RUTH CHANG
Department of Philosophy
Rutgers University
106 Somerset Street, 5th Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Email: ruthEchang@gmail.com
Tel: 848 932 9861
Fax: 732 246 1049
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Professor of Philosophy, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick, New Jersey
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Balliol College, Oxford, England
D.Phil., Philosophy, 1997, Junior Research Fellow
Advisor: Derek Parfit
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts
J.D., cum laude, 1988
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, New Hampshire
A.B., summa cum laude, Philosophy, 1985
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor of Philosophy, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick, present
Associate Professor of Philosophy, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY,
New Brunswick, 2005-13
Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, New Brunswick 1998-2004
Assistant Professor, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, Camden, New Jersey (half-time with philosophy 1997-98)
Visiting Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, Chicago, Illinois, 1994-95
Visiting Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Philosophy Department, Los Angeles, California, 1993-94
Junior Research Fellow, BALLIOL COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1991-93, 1995-96
Lecturer in Philosophy, WORCESTER COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford,
England, 1990-91
Lecturer in Philosophy, MAGDALEN COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford,
England, 1990
PUBLICATIONS
(i) Books:
Making Comparisons Count (New York: Routledge, 2001), Studies in Ethics, series editor, Robert Nozick, 187pp.
Also published in digital form at the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (http://ora.ox.ac.uk/).
Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason, Editor, with an Introduction, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997)
(ii) Papers and other published work:
‘Ways of Mattering’, commissioned by Theoria, Essays in Honor of Derek Parfit, in preparation
‘Do We Have Normative Powers?’ in preparation
‘Transformative Choices’, Res Publica special issue on Transformative Experiences, ed., Jonathan Jacobs, forthcoming
‘Comparativism’, eds., Barry McGuire and Errol Lord, Weighing Reasons, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
‘Incommensurability and Incomparability’, eds., Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson, Oxford Handbook in Value Theory, Oxford University Press, 2013
‘Raz on Reasons, Reason, and Rationality’, Symposium on Raz’s From Normativity to Responsibility, ed., David Enoch, Jerusalem Legal Studies, 2013, pp. 1-21
‘Incommensurability (and Incomparability)’, International Encyclopedia of Ethics, (Oxford: Blackwell), series editor, Hugh La Follette, 2013, pp. 2591-2604
‘Grounding Practical Normativity: Going Hybrid’, Philosophical Studies 164 (1): 163-187, 2013. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-013-0092-z.
‘Joseph Raz’, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge University Press) 2013
‘Commitments, Reasons, and the Will’, in Shafer-Landau, ed., Oxford Studies in Metaethics, vol. 8, pp. 74-113, 2013
‘Practical Reasons: The Problem of Gridlock’, eds. Barry Dainton and Howard Robinson, Companion to Analytical Philosophy (London: Bloomsbury Press), pp. 474-499, 2013
‘Incommensurability, including incomparability’, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2012
‘Are Hard Choices Cases of Incomparability?’, Philosophical Issues, vol., 22, no. 1, pp. 106-126, 2012
‘Value Pluralism’, (revised and updated article in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, eds. N.J. Smelser and P.B. Bates, (philosophy editor, Philip Pettit), vol. 24, (Pergamon, Oxford, 2012), pp. 16139-16145
‘Reflections on the Reasonable and the Rational in Conflict Resolution’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 83, No. 1, July 2009, pp. 133-66
‘Voluntarist Reasons and the Sources of Normativity’, Reasons for Action eds., Sobel and Wall, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 243-71
‘Parity, Interval Value, and Choice’, 114 Ethics January 2005, pp. 331-50
‘All Things Considered’ 18 Philosophical Perspectives, December 2004, pp. 1-22
‘Can Desires Provide Reasons for Action?’ in Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, eds. R. Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler, and Michael Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 56-90
‘Putting Together Morality and Well-Being’ in Practical Conflicts, eds. M. Betzler and P. Baumann, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 118-58
‘The Possibility of Parity’ 112 Ethics July 2002, pp. 659-88
‘Against Constitutive Incommensurability, or, Buying and Selling Friends’ 11 Philosophical Issues (annual special issues supplement to Nous), December 2001, pp. 33-60
‘Two Conceptions of Reasons for Action’ 62 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research No. 2, March, 2001, pp. 447-453
‘Value Pluralism’ International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, eds. N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, (philosophy editor, Philip Pettit), vol. 24, (Pergamon, Oxford, 2001, updated 2012), pp. 16139-16145
‘Comparison and the Justification of Choice’ 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1998, pp. 1569-98
‘Introduction’ in Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason, ed. Ruth Chang (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), pp. 1-34
Translated into Chinese and will appear in a book about incommensurability, ed. Jianmin Wu (Peoples Peking Publishing House).
