Alice Crary
Academic Positions
University Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy (/Department of Liberal Studies/Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies), New School for Social Research, July 2019-.
Visiting Fellow, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, January 2020-.
Professor of Philosophy, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, and Director of Studies for Philosophy, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, Fall 2018-Summer 2019. (Senior Member/Faculty Advisor, Oxford PWIP—People for Womxn in Philosophy.)
Chair, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, Summer 2014-Summer 2017.
Founding Co-director, Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, New School, Fall 2014-Summer 2017.
Visiting Professor – Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Summer 2011.
Assistant, Associate and Full Professor – Department of Philosophy, NSSR, 2000-2017.
Education
PhD – University of Pittsburgh, December 1999. Dissertation “The Role of Feeling in Moral Thought,” directed by John McDowell.
AB in Philosophy – Harvard College, June 1990. Summa cum laude for honors thesis “‘I Know I’m in Pain’: An Essay on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein,” directed by Hilary Putnam (Bechtel Prize for Best Undergraduate or Graduate
Essay in Philosophy).
Areas of Research
Moral Philosophy;
Social Philosophy, including Critical Theory, Critical Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory;
Critical Animal Studies;
Aesthetics, especially Philosophy and Literature;
Wittgenstein/Austin/Speech Act Theory;
Feminism and Philosophy.
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Honors and Fellowships
Visiting Fellow, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, 2020-
Honorary Guest Wittgenstein Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Summer 2018.
Member, School of Social Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ, School of Social Studies, 2017-2018.
Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, 2016-present.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Grant for a Renewed Research Stay, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2014.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2009-2010.
American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 2009-2010 (declined).
Convocation Speaker, The New School, New York, 2008.
University Distinguished Teaching Award, The New School, New York (awarded annually to one member of the Graduate Faculty), 2005.
Faculty Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, 2004-2005.
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2003-2004.
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (study of ethical and religious values), University of Pittsburgh, 1997-1998.
University of Pittsburgh Teaching Fellowships, Fall 1992, Fall 1994-Summer 1997.
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Bok Center), Fall 1993-Spring 1994.
Alan Ross Anderson Fellowship (study of logic), University of Pittsburgh, Spring 1993.
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Pittsburgh, 1991-1992.
Bechtel Prize, Harvard University prize for the Best Undergraduate or Graduate Essay in Philosophy (awarded for my honors thesis, “I Know I’m in Pain”), 1990.
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College, 1990.
John Harvard Scholarships, Fall 1987, Spring 1989, 1989-1990.
Literary executorships
For Stanley Cavell—co-advisor to the executor (Cathleen Cavell) with Nancy Bauer, Arnold Davidson and Sandra Laugier
Prospective. For Cora Diamond—co-literary executor with James Conant
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Publications
Books
Monographs Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought – Harvard University Press, January 2016. An Association of College and Research Libraries Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016.
Discussed at: a Colgate University author-meets-critic session a special seminar at the University of Stavanger, Norway, a meeting of the New York Wittgenstein Workshop, a workshop at Ludwig Maximillians Universität, Munich, Germany a workshop at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany a workshop at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria [a workshop at the University of Reykjavik, Iceland, canceled due to pandemic of 2020]
Subject of a book discussion in the book forum Syndicate (https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/inside-ethics/), posted September 2018.
Reviewed in: Books and Ideas, Choice, Environmental Philosophy, The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Hypatia, Journal of Animal Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, La Vie des Idées, Metapsychology, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Nordic Wittgenstein Review.
Beyond Moral Judgment – Harvard University Press, 2007. Discussed at a 2008 “Author Meets Critics” session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA. Reviewed in Analytic Philosophy, Choice, The European Journal of Philosophy, Ethics (twice), Hypatia, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Mind, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Philo, The Pluralist.
Edited Collections Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond – MIT Press, 2007.
Reading Cavell – Routledge, 2006 (co-edited with Sanford Shieh).
The New Wittgenstein – Routledge, 2000 (co-edited with Rupert Read). (Also translated into Polish and Italian.)
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Edited journal issues Social Visibility, an issue of Philosophical Topics on ideology, social justice and critique, co-edited with Matt Congdon, spring 2021.
Ordinary Language Philosophy, a special issue of the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, co-edited with Joel de Lara, vol.39, no.2, 2019.
Books in progress Radical Animal.
Animal Crisis, with Lori Gruen.
Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy, with Joel de Lara, contracted with Cambridge University Press, anticipated for 2023.
Refereed and invited articles (the former indicated with an asterisk)
“Dehumanization and the Question of Animals,” in Maria Kronfeldner, ed., Routledge Handbook on Dehumanization, London: Routledge, forthcoming.
“The Theory and Practice of Racial Visibility: Response to Medina,” in Robin Celikates, Sally Haslanger and Jason Stanley, eds., Ideology, Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Wittgenstein Does Critical Theory” in Richard Amesbury, Hartmut von Sass and Christoph Ammann, eds., Doing Ethics With Wittgenstein, Bloomsbury, forthcoming.
This chapter is a revised and expanded version of “Wittgenstein Goes to Frankfurt (and finds something useful to say)” (see below) and supersedes it.
“Seeing Animal Suffering,” in Maria Balaska, ed., Cora Diamond on Ethics, London: Palgrave McMillan, forthcoming.
“Literature and Ethics,” Hugh LaFollette, ed., International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley Online Library, 2013; updated for 2020.
“Objectivity,” in James Conant and Sebastian Greves, Wittgenstein: Basic Concepts, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“Recovering the Core of Critique: Response to Jaeggi’s ‘Lebensformen als Problemlösungsinstanzen’,” in Philosophisches Jahrbuch, 2019.
“Animals, Cognitive Disability and Getting the World in Focus in Ethics and Social Thought: Reply to Eva Feder Kittay and Peter Singer,” Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, 2019, vol.2, no.1: 139-146. This is my response to Singer’s and Kittay’s remarks on my article “The Horrific History of Comparisons between Cognitive Disability and Animality (And How to Move Past it)”.
“Die unerträgliche Geschichte des Vergleiches zwischen geistiger Behinderung und Animalität (und der Versuch sie hinter sich zu lassen)” This is a brief German synopsis, co-authored
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with Dagmar Borchers, of my article “The Horrific History of Comparisons between Cognitive Disability and Animality (And How to Move Past It)”, see below, published together with responses to my original article by Eva Feder Kittay and Peter Singer, as well as with a response by me to both Kittay and Singer. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, 2019, vol.2, no, 1: 123-126.
“Cavell and Critique,” Conversations, issue 6, winter 2019.
Co-authored with Joel de Lara, “Who’s Afraid of Ordinary Language Philosophy? A Plea for Reviving a Wrongly Revived Tradition,” Introduction to a special issue of The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol.39, no.2, 2019, 317-339.
“For my teacher, Stanley Cavell,” in Conversations: the Journal of Cavellian Studies no.7, 43-47.
A Portuguese translation of this piece by Helena Carneiro is published as “Para o Meu Professor” in Forma de Vida, no.15, https://formadevida.org/.
“Humanistic Thought as a Route to the Value of Humanity” (in Spanish as “El Pensamiento Humanista Como Ruta Hacia el Valor de la Humanidad”) in Miguel Giusti, ed., El Conflicto de las Facultades. Sobre la Universidad y el Sentido de las Humanidades, published jointly by Anthropos Publishing House (Madrid) and the Editorial Fund of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima), 2019, 298-308.
“The Character of Whose Virtue? Response to Hauerwas” in The Syndicate https://syndicate.network/theology/, 2019.
“Comments on a Contested Comparison: Race and Animals,” in Oskari Kuusela and Benjamin De Mesel, Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein, London: Routledge, 2019.
A German translation of this article will also appear as “Animalität und Ethnizität,” Malte Fabian Rauch, trans., in Martin Hähnel und Jörg Noller, eds., Die Natur der Lebensform: Perspektiven in Biologie, Ontologie und Praktischer Philosophie.
*“The Methodological is Political,” Radical Philosophy, Issue 2.02, June 2018 (https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-methodological-is-political).
Published in Spanish as “Lo metodológico es político: ¿qué pasa con el ‘feminismo analítico’?” Translated by Gonzalo Bustamante Moya. Debates en paralelo. August 2019. http://www.debatefeminista.cieg.unam.mx/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/crary.pdf
“Ethics,” in Lori Gruen, ed., Critical Terms in Animal Studies, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2018.
“Cognitive Disability and Moral Status,” in Adam Cureton and David Wasserman, eds., Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018.
