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October 2014 Department of Philosophy Sycamore Hall 026

MARCIA BARON
CURRICULUM VITAE
October 2014
Department of Philosophy
Sycamore Hall 026
Indiana University
1033 E. 3rd St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Education:
University of North Carolina
Ph.D. (Philosophy)
M.A. (Philosophy)
Oberlin College
B.A. with high honors (Philosophy and Spanish Literature)
Professional Positions:
Honorary Professor, University of St. Andrews
Professor, University of St. Andrews
Rudy Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington
Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington
Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College
Visiting Professor, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Assistant Professor, UIUC
Visiting Assistant Professor, UIUC
Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Instructor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Instructor, Illinois State University
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Areas of Specialization: Ethics, Philosophy of Law (esp. Philosophy of Criminal Law)
Area of Competence: Political Philosophy
Academic Awards and Honors:
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Awarded a year-long NEH fellowship for 2010.
Awarded one semester of release time from College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI),
Indiana University, for Fall 2009.
Joseph Rodman Visiting Professorship, University of Western Ontario, October 2005.
President, Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2002-2003.
Vice-President, 2001-2002.
Fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Spring 2000 and Fall 1988.
Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology was selected for inclusion in Choice magazine's list of
Outstanding Academic Books for 1996. It was also selected for an Author Meets Critics
session at the 1998 Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association and
for a similar session of the North American Kant Society at the 1997 APA Eastern Division
Meetings.
Fellowship awarded by the UIUC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for Study in a Second
Discipline, 1997-98. Subject of study: Criminal Law.
University Scholar, UIUC, 1989-92.
Fellowship in the UIUC Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, Fall 1990.
University of Melbourne fellowship, Summer 1995.
American Council of Learned Societies Research Grant, 1984-85.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for participation in the 1990 Summer Institute on
Hume and the Enlightenment and the 1983 Summer Institute on Kantian Ethical Thought.
Humanities Released Time, University of Illinois Research Board, Spring 1986, Fall 1989, Spring
1994, and Fall 1999.
Ranked "Excellent" by students at UIUC, Spring 1990, Fall 1991, and Fall 1993.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1975.
Foreign Languages: Good in Spanish and German; working knowledge of French.
Publications:
Books:
Three Methods of Ethics: A Debate. Co-authored with Michael Slote and Philip Pettit.
Blackwell, 1997.
Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology. Cornell University Press, 1995. Paperback, 1999.
Articles:
“The Supererogatory and Kant’s Wide Duties,” forthcoming in Reason, Value, and
Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr, edited by Robert
Johnson and Mark Timmons (OUP, 2014).
2. “The Mens Rea and Moral Status of Manipulation,” Manipulation: Theory and Practice,
edited by Christian Coons and Michael Weber (OUP, 2014), pp. 98-120.
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3. “The Ticking Bomb Hypothetical,” forthcoming in Torture and the Rule of Law, edited by
Scott Anderson and Martha Nussbaum, eds. (University of Chicago Press); published in
Disputed Moral Issues, 2nd ed., edited by Mark Timmons (Oxford University Press, 2013).
4. “Culpability, Excuse and the ‘Ill Will’ Condition,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society,
Supplementary Vol. 88, 2014, pp. 91-109.
5. “Crime, Genes, and Responsibility,” in Lisa Gannett, ed, Echoes from the Cave:
Philosophical Conversations since Plato (Oxford University Press Canada, 2013). This is
a revised version of #33.
6. “Moral Worth and Moral Rightness; Maxims and Actions,” in Reading Onora O’Neill,
edited by David Archard, Monique Deveaux, Neil Manson, and Daniel Weinstock
(Routledge, 2013).
7. “Rape, Seduction, Shame, and Culpability in Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” in Subversion
and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel, edited by Alison L. LaCroix and
Martha C. Nussbaum (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 126-149.
8. “Friendship, Duties Regarding Specific Conditions of Persons, and the Virtues of Social
Intercourse,” in Kant’s Tugendlehre: A Comprehensive Commentary, edited by Oliver
Sensen, Andreas Trampota, and Jens Timmerman (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2013),
pp. 365-382.
9. “The Standard of the Reasonable Person in the Criminal Law,” in Structures of Criminal
Law, edited by R A Duff, L Farmer, S E Marshall, M Renzo, and V Tadros (Oxford
University Press, 2011), pp. 11-35.
