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Curriculum Vitae Andrea C. Westlund Department of Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-1500 (850) 644-1483, [email protected]

Areas of Specialization

Ethics, Moral Psychology,

Areas of Competence

Philosophy of Action, Social and , Philosophy of Law

Education

1995-2001 Ph.D. University of Michigan (Philosophy) 1994-1995 M.A. Queen’s University (Philosophy) 1990-1994 B.A. University of Winnipeg (Honours, Philosophy and Economics)

Employment

2018-present Associate Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University

2011-2018 Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies, UW- Milwaukee; Women’s & Gender Studies Department Chair, 2013-2016

2012-2013 Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern University, Brady Program in and Civic Life

2003- 2011 Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Women’s Studies, UW-Milwaukee

2001-2003 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh

Publications

Articles & Book Chapters

“Who Do We We Are?” Forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature.

“Answerability Without Blame?” in Social Dimensions of Responsibility, ed. Katrina Hutchison, Catriona Mackenzie, and Marina Oshana. Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Relational Autonomy and Practical Authority,” in The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism, ed. Pieranna Garavaso. Bloomsbury Press, 2018.

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“Untold Sorrow,” in The Moral Psychology of Sadness, ed. Anna Gotlib. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

“Autonomy and the Autobiographical Perspective,” in Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Marina Oshana. New York: Routledge, 2015.

“Autonomy and Self-Care,” in Autonomy, Oppression, and Gender, eds. Andrea Veltman and Mark Piper. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

“Deference as a Normative Power,” . 166:3 (2013) 455-474.

“Autonomy in Relation,” in Out from the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy, eds. Anita Superson and Sharon Crasnow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

“Autonomy, Authority, and Answerability,” Jurisprudence. 2:1 (2011) 161-179.

“Anger, Faith, and Forgiveness,” The Monist 92:4 (2009) 507-536.

“Deciding Together,” ’ Imprint. 9:10 (2009) 1-17. www.philosophersimprint.org/009010/

“Rethinking Relational Autonomy,” 24:4 (2009) 26-49.

“The Reunion of Marriage,” The Monist 91:3&4 (2008) 558-577.

“Selflessness and Responsibility for Self: Is Deference Compatible With Autonomy?” Philosophical Review 112:4 (2003) 483-523.

“Pre-Modern and Modern Power: Foucault and the Case of Domestic Violence,” Signs 24: 4 (Summer 1999) 1045-1066.

Symposia and Other Short Pieces

“Victims' Stories: A Call to Care.” Symposium on Diana Meyers, Victims Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights. Metaphilosophy 49: 1-2 (January 2018) 27-39.

“Narrative Necessity and the Fixity of Meaning in a Life,” Narrative Inquiry 21:2 (December 2011) 391-398.

Reply to Commentators, Winter 2011 Symposium: Mackenzie, Poltera and Westlund on Autonomy. Symposia on Race, Gender and Philosophy. http://sgrp.typepad.com/sgrp/winter-2011-symposium-mackenzie-poltera-and- westlund-on-autonomy.html

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Book Reviews

Nussbaum, Martha. Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice. Ethics. 2017.

Crary, Alice. Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral , Harvard University Press, 2016. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. July 2016. http://ndpr.nd.edu/.

Lindemann, Hilde. Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. The ’s Magazine 70, September 2015.

Michael Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2015.

Greg Scherkoske, Integrity and the Virtues of Reason: Leading a Convincing Life. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. April 2014. http://ndpr.nd.edu/.

Peggy DesAutels & Rebecca Whisnant, eds., Global Feminist Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008; Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Clare Keller, & Lisa H. Schwartzmann, eds., Feminist Interventions In Ethics and Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005; and Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006-2007. Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources 30:4 (2009) 6-10

Kim Atkins, Narrative Identity and Moral Identity: A Practical Perspective/Kim Atkins and Catriona Mackenzie (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. April (2009) http://ndpr.nd.edu/

David Boonin, A Defense of Abortion. Journal of Moral Philosophy 1:3 (2004) 378-82

Professional Presentations

Invited Talks

“Whose Story Is It?” Workshop on Relational Autonomy in Fiction, McGill University, Montreal, October 2018.

