ELIZABETH
S. ANDERSON
John Rawls Collegiate Professor
of Philosophy and Women's Studies
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Department
of Philosophy
Angell Hall 2239 / 435
South State St.
Ann Arbor,
MI
48109-1003
EMPLOYMENT
University of Michigan, John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, 2005-
University of
Michigan,
Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, 1999-.
University of Michigan, Associate Professor of Philosophy and
Women's Studies,
1993-1999.
University of Michigan, Adjunct Professor of Law, 1995, 1999, 2000.
University
of Michigan,
Assistant Professor of
Philosophy, 1987-1993.
Swarthmore College, Visiting Instructor in Philosophy, 1985-6.
Harvard University, Teaching Fellow, 1983-1985.
EDUCATION
Harvard University,
Department of Philosophy, 1981-1987. A.M.
Philosophy,
1984. Ph.D. 1987.
Swarthmore
College,
1977-1981. B.A. Philosophy
with minor in
Economics, High Honors, 1981.
HONORS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Michigan Humanities Fellow (University of Michigan), 2007
Named John Rawls Collegiate
Professor, 2005
Honorable Mention, Fred Berger Memorial Prize
(American
Philosophical Association), 2003
(for "Expressive Theories of Law")
John H. D'Arms Award
for Distinguished
Graduate
Mentoring in the Humanities, 2002.
National Institutes of Health, 1999 ($430,465 over 3 years; co-PI. PI: Toby Jayaratne).
Michigan Humanities Fellow (University of Michigan),
1999.
Nelson Fellow (Philosophy Department), 1998-.
Rackham Faculty Grant,
1996 ($14,400).
Office of Vice President for Research
Grant (with
Toby Jayaratne,
Research Scientist, Center
for
Human Growth and
Development), 1995
($14,000).
Arthur F. Thurnau
Professorship, awarded
for
excellence in undergraduate teaching, 1994-.
Selected by The
Philosopher's Annual as
author of one
of ten best philosophical papers
published in 1991.
University of Michigan
College
of LS&A Excellence
in Education
Award,
1991.
Humanities Institute Fellow,
University of
Michigan, 1989-90.
Emily and Charles Carrier Prize for
Ph.D.
Dissertation, Harvard
University,
1988.
Charlotte W. Newcombe
Fellow, 1986-7.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Ethics, Social and Political
Philosophy,
Philosophy of the
Social Sciences, Feminist Theory, Epistemology
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association (Central
Division), AAUP, Human Development and Capabilities
Association,
Society for Analytical Feminism
PUBLICATIONS
Underlined titles link to abstracts,
or, for
online publications,
to full text.
Book:
Value in Ethics and in Economics.
Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard University Press, 1993.
- Excerpts (on ethical limitations of the
market, and cost-benefit analysis) reprinted in Frank Ackerman, David
Kiron, Neva Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, and Kevin Gallagher, eds., Human Well-Being and Economic Goals (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997), pp. 36-40, 157-161.
- Excerpts
(on surrogate motherhood) reprinted in
Ira Ellman,
Paul Kurtz, and Elizabeth
Scott, Family Law: Cases, Text, Problems, 3rd
ed. (Lexus
Publishers, 1998), 4th. ed.,
(LEXISNEXIS/Matthew Bender and Co., N.Y., forthcoming 2004).
- Ch. 8 (on surrogate motherhood) reprinted in Westend: Neue Zeitschrift fur Sozialforschung 1 (2006): 74-87 (in German).
Articles:
"Defending
the Capabilities Approach to Justice," forthcoming
in Harry
Brighouse and Ingrid Robeyns, eds., Measuring Justice: Capabilities and Primary Goods (Cambridge University Press).
"Emotions
in Kant's Later Moral
Philosophy: Honor
and the Phenomenology
of Moral Value," forthcoming in Monika Betzler, ed., Kant's
Virtue Ethics
(New York and Berlin: de Gruyter).
"Democracy:
Instrumental vs.
Non-Instrumental Value," forthcoming in Thomas Christiano and
John Christman,
eds., Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy
(Oxford: Blackwell).
" "Affirmative
Action and
Fraser's Redistribution-Recognition Dilemma" forthcoming in Kevin Olson, ed., Adding
Insult to Injury (Verso).
"The
Future of Racial Integration," in Lawrence Thomas, ed., Social
Philosophy (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2008), pp. 229-249.