10. “Gender Issues in the Criminal Law,” The Oxford Handbook for the Philosophy of
Criminal Law, edited by John Deigh and David Dolinko (OUP, 2011), pp. 335-402.
11. “Self-Defense: The Imminence Requirement,” Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law,
edited by Leslie Green and Brian Leiter (OUP, 2011): 228-266.
12. “Virtue Ethics in Relation to Kantian Ethics: An Opinionated Overview and
Commentary,” in Perfecting Virtue: New Essays on Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics,
edited by Lawrence Jost and Julian Wuerth (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 8-37.
13. “Provocation and Justification,” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 43
(2009): 117-142.
14. “Reframing the Issues: Differing Views of Justification and the Feminist Critique of
Provocation,” in Criminal Law Conversations, edited by Kimberly Ferzan, Stephen
Garvey, and Paul H. Robinson (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 329-331.
15. “In Defense of the Proxy Thesis,” in Criminal Law Conversations, pp. 417-418.
16. “Kantian Moral Maturity and the Cultivation of Character,” in The Oxford Handbook of
Philosophy of Education, edited by Harvey Siegel (Oxford, 2009), pp. 227-244.
Reprinted in Kant on Emotions and Value, ed. Alix Cohen (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).
17. “Beneficence and Other Duties of Love in the Metaphysics of Morals,” co-authored with
Melissa Seymour Fahmy, in Blackwell Guide to Kant's Ethics, edited by Thomas E. Hill,
Jr. (Blackwell, 2009), pp. 211-228.
18. “Virtue Ethics, Kantian Ethics, and the ‘One Thought Too Many’ Objection,” in Kant's
Virtue Ethics, edited by Monika Betzler (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 69-101.
19. “Excuses, Excuses,” Criminal Law and Philosophy 1 (January, 2007): 21-39.
20. "Moral Paragons and the Metaphysics of Morals," in A Companion to Kant, edited by
Graham Bird (Blackwell, 2006), pp. 335-349.
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21. “Overdetermined Actions and Imperfect Duties," in Moralische Motivation: Kant und
die Alternativen, edited by Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kühn, and Dieter Schönecker
(Felix Meiner Verlag, 2006), pp. 23-37.
22. "Acting from Duty (GMS I, 397-401)," in Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of
Morals. New Interpretations, edited by Christoph Horn and Dieter Schönecker (Walter de
Gruyter Verlag, 2006), pp. 72-92.
23. "(Putative) Justification," Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 13 (2005): pp. 377-394.
24. "Is Justification (Somehow) Prior to Excuse? A Reply to Douglas Husak," Law and
Philosophy 24: 6 (2005): 595-609.
25. “Justifications and Excuses,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 2 (Spring 2005):
387-413.
26. "Killing in the Heat of Passion,” in Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women
Philosophers, edited by Cheshire Calhoun (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 353-378.
27. “Manipulativeness,” (Presidential Address) Proceedings and Addresses of the American
Philosophical Association, 2003, pp. 36-54.
28. "Character, Immorality, and Punishment," in Rationality, Rules, and Ideals: Essays on
Bernard Gert's Moral Theory, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Audi
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), pp. 243-258.
29. "Acting from Duty," in Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, ed. and trans. by
Allen Wood (Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 92-110. Published in German (with slight
modification) as “Handeln aus Pflicht in Kants Ethik,” edited by Karl Ameriks and Dieter
Sturma (Mentis Verlag, Paderborn, 2004), pp. 80-97.
30. "Love and Respect in the Doctrine of Virtue," in Mark Timmons, ed., Kant’s Metaphysics
of Morals: Interpretative Essays (Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 391-407. This is a
revised and expanded version of #37.
31. "’I Thought She Consented’," Noûs, Vol. 35, Supplement: Philosophical Issues, 11
Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (2001): 1-32.
32. "The Moral Significance of How Things Seem," Maryland Law Rev. 60 (2001): 607-641.
33. "Crime, Genes, and Responsibility," Genetics and Criminal Behavior (Cambridge
University Press, 2001), ed. David Wasserman and Robert Wachbroit, pp. 201-223.
34. "Reading Kant Selectively," in Kant verstehen/ Understanding Kant: Über die
Interpretation philosophischer Texte, edited by Dieter Schönecker and Thomas Zwenger
(Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001), pp. 32-46.
