Curriculum Vitae Douglas W
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Curriculum Vitae Douglas W. Portmore
ACADEMIC P OSITIONS
– (Full) Professor of Philosophy (tenured) School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies Arizona State University
– Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow The University Center for Human Values, Princeton University September , – July ,
– Head of Philosophy School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies Arizona State University
Visiting Fellow, School of Philosophy Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University June – July
– Associate Professor of Philosophy (tenured) School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies Arizona State University
– Faculty Fellow, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs The Murphy Institute, Tulane University September , – April ,
– Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track) Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University
– Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track) Department of Philosophy, California State University, Northridge
– Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy (not tenure-track) Department of Philosophy, College of Charleston
EDITORIAL P OSITIONS
– Associate Editor Portmore Curriculum Vitae / /
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy
– Member of the Editorial Panel Thought: A Journal of Philosophy.
– Category Editor for “Varieties of Consequentialism” and “Actualism and Possibilism in Ethics.” PhilPapers (philpapers.org)
– Associate Editor and Discussion Notes Editor Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (www.jesp.org)
– Co-founding Editor and Contributor PEA Soup, a blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and academia. (peasoup.us)
AREAS OF S PECIALIZATION
ª NORMATIVE ETHICS: teleology, maximalism, consequentialism, consequentializing, supererogation, moral worth, virtuous motivation, special obligations (i.e., associa- tive duties), agent-centered options, agent-centered constraints/restrictions, paradox of deontology, duty of beneficence, moral dilemmas, self-other asymmetry, agent- relative/agent-neutral distinction, actualism versus possibilism, the problem of over- determination, the puzzle of plural obligation, the principle of moral harmony, per- fect and imperfect duties, the distinction between moral and non-moral reasons, making a difference, and the problem of causal impotency.
ª REASONS AND RATIONALITY: weighing reasons, pa ern-based reasons, reasons- responsiveness, transmission of reasons, reasons to be moral, underdetermination by reasons, what we just plain ought to do (all things considered), different types of strength a reason can have (enticing, requiring, and justifying), reasons and obliga- tions with respect to a itudes and their relationship to reasons and obligations with respect to actions, the self-torturer puzzle, the wrong-kind-of-reasons problem, the basic belief, time and rationality, the rationality and fi ingness of emotions, the rela- tionship between reasons with respect to more and less specific options, and whether ‘reason’ implies ‘can’.
ª ACTION, AGENCY, ATTITUDES, AND RESPONSIBILITY: accountability, action theory, mor- al luck, mental agency, reactive a itudes, moral responsibility, guilt and shame, ac- counts of blame, collective action problems, the connection between blame and de- sert, the connection between moral requirements and blameworthiness, the connec- tion between control and moral responsibility, reasons-responsiveness, rational ca- pacities, a itudes and fi ingness, the toxin puzzle, rational control versus volitional control, and obligations and responsibilities with respect to reasons-responsive a i- tudes (e.g., beliefs, desires, and intentions).
ª METAETHICS: moral rationalism, internalism versus externalism, the putative overrid- ingness of morality, ‘ought’ implies ‘can’, the relationship between morality and self- interest, and informal deontic logic (e.g., the inheritance principle, Ross’s paradox, Professor Procrastinate, the paradox of gentle murder, the problem of act versions, etc.).
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ª VALUE THEORY: final value, intrinsic value, value pluralism, the concept of wellbeing, theories of wellbeing, the principle of organic unities, the wrong-kind-of-reasons problem, the value of achievement, the shape-of-a-life phenomenon, and the buck- passing account of value.
ª APPLIED ETHICS: problems involving collective harm, effective altruism, collective ac- tion, and causal impotence (e.g., voting, eating meat, and climate change), obligations to distant strangers, obligations to future generations (e.g., total principle, non- identity problem, mere addition paradox, repugnant conclusion), and the ethics of eating meat.
ª METAPHYSICS OF DEATH: posthumous harm, the badness of death, and the alleged asymmetry between pre-vital and postmortem nonexistence.
AREAS OF C OMPETENCE
ª Bioethics, Introductory Symbolic Logic, and the History of Modern Philosophy.
EDUCATION
– Ph.D. in Philosophy, June University of California, Santa Barbara The Structure of Common Sense Morality Commi ee: Ma Hanser (Chair), Chris McMahon, and Burleigh Wilkins
Post-Graduate (Exchange) Student Centre for Human Bioethics & Department of Philosophy Monash University, Australia Studied under Peter Singer and Michael Smith.
– M.A. and C.Phil. in Philosophy, January University of California, Santa Barbara Thesis: “The Compatibility of Internalism and Moral Objectivism”
– B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, March University of California, San Diego
PUBLICATIONS
AUTHORED BOOKS
) Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options (New York: Oxford University Press, ). ISBN: -
) Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality (New York: Ox- ford University Press, ). ISBN: -
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ª Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press. January . h p://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/ . /acprof:oso/ . . /acprof- . ª Paperback edition. (New York: Oxford University Press, ). ISBN- : -
EDITED BOOKS
) Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (forthcoming with Oxford University Press, USA).
