Michael Rabenberg [email protected] • 314-775-7759 michaelrabenberg.princeton.edu

Employment Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in , University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2018–present

Area of Specialization (including , Bioethics, and Metaethics)

Areas of Competence Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion,

Education Ph.D., , Philosophy, 2011–2018 Dissertation: Matters of Life and Death Committee: Frances Kamm (primary advisor), Selim Berker, Thomas Scanlon A.B. magna cum laude, Kenyon College, Philosophy and English, 2006–2010

Publications “Lucretian Puzzles,” forthcoming in Ergo. “Death, Creation, and Future Bias,” forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly. “Prenatal Injury and the Non-Identity Problem,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 51 (2021), 123–142. “Harm,” Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 8 (2015), 1–32.

Papers under Review “Death, Deprivation, and the Problem of the Young and the Old” (revise-and-resubmit) “Imprecision in the Ethics of Rescue” (revise-and-resubmit)

Papers in Progress “On Believing the Premises of a Spectrum Argument” “Death and Intrinsic Personal Badness” “Against Deprivationism” “No Outcome Is Good or Bad for Anyone” “Two Doxai of Epicureanism”

Presentations “Imprecision in the Ethics of Rescue,” Center for Bioethics, , March 2021 (online, invited) “Lucretius’ Puzzle,” Moral Philosophy Seminar, Oxford University, March 2021 (online, invited) “Death, Creation, and Future Bias,” Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, February 2021 (online) “On Believing the Premises of a Spectrum Argument,” Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, January 2021 (online)

1 “Consequentialism and Numbers,” Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2020 (online) “Imprecision in the Ethics of Rescue,” Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, November 2019 (invited) “Numbers, Ratios, and Parity,” Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Afairs, University of Warwick, October 2019 (invited) “Prenatal Injury and the Non-Identity Problem,” International Conference on Ethics, University of Porto, June 2019 “Against Deprivationism,” Topic in Moral Philosophy: Death, Dying, and Public Policy (course taught by Frances Kamm), Rutgers University, September 2018 (invited) “Wronging in Procreating,” Uehiro Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Hawaii, March 2018 “Avoiding and Lamenting Death,” University of Notre Dame, February 2018 (invited) “Wishing and Hoping and Living and Dying,” Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, MD, January 2017 “Wishing and Hoping and Living and Dying,” Conference of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying, Syracuse University, May 2016 “Wishing and Hoping and Living and Dying,” Philosophy Colloquium Series, Kenyon College, March 2015 (invited) “Against Superstitious Process Worship,” Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks, University of Texas at Austin, October 2013

Honors and Fellowships Emily and Charles Carrier Prize (for outstanding dissertation in social, political, or moral philosophy), Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, June 2018 Philosophy Department Fellowship (semester-long research fellowship), Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, Fall 2017 Graduate Student Fellowship (year-long research fellowship), Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, Fall 2016–Spring 2017 Certifcate of Excellence and Distinction in Teaching (for an average overall quantitative student evaluation of at least 4.5 out of 5 in Bioethics Seminar), Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, Fall 2014 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Harvard University, Fall 2011–Spring 2013 Phi Beta Kappa, Kenyon College, May 2010 Virgil C. Aldrich Prize in Philosophy, Kenyon College, April 2010

Teaching At Princeton University Instructor, Values and Public Life Senior Thesis Workshop, Fall 2020–Spring 2021 Instructor, Death, Spring 2020 Instructor, Death, Spring 2019

At Harvard University Instructor, Tutorial I: Death, Spring 2018 Teaching Fellow, The Responsibilities of Public Action, Frances Kamm, Spring 2015 Teaching Fellow, Bioethics Seminar, Frances Kamm, Fall 2014 Teaching Fellow, Saints, Heretics, and Atheists, Jefrey McDonough, Spring 2014 Teaching Fellow, Moral Reasoning about Social Protest, Susanna Siegel, Fall 2013

2 Other Experience Guest Lecturer, Pre-College Program, Harvard University, Summer 2020 Departmental Writing Fellow, Department of Philosophy (writing tutor for undergraduates taking philosophy courses), Harvard University, Fall 2015–Spring 2016 Research Assistant for Professor Gerard Vong (while he was a Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University), Fall 2015–Spring 2016

Academic Service Co-organizer (with Johann Frick, Elizabeth Harman, and Peter Singer), Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Fall 2018–Spring 2021 Referee, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Noûs, Philosophia, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Utilitas

Reading Languages Latin (good), Greek (fair), German (fair)

References Frances Kamm (research and teaching Susanna Siegel (teaching reference) reference) Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Distinguished Professor Department of Philosophy Henry Rutgers University Professor of Harvard University Philosophy [email protected] Department of Philosophy Rutgers University Peter Singer [email protected] Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics University Center for Human Values Selim Berker Princeton University Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral [email protected] Philosophy, and Civil Polity Department of Philosophy Gerard Vong Harvard University Assistant Professor [email protected] Director Master of Arts in Bioethics Program Thomas Scanlon Center for Ethics Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Emory University Philosophy, and Civil Polity Emeritus [email protected] Department of Philosophy Harvard University [email protected]

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