“Normative Powers and the Economy of Authority,” Conference on Normative Powers: Moral, Political, and Legal Approaches, McGill University Montreal, May 2018.

“Education for (Relational) Autonomy,” Workshop on Autonomy and Education, LMU Munich, January 2018.

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“Victims Stories: A Call to Care.” Reply to Diana Meyers’s Victims’ Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights. Author-Meets-Critics Session, 2017 Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

“The Secret Lives of Mushrooms: Comments on Ann E. Cudd, ‘Towards a Feminist Libertarian Metaphysics: A Critique of the Self-Ownership Thesis.’” Invited Symposium, 2017 Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.

“Who Do We Think We Are?” • Philosophy Colloquium, University of Illinois-Chicago, April 2016. • Philosophy Colloquium, Marquette University, April 2016. • Conference: Humans and Selves. Scripps College Humanities Institute, April 2015. • Workshop on Autonomy in Ethical and Political Thought, Dartmouth College, November 2013.

“Autonomy and Self-Care” • Workshop on Love and Human Agency, Lake Tahoe Summer Retreat of the Love and Human Agency Project, July 2013. • Workshop on Relational Autonomy, McGill University. September 2012.

Brady Lectures, Northwestern University: “Narrative, Meaning, and the Self”, May 2013. • Lecture 1: The Autobiographical Perspective • Lecture 2: Self-Governance and Self-Care • Lecture 3: Who Do We Think We Are?

“Autonomy and Narrative Necessity” • Philosophy Colloquium, University of Vermont, March 2013. • Workshop on Autonomy and Social Transformation, UC-Davis. March 2012.

“Deference as a Normative Power”, Loyola University, November 2011.

“The Morality of Forgiveness”, Coe College, October 2010.

“Autonomy in Relation” • Philosophy Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2010. • Philosophy Colloquium, University of Washington, February 2010. • Philosophy Colloquium, Marquette University, April 2009.

“Anger, Faith, and Forgiveness,” Joint Colloquium Series (NIH, Georgetown University, George Washington University, University of Maryland Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy), March 3, 2009.

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“Rethinking Relational Autonomy” • Cornell University Workshop in Ethics and Political Theory, November 2007 • Northwestern University Colloquium, October 2007.

“Love and Shared Identity”, Keynote Address, Texas Tech Graduate Conference on Love, April 2007.

“Joint Deliberation and the Sharing of Reasons”, Stanford University, Social Ethics and Normative Theory Workshop, February 2006.

“Authority and Deference in Joint Deliberation”, Conference on Moral Psychology, Franklin and Marshall College, April 2003.

“Love and the Sharing of Ends” • Cornell University Colloquium, November 2002. • University of California San Diego, January 2003.

“Fusion and Reciprocity in Love,” Amherst College, May 2002.

“Care and Autonomy in Personal Relationships,” Washington & Jefferson College, March 2002.

Refereed Talks

“Answerability Without Blame?” Northwestern University Society for Ethics and Political Thought”, April 2017.

“Relational Autonomy and Practical Authority” • Annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, July 2017. • Society for Analytical Feminism Conference, University of Massachusetts- Lowell, September 2016.

“Holding Answerable Without Blame” • Annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Ottawa, Canada, July 2016.

“Rethinking Relational Autonomy” • Annual meeting of the Society for Analytic Feminism, April 2008. • Annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2007.

“Anger, Faith, and Forgiveness” • Society for Ethics and Political Philosophy, Northwestern University, May 2008. • Annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2006.

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“Joint Deliberation and the Sharing of Reasons”, Special Conference on Values: “Values, Rational Choice, and the Will”, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, April 2004.

“Selflessness and Responsibility for Self: Is Deference Compatible With Agency?” • Annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April 2001 • Annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, May 2000.

“Pre-Modern and Modern Power: Foucault and the Case of Domestic Violence” • Canadian Society for , Annual Conference, September 1997. • Annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, June 1997.

“Feminism and Pragmatism: The Uneasy Alliance”, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Annual Conference, October 1996.

Comments

Comments on Sharon Street, “Agency and Vulnerability”. Keynote address at the Northwestern University Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics, 12th Annual Conference, March 2018.

Comments on Steven Weimer, “Autonomy and Regress” Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, October 2014.