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
) “Desert, Control, and Moral Responsibility,” forthcoming in a special issue of Ac- ta Analytica.
) “Control, A itudes, and Accountability,” forthcoming in the sixth volume of Ox- ford Studies in Agency and Responsibility.
) “Maximalism and Moral Harmony,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ( ): – .
) “Maximalism versus Omnism about Permissibility,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly ( ): – .
) “Maximalism versus Omnism about Reasons,” Philosophical Studies ( ): , – , .
) “Transitivity, Moral Latitude, and Supererogation,” Utilitas ( ): – .
) “Uncertainty, Indeterminacy, and Agent-Centered Constraints,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy ( ): – .
) “Perform Your Best Option,” The Journal of Philosophy ( ): – .
) “Imperfect Reasons and Rational Options,” Noûs ( ): – .
) “The Teleological Conception of Practical Reasons,” Mind ( ): – .
) “Consequentialism and Moral Rationalism,” Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics ( ): – .
) “Rule-Consequentialism and Irrelevant Others,” Utilitas ( ): – .
) “Consequentializing,” Philosophy Compass ( ): – .
) “Are Moral Reasons Morally Overriding?” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice ( ): – .
) “Dual-Ranking Act-Consequentialism,” Philosophical Studies ( ): – .
) “Welfare, Achievement, and Self-Sacrifice,” Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org, ( ), vol. , no. . ( pp.)
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) “Desire Fulfillment and Posthumous Harm,” American Philosophical Quarterly ( ): – .
) “Consequentializing Moral Theories,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly ( ): – .
) “Combining Teleological Ethics with Evaluator Relativism: A Promising Result,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly ( ): – .
) “Position-Relative Consequentialism, Agent-Centered Options, and Supereroga- tion,” Ethics ( ): – .
) “Can an Act-Consequentialist Theory Be Agent-Relative?” American Philosophical Quarterly ( ): – .
) “McNaughton and Rawling on the Agent-Relative/Agent-Neutral Distinction,” Utilitas ( ): – .
) “Commonsense Morality and Not Being Required to Maximize the Overall Good,” Philosophical Studies ( ): – .
) “Does the Total Principle Have Any Repugnant Implications?” Ratio ( ): – .
) “Can Consequentialism Be Reconciled with Our Common-Sense Moral Intui- tions?” Philosophical Studies ( ): – .
INVITED CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES
) “Introduction,” forthcoming in Douglas W. Portmore (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (Oxford University Press, USA)
) “Consequentialism and Coordination: How Consequentialism Has an A itude Problem.” In Christian Seidel (ed.), Consequentialism: New Directions, New Prob- lems? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ), pp. – .
) “Teleological Reasons.” In Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ), pp. – .
) “Parfit on Reasons and Rule Consequentialism.” In Simon Kirchin (ed.), Reading Parfit: On What Ma ers (London: Routledge, ), pp. – .
) “Précis: Commonsense Consequentialism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Re- search ( ): – .
) “Replies to Gert, Hurley, and Tenenbaum,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Re- search ( ): – .
) “Consequentialism.” In Christian Miller (ed.), The Continuum Companion to Ethics (London: Continuum Press, ), pp. – .
BOOK REVIEWS
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) Review of Dale Dorsey’s The Limits of Moral Authority, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, h ps://ndpr.nd.edu/news/ -the-limits-of-moral-authority/, ( ).
) Review of Martin Peterson’s The Dimensions of Consequentialism, The Journal of Moral Philosophy ( ): – .
) Review of Caspar Hare’s The Limits of Kindness, Mind ( ): – .
) Review of Michael J. Zimmerman’s Ignorance and Moral Obligation, Ethics ( ): – .
) Review of Ben Bradley’s Well-Being and Death, Utilitas ( ): – .
) Review of James Warren’s Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics, The Journal of Value Inquiry ( ): – .
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
) “A g e n t -Centered Options,” in Hugh LaFolle e (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, ), pp. – .
) “A g e n t -Centered Restrictions,” in Hugh LaFolle e (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, ), pp. – .
) “Agent Relative vs. Agent Neutral,” in Hugh LaFolle e (ed.), International Ency- clopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, ), pp. – .
) “Supererogation,” in James E. Crimmins (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism (London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, ), pp. – .
) “Agent Neutral and Agent Relative,” in James E. Crimmins (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism (London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, ), pp. – .
INSTRUCTIONALLY-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
) “The Portmore Quiz,” in Donna J. Wood’s Business Ethics: Text and Workbook (Ce- dar Falls, IA: Woodhaven Press, ).
WORK IN PROGRESS
) “What’s a rational self-torturer to do?” (under submission)
) “Moral Worth Requires a Fundamental Concern for What Ultimately Ma ers” (under submission)
) “A Comprehensive Account of Blame: Self-Blame, Non-Moral Blame, and Blame for the Non-Agential” (draft completed and provisionally forthcoming in an an- thology on self-blame and moral responsibility edited by Andreas Brekke Carls- son for Oxford University Press)
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) Morality and Practical Reasons (a monograph in preparation and provisionally forthcoming in Cambridge University Press’s the Elements of Ethics series).