"Five Questions in Normative Ethics,"� in Thomas Petersen and Jesper Ryberg, eds., Normative Ethics: 5 Questions (Automatic Press, 2007), pp. 1-11.
"How Should Egalitarians Cope with Market Risks?,"� Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9 (2007): 61-92.
"If
God
is Dead, is Everything Permitted?," in Louise Antony, ed., Philosophers
without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life
(Oxford
University Press, 2007), pp. 215-230.
- Reprinted in Christopher Hitchens, ed., The Portable
Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Philadelphia: DaCapo
Press/Perseus Books, 2007), pp. 333-348.
"Fair Opportunity in Education: a Democratic Equality Perspective,"� Ethics 117 (2007): 595-622.
"The Epistemology of Democracy," Episteme 3 (2006): 9-23.
"Recent
Thinking about Sexual
Harassment: A Review Essay," Philosophy
and Public Affairs 34 (2006): 284-311.
"Reply
to Critics of My 'Uses
of Value Judgments in Feminist Social Science'," Symposium
on Race, Gender,
and Philosophy (commentators Linda Alcoff, Sharon
Clough, Marianne Janack,
Charles Mills), January 2006, online:
http://web.mit.edu/sgrp/2006/no1/Anderson0106.pdf.
"Egalitarian Theory and Practice: An
Interview with Elizabeth
Anderson," Imprints 9 (2005): 3-28.
"Critical
Notice: Amartya Sen,
Rationality
and Freedom," Philosophical Review 114 (2005): 253-271.
"Dewey's
Moral
Philosophy," Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Spring 2005 Edition), Edward N.
Zalta (ed.), URL =
<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2005/entries/dewey-moral/>, 2005.
"Moral
Heuristics: Rigid
Rules or Flexible Inputs in Moral Deliberation?" Commentary
on Cass Sunstein,
"Moral Heuristics,"Behavioral and Brain Sciences
28 (4) (2005): 544-545.
"Welfare,
Work Requirements,
and Dependent Care," Journal of Applied Philosophy
21 (2004):
243-256.
"Ethical
Assumptions of Economic Theory: Some Lessons from the History of Credit
and
Bankruptcy," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
7
(2004): 347-360.
"Racial
Integration as a Compelling Interest," Constitutional
Commentary 21 (2004): 101-127.
"Rethinking
Equality of Opportunity: Comment on Adam Swift's How Not to
be a
Hypocrite,"
Theory and Research in Education
2 (2004): 99-110.
"Sen, Ethics, and Democracy,"
Feminist Economics 9
(2003): 239-261.
- Reprinted in Bina
Agarwal, Jane Humphries, and Ingrid
Robeyns, eds., Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A
Gender Perspective
(Routledge, 2005) and in their Capabilities, Freedom and
Equality: Amartya
Sen's Work from a Gender Perspective (Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 2006)
(an enlarged ed. of the Routledge volume).
- Reprinted in John Wood, ed. Amartya Sen: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists (Routledge, 2006).
"Uses
of
Value Judgments in Feminist Social Science: A Case Study of Research on
Divorce,"
Hypatia
19 (2004): 1-24.
"Situated
Knowledge and the Interplay of Value Judgments and Evidence in
Scientific
Inquiry," in P. Gärdenfors,
J. Wolenski and K. Kijania-Placek,
eds. In the
Scope of Logic, Methodology
and Philosophy of
Science, vol. 2 (Kluwer,
2002), pp.
497-517.
"Animal
Rights and the Values of Nonhuman Life," in
Martha
Nussbaum and Cass Sunstein,
eds., Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (Oxford:
Oxford
University
Press, 2002).
"Integration,
Affirmative Action, and Strict Scrutiny," NYU Law
Review, 77
(2002): 1195-1271.
- translated
into Portuguese by Elton Dias Xavier, Unimontes
Law Review (Brazil)
- excerpts
in John H. Garvey, T. Alexander Aleinikoff
and Daniel Farber, Modern Constitutional Theory: a Reader, 5th ed.
(West Publishing Co., 2004)
"Should
Feminists Reject Rational Choice Theory?" in Louise Anthony
and
Charlotte Witt, eds. A
Mind of One's Own
(2d. ed.) (Boulder:
Westview, 2001),
369-397.
"Feminist
Epistemology
and Philosophy of Science," Stanford
Encyclopedia
of
Philosophy (Summer 2004 Edition),
Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL
=<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2004/entries/feminism-epistemology/>,
2001, revised 2003.
