MARGARET URBAN WALKER arrived at Arizona State University in
2002, as Lincoln Professor for the College of Public Programs. She
joined the Philosophy Department as Professor of Philosophy and Lincoln
Professor of Ethics in 2005, after three years in the School of Justice and
Social Inquiry. Walker received the Ph.D. in Philosophy from
Northwestern University in 1975, and was a member of the Philosophy
Department at Fordham University from 1974-2002. She has taught
philosophy and philosophical ethics in undergraduate and graduate
programs at several universities.
Margaret Walker’s research and teaching fields include Anglo-American
moral and political theory, restorative justice and reparations, the history
of ethics, feminist ethics, and Wittgenstein. Her latest book is Moral
Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations After Wrongdoing (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responding to wrongdoing in ways
that restore trust and hope, the basis of moral relations. Her current research explores the logic of
reparations and the moral and political dimensions of truth-telling. She has worked with the
International Center for Transitional Justice on gender and reparations and on transitional justice
measures.
A continuing theme of her work is the impact of social differences and inequalities on everyday moral thinking and on philosophical ethics. Margaret Walker is author of Moral Contexts (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) and Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics, Second Edition, (Oxford University Press, 2007). Walker edited Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), and co-edited Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) with Peggy DesAutels, and Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, with Hilde Lindemann and Marian Verkerk (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Her articles have appeared in professional journals such as Ethics, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, The Journal of Value Inquiry, The Hastings Center Report, The Journal of Social Philosophy, and The Journal of Human Rights.
Margaret Walker has held visiting appointments at the University of South Florida, Washington University, and the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. She is a longtime member of the American Philosophical Association, the Society for Women in Philosophy, and a founding member of FEAST (the Association for Feminist Ethics & Social Theory). She has lectured in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. She joined the teaching faculty of the Graduate Summer School on the Ethics and Politics of Care of The Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy in Soesterberg, The Netherlands, 2000, and visited the Research Concentration in Applied Ethics at Queensland University of Technology as guest speaker in Brisbane, Australia, in summer, 2001. Margaret Walker was honored to hold the Cardinal Mercier Chair in Philosophy for 2001-2 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. In 2003-2004, she was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University Center for Human Values. In 2007, Margaret Walker was honored to be the first recipient of ASU’s Defining Edge Research in Humanities Award.
Moral Understandings, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2007
Moral Understandings defends an expressive-collaborative model of morality that challenges common assumptions in philosophical ethics. Because morality is not socially modular, I argue for an empirically informed and politically critical ethics that reveals the moral significance of social differences.
This new and expanded edition of Moral Understandings includes a new preface and epilogue, an expanded first chapter, and a new chapter on the moral and epistemological significance of public projects of truth-telling as part of a “politics of transparency.”
Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing examines the ethics and moral psychology of responding to wrongdoing, explaining the emotional bonds and normative expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards and responsible to each other. Using realistic examples of both personal betrayal and political violence, Moral Repair examines how moral bonds are damaged by serious wrongs and what must be done to repair the damage. Keeping primary focus on victims of wrong, their right to validation and their sense of justice, this book presents a unified and detailed philosophical account of hope, trust, resentment, forgiveness and making amends -- the emotions and practices that sustain moral relations. When wrongdoing, violence, or persistent injustice distort or destroy moral relations, there are individual and communal obligations to attempt moral repair. Moral Repair joins a multidisciplinary literature concerned with transitional and restorative justice, reparations, and restoring individual dignity and mutual trust in the wake of serious wrongs. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (Routledge, 1998) provides a sustained critique of contemporary assumptions of Anglo-American moral theory, offers an alternative model for the analysis of morality as an actual phenomenon of human societies, and outlines a method for normative critique of moral practices. A central theme of Moral Understandings is that socially marked differences, such as gender, race, age, class, or ability, are unrepresented or misrepresented in standard ethical theory, with serious results for both morality and philosophical ethics. Ethical theories depict "the moral agent" or "the person," or valued ideals like "autonomy" or "integrity," in ways that mirror the social roles and character ideals for advantaged and able adult men in our society. Walker uses critical techniques feminist scholars have pioneered in the past twenty years, along with her own model of morality as practices of responsibility that coordinate understandings of identities, relationships, and values, to reveal the impact of gender and other bias in representations of morality in philosophical ethics. Her “expressive-collaborative” conception of morality offers both an analytical agenda for understanding the common and often questionable intermeshing of moral and social positions, and a clearer understanding of the stakes in moral criticism and pressures for change within and between moral communities. Moral Understandings was the subject of an “Author Meets Critics” session on the main program of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting in New York City in December, 2001. Papers by critics Claudia Card and Lorraine Code with a reply by Margaret Walker are published in Hypatia 17 (2002).
