Holly M. Smith Philosophy Department 1 Seminary Place Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey College Avenue Campus New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901 E-Mail: [email protected] Education Ph.D., Philosophy The University of Michigan M.A., Philosophy The University of Michigan B.A. with Special Honors, Philosophy Wellesley College Academic Positions Professor II Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2001- present Associate Professor -- Professor The University of Arizona 1983 - 2001 Visiting Associate Professor The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1981 - 1982 Associate Professor The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle 1980 - 1983 Assistant Professor The University of Michigan 1973 - 1980 Assistant Professor The University of Pittsburgh 1972 - 1973 Lecturer The University of Michigan at Flint 1971 - 1972 Lecturer Tufts University 1970 - 1971 Administrative Positions From 1985 through 2006 I held a series of academic administrative positions, increasing in responsibility from Head of Department to Vice Provost to Dean of Social and Behavioral 1 Sciences at The University of Arizona, to Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Graduate School at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 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Fellowships, Awards, Honors, Appointments Visiting Fellow, School of Philosophy, Research School of the Social Sciences, The Australian National University (Summer, 2011) Affiliated faculty member, Institute for Law and Philosophy, Rutgers School of Law, Camden Affiliated faculty member, Institute on Climate and Social Policy, Rutgers University Department Guest, Princeton University Center for Human Values, 2006-07 President, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honorary Society Invited Participant, American Council on Education/Office of Women in Higher Education National Forum Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Fellowship, The University of Arizona National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study American Associate of University Women Postgraduate Fellowship Fellowship, Council for Philosophical Studies Institute on Moral Problems in Medicine Danforth Graduate Fellowship Wellesley College First Trustee Fellow Phi Beta Kappa National Merit Scholar Grants School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, Entrepreneurial Grant to develop an on-line version of Introduction to Ethics, 2010 – 2012, $22,182 (PI) Rutgers University Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates, grant for two undergraduate Research Assistants. 2009-2010, $2,000 (PI) Rutgers University Office of the Vice President of Undergraduate Education, “Facilitating Faculty-Student Interactions in Large Lecture Course,” Spring 2008 ($800), Spring 2009, ($300), Spring 2010 ($300), Spring 2011 ($300), Spring 2012 ($300) Rutgers University, “Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Office to Support Extramural Funding Opportunities for Humanities and Social Science Faculty,” 2003-04 Academic Excellence Award, $60,000 direct costs (PI) U.S. Information Agency, "Affiliation between The University of Arizona and Colombia's Universidad de los Andes to Establish a North American Studies Program," 1994-97; $119,952 direct costs (Co-PI) 2 University of Arizona Student-Faculty Interaction Program, grants to fund lunch meetings with Freshman Colloquium Students, Fall 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Grant ($2,500) from the Arizona Foundation to fund Western Workshop in Moral Philosophy (May 1985) Patents U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/605,008, filed 11-28-06 Publications Work in Progress: Making Morality Work (tentative title): book manuscript on framing moral theories in light of the cognitive limitations that handicap individuals’ decision-making. Under contract with Oxford University Press. “The Duty to Inform Oneself before Acting,” in mss. Research Articles: “The Moral Clout of Reasonable Beliefs,” in Mark Timmons, ed., Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Vol. I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) Lead article. “Non-Tracing Cases of Culpable Ignorance,” Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2011), 115-146. Lead article. [http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11572-011-9113-1] “The Prospective View of Obligation” (Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, February 2011, http://www.jesp.org/) “Measuring the Consequences of Rules,” Utilitas Vol.22, No. 4, December 2010, 413 – 433. “Subjective Rightness,” in Social Philosophy and Policy 27 (Summer 2010), pp. 64-110. Reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, Moral Obligation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 64 – 111. “A Paradox of Promising,” in The Philosophical Review, Vol. 106, No. 2 (April 1997), pp. 153- 196. Lead article. "Gifts and Donors' Expectations," with