EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh (1987-92)
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1992
Dissertation: "Motions of the Mind: Thomas Hobbes and the Science of
Moral Virtue"
Yale University (1982-86)
B.A. summa cum laude in
philosophy and history, 1986
Senior Essay: "Hume and the Debate on Miracles"
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Applied
Ethics, Ethics, History of Ethics (especially Hobbes)
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Ancient Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Elementary Logic
POSITIONS HELD
University of Colorado,
Associate Professor (Fall 2002-present)
University of Colorado,
Assistant Professor (Fall 1998-Spring 2002)
Tulane University, Assistant
Professor (Fall 1994-Spring 1998)
Georgetown University,
Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 1992-Spring 1994)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The
Problem of Punishment (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
What's Wrong?: Applied
Ethicists and Their Critics, co-authored and co-edited with
Graham Oddie (Oxford University Press 2004)
(second edition forthcoming
spring 2009)
A
Defense of Abortion (Cambridge University Press 2002)
(Korean edition published in 2007 by Chaekgalpi
Publishing Co.)
for further
information, click
here
Thomas
Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue (Cambridge University
Press, 1994)
for excerpts from published reviews, click here
Articles
"How to Solve the Non-Identity
Problem," Public Affairs
Quarterly,
vol. 22, no. 2 (April) 2008, pp. 127-57..
"Robbing
PETA to Spay Paul: Do Animal Rights Include Reproductive
Rights?" Between the
Species, online
edition, August 2003, pp. 1-8.
"How to Argue Against Active Euthanasia," Journal of Applied
Philosophy , vol. 17, no. 2,
2000, pp. 157-68.
"Same-Sex Marriage and the Argument From Public
Disagreement," Journal
of Social
Philosophy (Fall 1999), pp. 251-59.
"Death Comes for the Violinist: On Two Objections to Thomson’s Defense
of Abortion,"
Social Theory and Practice,
vol. 23, no. 3 (Fall 1997), pp.
329-64.
"Against the Golden Rule Argument Against Abortion," Journal of
Applied Philosophy, vol.
14, no. 2 (1997), pp. 187-97.
"A Defense of 'A Defense of Abortion': On the Responsibility Objection
to Thomson’s
Argument," Ethics , vol. 107, no. 2 (January 1997),
pp. 286-313
(for abstract, click here ).
A version of this paper is reprinted in Louis P. Pojman and Francis J.
Beckwith, eds.,
The Abortion Controversy: 25 Years
After Roe v.Wade, Wadsworth
(1998).
"Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: Two Paradoxes About Duties to
Future
Generations," Philosophy and Public
Affairs vol. 25, no.
4 (Fall 1996), pp. 267-307
(for abstract, click here ).
"Contractarianism Gone Wild: Carruthers and the Moral Status of
Animals," Between the
Species , vol. 10, nos. 1-2
(Winter/Spring 1994), pp. 39-48 (for
abstract, click here ).
"Reply to Robinson," Between the
Species , vol. 10, nos. 1-2
(1994), pp. 52-4 (for abstract,
click here ).
"Il contrattualismo selvaggio. Carruthers e lo status morale degli
animali," Etica & Animali,
vol. VI, nos. 1-2 (Primavera/Autunno 1993), pp. 34-43 (Translation into
Italian of a
slightly expanded version of "Contractarianism Gone Wild.”)
"Parsimony Made Simple: Rosenfeld and Harrison on Animal Pain," Between
the Species,
vol. 9, no. 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 137-40 (for abstract, click here ).
"A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing," The
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
, vol. 74, no. 3 (September
1993), pp. 175-95.(for abstract, click
here ).
"The Vegetarian Savage: Rousseau's Critique of Meat Eating," Environmental
Ethics, vol. 15,
no. 1 (Spring 1993), pp. 75-84 (for abstract, click here ).
Books
Reviewed
Rosamund Scott, Rights, Duties
and the Body: Law and Ethics of the Maternal-
Fetal
Conflict. In The
Philosophical Review, forthcoming.
Kathryn Paxton George, Animal,
Vegetable, or Woman?: A Feminist
Critique of Ethical
Vegetarianism. In Environmental Ethics, vol. 23, no.
4, pp. 429-32..
Jeffrey Reiman, Abortion and the
Ways We Value Human Life.
In Social Theory and Practice,
vol. 26, no. 2 (Summer 2000), pp. 347-52.
Matthew H. Kramer, Hobbes and the
Paradoxes of Political Origins
and John Locke and the
origins of private property. In The Philosophical
Review, vol. 108, no. 1 (January 1999),
pp. 146-51.
Mary Anne Warren, Moral Status. In Bioethics, vol. 13, no. 1 (January 1999), pp. 81-4.
Tom Sorell, ed., The Cambridge
Companion to Hobbes. In
The Philosophical Review,
Vol. 107, No. 3 (July 1998), pp. 491-94.
Noel Malcolm, ed., The
Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes.
In The European Legacy,
Vol. 1, No. 8 (1996).
INVITED TALKS
“Punishing the Innocent” October 29,
2007,
“Two Cheers for
Affirmative Action,”
October 26, 2007,
"Punishment and Consent," April 26, 2006, University of
Otago, NZ
"Punishment and Rights," March 7, 2006, University of Canterbury, NZ (Erskine Lecture)
"Famine, Affluence, and Mortality," Feb. 28, 2006, University of Canterbury, NZ (Erskine Lecture)
"How to Solve the Non-Identity Problem," Feb. 21, 2006,
University of Canterbury, NZ (Erskine Lecture)
"How to Solve the Non-Identity Problem," Dec. 2, 2005,
Yale University
“Is Abortion Morally Justifed in a Free
Society?” invited participant in public debate
at
"How to Solve the Non-Identity Problem," Sept. 16, 2005,
University of Calgary
"How to Solve the Non-Identity Problem," Sept. 15, 2005,
University of Alberta
Comment on Francis J.