Review of Christine Delphy, Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression, 11 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 1988, pp. 268-76.
(iii) Media outreach and public fora publications:
‘Resolving to Create a New You’, Op-ed in the New York Times Sunday Review, January 4, 2015
Judge for Architectural Prize: ‘Do, Think, Do’ competition, Austin, TX, 2015
Interview with “Eye on China”, English service Radio Taiwan International, by Natalie Tso, Program Host
Interview with NJ Monthly, Q & A feature, April 15, 2015, by Tammy LaGorce
Interview with ‘Life Reimagined”, AARP Magazine, by Sarah Mahoney
Featured in “Five talks by amazing women to give you megamotivation in 2015” Cosmopolitan, December 16, 2014, at
http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/worklife/careers/a31998/inspiring-ted-talks-women/
Live Radio Interview with Marilu Henner, The Marilu Henner Show, December 2, 2014
Interview with Globes Newspaper, Israel, November 27, 2014 at
http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000989592# (in Hebrew)
Interview with Reader’s Digest, Canada, by Chantal Tranchemontagne, forthcoming
‘How to Make a Decision’ in The Experts’ Guide for Women, ed., Samantha Ettcus, forthcoming
Interview with Chicago Tribune, by Jessica Reynolds, October 8, 2014 at
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/sc-fam-1007-ruth-chang-20141007-story.html
Interview with New Jersey Business Magazine, by Andrew Sheldon, 2014
Interview with Nova Magazine, (the Brazilian Cosmopolitan), by Bruna Barbossa, Brazil, December issue, 2014, pp. 76-79 (in Portuguese)
Featured in Rutgers Today magazine, ‘Hard Choices: Rutgers Professor Provides Framework for Big Decisions’, September 25, 2014 at
http://news.rutgers.edu/feature/hard-choices-rutgers-professor-provides-framework-big-decisions/20140924#.VCQCO6Gt6mg.mailto
Quoted in “That’s What She Said: Straight talk Worth Repeating from some of our Favorite Women” (with Hillary Clinton, Christina Hendricks, Melissa McCarthy, Kerry Washington, and Sallie Krawcheck) in 20th Anniversary issue of Marie Claire, September issue 2014, p. 96.
Interview with 33Voices, for international business owners and entrepreneurs, 2014 at
https://www.33voices.com/interviews/how-to-make-hard-choices
Interview with Radio Kaffeehaus, bilingual radio program in Vienna, 2014 at
http://www.radiokaffeehaus.com/
Interview with Open House, Australian Radio program, 2014 at http://downloads.hopemedia.com.au/OH/OH_RuthChang_2014-08-29.mp3
Invited commentary, “Comparative Philosophy and the Tertium: Comparing What with What, and in What Respect?” by Ralph Weber (University of Zurich) at
http://warpweftandway.com/2014/06/24/discussion-comparative philosophy/#more-29349
Interview with Richard Marshall, 3am Magazine, in the United Kingdom, 2014 at http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-existentialist-of-hard-choices/
Podcast with Luke Muehlhauser, February 7, 2010, What is Morality? at http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=6873
Videoed Panel Speaker, ‘What is Civility?’ Rutgers Inaugural Civility Initiative, Fall 2010
Interview with John Protevi, NewApps. 2012 at
http://www.newappsblog.com/new-apps-interviews/
Entry in Exhibition Catalog by Prudence Whittlesey, Artist. Portraits of Philosophers.
