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RUTH CHANG
Department of Philosophy
Rutgers University
1 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Email:
Tel: 732 932 9861
Fax: 732 932 8617
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
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts
J.D., cum laude, 1988
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, New Hampshire
A.B., summa cum laude, Philosophy, 1985
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Philosophy, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY,
New Brunswick , 2004-13
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, 1995-96
Visiting Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Philosophy Department, Los Angeles, California, 1993-94
Junior Research Fellow, BALLIOL COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1991-96
Lecturer in Philosophy, WORCESTER COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford,
England, 1990-91
Lecturer in Philosophy, MAGDALEN COLLEGE, Oxford University, Oxford,
England, 1990
PUBLICATIONS
(i) Book:
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) (.ac.uk/).
(ii) Edited Book:
Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997)
(iii) Papers and other published work:
‘When Reasons Run out’, Res Publica special issue on Transformative Experiences, ed., Jonathan Jacobs, in preparation
‘Do We Have Normative Powers?’ draft
‘In Defense of Weighing Reasons’, eds., Barry McGuire and Errol Lord, Weighing Reasons, Oxford University Press, 2014
‘Incommensurability and Incomparability’, eds., Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson, Oxford Handbook in Value Theory, Oxford University Press, 2013
‘Joseph Raz’, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge 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
‘Grounding Practical Normativity: Going Hybrid’, Philosophical Studies 164 (1): 163-187, 2013. inger.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-013-0092-z.
‘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)
‘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
‘Incommensurability (and Incomparability)’, International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell 2009, series editor, Hugh La Follette (6500 words)
‘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), 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.
(iv) Miscellany:
TED talk, TED@250, New York, NY, 2014
APA Committee on the Status of Women, Woman Philosopher of the Month, 2014
Interview with Richard Marshall, 3am Magazine, 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
Interviewed by John Protevi at New Apps appsblog.com/new-apps- interviews/, 2012
Entry in Exhibition Catalog by Prudence Whittlesey, Artist. Portraits of Philosophers.
(vi) Long-Term Projects:
Making it Matter, invited to publish in the Oxford Ethics Series, Oxford University Press.
INVITED TALKS
Keynotes and Public Lectures
TED@250 Speaker, NY Salon, New York, NY Spring 2014
Keynote Speaker, AGENT Graduate Conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX, Fall
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
Pfingstkurs Lecture Series, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (presented a
series of 5 lectures with commentary by Rudiger Bittner), 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
Other talks
Stanford 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
Transformative Reasoning Conference, St. Louis, MO, Fall 2014
Rutgers Graduate Student Faculty Talks, Spring 2014
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
Judge William H. Orrick, Jr. Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 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
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
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 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 2014
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Social Choice and Welfare
Erkenntnis
Journal of Philosophical Research
Referee for Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Gravitation Grant (167.5
million euros), 2012-13
Ombudsperson for Nondiscrimination, American Philosophical Association, 2014-2017
Member, APA Committee on the Status of Women, 2013-
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