Beckwith, “Needy Beings and Being Needy: A Response to
David Boonin’s Distinction Between
Responsibility for
Existence and Responsibility for
Neediness,” delivered at Pacific Division Meeting of American Philosophical
Association, March 2005
"How to Solve the Non-Identity
Problem,"
Nov. 12, 2004, Oberlin College (Rhoden Memorial
Lecture)
“What Does the Bible Say about
Abortion?”
"An Argument Against Decriminalizing Active Euthanasia," delivered at
meeting of the Society for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy,
New Orleans,
May, 1999.
OTHER TALKS
"Two Cheers for Affirmative
Action," Oct. 6, 2006, paper
delivered at
Lunchtime
Seminar, Center for Values and Social Policy.
"Were You Harmed by Being Conceived?" Nov. 11, 2005,
paper
delivered at
Lunchtime
Seminar, Center for Values and Social Policy.
“Punishment and Self-Defense,” paper delivered at Lunchtime Seminar, Center for Values and Social Policy, Spring 2005
Center for Values and Social Policy, Fall 2004
"A Further Defense of the Theory of Pure Restitution,"
paper delivered at
Lunchtime
Seminar, Center for Values and Social Policy, Spring 2002
"A (Sort of) Solution to the Non-Identity Problem," paper delivered at
Lunchtime
Seminar, Center for Values and Social Policy, April, 2001.
"A (Partial) Defense of the Theory of Pure Restitution," paper
delivered at Lunchtime
Seminar, Center for Values and Social Policy, October, 2000.
"Abortion and the Argument from Uncertainty," paper delivered at
Lunchtime Seminar, Center
for Values and Social Policy, March, 2000.
"A Solution to Unger's Puzzle About Behavior Toward People In Great
Need," paper
delivered at Lunchtime Seminar, Center for Values and Social Policy,
September, 1999.
"Comment on Clement," delivered at meeting Society for the Study of
Ethics and Animals,
New Orleans, May, 1999 (for text, click here
).
"Comment on Murphy," delivered in response to a paper on Hobbes by Mark
Murphy in a
colloquium entitled "Normativity and Naturalism in Ethics" at the
Eastern Division Meeting
of the APA, Washington, DC, December, 1998 (for text, click here ).
"Killing, Letting Die, and the Problem of Equal Motive," delivered in
a colloquium entitled
"Ethics" at the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, Philadelphia,
December, 1997 (for
abstract, click here).
"Robbing PETA to Spay Paul: Do Animal Rights Include Reproductive
Rights?" delivered at
meeting of the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals,
Philadelphia, December, 1997
(for abstract, click here ).
"Marquis on Abortion," delivered at Tulane University Philosophy
Department faculty research
colloquium, February, 1997.
"Comment on Brown," delivered in response to a paper at meeting of the
Society for the Study
of Ethics and Animals, Atlanta, December, 1996 (for abstract, click here ).
"A Paradox About Instrumental Reason," delivered at Tulane University
Philosophy
Department faculty research colloquium, November, 1996 (for abstract,
click here ).
"The Second Generation Philosophers and Implications for Science,"
delivered at National
Meeting of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science,
Minneaoplis,
November, 1996 (for abstract, click here
).
"When Were You Conceived?," delivered at Tulane University Philosophy
Department faculty
research colloquium, November, 1995 (for abstract, click here ).
"A Defense of 'A Defense of Abortion'," delivered at Tulane University
Philosophy
Department faculty research colloquium, February, 1995.
"Contractarianism Gone Wild," delivered at meeting of the Society for
the Study of Ethics and
Animals, Atlanta, December, 1993 (for abstract, click here ).
"Reply to Robinson," delivered at meeting of the Society for the Study
of Ethics and Animals,
Atlanta, December, 1993 (for abstract, click here ).
"Parsimony Made Simple," comment on paper delivered at meeting of the
Society for the
Study of Ethics and Animals, New York City, December, 1992 (for
abstract, click here ).
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
American
Philosophical
Association
Honorable
Mention, 2005 APA Book Prize competition
Kayden Book Award,
Spring 2008 (for The Problem of
Punishment)
Eaton
Faculty Award, Spring 2007 (for A
Defense of Abortion)
Univeristy of Canterbury (New
Zealand)
Erskine Fellowship,
Spring 2006
Government Fellowships
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend, Summer
2001
Department of Energy Course Development Grant, Summer 1996
National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Research
Fellowship, Summer 1985
Tulane University
Newcomb Collaborative Research Fellowship, Summer 1997
Lilly Teaching and Course Development Fellowship, 1996-97
Council on Research Grant, Summer 1995
University of Pittsburgh
University Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1987-88
University Teaching Fellowships, 1988-90, 1991-92
Philosophy Department Essay Prize, 1989
Yale University
Visiting Teaching Fellowship, Fall 1990
Distinction in philosophy, 1986
Distinction in history, 1986
Thacher Memorial Prize for Debate, 1986
Phi
Beta Kappa (early election), 1985
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Editorial
Board, Journal of Applied Philosophy
Manuscript Referee for Cambridge University Press
Manuscript Referee for Oxford University Press
Manuscript Referee for State University of New York Press
Manuscript Referee for Ethics
Manuscript Referee for Social Theory
and Practice
Manuscript Referee for Bioethics
Manuscript
Referee for History of Philosophy
Quarterly