(iv) Long-Term Project:
Making it Matter, invited to publish in the Oxford Ethics Series, Oxford University Press,
in preparation
INVITED TALKS
Keynotes, Named, and Public Lectures
Lansdowne Lecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Spring 2015
Schock Prize Speaker, in Honor of Derek Parfit, Schock Prize Winner, Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2014
Keynote Speaker, AGENT Graduate Conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX, Fall
2014
TED.com at http://www.ted.com/talks/ruth_chang_how_to_make_hard_choices,
NY Headquarters, New York, NY Spring 2014
Keynote Speaker, Metaphysics and Ethics, University of Bogazici, Istanbul, Turkey,
Spring 2013
Keynote Speaker, University of California, San Diego Graduate Conference on the
work of Ruth Chang, San Diego, CA, Spring 2013
Keynote Speaker, Rocky Mountain Conference, Boulder, Colorado, Spring
2013
Keynote Speaker, University of Lund Conference, Lund, Sweden, Fall 2012
Distinguished Visiting Speaker, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Fall 2012
Pfingstkurs Lecture Series, (series of 6 lectures), University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, May 2012
Keynote Speaker, Marist Philosophy Conference, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 30-31,
2012
Keynote Speaker, Scots Philosophical Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, Fall 2011
Keynote Speaker, Joint Arche/CSME Graduate Conference, Oslo, Sweden, Fall
2010
Keynote speaker, Rutgers-Lund conference, Spring 2009
Centenary Fellow Lecturer, Scots Philosophical Club, conference on Reason and
Value, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, Summer 2006
Ruth Evelyn Parcells Memorial Lecturer on Ethics, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Spring 2006
Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, Spring
2006
Other talks
Goethe University, Defeasibility in Law, Frankfurt, Germany, Spring 2015
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Colloquium, Spring 2015
University of Virginia Law School Colloquium, Spring 2015
Stanford Philosophy Colloquium Series, Palo Alto, CA, Spring 2015
Yale Law School, Workshop on Moral and Political Philosophy, New Haven, CT, Spring
2015
Central APA, Symposium on the Metaphysics of Reasons, St. Louis, MO, Spring
2015
University of North Carolina Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, Spring 2015
International Metaethics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Spring 2015
Victoria Colloquium, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, Spring 2015
Rutgers Philosophy Club, New Brunswick, NJ, Fall 2014
Transformative Reasoning Conference, St. Louis, MO, Fall 2014
Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity, New Brunswick, NJ, Summer 2014
Princeton Human Values Group, Princeton, NJ, Spring 2013
Reasons in Ethics and Epistemology Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, Spring 2013
Panel Speaker, Conference on Diversity in Philosophy, University of Dayton, OH,
Spring 2013
University of San Diego Colloquium, Spring 2013
University College, London, Conference on Joseph Raz’s From Normativity to
Responsibility, London, United Kingdom, Spring 2013
Workshop for Women in Philosophy, New Paltz, New York, Fall 2012
Princeton Conference on Weighing Reasons, Princeton, NJ, Fall 2012
University of Toronto Moral and Political Workshop, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2012
Toronto Philosophy Colloquium, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2012
Purdue University Colloquium, West Lafayette, IN, Fall 2012
CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium, New York, NY Fall 2012
Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2012
Bellingham Conference, Bellingham, WA, July 2012
Pacific APA, Session on Reasons and Action with Steve Darwall and Kieran Setiya,
commentary by Julia Markovitz, Seattle, WA, Spring 2012
Fordham University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, New York, NY, Spring 2012
New York University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, New York, NY, Spring 2012
Selected Speaker, Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop, Madison, WI, Fall 2011
KTH & University of Stockholm Colloquium Series, Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2010
MIT Colloquium Series, Cambridge, MA Fall 2010
UCLA Law and Philosophy Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2010
Project Civility Speaker, Rutgers University, Multi-purpose Room, New Brunswick, NJ, Fall 2010
University of Maryland Colloquium Series, College Park, MD, Fall 2010
University of Vermont Colloquium Series, Burlington, VT, Fall 2010
Workshop on Value Theory, Reykjavik, Iceland, Summer 2010
Sydney University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Sydney, Australia, Summer 2010
MacQuarie University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Sydney, Australia, Summer 2010
Melbourne University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Melbourne, Australia, Summer 2010
Social and Political Theory Seminar, Research School of the Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2010