- excerpt
reprinted as "Situated Knowledge" in Max
Hallman, ed., Traversing Philosophical Boundaries,
3rd. ed. (Wadsworth,
2007)
"Unstrapping the Straitjacket of 'Preference':
on Amartya Sen's Contributions to
Philosophy and Economics,"
Economics and Philosophy 17 (2001): 21-38.
- reprinted in John Wood, ed. Amartya Sen: Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists (Routledge, 2006).
"Expressive
Theories of Law: A General Restatement" (with Richard Pildes), University
of Pennsylvania
Law Review 148 (2000): 1503-1575.
- Symposium on this article (6 papers), Maryland
Law Review
vol. 60
(2001)
"Why
Commercial Surrogate Motherhood Unethically Commodifies
Women and Children: Reply to McLachlan
and
Swales,"
Health Care Analysis 8 (1), 2000.
"From Normative to
Empirical Sociology in the
Affirmative Action Debate: Bowen and Bok's
The
Shape of the River," Journal
of
Legal Education 50 (2000): 284-305.
"Beyond
Homo
Economicus:
New Developments in
Theories of
Social Norms," Philosophy and Public Affairs
29 (2000):
170-200.
"Anderson
replies to Arneson, Christiano,
and Sobel," Brown
Electronic
Article
Review Service, December 1999, Jamie Dreier and David Estlund,
editors (replies to critics of "What is the Point of Equality?")
"What
is
the Point of Equality?,"
Ethics 109
(1999): 287-337.
- Reprinted
as "Warum eigentlich
Gleichheit?"
in Angelika Krebs, ed. Gleichheit
oder Gerechtigkeit: Texte der
neuen Egalitarismuskritic (Franfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag
2000) 117-171.
- Reprinted
in Peter Vallentyne, ed., Equality and Justice: the Demands of Equality, vol. 2 of Ethical Investigations
(Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2002)
- Excerpts
reprinted in Matthew Clayton and Andrew
Williams, eds., Social
Justice (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2004)
- Ma Depu
and Will Kymlicka,
eds., Cultural Debates in Western Political Culture, vol.
5, (Tianjin: Tianjin People's
Press, 2006) (in Chinese), 73-144.
"Soberanía
del consumidor versus soberanía
del
ciudadano.
Algunos
errores en la economía
neoclásica del
bienestar," Isegoria
(Madrid)
18
(1998): 19-46. ("Consumer
Sovereignty vs. Citizens' Sovereignty: Some Errors in Neoclassical
Welfare
Economics")
- Reprinted
in Herlinde Pauer-Studer
and Herta Nagl-Docekal,
eds., Freiheit,
Gleichheit und Autonomie:
Wiener Reihe. Themen der
Philosophie,
vol.11 (Vienna-Munich: Verlag
Oldenbourg /Berlin:
Akademie Verlag, 2002) (in English)
"John Stuart
Mill on Democracy as
Sentimental
Education," in Amelie Rorty,
ed., Philosophers on Education (Chicago: University
of
Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 333-352.
"Pragmatism,
Science, and Moral Inquiry," in Richard Fox and Robert
Westbrook, eds. In
Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in
American
Scholarship (Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Cambridge
University
Press, 1998), pp. 10-39.
"Practical
Reason and Incommensurable Goods," in Ruth Chang, ed., Incommensurability,
Incomparability, and
Practical Reason (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press,
1997).
"Consumer
Sovereignty or Citizen Disenfranchisement? The
Question of Economic
Value in Relation
to Public
Spaces," CENTER
(journal of the Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas
at Austin)
10
(1997): 27-39.
"Comment on Dawson's "Exit,
Voice, and Values in
Economic Institutions," Economics
and Philosophy
13 (1997): 101-105.
"Knowledge, Human Interests, and
Objectivity in Feminist
Epistemology," Philosophical
Topics 23 (1995):
27-58.
- Reprinted
in John Perry and Michael Bratman,
eds.,
Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 284-304.
- Reprinted
in Gary E. Kessler, ed., Voices of Wisdom: a Multicultural
Philosophy Reader, 4th and 5th eds., (Wadsworth/Thomson,
2000,
2003).
"Reasons, Attitudes, and Values:
Replies to Sturgeon and
Piper," Ethics
106 (1996): 538-554.
"Feminist Epistemology: An
Interpretation and Defense,"
Hypatia
10 (1995): 50-84.
