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Olivia Bailey
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Philosophy Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118
[email protected] +1 (802) 379 0223 www.obailey.weebly.com
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Ethics, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Feminist Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy
EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2010–2018 PhD May 2018
Dissertation: “The Ethics and Epistemology of Empathy” Committee: Richard Moran, Susanna Siegel, Matthew Boyle
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2007–2009 BPhil (with honors)
Thesis: “Knowledge, Reason, and Virtue” Supervisor: Roger Crisp
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
BA, Philosophy and French (valedictorian) 2003–2007
Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Visiting student in the department of philosophy 2005–2006
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
Empathy is a form of emotionally charged perspective taking. Drawing on David Hume and Adam Smith, I argue that empathy furnishes a distinct epistemic good, humane understanding, which is necessary for (and partially constitutive of) fully virtuous relations with other people. Humane understanding matters morally because it serves as the unique antidote to a form of painful isolation, wards off certain kinds of cruelty, and functions as central means by which we enrich and extend our sense of evaluative properties’ contours.
PUBLICATIONS “Empathy and Testimonial Trust.”
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements (forthcoming November 2018).
“Empathy, Concern, and Understanding in The Theory of Moral Sentiments.” The Adam Smith Review 9 (2017).
“What Knowledge Is Necessary For Virtue?” The Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 4(2) (2010).
MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTATIONS
“Humean Empathy: an Idea and its Afterlife” “Empathy for the Wicked?”
“In Defense of Empathy: The Moral Value of Humane
Understanding” • Tulane University Department of Philosophy
(invited) • Florida International University Department of
Philosophy (invited)
• Queen’s University Department of Philosophy (invited)
• University of Richmond, Jepson School of Leadership Studies (invited)
• Wayne State University Department of Philosophy (invited)
“Humean Empathy: An Idea and its Afterlife”
• University of Pittsburgh Department of Philosophy (invited)
• The Wittgenstein Workshop University of Chicago
(invited) “Empathy and Testimonial Trust”
• Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference: Harms and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice University of Pittsburgh Department of Philosophy (invited)
• Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Workshop University of Pennslyvania (refereed)
“Comments on Isaac Wiegman’s ‘Emotional Actions without Emotional Goals’”
• Meeting of the Eastern APA Baltimore, MD
“Adam Smith’s Double Standard?” • Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Mansfield College, Oxford University (refereed)
February 2018
January 2018
January 2018
January 2018
January 2018
January 2018
April 2017
July 2017
April 2017
January 2017
March 2016
PRESENTATIONS (CONTINUTED)
“Empathy, Care, and Understanding in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments”
• The Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy University of Aberdeen (refereed)
May 2014
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
• Princeton-Penn-Columbia Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophy
Princeton University (refereed) “Adam Smith and the ‘Wise Distinction of Ranks’”
• Graduate Conference in Political Thought University of California, Berkeley (refereed)
“Control, Contempt, and Ignorance of the Law” • UCLA Law and Philosophy Graduate Conference
University of California at Los Angeles (refereed) “The Will to Power and the Slave Revolt”
• German Post-Kantian Philosophy Graduate Conference
University of Southampton (refereed) Philosophy Department Fellowship (Santayana Fund), Harvard University Richard M. Martin Prize Fellowship, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University Bowen Prize, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University (for “Empathy and Testimonial Trust,” awarded annually for the best essay on a subject in moral or political philosophy) Rev. Mary S. Vanderbilt Scholarship, Harvard University Certificate of Distinction for Teaching, Harvard University (for Questions of Character) Certificate of Distinction for Teaching, Harvard University (for Emotion) Pforzheimer Fellow, Houghton Library, Harvard University (fellowship for writing and research at Harvard’s rare books and manuscripts library)
April 2013
March 2013
April 2012
June 2008
AY 2017–2018
AY 2017–2018
June 2017
2012-2016
Fall 2016
Fall 2016
Summer 2015
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (CONTINUED)
Graduate Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Certificate of Distinction for Teaching, Harvard University (for Introduction to Ancient Philosophy) Keasbey Scholar, Oxford University George H. Catlin Award for outstanding overall achievement, Middlebury College John T. Andrews Memorial Prize for outstanding achievement in philosophy, Middlebury College Stephen A. Freeman Memorial Prize for outstanding achievement in French, Middlebury College Phi Beta Kappa Prize for outstanding contribution to the college’s academic life, Middlebury College
