MARGARET ELIZABETH SCHARLE

Department of Office Phone: (503) 517-7446 Reed College Department Fax: (503) 777-7234 3203 Woodstock Boulevard E-mail: [email protected] Portland, Oregon 97202 http://academic.reed.edu/philosophy/scharle/index.html

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College, 2019-present Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College, 2008-2018 Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College, 2003-2008

EDUCATION Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005 Advisors: Gavin Lawrence, David Blank, Alan Code, and Sean Kelsey M.A., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, Fall 1997 B.A., summa cum laude, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, Spring 1995

PUBLICATIONS

“’s Generation and Corruption II.4: translation and commentary,” forthcoming in Aristotle’s Generation and Corruption II, Sean Kelsey and Panagiotis Dimas, eds., 2021

“‘And These Things Follow’: Teleology, Necessity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Meteorologica.” Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Ed. David Ebrey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

“Man from Man but not Bed from Bed: Nature, Art and Chance in Physics 2.” Aristotle's Physics, A Critical Guide. Ed. Mariska Leunissen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

“A Synchronic Justification of Aristotle’s Commitment to Prime Matter.” Phronesis 54.4-5 (2009): 326-345.

“Elemental Teleology in Aristotle’s Physics 2.8.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXXIV (May 2008): 147-183.

“The Role of Material and Efficient Causes in Aristotle’s Natural Teleology.” Apeiron 41.3 (September 2008): 27-46.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Divine Imitation in Aristotle’s Natural Science, Ethics and Politics (monograph)

“Plato’s Use of the Middle Segments of Republic’s Divided Line”

“Environmental Ethics and Aristotle’s Conception of the Good”

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PRESENTATIONS -- REFEREED (*) AND INVITED “Teleology and the Activity of Ordering in Aristotle’s Natural Science” o International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2020* (cancelled due to covid) “Cosmic Teleology of Divine Imitation in Aristotle’s Natural Science” o London Ancient Science Conference, University College London, February 2020* o University of Victoria Colloquium lecture, January 2020 “Aristotle’s Generation and Corruption II.4: translation and commentary” o Society for , Christopher Newport University, forthcoming November 2019* o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, University of Oregon, September 2019 “Aristotle’s Physics II.1” o University of Notre Dame, Workshop on Physics II, May 2019 “Plato’s Use of the Middle Segments of Republic’s Divided Line” o Tahoe Ancient Philosophy Conference, May 2018 o West Coast Plato Workshop, Portland, OR, May 2018* o Invited seminar presentation, Lewis and Clark College, March 2018 “Comments on Jessica Gelber’s ‘Interspecies Teleology and Aristotle’s Politics I.8’” o American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, March 2018 “Divine Imitation Along the Scala Naturae” o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, University of Victoria, October 2017 o Tahoe Ancient Philosophy Conference, May 2017 o Protreptic Strategies in Aristotle, Louvain, Belgium, March 2017 “Aristotle’s Generation and Corruption II.4” o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, Reed College, October 2016 o Reed Philosophy Department Colloquium, September 2016 o Workshop on Generation and Corruption II, Spetses, Greece, July 2016 “Aristotle on Natural Teleology” o The Challenge of Natural Teleology conference, University of Groningen, Netherlands, June 2016 “Aristotle’s Conception of the Political Life as an Approximation of the Divine” (with student Jesse Gold)* o American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2016 o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, University of Washington, September 2015 o Tahoe Ancient Philosophy Conference, May 2015 o Reed Philosophy Department Colloquium, April 2015 “Aristotle’s Elemental Teleology” o Colloquium presentation, University of British Columbia, Spring 2016 “Comments on ‘On a Curious Passage in EE 2.6’ o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, University of British Columbia, September 2014 “The Place of the Meteorologica in Aristotle’s Natural Science” o Departmental Colloquium, Willamette University, February 2014 o Workshop on Theory and Practice in Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy, Northwestern University, April 2012 o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, University of Oregon, September 2012 “Environmental Ethics and the Place of the Meteorologica in Aristotle’s Natural Science” o Undergraduate Philosophical Society Colloquium, Reed College, February 2014