Comments on Dan McAdams, “Caring Lives, Redemptive Stories”. Workshop on Love and Human Agency, Franklin and Marshall College, September 2014.

Comments on Sarah Buss, “Personal Ideals, Rational Agency, and Moral Requirements”. Keynote address at the Northwestern University Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics, 7th Annual Conference, May 2013.

Comments on Harry Frankfurt, “Volitional Rationality and the Necessities of Love”. Keynote address at the Northwestern University Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics, 6th Annual Conference, May 2012.

Comments on Elizabeth Camp, “Selves Without Narrative”. Second Annual Yale-Penn Works-in-Progress Workshop: Narrative and the Construction of the Self. University of Pennsylvania, March 2008.

Comments on Macalester Bell, “Reconsidering Repentence as a Reason to Forgive,” Annual Meeting of the APA, Central Division, April 2005.

6 Comments on Ann Cudd, “The Paradox of Liberal Feminism: Preference, Rationality, and Oppression.” University of Michigan Spring Philosophy Colloquium, April 2000.

Comments on Helen Longino “Gender, Politics and the Theoretical Virtues”. Philosophy Colloquium at Queen’s University, fall 1995.

Academic Fellowships and Awards

2016 UWM Nomination for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Program.

2011 Graduate School Research Award (UW-Milwaukee)

2008 UW-System Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities (University of Wisconsin- Madison). Deferred to the 2009-2010 academic year.

2006 Graduate School Research Committee Award (UW-Milwaukee)

2004 Center for 21st Century Studies Fellowship (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

2002 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Type I Faculty Research Grant (University of Pittsburgh)

2000 Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (nation-wide competition)

1999 Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (University of Michigan)

1998 Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship (Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan)

1998 Mellon Candidacy Fellowship (University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy)

1997 Weinberg Fellowship in Philosophy (University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy)

1995 Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (tenable at the University of Michigan for four years, Canada-wide competition)

Teaching Experience

Philosophy MA Thesis Advisees: • Erin Valicelli (2004) “A Look at the Conception of Care in Three Ethical Theories”

7 • Ashley Falzetti (2006) “Performativity and Social Kinds: Race, Gender, and the Pursuit of Justice” • Matthew Mitterko (2006) “Can Accounts of Naturalistic Virtue Ethics Survive?” • Saswata De (2006) “Justifying Morality: An Essay on the Rationality of Moral Actions” • Matthew Pei (2008) “Self-Deception & Culpable Ignorance” • Andres Gelabert, (2010) “Intimates, self-trust and self-awareness in autonomous decision making” • Dan Rosenberg (2010) “The role of emotions in akrasia” • Yvonne Tam (2011) “Justice for the Cognitively Disabled: Obligations to Those at the Margins of Our Moral Community • Evan Spencer (2015), “Trans: It’s More Than a Feeling” • Dana Grabelsky (2016), “Locutionary Disablement and Epistemic Injustice” (co- directed with Edward Hinchman). • Joshua Brown (2017), “Why Should We Care About the Natural Environment?” • Christiana Eltiste (2018), “A Distinction Between Expectations and Demands” • Andrew Lichter (2018), “Blame, Harm, and Respect”

Philosophy MA Exam Advisees: • Heather Phillips, Kantian Ethics (co-advised, 2006) • Paul Adamski, Philosophy of Law (May 2015) • Chelsea Wegrzyniak, Feminist Ethics (2016)

Philosophy MA thesis Committee membership: • Matt Hanna (2004) “An of Kant's Treatment of Suicide” • Vincent Balthazar (2004) “Objecting to Objectifying Desires: An Objection to the Kantian Model of Deliberation” • Jon Matheson (2005) “Belief and Responsibility” • Bryan Weaver (2005) “Reconciliation & Quasi-Realist Moral Truth & Objectivity” • Scott Mueller (2006) “The Demands of Incompatibilism Upon Libertarian Theories of Free Will” • Nataliya Palatnik (2006) “The Ideas of the Kingdom of Ends and the Highest Good in Kant's Moral Theory” • Courtney Morris (2007) “Kant's Idea of Pure Morality and Hegel's Critique” • John Timmers (2008) “Boundaries of the Self: A Critical Discussion of Harry Frankfurt's Conception of Identification” • Jeremy Fix (2008) “Shame and the Self” • RJ Leland (2008) “The Development of Kant's Conception of Respect for the Moral Law” • Chad Van Schoelandt (2009) “Free Citizens and the Coercive Account of the Site of Justice” • Jem Hilton (2009) “Moore, Dewey, and the Reclamation of Ethics”

