CURRICULUM
VITAE
Alastair James Norcross
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Department of Philosophy University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0232 (303) 492-7527 email: norcross@colorado.edu |
Education:
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Syracuse
University, May 1991.
Dissertation: "Moral Conflicts and Moral Psychology"
Advisor: Jonathan Bennett
M.A. in Philosophy, Syracuse
University, Spring 1990
B.A. in Classics (Literature and
Philosophy), Christ Church, Oxford University, Summer
1983.
Areas
of Research Specialization:
Ethics, Applied Ethics,
Political Philosophy
Additional
Areas of Teaching Competence:
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy
of Law, Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Feminist
Philosophy, Logic, Critical Thinking
Appointments:
2007- Associate
Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder
2002-7 Associate
Professor of Philosophy, Rice University, Houston, TX
1998-2002 William
Edward Easterwood Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1999-2000
Visiting
Associate Professor of Philosophy, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1992-98 Assistant
Professor, Philosophy Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1990-92 Assistant
Professor, Philosophy Department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY
1988-90 Instructor,
Philosophy Department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY
Publications:
Anthology:
Killing and Letting Die, 2nd. ed.,
Fordham University Press, 1994, co-edited with Bonnie Steinbock.
Articles:
"Beastly Violence, or How Kant Screws Everything up Yet Again", Southwest Philosophy Review, 27:2, 2012.
"Puppies, Pigs, and
Potency: A Response to Galvin and Harris",
Ethics, Policy and Environment
Vol. 15, No. 3, October 2012,
"Consequentialism and Friendship", in Damian Caluori (ed.), Thinking About Friendship: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
"Doing and Allowing", in Hugh Lafollette (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics, forthcoming.
"Deontological Ethics", in James Crimmins and Douglas Long (eds.), Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, Continuum Publishers, 2012.
"The Significance of Death for Animals", in Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, and Jens Johansson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Death, Oxford University Press, 2012
"Animal Experimentation, Marginal Cases, and the Significance of Suffering", in Jeremy Garrett (ed.), The Ethics of Animal Research: Exploring the Controversy, MIT press, 2012.
"Act-Utilitarianism and
Promissory Obligation", in Hanoch Sheinman (ed.), Understanding Promises and Agreements:
Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press, 2011.
"Why Legitimacy doesn't entail Obligation: a Response to Wyckoff", Southwest Philosophy Review, 26:2, forthcoming 2011.
"Moral Intuitions and fMRI Research", Southwest Philosophy Review, 25:2, 2011.
"Causal Impotence and
Eating Meat", Southwest Philosophy Review, 24:2, 2009.
"Was Mill an 'India House'
utilitarian?", Southwest Philosophy Review, 23:2, 2009.
"Two Dogmas of
Deontology: Aggregation, Rights, and the Separateness of Persons", Social Philosophy
& Policy, January 2009.
"Off Her Trolley?
Frances Kamm and the Metaphysics of Morality",
Utilitas 20:1, 2008.
"Varieties of
Hedonism in Feldman's Pleasure and the Good Life", Utilitas
19:3, 2007.
"Animal
Experimentation", Oxford Handbook of Bioethics, 2007.
"Scalar
Act-Utilitarianism", in Henry R. West (ed.) Blackwell Guide to Mill's Utilitarianism, 2006.
"Reasons Without
Demands: Rethinking Rightness", in James Dreier (ed.) Blackwell
Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, 2006.
"Peacemaking Philosophy or
Appeasement? Sterba's
Argument for Compromise."
International Journal of Applied
Philosophy,19:2, Fall 2005
"Contextualism
for Consequentialists", Acta Analytica, Vol 20,
No. 2, 2005.
"Harming in Context",
Philosophical
Studies, Vol 123, Nos
1-2, March 2005.
"Puppies, Pigs, and
People: Eating Meat and Marginal cases", Philosophical Perspectives 18, 2004.
Important Note: The online version contains the
excellent jokes the spineless wimps at Blackwell made me take out of the
published version. Read this version, if you like making fun of Alabama (and if
you don't, what the hell are you doing looking at my online CV?).
"Torturing Puppies and
Eating Meat: It's All in Good Taste", The Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 20, No.
1, January 2004.
"Killing and
Letting Die", The Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, R. G. Frey and
Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.) 2003, pp. 451-463.
"Contractualism
and Aggregation", Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 2002, pp.
303-314.
"Contractualism
and the Ethical Status of Animals", The Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 17, No.
1, January 2001, pp. 137-143.
"Three approaches to the
Ethical Status of Animals", The Maguire Center for Ethics and Public
Responsibility, Occasional Lecture Series, 2000.
"Intransitivity and the
Person-Affecting Principle", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol LIX, No. 3; September 1999, pp. 769-776.
"Intending and Foreseeing
Death: Potholes on the Road to Hell", The Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 15, No.
1, January 1999, pp. 115-123.
"Great Harms from
Small Benefits Grow: How Death can be Outweighed by Headaches", Analysis,
April 1998, pp.152-158.