- Reprinted
in Jack Crumley, ed., Readings
in
Epistemology (Mayfield Publishing Co., 1998).
- Reprinted
in K. Brad Wray, ed. Knowledge and Inquiry (Broadview
Press,
2002).
- Reprinted
in Yuri Balashov and
Alexander Rosenberg,
eds., The Philosophy of Science Reader (New York:
Routledge,
2001).
- Reprinted
in Robin
Andreason and Ann Cudd, eds., Feminist
Theory: a Philosophical Anthology (Blackwell, 2004).
"The Democratic University: the
Role of Justice in the
Production of Knowledge," Social
Philosophy and
Policy 12 (1995): 186-219.
"John Stuart Mill and
Experiments in Living," Ethics
102 (1991): 4-26.
- Reprinted
in The Philosopher's Annual, vol. XIV, as among the
ten best philosophical
papers to appear in print in
1991.
- Reprinted
in David Lyons, ed., Critical Essays: Mill's Utilitarianism
(Rowman and Littlefield,
1997).
- Reprinted
in Chin Liew Chen, ed.,
Mill's Moral,
Political and Legal Philosophy (Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate, 1999).
"Compensation within the Limits
of Reliance Alone," in
John W. Chapman, ed., Compensatory
Justice: Nomos,
vol. 33, (1991), pp.
178-185.
"Slinging Arrows At Democracy:
Social Choice Theory, Pluralism,
and Democratic Politics."
with
Richard Pildes.
Columbia Law
Review 90
(December 1990): 2121-2214.
"The Ethical Limitations of the
Market."
Economics and Philosophy 6 (1990): 179-205.
- Reprinted
in Paul Steidlmeier et
al, Business
and Society: Advanced Readings in the Social Environment of Business
(Prentice-Hall, 1995).
- Reprinted
in Charles K. Wilbur, ed., Economics, Ethics and Public Policy
(Rowman and Littlefield,
1998), pp. 223-249.
- Reprinted
in Eugene Heath, ed., Morality and the Market
(McGraw-Hill Higher Education)
"Is Women's Labor a Commodity?" Philosophy
and Public Affairs 19 (1990): 71-92.
- Reprinted in Michael Sandel, ed., Justice: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 144-156.
- Reprinted
in William H. Shaw, ed., Social and Personal Ethics
(Belmont,
Cal.: Wadsworth, 1993), pp. 295-305.
- Reprinted
in Ronald Munson, ed., Intervention
and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics, 5th. ed.
(Belmont,
Cal.: Wadsworth, 1996), pp. 537-544.
- Reprinted
in Charles K. Wilbur, ed., Economics, Ethics and Public Policy
(Rowman and Littlefield,
1998), pp. 267-286.
- Reprinted
in Hugh LaFollette,
ed., Ethics in
Practice (Blackwell, 1999).
- Reprinted
in Susan Sherwin and Barbara Parish, eds., Women, Medicine
and the
Law (Ashgate
Publishing, 2002).
- Excerpts
reprinted in Ira Ellman,
Paul Kurtz, Buffie
Scott, Lois Weithorn
and Brian Bix, eds.,
Family Law: Cases,
Text, Problems (New York: Matther
Bender/LEXISNEXIS, forthcoming).
- Reprinted
in Hugh
LaFollette, ed., Ethics in Practice,
3rd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).
"Women and Contracts: No New Deal." Review Essay on Carole Pateman, The
Sexual Contract.
Michigan Law Review 88 (May 1990): 1792-1810.
"Values, Risks, and Market Norms," Philosophy
and Public Affairs
17(1988):
54-65.
Hugh M. Lacey and Elizabeth Anderson, "Spatial Ontology and Physical
Modalities,"
Philosophical Studies 38 (1980): 261-285.
Brief
Reviews:
Review
of Cassandra Pinnick,
Noretta Koertge,
and Robert
Almeder, eds., Scrutinizing
Feminist
Epistemology,
Metascience 13
(2004): 395-399.
Review
of Margaret Radin,
Contested Commodities. Ethics
109 (1999): 914-917.
Review of Amartya Sen,
Inequality
Reexamined. Economics and Philosophy 11
(1995): 182-88.
Review of Sharon
Lloyd, Ideals as
Interests
in Hobbes' Leviathan. International
Studies in
Philosophy 28
(1995): 123-124.
Review of Robert
Kuenne,
Economic Justice in American Society.