*“Wittgenstein Goes to Frankfurt (and Finds Something Useful to Say)” in Nordic Wittgenstein Review, June 2018 (https://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3493/4158)
This article has been superseded by a revised and expanded version, which is published as “Wittgenstein Does Critical Theory” in Richard Amesbury, Hartmut von Sass and Christoph Ammann, eds., Doing Ethics
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With Wittgenstein, Bloomsbury, 2019. Anyone interested in the material should consult the updated version.
“The Horrific History of Comparisons Between Animals and Cognitively Disabled Human Beings (and How to Move Past it)” in Lori Gruen and Fiona Probyn Rapsey, eds., Animaladies, Bloomsbury, 2018.
“Response to Avner Baz,” “Response to Nora Hämäläinen,” “Response to Anne-Marie Christensen-Sondergaard,” “Response to Aaron Klink,” and “Thoughts on Cats and Theology: Response to Stanley Hauerwas,” posted as part of a book symposium on Inside Ethics at The Syndicate, https://syndicate.network/, September 3, 2018.
“‘Stories to Meditate on’: Animals in Gaita’s Narrative Philosophy,” in Ana Falcato, ed., Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
“Coetzee’s Quest for Reality,” in Patrick Hayes and Jan Wilm, eds., Coetzee and Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017.
“Putnam and Propaganda,” The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol.38, no.2, Fall 2017, pp.385- 398.
*“Feminist Thought and Rational Authority: Getting Things in Perspective,” New Literary History, vol.46, no.2, spring 2015, pp.287-308.
“A Radical Perfectionist: Revisiting Cavell in the light of Kant,” Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol.43, no.3 (Fall 2014), pp.87-98.
“Freedom is for the Dogs,” in Martin G. Weiss and Hajo Greif, eds., Ethics – Society – Politics, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2013, pp.203-226.
Also published online as an Agora audio lecture (December 3, 2012). See http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-wab/article/view/3157.
“New Wittgensteinians,” in the online Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, 2013.
*“Dogs and Concepts,” Philosophy, vol.87, no.2 (April 2012), pp.215-237.
*“W.G. Sebald and the Ethics of Narrative,” in Constellations, vol.19, no.2 (Fall 2012), pp.494-508.
Reprinted in Language, Ethics and Animal Life: Wittgenstein and Beyond, Niklas Forsberg, Mikel Burley and Nora Hämäläinen, eds., New York, Bloomsbury, 2012, pp.195-212.
“Animals,” in Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, Issue 2, Winter 2012, www.politicalconcepts.org.
“Eating Animals and Experimenting on Them: Two Issues in Ethics,” Klaus Petrus and Markus Wild, eds., Animal Minds & Animal Ethics, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 2012, pp.321-354.
*“A Brilliant Perspective: Diamondian Ethics,” Philosophical Investigations, vol.34, no.4 (October 2011), pp.331-352.
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This article is reprinted, in a slightly revised version, in Andrew Gleeson and Craig Taylor, eds., Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond, London, Routledge, 2019.
“Response to Robert Pippin and Christopher Grau,” Ordinary Language and Literary Studies (http://olponline.org/2011/05/16/alice-crary-response-to-robert-pippin-and-christopher- grau-from-2008-author-meets-critics-session-on-beyond-moral-judgment/), posted May 16, 2011.
“Minding What Already Matters: A Critique of Moral Individualism,” Philosophical Topics, vol.38, no.1 (Spring 2011), pp.17-49.
“J.M. Coetzee, Moral Thinker,” in Anton Leist and Peter Singer, eds., Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature, Columbia University Press, 2010, pp.249-268.
“Nussbaum on Ethics and Literature Defended Against Posner, Landy, Vogler…and also Nussbaum” [published in French as “Éthique et Literature: Nussbaum Contre Nussbaum”], in Solange Chavel, ed., Martha Nussbaum: Émotions Privées, Espace Public, Paris, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2010, pp.139-156.
“Wittgenstein’s Commonsense Realism about the Mind” in Ilva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist and Michael McEachrane, eds., Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp.12-26.
“Ethics and the Logic of Life,” in SATS: The Nordic Journal of Philosophy, vol.10, no.2 (2009), pp.5- 34.
Reprinted in Hannes Nykänen et al., Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture: Wittgensteinian Approaches, London, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp.44-73.
“Ethics as Part of Human Natural History,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol.30, no.3, 2009, pp.391-408.
“Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism,” in Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, Oskari Kuusela, eds., Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of G.P. Baker, London, Blackwell, 2007, pp.295-319.
“Humans, Animals, Right and Wrong,” in Alice Crary, ed., Wittgenstein and the Moral Life, pp.381- 404.
“Introduction” (sole author) to Alice Crary, ed., Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond, pp.1-26.
“Austin and the Ethics of Speech,” in Alice Crary and Sanford Shieh, eds., Reading Cavell, pp.42- 67.
“Introduction” (co-written with Sanford Shieh) to Alice Crary and Sanford Shieh, eds., Reading Cavell, pp.1-7.
“Wittgenstein and Ethics: a discussion in reference to On Certainty” in Daniele Moyal-Sharrock and William Brenner, eds., Readings of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2005),
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pp.275-301.
Also published online as an Agora audio lecture (June 2, 2005). See http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-wab/article/view/3109.
“Wittgenstein’s Pragmatic Strain,” Social Research, vol.70, no.2 (Summer 2003), pp.201-224.
*“The Happy Truth: J.L. Austin’s How to Do Things With Words,” Inquiry, vol.45, no.1 (Spring 2002), pp.1-22.
*“What Do Feminists Want in an Epistemology?” in Peg O’Connor and Naomi Scheman, eds., Re-Reading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein (University Park, Pa., Penn State Press, 2002), pp.97-118.
*“Why Can’t Moral Thought Be Everything It Seems?” Philosophical Forum, vol.33. no.4 (Winter 2002), pp.373-392.
*“A Question of Silence: Feminist Theory and Women’s Voices,” Philosophy, vol.76, no.96 (July 2001), pp.371-395.
*“Does the Study of Literature Belong in Moral Philosophy? Some Reflections in the Light of Ryle's Thought,” Philosophical Investigations, vol.23, no.4 (October 2000), pp.315-350.
“Wittgenstein's Philosophy in Relation to Political Thought” in Alice Crary and Rupert Read, eds. The New Wittgenstein, pp.118-145.
“Introduction” (sole author) to Alice Crary and Rupert Read, eds. The New Wittgenstein, pp.1-18.
Pieces for more Popular Audiences “Stanley Cavell and the American Contradiction: How to be a citizen in a profoundly imperfect nation,” co-authored with Nancy Bauer and Sandra Laugier, in The Stone, an online blog of the New York Times, July 2, 2018.
A Portuguese translation of this piece by Helena Carneiro is published as “Stanley Cavell e a Contradição Americana” in Forma de Vida, no.15, https://formadevida.org/.
“A Continuing Engagement with Endangered and Excluded Scholars: Confronting political barriers that hinder the progress of knowledge,” co-written with Johan Heilbron and Ian Jauslin, in IAS’s The Institute Letter, Spring 2019, and also online in two versions at https://www.sss.ias.edu/sites/sss.ias.edu/files/pdfs/History-Working- Group/Continuing%20Engagement%202.pdf and https://www.ias.edu/ideas/continuing- engagement-endangered-and-excluded-scholars.
“Being Human Matters,” in The Philosophical Salon, a weekly column of The LA Review of Books, August 2015.
“The Faulty Logic of the Math Wars,” co-authored with J. Stephen Wilson, in The Stone, an online blog in the New York Times, June 16, 2013.
“For Gender and Sexuality Studies: A Manifesto,” co-written with Elaine Abelson, Margot
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Bouman, Lisa Rubin and Miriam Ticktin, in Public Seminar, http://www.publicseminar.org/2013/12/for-gender-and-sexuality-studies-a- manifesto/#.V24rPY4WHeQ, posted December 16, 2013.
“Imagination and Advocacy,” a contribution to a symposium entitled “What are Animals For?” in The Point, Issue 6, Winter 2013, pp.131-137.
“Occupy Wall Street: Revolution in Amerika?,” Die Zeit, October 13, 2011 [in German].
Book Reviews
D.Z. Phillips, Philosophy’s Cool Place in Mind, vol.110, no.437 (January 2001), pp.257-261.
Robert Kirk, Relativism and Reality: A Contemporary Introduction in Philosophical Investigations, vol.24, no.1 (January 2001), pp.83-86.
Robert Pippin, Henry James and Modern Moral Life in Ethics, vol.112, no.1 (January 2002), pp.403-406.
Margaret Urban Walker, Moral Contexts: A Feminist Study in Ethics in Hypatia (fall 2005), pp.220-223.