) “What Ultimately Ma ers” (in preparation)
) “Obligatory Ends versus Obligatory Acts” (in preparation)
) “The Moral Permissibility of Purchasing Factory Farmed Foods” (in preparation)
) A Morality of Ends: The Fundamentality of Ends as Opposed to Acts (a monograph in preparation)
PRESENTATIONS
) “TBA.” Invited keynote speaker for the th Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (WiNE) that will take place in Tucson on January – , .
) Author-meets-critics session on Opting for the Best, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in April – , , San Francisco, CA. Crit- ics: Chrisoula Andreou, Peter A. Graham, and Ralph Wedgwood (with G. Shyam Nair chairing).
) Comments on “TBA.” Symposium entitled “Recent Developments in Consequen- tializing,” the Central APA Meeting. February – , , in Chicago, IL.
) “A Comprehensive Account of Blame: Self-Blame, Non-Moral Blame, and Blame for the Non-Agential.” Invited paper for a workshop on the connection between self-blame and moral responsibility. September – , at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) at the University of Oslo, Norway.
) “A Comprehensive Account of Blame: Self-Blame, Non-Moral Blame, and Blame for the Non-Agential.” A refereed conference paper to be presented at the twelfth annual Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress in Boulder, Colorado, August – .
) “The Principle of Moral Harmony.” Invited paper for the Nebraska Chambers Conference on Normative Ethics. April – , at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
) “Desert, Control, and Moral Responsibility.” November , . Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
) “Maximalism and the Ought-Most-Reason View.” Invited paper for the Norms and Reasons Conference. November – , at the University of Zürich, Swi er- land.
) “Publishing in Philosophy.” An hour-long workshop on publishing in philosophy presented at Arizona State University on October , .
) “The Best World that It’s Feasible for Us to Produce.” Feasibility and Collectives Workshop. August at the Australian National University, Canberra, Austral- ia.
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) “Desert, Control, and Moral Responsibility.” Invited paper for the Bled Con- ference entitled “Ethical Issues” from June – , , in Bled, Slovenia.
) “Control, A itudes, and Accountability.” Invited speaker for the Dartmouth Eth- ics Workshop held April – , , at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
) “Control, A itudes, and Accountability.” Guest speaker for the Philosophy De- partment’s Ethics Seminar on April , , at Boston University.
) “Options, Control, and Accountability.” A workshop paper presented at the fourth New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR ), No- vember – , , in New Orleans, LA.
) Invited commentator on Victor Tadros’s “Localized Restricted Aggregation,” which was presented at the th annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy on October , , in Tucson, Arizona.
) “Opting for the Best.” Colloquium talk given on August , , at Arizona State University.
) “Maximalism versus Actualism and Possibilism.” Invited keynote speaker for a conference entitled “Neutrality: Agency, Time, and Reasons” organized by An- drew Forcehimes and Preston Greene and held July – , , at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
) “Comments on Camil Golub’s ‘Biographical Identity and Retrospective A i- tudes’.” Presented at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Associa- tion in April , , Sea le, WA.
) “Options, Control, and Moral Responsibility.” Invited speaker for a conference held April – , , at the University of California, Davis.
) “What Should You Do When Others Won’t Do Their Part? Implications for Cli- mate Change and Other Collective Action Problems.” Invited speaker for De- partment of Philosophy’s Philosophers Speak lecture series held on March , , at Seton Hall University.
) “Opting for the Best.” Invited guest presenter in Gil and Liz Harman’s co-taught seminar on ethics, Princeton University, February , .
) Invited commentator on John Doris’s “Making Good: In Search of Moral Exper- tise,” which was presented at the Fellows Seminar, the University Center for Hu- man Values, Princeton University, on February , .
) “Maximalism vs. Omnism about Reasons,” with Dale Dorsey and David Sobel commenting. Invited speaker at the th Annual New Orleans Invitational Seminar in Ethics, New Orleans, LA, on February , .
) “The Principle of Inheritance and Professor Procrastinate’s Options.” Invited speaker for a mini-conference on the Professor Procrastinate case to be held Janu- ary , , at Princeton University.
) “Uncertainty and Deontology.” Invited guest presenter in Peter Singer’s seminar on consequentialism, Princeton University on November , .
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) “Maximalism vs. Omnism about Permissibility.” Invited speaker at the Princeton Workshop in Normative Philosophy, Princeton University, on October , .
) “What Are Our Options?” with comments by Philip Pe it. Invited speaker at the Fellows Seminar at University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, on October , .
) “Portmore’s Argument for Commonsense Consequentialism.” Invited guest pre- senter in Peter Singer’s seminar on consequentialism, Princeton University on Oc- tober , .
) “Moral Harmony and the Puzzle of Plural Obligation.” Invited speaker at a din- ner with Human Values Forum, Princeton University, on October , .
) Invited commentator on David Sobel’s “Subjectivism and Reasons to be Moral,” which was presented at the Sixth Annual New Orleans Invitational Seminar on Ethics on March , .