Research School of the Social Sciences, Philosophy Department Seminar Series, Australian National University Seminar Series, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2010
Union College Colloquium Series, Schenectady, NY, Spring 2010
St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality, St. Louis, MO, Spring 2010
Sofia International Philosophy Conference – Action Theory, Huatulco, Mexico, Jan 2010
North Carolina State Colloquium Series, Raleigh, NC, Fall 2009
Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind, Invited Speaker, Spring 2009
University of Minnesota Colloquium, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2008
Virginia Commonwealth University Colloquium, Fall 2007
Wayne State Colloquium, Detroit, MI, Fall 2006
SPAWN speaker, University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY, Spring 2006
Dubrovnik Conference on Moral Philosophy and Value Theory, sponsored jointly by
Ohio State University, the University of Maribor, and the University of Riyeka, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Spring 2006
University of Washington, Kline Conference on Practical Reason, St. Louis, MO, Spring 2006
Bryn Mawr College Colloquium, Bryn Mawr, PA, Spring 2006
Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October 2004
Melbourne University Colloquium Series, Melbourne, Australia, Summer 2004
Australian National University Colloquium Series, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2004
Conference on Reasons and Rationality, Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia, Summer 2004
Australian Association of Philosophy, South Molle Island, Queensland, Australia, Summer 2004
Moral Psychology Workshop, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, Summer 2004
Brown University Colloquium Series, Providence, RI, Spring 2004
Oxford University Moral Philosophy Seminar Series, Oxford, England, Spring 2004
St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, Spring 2004
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, Spring 2004
Harvard University Philosophy Colloquium Series, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2004
University of California at Davis Colloquium Series, Davis, CA, Spring 2004
MIT Philosophy Colloquium Series, Cambridge, MA, Fall 2003
Philamore Group, Philadelphia, PA, Spring 2003
Tulane University Colloquium, New Orleans, LA, Fall 2002
Swarthmore College Colloquium, Swarthmore, PA, Fall 2001
Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs, NYU, New York, NY, Spring 2001
Invited Main Session, Eastern Division APA, December 2000
CUNY Graduate Center Colloquium, New York, NY, Spring 2000
Rutgers Undergraduate Philosophy Club, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998
Dartmouth College Philosophy Colloquium, Hanover, NH, 1998
Conference on Well-Being at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1998
Symposium on Incommensurability and Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA 1998
UCLA Law and Philosophy Group, Los Angeles, CA,1996
Conference on the Philosophy of Joseph Raz, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1993
University of Chicago Philosophy and Law Discussion Group, Chicago, IL, 1995
Conference on Incommensurability and Value in Philosophy, Economics, and
Law, Normandy, France 1994
Wolfson Philosophy Society, Oxford, England, 1992
University of Southern California Law Center - Oxford Law and Philosophy Workshop, Oxford, England, 1991
Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA, 1991
Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society & Mind Association, graduate paper ,
Durham, England, 1991
COMMENTS, WORKSHOPS, DISCUSSION GROUPS
Commentator on Chandra Sripada ‘The Deep Self’, Experimental Philosophy, NYU, Fall
2014
Co-director and commentator, Workshop on Chinese Philosophy: Authority and the
Xunzi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Spring 2014
Commentator-at-Large, Conference on Normativity and Reasoning, NYUAD, Abu
Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Spring 2014
Co-director and commentator, Workshop on Comparative Chinese Philosophy: Values,
with Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Spring 2013
Commentator on Jonas Olson ‘How to Understand Mackie’s Argument from Queerness’, SPAWN, Syracuse University, NY, August 2012
Commentator on Richard Holton “Modelling Belief on Intention”, Chapel Hill Workshop
on the Rationality of Belief and Desire, Chapel Hill, NC, Spring 2011
Organizer and Chair, ‘The Pentagram of Love,’ with Harry Frankfurt, David Velleman, Rae Langton, Michael Stocker, and David Wong, Eastern Division APA, Fall 2008
Co-organizer (with John Broome and Maurice Salles) and Speaker, International
Conference on Incommensurability and Value in Philosophy, Economics, and
Law, Normandy, France, 1994
Workshop on Objectivity, Chapel Hill, NJ, Spring 2008
Mid-Eastern Analytic Philosophy Group in Ethics (MARGE), New York, NY, Fall 2007- 2010
Ethical Philosophy Society discussion group (ELFS), Fall 2005-2010
