Philosophy

2009-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor, Duquesne University, Department of Philosophy

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Collections The Phenomenology and Science of Emotions, Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences; Guest Editor (with Andreas Elpidorou) (forthcoming 2014)

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters “Langweile” [Boredom], to appear in The Heidegger Lexicon. Edited by Mark Wrathall; Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2015)

“Defending a Heideggerian Account of Mood.” to appear in Philosophy of Mind and Phenomenology. Edited by A. Elpidorou, D. Dahlstrom, W. Hopp; Routledge (forthcoming 2015)

“Confronting Diminished Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Injustice in Pregnancy by Challenging a ‘Panoptics of the Womb’,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (forthcoming 2014)

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“Heidegger on Affectivity I: Mood and Emotion in Being and Time” (co-authored with Andreas Elpidorou), to appear in Philosophy Compass (forthcoming 2014)

“Phenomenology of Racial Oppression,” to appear in Race and Lived Embodiment a special issue of Knowledge Cultures. Edited by George Yancy (invited contribution) (forthcoming 2014)

“Introduction,” The Phenomenology and Science of Emotions, Special Issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (with Andreas Elpidorou) (forthcoming 2014)

“Toward a Phenomenology of Mood,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming 2014)

“Creating Safe Spaces: Strategies for Confronting Implicit & Explicit Biases & Stereotype Threat in the Classroom,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, vol. 13, no. 2, Spring 2014.

“Reconsidering Relational Autonomy: A Feminist Approach to Selfhood and the Other in the Thinking of Martin Heidegger,” Inquiry, vol. 54, no. 4, (August) 2011, pp. 361-383.

“Metontology, Moral Particularism, and the ‘Art of Existing’: A Dialogue Between Heidegger, Aristotle, and Bernard Williams,” Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 43, no. 4, 2010, pp. 545-568.

“Recognition Reconsidered: A Re-Reading of Heidegger’s Being and Time §26,” Philosophy Today, vol. 53,no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 85-99.

“Reconsidering Hegel’s Legacy: Recognition in the Thinking of Martin Heidegger,” Reconocimiento y diferencia. Idealismo alemán y hermenéutica: un retorno a las fuentes del debate contemporáneo. Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2010, pp.225-252.

Conference Proceedings “Phenomenology of Mood” Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle, 2011, pp. 133-154.

“Love is Not Blind: In/visibility and Recognition in the Thinking of Martin Heidegger” In/visibility: Perspectives on Inclusion and Exclusion. Ed. Lauren Freeman. Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference Proceedings, vol. XXIV, 2009.

“In/visibility: Perspectives on Inclusion and Exclusion: Introduction” (with Andreas Elpidorou) In/visibility: Perspectives on Inclusion and Exclusion, ed. Lauren Freeman. Vienna: Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference. Vol. XXIV, 2009.

“‘I am you, if I am I’: A Feminist Approach to Selfhood and the Other in the Thinking of Martin Heidegger” Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle, 2009, pp. 114-129.

“Recognition & Solicitude: Leaping Ahead Toward a Heideggerian Approach” Proceedings of the 42nd Annual North American Heidegger Conference, 2008, pp. 148-158.

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“Heidegger Contra Levinas on Responsibility and the Other” Proceedings of the Participants Conference, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, 2007, pp. 191-212.

“The Art of Existing and Praxical Ethics: Heidegger, Aristotle, and Bernard Williams” Proceedings of the 41stAnnual North American Heidegger Conference, 2007, pp. 23-38.

Book Reviews Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine, Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Folkmarson Käll (eds.), in American Journal of Bioethics (forthcoming 2014)

Larmore, Charles. The Practices of the Self, in The Review of Metaphysics (forthcoming 2014).

Fricker, Miranda. Epistemic Injustice, in “American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy,” Vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 22-23.