8 • Yirong Wang (2010) “Moral incentive and respect in Kant's ethics” • Meredith MacFadden (2010) “Making sense of intelligibility: a discussion of Velleman's constitutive aim of action” • Gregory Sutliff (2011) “A Defense of Rawls's Account of Toleration in The Law of Peoples” • Stephen McGuinness (2011), “The Case for Government Anti-Obesity Legislation” • Matthew Dworkin (2011), “The Problem From Memory and Moral Responsibility” • Christopher Mesaros (2012), “Who’s Counting? Cognitive Disability and Rawlsian Contractualism” • Constance Sutter (2014), “Solving the problem of resultant luck: Extrapolating from Hegel” • Henry Argetsinger (2015), “Constitutive Inescapability and the Search for Normative Authority” • Nihar Nilekani (2015), “The Function of Blame” • Sara Pope (2016), “Nietzsche’s Feminist Signpost” • Waylon Smith (2016), “Nietzsche’s Autonomy, Responsibility, and Will Unification” • Joshua Waugh, (2017), “Routine Maintenance: A Diachronic Paradigm for the Intentional Control of Every-Day Routines”

Women’s and Gender Studies MA Thesis Committee Advisees: • Jill Hoffman (2018), “The Freak, The Ugly, and the Invisible: Strategies of Disabled Performance in a Variety of Disabled Bodies” • Candice Williams (2017), “Shame and Black American Women: Rethinking Experience and Strategies for Negotiating and Resisting Shame” • Cordelia Eddy (2015), “Some Refractions on Separatism and Power: A Queer Critique of Deep Green Resistance” • Megan Metcalf (2015), “Deconstructing the Librari(an): Epistemic Inequality and Ethical Librarianship”

Other MA and PhD Committee Membership: • Heather Roff (Poli Sci MA thesis on virtue ethics in political theory, 2005) • Kate Scheurer (Poli Sci PhD dissertation on the “voice of care” in writings of female Supreme Court Justices, 2007) • Linda Baker (Nursing PhD dissertation, 2010) “Advocating for Women During Labor and Birth” • Monica Rausch (English, Creative Writing PhD novel, 2008) “Oak Lane” • Lara Stache (Communications PhD dissertation, 2013) “The Rhetorical Construction of Female Empowerment: The Avenging-Woman Narrative in Popular Television and Film” • ErinMarie Nebel (Sociology PhD dissertation, 2013) “The Communicative Body: An Examination of Body Consciousness Among the Deaf”

9 • Anna Hoffman (2014), PhD Dissertation in Information Studies. “Google Books as Infrastructure Of In/Justice: Towards A Sociotechnical Account Of Rawlsian Justice, Information, and Technology” • Dawn Nawrot (2016), PhD in English. “The Female Accomplice: Rape, Liberalism, and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel” • Jessica Coburn (ongoing), PhD Candidate in Nursing. “Homebirth” • Jeri Antilla (ongoing), PhD prelim exams in Nursing • Veronica Toth (ongoing), MA English • Anne-Marie Blanchard (ongoing), PhD candidate in English/Creative Writing

Courses Taught at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Philosophical Aspects of Feminism (Philos 235); Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy (Philos 242); Modern Ethical Theories (Philos 341); Ethics and Public Policy (Philos 332); Philosophy of Law (Philos 384); Philosophical Topics in Feminist Theory, under four different subtitles (Philos 535); Philosophy of Autobiography (Philos 562); Seminar on Moral Psychology of the Emotions (Philos 681); Senior Capstone Seminar, subtitled The Concept of Authority (Philos 685); Seminar on Virtue Ethics (Philos 941); Seminar on Autonomy (Philos 941); Seminar on Normative Powers (Philos 941); Seminar on Blame and Responsibility (Philos 941); Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS 201); Feminist Theory (WGS 410); Philosophical Topics in Feminist Theory (WGS 535, jointly offered with Philos 535); Feminist Issues and Scholarship (WGS 700); Advanced Feminist Theory (WGS 710); Advanced Independent Studies in Philosophy (Philos 999, Feminism and Multiculturalism; Philos 999, Gender and Social Construction; Philos 999, Philosophy of Law); Advanced Independent Study in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS 999, Feminism and Bio-Medical Ethics).