Catherine Osborne, Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers in Philosophical Investigations, vol.32, no.2 (April 2009), pp.191-197.
Cary Wolfe, What is Posthumanism? in Hypatia, Vol.29, Issue 3 (Summer 2012), pp.678-685.
Recent interviews and public events
“What is philosophy? And how should we be doing it?” Interview with Oxford Public Philosophy, publication delayed until Fall 2020 due to the pandemic.
Delegate to the Brooks Institute Animal Legal and Policy Studies Summit, February 2020, Miami, Florida.
Conversation with Alexandra Horowitz about her book Our Dogs, Ourselves, Harvard Club of New York, September 2019.
Interview for the Brooks Institute Animal Legal and Policy Studies Summit, May 2019, https://player.vimeo.com/external/344843166.hd.mp4?s=1ddb9400abc1b3b0aadab7666c35 4bc045b0ee1b&profile_id=174
Interview with Rodrigo Cárcamo on October 1, 2018 for Filosofía en Diálogo. Conversaciones con Gianni Vattimo, Alice Crary, Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, Peter Hacker, Peter Trawny, Carla Cordua, y otros (Philosophy in Dialogue), Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2020.
An interview about my research (“Interview with Professor Crary”) in Regent’s Now, the magazine
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of Regent’s Park College, Oxford, 2019, 12-14.
An interview about the work of Stanley Cavell, together with Stephen Mulhall on BBC R3’s “Free Thinking,” June 26, 2018 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06c7hkj).
A public conversation with Veena Das (“Ethics, Anthropology and Words Not at Home”) sponsored by the New School for Social Research’s (or NSSR’s) Philosophy Department, the New School’s Graduate Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, NSSR Philosophy’s Minority and Philosophy (MaP) chapter and the New York Wittgenstein Workshop, April 2018.
A conversation with Steven Lukes about “How Philosophy and Sociology Need Each Other,” a conversation moderated by Cayla Clinkenbeard, recorded at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), February 2018, published in The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal in 2019.
A debate on the question “Can Trophy Hunting Ever be Justified?” with Canadian journalist Michael Petrou in Prospect Magazine, January 24, 2018, https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/can-trophy-hunting-ever-be-justified.
A public debate on the question “Comparisons Between Cognitively Disabled Human Beings and Non-Human Animals: Do They Have a Role in Ethics?” together with Peter Singer and Eva Feder Kittay, as part of the Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar Series, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, November 28, 2017.
A public debate on the question “How Much Should We Care About Animals?” together with Elizabeth Harman, Dale Jamieson and Shelley Kagan, sponsored by the Academy of Teachers and offered in partnership with the UNC Parr Center for Ethics and Columbia University Arts & Sciences, Division of Humanities: http://academyforteachers.org/master- class/animal-ethics/, May 10, 2017.
An interview about the importance for philosophy of the humanities, literature and the other arts, on the Blog of the APA, blog.apaonline.org, http://blog.apaonline.org/2016/11/02/why-philosophy-needs-literature-interview-with- alice-crary/, posted November 1, 2016.
“Alice Crary on Her Newest Book, Inside Ethics” at http://socialresearchmatters.org/2071-2/, posted September 12, 2016.
“Moral Progress in Small Steps,” in Il Sole (translated into Italian), August, 7, 2016, http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cultura/2016-08-05/progresso-morale-piccoli-passi- 171754.shtml?uuid=ADhwQAz&fromSearch&refresh_ce=1
Invited Talks Individual invitations to philosophy departments marked with*; keynotes, plenary talks and named lectureships marked with **.
The presentations listed below include invited lectures in twenty-three countries outside the US – Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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I am happy to lecture in German and Spanish.
*159. “Dehumanization and the Question of Animals,” presented [via zoom] at Arglab, Nova Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2020. **158. “Why we Should be Reading Diamond on Animal Ethics: Seeing Animal Suffering,” keynote at the conference “Contextual Ethics,” University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, November 2019. 157. “Recovering the Core of Critique,” Paris-1, Sorbonne, at a panel on “Forms of Life and Social Criticism” with Rahel Jaeggi and Estelle Fararrese, October 2019. **156. “Wittgenstein Does Critical Theory,” Plenary lecture at the conference “Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events,” the 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria, August 2019. **155. “Literature as a Guide to Seeing Animal Suffering,” keynote at the conference Open Minds XIV, University of Manchester, England, August 2019. 154. “Ethics and Animals: Why we need a wider ethical naturalism,” presentation at the seminar “Appeals to Nature,” All Souls College, Oxford, June 2019. *153. “Wittgenstein Does Critical Theory,” School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, England, May 2019. 152. “Why Liberating Critical Thought Needs to Include Animals,” presented at “Social Visibility, a Workshop on Critique and Social Justice,” Vanderbilt University, April 2019. 151. “Who’s Afraid of Ordinary Language Philosophy? A Plea for Reviving a Wrongly Reviled Philosophical Tradition” (discussion of a manuscript co-authored with Joel de Lara), presented at the Séminaire Wittgenstein 2018-2019, Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne, January 2019. *150. “Menschen, Tieren, Ideologien: Eine Kritische Perspektive,” Philosophy Department, University Vienna, together with the Messerli Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, December 2018. 149. “For my teacher, Stanley Cavell,” address at a memorial event, “Celebrating the Life and Work of Stanley Cavell,” Philosophy Department, Harvard University, November 2018. **148. “Feminist Theory as an Exercise of Encountering the World Inside Ethics,” Keynote for the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, which was organized around themes from my work under the heading of “Feminist Philosophy: Insiders and Outsiders,” at Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 2018. 147. “Why Animals Matter for Ethics and Critical Social Thought,” Lecture for Cape Breton University’s Animal Ethics Project, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 2018. **146. “Race and Animals: Wittgensteinian Reflections on a Contested Comparison,” Keynote lecture for the British Wittgenstein Association, July 2018, University College London, UK. **145. “The Role of Animals in Radical Social Thought: Animalizing Ideologies and the Question of Critique,” full session of the second annual International Critical Theory Summer School (“Re-Thinking Ideology”), Institute for Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 2018. **144. “Menschen, Tieren, Ideologien: Eine Kritische Perspektive,” special lecture at the graduation ceremony for the Institute for Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 2018. **143. “The Horrific History of Comparisons Between Cognitive Disability and Animality (and How to Move Past It),” Guest lecture at the Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv and the Institut für Philosophie, University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 2018. **142. “The Methodological is Political: What’s the matter with ‘analytic feminism’?” The Ronald Suter Distinguished Guest Lectureship, Michigan State University, April 2018.