Yancy, George (Editor). The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy, in Hypatia 26 (2), 2011, pp. 438-445. Republished in Hypatia, Virtual Issue on the Place of Women in the Profession of Philosophy, 2012.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Manuscripts and Articles in Preparation Applied Phenomenology (book manuscript: Introduction, 6 chapters)

“Heidegger on Affectivity II: Temporality, Boredom, and Beyond” (co-authored with Andreas Elpidorou)

“Why We Should Be Worried About the Consequences of New Research on the Microbiome of Placentas: A Feminist Analysis” (co-authored with Saray Ayala and Andrea Smith)

“Epistemic Injustice in Physician-Patient Relationships”

“The Phenomenology and Temporality of Trauma”

INVITED LECTURES

Phenomenology of Racial Oppression Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, 2014.

Toward a Phenomenology of Mood Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2014.

Feminist Ethics Department of Philosophy, University of California, Fullerton, 2012.

Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Authority: Examining Bodily Knowledges in Pregnancy Students of Philosophy Association, Concordia University; Montreal, Canada, 2011.

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Medical Ethics: Moral Reasoning, Patient Autonomy, and End of Life Decisions University of Toronto Critical Care Residents, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2011.

Phenomenology of Mood Students of Philosophy Association, Concordia University; Montreal, Canada, 2011.

Medical Ethics: Traditional and Alternative Approaches Department of Otolaryngology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2010.

Moods, Mattering, and Ethics Interdisziplinäres Forum, UND., Universität Wien, Vienna, 2008.

Reconsidering Hegel’s Legacy: Recognition in the Thinking of Martin Heidegger Reconocimiento y diferencia Idealismo alemán y hermenéutica: un retorno a las fuentes del debate contemporáneo, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2008.

Philosophy and Art Words Within, national juried group art exhibition, Boston University’s Rubin-Frankel Gallery, 2007.

Shifting Perspectives: Phenomenology and Art Graduate Department of Painting and Sculpture, Boston University, 2006.

PRESENTATIONS

Refereed Conference Papers Phenomenology of Racial Oppression California Roundtable for Philosophy and Race; Marquette University; Milwaukee, 2014

Creating Safe Spaces: Strategies for Confronting Implicit & Explicit Biases & Stereotype Threat in the Classroom Power, Pedagogy and Philosophy’s ‘Woman Problem,’ New School for Social Research; New York, 2014 Diversity in Philosophy, University of Dayton; Dayton, 2013

Challenging a ‘Panoptics of the Womb’: Confronting Diminished Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Injustice in Pregnancy Society for Analytic Feminism, Vanderbilt University; Nashville, 2012

Challenging a Panoptics of the Womb: Phenomenological Responses to the Problem of Diminished Epistemic Agency in Pregnancy Bodies in Crisis, Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 2011.

Bodies of Thought: Fleshy Subjects, Embodied Minds, and Human Natures, University of Dundee/The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 2011.

Phenomenology of Mood 45th Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 2011.

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Reconsidering Relational Autonomy Canadian Philosophical Association, McGill University, Montreal, 2010.

Reconsidering Relational Autonomy: A Feminist Approach to Selfhood and the Other in the Thinking of Martin Heidegger Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, main program, New York, 2009.

Bridging the Continental-Analytic Divide: Relational Autonomy and a Reconsideration of Selfhood Workshops in Political Theory: Feminist Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester,UK, 2009.

Responsibility Re-considered: A Heideggerian Re-thinking of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity Canadian Philosophical Association, Carlton University, Ottawa, 2009.

Mood, Mattering, and Ethics The Society for the Study of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC), Carleton University, Ottawa, 2009.

Redefining Recognition: A Heideggerian Response to Axel Honneth Society of Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 2008.

‘I am you, if I am I’: A Feminist Approach to Selfhood and the Other in the Thinking of Martin Heidegger 43rd Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle, Xavier University, Cincinnati, 2009.

Recognition Reconsidered: Leaping Ahead Toward a Heideggerian Approach 42nd Annual North American Heidegger Conference, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 2008.