The essays in Moral Contexts identify and explore contexts that shape moral thinking and philosophical ethics. Some contexts are unchanging human conditions: vulnerability and interdependency, limited awareness and control, and fallible and imperfect insight into ourselves and others. Other contexts are subject to evaluation and change. These moral contexts include cultural images, historical preoccupations, social arrangements, ways of speaking, and professional conventions. When contexts are ignored or erased, moral thinking, and thinking about morality in ethics, can be misleading or irrelevant. When contexts are acknowledged and studied, we can learn things about how we actually think and live, and whether we need to change. These essays, written over a period of fifteen years, show how we can try to identify and appreciate moral contexts, and how it makes a difference when we do. Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Fifteen original essays in Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics, edited and with an Introduction by Margaret Urban Walker (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999), explore assumptions, experiences, practices, and public policies that affect women’s well-being, self-respect, and dignity in later life. Topics include: older women’s responses to changes in appearance; their relationship to cultural norms of social acceptability and successful agency; their standing in the view of medical professionals and in the context of healthcare practices; their needs for autonomy, security, and dignity in daily living; and society’s demands that they provide care for others. The authors look for ways aging puts older women at risk of indignity, neglect, or harm, and ways women meet moral challenges, maintain cherished values, and define resilient moral and social identities throughout later life. By turns shrewd, sad, provocative, and wise, these authors create a sampler of thought about women’s aging in ethical perspective that invites further research and public discussion. Contributors: Sandra Lee Bartky, Daniel Callahan, Joan C. Callahan, Peggy DesAutels, Robin N. Fiore, Frida Kerner Furman, Martha Holstein, Diana Tietjens Meyers, Hilde Lindemann Nelson, James Lindemann Nelson, Sara Ruddick, Anita Silvers, Joan C. Tronto, Margaret Urban Walker, Susan Wendell.
Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) explores cognition, judgment, perception, and emotion that make human beings capable of moral action. The questions encompassed by moral psychology are humanly interesting, morally challenging, and philosophically complex. Perspectives from feminist and race theory immensely enrich moral psychology. Writers who take these perspectives ask questions about mind, feeling, and action in contexts of social difference and unequal power and opportunity. These essays by a distinguished international cast of philosophers explore moral psychology as it connects to social life, scientific studies, and literature. Contributors include Karen Jones, Sandra Lee Bartky, Jean Harvey, Robin Dillon, Peggy DesAutels, James Lindemann Nelson, Catherine Wilson, Sue Campbell, Claudia Card, Charles Mills, Paul Benson, and Rebecca Whisnant. Margaret Urban Walker provides an introduction.
Margaret Walker’s CV follows
Curriculum Vitae
MARGARET URBAN WALKER
Philosophy Department Phone: 480.965.3703
Arizona State University Email: Margaret.Walker@asu.edu
P. O. Box 874102 Fax: 480.965.0902
Tempe, AZ 85287-4102
CONTINUING APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Philosophy and Lincoln Professor of Ethics, Philosophy Department, Arizona State University, Fall 2005-present.
Lincoln Professor of Ethics, Justice, and the Public Sphere, School of Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, with Affiliate appointment, Philosophy Department,
Fall, 2002 - Summer, 2005.
Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, 1998-2002; Tenured Associate Professor 1982-98;
Assistant Professor, 1975-82; Instructor, 1974-75.
EDUCATION
B.A., Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, June, 1969
M.A., Philosophy, Northwestern University, August, 1971
Ph.D., Philosophy, Northwestern University, August, 1975
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Anglo-American Ethics and Political Theory, Moral Psychology, Feminist Ethics, Wittgenstein
HONORS AND GUEST APPOINTMENTS
Defining Edge Research in the Humanities Award, Arizona State University, 2007.
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, Princeton University Center for Human Values 2003-4.
The Cardinal Mercier Chair in Philosophy for 2001-2, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, celebrated 3/27-3/29/2002.
Guest, Research Concentration in Applied Ethics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 5/30-6/7/2001.
Invited Speaker and Teaching Faculty for Graduate Summer School on “Ethics and Politics of Care,” organized by Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy, Soesterberg, Netherlands, 8/7-8/12/2000.
Visiting Senior Scholar, The Ethics Center, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, 1997- 1998.
Frances Elvidge Fellow, The Ethics Center, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, 1996- 1997.
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, Spring Semester, 1994.