) Invited commentator for a Research Workshop on Thomas Schramme’s book manuscript, which was held at the Freedom Center, University of Arizona, on March , .
) “Maximalism, Supererogation, and Imperfect Duties.” Invited keynote speaker for a workshop entitled “Supererogation: Concept and Context,” which was or- ganized by Jörg Löschke and Hubert Schnüriger and was held at the University of Basel, Swi erland, from December – , .
) “Maximalism and Rational Control.” An invited colloquium talk presented at Ar- izona State University, Tempe, Arizona, on October , .
) “Publishing in Philosophy.” An hour-long workshop on publishing in philosophy presented at Arizona State University on October , .
) “Performance Entailment.” An invited colloquium talk presented at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, on June , .
) “Performance Entailment.” An invited colloquium talk presented at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia, on June , .
) “Act, A itudes, and Rational Control.” An invited colloquium talk presented at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, on June , .
) “Acts, A itudes, and Rational Control.” Keynote address at the Syracuse University Graduate Conference on March , .
) “Acts, A itudes, and Rational Control.” An invited colloquium talk presented at the Freedom Center, University of Arizona, on February , .
) “Acts, A itudes, and Rational Control.” An invited colloquium talk presented at the University of Maryland, College Park, on February , .
) “Acts, A itudes, and Rational Choice.” A refereed conference paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress in August at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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) “Foundational Consequentialism and Its Primary Evaluative Focal Point.” Invited paper for the Bled Conference on “Ethical Issues: Theoretical and Applied” from June – , , in Bled, Slovenia.
) “Acts, A itudes, and Rational Choice.” Invited as part of a symposium entitled “Rational Choice,” organized by Chrisoula Andreou, and held at the Pacific Divi- sion Meeting of the American Philosophical Association from April – , , in San Diego, CA.
) “Can there be a science of ethics?” Invited speaker for the Science and Engineer- ing Ethics Club on March , , at ASU.
) “Acts, A itudes, and Rational Choice.” An invited colloquium talk presented at the University of Colorado, Boulder, on February , .
) “Consequentialism and Coordination: How Consequentialism Has an A itude Problem.” An invited paper for a conference entitled “Consequentialism: New di- rections, New Problems?” which was held at the University of Erlangen (Bavaria, Germany) from – September .
) Author-meets-critics session on Commonsense Consequentialism, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in March , San Francisco, CA. Critics: Joshua Gert, Paul Hurley, and Sergio Tenenbaum (with Daniel Star chairing).
) “Parfit on Reasons and Rule Consequentialism.” An invited conference paper pre- sented at the Fourth Annual New Orleans Invitational Seminar on Ethics on March , .
) “Parfit on Reasons and Rule Consequentialism.” An invited presentation at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, on February , .
) “Reconsidering Singer’s Drowning Child Example: Do we have good reason to comply with the duty of beneficence?” An invited presentation for the Ethics in the Public Sphere symposium series, November , , University of California, San Diego.
) “Perform Your Best Option.” A refereed conference paper presented at the St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality on May , , in St. Lou- is, MO.
) “Perform Your Best Option.” An invited colloquium talk presented at the Univer- sity of Utah on February , .
) “Utilitarianism: False or Irrelevant.” An invited colloquium talk presented at the College of William & Mary on February , .
) “Consequentialism and Moral Rationalism.” An invited colloquium talk present- ed at Florida State University on March , .
) “Publishing in Philosophy.” A two-hour workshop on publishing in philosophy presented at Arizona State University on November , .
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) “Preparing for the Job Market.” A two-hour workshop on preparing for the phi- losophy job market presented at Arizona State University on October , .
) “Why I’m Not a Utilitarian.” A talk presented to ASU’s Undergraduate Philoso- phy Club on October , .
) “Consequentialism and Moral Rationalism.” An invited conference paper pre- sented at the First Annual New Orleans Invitational Seminar on Ethics in March of .
) “Values in a Scientific World.” A talk presented to ASU’s Secular Free-Thought Society on March , .
) “Consequentialism and Moral Rationalism.” A refereed conference paper pre- sented at the First Annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics in January in Tucson, AZ.
) “The Teleological Conception of Practical Reasons.” A refereed conference paper that was scheduled to be presented at the International Society for Utilitarian Studies X Conference in September at Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs, University of California, Berkeley. (Due to unfortunate personal circumstances, I was unable to present the paper at the conference, but the paper was posted on the conference web site.)
) “Imperfect Reasons and Rational Options.” A refereed conference paper present- ed at the Rocky Mountain Ethics (RoME) Congress in August at the Universi- ty of Colorado, Boulder.
) “Imperfect Reasons and Rational Options.” A refereed conference paper present- ed at the Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference in August at Western Washington University.
) “Publishing in Philosophy.” A two-hour workshop on the ins and outs of publish- ing in philosophy presented at Arizona State University on September , .
) “Comments on Erin Kelly’s ‘Punishment and Collective Responsibility’.” Present- ed at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in April , San Francisco, CA.
