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Rafeeq Hasan RAFEEQ HASAN Department of Philosophy [email protected] Amherst College https://rhasan.wordpress.amherst.edu/ 209 Cooper House amherst.academia.edu/RafeeqHasan 86 College Street Office: (413) 542-5807 Amherst, MA 01002 EMPLOYMENT 2015 - PRESENT Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Amherst College 2012 - 2015 Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Society of Fellows (teaching post-doc) 2006 - 2012 Graduate Student Instructor, University of Chicago VISITING POSITIONS 2018 - 2019 Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Yale University Summer 2018 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Center for Analytic German Idealism, University of Leipzig AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Political Philosophy (Historical and Contemporary) AREAS OF COMPETENCE Moral Philosophy, 19th Century European Philosophy EDUCATION 2012 University of Chicago, Ph.D., Philosophy Dissertation: Obligation and Happiness in Rousseau Committee: Robert Pippin (Chair), Daniel Brudney, Martha Nussbaum 2002 Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Coursework, Humanities Center 2001 University of Chicago, B.A., Philosophy (honors) PUBLICATIONS (PEER-REVIEWED) 1. “What is Provisional Right?,” The Philosophical Review (forthcoming) (co-authored with Martin Stone). 2. “Republicanism and Structural Domination,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2021) (online first). 3. “Freedom and Poverty in the Kantian State,” European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26 (2018): 911-931. 4. “The Provisionality of Property Rights in Kant’s Doctrine of Right,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 48 (2018): 850-876. 5. “Rousseau on the Ground of Obligation: Reconsidering the Social Autonomy Interpretation,” European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 17 (2018): 233-243. 6. “Autonomy and Happiness in Rousseau’s Justification of the State,” Review of Politics, vol. 78 (2016): 391-417. 7. “Rawls on Meaningful Work and Freedom,” Social Theory and Practice, vol. 41 (2015): 477-504. INVITED REVIEWS David James, Rousseau and German Idealism: Freedom, Dependence, Necessity, European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24 (2016): 284-289. 1 Rafeeq Hasan Frederick Neuhouser, Rousseau’s Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse, European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26 (2018): 889-892. WORKS IN PROGRESS × “Is Gentrification Wrong?” × “Poverty and Structural Injustice in Kant’s Theory of Right” × “The Boundaries of the Body” × “Kant on Right” (commissioned for the Oxford Handbook of Kant) × “Property in Rousseau’s Social Contract” (commissioned for the Cambridge Companion to Rousseau’s ‘Social Contract’’) × The Kantian Republic: Equal Freedom and Economic Justice (book manuscript) INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ‘ à ’ = BY INVITATION “A Flaw in the System: Kant’s Remarks on Poverty” × à New York German Idealism Workshop, Columbia University/New School for Social Research, April 2021 (Zoom) “The Indeterminacy of Bodily Rights: A Kantian Approach” × à American Philosophical Association (Eastern), January 2021 (North American Kant Society colloquium) (Zoom) “Need and Necessity in Kant’s Doctrine of Right” × à Kant’s Doctrine of Right, University of Chicago, March 2022 × American Philosophical Association (Eastern), symposium paper, January 2020 × à Boston Area Kant Colloquium, Harvard University, December 2019 × à Kant on Poverty, Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), February 2019 “‘Who Should Give Way When Bodies Collide?’: Kant on Bodily Right” × American Philosophical Association (Central), February 2020 × North American Kant Society, Brandeis University, May 2019 × à Practical Philosophy between Kant and Hegel, Xavier University, Cincinnati, August 2018 “Freedom, Property, and the State: A Neglected Alternative” × à Amherst College Alumni Event, Chicago Racquet Club, June 2018 × à Amherst College Reunion, May 2018 “Kant on Provisional Right” (with Martin Stone) × à Kant’s Doctrine of Right, University of Chicago, March 2022 × à Philosophy of Right: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, University of Leipzig, keynote, July 2018 × à German Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, June 2018 × North American Kant Society Biennial Conference, Simon Fraser University, May 2018 × à Humanity, Morality, and Legality in Kant, Purdue University, February 2018 “What’s Wrong with Gentrification?” × à A Night of Philosophy at the New School, October 2019 × à Davidson College, Department of Philosophy, April 2019 × Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics, Northwestern University, March 2018 × à Faculty Workshop Series, Amherst College, September 2017 × à American Philosophical Association (Central), invited program, March 2017 “Freedom and Structural Domination: Two Views” (various titles) × à Moral and