Instructor, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Ethics and the Liberal Arts, 7/22-7/26/1991, Bethany College, West Virginia.
Guest Professor, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Higher Institute of Philosophy, Fall Term, 1981.
PUBLICATIONS: Books
Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics, Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations After Wrongdoing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Moral Contexts. Collected Essays. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics. New York: Routledge, 1998.
PUBLICATIONS: Edited Books
Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice. Ed. Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk, and Margaret Urban Walker, with an Introduction by Margaret Urban Walker. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory. Ed. Peggy DesAutels and Margaret Urban Walker, with an Introduction by Margaret Urban Walker. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics. Ed. Margaret Urban Walker. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
PUBLICATIONS: Articles
“Gender and Violence in Focus: A Background for Gender Justice in Reparations,” in The Gender of Reparations, ed. Ruth Rubio-Marin (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“Truth Telling as Reparations,” Metaphilosophy, forthcoming.
“Introduction: Groningen Naturalism in Bioethics,” in Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, ed. Marian Verkerk, Hilde Lindemann, and Margaret Urban Walker (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
“Reply to Govier, MacLachlan, and Spelman,” Online symposium on my “Restorative Justice and Reparations, Journal of Social Philosophy (2006), in Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy 3 (2007), at http://web.mit.edu/sgrp.
“Moral Psychology,” in The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Linda Alcoff and Eva Kittay (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2007).
“Restorative Justice and Reparations,” Journal of Social Philosophy 37 (2006): 377-395.
“The Curious Case of Care and Restorative Justice in the U.S. Context,” Socializing Care: Feminist Ethics and Public Issues, ed. Maurice Hamington and Dorothy C. Miller (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
“The Cycle of Violence,” Journal of Human Rights 5 (2006): 81-105.
“Diotima’s Ghost: The Uncertain Place of Feminist Philosophy in Professional Philosophy,” Hypatia 20 (2005): 153-164.
“Introduction,” Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, ed. Peggy DesAutels and Margaret Urban Walker (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), ix-xiv.
“Resentment and Assurance,” in Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers, ed. Cheshire Calhoun (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
“Truth and Voice in Women’s Rights,” in Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, ed. Hilde L. Nelson and Robin N. Fiore (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
“Truth and Voice in Women’s Rights,” Onze Alma Mater: Leuvense Perspectieven 56 (2002): 365-78.
“Feminist Ethics and Human Conditions,” The Inaugural Lecture of the Cardinal Mercier Chair, 2002, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 64 (2002): 433-450. Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
“Autonomy, Beneficence, and Justice in Wider Context,” Forum Contribution: Informed Consent and Fluctuating Decisional Capacity, Ethics and Behavior 12 (2002): 291-93.
“Morality in Practice: A Response to Claudia Card and Lorraine Code,”in Symposium on Margaret Walker’s Moral Understandings, Hypatia 17 (2002): 174-82. Published version of Eastern Division APA Main Program Session on Moral Understandings, 12/29/01.
“Moral Repair and Its Limits,” in Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory, ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001.)
“Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal for Feminist Naturalism in Ethics,” in Feminists Doing Ethics, ed. Peggy DesAutels and Joanne Waugh (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001). Volume selected as an Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2003. Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
“Naturalizing, Normativity, and Using What “We” Know in Ethics,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 26 (2000): 75-101. Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
“Getting Out Of Line: Alternatives to Life as a Career,” in Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics, ed. Margaret Urban Walker (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999). Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
“Ineluctable Feelings and Moral Recognition,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXII, Philosophy of Emotion, ed. Peter A. French and Howard K. Wettstein (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998): 62-81. Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
"Moral Epistemology," in A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, ed. Alison Jaggar and Iris Young (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998).
“Geographies of Responsibility: New Work,” The Hastings Center Report 27 (1997): 38-44.
"Picking Up Pieces: Lives, Stories, and Integrity," in Feminists Rethink the Self, ed. Diana T. Meyers (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997).
"Feminist Skepticism, Authority, and Transparency," in Moral Knowledge? New Readings in Moral Epistemology, ed. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Mark Timmons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
"Some Thoughts on Feminists, Philosophy, and Feminist Philosophy," Metaphilosophy 27 (1996): 222-25. Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
"Where Do Moral Theories Come From?," Philosophical Forum 26 (1995): 242-57. (Henry Sidgwick and 20c. ethics)
“Global Feminism: What's The Question?," APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 94 (1994): 53-55.
"Thinking Morality Interpersonally: A Reply to Burgess-Jackson," Hypatia 8 (1993): 167-173.