) “Publishing in Philosophy.” A two-hour workshop on the ins and outs of publish- ing in philosophy presented at Arizona State University on January , .
) “A re Moral Reasons Morally Overriding?” A refereed conference paper presented at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in March , Portland, OR.
) “Consequentializing Moral Theories.” A colloquium paper presented at Arizona State University on March , .
) “Reason-Consequentialism: A New Approach to Moral Theorizing.” A refereed conference paper presented at the International Society for Utilitarian Studies Conference on August at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
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) “Welfare and Posthumous Harm.” An invited colloquium paper presented at Ari- zona State University on March , .
) “Welfare and Posthumous Harm.” An invited colloquium paper presented at North Carolina State University on January , .
) “Welfare and Posthumous Harm.” An invited colloquium paper presented at Bowling Green State University on January , .
) “Welfare and Posthumous Harm.” An invited colloquium paper presented at Cal- ifornia State University, Bakersfield, on January , .
) “Combining Teleological Ethics with Evaluator Relativism: A Promising Result.” A refereed conference paper presented at the International Society for Utilitarian Studies Conference on March at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
) “Does Consequentialism Leave Us with Enough Options?” A refereed conference paper presented at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy on August , in Boston, Massachuse s.
) “Does the Total Principle have any repugnant implications?” An invited colloqui- um paper presented at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand on April , .
) “Supplemental Uses for the Web in Teaching.” An invited presentation given at the Southern California Philosophy Conference on October , , at the Uni- versity of California, Irvine.
AWARDS AND F ELLOWSHIPS
) Sabbatical leave for Fall .
) Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, The University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, September , – July ,
) Research leave for Fall .
) Visiting Fellow, School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Austral- ian National University, June and July .
) Research leave for Fall .
) Sabbatical leave for Fall .
) Distinguished Nominee for the ASU Parents Association’s Professor of the Year Award.
) – Faculty Fellow, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, The Murphy Insti- tute, Tulane University.
) – CSUN Competition for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity.
) – CSUN Judge Julian Beck Instructional Improvement Grant.
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) – CSUN Competition for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity.
) – CSUN Competition for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity.
) NEH Summer Seminar “Bioethics in Particular” (Co-directors: James L. Nel- son and Hilde L. Nelson, University of Tennessee at Knoxville).
) UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.
) UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.
) USCB General Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship.
) Annual Siff Award for the Best Philosophy Paper Wri en by a Graduate Student. Title: “Why Commonsense Morality Might Best Be Understood as a Con- sequentialist Theory.”
) – UCSB Graduate Student Fee Fellowship.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND A CTIVITY
Reviewer for Synthese, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phe- nomenological Research, the Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (ab- stracts), and the th Annual Society for Philosophy & Psychology confer- ence (abstracts).
Reviewer for an application for promotion to Senior Lecturer and reviewer for an application for promotion to Full Professor.
Reviewer for Ergo, Mind, Synthese (× ), Analysis (× ), Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarter- ly, the Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (abstracts), and Tulane University’s Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs (fel- lowship applications)
Reviewer for Analysis, Utilitas, Thought (× ), Philosophy Compass, The Journal of Ethics, The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Pacific Philosophi- cal Quarterly, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Tulane University’s Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs (fellowship applications), the St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (abstracts), the Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (abstracts), and the Pro- gram Commi ee for the American Philosophical Association Eastern Divi- sion (colloquium paper).
Reviewer for an application for promotion to Senior Lecturer.
Reviewer for Noûs (× ), Ethics (× ), Erkenntnis (× ), Philosophers’ Imprint (× ), Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and the Arizo- na Workshop in Normative Ethics (abstracts).
Reviewer for an application for promotion to Full Professor.
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Chaired a session at the seventh annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics, January – , , in Tucson, AZ.
– Associate Editor for Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Le- gal Philosophy
Reviewer for Mind, Ethics, Utilitas, Thought, Dialogue, Dialectica, Philosophia, Philosophical Quarterly, American Philosophical Quarterly, Oxford University Press (textbook proposal), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Jour- nal of Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and the Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (abstracts).
Reviewer for an application for promotion to Full Professor.
Reviewer for an application for promotion to Senior Lecturer.
– Member of the Editorial Panel of Thought.
– Associate Editor and Discussion Notes Editor for Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (www.jesp.org)
Chaired and provided brief commentary on Daniel Wodak’s “Mere for- malities” at the St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality on May , , in St. Louis, MO.
Chair and lead discussant for David Shoemaker’s “Ecumenical A ributa- bility” at the fifth annual New Orleans Invitational Seminar in Ethics on March , , in New Orleans, LA.
Reviewer for an application for promotion to Full Professor.
Reviewer for Ethics, Mind, Noûs (× ), Utilitas, Dialectica, Philosophical Stud- ies, Philosophical Quarterly, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Jour- nal of Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry (× ), Journal of Ethics & Social Phi- losophy, Oxford University Press (book manuscript), Social Theory and Prac- tice, and the Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (abstracts).