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“Aristotle on the Boundary between Physics and ” o American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL February 2012* o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, University of Victoria, BC September 2011 “Teleological Explanation in Aristotle’s Meteorologica” (with student Ginger Schultheis) o American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2011* o Philosophy Department Senior Seminar, Reed College, December 2010 “Comments on Andrea Falcon’s ‘The Nature of Inquiry in Physics VIII’” o Workshop on Aristotle's Methods of Inquiry, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, March 2011 “Elemental Locomotion and Generation” o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, September 2010 “Comments on ‘Perspectival Cognition in Aristotle's De Memoria’” o Northwest Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College, September 2010 “The Dialectic of Physics 2.8” o American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, BC, May 2009* o Second Annual Ancient Philosophy Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2008* “Teaching Aristotle to Undergraduates” o American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, BC, May 2009 “Comments on Errol Katayama’s ‘Necessity and Artifacts in Aristotle’” o American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 2009 “A Synchronic Justification of Aristotle’s Commitment to Prime Matter” o Congress for the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Vancouver, BC, June 2008* o Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland, OR, October 2007* o American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2007* o Departmental Colloquium, Reed College, April 2007 “Comments on Andrea Falcon’s ‘The Divine in Aristotle’s Physics’” o Second Annual Ancient Philosophy Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2008 “The Role of Material and Efficient Causes in Aristotle’s Natural Teleology” o First Annual Ancient Philosophy Conference: Aristotle on Life, Anchorage, AK, August 2007* “Comments on Devin Henry’s ‘Inheritance, Variation, and Natural Teleology in Aristotle’” o First Annual Ancient Philosophy Conference: Aristotle on Life, Anchorage, AK, August 2007 “Comments on Phil Corkum’s ‘Aristotle on Consciousness’” o American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2006 “The Ontological Basis of Aristotle’s Natural Teleology” o American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2005* “Elemental Teleology and the Role of Nature” o University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 2005 o University of Toronto, February 2003 o Reed College, February 2003 o Boston College, January 2003 o St. Louis University, January 2003 o Georgia State University, January 2003 o Providence College, November 2002 o University of Notre Dame, October 2002 o American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2002*

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“Aristotle’s Elemental Teleology” o Workshop on Philosophy and Science in the Greco-Roman World, Central European University Budapest, Hungary, July 2004 “The Ontological Basis of Aristotle’s Natural Teleology” o Departmental Colloquium, Lewis and Clark College, April 2004 “The Status of Elements and Parts of Animals in Aristotle's Physics II.1 and Metaphysics Z.16” o American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Cleveland, OH, April 2003* “Teaching at the University of California” o Invited interview for teaching video series, UCLA Instructional Media Productions, August 2002 “Analytica Posteriora I.4” o University of Washington, February 2002 “Elemental Teleology” o Society of Women in Philosophy Conference, San Jose, CA, November 2001* o 12th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference in Philosophy, , May 2001* “Teaching at the University of California” o Annual Teaching Assistant Conference, UCLA, September 2001 “Aristotle’s Response to the Materialist in Physics II.1” o 11th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference in Philosophy, UC Berkeley, May 2000*

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Paid Leave Research Award, Reed College, forthcoming Fall 2020-Spring 2021 Colloquium Travel Grant from University of Victoria, forthcoming January 2020 Conference Travel Grant from University of Notre Dame, May 2019 Conference Travel Grant from University of Louvain, Belgium, Spring 2017 Conference Travel Grant from University of Oslo, Norway, Summer 2016 Conference Travel Grant from University of Groningen, Netherlands, Summer 2016 Conference Travel Grant from University of British Columbia, Canada, Spring 2016 Ruby-Lankford Grant for Faculty - Student Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Reed College, Summer 2015 Stillman Drake Faculty Development Funds, Reed College, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2016-2017 Summer Scholarship Funds, Reed College, annually 2004-present Conference Travel Grant from Northwestern University, Spring 2012 Paid Leave Research Award, Reed College, Fall 2011-Spring 2012 NEH Research Grant, Summer 2010, resulted in two articles: “‘And These Things Follow’: Teleology, Necessity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Meteorologica” and “Man from Man but not Bed from Bed: Nature, Art and Chance in Physics 2” (details in “articles” section above) Ruby Grant for Faculty - Student Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Reed College, Summer 2010 Conference Travel Grant from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, Summer 2007, Summer 2008 Competitive Paid Leave Award, Reed College, 2006-2007 Designated valuable faculty participant, Central European University, Summer 2004 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2002-2003 The UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001-2002 (a University-wide award) Philosophy Departmental Fellowship, UCLA, Winter 2001 Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA Philosophy Department, 1998-1999 Research Mentorship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA, 1997 Philosophy Departmental Fellowship, UCLA, 1995-1996 Dockweiler Medal for Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, 1995 Honor’s Program Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis, University of Notre Dame, 1995 Curriculum Vitae 5

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Notre Dame, 1995 NEH Younger Scholars Research Grant, 1994