"Keeping Moral Space Open: New Images of Ethics Consulting," Hastings Center Report 23 (1993): 33-40. Reprinted in Meaning and Medicine: A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care, ed. James Lindemann Nelson and Hilde Lindemann Nelson (New York: Routledge, 1999). Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
"Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory," Hypatia 7 (1992): 23-38. Reprinted in shorter version as "Feminist Ethics and the Critique of Moral Theory" in Tradition and Renewal, Vol. 2, eds. David Boileau and John Dick (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 1993). Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
"Partial Consideration," Ethics 101 (1992): 758-774. Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
"Moral Luck and the Virtues of Impure Agency," Metaphilosophy 22 (1991): 14-27. Reprinted in Moral Luck, ed. Daniel Statman (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993). Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
"Augustine's Pretense: Another Reading of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations #1," Philosophical Investigatons 13 (1990): 99-109. Reprinted in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Symposium on the Centennial of His Birth, ed. S. Teghrarian, A. Serafini, E. Cook (Longwood Academic Press, 1990).
"Further Notes on Feminist Ethics and Pluralism: A Reply to Lindgren," Hypatia 5 (1990): 151-155.
"Autonomy or Integrity: A Reply to Slote," Philosophical Papers 18 (1989): 253-263.
"Moral Understandings: Alternative 'Epistemology' for a Feminist Ethics," Hypatia 4 (1989): 15-28. Reprinted in Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice, ed. E. Cole and S. Coultrap-McQuin (Indiana University Press, 1992); reprinted in Justice and Care, ed. Virginia Held (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995); reprinted in Feminist Ethics, ed. Moira J. Gatens (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1998); reprinted in Moral Contexts..
"What Does The Different Voice Say?: Gilligan's Women and Moral Philosophy," The Journal of Value Inquiry 23 (1989): 123-134. Reprinted in Moral Issues in Global Perspective, ed. Christine M. Koggel (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1999). Reprinted in 3-volume Moral Issues in Global Perspective, 2nd Edition, vol. 1, ed. Christine M. Koggel (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005). Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
"Moral Particularity," Metaphilosophy 18 (1987): 171-185. Reprinted in Moral Contexts.
*"Moral Luck?," The Journal of Value Inquiry 19 (1985) 319-326.
*"Role and Rational Action," Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 14 (1984): 259-275.
*"Eye, 'I', and Mine: The Self of Wittgenstein's Tractatus," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 20 (1982): 313-323. Reprinted in The Philosophy of Wittgenstein Volume 3, ed. John Canfield (Garland Publishing, 1985).
*"Beyond Rules: Mapping the Normative," American Philosophical Quarterly 18 (1981): 331-337.
*"Merleau-Ponty on Language: An Interrupted Journey Toward a Phenomenology of Speaking," International Philosophical Quarterly 20 (1980): 307-326.
*Published under the name ‘Margaret Urban Coyne’
PUBLICATIONS: Reviews
Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership, Ethics, forthcoming.
Trudy Govier, Forgiveness and Revenge, International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2003): 252-54.
Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman, eds. Citizenship in Diverse Societies, Ethics 113 (2002): 166-69.
Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th-Century, The Journal of Value Inquiry 36 (2002): 117-21.
Rosalind Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics, International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (2001): 493-95.
Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (2001): 108-110.
Elizabeth V. Spelman, Fruits of Sorrow, Cross Currents 48 (1998/9): 571-73.
Hans Sluga and David G. Stern (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (1998): 329-31.
Susan Babbitt, Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity, and Moral Imagination, Hypathia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 13 (1998): 168-173.
Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover (eds.), Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities, International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1997): 479-81.
Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt (eds.), A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 96:2 (1997): 37-39.
Rosalind Hursthouse, Gavin Lawrence, and Warren Quinn (eds.), Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory, International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1997): 242-244.
D. Z. Phillips, Wittgenstein and Religion, Philosophical Investigations 18 (1995): 81-87.
Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, International Philosophical Quarterly (1993): 370-371.
Garrett Barden, After Principles, Ethics 102 (1992): 418 [note].
Diana T. Meyers, Self, Society and Personal Choice, Thought 66 (1991): 331-33.
*John Barwise & Jon Perry, Situations and Attitudes, Review of Metaphysics 38 (1984): 107-9.
*James C. Edwards, Ethics Without Philosophy: Wittgenstein and the Moral Life, International Philosophical Quarterly (1984): 198-201.
*Stanley Rosen, The Limits of Analysis, International Philosophical Quarterly (1983):342-44.
*Gerd Brand, The Essential Wittgenstein, International Philosophical Quarterly (1981):226-27.