Hegel’s Legacy: A Heideggerian Account of Recognition North Texas Heidegger Symposium, University of Dallas at Irving, 2008.

The Art of Existing and Praxical Ethics: Heidegger, Aristotle, and Bernard Williams 41st Annual North American Heidegger Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, 2007.

A Bridge to Ethics: Heidegger, Aristotle, and Bernard Williams Building Bridges: 2nd Annual Graduate Conference, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2007.

Husserl and Cubism American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006.

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Possibility of Ethics in a Post-Metaphysical Era Canadian Philosophical Association, York University, Toronto, 2006.

Nietzsche: Post-Metaphysical Pundit Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2005.

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Non-Refereed Paper Presentations Toward a Phenomenology of Mood University of Louisville, Department of Philosophy, 2014

Recognizing Race Concordia University, Department of Philosophy, 2012

Ethics in Being and Time: Heidegger’s Account of Recognition Duquesne University, Department of Philosophy, 2010

Reconsidering Relational Autonomy Boston University, Department of Philosophy, 2009

Love is Not Blind: In/Visibility and Recognition in the Thinking of Martin Heidegger Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Junior Visiting Fellows’ Conference, Vienna, 2008.

Workshop on Being and Time, §58 Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien, Vienna, 2008.

Moods, Mattering, and Ethics Junior Visiting Fellows’ Seminar, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 2008.

Comments on “Truth and Deception in Kantian Ethics,” by Donald Wilson Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pasadena, 2008.

‘Metontology’: Ethical Dimensions in Heidegger The 3rd New England Seminar in Continental Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2007.

Heidegger Contra Levinas on Responsibility and the Other Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Participants Conference, Italy, 2007.

Ethics and the End of Metaphysics: Nietzsche and Heidegger Boston University Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium, 2006.

Phenomenology and Art Boston University Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium, 2006.

Saving Nietzsche From Heidegger Boston University Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquium, 2005.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, Department of Philosophy 2014-2015 Phenomenology Medical Ethics (2 sections) Ethics (2 sections)

2013-2014 Introduction to Ethics (2 sections) Medical Ethics (2 sections) Gender, Race, Culture in Healthcare (Graduate Seminar; Cross-listed in Graduate Program in Bioethics, Women and Gender Studies, and Philosophy) Directed Study in Feminist Bioethics, Michael Billingsly (Senior, Philosophy Major)

Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Department of Philosophy, 2010-2013 2012-2013 Maternity Leave

2011-2012 Introduction to Ethics (2 sections) Feminist Philosophy Moral Psychology Applied Ethics Introduction to Philosophy Philosophy of Leisure

2010-2011 Introduction to Ethics (2 sections) Applied Ethics Environmental Ethics Philosophy of Leisure Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy (Graduate seminar) *Directed Study in Feminist Philosophy, Geoffrey Bardwell (Ph.D. student)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Duquesne University, Department of Philosophy, 2009-2010 Philosophical Ethics (3 sections) Basic Philosophical Questions (2 sections) Philosophy of Emotion (cross-listed at the graduate level in Women’s and Gender Studies) *Directed Study in Emotions in the Law, Cameron Christy (M.A. student)

Instructor, Boston University Writing Program, 2009 Existentialism

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Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, 2003-2005 Introduction to Ethics (3 semesters) Politics and Philosophy (1 semester) Introduction to Philosophy (1 semester) Great Philosophers (1 semester)

Grader, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, 2007 Political Philosophy Nietzsche

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

Emory University Institute for the History of Philosophy, Scholarship, June, 2009 Peter A. Bertocci Scholarship, Peter A. Bertocci Fund, Boston University, 2008-2009 Junior Visiting Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, 2008 H.B. Earhart Fellowship, Earhart Foundation, 2007-2008 Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University, 2006-2007 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-2007 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, 2006

LANGUAGES

German (reading knowledge, some speaking ability), French (reading knowledge), basic Ancient Greek, basic Spanish, basic Hebrew

