NIR BEN-MOSHE Department of Philosophy Email: [email protected] University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Phone: (773) 747-9529 200 Gregory Hall, MC-468 Website: nbenmoshe.wordpress.com 810 South Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015-present) Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2015-present o Assistant Professor (0% appointment), Carle Illinois College of Medicine, 2020-present o Affiliate Faculty, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, 2020-present o Affiliate Faculty, Illinois Program in Law and Philosophy, College of Law, 2019-present EDUCATION University of Chicago (2008-2015) Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2015 o Dissertation: Idealization and the Moral Point of View: An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons o Committee: Daniel Brudney, Samuel Fleischacker, Brian Leiter (co-chair), Martha Nussbaum (co-chair) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2001-2008) M.A. magna cum laude in Clinical Psychology, 2010 M.A. magna cum laude in Philosophy, 2007 B.A. summa cum laude in Philosophy and Psychology, 2004 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Moral Philosophy & Psychology; History of Moral Philosophy (esp. Adam Smith); Biomedical Ethics AREAS OF COMPETENCE Social & Political Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Hume); Nineteenth Century European Philosophy (esp. Nietzsche); Freud & Psychoanalysis; Wittgenstein BOOK IN PROGRESS Idealization and the Moral Point of View: An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons (under contract with Oxford University Press) ARTICLES (I: INVITED; R: REFEREED) Biomedical Ethics (12) “The Physician as Friend to the Patient.” In D. Jeske (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship (forthcoming). (I) 1 (11) “Conscientious Objection in Medicine: Making it Public.” HEC Forum (2020). (Special Issue: “Conscience Protection/Conscientious Objection”). Online First: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10730- 020-09401-z. (I & R) (10) “The Truth Behind Conscientious Objection in Medicine.” Journal of Medical Ethics 45 (2019): 404-410. [With invited commentaries by Clark, Emmerich, Minerva, and Saad] (R) (9) “Might There Be a Medical Conscience?” Bioethics 33 (2019): 835-841. (R) (8) “The Internal Morality of Medicine: A Constructivist Approach.” Synthese (Special Issue: “Medical Knowledge in a Social World”) 196 (2019): 4449–4467. [First published online in 2017] (R) Hume & Smith (7) “Comprehensive or Political Liberalism? The Impartial Spectator and the Justification of Political Principles.” Utilitas (2021). Online First: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820820000394. (R) (6) “A Defense of Modest Ideal Observer Theory: The Case of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 24 (2021): 489-510. (R) (5) “Hume’s General Point of View: A Two-Stage Approach.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101 (2020): 431-453. (R) (4) “An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons.” European Journal of Philosophy 28 (2020): 1073- 1087. (R) (3) “Making Sense of Smith on Sympathy and Approbation: Other-Oriented Sympathy as a Psychological and Normative Achievement.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (2020): 735-755. (R) Wittgenstein (2) “On Wittgenstein’s Notion of a Surveyable Representation: The Case of Psychoanalysis.” History of Philosophy Quarterly (forthcoming). (R) (1) “On Wittgenstein’s Notion of a Surveyable Representation: Rituals, Aesthetics, and Aspect- Perception.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming). (R) INVITED REPLIES AND REVIEWS (2) “The Truth Behind Conscientious Objection in Medicine: A Reply to Clark, Emmerich, Minerva, and Saad.” Journal of Medical Ethics 45 (2019): 681-683. (1) “Review of Eric Schliesser’s Adam Smith: Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker.” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (2019): 654-656. ARTICLES IN PROGRESS “Internal and External Paternalism” (Revise & Resubmit) “An Adam Smithian Account of Humanity” (Under Review) “Probability and Informed Consent” (with Ben Levinstein & Jonathan Livengood) (Under Review) 2 TALKS (I: INVITED; R: REFEREED) “An Adam Smithian Account of Humanity” o International Adam Smith Society Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2021 (R) “Internal and External Paternalism” o Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, May 2021 (I) [Online Talk due to COVID-19] o Symposium Presentation, APA Eastern Division Meeting, January 2021 (R) [Online Conference due to COVID-19] o 13th Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2020 (R) [Online Conference due to COVID-19] “Comprehensive or Political Liberalism?: The Impartial Spectator & the Justification of Political Principles” o Panel: The Thought of Adam Smith, PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans, March 2020 (I) o Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, July 2019 (I) o International Adam Smith Society Conference, Chapman University, January 2019 (R) o Conference: Democracy and the Enlightenment, Mediterranean Society for Enlightenment Studies, Isik University, May 2016 (I) “A Defense of Modest Ideal Observer Theory: The Case of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator” o International Adam Smith Society Conference, University of Tokyo, March 2020 (R) [Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19] o Colloquium Presentation, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2020 (R) o Central States Philosophy Association Meeting, Washington University in St. Louis, October 2019 (R) “Hume’s General Point of View: A Two-Stage Approach” o 46th Annual Hume Society Conference, University of Nevada, Reno, July 2019 (R) o Colloquium Presentation, APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2018 (R) o Illinois Philosophical Association Conference, Northern Illinois University, October 2017 (R) o 7th Annual NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, Fordham University, May 2017 (R) “Conscientious Objection in Medicine: Making it Public” o Colloquium Presentation, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, April 2019 (R) o American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference, Anaheim, October 2018 (R) “The Truth Behind Conscientious Objection in Medicine” o APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine Session: Justifying Conscientious Objection in Medicine, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, April 2019 (I) o Bioethics Seminar Series, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, October 2017 (I) “An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons” o Colloquium Presentation, APA Central Division Meeting, Denver, February 2019 (R) o Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 2016 (I) o Department of Philosophy, UIUC, February 2015 (I) o Graduate Research Conference, University of Chicago, December 2014 (I) o Practical Philosophy Workshop, Northwestern University, April 2014 (I) o Conference: Ethics and Wellbeing, Kyoto University, November 2013 (I) 3 “The Objectivity of Moral Judgment: David Hume’s and Adam Smith’s Moral Points of View” o Conference: The Scottish Tradition: Explaining its Rise, Understanding its Legacy, Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary, March 2018 (R) o Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, March 2015 (I) o Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, October 2014 (I) o Practical Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2014 (I) “Making Sense of Smith on Sympathy and Approbation: Other-Oriented Sympathy as a Psychological and Normative Achievement” o International Adam Smith Society Conference, Adolfo Ibáñez University, January 2018 (R) o Conference: Enlightenment, Religion, and the Historical Imagination, Mediterranean Society for Enlightenment Studies, Leo Baeck Institute, May 2017 (I) o Department of Philosophy, UIUC, April 2017 (I) “The Internal Morality of Medicine: A Constructivist Approach” o Colloquium Presentation, APA Central Division Meeting, Kansas City, March 2017 (R) o American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference, Washington D.C., October 2016 (R) o Conference: Medical Knowledge in a Social World, University of California, Irvine, March 2016 (R) “Conscientious Objection and the Ends of Medicine: Two Sources of Moral Reasons” o American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Conference, Washington D.C., October 2016 (R) “Adam Smith and the Possibility of Universal Virtue” o Conference: Adam Smith and Virtue, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, August 2015 (I) “On Wittgenstein’s Notion of a Perspicuous Representation” o Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July 2012 (R) o Conference: Mind, Language, and Cognition: Historical Perspectives, Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy, McMaster University, May 2012 (R) o Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2011 (I) “Wittgenstein’s Critique of Freud and Psychoanalysis: ‘A Descriptive Picture’” o Conference: The Legacy of Freud: Between Science and Art, European Forum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 2006 (R) o International Psychoanalytic Association Workshop: Developing Conceptual Dimensions of Psychoanalysis, Frankfurt Sigmund Freud Institute, October 2006 (R) INVITED COMMENTS On Samuel Fleischacker’s (University of Illinois at Chicago) Being Me Being You, Author-Meets-Critics Panel, International Adam Smith Society Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2021 On Derick Hughes’s (University of Colorado, Boulder) “Humility Against False Courage and Improper Pride,” APA Central Division Meeting, February 2021 [Online Conference due to COVID-19] On Brennan McDavid’s (University of Melbourne) “Adam Smith's Theory