Reviewer for Ratio, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Southern Journal of Philos- ophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (× ), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, Oxford University Press (book manuscript), and the St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Ration- ality (abstracts).
Reviewer for Routledge (book proposal), Wiley-Blackwell (book proposal), Ethics (× ), Utilitas (× ), Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, and International Encyclopedia of Ethics.
Chaired an Author-Meets-Critics session on Mark Schroeder’s Noncogni- tivism in Ethics, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical As- sociation, April – , , in Sea le, WA.
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Chaired a session at the third annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics, January – , , in Tucson, AZ.
Reviewer for Ethics (× ), Utilitas (× ), Philosophical Studies, Pacific Philosophi- cal Quarterly, Journal of Philosophical Research, Philosophy and Phenomenologi- cal Research, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Euro- pean Journal of Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, International En- cyclopedia of Ethics (× ), Oxford University Press (book proposal), Cam- bridge University Press (book proposal), and the Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (abstracts).
Reviewer for an application for tenure and promotion to Associate Profes- sor.
Chaired a session at the second annual New Orleans Invitational Seminar on Ethics, February – , , in New Orleans, LA.
Chaired a session at the second annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics, January – , , in Tucson, AZ.
Participant at the Origins of Morality Conference, November – , , at Arizona State University.
Reviewer for Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies (× ), Philosophers’ Imprint (× ), Philosophical Explorations, Economics and Philosophy, Oxford Bib- liographies Online, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, International Encyclopedia of Ethics (× ), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Journal of Ethics & So- cial Philosophy, Oxford University Press (scholarly book manuscript), and the Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (abstracts).
– PhilPapers Category Editor for “Varieties of Consequentialism” and “Actualism and Possibilism in Ethics.”
Reviewer for an application for tenure and promotion to Associate Profes- sor.
Reviewer for Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, International Encyclopedia of Ethics (× ), and Oxford University Press (scholarly book manuscript).
– Member of the International Encyclopedia of Ethics’ Review Board.
Reviewer for Mind (× ), Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
Member of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Chaired a session at the meeting of Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March - , New Orleans, Louisiana.
Chaired a session at the “Fourth Annual Metaethics Workshop,” Septem- ber - , University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Reviewer for Mind, Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, American Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Philosophical Research, Oxford University Press (book proposal).
Reviewer for Ethics, Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Ethics, Pacific Philo- sophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
Invited participant, University of San Diego’s Institute for Law and Phi- losophy’s Roundtable on “The Duty to Rescue,” October - , , Idyllwild, CA.
A ended the “Third Annual Metaethics Workshop,” September - , University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A ended “A Conference on Practical Reason” hosted by the Philosophy Department and the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, April - , , Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
A ended the Third Annual Meeting of the Arizona Moral & Political Phi- losophy Society, Saturday, March th, , University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
“Participant at Large,” Moral Phenomenology Workshop, University of Arizona, November - .
Reviewer for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies.
– Co-founding editor of PEA Soup, a blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and academia.
– Contributor to, PEA Soup, a blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and aca- demia.
Reviewer for Inquiry.
Reviewer for Utilitas, American Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Ethics, the Society for Skeptical Studies, and the British Society for Ethical Theory.
Reviewer for the American Philosophical Quarterly and Oxford University Press (textbook manuscript).
– Member of the commi ee charged with planning and organizing the Alyce Vrolyk Conference on Bioethics.
Reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
– Member of, and occasional referee for, the Society for Skeptical Studies.
Reviewer for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
– Member of the British Society for Ethical Theory.
– Member of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies.
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– Member of the American Philosophical Association.
ACADEMIC S ERVICE
Arizona State University
– Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy, the School of Historical, Phil- osophical, and Religious Studies
– Chair of the Philosophy Faculty’s Graduate Commi ee, the School of His- torical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
– Member of the Advisory Board, Institute for Humanities Research
– Member of the Personnel Commi ee for the School of Philosophical, His- torical, and Religious Studies
– Chair of Philosophy’s Personnel Commi ee
– Chair of the Search Commi ee for an assistant professor specializing in applied moral, political, social, or legal philosophy.
– Member of the Advisory Board, Institute for Humanities Research
– University Hearing Board
– Head of the Philosophy Faculty
– Member of the Executive Commi ee of the School of Philosophical, His- torical, and Religious Studies
– Member of the Search Commi ee for an assistant or associate professor specializing in metaphysics and/or epistemology.
– Scholarship Commi ee
– Member of the Learning Commi ee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ First Year Forward Initiative.
Acting Chair of the Personnel Commi ee for the Philosophy Faculty
Member of the Personnel Commi ee for the School of Philosophical, His- torical, and Religious Studies
– Member of the Transdisciplinary Commi ee for the School of Philosophi- cal, Historical, and Religious Studies
Member of Search Commi ee for two philosophy lecturers
– Chair of the Performance Review Commi ee
– Curriculum Commi ee
– Faculty Advisor to the Philosophy Club
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Hiring Commi ee
Member of the team conducting practice interviews for graduate students going out on the job market (specifically, Parker Crutchfield and Andy Khoury).