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**141. “The Horrific History of Comparisons Between Cognitive Disability and Animality (and How to Move Past It)” the 2nd Annual Ethics, Law and Society Lecture at the University of South Dakota, April 2018. **140. “Race and Animals: Reflections on a Contested Comparison,” the inaugural lecture of the Bard College “Thinking Animals Initiative,” April 2018. **139. “Race and Animals: Reflections on a Contested Comparison,” Keynote lecture at the conference, “Sentience, Vulnerability and Recognition,” sponsored by the University College Dublin Philosophy Department and Center on Ethics and Public Life, Dublin, Ireland, March 2018. 138. “The Unhappy Marriage of Animality and Cognitive Disability,” a presentation at the Talking Animals, Philosophy and Law Series, Cambridge University, England, March 2018. 137. “Animality, Cognitive Disability and Basic Human Equality,” Philosophy Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, February 2018. 136. “The Horrific History of Comparisons between Animality and Cognitive Disability (and How to Move Past it),” Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University, February 2018. 135. “The Horrific History of Comparisons between Animals and Human Beings with Cognitive Disabilities (and How to Move Past it),” Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, NJ, November 2017. **134. “The Empirical Task of Ethics,” presented at a workshop on “Die Nature der Lebensformen” at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, November 2017. **133. “Cognitive Disability, Moral Status and Animals,” presented at the “2017 Tennessee Values and Agency Conference Philosophy of Disability—Perspectives, Challenges and Aspirations,” Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 2017. 132. “Wittgenstein Goes to Frankfurt (and finds something useful to say)” and “Objectivity,” presented at the Workshop “Dialectics of Progress: Critical Theory and Social Change,” at the New School for Social Research together with Humboldt University, the Heuss Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, October 2017. 131. “Humanistic Thought as a Route to the Value of Humanity,” Keynote at a conference on the “Conflict of the Faculties” at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, September 2017. 130. “The Animal Question in Ethics: The Case of the Fur Industry,” at a conference on “The Ethics of Fur,” Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, July 2017. 129. “The Methodological is Political,” Keynote at a conference on “Feminist Philosophy and Methodological Commitments,” at Humboldt University, Germany, July 2017. 128. “Winch and Immanent Critique,” Keynote lecture at the Conference, “Truth and Politics and Metaphysics: Celebrating the Work of Peter Winch” at King’s College London, June 2017. 127. “Moral Status and Cognitive Disability,” at the Wittgenstein Workshop at the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago, May 2017. 126. “Cavell and the Politics of the Current Moment,” at the conference “Changing Politics: Conversations with Stanley Cavell,” at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, March 2017. *125. “Cognitive Disability and Moral Status,” at the Philosophy Department at the University of Texas, Austin, March 2017. 124. “Cognitive Disability and Moral Status,” Session of the Society for Philosophy and Disability, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, MD January 2017. **123. “The Animal Question in Ethics: Reflections in the Light of Feminist and Other
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Alternative Epistemologies,” keynote lecture at a conference of SWIP-Ireland, “Feminist Ethics in Theory and Practice: Challenging Practices in Contested Domains” at NUI Galway, December 2016. 122. “Putnam and Propaganda,” at a commemorative conference entitled “Putnam and Pragmatism,” at the New School for Social Research, November 2016. 121. “Coetzee’s Quest for Reality,” Teacher’s College, Columbia University, October 2016. **119-120. A presentation at the EPIC seminar on animal ethics and the Graham Kennedy Memorial Lecture (“Seeing Animal Suffering”) at Queen’s University, Ontario, September 2016. 118. “Celebrating Richard Bernstein: Reflections on The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory,” Klub PROZA, in conjunction with the University of Lower Silesia and the Transregional Center for Democracy Studies, Wroclaw, Poland, July 2016. **117. “Retrieving Literary Realism,” 5th Colloquium on Modalities of the Good, Institute for Philosophy, Prague Academy of Sciences, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2016. 116. “Religion in Coetzee’s Quest for Reality,” at an Australian Research Council Aesthetics Workshop, Washington Square Hotel, New York, May 2016. 115. “Human and Animal Vulnerability” at a symposium on Inside Ethics, University of Stavanger, Norway, April 2016. **114. “Wittgenstein Goes to Frankfurt (and Finds Something Useful to Say)” at the Conference “Doing Ethics after Wittgenstein” at the Ethik-Zentrum-Institut für Sozialethik, Universität Zürich, Switzerland, April 2016. 113. “Cavell and the Ethics of Expression: Response to Laugier and Moran,” at a workshop on the philosophy of Stanley Cavell, Philosophy Department, Harvard University, April 2016. **111-112. “Social Criticism: A Philosophical Road Map,” The Elias J. and Rosa Lee Nemir Audi Lecture, and “Social Criticism: A Case Study,” a lecture in the Philosophy Department Colloquium, Colgate University, March-April 2016. **110. “Ethics and Animal Life: A Discussion of Inside Ethics,” at the University of Tennessee Philosophy Department’s 2016 Annual Spring Symposium, “Ethics and Humanity's Place in Nature,” with Akeel Bilgrami and Gavin Lawrence, February 2016. 109. “Emancipatory Critique and Rational Authority,” presented at a workshop with Sally Haslanger and Rahel Jaeggi on “Social Justice and Ideology,” at MIT, December 2015. **108. “Wittgenstein on Objectivity, Revisited: Why It Matters,” at an “International Wittgenstein Conference,” Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, November 2015. **107. “Animal Visibility” at the conference “Wittgensteinian Approaches to Moral Philosophy” at the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, September 2015. *106. “The Value of Humanity,” Philosophy Department, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2015. **105. “Wittgenstein and Coetzee on Ethics and Religion” at the conference “Pragmatism, Wittgenstein and the Virtues: Three Heterodox Approaches to Ethics,” School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland, September 2015. 104. “Stories to Meditate on: Animals in Raimond Gaita’s Narrative Philosophy,” at a public symposium in honor of Raimond Gaita, Adelaide, Australia, July 2015. **103. “Value of Humanity,” at the conference “Morality Philosophy and Its Discontents: New Perspectives on Ethical Thought,” Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, July 2015. 102. “Religion in Coetzee’s Quest for Reality,” at the conference “Literature and Philosophy: Responding to J.M. Coetzee,” St. John’s College, Oxford University, UK, June 2015. **101. “Wittgenstein on Objectivity Revisited: Why It Matters,” at the conference “Using Wittgenstein in Contemporary Philosophy,” the Fifth Meeting of the International
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Wittgenstein Society, Philosophy Department, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain, May 2015. *100. “El Valor de La Humanidad: Reflexiones Sobre la Discapacidad Cognitiva y los Muertos” [delivered in English with a Spanish translation], Philosophy Department, University of Zaragoza, Spain, May 2015. *99. “The Value of Humanity: Reflections on Cognitive Disability and the Dead,” Philosophy Department, Temple University, March 2015. 98. “The Value of Humanity,” Jesus College, Oxford, January 2015. 97. “Ethics and the Concept of the Human,” presentation for the Brooklyn Public Philosophers, Brooklyn Public Library, New York, November 2014. **96. “The Value of Humanity: Reflections on Cognitive Disability and the Dead,” keynote lecture at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Atlantic Regional Meeting (ARPA), St. John’s, Newfoundland, October 2014. **95. “Feminism, Ethics and the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy,” keynote lecture at the “SoCal Graduate and Undergraduate Philosophy Conference,” San Diego, CA, October 2014. **94. “Wittgenstein on Objectivity Revisited: Why It Matters,” keynote lecture at a conference on the “Nature of Rules and Normativity,” Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2014. *93. “The Value of Humanity,” Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research, September 2014. 92. “Inside Ethics: Reflections on Cognitive Disability and Death,” Philosophy, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany, June 2014. **91. “Ethics and the Concept of the Human” at the conference, “Philosophy, Literature, America,” University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Saturday, May 2014. 90. “Forms of Life and Critique Across Traditions,” presented at a joint session with Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University) at the conference “Language, Normativity and Forms of Life” Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany, May 2014. 89. “Feminism, Ethics and the Power of Pictures,” at the conference “Feminist Investigations,” New School for Social Research, New York, April 2014. **88. “Emotions, Knowledge and Pictures,” plenary address at a conference on “Emotions and Knowledge,” the University of Modena, Italy, December 2013. 87. “The Power of Pictures: A Discussion in Reference to Feminist Theory,” at an ARC workshop on “Aesthetics and Complexity” (Monash, NSSR, Pratt, Toronto) at the Washington Square Hotel, October 2013. 86. “The Power of Pictures: A Discussion in Reference to Feminist Theory,” at a workshop on “Feminism and Ordinary Language Philosophy,” Université Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, France, September 2013. 85. “A Radical Perfectionist: Revisiting Cavell in the Light of Kant,” at a symposium on “Perfectionism and Education – Kant and Cavell on Ethics and Aesthetics in Society,” Stockholm, Sweden, September 2013. *84. “Literature and the Logic of Life,” Philosophy and Aesthetics Departments, Södertörn University, Sweden, September 2013. **83. “An Image of Images in Ethics” at a conference on “Picturing Life: Wittgenstein’s Visual Ethics,” Philosophy Department, Research Cluster on Ethics and Life Forms, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, May 2013, delivered via Skype. 82. “What Do Feminists Want in a Philosophy of Language?” An Exploratory Seminar on Feminism and Ordinary Language Philosophy at the Radcliffe Institute, April 2013. 81. “Rethinking Personhood: The Case of Animals,” at a workshop on “Rethinking Personhood” at Harvard Law School, March 2013. *80. “Literature and Animal Life: A Reading of Tolstoy’s ‘The Strider’,” Philosophy
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Department, Fordham University, February 2013. 79. “Imagination and Advocacy,” A Conference on “Thinking Animals,” Animals Studies Initiative, NYU, January 2013. *78.“Wittgenstein on How Minds do (but aren’t) Matter,” Philosophy Department, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 2012. *77. “Tolstoy, Literature and Animal Life,” Institute for Philosophy, Pedagogy and the Study of Religion, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, December 2012. *76. “Freedom is for the Dogs,” Philosophy Department, University of Toronto, October 2012. **75. “Freedom is for the Dogs,” Rod P. Dixon Lecturer, Philosophy Department, University of Utah, October, 2012. **74. “Wittgenstein on How Minds do (but aren’t) Matter,” Keynote Speaker at a conference entitled “In Wittgenstein’s Footsteps – Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Wittgenstein’s Visit to Iceland,” University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 14- 16, 2012. **73. “Freedom is for the Dogs,” Plenary Speaker, 35th Annual Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 6-10, 2012. **72. “Eating and Experimenting on Animals” and “Freedom is for the Dogs,” Inaugural Lectures at the Normative Orders Cluster, University of Stavanger, Norway, May 2012. 71. “Animals Inside Ethics,” Law School, UCLA, at a conference on “Animals and the Law,” May 2012. **70. “Freedom is for the Dogs,” Philosophy Department, New School For Social Research, Keynote Speaker for an International Graduate Student Conference on “Freedom and Responsibility,” March 2012. 69. “Animals/Animality,” at a conference related to the creation of a political lexicon, Hyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, January 2012, delivered in my absence by Jay Bernstein. 68. “W.G. Sebald and the Ethics of Narrative: A Reading of Austerlitz,” Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature, Duke University, November 2011. *67. “Ethics and Animal Minds,” Philosophy Department, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, September 2011. *66. “Dogs and Concepts,” Philosophy Department, Marquette University, March 2011. *65. “Dogs and Concepts,” Philosophy Department, Bryn Mawr University, March 2011. 64. “Speciesism and Its Discontents,” Bioethics Center, Yale University, February 2011. *63. “Minding What Already Matters: A Critique of Moral Individualism,” Philosophy Department, University of Binghamton, November 2010. 62. “Minding What Already Matters: A Critique of Moral Individualism,” University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2010. 61. “A Brilliant Perspective: Diamondian Ethics,” at a conference “Autour de Cora Diamond: Ethique, Imagination, Formes de Vie,” Amiens, France, September 2010, delivered in absentia. 60. “Ethics and the Logic of Life,” Philosophical Institute, Leipzig University, A Conference on Naturalism in Ethics, Germany, July 2010. 59. “Sebald and Animal Life,” Department of Social Studies, Stavanger University, Norway, May 2010. 58. “The Very Idea of Feminist Philosophy,” Department of Gender Studies, Stavanger University, Norway, May 2010. *57. “Minding What Already Matters: A Critique of Moral Individualism,” Philosophical Institute, Humboldt University, Germany, May 2010. *56. “Beachten, worauf es schon ankommt: eine Kritik des Moralischen Individualismus,” Philosophical Institute, Bonn University, Germany, April 2010, delivered in German.