*Mary Anne Warren, The Nature of Woman, International Philosophical Quarterly (1980): 117-18.
*Hilary Putnam, Meaning & the Moral Sciences, International Philosophical Quarterly (1979):497-501.
*Jonathan Bennett, Linguistic Behavior, International Philosophical Quarterly (1978): 233-35.
*Published under the name 'Margaret Urban Coyne.'
PAPERS AND LECTURES
“Gender Justice in Repair: Finding Women’s Places in Post-conflict Reparations,” Plenary Address, North American Society for Social Philosophy 25th International Conference: Gender, Equality, and Social Justice, Portland, 7/17/08.
“Truth as Reparations,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, California State University at Los Angeles, 4/24/08.
“Moral Repair,” Presentation, Leading with Integrity: Ethics in Action Course, The Brookings Institution, 3/19/08.
“Truth as Reparations,” Philosophy Department, University of Georgia, Athens, 2/29/08.
“Truth as Reparations for Historical Injustice,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Baltimore, 12/30/08.
“Truth as Reparations,” Conference on Responding to Atrocities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 10/13/07.
“Should We Think in Terms of a ‘Continuum of Violence’ in Addressing Harms to Women in
Armed Conflict, 2007 Conference, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Clearwater, Florida, 9/29/07.
“Repairing Gendered Violence,” Williams College, 9/21/07.
“Truth as Reparations,” Oakley Center for the Humanities, Williams College, 9/20/07.
“Humane Dignity,” Expert Seminar: Ethics of Care, Asymmetry, Recognition, Compassion, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, 5/24/07.
“The Politics of Transparency and the Moral Work of Truth,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, 3/2/07.
“Gender and Violence in Focus: A Background for Reparations,” Conference on What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations, International Center for Transitional Justice, Caux, Switzerland, 2/23/07.
““Truth and Tellings in Moral Repair,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C., 12/29/06.
“Telling Truths and Restoring Moral Relations,” Keynote Lecture, Northeast Ethics Bowl, Williams College, 11/10/06.
“Telling Truths and Restoring Moral Relations,” Philosophy Department Homecoming Lecture, Arizona State University, 10/20/06.
“Restorative Justice and Reparations,” California Roundtable on Race and Philosophy, University of San Francisco, 9/22/06.
“Gender and Violence Through the Lens of Reparation,” Second Conference on Gender and Reparations: Opportunities for Transitional Democracies?: Thematic Studies, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, 5/18/06.
“Hope’s Value,” Philosophy Colloquium, Arizona State University, 4/28/06.
“Unforgivable Acts and the Moral Power of Victims,” Morality, Luck and Identity: A Conference in Celebration of Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 4/15/06.
Women and Reparations for Violent Conflict: The Need to Make History,” Lifelong Learning Center, Florida Atlantic University, 1/13/06.
“What Does the Victim Want? Reading Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden,” Faculty and Graduate Student Workshops, Florida Atlantic University, 1/12/06.
“Rethinking the Cycle of Violence: Victims, Trauma and Justice,” Florida Atlantic University, 1/11/06.
“How to Naturalize Bioethics, and Why,” Workshop, Naturalized and Narrative Bioethics Project, Center for the Ethics of Care, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 9/8/05.
“Gender and Violence Through the Lens of Reparations,” Conference on Gender and Reparations: Opportunities for Transitional Democracies?: Case Studies, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, 7/7/05.
“Leveraging Responsibility: Restorative Justice & Historical Injustice,” Keynote Panel, Historical Injustice: Restitution and Reconciliation in International Perspective, Brown University, 3/19/05.
“Restorative Justice and Reparations,” Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and the Global Ethics Seminar, 12/6/04.
“Forgiving,” University of San Francisco, Philosophy Department, 4/16/04.
“Forgiveness and Moral Repair,” Ann Palmeri Memorial Lecture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 4/2/04.
“Hope’s Value,” Philosophy Department, Fordham University, 3/30/04.
“Forgiving,” Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 3/16/04.
“Forgiving,” New York Society for Women in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center, 3/5/04.
“Reply to Janna Thompson on Reparations for Historical Injustice,” Conference on Reparations, Queen’s University, 2/6/04.
“Diotima’s Ghost,” Panel on Women Philosophers and Professional Philosophy, APA Eastern Division Meeting, 12/28/03.
“Making Amends: Simple Practices and Hard Cases,” Columbia University Seminar on Moral Education, 11/18/03.
“Resentment and Assurance,” Committee on Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy, University of Maryland, 10/24/03.
“Forgiving and Moral Repair,” 25th Annual Eunice Belgum Memorial Lecture, St. Olaf College, 10/7/03.