Journal of
Economic Literature 32 (1994): 16-18.
Review of Barbara Herman, The
Practice of Moral Judgment. Philosophical Review
103
(1994):
768-771.
Review of
Michael Stocker, Plural
and Conflicting
Values. Philosophical Review
101 (1992):
931-933.
Review of
Charles Larmore,
Patterns of Moral Complexity. Philosophical
Review
99
(July 1990): 472-474.
Other
Publications:
Left2Right Blog,
contributor (URL: http://left2right.typepad.com/).
"How
Not to Criticize Feminist
Epistemology," review of Cassandra Pinnick,
Noretta Koertge,
and Robert Almeder,
eds., Scrutinizing
Feminist Epistemology, (2004).
The
Geography of Race in
the U.S. (with
Jeff Jones).
Annotated Bibliography on Race, Gender,
and
Affirmative
Action.
"Defending Affirmative Action," Against the Current
94
(Sept/Oct 2001): 19-22.
"Optional Freedoms," Boston
Review Oct/Nov
2000, 16.
- Reprinted
in Josh Cohen and Joel Rogers, eds., Delivering a Basic Income
(Boston: Beacon Press, 2001).
"Recent Work on Equality."
Michigan Philosophy News,
1994.
"Racism versus Academic Freedom" Against
the
Current 32 (May/June 1991): 24-28.
PAPERS
AND PRESENTATIONS
"Expanding the Egalitarian Toolbox (I): Two Cheers
for Capitalism and Bureaucracy,"
Ethics Program and Department of
Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway, September 27, 2007.
"Expanding the Egalitarian Toolbox (II): The Imperative of
Integration,"
Ethics Program and Department of Political Science,
University of Oslo, Norway, September 28, 2007
"The Imperative of Integration: Race and Education,"
Veroni Memorial Lecture in Philosophy and the Humanities, Kent State University, November 9, 2007.
John Rawls
Collegiate Professorship in Philosophy and Women's Studies
Inaugural Lecture,
University of Michigan, February 15, 2007.
Comments on Joshua Cohen’s "Power, Reason,
and Politics,"
Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of
California, Berkeley, April 12, 2007.
Panelist, "The Place of the Poor in the Theory of Justice,"�
Poorest of the Poor Conference, Institute for the Humanities,
University of Michigan, February 6, 2007.
"How Should Egalitarians cope with Market Risk?,"
Legal Luck Conference, Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University,
Israel, Jan. 4, 2007.
Debate with Carl Cohen on Proposition 2: Michigan Civil Rights Initiative,
Greenhills School, October 23, 2006.
"Against Desert: Markets, Equality, and Pure Procedural
Justice,"
Markets and Equality Conference, Stanford University,
Sept. 30, 2006.
"The Epistemology of Democracy,"�
Episteme Conference, University of Toronto, June 2, 2006.
Philosophy Department, Columbia University, October 19, 2006.
"Fair
Opportunity in Education:
a Democratic Equality Perspective"
MIT
Conference on Equality of Opportunity in
Education, March 25, 2006.
Debate
with Rev. Ira Combs on
Affirmative Action
sponsored
by Toward a Fair
Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, March 22, 2006.
Political
Economy and Taxes
workshop (on my Left2Right blog entries)
Stanford
University, Political
Science Department, February 24, 2006.
"Democracy:
Instrumental vs.
Non-Instrumental Value"
Stanford
Law School, Legal
Theory Workshop, February 23, 2006.
"Situated
Knowledge, Collective
Identities, and Integration"
Complexity of Diversity
Conference, University
of Michigan, November 10, 2005.
"The
Imperative of Racial
Integration"
Carnegie
Mellon University,
James La Paglia Lecture in Ethics, Center for the Advancement of
Applied
Ethics, October 6, 2005.
"Consumer
Sovereignty vs. Citizens'
Sovereignty: Some Errors in Neoclassical Welfare Economics"
Carnegie Mellon University,
Philosophy Dept. workshop, October 6, 2005.
"Europe's Problem, and Ours: Integration of Ethnic
Minorities
Department
of Political Science, University of Stockholm, May 18, 2005.
Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, May 20, 2005.
MIT,
Philosophy Dept., March 24, 2005.
"Racial Integration as a
Compelling Interest,"
Institute for the Humanities, University of
Michigan,
Sept. 20, 2005.