35. "Patriotism and 'Liberal' Morality," in Igor Primoratz, ed., Patriotism (Amherst:
Prometheus Books, 2001). This is a revised version of #43.
36. "Imperfect Duties and Supererogatory Acts," Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik (1999):
57-71.
37. "Love and Respect in the Doctrine of Virtue," Spindel Conference 1997: Kant's
Metaphysics of Morals. The Southern Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 36, Supplement):
29-44.
38. "Kantian Ethics and Claims of Detachment," in Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel
Kant, ed. Robin Schott (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), pp. 145-170.
39. “Sympathy and Coldness: Kant on the Stoic and the Sage," Proceedings of the Eighth
International Kant Congress, Memphis (1995): 691-703.
40. "Freedom, Frailty and Impurity," Inquiry 36 (1993): 431-441.
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41. "Impartiality and Friendship," Ethics 101 (July 1991): 836-857.
42. "The Engineer's Obligations of Loyalty to the Employer," in Ethical Issues in
Engineering, ed. Deborah Johnson, Prentice-Hall, 1991. This is a shortened version of the
monograph listed below.
43. "Patriotism and 'Liberal' Morality," Mind, Value and Culture: Essays in Honor of E.M.
Adams, ed. David Weissbord (Atascadero, Cal.: Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1989), pp.
269-300.
44. "Morality as a Back-Up System: Hume's View?" Hume Studies 14 (1988): 25-52.
Reprinted in David Hume: Critical Assessments, ed. Stanley Tweyman (London:
Routledge, 1994), Vol. IV.
45. "Remorse and Agent-Regret," Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1988). Topic: "Ethical
Theory: Character and Virtue." Pp. 259-281.
46. "What's Wrong with Self-Deception?" in Perspectives on Self-Deception, edited by Brian
McLaughlin and Amélie Rorty (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), pp.
431-449.
47. "Was Effi Briest a Victim of Kantian Morality?" Philosophy and Literature 12 (1988):
95-113. Reprinted in Neera Kapur Badhwar, ed., Friendship: A Philosophical Reader
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 174-191.
48. "Kantian Ethics and Supererogation," The Journal of Philosophy 84 (May 1987):
237-262.
49. "On Admirable Immorality," Ethics 96 (April 1986): 557-566.
50. "Varieties of Ethics of Virtue," American Philosophical Quarterly 22 (1985): 47-53.
51. "Servility, Critical Deference and the Deferential Wife," Philosophical Studies (1985):
393-400.
52. "The Ethics of Duty/Ethics of Virtue Debate and Its Relevance to Educational Theory,"
Educational Theory 35 (1985): 135-149.
53. "The Alleged Moral Repugnance of Acting from Duty," The Journal of Philosophy 81
(1984): 197-220. Reprinted, in slightly revised form, in Moral Theory, ed. George Sher
(New York: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich, Inc., 1986).
54. "On De-Kantianizing the Perfectly Moral Person," The Journal of Value Inquiry 17
(1983): 281-293.
55. "Hume's Noble Lie: An Account of his Artificial Virtues," Canadian Journal of
Philosophy 12 (1982): 539-555. Reprinted, in revised form, in Hume: Moral and Political
Philosophy, ed. Rachel Cohon (Ashgate/Dartmouth Press, 2001).
Monograph: The Moral Status of Loyalty, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1984. 36 pp.
Encyclopedia Articles:
“Imperfect Duties,” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 2585-2589.
"Regret," International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Wiley-Blackwell,
2013), pp. 4478-4482.
“Loyalty," Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence Becker (New York: Garland Press,
1992). A revised version is published in the second edition of this work (2001).
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"Supererogation," Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence Becker with Charlotte Becker
(New York: Garland Press, 1992); updated version is published in the second
edition of this work (2001). A revised version of the article is published in The
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, edited by R. Edward
Freeman and Patricia H. Werhane (Blackwell, 1998).
Book Reviews:
Michael Slote, From Morality to Virtue (Oxford University Press, 1992). The
Philosophical Review 104 (April 1995): 298-301.
Thomas Hill, Jr., Autonomy and Self-Respect (Cambridge University Press, 1991). Ethics
103 (April 1993): 576-579.
Henry Allison, Kant's Theory of Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Dialogue
32 (1993): 775-781.
Van der Linden, Kantian Ethics and Socialism (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co.,
1988). The Philosophical Review 101 (April 1992).