Sun Angel Excellence in the Humanities Research Scholarships Commi ee
– Graduate Commi ee
– Faculty Head Advisory Commi ee
– Performance Review Commi ee
Sun Angel Excellence in the Humanities Research Scholarships Commi ee
Member of the Ad Hoc Commi ee on Departmental Web Design
Member of the Ad Hoc Commi ee on the Allocation of Departmental Travel Funds
Member of the team conducting practice interviews for graduate students going out on the job market (specifically, Sandra Woien).
– Scholarship Commi ee
– Department’s Program Planning Commi ee
Member of the team conducting practice interviews for graduate students going out on the job market (i.e., Steve Dilley, Shawn Klein, and Teresa Laszlo).
– Member of the Lincoln Center Affiliates Council
– Department’s Recording Secretary
– Department’s Graduate Commi ee
California State University, Northridge
– With help from other curriculum commi ee members, I did a complete overhaul of the course listings (revising titles, prerequisites, course de- scriptions, etc.), developed a writing course for philosophy majors, re- vamped both the philosophy major and the philosophy minor, and devel- oped pre-law and pre-graduate school advisement sheets for philosophy majors.
– Department’s Academic Advisor.
– Department’s Assessment Liaison to the University
– Department’s Assessment Commi ee
– Department’s Critical Reasoning Commi ee
Eastern APA Interview Team, - Job Search
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– Department’s Appointments Commi ee
– Department’s Strategic Planning Commi ee
– Department’s Curriculum Commi ee
– Department’s Webmaster (along with York Gunther)
– Department’s Colloquia Coordinator
– Department’s Library and Technology Resources Coordinator
– Faculty Sponsor of the Student Philosophy Club
– Member of the Center for Ethics and Values, CSUN
STUDENT A DVISING AND M ENTORING
Thesis Advising and Examining
) Chair of James Fanciullo’s Ph.D. thesis commi ee. Degree expected: TBA. Title: TBA. Arizona State University.
) Member of James Hall’s Ph.D. dissertation commi ee. Degree expected: TBA. Ti- tle: TBA. Arizona State University.
) Member of Ryan Hanford’s M.A. thesis commi ee. Degree expected: TBA. Title: TBA. Arizona State University.
) Chair of Tina Lu’s Ph.D. dissertation commi ee. – (left the program).
) External member of Tim Houk’s Ph.D. thesis commi ee. Degree granted: August . Title: The Nature and Morality of Manipulation. University of California, Da- vis.
) Member of Alexander Zhang’s M.A. thesis commi ee. Degree granted: April . Title: Evaluating Some Arguments against Democracy. Arizona State University.
) Member of Tyler Cook’s M.A. thesis commi ee. Degree granted: Spring . Ti- tle: “Three Worries about Moderate Deontology.” Arizona State University.
) External examiner of Ma hew Hammerton’s Ph.D. thesis. Degree granted: De- cember . Title: “Agent-Relativity and the Foundations of Moral Theory.” Su- pervisor: Daniel Nolan. Australian National University.
) Member of Jaemin Jung’s Ph.D. dissertation commi ee. Degree granted: Spring . Title: “Epistemic Norms and Permissive Rationality.” Chair: Brad Armendt. Arizona State University.
) Member of Carson Calloway’s M.A. thesis commi ee. Degree granted: Spring . Title: “A Defense of Transitivity.” Chair: Brad Armendt. Arizona State Uni- versity.
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) Member of Bridger Landle’s M.A. portfolio commi ee. Degree granted: Spring . Titles: “Five Lessons in Moral Mathematics” and “Time Travel and Pre- sentism.” Chair: Elizabeth Brake. Arizona State University.
) Member of Lauren Sweetland’s M.A. thesis commi ee. Degree granted: Spring . Title: Indigenous Climate Refugees: Can Principles of Rawlsian Nonideal Theory Help? Chair: Elizabeth Brake. Arizona State University.
) Chair of Benjamin Mouritsen’s M.A. portfolio commi ee. Degree granted: Sum- mer . Titles: “Agent-Centered Consequentialism and Disaster” and “Is There a Way Out?” Arizona State University.
) Member of Danielle Fundora’s Ph.D. dissertation commi ee. Degree granted: May . Title: Exploitation in Clinical Drug Trials. Chair: Joan McGregor. Arizona State University.
) Member of Henry Murphy’s Honor’s Thesis. Honors conferred: Spring . Title: “An Exploration of Value Objectivity.” Arizona State University.
) Member of Jenni Ernst’s M.A. thesis commi ee. Degree granted: Spring . Ti- tle: The Welfare Value of Hope. Chair: Cheshire Calhoun. Arizona State Universi- ty.
) Member of Shannon Whitney’s Honors Thesis. Honors conferred: Spring . Ti- tle: On the Desirability of Significant Lifespan Expansion. Chair: Cheshire Calhoun. Arizona State University.
) Member of Andrew Khoury’s Ph.D. dissertation commi ee. Degree granted: Fall . Title: Moral Responsibility and Quality of Will. Chair: Peter French. Arizona State University.