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55. “Wittgenstein in Poland,” Philosophy Department, at a symposium in Honor of the Polish Translation of The New Wittgenstein, University of Wroclaw, April 2010. 54. “Literature and Animal Life,” at the First Annual Conference of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society, Uppsala University, Sweden, March 2010. *53. “Minding What Already Matters: A Critique of Moral Individualism,” Philosophy Society, Uppsala University, Sweden, March 2010. *52. “Austin’s Legacy,” Philosophy Department, University of Trieste, Italy, March 2010. *51. “Literature and Animal Life,” Philosophy Department, University of Trieste, Italy, March 2010. 50. “Nussbaum Literature and Ethical Development Across the Public/Private Divide,” at a conference on “Le privé et l’espace public. Collque autor de Martha Nussbaum,” University of Picardie, France, June 2009. *49. “Ethics and the Logic of Life,” Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge University, UK, May 2009. 48. Roundtable on the Philosophy of Stanley Cavell, Philosophy Department, Tufts University, April 2009. *47. “Ethics and the Logic of Life,” Philosophy Department, Wittgenstein Workshop, Boston University, April 2009. 46. “Ethics and the Logic of Life,” at a Conference on “Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture,” Åbo Academy, Finland, March 2009. 45. “Coetzee and Animals,” Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University, February 2009. *44. “Ethics and the Logic of Life,” Philosophy Department, Johns Hopkins University, February 2009. 43. Roundtable on Michael Thompson’s Life and Action, Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research, February 2009. 42. “Response to Grau and Pippin,” Author Meets Critic Session on Beyond Moral Judgment, Eastern Division of the APA, December 2008. 41. “J.M. Coetzee, Literature and Ethics,” Philosophy Department, Sapienza, University of Rome at a conference on “Ethics, Virtue and the Self,” June, 2008. 40. “Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mind,” Presented at a symposium on “Wittgenstein’s Paradox’s of Consciousness,” Pacific APA, Pasadena, CA, April, 2008. *39. “Wittgenstein’s Commonsense Realism about the Mind,” Philosophy Department, Guelph University, March 2008. **38. “Minding Our Fellow Creatures,” Norman Kretzmann Undergraduate Philosophy Lecturer, Cornell University, November 2007. *37. “Minding our Fellow Creatures,” Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, November 2007. 36. “Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Mind,” at a conference on “Rule-Following,” Philosophy Department, Michigan State University, October 2007. 35. “Wittgenstein as a Philosopher of Mood,” Philosophy Department, Tel-Aviv University, May 2006. 34. “Literature and the Lives of Animals,” at a Conference on “The Concept ‘Life’,” NYU, April 2006. **33. “Ethics: Humans and Animals,” Keynote Lecture, International Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, The New School for Social Research, March 2006. *32. “Coetzee, Moral Thinker,” Philosophy Department, Wittgenstein Workshop, University of East Anglia, November 2006. *31. “Ethics and Animals,” Philosophy Department, University of East Anglia, November 2006. 30. “Cavell, Coetzee and the Case for Moral Contemplation,” at a conference on “The Philosophy of Stanley Cavell,” English Department, Cambridge University, November
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2006. 29. “Animals and Ethics,” University Seminar on Theory of Literature, Columbia University, May 2006. 28. Response to Craig Fox, Central Division Meeting of the APA, Chicago, April 2006. 27. “Ethics and the Case of Animals,” Philological Society, Johns Hopkins University, March 2006. *26. “Human, Animals, Right and Wrong,” Philosophy Department, University of Bergen, Norway, February, 2006. *25. “Ethics and Animals,” Philosophy Department, CUNY Graduate Center, November 2005. 24. “Wittgenstein and Ethics,” at a conference on “Wittgenstein, Language and Ethics,” Skjolden, Norway, June 2005. *23. “Reflections on Philosophy of Literature,” Philosophy Department, University of Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2005. 22. “Moralism in Henry James,” Faculty Fellow Lunchtime Talk Series, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, April 2005. *21. “The Problem of Moralism,” Philosophy Department, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA, March 2005. *20. “Moralism as a Central Moral Problem,” Philosophy Department, Concordia University, Montreal, CA, November 2004. 19. “Moralism and the Philosophy of Stanley Cavell,” Philosophy Department, Goethe University, Frankfurt, A Conference on Cavell and Recognition, April 2004. **18. “What Moralism Might Be,” Keynote Lecture, Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, New School for Social Research, April 2004. 17. Response to Naomi Zack, “Toward an Inclusive Feminist Social Theory,” Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, Pasadena, April 2004. *16. “Wider Possibilities for Moral Thought,” Philosophy Department, Columbia University, March 2004. 15. “Moralism and Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest,” Society of Fellows, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, February 2004. 14. “Wider Possibilities for Moral Thought,” Princeton Center for Human Values February 2004. 13. “Wider Possibilities for Moral Thought,” Indiana University, at the conference “Wittgenstein and Levinas,” October 2003. *12. “Wider Possibilities for Moral Thought,” Philosophy Department, Miami University, Ohio, October 2003. 11. “Ethics and the Concept of the Human,” at the conference “Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights,” University of Bari, Italy, May 2003. 10. “Wittgenstein’s Pragmatic Strain,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Denver, March 2003. *9. “Why Can’t Moral Thought Be Everything It Seems?” Philosophy Department, Tufts University, February 2003. 8. Response to John Wright’s “Discourse Ethics and Moral Objectivity,” Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, Philadelphia, December 2002. *7. “Wittgenstein and Ethics,” Philosophy Department, Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago, November 2002. 6. “Austin and the Ethics of Speech,” Symposium in Honor of Stanley Cavell, New School for Social Research, October 2002. *5. “Wittgenstein and Ethics”, Philosophy Department, Tufts University, April 2002. 4. Response to Angela Bolte “Making Connections Between Anger and Autonomy,” Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, Seattle, March 2002.
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*3. “What Do Feminists Want in an Epistemology?,” Philosophy Department, MIT, Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, February 2002. 2. “Feminism and Epistemology” Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, San Francisco, March 2001. 1. “McDowell’s Wittgensteinianism,” at a symposium on The New Wittgenstein, Université Paris 1-Sorbonne, Paris, December 2000.