Kruschwitz and Roberts, The Virtues: Contemporary Essays on Moral Character
(Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1987). Canadian Philosophical
Reviews 7 (1987): 157-159.
Copp and Zimmerman, eds., Morality, Reason, and Truth (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman
and Allenheld, 1985). Ethics 96 (July 1986): 878-880.
Book Note: Gary Watson, eds., Free Will (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), Ethics 95
(April 1985): 383.
Work in Progress:
Self-Defense, Reason, and the Law (under contract with Oxford University Press).
“Reasonableness”
“Aesthetic Manipulation?”
“The Distinction between Objective and Subjective Standards in Criminal Law”
Papers Presented and Upcoming:
Keynote Address, Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics
Plenary Address, British Society for Ethical Theory
Conference in honor of Allen Wood, Cornell University
Invited paper, 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium,
Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria
Plenary Address, Society for Applied Philosophy (Oxford, England)
Plenary Address, Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference,
University College, Dublin
Invited Paper, Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association,
Cambridge University
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The University of Stirling
The University of Edinburgh
Colloquium in Legal and Social Philosophy, University College London
Keynote Address, Indiana Philosophical Association
The University of Groningen
The University of Glasgow
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture, University of Keele
University of Western Ontario
Northwestern University
Reflectorium, University of St. Andrews
Keynote Address, Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy
The University of St. Andrews
Conference in Honor of Barbara Herman, Cornell University
Keynote Address, Symposium on Ethics, Georgia State University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Workshop on the Structure of Criminal Law, Stirling, Scotland
Conference on Kant’s Tugendlehre, Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich
Roundtable on the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of the Criminal Law,
University Club of Chicago
Conference on Kant’s Conception of Humanity and its Practical Implications,
Washington University
Conference on Torture, Law, and War, University of Chicago Law School
Midwest Faculty Seminar on Rawls at the University of Chicago
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, invited session on
War and Legality
Keynote Address, UK Kant Society Graduate Student Conference, University of
Hertfordshire
Conference in honor of Thomas E. Hill, Jr., University of Minnesota
British Academy Conference on Criminal Law and Philosophy
University of Toronto
University of Western Ontario (The Joseph Rodman lecture)
University of Iowa (The Everett Hall lecture)
Conference on Virtue Ethics vs. Kantian Ethics, University of Cincinnati
Conference on Moral Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
Texas Tech University
Tulane University
Calgary University
Conference on Kant's Grundlegung, Bonn, Germany
Conference on Kant and Moral Motivation, Marburg, Germany
McGill University
Keynote Address, Illinois Wesleyan University Undergraduate Conference
Presidential Address, American Philosophical Association, Central Division
International World Congress of the International Association for
Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (Lund, Sweden)
Poynter Center, Indiana University
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University of Illinois, Chicago
Conference on the Expressive Dimension of Governmental Action,
University of Maryland Law School
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
University of Miami
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Symposium on
Sexual Assault and the Law
Indiana University
Auckland University
Dartmouth College Conference on Bernard Gert's Moral Theory
Colgate University (The Audi lecture)
University of Kentucky
Author Meets Critics session on my Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology,
Pacific Division APA meetings
Author Meets Critics session on my Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology,
North American Kant Society session, Eastern Division APA meeting
Presidential Address, Illinois Philosophical Association (Bloomington, IL)
Spindel Conference: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (Memphis)
McGill University and University of Montreal (joint colloquium)
Conference on Altruism and Supererogation (Erlangen, Germany)
UK Kant Society (Keele University, England)
Conference on Ethics and Impartiality (University of Utah)
University of Melbourne (Australia)
Monash University (Australia)
La Trobe University (Australia)
International Kant Congress (Memphis)
Author Meets Critics session on Henry Allison,
Kant's Theory of Freedom, Central Division APA meetings (Chicago)
Western Washington University Philosophy Conference
Illinois Wesleyan and Illinois State Universities (joint colloquium)
Conference on Impartiality and Ethical Theory (Hollins, Virginia)
University of Illinois at Chicago (The Irving Thalberg Memorial Lecture)
Northern Illinois University
Purdue University
University of Maryland, College Park
Harvard University (The Randall Harris Lecture)
Loyola University of Chicago
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo College
Bowling Green State University
University of Chicago
Conference on the Virtues (San Diego)
International Hume Society (Edinburgh)
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APA Pacific Division Meetings, colloquium papers
San Francisco State University
APA Eastern Division Meetings
Ohio State University
Illinois State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Illinois Philosophical Association
The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina Philosophical Association
Society for Women in Philosophy (Chapel Hill)
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Other Presentations (all invited):
Seminar on the distinction in criminal law between objective and subjective standards, University
of Michigan Law School, 2014
Presentation on reasonableness, equality, and self-defense at the first biennial Bradley-Wolter
Colloquium in Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure, Indiana University Maurer
School of Law, 2014
Panelist, Workshop with Martha Nussbaum on her Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment,
Generosity, Justice, University of St. Andrews, 2014
Presentation on philosophical issues in the criminal law to the Philosophy Society at the
University of St. Andrews, 2013.