"Speed Limits, Human Lives,
and Convenience: A Reply to Ridge", Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 1; Winter 1998, pp. 59-64.
"Good and Bad
Actions", The Philosophical Review, Vol 106, No. 1;
January 1997, pp. 1-34.
"Consequentialism
and Commitment", The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 4, December 1997,
pp. 380-403.
"Comparing Harms:
Headaches and Human Lives", Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 2; Spring 1997, pp. 135-167.
"Trading Lives for
Convenience: It's not just for Consequentialists",
The Southwest
Philosophy Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1997, pp. 29-37.
"Rationality and the
Sure-Thing Principle", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 74, No. 2; June 1996, pp.
324-327.
"Rational Roulette", The Southwest
Philosophy Review, Vol. 12, No. 1; January 1996, pp. 191-196.
"Should
Utilitarianism Accommodate Moral Dilemmas?", Philosophical
Studies, Vol. 79, No. 1; July 1995, pp. 59-85.
"Rights Violations and
Distributive Constraints: Three Scenarios", The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly,
Vol. 76, no. 2; June 1995, pp. 159-167.
"Introduction to the Second
Edition", Killing
and Letting Die, 2nd. Ed., (Fordham 1994) pp. 1-23.
"A Consequentialist Case for Rejecting the Right", The Journal of
Philosophical Research, Vol. 18; 1993, pp. 109-125, co-authored with
Frances Howard-Snyder.
"Consequentialism
and the Unforeseeable Future", Analysis, October 1990, pp. 253-56.
"Killing, Abortion
and Contraception: A Reply to Marquis", The Journal of Philosophy, May 1990, pp.
268-77.
"A Reply
to Margery Naylor", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, June 1989, pp.715-19.
In
progress available online:
Selected
Conference Presentations:
"Utility,
Determinism, and Possibility: Context to the Rescue"
International Society for
Utilitarian Studies conference, Berkeley CA, September 2008
Bled Philosophy Conference, June
2006
"Two Dogmas of Deontology:
Aggregation, Rights, and the Separateness of Persons"
Social Philosophy and Policy
Center conference on Aggregation in Moral and Political Philosophy, November
2007
Presidential Address to the
Southwestern Philosophical Society, November 2005
"Intentions, Character, and
Consequentialism"
Mountain-Plains Philosophy
Conference, October 2007
Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
February 2005
"Off Her
Trolley? Frances Kamm and the Metaphysics of
Morality"
American Philosophical
Association Pacific Division Meeting, March 2007
"Utilitarianism
and Torture", invited Symposium on the re-emergence of the Torture Debate,
American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, April 2006
"Euthanasia and
Self-defense"
Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
February 2006
"Feldman on Attitudinal
Pleasure and Desert"
Utilitarianism
2005, conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, August
2005
Comments on Song's
"Cosmopolitan Sovereignty and the Morality of Intervention"
American Philosophical
Association Central Division Meeting, April 2005
Critique of Sterba's The Triumph of Practice over Theory in Ethics
American Philosophical
Association, Pacific Division Meeting, March 2005
"Two Approaches to Ethical Contextualism"
Bled Philosophy Conference, June
2004
Comments on "Modified Speciesism:
A Brief Look into the Real Problem with our Treatment of Animals"
American Philosophical
Association Central Division Meeting, April 2004
"Rationality, Moral Status,
and Marginal Cases"
American Philosophical
Association, Pacific Division Meeting, March 2004
Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
February 2004
"Torturing Puppies and
Eating Meat: It's All in Good Taste"
Southwestern Philosophical
Society, November 2003
American Philosophical
Association Central Division Meeting, April 2002
Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
February 2002
"Harming in
Context"
Bellingham Summer Philosophy
Conference, August 2003
"Consequentialism and Harm"
Bled Philosophy Conference, June
2003
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February
2003
Comments on "Frankfurt
Style Examples"
Southwestern Philosophical
Society, November 2002
Comments on "Personal Identity, Autonomy and Advance
Directives"
Southwestern Philosophical
Society, November 2001
Comments on "Can One Aim at
Virtue?"
American Philosophical
Association Central Division Meeting, May 2001
Comments on "Disability,
Marxism and Ecofeminism"
North Texas Philosophical
Association, April 2001
Comments on "New
Inconsistencies in Infinite Utilitarianism"
American Philosophical Association
Pacific Division Meeting, March 2001
"Contractualism
and the Ethical Status of Animals"
Midsouth Philosophy Conference, February
2001
Southwestern Philosophical
Society, November 2000
Comments on "Derivative and
Inherited Value"
American Philosophical
Association Pacific Division Meeting, April 2000
"Consequentialism
and Group Harms",
Utilitarianism
2000, annual conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies,
March 2000
Comments on "Moral
Mathematics: Does Participation Matter?"
American Philosophical
Association Eastern Division Meeting, December 1999
Comments on "Are Hate
Crimes Conceptually Distinct From Other Crimes?"
Southwestern Philosophical
Society, November 1999
"The Road to Hell":
Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
March 1999.
Southwestern Philosophical
Society, October 1998.
26th Conference on Value
Inquiry, April 1998.