Courses Taught at Northwestern University The Good Society: Ethics and Public Policy (Phil 273-3)

Courses Taught at University of Pittsburgh Concepts of Human Nature (introductory); Social Philosophy (introductory); Feminist Philosophy (upper division); Topics in Political Philosophy (upper division); Philosophy of Friendship and Love (upper division); Topics in Moral Psychology (graduate seminar); Ethics (core seminar for graduate students)

Courses Taught at University of Michigan Instructor: Philosophy and Gender (upper division) Teaching Assistant: Political Philosophy (Peter Railton); Contemporary Moral Problems (Peter Railton); Law and Philosophy (Elizabeth Anderson); Great Books in Philosophy (Nadeem Hussain); Philosophy of Law (Vince Wellman)

Referee Experience

Journals Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Episteme, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Ethics, Hypatia, Journal of Global Ethics, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of the American

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Conferences Central Division APA (2015, 2011), Central States Philosophical Association (2014), Society for Analytical Feminism (2012), Canadian Philosophical Association (2010), Western Canadian Philosophical Association (2008), Central States Philosophical Association (2006)

Professional Service

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Philosophy Undergraduate Advisor; 2016-2018 Awards Committee; 2014-2016 Library Liaison; 2013-2018 Recruitment Committee; 2011-2012 TA Coordinator, Fall 2011 Graduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy; Spring 2011 Graduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy; Spring 2010 Personnel Action Committee, Department of Philosophy; 2008-2009 Recruitment Committee, Department of Philosophy; 2007-2008 Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Philosophy; 2006-2007 Undergraduate Review Program Committee, Department of Philosophy; Spring 2006 Curriculum Committee, Department of Philosophy; Spring 2006 Awards Committee, Department of Philosophy; 2005-2006

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Women’s and Gender Studies Department Chair, 2013-2016 Program Committee, 2010-2018 Curriculum Committee, Center for Women’s Studies, 2006-07; 2007-08 (Chair); 2008-09 Recruitment Committee, Center for Women’s Studies; Fall 2006 Research Programming Committee, Center for Women’s Studies, 2005-2006 Women’s Studies Advisory Council (formerly Steering Council), 2004-2016

University of Wisconsin System Member of Advisory Panel to the UW System Women’s Studies Librarian, 2004-2013 Attended UW-System Women’s Studies Consortium Spring Retreat, 2004, 2014, 2015 Representative to UW-System Women’s Studies Consortium Fall Meeting, 2013

University of Pittsburgh Graduate Admissions Committee, University of Pittsburgh, 2002 and 2003. Graduate Studies Committee, University of Pittsburgh, 2003. Tamara Horowitz Graduate Paper Prize Committee, University of Pittsburgh, 2002 Undergraduate Philosophy Club Advisor, University of Pittsburgh, 2001 – 2003

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Service to the Profession Editorial Board, Journal of the Philosophy of Emotion Central Division Representative to the Board of Officers, American Philosophical Association, 2015-2018 Member of the Executive Committee, Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2015-2018 Program Committee Member, Central Division 2016 and 2012 Meetings of the American Philosophical Society (2014-2015; 2011-2012) Executive Committee Member, Society for Analytical Feminism (2012 - 2014)

Workshops, Conferences, Working Groups Member, Milwaukee-Area Women in Philosophy (2010-2018) Co-organizer, Milwaukee-Area Women in Philosophy (2010-2014) Co-organizer, CIPD Learning Community on Ethics in the Professions (2009-2010) Participant, CIE-sponsored Working Group on Ethics (2009-2010) Co-organizer, In/Dependence; UWM Center for 21st Century Studies Symposium (2006) Co-Coordinator, Feminist Theory Workshop; UWM Center for 21st Century Studies (2005-06)

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