"Situated
Knowledge, Collective
Identities, and Integration,"
Complexity of Diversity
Conference, University
of Michigan, November 10, 2005.
"Sexual Harassment in
International Perspective,"
Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado,
Boulder, April 1, 2005
Department of Philosophy, UCLA, April 15, 2005
University
of Copenhagen,
Philosophy Dept. workshop, May 19, 2005
"Identification of
Climate Injustices and Barriers to
Climate
Justice" (panelist) in the
Just Climate?
Pursuing
Environmental
Justice in the Face of Global Climate Change conference,
University
of
Michigan, March 26, 2004
"The Interaction
of Facts and Values in Social
Science," roundtable presentation at Mills College, Jan. 30, 2004.
"Ethical Assumptions of Economic Theory: Some Lessons from the History
of
Credit and Bankruptcy"
Societas
Ethica Conference on
Economics and Ethics, Sigtuna,
Sweden, August 24, 2003
James A. Moffett Lecture in
Ethics, Program
in Ethics
and Public Affairs, Princeton University, October 16, 2003
Philosophy Department
Colloquium, Duke
University,
April 16, 2004
"Affirmative Action and the Need for Integration,"
Stanford
University conference on "Diverse Approaches to Affirmative
Action," May 16, 2003.
"The Prisoner's Dilemma: Solved"
Vanderbilt University
Department of
Philosophy,
September 13, 2002.
Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard
University,
October 24, 2002.
Bowling Green University
Department of
Philosophy,
November 8, 2002.
Georgetown University
Department of
Philosophy, April
4, 2003.
"Values and Social Science," at the "Science, Values, and
Society" conference
Swarthmore College, sponsored by the Grater
Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, March 21, 2003.
Commentator on Anthony Appiah's
Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture, "Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Identity and Individuality in Ethics and Politics," Institute
for the Humanities,
University of Michigan, March
18, 2003.
Panelist, "Women as Commodities: the Value of Gender"at
the "Women, Money, and Power"
international conference, sponsored by
the Radcliffe Institute
for
Advanced
Study, Harvard University, October 25, 2002.
Panelist, "Feminist Pedagogy and Racially Integrated Education" at
the national conference, "Redefining Identity
Politics: Internationalism, Feminism, Multiculturalism"
The Project for the Future of Minority Studies and the Program in
Comparative Literature's
Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar,
October 18, 2002, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
"The
Case for Affirmative Action," debate with Roger Clegg (lawyer, Center
for
Equal Opportunity),
Federalist Society and
the Black Law Students'
Association, Law School, University of Michigan, April 15, 2002.
"Rehabilitating
the Ideal of Racial Integration,"
Keynote Address, Graduate Student
Philosophy Conference/Annual Philosophy Public Lecture,
University of
Illinois,
Urbana-Champaigne, March
29, 2002.
"The Prisoner's
Dilemma Solved: from
Self-Interest to
Identity Politics and Beyond,"
University of Illinois, U-C
Department of
Philosophy,
March 29, 2002
Albion College campus-wide
convocation,
sponsored by
the Center for Meaning and Value, Sept. 20, 2001.
"Confronting
Injustice: Affirmative
Action in South Africa
and the United States,"
Panel presentation for the
interdisciplinary conference series, "Legacies of
Injustice,"
University of Michigan (CAAS, Comparative Literature)
February 15, 2001.
"Ethical
Implications of Evolutionary Psychology and Genetic Engineering,"
2001
Jerome B. Wiesner
Symposium, Genes and Human Nature Panel, University of Michigan, Dec. 7, 2001
"Integration,
Affirmative Action, and Strict Scrutiny,"
Wayne State University (Political Science), April
11,
2001.
U. California Berkeley Law School (Boalt
Hall), April 13, 2001.
Stanford University Law School, April 16, 2001.
Yale Law School, April 4, 2002
USD Law School, November 16, 2001
NYU Law School, Oct. 18, 2001
"Integration,
Compensation, and Affirmative Action," Harvard Law School, October 26,
2000.
"Unstrapping
the Straitjacket of "Preference": on Amartya
Sen's Contributions to
Philosophy and
Economics," American Philosophical
Association,
Central Division Meetings, April 22, 2000.
"Situated
Knowledge and the Interplay of Value Judgments and Evidence in
Scientific
Inquiry."
Invited
paper, 11th
International Congress
of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science.
Cracow,
Poland. August 23, 1999.
Department of Philosophy, Arizona State
University,
March
2000.