Seminar on self-defense, University of Western Ontario, 2012.
Three day mini-seminar, with Allen Wood, Stanford University, 2012.
Comment on John Kleinig, “Human Dignity and Human Flourishing,” Symposium on Human
Dignity and the Criminal Law, University of Minnesota Law School, 2011.
Seminar on self-deception, National Institute of Health, 2010.
Panelist, Kant on Virtue, Conference on Kant’s Practical Philosophy, Newnham College,
Cambridge University, 2008.
Comment on David Dolinko, “Punishment,” Roundtable on the Oxford Handbook on the
Philosophy of the Criminal Law, Chicago, 2008.
Presentation, symposium on Cheshire Calhoun, ed., Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by
Women Philosophers, APA Central meetings, Chicago, 2008.
Comment on Douglas Husak, "On the Supposed Priority of Justification to Excuse,"
Conference on Justifications and Excuses, Rutgers Law School, 2004.
"Philosophical Issues in Criminal Law," presented to the UI Undergraduate Philosophy Club,
1998. Revised versions presented to the UI Pre-law Club, 1999, and to a Philosophy of
Law class at Eastern Illinois University, 1999.
Presentation on the teaching of ethics, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1996.
Presentation on contemporary responses to classical ethical theories, Bioethics Institute, UIUC,
1996.
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Comment on Julia Driver's "The Ethics of Intervention," conference at the Cornell University
Program on Ethics and Public Life, Ithaca, 1995. (Paper was presented, though I could not
attend.)
Comment on Michael Davis, "Wild Professors, Sensitive Students: A Preface to Academic
Ethics." Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society and the Society for Social and
Political Philosophy, Central Division APA meetings, Chicago, 1991.
Presentation to the Fellows of the Program for Cultural Values and Ethics, UIUC, 1991.
Comment on an invited paper by Rosalind Hursthouse, "Applying Virtue Ethics," the Pacific
Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Oakland, 1989.
Comment on Christine Korsgaard, "Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian
Response to Parfit," the 1988 Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy.
Comment on Michael Lavin, "Baron on Admirable Immorality," Central Division meetings of the
American Philosophical Association, Cincinnati, 1988.
Comment on Richard Mohr, "The Ethics of Students and the Teaching of Ethics," colloquium of
the UIUC Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Urbana, 1987.
Presentation to the Ethical Studies group of ACDIS (UIUC Program in Arms Control,
Disarmament, and International Security), Urbana, 1986.
Comment on William Davie, "Hume's Apology," the International Hume Society meetings,
Edinburgh, 1986.
Comment on Nelson Potter, "The Synthetic A Priori Proposition of Kant's Ethical Theory: Kant
and Darwallian Internalism," Western Division meetings of the American Philosophical
Association, Cincinnati, 1984.
"Servility and the Deferential Wife," Feminist Scholarship Series at the University of Illinois,
Urbana, 1984.
"What Does Ethics Have to Do with Engineering?" presented at a University of Illinois Tau Beta
Pi meeting, Urbana, 1983.
"Kitsch, Camp and Vulgarity: Philosophical Conceptions of Bad Taste," presented to the
Philosophy Club at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982.