Selection of upcoming public engagements: Workshop on Inside Ethics at the University of Iceland, Reykvavik, POSTPONED Conversation with theologian Paul Fiddes at a Conference on “Restorative Justice,” Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, POSTPONED Lecture at the Philosophy Department, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain, POSTPONED Workshop with “Nosotras” in Madrid, Spain, POSTPONED Keynote at a Conference on “Speciesism and Other Discriminations”, at the Research Center on Ethics (CRÉ) and the Research Group on Environmental and Animal Ethics (GREEA) in Montreal, POSTPONED Keynote at a Conference on “Wittgenstein and Democratic Politics,” Helsinki, Finland, POSTPONED Keynote at a conference on “Dehumanization and Literature,” Central European University, Budapest, POSTPONED to June 2021 Keynote at Inaugural Session of the Bonn Institute of Philosophy Summer School, CANCELED Lecture at the conference, “Wittgenstein and Philosophy for the 21st Century,” Centre for Philosophy, Ethics and Culture,” Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Teaching and Advising at the New School Graduate Courses Ethics, Reason and Character Philosophy & Early Analytic Philosophy Contemporary Ethical Theory Literature Later Analytic Philosophy Moral Psychology Fate of the Novel** Mind, Language and Reality* The Turn Toward Virtue Philosophy & Wittgenstein Animal Ethicsºº the Visual Arts Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Gender and Its Discontents*** Psychology The Case for Critique• Wittgenstein and Social Seeing in the Margins: On the Ethics and Politics of Sight•• Epistemology Interpretation: Legal, Literary and Philosophical Aspects••• Speech Acts Radical Animal: Dismantling discourses of dehumanizationº
* Co-taught with Richard Bernstein (New School for Social Research) in 2005 ** Co-taught with Martin Stone (Cardozo Law School) in 2011 *** Co-taught with Laura Aurcchio (Parsons) in 2015 and with Terri Gordon (New School for Public Engagement) in 2016 • Co-taught with Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University) in 2016 ••Taught at the Democracy and Diversity Institute of the Transregional Center for Democracy Studies in Wroclaw, Poland in 2016 •••Co-taught with Martin Stone (Cardozo Law School) in 2016 º Taught at the Democracy and Diversity Institute of the Transregional Center for Democracy Studies in Wrocław, Poland in 2019 ººA version of this seminar co-taught with Dale Jamieson (NYU) in 2020
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Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Ethics Philosophy & Wittgenstein Morality and Action Literature Hegel’s Phenomenology Existentialist Themes Aesthetics Hume’s Treatise Animals and Ethics Photography & Kant’s Critique of Pure Feminism and Philosophy Film Reason The Animal Question in Ethics and Politics
Graduate-level Independent Studies. From 2000-2008, my independent studies included work with among others the following students: Steven Levine, Pablo Gilabert, Sarah Walker Bosworth, Alexis Angelides, David Kishik, Elizabeth Atkins, William Lindemuth and Benjamin Olsen. My independent studies from now back to 2008 –
Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology (Jialei Tang, spring 2017)
Kant on Animals (Carol Alvaro, fall 2016) Virtue Ethics (Jeremiah Tillman and Kyle O’Dowd, fall 2016)
Animal Ethics (Carlo Alvaro, spring 2016)
Basic Concepts in Philosophy of Mind (Michael Wallace, fall 2015)
Animal Minds (Cayla Clinkenbeard, fall 2015)
Animals in Medicine (Elliot Trapp, fall 2014)
Biomedical Research Ethics (Sarah Clairmount, fall 2014)
Normative Guidance (Annina Loets, spring 2013)
Wittgenstein’s On Certainty (Joel de Lara, fall 2012)
Sellars/Brandom (Lawrence Berger, spring 2012)
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (P.J. Gorre, spring 2011)
Philosophy and Literature (Katie Kelley, fall 2010)
Wittgenstein and Ethics (Matt Congdon, spring 2009)
Rationality in/and the Social Science (Mark Theunissen, fall 2008)
Hume’s Ethics (Jason Fisette, spring 2008)
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Undergraduate Advising
I regularly serve as a primary academic adviser for 5-10 Lang College Philosophy students, and I sometimes advise the senior work projects of Lang College philosophy students. I have not kept strict record of my students’ projects. Among those I have advised are the following four: Jacob Gillinger, “On the Aesthetics of Avant-garde Music” (2007-2008), Joshua Weinberg, “Nietzsche’s Ethics” (2008-2009), Nicole Dular, “Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Question of Suicide” (2009), and Hannah Read, “A Defense of the Intellectual Poets” (2013).
I have helped to place many BA and MA philosophy students in PhD programs in philosophy. This group includes Alexei Angelides (Stanford University), Carlos Romero (Rutgers University), Sarah Bosworth (University of Chicago), Oli Stefano (Stony Brook), Kenneth Luu (Humboldt University, Berlin (Classics)), Nicole Dular (Brandeis), Rebecca Harrison (UC Riverside) and Hannah Read (Tufts – MA Program with full funding; now finished and doing PhD in Philosophy at Duke University), Owen Alldritt (Emory), Christopher Merwin (Emory), Zac Turnbull (University of New Mexico), Ally Peabody (UCLA), Zacchary Lloyd (CUNY/GC, Literature), Johnny Brennan (Fordham), Eric McPhail (Vanderbilt), Robert Weitzer (Stony Brook, English), James Wheeler (Stony Brook), Dylan Shaul (Vanderbilt University), Wayne Wapeemukwa (Penn State), Jeremiah Tillman (University of Maryland), Bisher Khatib (University of Ottawa).
Graduate Advising
PhD Dissertations – Primary Adviser – Past Students
Vivaldi Jean-Marie, 2005 (“The Relationship of Historical Knowledge and Eternal Happiness in Kierkegaard’s Fragments and Postscript”) – Full Professor, Philosophy and Religion Department, Medgar Evars College and Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Institute on African-American Studies.
David Kishik, 2006 (“To Imagine a Form of Life: Remarks on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Language”) – Associate Professor in Philosophy, Emerson College, Boston.
Judit Torok, 2007 (“Aesthetic Judgment and Wittgenstein”), Provost and Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
Anstein Gregersen, 2008 (“The Active Mind: On Perception and First-Person Authority”) Associate Professor in Philosophy and Head of Department of Social Science, University College, Lillehammer, Norway.
Aloisia Moser, 2009 (“Performative Intentionality”) – Fellow in Philosophy and Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, recipient of a 3-year post-doc from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2014-2017. Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure track) at the Katholische Privatuniversität in Linz, Austria in the fall of 2016.
Matt Congdon, 2014 (“Moral Articulation: on the Formulation of New Moral Universals”) – Assistant professor (tenure-track) at Vanderbilt University, Winter 2019-present, after serving as Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Vanderbilt, Fall 2014-Fall 2018.
Samuel Ben-Meir, 2014 (“Ethical Interanimality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Nature”) –
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Visiting Assistant Professor (adjunct, non-tenure-track), Marymount Manhattan College.
Robin Muller, 2014 (“The Romantic Subject of Perception: A Phenomenological Account of Conceptual Mindedness”) – Assistant Professor in Philosophy, tenure-track, California State University at Northridge.
Jonathan Chalier, 2014 (“Otherwise Specified: Investigating Autism and Philosophy of Mind”). Deputy Editor of the journal Esprit in Paris; also Lecturer at École Polytechnique and Institut Catholique de Paris.
Jason Fisette, 2015 (“Reason and Realism in Hume’s Moral Philosophy”) Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy (permanent position, similar to tenure-track), University of Nevada at Reno.
Janna van Grunsven, 2015 (“Bringing Life in View: An Enactive Account of Moral Perception”), Postdoctoral Fellow, Fordham University, 2015-2017, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, tenure-track, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, Fall 2017-present.
Adam Gies, 2016 (“Unraveling Folk Psychology: Mindshaping and Plural Frameworks of Rational Agency in Human Social Cognition”) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, non-tenure track, renewable contract, 2016-, at Clemson University.
Carlo Alvaro, 2017 (“Veganism as a Virtue”) Visiting Assistant Professor with a 3-year renewable contract in the Philosophy Department at NYC College of Technology.
Daniel Jove, 2017 (“The Bequest of Language: Aspects of Inheritance in Stanley Cavell), Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at St. Francis College, Brooklyn.
Mark Theunissen, 2017 (“Rationality and Naturalism in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences”), Assistant Professor of Strategic Design and Management (not tenure-track), Parsons School of Design, The New School, 2017-present.
Edward Guetti, 2018 (“Conspicuous Absences and Formative Losses: Literature, Moral Theory, and Wittgenstein”).
Kathleen Kelley, (“Automatism is a Humanism: Cavell, Medium and Modernism”), December 2018, Adjunct Instructure of Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
David Bak Geler, (“Practical Improvisation: Rule-following, Spontaneity and Democracy”), December 2019, Assistant Professor of Political Theory (tenure-track), University of Guadelajara.
