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Areas of Specialization
Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Law
Areas of Competence
Applied Ethics
History of Early Modern
Education
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, June 1998
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Michigan, December 1989
A.M., Philosophy, University of Michigan, August 1985
Graduate Program in Philosophy, University of Maryland, September 1980-April 1982
B.A., Philosophy, conferred with high honors, Michigan State University, September 1979
Fellowships and Awards
Post-Graduate
Visiting Scholar, NIH Clinical Center, Bioethics Department (2007-08)
John E. Sawyer Fellowship, National Humanities Center (2006-07)
Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellowship, Princeton Center for Human Values (1998-99)
Henry Rutgers Research Fellowship (1989-91)
Graduate
Rackham Research Partnership Program Fellowship (1988-89)
Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship (1988-89, declined)
Rackham Teaching Assistant Teaching Award (1987)
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (1986-87)
Maryland Fellowship (Fall 1980-Fall 1981)
Undergraduate
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Teaching Positions
University of Arizona, Associate Professor, January 2006-present
University of California, Davis, Assistant Professor, July 1998 – June 2005,
School of Law, Winter 2000 (Jurisprudence)
University of San Diego Law School, Visiting Professor, Spring 2004; Fall 2005
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Visiting Professor, Fall 2003
University of Michigan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 1995-Spring 1996
Northwestern University, Assistant Professor, Fall 1992-Spring 1994
Rutgers University, Assistant Professor, Fall 1989-Spring 1992
University of Michigan, Adjunct Lecturer, Fall 1987
Tufts University, Visiting Lecturer, Summer Sessions 1986 and 1987
Editorial Work
Contributing Editor, Jotwell, Jurisprudence Section (January 2010 - ) http://juris.jotwell.com/
Associate Editor, Ethics (August 2007- )
Co-Editor, Metaethics Section, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (September 2007 - )
Editorial Board, Ethics (January 2003-December 2006)
Professional Associations
Faculty Affiliate, Kadish Center for Morality, Law, and Public Affairs, School of Law,
University of California, Berkeley (2002-05)
Affiliated Scholar, Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of San Diego Law School
American Philosophical Association
Undergraduate Introduction to Philosophy Political Philosophy Freshman Seminar: Free Will Ethical Theory Metaethics Contemporary Political Theory Philosophy of Law Contemporary Moral Problems |
Graduate Seminars Metaethics Normativity Moral Realism Philosophy of Law Welfare Personal Good |
Law Torts Constitutional Law Property Seminar: Jurisprudence Seminar: Constitutional Adjudication |
Publications
Articles
“Self-Interest and Self-Sacrifice,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society cix (2009): 311-325.
“The Importance of Self-Promises,” in Understanding Promises and Agreements: Philosophical Essays, ed. Hanoch Sheinman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
“Relational Good and the Multiplicity Problem,” Philosophical Issues 19, Metaethics, (2009): 205-234.
“Is there a ‘Higher Law’? Does it Matter?” Pepperdine Law Review 36 (special issue, 2009): 615-630.
“Objectivism and Relational Good,” Social Philosophy & Policy 25 (2008): 314-349.
“Mortality, Agency, and Regret,” in Moral Psychology (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the
Humanities, vol. 94), ed. Sergio Tenenbaum. Amsterdam/ New York, NY: Rodopi, 2007.
“Preference-Formation and Personal Good,” Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 81, Supp. 59 (2006): 33-64.
“Personal Good,” in Metaethics After Moore, ed. Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
“Some Puzzles About the Objectivity of Law” Law and Philosophy 23 (2004): 273-323.
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0167-5249/contents
“Agency and the Open Question Argument,” Ethics 113 (2003): 490-527.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ET/journal/issues/v113n3/113304/113304.html
“Brandt’s Notion of Therapeutic Agency,” Ethics 110 (2000): 780-811.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1704%28200007%29110%3A4%3C780%3ABNOTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
“Internalism and the Good for a Person,” Ethics 106 (1996): 297-326.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1704%28199601%29106%3A2%3C297%3AIATGFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
“Naturalism, Normativity, and the Open Question Argument,” Noûs 29 (1995): 46-70.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0029-4624%28199503%2929%3A1%3C46%3ANNATOQ%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
“Persons, Perspectives, and Full Information Accounts of the Good,” Ethics 105 (1995): 296-325.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1704%28199501%29105%3A2%3C296%3APPAFIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
“A Study of Internal Punishment,” Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 1994, Number 1: 123-70.
Commentary
“Explanation, Vindication, and the Role of Normative Theory in Legal Scholarship,” San Diego Law Review 43 (2007): 927-944.
“Darwall on Welfare and Rational Care,” Symposium on Stephen Darwall’s Welfare and Rational Care,
Connie S. Rosati
Department of Philosophy 520-621-3120 ( dept.) Social Science Building , Room 213 520-621-7101 (office) University of Arizona 520-621-9559 (FAX) Tucson , AZ 85721 cv (pdf version) csrosati@email.arizona.eduPhilosophical Studies 130 (2006): 619-635.