“Making Amends: Simple Practices and Hard Cases,” 25th Annual Eunice Belgum Memorial Lecture, St. Olaf College, 10/6/03.
“The Curious Case of Care and Criminal Justice,” Workshop on Ethics of Care, Conference on Ethics and Public Policy, The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Utrecht, 5/15/2003.
“Comments on Ranking Graduate Programs in Philosophy,” Special Session Invited by the APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession, APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, 3/28/2003.
“Resentment and Assurance,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, Arizona State University, 11/15/2002.
“A Conversation with Margaret Walker about Moral Understandings,” Affinity Group Meeting, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Baltimore, 10/25/2002.
“The Social Articulation of our Senses of Responsibility,” Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 3/29/2002.
“The Nature and Limits of Moral Repair,” Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 3/29/2002.
“Truth and Voice in Women’s Rights,” Genderstudies Program, Catholic University of Leuven, 3/28/2002.
“Feminist Ethics and Human Conditions,” The Inaugural Lecture of the Cardinal Mercier Chair 2001-2002, Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 3/27/2002.
“What is Moral Repair? Complexity and Limits in Responding to Wrongs,” College of Public Programs, Arizona State University, 12/12/2001.
“Truth and Voice in Women’s Rights,” Women’s Studies Program, University of Maine, 11/30/2001.
“What is Moral Repair? The Moral Meanings and Limits of Responses to Wrongdoing,”
The John M. Rezendes Ethics Lecture, University of Maine, 11/29/2001.
“Responsibility and the Ground Floor of Trust,” Philosophy Colloquium, Washington University, 10/25/2001.
“Truth and Voice in Women’s Rights,” Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, 10/5/2001.
“Resentment and Assurance,” Colloquium, Research School for Social Sciences, Australian National University, 6/7/2001.
“Reactive Attitudes and Ground Floor Trust,” Keynote Address, Conference on New Ways of Applying Ethics, Research Concentration in Applied Ethics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 6/1/ 2001.
“Women’s Rights, Rights to Truth,” Plenary Address, Southeast Women’s Studies Association, Florida Atlantic University, 3/16/01.
“Forgiving as Repairing,” Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, 2/29/2001.
“Reactive Attitudes and Ground Floor Trust,” Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University 2/28/2001.
“Rights to Truth: Instrumental and Fundamental,” College of Public Programs, Arizona State University, 2/27/2001.
“Reply to My Commentators,”APA Easter Division Book Session on Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics, 12/29/2000.
“Reactive Attitudes and Responsibility,” Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, 12/1/2000.
“Resentment and Assurance,” Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 11/10/2000.
“Reactive Attitudes and the Ground of Trust,” Summer School on Ethics and Politics of Care, Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy, Soesterberg, Netherlands, 8/9/2000.
“Holding Ourselves Responsible: A Question of Feelings,” Summer School on Ethics and Politics of Care, Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy, Soesterberg, Netherlands, 8/7/2000.
“Naturalizing, Normativity, and Using What ‘We’ Know in Ethics,” Invited Symposium Paper, Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting, University of Alberta, 5/27/2000.
“Forgiving: No Single Path or Destination,” Conference on Forgiveness: Traditions and Implications, Tanner Center for the Humanities, University of Utah, 4/21/2000.
“Resentment and Assurance,” Philosophy Department, Syracuse University, 3/21/2000.
“Forgiveness,” Georgetown University Law Center, 2/29/2000.
“Resentment and Assurance,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 2/18/2000.
“Moral Repair and Its Limits,” Austin and Hempel Lecture, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 2/17/2000.
“Resentment and Assurance,” Department of Philosophy, Queens University, Ontario, 11/18/99.
“Responsibility and Repair,” Rochester Institute of Technology, 10/29/99.
“Seeing Power in Morality: A Proposal For A Feminist Naturalism in Ethics,” Plenary Address, Feminist Ethics Revisited Conference, Clearwater, Florida, 10/2/99.
“Density Vs. Depth: The ‘Everyday’ in Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy,” International Symposium of Phenomenology, Perugia, Italy, 7/23/99.
“Responsibility and Moral Repair,” The Ringelheim Lecture, Florida Atlantic University, 4/16/99.
“Freedom From Resentment,” Philosophy Department, Pennsylvania State University, 4/9/99.
“Resentment and Assurance,” APA Pacific Meeting Main Program, Berkeley, 4/1/99.
“Resentment and Repair: Moral Psychology in Social Context,” Philosophy Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, 3/26/99.