Courses Taught:
Kantian Ethics (undergraduate course; also taught as a graduate course)
Moral Psychology, Culpability, and Excuses (400-level course)
Contemporary Ethical Theory (graduate course)
Classics in Ethics (advanced undergraduate course)
Moral Philosophy (a graduate/undergraduate course on Aristotle, Hume, and Kant)
Recent Developments in Ethics
Philosophical Issues in Feminism
Honors Seminar on Philosophy and Feminism
Honors Seminar on Reason and Sentiment in Ethics
Contemporary Moral Issues (large lecture)
Graduate Seminar on Philosophical Issues in Criminal Law
Graduate Seminar on Liberalism
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Introduction to Ethics (large lecture)
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Philosophy of Law
Basic Issues in Philosophy
Symbolic Logic
Logic and Reasoning
Ethics for Engineers
Committees and Functions:
American Philosophical Association,
President, Central Division, 2002-03
Vice-President, Central Division, 2001-02
Nominating Committee, Central Division, 1992, 1995, 1999; Chair, 2004
Program Committee, Central Division1991; Chair 2000
Standardization Committee, 2004
Advisory Committee to the Eastern Division Program Committee, 2010-2013
Illinois Philosophical Association
President 1995-1997
Nominating Committee 1985
Arrangements Committee 1985
Departmental (IU):
Placement Director (2001-2008; Fall 2009; 2011-12)
Search Committee (2002-2003; 2006-2007; 2008-2009)
Undergraduate Program Committee (Spring 2011)
Value Theory Area Committee (2001-2012; Chair, 2003-2004, 2006-2007, and
2011-2012)
Bylaws Committee (2007)
Ewing Undergraduate Essay Prize Committee (Chair, 2007).
Nelson Doctoral Fellowship Committee (2009)
Oversight responsibility for Introduction to Ethics courses taught by graduate
students (various semesters).
College of Arts and Sciences (IU): Tenure Committee (2002-2004)
Campus (IU): Wildermuth Task Force (2007)
University (IU): Indiana University President's Informal Advisory Committee (2002-2004)
Other Professional Activities:
Auditor for the Moral Agency team of the Center for the Study of Mind in Nature,
University of Oslo, 2014Organized workshop on moral and legal accountability, Center for the Study of Mind in
Nature, University of Oslo, 2013, and edited the issue of Inquiry emerging from that
workshop.
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Member of the Executive Committee of the Oxford - St. Andrews - Keele Centre for
Kantian Studies, 2013-2014. Member of the Advisory Board, 2014Associate Editor, Inquiry, 2012Member of the Editorial Board, The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh
LaFollette (Editor-in-Chief), John Deigh and Sarah Stroud (Associate Editors)
(2008-2013)
Series Editor (co-editing with Michael Slote) for “New Directions in Ethics,” on
Wiley-Blackwell (2003- )
Associate Editor of Ethics (1995-2005)
Member of Editorial Boards of Kantian Review (1996- ); Criminal Law and Philosophy
(2005- ); Ethics (1990-1995; 2005- ); North American Kant Society Studies in
Philosophy (series published by University of Rochester Press (2009- ); Philosophical
Quarterly (2013-2014); American Philosophical Quarterly (1989-1992)
Consulting Editor, Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence Becker with Charlotte Becker
(Garland, 1992)
Reviewer for tenure and promotion reviews at Agnes Scott College, Arizona State
University, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Boston University, Brandeis University,
The College of William and Mary, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, East
Carolina University, Georgetown University (twice), Lehigh University, Loyola
University of Chicago, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, University
of Missouri, Northwestern University, University of Pittsburgh, University of St.
Andrews, St. Olaf College, University of California at Irvine, University of Toledo,
University of Chicago, University of Toronto, University of Virginia, Utah State
University, Washington University (twice), Washington and Lee University, and Yale
University.
Referee for American Philosophical Quarterly, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie,
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Ethics, European
Journal of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Journal of Moral Philosophy,
Journal of Social Philosophy, Kantian Review, Law and Philosophy, Metaphilosophy,
New Genetics and Society, Noûs, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophia, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Papers, Philosophy Research Archives,
Political Studies, Social Philosophy, Studi Kantiani, Cambridge University Press,
Cornell University Press, Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Oxford University Press,
Princeton University Press, Routledge, Temple University Press, Wiley-Blackwell,
British Society for Ethical Theory, International Hume Society, the International Kant
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Congress, the Academy of Finland, National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Illinois Research Board,
the University of Chicago Science of the Virtues Project, and the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation.
External reviewer for George Washington University (2009), The University of Helsinki
(2005), and Oberlin College (1996).
Participant, Kant Reading Party, The Burn, Angus, Scotland, July 2013, and July 2012.
Participant, workshop on Menschenliebe in Kant’s Tugendlehre, University of Siegen,
Germany, July 2006.
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