“The ‘Meaning’ of ‘Marriage,’” San Diego Law Review 42 (2005): 1003-1021.
“Ethics, Philosophy, and Moore’s Legacy,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 41, Supp. (2003): 21-29.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Moral Motivation,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006).
“Richard B. Brandt,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2d edition, Macmillan (2006).
“Ideals,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998).
Review of Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism: A Defence, Philosophical Review 115 (2006): 536-539.
Review of Colin McGinn, Ethics, Evil, and Fiction, Philosophical Review 108 (1999): 439-42.
Review of Value, Welfare, and Morality, eds. R.G. Frey and Christopher W. Morris, Philosophical Review 104
(1995): 603-605.
Review of Richard Miller, Moral Differences, Ethics 105 (1995): 649-50.
Review of Paul Grice, The Conception of Value, Philosophical Review 102 (1993): 267-70.
Presentations
“Self-Interest and Self-Sacrifice,” Aristotelian Society, University College London, June 15, 2009.
“The Importance of Self-Promises,” University of Warwick, June 10, 2009.
“The Story of a Life,” University of Minnesota, May 1, 2009.
“The Story of a Life,” Bowling Green State University, April 3, 2009.
“The Makropulos Case Revisited: Reflections on Immortality and Agency,” University of Vermont, March 20, 2009.
“The Story of a Life,” Simon Fraser University, March 13, 2009.
“Relational Good and the Multiplicity Problem,” Duke University, January 30, 2009.
“The Story of a Life,” University of Kansas, November 10, 2008.
“The Importance of First-Personal Promises,” Conference on Promises and Agreements, Rice University, October 17-19, 2008.
“The Story of a Life,” University of Rochester, September 26, 2008.
“The Story of a Life,” University of Maryland, College Park, March 26, 2008.
“Moore v. Regents of the University of California: Some Puzzles About the Ownership of Body Parts,” Bioethics Interest Group meeting, NIH, March 3, 2008.
“The Concept of a ‘Higher Law’,” Conference, Is there a Higher Law? Does it Matter? Pepperdine Law School, February 21-22, 2008.
“The Story of a Life,” Conference on Reason and Value, UCSB, February 16-18, 2008.
“Is Religious Freedom Impossible? Some Questions for Professor Sullivan,” APA Eastern Division Meetings, December 30, 2007.
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons from Frankenstein’s Monster,” presented at the National Humanities Center as a part of the
Center’s Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity initiative, May 14, 2007. “A Good of One’s Own,” New York University, March 30, 2007.
“Objectivism and Relational Good,” North Carolina State University, March 1, 2007.
“The Makropulos Case Revisited: Reflections on Immortality and Agency,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,
Duke Continuing Studies, March 1, 2007.
“Objectivism and Relational Good,” North Carolina Philosophical Association, Highpoint University, February 23, 2007.
“Objectivism and Relational Good,” Conference on Objectivism, Subjectivism, and Relativism, Social Philosophy &
Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, November 17, 2006.
“Keller on Welfare as Success,” SPAWN, Syracuse University, July 18, 2006.
“Yuracko on Perfectionism and Discrimination,” Commentary on Kimberly A. Yuracko, “Sameness, Subordination
& Perfectionism: Toward a More Complete Theory of Employment Discrimination Law,” conference,
The Rights and Wrongs of Discrimination, University of San Diego Law School, April 27, 2006.
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons from Frankenstein’s Monster,” University of Southern California,
April 21, 2006.
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons from Frankenstein’s Monster,” University of Arizona, March 3, 2006.
“The Objectivity of Law,” Panel on Jurisprudence and Metaphysics, annual meeting of the American Association
of Law Schools, Washington, D.C., January 6, 2006.
“The Origins of Moral Motivation,” Workshop on Practical Reason and Moral Motivation, University of Siena,
December 17, 2005.
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons from Frankenstein’s Monster,” University of San Diego, November 10, 2005.
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons from Frankenstein’s Monster,” Stanford University, May 20, 2005.
“The ‘Meaning’ of ‘Marriage,’” Commentary on Richard Arneson, “The Meaning of Marriage: State Efforts to
Facilitate Friendship, Love, and Child-rearing,” conference, The Meaning of Marriage, University of San Diego
Law School, January 14, 2005.
“Things My Mother Taught Me that Turned Out to be True,” Presentation to the Prytanean Women’s Honor Society,
UC Davis, December 7, 2004.
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons from Frankenstein’s Monster,” University of Texas, October 8, 2004.
“A Theory of Constitutional Judgments,” legal theory workshop, University of Texas Law School, October 8, 2004.
“Preference-Formation and Personal Good,” Royal Institute of Philosophy conference, Cambridge University,
July 15, 2004.
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons from Frankenstein’s Monster,” Well-Being and Autonomy: A Workshop,
University of Toronto, April 16, 2004.
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons from Frankenstein’s Monster,” University of Montreal, April 15, 2004.
“Some Puzzles About the Objectivity of Law,” University of San Diego Law School, March 9, 2004.
“Personal Good,” University of California, San Diego, January 9, 2004.
