CURRICULUM VITAE STANLEY BATES OFFICE: Department of Philosophy Warner Hall 402 Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-5283 fax (802) 443-2077 e-mail [email protected] EDUCATION B.A. Dartmouth College, (Alfred P. Sloan National Scholarship; Rufus Choate Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa--Junior Year; graduated Summa Cum Laude with Highest Distinction in Philosophy) B.A., M.A., Oxford University, (Marshall Scholarship; Magdalen College Honors Prize; Weldon-Burckhardt Prize in Philosophy; Received First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Ph.D. Harvard University (Jacobson Fellowship) Thesis: Internalism and Externalism: The Status of Motivation in Moral Theory TEACHING EMPLOYMENT 1964-66 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University 1966-71 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Chicago 1971-74 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College 1974-80 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College 1980- Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College 1996- Walter Cerf Distinguished College Professor, Middlebury College 2002 Visiting Research Fellow, Harris-Manchester College, Oxford University 2008 Professor Emeritus of Philosophy I have also taught as a visiting faculty member at the University of Illinois (Chicago) and at Balliol College, Oxford University and in the spring of 2010 I shall be a visiting professor at the University of Redlands. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE I have served at Middlebury College as Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Dean of Arts and Humanities, and (from 1978 to 1994) as Administrative Director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. In addition to other committee work, I have served for two three-year terms on the Committee on Reappointment (an elected three person faculty committee which recommends on all faculty reappointment and promotion decisions to the President of the College.) I have served for three terms on the Faculty Council, an elected committee that deals with faculty governance. I have also served as Chair of the Humanities Division and a member of the Teaching Resources Committee and on three other elected committees: the Appeals Council (which hears all appeals of reappointment and tenure decisions,) the Committee on Senior Faculty Reviews, and as one of the five elected members of the Educational Affairs Committee which recommends to the faculty on all issues of educational policy, and to the President on all matters relating to faculty positions. I also served as a Human Relations Adviser, an Ombudsperson, and on the Advisory Council of the Russian School. ORGANIZATIONS Woodrow Wilson Honorary Fellow, 1961 American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) 1968 Local Arrangements Committee, (Western Division) 1979 Program Committee, (Eastern Division) 1989-92 Sub-Committee on Academic Careers 1999-02 Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, (Aesthetics) American Society for Aesthetics 1998 Program Committee 1999 Chair, Program Committee International Association for Philosophy and Literature Society for Philosophy and Psychology A.A.U.P (I have served as the president of the Middlebury College Chapter) Phi Beta Kappa (I have served in the past as vice-president of the Middlebury College Chapter, and as Chair of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize Committee) 2004-2006 Vice-President Salzburg Seminar, Fellow for Seminar on “International Law and Human Rights,” Salzburg, Austria, 1998 JOURNALS AND EDITORIAL WORK 1968-71 The Philosophical Quarterly, (Scotland), Assistant Treasurer Referee for: Ethics, The Philosophical Quarterly, Zygon, Philosophy of Science, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Mosaic Editorial Referee: Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, University of California Press, William Morrow & Co., University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Bucknell University Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge Univ. Press, Palgrove Press, Oxford Univ. Press, Continuum Books Consulting Editor, New England Review Editorial Board, University Press of New England, 1992-2003 OTHER PROFESSIONAL WORK New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Evaluator Bowdoin Reaccreditation Team, 1996 Mount Holyoke College Reaccreditation Team, 1997 College of the Holy Cross, Reaccreditation Team, 2000 Visiting Committee for Philosophy Department, Plymouth State College Outside evaluator for tenure reviews: Bucknell University, University of Illinois, Mt. Holyoke College, Colorado College, University of New Mexico Selection Panel, NEH Summer Fellowships, Philosophy 1978 Board Member, Vermont Council on the Humanities, 1996-2002 Fiscal Committee, 1996-2002 Chair, Fiscal Committee, 1999-2001 Executive Committee, 1998-2002 Nominating Committee, 1998-2002 State Secretary for the Vermont Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, 1998-2002 Panelist for the “Ask Philosophers” Web Site, 2007- PAPERS AND LECTURES (Selected) 1966 "A Fallacy in G.E. Moore," University of Illinois 1967 "On the Revelations of Atheists," American Philosophical Association, Western Division Meeting. 