“Recognition in Kind: Problems in Morality and For Ethics,” Keynote Address, 23rd Annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, 3/5/99.
“Humankind or Human Kinds: Problems of Moral Recognition,” Philosophy Department, Bryn Mawr, 2/3/99.
“Moral Identity and Social Difference,” Philosophy Department/ Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program, University of Binghamton, SUNY, 12/9/98.
“The Elusiveness of ‘Common Humanity’ in Ethics,” Philosophy Department 1998 Inaugural Lesson, Fordham University, 9/16/98.
“Comment on Jean Harvey’s ‘Civilized Oppression’,” APA Central Meeting Main Program, Chicago, 5/7/98.
“Freedom From Resentment: Some Questions in Moral Psychology,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of South Florida, 4/17/98.
“Developer’s Ethics or Development Ethics?” Fourth International Conference on the Americas, University of South Florida, 1/31/98.
“Masculine or Feminine Ethics: Is there a difference?” Tampa Bay Association for Women
Psychotherapists, 1/30/98.
“Truth or Justice? The Dilemma of South African Reconciliation,” The Ethics Center, University of South Florida, 9/97.
“Rescuers: Altruism and Effective Motivation,” Eckerd College, 4/97.
“Who Saves? Rescuers of Jews in the Holocaust,” The Ethics Center, U. of South Florida, 4/97.
“Sublimity, Severity, Normality: In the Middle of a Kantian Practice of Judgement,” APA-Eastern Program, Session on Barbara Herman’s The Practice of Judgment, Atlanta, 12/96.
“Four Mistakes About Social Construction,” University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 11/96.
“What Milgram Found,” The Ethics Center, University of South Florida, 10/96.
"Made A Slave, Born a Woman: Necessary Identities," Vassar College, 2/96.
"Picturing People," Philosophy Dept. Lectures Series, Fordham University, 10/95.
"Picturing People," Art History Colloq, State University of New York - Stonybrook, 4/95.
"Women, Feminists, Feminist Philosophers," APA Pacific/Soc Phil Public Affairs- (SF) 3/95.
"Feminist Skepticism and Transparency," New York Society for Women In Philosophy, 3/3/95.
"Where Do Moral Theories Come From? Sidgwick and the Formation of 20c. Moral Theory," Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 12/94.
"Feminist Skepticism, Authority, and Transparency," Moral Epistemology Conference, Dartmouth College, 10/94.
"Gender, Ethics, and Pedagogy," John Carroll University, 8/94.
"Picturing People: The Problem of Recognizable Humanity," Washington University, 4/94.
"Global Feminism: What's the Question?" Feminist Ethics & Social Theory, Pittsburgh, 11/93.
"Ethics Consulting & Moral Narrative," Hastings Center, NY 2/92.
"Responsibility, Narratives & Integrity," APA-Eastern Division Program, NY, 12/91.
"Is It Time For Post-Feminism?" Bergen Community College, New Jersey, 10/91.
TV Interview "On Campus: Postfeminism" New Jersey Educational TV, 10/91.
"Morality & The Emotions" Hollins College, VA 10/91.
"Feminist Ethics & Critique of Moral Theory," NEH Institute - Bethany College, W.VA 7/91.
"Feminist Ethics & Critique of Moral Theory" Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 5/91.
"Two Kinds of Responsibility Ethics," APA-Pacific Division Main Progam, San Francisco, 3/91.
"Feminist Ethics & the Theory-Idea," Society for Women In Philosophy -APA, Boston, 12/90.
"Responsibility & Integrity," Conf.: Moral Agency & Fragmented Self Conf, U. Dayton, 10/90.
"Partial Consideration," Conf: Impartiality, Hollins College Center for Ethics & Policy, 6/90.
"Re-interp Moral Responsibilities in a Technological Age," Symposium, Ripon College, 4/90.
"What is Feminist Ethics?" Symposium, Molloy College, 2/90.
"Augustine's Pretense," Conference: Wittgenstein Centennial, Farleigh-Dickinson,4/89.
"Tensions Within Feminist Ethics," Lehigh University, 4/89.
"Moral Understandings: Alternative Epistemology for Feminist Ethics," Lehigh University, 4/89.
"Augustine's Pretense," APA-Pacific Division Main Program, Oakland, 3/89.
"Moral Understandings," Soc for Women In Phil, State University of NY-Stonybrook, 3/89.
"Autonomy or Integrity," APA-Eastern Division Main Program, Washington, DC 12/88.
"Moral Understandings," Conference: Explorations in Feminist Ethics, Duluth, 10/88.
