abbreviated curriculum vitae
Julia
Driver
Department of Philosophy
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 646-9389 (voice)
Julia.Driver@Dartmouth.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1990
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University, 1988
B.A. The University of Texas, 1983
Honors and Awards:
NEH Fellowship, 2004-2005
The Greatest Happiness Principle
Jacobus Family Fellowship at Dartmouth College, 2003-2004
Visiting Fellow, RSSS, Australian National
University, 2001
Young Scholar's Award, Cornell University's Program on Ethics
and Public Life, 1994 (taken in 1995)
Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship, Princeton University's Center
for Human Values, 1992-1993
NEH grant to participate in Amelie Rorty's seminar Virtues
and Their Vicissitudes, summer 1992
PSC-CUNY Research Awards for 5 summers
Publications:
Books:
Ethics: the Fundamentals, Blackwell (2006)
Uneasy Virtue , Cambridge University
Press (2001)
Edited Journal:
A special issue of Utilitas on Character and Consequentialism (July 2001)
Selected Articles and Chapters:
"Attributions of Causation and Moral Responsibility," forthcoming in vol. 2 of Moral Psychology edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (MIT Press)
"Comment on Gigerenzer," with Don Loeb, forthcoming in Moral Psychology edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (MIT Press)
"Imaginative Resistance and Psychological Necessity," forthcoming in Social Philosophy and Policy issue on Objectivism, Subjectivism, and Relativism in Ethics edited by Ellen Frankel Paul et. al.
"Dream Immorality," Philosophy (January 2007), 5-22
"For Every Foot its Own Shoe: Method and Moral Theory in Iris Murdoch's Philosophy," forthcoming in Iris Murdoch, Philosopher edited by Justin Broackes (Oxford University Press)
"The Reconciliation Project in Ethics," in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy (Fall 2005). This paper is part of a set of essays in the volume on James Sterba's The Triumph of Practice over Theory in Ethics.
"Autonomy and the Asymmetry Problem for Moral Expertise," in Philosophical Studies (April 2006)
"Moral Psychology," an entry in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, edited by Donald Borchert (Macmillen Reference, 2006)
"Normative Ethics," in The Oxford Handbook to Contemporary Analytic Philosophy ed. Frank Jackson and Michael Smith (Oxford University Press, 2005)
"Virtue Theory," (a debate with Rosalind Hursthouse) in Contemporary Debates in Ethical Theory ed. by James Dreier (Blackwell, 2006)
"Moralism," in a special issue of The Journal of Applied Philosophy on Moralism and Casuistry, edited by C. A. J. Coady, (August 2005), 137-151
"Artificial Ethics," in Philosophers Explore the Matrix edited by Christopher Grau (Oxford University Press)[ n.b. this is an updated version of the paper posted on the Matrix website].
"Consequentialism and Feminist Ethics," in Hypatia (Fall 2005), 183-99.