1969 "Hume's Theory of the Self," Public Lecture at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan 1970 "Law and Obligation," Illinois Philosophy Conference, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois 1971 "Linguistics and Philosophy," with Ted Cohen, Northwestern University Philosophy Colloquium 1973 "Rawls on Motivation," Public Lecture at Tufts University 1976 "Due Process: The Philosophical Basis," Vermont A.C.L.U. Conference, Montpelier, Vermont "Enlightenment in Philosophy," Lecture at Middlebury College Conference on Enlightenment "Victimless Crimes," Vermont A.C.L.U. 1977 "Juvenile Justice," Church Street Center, Burlington Vermont "Selective Conscientious Objection," The University of Chicago Philosophy Colloquium "Justice versus Liberty," Northern New England Philosophical Association, University of Vermont "It's Been a Pleasure," Aesthetics Symposium, American Philosophical Association, (Eastern Div., Washington, D.C.) 1980 "Morality and Literature," Fifteen Fridays Lecture, Middlebury College 1982 "The Ends of Art and the End of 'Art'," College Art Association Meeting, New York City "Kant and Robinson on Objectivity," American Philosophical Association, (Central Div.--Columbus, Ohio) 1983 "Morality in Art and Sport," The American Society for Aesthetics, Pennsylvania State University Chair, Colloquium on "Epistemology." American Philosophical Association, (Eastern Div.--Boston) 1986 "The Interpretation of Wittgenstein," Abernathy Series Lecture, Middlebury College 1988 "The Lined Horizon: The Sublime as Figure," at the conference Romantic Revolutions at Indiana University, 1989 "Artist-Work-Audience," Commentator, The American Society for Aesthetics, New York City 1991 "Wittgenstein on Ethics and Aesthetics," The American Society for Aesthetics, Portland, Oregon 1992 "Symposium on the work of Stanley Cavell," Participant, The American Society for Aesthetics, Philadelphia 1996 Chair, Colloquium "Acknowledging Psychoanalytic Knowledge: Using Cavell on Freud and Shakespeare," The American Society for Aesthetics, Montreal "Art and the Self," Inaugural Lecture as the Walter Cerf Distinguished College Professor, Middlebury College 1997 "Beyond Beauty: The Role of Ugliness in Aesthetics," Commentator, American Philosophical Association, (Pacific Division, Berkeley, CA) "The Ends of Art and the End of 'Art'," American Society for Aesthetics, (Pacific Division, Asilomar, CA) "Stanley Cavell and the Concept of Genre," American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe, NM 1998 “Cavell and Hollywood” Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Colloquium, December 5 1999 American Philosophical Association, (Pacific Division, Berkeley, CA) Commentator, “Slavish Evaluation in Nietzsche‟s On the Genealogy of Morals” American Society for Aesthetics, (Pacific Division, Asilomar, CA) Chair, Session on “Literature and Ontology.” 2000 “Stanley Cavell, Moral Perfectionism and the Movies” Abernathy Series Lecture, Middlebury College 2002 Chair, Colloquium “Tragedy,” The American Society for Aesthetics, Miami 2007”On Noel Carroll‟s Comedy Incarnate,” The American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, Asilomar, CA 2007”The Ethical Criticism of Art,” Commentator, American Society for Aesthetics, Los Angeles, CA. 2008”Thoreau and Perfectionism,” American Society for Aesthetics, Northampton, MA 2009 “Nietzsche‟s Birth of Tragedy”, Lecture, University of Redlands, CA “Romantic Criticism: The Refusal of Disenchantment,” The American Society for Aesthetics, Denver PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES "The Responsibility of 'Random Collections'," Ethics, July, 197l. Reprinted in Larry May and Stacey Hoffman (Eds.,) Collective Responsibility, (Rowman and Littlefield, 1991) "More on What We Say," Metaphilosophy, (with Ted Cohen) January, 1972 "Authority and Autonomy," Journal of Philosophy, April, 1972 "My Lai and Vietnam: The Issues of Responsibility," in Individual and Collective Responsibility, Peter A. French (Ed.), (Schenkman Pub. 1972) "Laws, Habits of Obedience, and Obligation," The Philosophical Quarterly, January, 1973 "G.E. Moore and Intrinsic Value," The Personalist, Spring, 1973 "The Motivation to be Just," Ethics, October, 1974 Reprinted in Henry Richardson and Paul Weithman (Eds.,) The Philosophy of Rawls, (Garland Publishing Inc.) 1999. "Tolstoy's Theory of Art," in Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology, edited by George Dickie and Richard Sclafani, (St. Martin's Press, 1977) Republished in Second Edition. "Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason:: A Critical Discussion,"