Marcus Michelsen, (“A Genealogical Reading of Wittgenstein”), May 2020, Manager, Risk and Capital, OTC Derivatives, National Futures Association.
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PhD Dissertations – Primary Adviser – Current Students (I am currently directing 7 PhD dissertations)
Carolyn Colsant, “Irony: Both Dangerous and Necessary,” in progress.
Joel de Lara, “Speech Acts and Epistemic Responsibility,” in progress.
Rob Mass
Roxie Magee, “On Conceptualism: Reflections in Light of the Case of Animals,” to be defended summer 2016.
Lisa McKeown, “Speech Acts as a Model for Political Discourse,” in progress.
Carlos de La Puente, “Wittgenstein and Psychoanalysis,” in progress.
Aaron Neber, “The Critical Moment in Animal Studies,” in progress.
I am serving in a secondary capacity on the committees of Alex Altonji, Cayla Clinkenbeard, Hoyeon Lim and Edward Skipton.
Other Graduate Advising Activities
Coordinator of a PhD Works-in-Progress Series, Fall 2012-present – This involves 2-3 events annually for a group that includes PhD students in my research group, recently promoted students who are intending to work with me, or who have related interests, interested MA students, visiting scholars and, occasionally, interested undergraduates. The events are casual and festive, with food and drink, and each participant must make a presentation, discussing their current work and professional activities. We use the collective setting to refine work- strategies, identify professional resources and network. This activity is especially important for PhD students working with me, since many are at least to some extent concerned with topics in Anglo-American analytic Philosophy.
Founder/Faculty Adviser of the Wittgenstein Workshop, Spring 2009-present – This is a group that hosts 3-4 events each semester. Despite the name, the range of topics is great. The common theme is a broad-minded approach to analytic philosophy, typically by scholars who also have serious research interests in other philosophical traditions. I originally founded the Workshop to provide a setting, within the New School’s Philosophy Department, for PhD students to more effectively integrate analytic methods and topics into their research. Since the Spring of 2011, the series has been run by my graduate students, and I serve as the Workshop’s faculty advisor. Students have applied for and consistently received small grants to support the series from the NSSR Dean’s Office and the New School’s University Student Senate. Speakers to date come from many countries outside the US and include, in addition to many NSSR Philosophy students, and early-career philosophers from institutions in the U.S. and abroad, established figures such as James Conant, Cora Diamond, Eli Friedlander, Rahel Jaeggi, Victor Krebs and Sandra Laugier. In addition to meetings on individual speaker’s research, the Workshop’s events include panels (e.g., a spring 2010 panel on “Philosophy and Animals” with speakers Matthew Congdon (NSSR), Stefano di Brisco and Nicolas Delon and a 2013 panel on “Cavell on Film” with speakers Kathleen Kelley (NSSR) and Francey Russell) and conversations (e.g., a fall 2012 conversation on “Ethics of Social Cognition” between Alex Mavda and Michael Brownstein). The Workshop organizes informal sessions for participants to meet with our
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visiting speakers, and many of our events are also co-sponsored with other groups. (E.g., in spring 2016, WW participants joined Columbia Teachers College and NSSR Philosophy in hosting an event with Raimond Gaita (University of Melbourne, Australia).) Workshop texts and audio recordings of some events are posted on the NSSR Philosophy Department Blog.
Committee member on PhD Dissertations. This includes –
Jordi Graupera, 2017.
Kevin Temple, 2017.
Scott Shushan, 2017.
Daniel Fernandez, 2016.
Todd Kesselmann, 2015.
Fred Copley, 2015.
Larry Jackson, 2013.
Mark Burke, 2013.
Miranda Nell, 2012.
Joseph Tinguely, 2011.
Gabriel Gottlieb, 2010.
Martin Gak, 2008.
Kenji Kenzuu, 2007.
Matthew Lear, 2005.
Pierre Adler, 2005.
Monica Vilhauer, 2005.
Roy Brand, 2004.
Michael Weinman, 2004.
Steven Levine, 2003.
Pablo Gilabert, 2003.
Charles Oliver, 2003.
Larry Marcelle, 2001.
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Primary Adviser for MA Theses. My records aren’t complete, but this includes –
Robert Mass, in progress.
Laura Age (Liberal Studies/GSS), 2018.
Bisher Khatib, 2018.
Cayla Clinkenbeard, 2017.
Eric McPhail, 2017.
Alexandra Peabody, 2016.
Fiona Bryson (Liberal Studies), 2016.
Zachary Lloyd, 2016.
Kevin Mulligan, 2013.
Johnny Brennan, 2013.
Oli Stephano, 2011.
Hunter Robinson, 2011.
Sasha Selimotic, 2009.
Katie Kelley, 2008.
Jason Fisette, 2007.
Alex Jadin, 2007.
David Jacobus, 2005.
Nathan Smith, 2004.
Vivaldi Jean-Marie, 2004.
Anstein Gregersen, 2003.
Sara Walker Bosworth, 2003.
Alexei Angelides, 2003.
I serve regularly as a secondary adviser for MA Theses, usually 2-3 per year, but don’t track this work (e.g., 2014-2015 included at least James Ashner, Ted Burt, Adam Griggs and Daniel
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Esparza). These roles involve reading and commenting on drafts, and participating in a defense. In addition, it is standard practice for students – including all of those named here – to ask second readers for letters of reference for PhD (or other relevant academic or professional) placement. More recent MAs include Eric Rosario (2016) and Malte Fabian Rauch (2017).
I also regularly host Fulbright, DAAD, Humboldt and other visiting scholars in the NSSR Philosophy Department.
Committee Member on PhD Dissertations outside the New School
External Reviewer of Patrizia Setola’s PhD dissertation (“Ethical Encounters with Sentient Others”), Philosophy Department, University College Dublin, Ireland, December 2016.
Co-director with Logi Gunarsson of Karsten Schönller’s PhD dissertation (“Toward a Wittgensteinian Meta-Ethics”), Philosophy Department, University of Potsdam, Germany, June 2016.
Expert Reader, Camilla Kronqvist’s PhD dissertation (“What We Talk about When We Talk about Love”), Philosophy Department, Abo Academy University, Finland, August 2007.
External Reviewer, Douglas Andrew Gaff’s PhD dissertation (“On Reasons and Disagreement in Ethics”), Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 2007.
External Committee Member, Rami Gudovitch’s PhD dissertation (“A Nominalist Conception of the Extent of the Intentional”), Philosophy Department, Columbia University, December 2006.
First opponent for Cato Wittusen’s PhD dissertation (“Lost Surroundings: An Essay on Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy”), Philosophy Department, University of Bergen, Norway, February 2006.
External Committee Member for David Shainok’s PhD dissertation, Philosophy Department, Columbia University, 2005.
Teaching and Advising at Oxford (2018-2019)
Tutorials (Regent’s Park College) Moral Philosophy/Mill Ethics (103) Aesthetics (109) Philosophy of Religion (107) Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein (118) Critical Theory (special subject)
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University lectures Philosophy and Literature (co-taught with Stephen Mulhall, MT 2018) Introduction to Critical Theory (HT 2019)
BPhil Supervisions Joe Rosing Patricia Cipollitti
MPhil Supervisions Lilly Johnson (in Philosophical Theology)
Service
Service at the New School for Social Research
Major roles
Chair, Philosophy Department, Summer 2014-Summer 2017. This is a position that involves management of and leadership for a department with 11 full time members, 1 term- lecturer, 5 long-term adjuncts, 3 visitors and approximately 175 graduate students (with roughly 90 at the MA and 85 at the PhD level) and 25 undergraduate majors. Major tasks involve managing departmental tenure cases, overseeing the curriculum and student advising, managing the departmental budget, overseeing the annual schedule, running meetings, coordinating with the administration and supervising hiring.
Founding Co-Director of a graduate certificate program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Summer 2014-Summer 2017. This is a position I took on after serving as the Chair of a university-wide working group to revive graduate level Gender Studies at the New School, from Fall 2012-Spring 2014. Among other things, this group was awarded a Provost’s Office “Mutual Mentoring Grant” for 2013-2014 to begin to develop its projects and profile. Together with my co-director – Margot Bouman, ADHT, Parsons – I advise all students involved in the program. We run an internal colloquium and an external speakers series, organize bi-annual works-in-progress sessions and organize interviews with and our research students, which are posted on our blog (http://blogs.newschool.edu/genderandsexualitystudies/). As of the end of spring term 2017, 43 graduate students from across the New School were enrolled in GSS, just over half of them from NSSR.