) Director of Brian Eaton’s Honor’s Thesis. Honors conferred: Spring . Title: In Defense Rule Consequentialism. Arizona State University.
) Member of Sandra Woien’s Ph.D. dissertation commi ee. Degree granted: Spring . Title: The Concept of Well-Being and Its Role in Life-Affecting Decisions. Chair: Joan McGregor. Arizona State University.
) Member of Bach Ho’s M.A. thesis commi ee. Degree granted: Spring . Title: A Critical Examination of Ruth Chang’s Theory of Comprehensive Values. Chair: Peter de Marneffe. Arizona State University.
) Member of Ma hew Tipping’s M.A. thesis commi ee. Degree granted: spring . Title: Moral Phenomenology and Sentimentalism: Exploring Affective Models of Moral Decision Making. Chair: Peter French. Arizona State University.
Other Advising and Mentoring
) Honors Enrichment Contracts: Benjamin Shahon and Nathanael Pierce (PHI – Spring ); Nicole Boucher and Fallon Cochlin (PHI – Fall ); Errol Lord (PHI – Fall ); Macy Hanson (PHI – Fall ); William Hochella (PHI – Fall ); G. Shyam Nair (PHI – Spring ); Ryan Lind (PHI – Fall ); Ma hew Greve (PHI – Fall ); Fabian Senday (PHI – Spring
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); Evan Balbona (PHI – Spring ); Jesse Shedd (PHI – Spring ); Andrew Harrison (PHI – Spring ); Erica Murphy (PHI – Spring ); and Thomas Zimmerman (PHI – Spring ).
) Independent Study with James Fanciullo (on consequentialism and making a difference) in Fall .
) Faculty advisor to Tina Lu (Ph.D. student) from – .
) Independent Study with Steven Nemes (on the ethics of eating meat) in Fall .
) Independent Study with Travis Timmerman (on Huemer’s Ethical Intuitionism and Jamieson’s Singer and His Critics) in Spring .
) Independent Study with Robert Neal and Travis Timmerman (on Tenenbaum’s Appearances of the Good and Portmore’s Commonsense Consequentialism) in Fall .
) Faculty Teaching Advisor: Parker Crutchfield’s PHI (Spring )
) Independent Study with G. Shyam Nair (on Shafer-Landau’s Moral Realism) in Fall .
TEACHING E XPERIENCE
) – Assistant/Associate/Full Professor: Arizona State University
ª PHI / : Practical Reasons ª PHI / : Topics in Metaphysics: Control and Responsibility ª PHI / : Philosophical Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes ª PHI / : Normative Ethics: Consequentialism ª PHI / : Individual and Collective Action ª PHI / : Derek Parfit’s On What Ma ers ª PHI / : Normativity and Uncertainty ª PHI / : Death, Harm, and Well-Being ª PHI / : Consequentialism ª PHI / : Reasons and Values ª PHI / : The Limits of Morality ª PHI : Metaethics ª PHI : Ethical Theory (Normative Ethics) ª PHI : Applied Ethics ª PHI : Ethical Theory ª PHI : Introduction to Ethics ª PHI : Introduction to Philosophy
) – Assistant Professor: California State University, Northridge
ª Ethical Theory ª Advanced Ethical Theory ª Philosophical Problems ª Critical Reasoning ª Introduction to Philosophy: Society and Values ª Senior Research Seminar
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) – Visiting Assistant Professor: College of Charleston
ª Biomedical Ethics ª Business Ethics ª Environmental Ethics ª Symbolic Logic ª Critical Thinking ª History of Modern Philosophy ª Law, Morality, and Public Policy ª Introduction to Philosophy: Beliefs and Values
) – Teaching Associate: University of California, Santa Barbara (“Teaching Associate” is the academic title given to lecturers enrolled as graduate students. Teaching Associates are responsible for design- ing the course, delivering the lectures, and supervising the TAs.)
ª Introduction to Ethics ª Biomedical Ethics
) Tutor: Monash University, Australia (A Tutor is the Australian equivalent of a Teaching Assistant.)
ª Ethics in Medicine – a course for medical students ª Philosophy of Law: Crime and Punishment ª Metaphysics: Time, Freedom, and Identity ª Morality and Objectivity ª Reason and Rationality
) – Teaching Assistant: University of California, Santa Barbara
ª Ethics ª Critical Thinking ª Introduction to Ethics
REFERENCES
James Dreier Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Brown University Box Providence, Rhode Island ( ) - [email protected] h ps://vivo.brown.edu/display/jdreier
Brad Hooker Professor of Philosophy Philosophy Department University of Reading Reading RG AA United Kingdom
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- - + ( ) [email protected] h ps://www.reading.ac.uk/philosophy/about/staff/b-w-hooker.aspx
Paul Hurley Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy Philosophy Department Claremont McKenna College Columbia Avenue Claremont, CA ( ) - [email protected] h ps://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile/paul-hurley
Mark Schroeder Professor of Philosophy USC School of Philosophy Mudd Hall of Philosophy Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA - ( ) - [email protected] h ps://markschroeder.net/
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