"Diversity
Rationales for Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Critique and
Reconstruction,"
University of Kentucky, Department of
Philosophy,
February,
1999.
"The
Roles of Values in Feminist Science: Comments on Lynn Nelson and Hugh
Lacey,"
Philadelphia Consortium of Philosophy,
Swarthmore
College,
December 1997
"What
is the Point of Equality?"
University of North Carolina, 31st
Philosophy
Colloquium,
Chapel Hill
University of Chicago, Political Science
Department
"What
is Liberal Community?"
Indiana University, Poynter
Center for
the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, February
1997.
"Should
Feminists Reject Rational Choice Theory?
American Philosophical Association, Eastern
Division
Meetings,
Atlanta, Ga., December 1996.
Conference on Social Norms, University of Chicago
Law
School,
April 1997.
"Equality,
Recognition, and the Challenge
to Liberalism."
Comments on Nancy Fraser's Tanner
Lectures.
Stanford University, May
1996. 2 seminar sessions.
"Knowledge, Human
Interests, and
Objectivity in Feminist
Epistemology."
Johns Hopkins University, Program in Political and
Moral
Thought,
September 1995
University of Toronto, School of Law, September
1995
"Pragmatism and
Moral Inquiry."
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Washington, D.C.
conference on
"The Revival of Moral Inquiry
in American Scholarship," May 1995
"Replies to Profs.
Adrian Piper and
Nick Sturgeon on Value in Ethics and Economics."
American Philosophical Association, Pacific
Division
Conference,
"Author meets Critics"
session, March 1995
"Pluralism,
Economic Value, and the
Values of Cities and
Public Spaces."
Conference on "The Question of Economic Value"
University of Texas at Austin, School of
Architecture,
October
1994
"Equality:
Political, not
Metaphysical, Moral, or
Mathematical."
MIT, Department of Philosophy and Linguistics,
October
1994
"The Ethical and
Prudential Values of
Socially Responsible
Investment."
Comment on Michael Knoll, "Socially Responsible
Investment
and Modern Financial
Markets." Oxford
University/University of
Southern California Law School Law/Philosophy
Workshop, Balliol College, July 1994
"The
Democratic University: the Role of Justice in the Production of Knowledge."
Social Philosophy and Policy Center
Conference on
"The
Just Society", Bowling Green
University, April 1994
Yale University, Law School, September 1994
"Practical Reason
and Incommensurable
Goods."
Conference on Incommensurable Values,
sponsored by
the
University of
Caen,
France, April 1994
University of Chicago Law/Philosophy
Working Group,
April
1994
Harvard University, Department of
Philosophy, March
1997
"Feminist
Epistemology: An Interpretation and Defense."
Columbia University, Law School,
November 1993.
University of Chicago Law School, April
1994.
Northwestern University Law School,
April 1994.
University of Illinois at Chicago,
Department of
Philosophy,
Feb. 1995.
"John Stuart Mill
as a Virtue Theorist."
Comment on David Elliott, "The Judicious
Aristotelian:
John Stuart Mill
and the Ethics of Virtue," APA
Central
Division
Meetings, April 1993.
"The Liberal
Origins of Radical Equality."
University of
Pittsburgh, Department of
Philosophy, January 1993.
"Objective
Inquiry and the Democratic University: A Perspective on the
`PC' Debates."
University of
Pittsburgh, Department of
Philosophy, January 1993.
"Affirmative
Action, Objectivity, and the
Multicultural
University."
Harvard University,
Program in Ethics
and the
Professions, October 1992.
"Expressive
Rationality and
Agent-Centered Moral
Constraints."
University of
Pennsylvania, Philosophy
Department, September 1992.
"Some Problems in
the Normative Theory of
Rational
Choice."
Public Choice
Society Meetings, New
Orleans,
March 1992
University of
Michigan, Economics
Department,
March 1990.
"An Expressive
Theory of Rational Choice."
Cornell University,
Philosophy
Department,
February 1992.
"Philosophy,
Objectivity, and Standards
of Excellence."
University of
Michigan, Conference on
`Political
Correctness', November 1991.
"Tolerance and
Pluralism."
Comment on Edward
James, "Monism,
Relativism, and Intolerance," APA Central Division
Meetings, Chicago, April
1991.
"Caring
and Evaluation: Reflections on the Diversity of Values."
Central Michigan
University, Philosophy
Department, November 1990.