"Response to Critics," in Utilitas (a response to comments by Onora O'Neill, John Skorupski, and Michael Slote on Uneasy Virtue), March 2004
"Pleasure as the Standard of Virtue in Hume's Moral Philosophy," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2004) 173-94
"The Conflation of Moral and Epistemic
Virtue" in Metaphilosophy (April 2003), 367-83. This
article will also appear in a book entitled Moral and Epistemic
Virtues ed. by Michael Brady and Duncan Pritchard (Blackwell)
"Rules and Virtues," in Rights, Rules, and Ideals
ed. by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Audi (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2003)
"Moral and Epistemic Virtue," in Knowledge, Belief, and Character, edited by Guy Axtell (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
"Modesty and Ignorance," Ethics , (July 1999)
"The Ethics of Intervention," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (December 1997)
"The Virtues and Human Nature," in How Should One Live?. edited by Roger Crisp (Oxford University Press, 1996)
"Monkeying with Motives," Utilitas, (November 1995)
"Hyperactive Ethics," The Philosophical Quarterly (January 1994)
"The Suberogatory," The Australasian Journal of Philosophy , (September 1992)
"Caesar's Wife: On the Moral Significance of Appearing Good," The Journal of Philosophy, (July 1992)
"The Virtues of Ignorance," The Journal of Philosophy, (July 1989)
"Vain Questions," in Questions and Questioning, ed. Michel Meyer (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988): 243-251
"A Promising Puzzle," Philosophia 14 (August 1984): 199-200
"Metaquestions," Nous 18 (May 1984): 299-309
"Promises, Obligations, and Abilities,"
Philosophical Studies 44 (September 1983): 221-223
Book Reviews:
I have published a large number of book
reviews. I list only some of the most recent here:
Review of The Moral Demands of Affluence by Garrett Cullity, forthcoming in Philosophical Books
Review of Virtue, Vice, and Value by Thomas Hurka in Utilitas
Review of Reasonably Vicious by Candace Vogler in Ethics
Review of The Demands of Consequentialism by Tim Mulgan in Philosophical Books
Review of Morals from Motives by Michael Slote in The Journal of Ethics
Internet Publications:
"Artificial Ethics," on The
Matrix & Philosophy web site -- the official Warner Brothers
web site for the movie and its sequels at www.whatisthematrix.com
This has also been translated into Japanese and put on the Japanese
site for the the films
Review of Unprincipled Virtue by Nomy Arpaly in The Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Review of Ideal Code, Real World
by Brad Hooker in The Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Selected Recent and Future Presentations:
"A Contrastive Account of Moral Luck," to be presented at the AAP Meetings at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia, July, 2007
"Sentimentalism and Psychological Necessity," to be presented at a conference on Norms & Analysis at the University of Sydney, June 26, 2007
"Cosmopolitan Virtue," presented at a conference on Social Norms and Civic Virtue at Florida State University, March 9, 2007
"Imaginative Resistance and Psychological Necessity," presented at a conference at the Social Philosophy Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, November, 2006
"Luck and Fortune in Moral Evaluation,"
presented at
the University of Southern California, March 24, 2006
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, March 17, 2006
to be presented at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May
5, 2006
and to be presented during the first on-line philosophy conference
(OPC) in
early May, 2006 (organized by Thomas Nadelhoffer)
"Attributions of Causation and Moral
Responsibility," Boston University, January 27, 2006
"Character and Consistency," remarks presented on Peter
Vranas' paper, Denver University, October, 2005
"Value and Moral Status," remarks presented on Elizabeth Harman's paper at the Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August, 2005
"Moral Mathematics," Union College, May 12, 2005
"The Reconciliation Project in Ethics," remarks on James Sterba's The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in Ethics, Pacific Division APA, San Francisco, March, 2005
"Dream Immorality,"
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, March, 2005
The University of British Columbia, February, 2005
Vanderbilt University, December 10, 2004
University of Reading, October 26, 2004
University of Bristol, October 22, 2004
University of St. Andrews, October 20, 2004
"The Actual in Actualism," presented at a conference
on Consequentialism held at the University of Edinburgh, October
24, 2004
"Trust and Feminist Ethics," to be presented at the Society for Analytic Feminism conference in London, Ontario, June, 2004
"Psychological Symmetry and Moral Theory," presented at a Conference on Morality and the Brain, Dartmouth College, May 23, 2004
"Virtue Ethics and Pluralism,"
presented as part of an author meets critics session on Christine
Swanton's book A Pluralist Virtue Ethics
at the Pacific Division APA Meetings, April 2004, Pasadena, CA