COURSES TAUGHT Course Instructor (at Reed College unless otherwise noted) Advanced Topics in Ethics: Aging and Scarce Resource Distribution, forthcoming 2021 Philosophy of Memoir, forthcoming 2021 Major Figures: Aristotle (400-level), Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2019 Environmental Ethics (200-level), Spring 2014 Introduction to Ethics (200-level), Fall 2008, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Spring 2020 Ancient Philosophy (300-level), Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2013, Spring 2016, Fall 2019 Medical Ethics Seminar (400-level), Spring 2009, Fall 2012 Western Humanities 110: Greece & Rome, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2012-2013, 2013- 2014, 2014-2015, 2016-2017, 2017-2018 Teleology in Plato, Aristotle, and of Biology (300-level), Spring 2008 Humean and Aristotelian Ethics Seminar (400-level), Fall 2007 Virtue Ethics Seminar (400-level), Spring 2006 Introduction to Philosophy (200-level), Fall 2003, Fall 2004 Teaching College Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, Fall 2000 Writing, Education Unlimited, Stanford University, Summer 1999 Critical Thinking, Loyola Marymount University, Fall 1998 , Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Summer 1996, Summer 1997, Summer 1998 Thesis Advisor (at Reed College) Aristotle’s Cosmic Teleology, Spring 2019-Fall 2019 Ethics of Consent, Spring 2019-Fall 2019 Aristotle on Mixture, Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Aristotle on Virtue, Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Ethics of Technology, Spring 2018-Fall 2018 Epistemology of Anthropology, Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Environmental Ethics, Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Philosophy of Language, Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Blaise Pascal, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Moral Epistemology, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Moral Luck, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Ethics of Abortion, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Contemporary Metaphysics, Fall 2012 Environmental Ethics, Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Death and Wellbeing: A Reply to the Epicurean Puzzle (Master’s Thesis), Spring 2010 Scanlon’s Contractualism, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Media Rights, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Virtue Ethics and Education, Fall 2007 The First Person, Spring 2005 Rawls’s Theory of Justice, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Curriculum Vitae 6

Plato’s Timaeus, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Plotinus on Contemplation, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Plato’s Sophist, Fall 2003-Spring 2004 The Role of the Emotions in Kant’s Ethics, Fall 2003-Spring 2004 Common Sense Morality, Fall 2003-Spring 2004 Teaching Assistant (at UCLA) History of Modern Philosophy, Professor John Carriero, Spring 2000 Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Professor Joseph Almog, Winter 2000 History of Ancient Philosophy, Professor Gavin Lawrence, Fall 1999 Beginnings of , Professor Sean Kelsey, Summer 1999 Introduction to Ethical Theory-Intensive Writing, Professor Barbara Herman, Spring 1999 History of Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Professor Calvin Normore, Winter 1999 Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Professor Joseph Almog, Spring 1998, Spring 1997 Critical Reasoning, Professor Randy Jensen, Winter 1998 Analysis of Contemporary Moral Issues, Professor Timothy Hall, Fall 1997 Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Professor Michael Thau, Winter 1997 Analysis of Contemporary Moral Issues, Professor Jeremy Ofseyer, Fall 1996

SERVICE (*non-Reed) Peer-to-Peer Faculty Mentor, Fall 2019 Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, chair, Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Bring Your Child to Work Day Committee, Spring 2019 *Referee for Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie and Ancient Philosophy *External referee for two tenure cases, Fall 2017 Legislation Committee, Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Community Affairs Committee, Fall 2017-Spring 2018 *Descartes Lecture, Madeleine Elementary School, Spring 2018 *Central Catholic High School Constitution Team Mock Judge, Fall 2017 *American Association of University Women, invited lecture, Fall 2017 Alcohol and Other Drugs Committee Chair, Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Humanities 110 Paper Topics Committee, Fall 2003-Spring 2004, Fall 2007-Spring 2009, Chair Fall 2016-Spring 2017 Humanities 110 Summer Syllabus Committee, Summer 2017 *Oregon Ethics Bowl Judge, January 2017 Department Chair, Fall 2013-Spring 2015 Appeals and Review Committee, Spring 2014, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Community Affairs Committee, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Reed Union Committee, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Faculty and Staff Quality of Life Strategic Planning Committee, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Human Subjects Research Committee, Fall 2012-Spring 2014 Philosophy Department Tenure Track Search Committee, Fall 2009-Spring 2010 Chair of the Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Hum 110 Faculty Panelist, Peer Mentor Program Orientation, Fall 2008 Faculty Panelist, Young Scholars Orientation, Fall 2008 Philosophy Department Colloquium Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2009 Parent Humanities 110 Conference Leader, Convocation Fall 2007, Fall 2008 Curriculum Vitae 7

Off-Campus Study Committee, Fall 2004-Spring 2005, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Gifted Secondary Students Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2008, Fall 2008-Spring 2009 Secretary of the Division of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Administration Committee, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Philosophy Department Admissions Panelist for Reed Activity Days, Spring 2005, Spring 2008 Humanities 110 Admissions Panelist for Reed Activity Days, Spring 2004, Spring 2008 Humanities 110 Representative at the Mellon 23 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, February 2008 Dean of Students Interview Committee, Spring 2008 Political Science Interview Committee, Fall 2005 Humanities 110 Visiting Scholars Committee, Spring 2005 Undergraduate Research Committee, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Actor in Humanities 110 Play, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 Committee Archiving Teaching Resources, Summer-Fall 2004 Humanities 110 Portfolio Workshop Participant, Summer 2004 Art History Interview Committee, Spring 2004 Philosophy Softball Team Member, Spring 2004 Mock Interview Committee, Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, Fall 2003