"Moral Relativism
as an Attitude."
Central Michigan
University, Philosophy
Department, November 1990.
"The Sources of
Norms."
University of
Wisconsin, Philosophy
Department,
April 1990
University of
Chicago, Philosophy
Department,
February 1990.
"The Commodity
Form."
Williams College,
Conference in Markets
and
Political Theory, April 1989.
"Mill and
Conceptions of the Good."
American
Philosophical Association,
Pacific
Division Conference, March 1989.
"Compensation
within the Limits of
Reliance Alone."
Comment on Robert Goodin,
"Compensation and Redistribution,"
American
Society for
Political and Legal
Philosophy Conference,
New Orleans, January 1989.
"What
is Sociology: Social Science or Humanity?"
University of
Michigan, Sociology
Department,
December 1988.
"What's
Wrong with Racism?:
Individualist and
Communitarian
Views."
Michigan State
University, Philosophy
Department, November 1988.
"Rational
Choice and Social Behavior: A Philosophical Perspective."
University of
Michigan, Research Center
for
Group Dynamics Seminar, September 1988.
"Is
Women's Labor a Commodity?"
University of
Michigan, Conference of
the
Committee on Ethics, Humanism and Medicine,
April 1987.
University of
Michigan, Center for
Population
Studies, October 1988.
"Descartes and the
Origins of the
Mind-Body Problem."
Swarthmore College,
Philosophy
Department, April
1983.
Public
Broadcasting
Guest
speaker for Affirmative
Action,
Ken Taylor and John Perry, hosts, Philosophy Talk,
KALW San Francisco,
August 17, 2004.
Guest
speaker for Markets
and Morality, Ken Taylor
and
John Perry, hosts, Philosophy
Talk, KALW San Francisco,
March 9, 2004
Guest
speaker for The
History of Equality,
Gretchen Helfrich,
host, Odyssey,
Chicago Public
Radio, WBEZ
91.5FM, August 18, 2003.
Call-in
Program on Rehabilitating the Ideal of Racial Integration, David Inge, host, Focus 580,
WILL-AM/NPR,
University of
Illinois, March 29, 2002
"Affirmative
Action and the Need for Integration," IRWG-sponsored lecture series,
Broadcast on Community TV, Ann Arbor, February 2002
Panelist
on the Ethics of Gift-Giving, Gretchen Helfrich,
host, Odyssey,
Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ
91.5FM, December 24, 2001
Discussant
on Affirmative Action and the U-M Lawsuits, The Warren Pierce
Show,
WJR
(760AM), Dec. 15, 2000 (opposite Carl Cohen, also responding to public
call-ins).
COURSES
TAUGHT
Honors
Introduction to Philosophy
First-Year Philosophy Seminar on Emotion
Global Justice
Law and Philosophy
Contemporary Moral Problems
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Ethics
Undergraduate Senior Seminar in Ethics
Undergraduate Senior Seminar on Global Justice
Topics in Political Philosophy
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Social Philosophy
Theory of Value
Topics in Ethics
Topics in Feminist Philosophy (crosslisted
with
Women's Studies) (Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science)
Graduate Proseminar in
Ethics (co-taught with Allan Gibbard, Stephen Darwall)
Graduate
Seminar in History of Philosophy: Philosophy of John Dewey
Graduate Seminar in Ethics
Graduate Seminar in Practical Reasoning and Moral Relativism
Graduate Seminar in Social Philosophy
Graduate Seminar in Feminist Theory, Social Construction, and
Agency (co-taught with Sally Haslanger)
Graduate Seminar in Sociology and Philosophy (co-taught with Mayer
Zald, Sociology, University of Michigan)
Law, Economics, and Alternatives to Both (in Law
School)
Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action (in Law School)
SERVICE TO PROFESSION (selected)
Executive Committee, AAUP,
University of Michigan chapter, 2004-5
Nominating
Committee, American Philosophical Association Central Division,
1999-2000, 2004-5
Advisory Committee to APA Eastern Division Program Committee, 1998
Nominating Committee, APA Central Division, 1997-8
Advisory Committee to APA Eastern Division Program Committee,1997
Program Committee, APA Central Division, 1994
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and
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Philosophy,
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Political Science Review, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian
Journal
of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Comparative
Studies in
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and Moral Practice, Ethics and Justice, Feminist Economics,
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Journal of Economic Methodology, Journal of Health
Politics, Policy and Law, Journal
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University
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