"Dream Immorality," presented
at
The University of Texas, Austin, October 3, 2003
The University of Oklahoma, October 10, 2003,
St. Louis University, November 7, 2003, and
The University of Colorado, Boulder, Rocky Mountain Virtue
Ethics Symposium,
April, 2004
"The Matrix Experience Machine," presented at Cranbrook Academy of Art, October 24, 2003
"Global Warming and the Dangers of Idealized Decision-making," presented at an interdisciplinary Global Warming Conference at Dartmouth College, May 2, 2003
Response to commentators (Michael Slote, Onora O'Neill and John Skorupski) at a symposium on Uneasy Virtue June 25, 2002 at Oxford University (to be published in Utilitas)
"The Application Problem for Hursthouse's
Virtue Ethics," presented in an author meets critics session
on Rosalind Hursthouse's book On Virtue Ethics
Pacific Division APA Meetings in Seattle, WA March 2002
"Autonomy and the Asymmetry Problem
for Moral Expertise," presented at
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 8, 2002
The Dartmouth/University of Vermont Philosophy Conference, July
19, 2002
The University of Colorado, October 7, 2002
Colby College, October 21, 2002 and
Smith College, March 10, 2003
"Why Virtue Ethics Can't Be Applied," presented to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Professional Ethics, Canberra, Australia, August 2001
"The Excesses of Moralism," workshop presentation to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Professional Ethics, University of Melbourne, August 2001
"Pleasure in Hume's Moral Philosophy," presented at The University of Aberdeen, Nov. 2000, at the University of Edinburgh, Dec. 2000,at Syracuse University March 20, 2001Dartmouth College, April, 2001, the Australian National University, June, 2001, the 2001 Meetings of the Association of Australian Philosophers in Hobart, Tasmania in July 2001, and at the University of Sydney, July 2001.
"Objective Consequentialism and Responsibility," The University of Glasgow, Oct. 2000, University College, London, Nov. 2000 and Oxford University, Jowett Society, Nov. 2000.
"Virtue and the Intrinsic Good," The University of Stirling, Dec. 2000, The University of Sheffield, Oct. 2000, SUNY Albany, November 1999; The College of William and Mary, October, 1998; Dartmouth College, May, 1998.
"Virtue and Value" presented at
the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association,
Los Angeles, March 28, 1998,
as part of an invited symposium with Christine Swanton
"Character and Consequentialism,"
presented at the Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical
Association, Philadelphia, December 28, 1997, an invited symposium
with comments by Michael Slote and Fred Feldman
"Objective Consequentialism," presented at the Australian
National University, July, 1996, The University of Canterbury
in Christchurch, New Zealand, July, 1996, and at
the University of Auckland, New Zealand, August, 1996
"Hume and Making Mistakes about Virtue," presented at the New Zealand Philosophy Association Meetings at Massey University, August, 1996
"The Moral Significance of Appearances," presented to the Brisbane Philosophical Society June 19, 1996, Brisbane, Australia
"Negative Responsibililty," presented
at the Graduate Center, CUNY, May, 1996 and at the Oxford-Mt.
Sinai Bioethics conference at Oriel College, Oxford, March 1996
Selected Other Professional Activities
(recent):
Co-organized, with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,
the 2005 meetings of the International Society for Utilitarian
Studies, held in Hanover, NH, August 11-14, 2005
On the external review committee for the Philosophy Department
at Franklin & Marshall College, November 16-18, 2003
Chaired the external review committee for the Philosophy Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, February 17 and 18, 2003
Co-editor (Andrei Marmor editor-in chief, and James Dreier and David Estlund also co-editors) of The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
Co-editor, with David Brink and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, of the Normative Ethics section of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the Advisory Board of The Philosophical Gourmet Report (www.gourmetreport.com)
Reviewed manuscripts for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Princeton University Press.
Refereed articles for Ethics, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Philospohical Quarterly, Nous, Utilitas, Hypatia, Social Theory & Practice, The Journal of Philosophical Research
Currently on the Editorial Board for Utilitas
and The Journal of Moral Philosophy
Employment (tenured and tenure-track):
7/03-present Professor at Dartmouth Collge
7/02-6/04 Chair, Department of Philosophy Dartmouth College
9/01-6/02 Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy Dartmouth College
7/1/99-7/1/03Associate Professor at Dartmouth College
9/96-7/99 Associate Professor at The CUNY Graduate Center
1/94-7/99 Associate Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY
9/90-1/94 Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY
9/89-7/90 Instructor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University