Workshop on Value Theory, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Fall 2006
Conference on Practical Reason, Bowling Green, OH, Spring 2006
Workshop on Value, Columbia University, New York, NY, Fall 2005
Commentator, paper by Jesse Prinz, Brown Conference on Practical Reason, Providence, RI, Spring 2005
Conference on ‘The Ethics of Joseph Raz’, Columbia University, New York, NY Spring 2002
Workshop on Value Theory, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 2004
Conference on Vagueness in Philosophy and Law, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1999
Commentator, paper by Frank Michelman, Princeton Politics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1999
Commentator, paper by Robert Audi, Ethical Intuitionism Conference, Keele University,
England, 1999
Commentator, paper by Michael Smith, Conference in Honor of Bernard Gert, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH, 1999
Columbia University Workshop on Formalism and Autonomy in Law and the Arts, New York, NY1998
Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference, various locations, 1996-1999
Commentator on Liam Murphy’s ‘Beneficence’, University of Southern California Law
Center – Oxford Law and Philosophy Workshop, Oxford, England, 1993
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Highlighted Woman Philosopher, American Philosophical Association, CSW Profiles
National Humanities Center, Glaxo-Smith Kline Fellowship and NEH Fellowship,
Research Triangle Park, NC, 2009-10
Centenary Fellow, Scotts Philosophy Club, University of Glasgow, 2006
Harvard University Fellowship in Ethics, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, 2003-04 (declined in 1999-00)
Centenary Fellow, Scots Philosophy Club, University of Edinburgh, 2003
Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2002-03
Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship, University Center for Human Values, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, 1999-00
Research Council Grant, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999-00
Junior Research Fellowship, Balliol College, Oxford, 1991-93; 1994-95
Harvard University Award for Distinction in Teaching, 1987
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Associate Editor
Nous
Advisory Editor
The American Philosophical Association Journal of Philosophy
Board of Editors
Legal Theory
Social, Political and Legal Studies
Referee (many of the below multiple times)
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
Routledge Press
Columbia University Press
Thomson/Wadsworth Press
Ethics
Mind
Nous
Philosopher’s Imprint
American Philosophical Association Journal of Philosophy
American Philosophical Quarterly
Philosophical Quarterly
Synthese
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
Utilitas
Ratio
Economics and Philosophy
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Legal Theory
Law and Philosophy
Journal of Political Philosophy
Journal of Ethical Theory
Theoria
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Social Choice and Welfare
Erkenntnis
Journal of Philosophical Research
Ombudsperson for Nondiscrimination, American Philosophical Association, 2014-17
Member, Academic Career Opportunities and Placement Committee,
American Philosophical Association, 2014-17
Member, Inclusiveness in the Profession Committee, American Philosophical
Association, 2014-17
Member, Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers Committee, American
Philosophical association, 2014-17
Member, Committee on the Status of Women, American Philosophical Association,
2013-16
Referee for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Gravitation Grant (167.5
million euros), 2012-13
Selection Committee on Fellowships, National Humanities Center, 2012
Member, The Women in Philosophy Taskforce, 2011-
Consultant, Films for the Humanities, Ethics Video, 2002
Member, APA Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers, 2007-2010
Member, Association of Chinese Philosophers in America
Member, Society for Women in Philosophy
Member, Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs
Member, American Philosophical Association
DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
SiteVisitor, APA Site Visit Program, Committee on the Status of Women, 2014
Mentor, Women’s Mentoring Workshop, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Summer
2014
Co-Organizer, Race Coalition Workshop in Philosophy (with Sally Haslanger, Tina
Botts, and Manuel Vargas), MIT, Cambridge, MA, Summer 2014
Co-Developer of The UPDirectory: The Directory of Philosophers from
Underrepresented Groups in Philosophy at www.theupdirectory.com
Templeton Post-Doc Selection Committee, 2013
External Review Chair, External Review at Reed College, Philosophy Department, OR, Spring 2013
Co-Director with Tao Jiang and Steve Angle, Rutgers Chinese Philosophy Workshops,
2012-ongoing
Aresty Research Mentor (program to help undergraduates do research), 2012-13
External Member, SAS Mellon Post-Doctoral Committee, 2011 - 2013
Rutgers Philosophy Department Climate Committee, 2012-
Elected to Board of Directors, 80-20 PAC, 2011-13 (resigned in protest)