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Hypatia Referee of manuscript, 2014

Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)/Austrian Science Fund Referee of research project, 2014

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Referee of three manuscripts, 2014

Phi Sigma Tau, Undergraduate Philosophy Honors Society/Philosophy Club, 2013-present Philosophy Liaison, University of Louisville

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Referee of manuscript, 2013

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2013 Referee of manuscript

Feminist Ethics and Social Thought (FEAST), Conference Organizing Committee, 2012-2013

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The Southern Journal of Philosophy Referee of manuscript, 2012

Continuum Publishers, 2012 Referee for book manuscript

Concordia University’s Taskforce on the Status of Women and Minorities in Philosophy, 2011-2013 Founder, Faculty Liaison

Springer Publishers, 2009 Referee for book manuscript

Duquesne , 2009-2010 Faculty Liaison

Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST), 2009 Nominations Committee

Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, 2008 Conference organizer, Junior Visiting Fellows’ conference Editor, In/visibility: Perspectives on Inclusion and Exclusion

Research Assistant to Professor Daniel Dahlstrom, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, 2007

Research Assistant to Professor Charles Griswold, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, 2007

Collegium Phaenomenologicum, 2007 Editor, Conference Proceedings

34th Annual International Hume Conference, Boston University, 2007 Assistant to Conference Administrators

40th Annual North American Heidegger Conference, Boston University, 2006 Conference Administrator with Daniel Dahlstrom

Teaching Fellow Training Workshop, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, 2006 Invited speaker

Teaching Fellow Training Workshop, College of Arts & Sciences, Boston University, 2006 Invited Speaker

Comprehensive Examination Reform Committee, Department of Philosophy, Boston University, 2005 Chair of Committee

Canadian Philosophical Association, 2005 Referee for annual conference

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Boston University Graduate Student Kant Conference, 2004 Referee for conference

University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002-2003 Acquisitions Editor, Social Sciences

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Feminist Philosophy Reading Group, University of Louisville, 2014- Founder and director

Inclusive Teaching Circle, University of Louisville, 2013-2014 Participant

Feminist Ethics And Social Theory (FEAST) Annual Meeting, 2009 Participant, “Feminism in the Classroom Workshop”

Department of Philosophy Job Placement Seminar, Boston University, 2009 Invited Speaker on Panel: “What It’s Like to be on the Philosophy Job Market”

Boston University Writing Center Spring Colloquia Series, 2009 Participant in the following workshops: “Standards of Excellence: What Makes an A Paper?” “Reaching Students at All Levels” “Conferencing With Students” “Thinking About Teaching”

Emory University Institute for the History of Philosophy, 2009 Participant in two-week summer workshop: Heidegger & Nietzsche and the Issue of History

Boston University Writing Center, “How to Teach Writing,” 2008 Student in 15-week writing pedagogy course

Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Italy, 2008 Student in three-week seminar: Belief After Reason: Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida

Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Italy, 2007 Student in three-week seminar: Word & Image

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Philosophical Association Canadian Philosophical Association Heidegger Circle Society for Analytic Feminism Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy

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NON-ACADEMIC WRITING

On Being Kind to Ourselves and Succeeding in Physical Activity; May 3, 2014 Fit is a Feminist Issue Blog (http://fitisafeministissue.com/author/laurenefreeman/)

On “Training” for Labour…and Failing; May 16, 2014 Fit is a Feminist Issue Blog (http://fitisafeministissue.com/author/laurenefreeman/)

REFERENCES

Professor Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston University (617) 353 4583, [email protected]

Professor Charles Griswold, Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Boston University (617) 353 5546, [email protected]

Professor C. Allen Speight, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston University (617) 358 3618, [email protected]

Professor Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erie Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University (814) 865 6398, [email protected]

Professor James Swindal, Dean, Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University (412) 396-6572, [email protected]

Professor David Morris, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Concordia University (514) 848-2424 ext. 2505, [email protected]

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