Marilyn Batt Dunn, in The Ethics of Asking: Dilemmas in 3 Higher Education Fund Raising (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 101- 110. "Fetal-Maternal Conflicts," in In Harm's Way: Essays in Honor of Joel Feinberg, edited by Allen Buchanan and Jules Coleman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 324- 343. "Whose Body Is It, Anyway?" in James Thomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 6 (Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1992), pp. 73-96. "Deriving Morality from Rationality," in Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement, ed., Peter Vallentyne (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 229-253. Reprinted in John Heil, ed., Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest: Essays Honoring Mark Carl Overvold (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1993), pp. 71-96. "Varieties of Moral Worth and Moral Credit," in Ethics, Vol. 101 (January 1991), pp. 279-303. "Deciding How To Decide: Is There a Regress Problem?" in Michael Bacharach and Susan Hurley, eds., Essays in the Foundations of Decision Theory (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Inc. 1991), pp. 194-219. "Two-Tier Moral Codes," Social Philosophy & Policy, Vol. 7, (Autumn 1989), pp. 112-132. Reprinted in Ellen F. Paul, Fred D. Miller, and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Foundations of Moral and Political Philosophy (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), pp. 112-132. "Making Moral Decisions," Nous, Vol. XXII, #1 (March 1988), pp. 89-108. "Moral Realism, Moral Conflict, and Compound Acts", The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXXIII, #6 (June 1986), 341-345. "Legal Requirements for Notification," in Ethics in Emergency Medicine, eds. K. Iserson, A. Sanders, D. Mathieu, and A. Buchanan (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins,1986), pp. 92-97. Reprinted in Second Edition, 1995. "Ethical Problems in Genetic Screening by Student Health Services," in Values and Health: The Connection, ed. Joe Gelt (Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast College Health Association: 1985), pp. 27-31. "Culpable Ignorance," The Philosophical Review, Vol. XCII (October, 1983), pp. 543-571. Selected as one of the ten best articles to appear in print in 1983; reprinted in Volume VI of The Philosopher's Annual (eds., P. Athay, P. Grim, and C.J. Martin. (Ridgeview 4 Publishing Company, 1985.) "Intercourse and Moral Responsibility for the Fetus," in Abortion and the Status of the Fetus, Volume XIII of the series, "Philosophy of Medicine," eds. William B. Bondeson, H. Tristram Englehardt, Stuart Spicker, and Daniel H. Winship (Dordrecht, Holland/Boston, Massachusetts: D. Reidel, 1983), pp. 229-245. "Compensating Injured Research Subjects," in President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical Research, Compensating for Research Injuries, Volume Two: Appendices, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington (1982), pp. 19-39. "Two Concepts of Democracy," in Ethical Issues in Government, ed. Norman Bowie (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981), pp. 68-82. "Killing, Letting Die, and Euthanasia," Analysis, Vol. 40 (October 1980), p. 224. Reprinted in the Newsletter of Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics. "Amniocentesis for Sex Selection," in Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine, ed. Marc Basson (New York: Alan R. Liss, 1980), pp. 81-94. "Rawls and Utilitarianism," in John Rawls' Theory of Social Justice, eds. Gene Blocker and Elizabeth Smith (Ohio University Press, 1980), pp. 346-394. "Doing the Best One Can," in Values and Morals, eds. Alvin Goldman and Jaegwon Kim (Reidel, 1978), pp. 186-214. "The Collective Interpretation of Utilitarian Generalization," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 34 (August, 1978), pp. 207-211. "David Lewis' Semantics for Deontic Logic," Mind, Vol. LXXXVI (April, 1977) pp. 242-248. "Dated Rightness and Moral Imperfection," The Philosophical Review, Vol. LXXXV (October, 1976), pp. 449-487. Lead article. "Reply to Silverstein," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 30 (July, 1976), pp. 57-62. "David Lyons on Utilitarian Generalization," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 26 (October, 1974), pp. 77-94. Lead article Encyclopedia Articles: “Negligence,” Hugh LaFollette, ed., The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley- Blackwell), committed for 2010 5 "Possibilism," Lawrence C. Becker, ed., The Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 993-995. "Idealized Agents," Lawrence C. Becker, ed., The Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 594-596. "Action," (with Alvin I. Goldman), in Lawrence C. Becker, ed., The Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 12-14. (20% responsibility). "Negligence," Lawrence C. Becker, ed., The Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland Publishing Co.,