Volunteer, Academic Planning Days for accepted students, Rutgers University, 2011-12
Volunteer, Scholars Days, Rutgers University, 2011-12
Selection Committee Member, National Humanities Center, 2011-12
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Rutgers Philosophy, implementation of Core
Curriculum 2011-2013
Rutgers Committee on Undergraduate Education, 2010 –2013
Rutgers Project Civility Panelist, 2010
University Appointments and Promotions Committee, 2010-2013
Volunteer Teacher, Rutgers Byrne Seminar, 2008
Director of Graduate Admissions, Rutgers Philosophy, 2007-09, 2010-11
Rutgers Hiring Committee, 2008-09
Rutgers Day, Volunteer, 2008, 2009, 2010
Chair, Rutgers Renovations of New Buildings, 2008-11
Rutgers Fulbright Advisor, 2008-2013
Rutgers Graduate Committee, 2007-09
Rutgers Faculty Advisory Board to External Fellowships, 2007-08
Rutgers Humanities Area Committee, 2008-11
Chair, Rutgers Committee for the Hiring of Outstanding Women, 2007-08
Rutgers Day Speaker, A Day of Academics for Alumni, 2005
Chair, Rutgers Colloquium Committee 2005-2008
Rutgers Undergraduate Committee 2005 - 2007
Advisor, Phi Sigma Tau Undergraduate Philosophy Honor Society, 2005-07
Rutgers Hiring Committee 2005-07
Rutgers TA/GA Grievance Committee 2005-07
Rutgers Philosophy Representative, Undergraduate Fair, Fall 2005, Spring 2012
Committee of Review of the Graduate School, 2005-06
Rutgers Graduate Admissions Committee, 2002-2011
Federal Appointee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, New Jersey Advisory Board
on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C., 2002-05
Rutgers University Search Committee, Laurie Chair in Women’s Studies,
2002-03
80-20 Political Action Committee, Washington, D.C., 2001-2010
Volunteer, ACT, America Votes, and MoveOn.Org, 2004-05
Women and Rutgers Committee, 2002-03
Ethics Curriculum Reform Committee, 2001-03
Department Librarian, 1999-00
Organizer, Committee on Women and Teaching, 1998
Undergraduate Committee, 1998-99
Ethics Hiring Committee, 1997-2003
Chair of dissertation committees: (Andrew Sepielli 2009, Marcello Antosh (in progress),
Stephanie Leary (with Andy Egan, in progress)
Committee member of dissertations, (Aaron Metzger, Steve Ellis, Chris Knapp,
Stephanie Beardman, Lee Wentz, Kyle Haidet, Mike Valdman, Jacob Ross,
Adam Swenson, Josh Orozco, Kurt Sylvan, Nick Beckstead, Preston Greene),
External examiner, Bach Ho, Arizona State University, (M.A. thesis) 2006; Felix Koch, Columbia University, (Ph.D. thesis) 2012
Reader and examiner in graduate area tests (ethics; philosophy of law), 1997-1999
Licensed to practice law in New York and Washington, D.C.
SAMPLE TAUGHT COURSES
Rutgers University
Honors Course: Does Anything Matter?
Ethics and Practical Reason
Ethical Theory & Metaethics
Introduction to Ethics
History of Ethics
Ethical Theory
Current Moral and Social Issues
Seminar on Practical Normativity (with Derek Parfit)
Seminar on Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain (with Larry Temkin)
Seminar in Meta-ethics
Seminar on Human Rights (with James Griffin)
Seminar on Value and Reasons (with Derek Parfit and visits by Peter Railton and
Michael Smith)
Jurisprudence
Honors course ‘Practical Reasoning’
Honors course ‘How Should I Live?’
Byrne Seminar ‘Love and Reason’
Independent studies – Graduate (Andrew Sepielli, Josh Armstrong, Preston Greene, Nick Beckstead, Kurt Sylvan, Anton Johnson); Undergraduate (Nimrod Grinvold, Joy Li, Anna Chou)
Sponsor of International Visiting Students: Christian Blum ‘On Value Pluralism’; Anders
Herlitz ‘Parity and Value Relations’
Aresty Undergraduate Research Program (Joy Li) – Parfit on the Repugnant Conclusion
New York University Abu Dhabi
Core course – Hard Choices
University of Chicago Law School
Philosophy and Anglo-American Jurisprudence
University of California at Los Angeles
Introduction to Ethical Theory
Philosophy of Action
Undergraduate Seminar on Value Theory
Philosophy of Law
University of Oxford
Moral and Political Philosophy
Mill
Philosophy of Mind
Introduction to Logic
Epistemology
Feminist Jurisprudence
University Schools lectures in Moral and Political Philosophy
NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
I have worked as a legal consultant, where I co-authored a national analysis of expert testimony case law used by many private law firms across the country; a (summer) litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where I researched and initiated a successful strategy in obtaining pardon for death row inmate as well as worked in complex commercial litigation; a summer law associate at various firms writing briefs and motion papers in medical malpractice and product liability suits and working on corporate matters; and a computer programmer and analyst writing and implementing software for the marketing division of a large international company. I’ve also sold car insurance over the phone, stocked the shelves at Woolworth, and served soda at a roller rink, all while enrolled in a national program for gifted youth.
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