“Constitutional Judgments,” University of Arizona, December 11, 2003.
“Constitutional Judgments,” University of Pennsylvania Law School, November 20, 2003.
“Some Puzzles About the Objectivity of Law,” Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference, Oxford University, May 17, 2003.
“Some Puzzles About the Objectivity of Law,” legal theory workshop, University of Pennsylvania Law School,
February 7, 2003.
“The Normativity of Constitutions,” GALA workshop, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law,
December 6, 2002.
“Ethics, Philosophy, and Moore’s Legacy,” Commentary on Stephen Darwall, “How Should Ethics Relate to
(the Rest of?) Philosophy: Moore’s Legacy,” 2002 Spindel Conference, “The Legacy of G.E. Moore: 100 Years
of Metaethics,” University of Memphis, October 3-4, 2002.
“Agency and the Open Question Argument,” Conference, “G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica: A Century Later,”
Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University, April 19, 2002.
“Feldman on Shapely Lives,” Commentary on Fred Feldman, “Hedonism and the Shape of a Life,”
Pacific Division Meetings, APA, March 29, 2002.
“The Normativity of Constitutions,” University of San Diego Law School, Feb. 15, 2002.
“Agency and the Open Question Argument,” Bowling Green State University, September 28, 2001.
“What’s Public? What’s Private?” Invited panelist, University Center for Human Values,
10 th Anniversary Celebration, Princeton University, April 28, 2000.
“Constitutional Normativity,” University of Southern California, March 24, 2000.
“Constitutional Normativity,” Invited Paper, Eastern Division Meetings, APA, December 30, 1999.
“Brandt’s Notion of Therapeutic Agency,” Invited Paper, Symposium: The Philosophical Legacy of Richard B. Brandt,
Central Division Meetings, APA, May 6, 1999.
“Comments on Phillip Pettit’s ‘Democracy, Electoral and Contestatory,’” Program in Ethics and Public Affairs
seminar, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, March 4, 1999.
“Autonomy, Serendipity, and Personal Good,” Conference on Well-Being, Bowling Green State University,
Sept. 26-27, 1998.
“Autonomy, Serendipity, and Personal Good,” Rice University, February 23, 1998.
“Autonomy, Serendipity, and Personal Good,” University of Minnesota, February 16, 1998.
“Regret and the Good,” College of William and Mary, February 14, 1998.
“Autonomy, Serendipity, and Personal Good,” Yale University, February 10, 1998.
“Regret and the Good,” University of California, Davis, Jan. 16, 1998.
“Commentary on Noggle’s ‘Full Information, Integrity, and Desire-Based Theories of Well-Being,’”
Central Division Meetings, APA, April 29, 1996.
“Mortality, Agency, and Regret,” Cornell University, Jan. 26, 1996.
“Internalism and the Good for a Person,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 16, 1994.
“Commentary on ‘Tradition and Informed-Desire Accounts of “Good,”’” Central Division Meetings, APA, May 6, 1994.
“Internalism and the Good for a Person,” University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, March 18, 1994.
“Internal and External Punishment,” Central Division Meetings, APA, April 23, 1993.
“Agency and the Open Question Argument,” University of Washington, January 17, 1992.
“Agency and the Open Question Argument,” California Institute of Technology, January 15, 1992.
“Agency and the Open Question Argument,” Northwestern University, Jan. 9, 1992.
“Mortality, Agency, and Regret,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Jan. 7, 1990.
Book
Personal Good
Articles
“Autonomy and Personal Good: Lessons From Frankenstein’s Monster”
"The Story of a Life"
“The Makropulos Case Revisited: Reflections on Immortality and Agency”
“The ‘Moral Reading’ of Constitutions”
Departmental, University, and Academic Service
University of Arizona
Teaching Assistant Advisory Commitee (2009-2010)
Graduate Admissions (2008-09)
National Humanities Center, Fellows Selection Committee (2009)
Jean Hampton Prize Committe (APA) (Fall 2008)
UC, Davis
Graduate Program Revisions, Chair (Spring 2005)
Admissions Committee (2004-05)
Interim Chair, Summer 2003 and Summer 2004
Search Committee Chair (2001-02)
TA Advisory Committee (Fall 2001, 2004-05)
Faculty Advisor, Colloquia Committee (2000-03, 2004-05)
Departmental Improvements (Spring-Fall 2001; 2002-2003)
TA Training Committee (2000-01)
Graduate Studies Committee (2000-01)
Graduate Admissions (2004-05)
Search Committee (Spring 2001)
L&S Representative Assembly (alternate, 1999-2001)
Dean’s Recruitment Advisory Committee (1999-2000)
Northwestern University
Speakers Committee (Fall-Winter 1992-93)
Undergraduate Studies Committee (1993-94)
Rutgers University
Hiring Committee (Fall-Winter 1989-90, 1990-91)
Graduate Advisory Committee (1989-91)
Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Committee (1989-90)
Referee Work
Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Ethics; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Philosophers’ Imprint;
Mind; Noûs; Philosophical Quarterly; Economics and Philosophy; Philosophy & Phenomenological Research;
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)