Member of the University Committee for Promotions and Reviews (UPRC), Fall 2011-Spring 2013 and Fall 2014-Summer 2017. The UPRC undertakes a procedural review of all tenure cases that come through the university. Because it involves both careful reading of many tenure files and reports on select individual cases, membership on the committee represents a substantial service role.
Smaller roles
Philosophy Department, Diversity Initiative, Spring 2020-
Member of the Joint NSSR/Lang Reappointment Committee, Fall 2019-.
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Lang Dean’s Executive Committee, Fall 2019-.
NSSR Strategic Planning Group, Fall 2019-.
Member of a committee to revise the NSSR Charter, Spring 2013.
Member of the Eugene Lang College Committee for Appointments and Promotions (APC), Fall 2011-Spring 2013.
Exams Coordinator, Philosophy Department, Fall 2011-Spring 2013.
Chair of a special tenure committee outside the Philosophy Department, Spring 2012.
Admissions Director, Philosophy Department, Fall 2004-Fall 2005 and Fall 2010-2011.
Member of Institutional Review Board, Spring 2011-Fall 2011.
Co-Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee, University Senate, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
Placement Director, Philosophy Department, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
Member of the Graduate Faculty Dean’s Search Committee, Fall 2002.
Chair, Undergraduate Philosophy, Eugene Lang College, Fall 2001-Fall 2003.
Member of the Curriculum Committee, Eugene Lang College, Fall 2001-Spring 2002.
Member of the Academic Standards Committee, Eugene Lang College, 2000-2002.
Co-director (with Dmitri Nikulin), Philosophy Program, Lang College, Fall 2000-Spring 2001.
Coordinator, Philosophy Department Speaker Series, Fall 2000-Spring 2002.
Service in the form of Professional Organizing—a selection of contributions:
Member, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Program Committee, 2018- 2020. In this connection, I organized an author-meets-critics panel on Veena Das’ Textures of the Ordinary (with Penelope Deutscher and Sandra Laugier responding) and a symposium on “The Future of Feminism in Philosophy” (with papers by Elizabeth Barnes, Nancy Bauer and Teresa Blankmeyer-Burke), both to take place at the 2020 Eastern APA.
Co-organizer on behalf of the New School of the Berlin Critical Theory Summer School, at the Institute for Philosophy at Humboldt University:
Summer 2017, Topic: “Social Progress and Regression” (speakers included Amy Allen, Jay Bernstein, Hauke Brunkhorst, Alice Crary, Axel Honneth, Rahel Jaeggi, Terry Pinkard, Martin Saar)
Summer 2018, Topic: “Ideology” (speakers included Robin Celikates, Alice Crary, Robert Gooding-Williams, Sally Haslanger, Axel Honneth, Rahel Jaeggi and Karen Ng).
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Summer 2019, Topic: “Social Unreason”. [I did not attend the summer school this year.]
Summer 2020, POSTPONED UNTIL 2021.
Co-organizer, with Matt Congdon, of a workshop on “Social Visibility as a Route to Social Justice,” funded by Vanderbilt University, with speakers Nancy Bauer, Matt Congdon, Alice Crary, Sally Haslanger, Charles Mills, Shatema Threadcraft, Robert Gooding-Williams and Linda Zerilli, April 2019. For details see https://socialvisibility.home.blog/.
Instructor on behalf of the New School for Social Research, Transregional Center for Democracy Studies, Wroclaw, Poland, 2015 and 2019.
Co-organizer, with Rahel Jaeggi, of a Workshop on the “Dialectics of Progress: Critical Theory and Social Change,” at the New School for Social Research, with Humboldt University, the Heuss Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, October 2017.
Organizer, Arendt/Schurmann Symposium, “Feminist Investigations: A Manifesto,” a 2-day event at the NSSR in May 2014, with lectures by Nancy Bauer, Sarah Beckwith, Sandra Laugier, Toril Moi and Linda Zerilli.
Organizer, together with Timothy Pachirat (NSSR Politics), of university-wide faculty reading/working group on “Animal Studies,” Spring 2013-Spring 2014. This group folded after Timothy left the New School in Fall 2014, and I became Chair of Philosophy and co- Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies and could not run it alone. When I finish my terms in these other administrative positions, I plan to revive the group in some form, possibly coordinating with environmental studies. I remain very active in the area, however, and will, e.g., participate in an event, coordinated by Fabio Paresecoli, on Laura Wright’s Vegan Studies Project with New School Food Studies in October 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U97NVj39JqQ).
Organizer, Arendt/Schurmann Symposium, “The Philosophy of Stanley Cavell,” a 2-day event at the NSSR in October 2002, with lectures by Stanley Cavell, James Conant, Cora Diamond, Stephen Mulhall and Hilary Putnam.
Reviewer for presses – Acumen Publishing Company Bloomsbury University of Chicago Press Columbia University Press Harvard University Press Oxford University Press Palgrave Macmillan Routledge Stanford University Press
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Reviewer for journals – American Journal of Political Science American Political Science Review British Journal of Aesthetics British Journal for the History of Philosophy Contemporary Literature Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Ethics and Moral Theory European Journal of Analytic Philosophy Hypatia Inquiry Journal of the History of Philosophy Journal of Philosophical Research Journal of Social Philosophy Mind Nordic Wittgenstein Review Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Partial Answers Political Concepts Philosophical Quarterly Social Epistemology Southern Journal of Philosophy Synthese
Expert/Reviewer for foundations and research councils. I haven’t kept strict records, but this includes, among others –
American Academy in Berlin
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Danish Council for Independent Research in the Humanities
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Sweden)
The Swiss National Science Foundation
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research or SSHRC (Canada)
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Editorial Boards –
Oxford Public Philosophy, 2019-.
Bloomsbury Academic Press, for a series on Philosophies of Education in Art, Cinema, and Literature, 2019-.
Social Research, 2007-2011.
Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 2011-present.
Sapienza University Press, 2013-present.
Research Groups – I have in the past often participated in international research groups with varying levels of activity and time commitment. Some of the most active of these include:
Feminist Investigations (organized together with Nancy Bauer, Sarah Beckwith, Sandra Laugier, Toril Moi, Linda Zerilli). This group held workshops at Duke (Winter ‘11), Chicago (Spring ’12 and Fall ’12); its members were awarded a grant for an “Exploratory Seminar” by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard (Spring ’13); and the group held conferences scheduled in Paris (Fall ’13) and at the New School for Social Research (Spring ’14). Our concluding event for this sequence was a special issue of New Literary Studies, which was published in 2015.
The Philosophical Import of Ordinary Language: Austin, Ryle, Wittgenstein, and their Contemporary Significance (organized by Martin Gustafsson; I participated in a couple of events Sweden in relation to this project).
Forms of Life (organized by Estelle Ferrarese, Rahel Jaeggi and Sandra Laugier, with support from a grant from the European Research Council – I am listed as an “advisor” to the group and have participated in events in Berlin and Paris).
Member of the Eastern APA Programming Committee, 2018-2020.
Member of the ESWIP Steering Committee, 2019-.
Early Teaching, Activism and Related Experience
Tutor in Philosophy—Harvard University, 1993-1994 (North House), 1998-2000 (Mather House).
Shelter Advocate/Counselor for Victims of Domestic Violence – Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Center & Shelter, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992-1993 and 1994-1998.
Research Assistant for Stanley Cavell, 1993-1994.
Secondary School Teacher—11th and 12th Grade Philosophy, 9th Grade World History, Colegio Americano de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, 1990-1991.
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Activist – board member at Education For Action (E4A) in Radcliffe Yard, a clearing house for and supporter of radical student activism on the Harvard-Radcliffe campus, giving out small social action grants annually, 1987-1988 and 1989-1990.
Recipient of small grant from E4A as well as of support from the Sister City Organization of Oaxaca, Mexico and Palo Alto, CA to travel to Southern Mexico and Guatemala to study liberation theology-inspired base communities, fall 1988.
Athlete-Rower – Member, Radcliffe Varsity Rowing Team, 1985-6 (Lightweight), 1986-7 (Heavyweight); Member, USA Junior National Rowing Team (6th in women’s eight in World Competition in Brandenburg, East Germany, 1985); Member, Lakeside Women’s Crew, Junior National Champions, 1985 (1st in the women’s eight, 1st in the women’s four, and 1st as a team) and 1983 (1st in the women’s eight, 3rd in the women’s four, and 1st as a team).
Languages
German – fluent conversational, reading and writing
Spanish – fluent conversational, reading and writing
French – basic conversational, advanced reading ability
Personal
Partner – Nathaniel Hupert, MD MPH, Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research and of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College; Senior Medical Advisor, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA (National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases).
Children – Louise, 14 and Shepard, 6.