STEPHANIE LEARY CURRICULUM VITAE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY MCGILL UNIVERSITY Leacock Building, Room 942 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 www.stephanie-leary.com stem.leary@gmail.com AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF COMPETENCE Metaethics, Metaphysics Normative Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Moral Psychology EDUCATION, New Brunswick, NJ 2010-2016 Ph.D. Philosophy (October 2016) Dissertation Title: On the Grounds of Normativity University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2006-2009 B.A. Philosophy with honors, Magna Cum Laude Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2004-2005 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor August 2018- McGill University present Oscar R. Ewing Visiting Assistant Professor 2016 2018 Indiana University, Bloomington TEACHING INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON Phil 740: Graduate Seminar in Metaethics Spring 2018 Phil 140: Moral Theory and Contemporary Issues F2017/S2018 Phil 140: Morality and Reality: An Intro to Ethics Spring 2017 Hon 237: Honors Law and Society: Current Moral Fall 2016 and Social Issues RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Phil 108: Introduction to Ethics (partially online) Summer 2015 Phil 215: Introduction to Metaphysics Fall 2013 Phil 103: Introduction to Philosophy Summer 2013 T.A. for Holly Smith's Phil 108: Introduction to Ethics Spring 2013 T.A. for Martin Lin s Phil 104: Introduction to Philosophy Fall 2012 Last updated 6/7/2018 1
PUBLICATIONS Non-naturalism and Normative Necessities (2017) Oxford Studies in Metaethics, 12: 76-105. In Defense of Practical Reasons for Belief (2017) Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95(3): 529-542. Defending Internalists from Acquired Sociopaths (2017) Philosophical Psychology 30 (7):878-895. Choosing Normative Properties: A Reply to Eklund s Choosing Normative Concepts forthcoming in Inquiry Grounding and Normativity forthcoming in Michael Raven (ed.), Routledge Handbook for Metaphysical Grounding PRESENTATIONS What is Moorean Non-naturalism? Feb 2018 (*=refereed) Central APA Symposium on Metaphysics and Normativity Grounding the Domains of Reasons 1. McGill University Feb 2018 2. University of Notre Dame Jan 2017 3. Stanford University, David Plunkett s Metaethics Seminar Dec 2016 4. Language and Metaphysics of Normativity Conference May 2016 Uppsala University, Sweden Why Relativism Doesn t Explain Internalism 1. Metaethics and Philosophy of Language Workshop at Dec 2016 Stanford University In Defense of Practical Reasons for Belief 1. University of Notre Dame Jan 2018 2. Syracuse University Feb 2018 3. Talk for Prospective Student Visit April 2016 4. Dartmouth Ethics and Practical Reason Workshop April 2016 5. Indiana University, Bloomington Feb 2016 6. University of Massachusetts, Amherst Jan 2016 7. Harvard University Jan 2016 Non-naturalism and Normative Necessities *1. Chapel Hill Metaethics Workshop Oct 2015 *2. Speculative Ethics Forum at St. John s University Dec 2015 The Essential Question in the Naturalism vs. Non-naturalism Debate Rutgers Graduate Student Talk Series March 2015 Last updated 6/7/2018 2
Believing for Practical Reasons *Southern Normativity Conference, University of Kent March 2014 Why Internalists Shouldn t be Relativists *Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks (AGENT) Oct 2013 Reasons as Genus and Species *1. Georgetown University Philosophy Conference on April 2013 Reasons and Reasoning A Role for Reasons in Epistemology *Edinburgh Graduate Student Epistemology Conference June 2012 INVITED Commentator for the Symposium on Matti Eklund s March 2018 COMMENTARY Choosing Normative Concepts, Pacific APA Comments on Jonas Olson s Recent Challenges to Moral Sept 2017 Error Theory: Knowledge and Speech Companions In Guilt Arguments Workshop, ACU Rome Centre Comments on Michael Smith s Legal Positivism and the April 2015 Focal Case of Law Yale Law and Metaethics Workshop AWARDS Mellon Dissertation Fellowship 2015-present Award for outstanding graduate students to complete their dissertation Summer Mellon Grant Summer 2014 Award for outstanding graduate students to promote summer research Presidential Fellowship 2010-2012 Most prestigious university wide fellowship awarded annually to ten doctoral students at Mellon Summer Travel Grant Summer 2012 Award for outstanding graduate students for traveling expenses SERVICE REFEREE FOR Oxford Studies in Metaethics Ethical Theory and Moral Practice American Philosophical Quarterly Philosophical Psychology Last updated 6/7/2018 3
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON Ombudsperson to the Graduate Students 2017-2018 Colloquium Committee Member 2016-2018 Undergraduate Essay and Service Awards Committee 2016-2018 Nelson Fellowship Committee 2016-2018 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Organizer for Job Market Mentoring Program 2015-2016 Editor for Rutgers Philosophy Department Newsletter 2014-2015 Organizer for Value Theory Reading Group 2014-2015 Conference Co-organizer for Religion on the Raritan Spring 2014 (as Graduate Assistant for Dean Zimmerman) Co-managing editor for Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Spring 2014 (as Graduate Assistant for Dean Zimmerman) Co-organizer for Rutgers Prospectives Week Visit 2012, 2013 Organizer for Rutgers Graduate Student Talk Series 2011, 2012 Organizer for Metaethics Reading Group 2011-2013 COURSEWORK ETHICS & METAETHICS (*=audit) *Ruth Chang: Incomparability in practical reason Fall 2015 Michael Smith (Princeton): Reasons and rationality Spring 2012 Holly Smith: Moral psychology Spring 2012 Sharon Street (NYU): Advanced intro to metaethics Fall 2011 Matthew Walker: Aristotle s Nichomachean Ethics Fall 2011 Andy Egan: Survey in metaethics Spring 2011 Derek Parfit & Jeff McMahan: Future generations Spring 2011 & Parfit s On What Matters Vol 1 Angela Smith (University of Washington): T.M. Scanlon Spring 2009 on contractualism, moral responsibility, and blame METAPHYSICS Jonathan Schaffer: On Ted Sider s Writing the Book Spring 2012 of the World Jonathan Schaffer: Grounding and priority monism Spring 2011 Dean Zimmerman and Brian McLaughlin: Proseminar Fall 2010 on metaphysics and perception EPISTEMOLOGY *Ernest Sosa: Epistemic agency Spring 2014 *Jason Stanley: Knowledge-first epistemology Fall 2012 Ernest Sosa: Virtue epistemology, epistemic luck, intuitions Spring 2012 Martha Bolton: Early modern perspectives on cognition Fall 2011 and knowledge Laurence BonJour (University of Washington): Fall 2008 Contemporary debates in epistemology Last updated 6/7/2018 4
LANGUAGE & LOGIC Jason Stanley: Contextualism and relativism Spring 2012 Jeffrey King: Context sensitivity and accommodation Fall 2010 Anthony Gilles: Logic and semantics of modals and Fall 2010 conditionals REFERENCES Ruth Chang Andy Egan (Dissertation co-advisor) (Dissertation co-advisor) ruthechang@gmail.com andyegan@philosophy.rutgers.edu Gideon Rosen (External letter writer) Princeton University grosen@princeton.edu Jonathan Schaffer (Dissertation committee member) jonathan.schaffer@rutgers.edu Goeffrey Sayre-McCord (Dissertation committee member) UNC, Chapel Hill sayre-mccord@unc.edu Holly Smith (Teaching reference) hsmith@philosophy.rutgers.edu Last updated 6/7/2018 5