North Texas Philosophical
Association, April 1998 (Presidential Address).
"Great Harms from Small
Benefits Grow: How Death can be Outweighed by
Headaches":
Mid-South
Philosophy Conference, February/March 1998.
"Trading Lives for
Convenience: It's not just for Consequentialists":
American
Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December 1997.
Mid-South
Philosophy Conference, February/March 1997.
Southwestern Philosophical
Society, November 1996.
"Intransitivity and the
Person-Affecting Principle":
American
Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, April 1997.
Comments on "An Agnostic
Defense of Obligatory Prayer":
Mid-South
Philosophy Conference, February/March 1997.
"Reply to Marquis's 'The
Contraception Problem'":
American
Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, December 1996.
"Rational Roulette":
Southwestern Philosophical
Society, November 1995.
"Betrayal, Alienation and
Self-Deception":
23rd Conference on Value
Inquiry, April 1995.
"Rights Violations and
Distributive Constraints: Three Scenarios":
American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting, April 1995.
"Consequentialism
and the Goodness of Actions":
American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting, April 1994.
North Texas Philosophical
Association, Spring 1993.
"Why Consequentialism
is not a Theory of the Right", with Frances Howard-Snyder:
American Philosophical
Association Eastern Division meeting, 1993.
Comments on "Rawls and the
Autonomy of Labor":
North Texas Philosophical
Association, Fall 1992.
"The Incommensurability of
Moral Values":
New York State Philosophical
Association, October 1989.
Selected
Invited Presentations:
"The Road to Hell":
Front Range Philosophy
conference, keynote presentation, October 2008.
The University of Houston,
November 2004
Alabama Philosophical Society,
Special Session in Honor of James Rachels, October
2004
Dartmouth College, July 2000
SMU Research Symposium, April
1999
SMU Collegium,
April 1999
Keynote Speech at the
Southwestern Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, April 1998.
SMU Ethics Colloquy, March 1998.
"Human Cloning: the Ethical
Issues"
Seymour Riklin Memorial lecture,
Wayne State University, October 2007
"Two Dogmas of Deontology:
Aggregation, Rights, and the Separateness of Persons"
University of Texas at Austin,
May 2007
University of California San
Diego, January 2007
University of Colorado Boulder,
December 2006
"Puppies, Pigs,
and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases"
Rice University, Scientia series, September 2005
Keynote speech at the UT San
Antonio Philosophy Symposium, November 2003
Syracuse University, October
2003
Texas Tech University, March
2003
"Consequentialism and Group Harms"
Texas Tech University, March
2003
The University at Albany,
December 2002
"Uncommon Sense:
Controversial Moral Positions You Should Accept"
Keynote speech at the
Southwestern Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, March 2003
Acadia University, Nova Scotia,
October 2001
"Social Contract Theory and
the Ethical Status of Animals"
The Maguire Center for Ethics
and Public Responsibility, Southern Methodist University, Public Scholar
Lecture, November 1999
"The Scalar Approach to
Morality":
The University of Connecticut,
November 1999
The University of Arizona,
Tucson, October 1999
University of Texas at Austin,
April 1998.
Rice University, February 1998.
"Trading Lives and Risking
Death for Convenience: It's not just for Consequentialists".
The University of Dallas, April
1999
"Death, Headaches, and
Transitivity: why Consequentialists should stick to
their Guns":
Rice University, November 1997.
"Nonsense on Stilts: What's
Wrong with Rights":
The Dallas Philosophers' Forum,
November 1997.
"Comparing Harms: Headaches
and Human Lives":
University of Mississippi, April
1996.
Texas A&M University,
September 1995.
"Good and Bad
Actions":
University of Houston, March
1995.
University of Arkansas, December
1994.
Texas Tech University, October
1994.
"Betrayal, Alienation and
Self-Deception":
SMU Ethics Colloquy, March 1995.
Texas Tech University, October
1994.
"Sex, Lies and
Deception":
The Dallas Philosophers' Forum,
October 1994.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges,
March 1992.
Awards:
Baker College Special Service
Award, 2004
SMU President's Associates
Outstanding Faculty Award, 2001
SMU Ethics Development Grant,
2001
Maguire Teaching Fellowship,
1997
SMU Curriculum Development Grant
for Social and Political Philosophy, 1997
Sam Taylor Fellowship, 1994
Invited to participate in NEH
Summer Institute on Naturalism, 1993 (declined)
Professional
Activity:
Member of the
Editorial Board of The Journal of Moral Philosophy.
Southwest Philosophy Review, Acta Analytica.
Journal Referee for Ethics, The
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Journal of Philosophical Research,
Social Theory and Practice, The Southern Journal of Philosophy.
President of the Southwestern
Philosophical Society (2004-5)
Vice-President and Program Chair
of the Southwestern Philosophical Society (2003-4)
President of
the North Texas Philosophical Association (1997-8).
Member of the American
Philosophical Association.
Member of the Southwestern
Philosophical Society, Executive Committee
Foreign
Language Reading Competency:
French, Ancient Greek, Latin