Political Thought Working Group, Yale University, February 2019 × à Bowdoin College, Department of Philosophy, November 2018 2 Rafeeq Hasan × à Bates College, Department of Philosophy, November 2018 × à Political and Moral Thought Seminar Series, Johns Hopkins University, November 2017 × à Political Theory Workshop, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 2017 × à Workshop on Mind, Metaphysics, and Ethics, College of the Holy Cross, November 2016 × Association for Political Theory, Ohio State University, October 2016 × American Philosophical Association (Central), symposium paper, March 2016 × Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics, Northwestern University, May 2015 × à Department of Philosophy, Amherst College, February 2015 × à Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2015 “Freedom and Poverty in the Kantian State” × à History of Philosophy Roundtable, University of California, San Diego, February 2016 × North American Kant Society, University of Georgia, Athens, February 2016 × à New York German Idealism Workshop, Columbia University, January 2016 “Autonomy and Practical Reason: Rousseau Contra Kant” × International Kant Congress, University of Vienna, September 2015 “Non-Domination and the Metaphysics of Freedom: Kant on Poverty" × à German Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, June 2014 × Association for Political Theory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2014 “Two Forms of Autonomy: Rousseau and Kant” × American Philosophical Association (Pacific), April 2014 “Freedom, Solidarity, and Meaningful Work: Rawls and Hegel” × Association for Political Theory, Vanderbilt University, October 2013 × à Department of Philosophy, Bard College, February 2013 × à Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Rawls and Kant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, November 2012 “Politics, Property, and Personhood: Kant’s Rousseauian Return” × European Consortium for Political Research, Sciences Po Bordeaux, September 2013 × à Kant’s Doctrine of Right, University of Leipzig, July 2013 × American Philosophical Association (Pacific), March 2013 × à Practical Philosophy Workshop, Northwestern University, December 2012 × à New York German Idealism Workshop, New School for Social Research, November 2012 × North American Kant Society, Princeton University, April 2012 CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP COMMENTS Paul Schofield, On the Very Idea of Duty to Self (book manuscript workshop) Bates College, November 2019 Rahel Jaeggi, “Pathologies of Work” Justice at Work, University of Chicago, October 2016 Panel on “Freedom and Liberation” Association for Political Theory, Ohio State University, February 2016 Frederick Neuhouser and Joshua Cohen (Author Meets Critics session on Rousseau) American Philosophical Association (Pacific), April 2011 AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2017, 2019 Faculty Research Award Program, Amherst College ($6,000 for German language study in Germany; 3 Rafeeq Hasan Yale sabbatical) 2018 Humboldt Research Fellowship, University of Leipzig (3150€; July) 2008 - 2009 Franke Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Year Fellowship Awarded to four Ph.D. students in the Division of the Humanities 2006 Stuart Tave Teaching Fellowship Awarded to four Ph.D. students in a division-wide competition based on syllabus design; won for course Foundations of Feminist Critique 2002 - 2007 University of Chicago Century Fellowship 2001 Johns Hopkins University Graduate Fellowship 2001 University of Chicago Departmental Honors (highest honors) 2001 Ruth Murray Essay Prize, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago TEACHING/ADVISING EXPERIENCE AMHERST COLLEGE: COURSES PHIL-111 Philosophical Questions Fall 2015; Fall 2016; Fall 2018; Fall 2019; Fall 2020 PHIL-226 Justice, Freedom, and the State Fall 2015; Spring 2018; Fall 2019; Spring 2021 PHIL-310 Ethics Spring 2016, with Nishi Shah; Spring 2017; Spring 2020 PHIL-359 Kant and the 19th Century Spring 2021 PHIL-361 Continental Philosophy and the Critique of Autonomy Spring 2016 PHIL-362 Crises of the Individual: Marx & Freud Spring 2017 PHIL-363 Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality Fall 2017 PHIL-411 Racial Justice and Injustice (with Nishi Shah) Spring 2018 PHIL-470 Equality/Inequality Fall 2016 PHIL-490 Special Topics: African-American Political Philosophy (Tommie Shelby’s Dark Ghettos) Spring 2017 AMHERST COLLEGE: THESIS ADVISING 2020 - 2021 Lucien Perrault, on Rousseau’s General Will 2019 - 2020 Megan Yang, Broadening the Scope of the Affirmative Action Debate 2017 - 2018 Humberto Martinez, What’s Wrong with Revolution? Kant on Revolution and the Obligations of Citizenship 2016 - 2017 Sara Schulwolf, Sex, Self, and Society: Investigating the Morality of Sexual Self- Objectification (co-advised with Jyl Gentzler) Aaron Cooper-Lob, Instrumental Reason and its Inability to Judge the Objective Good (on Theodor
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