"Moral Luck & Virtues of Impure Agency," APA-Pacific Division Main Program, Portland, 3/88.
"What is the Different Voice Saying?" Amer Society for Value Inq, APA-Central Division 5/87.
"Moral Particularity," APA-Pacific Division Main Program, San Francisco, 4/87.
"Moral Luck & Virtues of Impure Agency," Conference: Agency, Causality, Virtue, Santa Clara University, 2/87.
"Moral Luck & Virtues of Impure Agency" Philosophy Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, 1/87.
"Eros & Alterity," Tennessee Phil Association, Vanderbilt University, 11/86.
"Eros & Alterity," Seminar, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers 2/86.
"The Limits of Morality," Metro Roundtable, Fordham U, NYC,12/84.
"Moral Luck?" APA-Eastern Division Main Program, Boston, 12/83.
"Reply to Rasmussen on Rorty," American Catholic Philosophical Association Program, NYC 4/83.
"Social Roles and Rational Action," Iona College, 4/82.
"Eye, 'I', and Mine," Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 1/82.
"Eye, 'I', and Mine," New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, Newark, 5/81.
MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association (1973-present)
Society for Women in Philosophy (1975-present)
Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (1999-present)
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Associate Editor, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Spring 2005-present.
Series Co-editor, with Hilde L. Nelson and Sarah Ruddick, of Feminist Constructions book series, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, December 2002-2007.
Executive Co-editor, with Peggy DesAutels, of 3 annual volumes, 2003-5, for the Association of Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers in the Feminist Constructions Series.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Contributor, How Things Work: Transitional Justice Measures, International Center for Transitional Justice, directed by Dr. Pablo De Grieff, ICTJ Research Director, 2008-2009. Program Committee, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, 2008-2009.
Participant, Liberty Fund Seminar on “Moral Responsibility in War,” Philadelphia, 6/5-6/8/08.
Member, Committee on the Status of Women, American Philosophical Association, 2007-2010.
Co-organizer, Naturalized Bioethics Project, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Prof. Marian Verkerk (PI), 2005-2008.
Contributor, Gender and Reparations: Opportunities for Transitional Democracies?, International Center for Transitional Justice, directed by Professor Ruth Rubio-Marin, 2005-2007.
Program Committee, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, 2004-5.
APA Pacific Division Program Committee, 2003-2004.
Steering Committee, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, 2002 and 2003.
Program Committee, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, 2000-2001.
APA Eastern Division Program Committee, 1993 and 1994.
Journal Referee for: The Monist, Journal of Law & Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Feminist Theory, Ethics, Polity, Journal of Political Philosophy, Hypatia, International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Social Philosophy, APA Newsletter on Feminist and Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy Research Archives.
Manuscript/Proposal Review for: Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Westview Press, University of Chicago Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Cornell University Press, Macmillan Publishing, University Press of Kansas, Oxford University Press, University of Massachusetts Press, University of Minnesota Press, State U. of New York Press.
RECENT UNIVERSITY SERVICE OF INTEREST
ASU Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Lincoln Professors Council, 2002-present.
ASU, Barrett, The Honors College, Honors Disciplinary Faculty, 2006-present.
ASU Advisory Board of the Institute for Humanities Research, ASU, 2005-2008.
ASU Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics Advisory Board, 2002-2007.
ASU, Barrett, The Honors College Advisory Board, Undergraduate Certificate Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Law, 2006-2008.
ASU, Faculty Affiliate, Women’s Studies, 2004-continuing.
ASU, Faculty Affiliate, School of Justice & Social Inquiry, 2005-continuing.
ASU, Participant, Committee on Law and Philosophy, 2003-continuing.
ASU, Faculty Affiliate, Bioethics Program, School of Life Sciences, 2003-2006.
ASU, Member, Dean’s Faculty Advisory Council, ASU, 2005-2006.
ASU Faculty Mentoring Program, 2005-2006.
ASU, Coordinator, faculty development project, “Justice in a Globalizing World,” sponsored by the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and School of Justice Studies, 2003-4.
ASU’s Lincoln Center Planning Committee, “Ethics When Cultures Clash” Conference, 2002-3.
Fordham University, Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research, 1998-2000.
Fordham University, Consulting Faculty, NIH 3-year grant for Ethics-in-Science Education, Director, Professor Celia Fisher, Ph.D. psychologist, 1998-99.
Fordham University, Advisory Board, Center for Ethics Education, 1999-2002.
Fordham University, Executive Committee, Women’s Studies Program, 1998-2002.
Fordham University, Executive Committee, Peace and Justice Studies Program, 1999-2002.
Current as of August 2008 References upon request