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AY 2014–2015
Spring 2013
2007-2009
Spring 2007
Spring 2007
Spring 2007
Spring 2007
SPECIALIZED SEMINARS
Character and the Morally Exceptional: Empirical Discoveries and Moral Improvement Summer Seminar, (part of The Beacon Project) Winston-Salem, NC Virtue and Happiness Summer Seminar (part of the University of Chicago’s Virtue, Happiness & the Meaning of Life Project) Moreau Seminary, University of Notre Dame
June 2018 June 2016
GRADUATE COURSEWORK
(* not taken for credit) *Episodic Memory, Susanna Siegel Philosophy in Translation: French, Richard Moran Elementary Turkish I and II, Himmet Taskomur Safra Center Graduate Workshop in Ethics, Eric Beerbohm and Frances Kamm *Other Minds, Richard Moran and Matthew Boyle Instructional Styles in Philosophy, Bernhard Nickel *Kant’s Ethical Theory, Christine Korsgaard Subjectivism, Cheryl Chen *The Moral Sentiments, David Sussman Deductive Logic, Edward Hall Cartesian Man, Alison Simmons Punishment and Social Justice, Thomas Scanlon and Tommie Shelby *Adam Smith: Philosophy and Political Economy, Amartya Sen and Emma Rothschild Plato, Russell Edward Jones
GRADUATE COURSEWORK (CONTINUED)
Epistemic Normativity, Selim Berker Hume’s Ethical Theory, Chistine Korsgaard Philosophy of Mind, Peter Godfrey-Smith British Empiricism, Alison Simmons *History of Modern Moral Philosophy, Christine Korsgaard First-Year Colloquium (Harvard), Bernhard Nickel, Selim Berker, Edward Hall *Hegel and Marx, Jerry Cohen and Allen Ryan *Scanlon’s Moral Dimensions, Alison Hills Moral Philosophy Workshop, Derek Parfit First –Year Colloquium (Oxford), John Tasioulas *Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, Terence Irwin Supervision: Aesthetics, John Hyman Supervision: Nieztche, Peter Kail Supervision: Moral Philosophy, Jonas Olson
TEACHING: GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE
As instuctor:
Graduate Workshop: Instructional Styles in Philosophy with Edward Hall Harvard University
Questions of Character: Virtue Ethics East and West Sophomore Tutorial Harvard University
Emotion Junior Tutorial Harvard University
AY 2016–2017 AY 2015–2016 Fall 2016 Fall 2015
As teaching fellow: Introduction to Early-Modern Philosophy Instructor: Alison Simmons Harvard University Self, Freedom, and Existence Instructor: Richard Moran Harvard University Introduction to Ancient Philosophy Instructor: Russell Edward Jones Harvard University Race and Social Justice Instructor: Tommie Shelby Harvard University Medieval Philosophy Instructor: Jeffrey McDonough Harvard University
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
Fall 2012
As teaching fellow:
TEACHING: GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE (CONTINUED)
Life Instructor: Shelley Kagan Yale University
Fall 2009
TEACHING: OTHER
As instructor How to Argue and Crime and Punishment Teachers as Scholars (continuing education for secondary-school teachers) Ethics: Theory and Practice Harvard Summer School (high-school students) Consent and Civic Participation Thinkeranalytix (NPO) and Harvard Ed Portal (high-school students) Crime and Punishment Thinkeranalytix (high-school students)
As teaching assistant Human Nature, Introduction to Ethics, Existentialism Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (gifted high-school students)
Fall 2017 Fall 2016
Summer 2017
Summer 2017
Summer 2016
Summer 2009 Summer 2008 Summer 2007
ACADEMIC WORK AND SERVICE
Member, MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) Committee, Harvard chapter Coordinator, Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop Bok Teaching Fellow Video Consultant, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (serving the Philosophy and Gender Studies programs) Co-founder and organizer, the Talk-Shop at Harvard Instructor, Student Mental Health Workshop
2014–2018
2016–2017
2015–2017
2015–2017
201–02017
November 2016
2013
ACADEMIC WORK AND SERVICE (CONTINUED) LANGUAGES
Instructor, Fall Teaching Conference Organizer, Harvard-Yale History Conference Coordinator, Varieties of Self-Knowledge Workshop Member, Teaching Reform Committee Organizer, History of Philosophy Works in Progress Group Lead indexer and copyeditor for Frances Kamm’s Bioethical Prescriptions Coordinator for the New England Early Modern Conference Representative, Graduate Student Council Organizer and referee, Harvard MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference English (native speaker), French (fluent), Turkish (beginner)
2015, 2016
April 29–30, 2016
March 11–12, 2016
2014–2015
2012–2015
2013
May 18–20, 2012
2011–2012
2011–2012
REFERENCES Richard Moran Professor, Department of Philosophy Harvard University
1 (617) 496-6169 [email protected]
Matthew Boyle Professor, Department of Philosophy The University of Chicago
1 (773) 702-8513 [email protected]
Susanna Siegel Professor, Department of Philosophy Harvard University
1 (617) 495-1884 [email protected]
Samuel Fleischacker Professor, Department of Philosophy The University of Illinois at Chicago Roger Crisp Professor of Moral Philosophy St. Anne’s College, Oxford University Cheryl Chen Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy Harvard University Edward Hall Professor, Department of Philosophy Harvard University Alison Simmons Professor, Department of Philosophy Harvard University
1 (312) 413-1026 [email protected]
44 (186) 527-4819 [email protected]
1 (617) 496-6169 [email protected]
1 (617) 495-2468 [email protected]
1 (617) 295-0516 [email protected]
