Eden Lin Curriculum Vitae CONTACT EMPLOYMENT Department of Philosophy 350 University Hall 230 N Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1365 The Ohio State University Assistant Professor Phone: (614) 292-7914 Fax: (614) 292-7502 Email: edenlin@gmail.com Website: www.edenlin.com Aug present Rutgers University, Newark Assistant Professor Sept 2013 June EDUCATION Princeton University Ph.D. in Philosophy Sept 2013 Dissertation: Three Essays on Well-Being Advisors: Gideon Rosen and Michael Smith M.A. in Philosophy May 2011 University of Oxford B.Phil. in Philosophy June 2008 University of Pennsylvania B.A. in History and Philosophy (summa cum laude) May 2006 SPECIALIZATION COMPETENCE PAPERS Ethics Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind Why Subjectivists about Welfare Needn t Idealize Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (Published online on April 16, 2018.) Simple Probabilistic Promotion Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96(2): 360-79 Welfare Invariabilism Ethics 128(2): 320-45 Asymmetrism about Desire Satisfactionism and Time Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics (vol. 7), ed. Mark Timmons (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Enumeration and Explanation in Theories of Welfare Analysis 77(1): 65-73 forthcoming 2018 2018 1
REVIEWS Against Welfare Subjectivism Noûs 51(2): 354-77 Attraction, Description and the Desire-Satisfaction Theory of Welfare Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 11(1): 1-9 How to Use the Experience Machine Utilitas 28(3): 314-32 The Subjective List Theory of Well-Being The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94(1): 99-114 Monism and Pluralism The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being, ed. Guy Fletcher (Abingdon, UK: Routledge) Prudence, Morality, and the Humean Theory of The Philosophical Quarterly 65(259): 220-40 Pluralism about Well-Being Philosophical Perspectives 28(1): 127-54 A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being by Anna Alexandrova Ethics Achievement by Gwen Bradford Analysis Reviews 76(3): 402-04 2015 2014 forthcoming IN PROGRESS MISCELLANEOUS WRITING Attitudinal and Phenomenological Theories of Pleasure Objective Theories of Well-Being (commissioned for the International Encyclopedia of Ethics) Well-Being: Part I and Well-Being: Part II (commissioned, subject to final review, for Philosophy Compass) Well-Being (commissioned for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Subjective List Theories (Post at PEA Soup) March 2018 2
http://peasoup.us/2018/03/eden-lin-subjective-listtheories/ TALKS Sophisticated Theories of Welfare (Featured Philosopher post at PEA Soup) http://www.peasoup.us//10/sophisticated-theorieswelfare-featured-philosopher-eden-lin/ 11 th Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress The OSU/Maribor/Rijeka Philosophy Conference Dubrovnik, Croatia Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy Uppsala University Stockholm June Workshop in Philosophy Stockholm University University of California, Irvine Should We Respect the Past Desires of People with Dementia? California State University, Long Beach Attitudinal and Phenomenological Theories of Pleasure Eastern APA Symposium Paper Subjective and Objective Theories of Well-Being Workshop on Subjectivism and Objectivism about Well-Being University of Tampere The Value Theory Reading Group Rutgers University, New Brunswick Should We Respect the Past Desires of People with Dementia? Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminar Princeton University Epistemology & Ethics Workshop Fordham University Oct August 2018 April 2018 April 2018 Jan 2018 Dec Nov Nov Nov 3
10 th Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress The Kansas Workshop on Well-Being University of Kansas University of Birmingham The Choice Group London School of Economics University of Leeds White Rose Early Career Ethics Researchers (WRECERs) University of York University of Edinburgh Effective Altruism and American Electoral Politics Conference on the Ethics of Giving University of St. Andrews Attitudinal and Phenomenological Theories of Pleasure Center for Values and Social Policy Well-Being and Hedonic Indispensability 9 th Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Welfare Invariabilism 12 th Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network Syracuse University August July June March August July 4
COMMENTS Well-Being and Hedonic Indispensability Princeton Workshop in Normative Philosophy Princeton University Enumeration and Explanation in Theories of Welfare Ethics and Explanation Conference University of Nottingham Asymmetrism about Desire Satisfactionism and Time 7 th Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics University of Arizona Sophisticated Theories of Welfare 8 th Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Welfare Invariabilism The Kansas Workshop on Well-Being University of Kansas Theories of Welfare: Monistic or Pluralistic, Enumerative or Explanatory? Central APA Colloquium Paper Humeanism and Desire Satisfactionism 7 th Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Why Subjectivists about Welfare Shouldn t Idealize The Kansas Workshop on Well-Being University of Kansas The Hedonic Coincidence Problem for Desire Satisfactionism Pacific APA Colloquium Paper Discussant for Shigehiro Oishi et al., What Is a Good Life? A Happy Life, a Perfectionist Life, or a Psychologically Rich Life? Happiness & Well-Being Project Capstone Conference (Saint Louis University) Comments on Anne Baril s The Role of Coherence in Objective List Theories The Kansas Workshop on Well-Being (University of Kansas) Comments on Jason Raibley s Interspecific Well-Being The Kansas Workshop on Well-Being (University of Kansas) May Feb January August 2015 July 2015 Feb 2015 August 2014 July 2014 April 2014 May 2018 July July 2015 Comments on Molly Gardner s Defense of the Harm-Based July 2014 5
Solution to the Non-Identity Problem The Kansas Workshop on Well-Being (University of Kansas) TEACHING The Ohio State University PHILOS 1100: Introduction to Philosophy PHILOS 1100H: Honors Introduction to Philosophy (2) PHILOS 2340: The Future of Humanity PHILOS 5300: Advanced Moral Philosophy PHILOS 8300: Seminar in Value Theory Rutgers University, Newark PHI 385: Special Topics in Philosophy The Good Life (2) PHI 212: Introduction to Ethics (8) Princeton University (as an Assistant in Instruction) PHI 319: Normative Ethics PHI 202: Introduction to Moral Philosophy PHI 203: Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology ADVISING Chair of PhD candidacy examination committee at Ohio State Xiang Yu 2018 Examiner for undergraduate thesis at Ohio State Laura Geracioti External examiner for MA thesis Chad Stevenson (University of Melbourne) HONORS AND AWARDS PEA Soup Ideas Award (Metaethics) Runner-up, Young Ethicist Prize (8 th Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress) 2015 University Center for Human Values Graduate Prize Fellowship 2012-13 Kirtland Manley 31 Merit Fellowship 2008-09 Graduate Scholarship in Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford 2006-08 Phi Beta Kappa 2005 Benjamin Franklin Scholar 2002-06 GRANTS SERVICE Sustainable and Resilient Economy (SRE) seed grant ($10,500) for Integrating Philosophical and Economic Perspectives on Human Well-Being: A One-Day Conference Journal Referee 6
Analysis, Analytic Philosophy, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (4), Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ergo (3), Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2), Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (5), Journal of Moral Philosophy (3), Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry, Les Ateliers de L Éthique/The Ethics Forum, Noûs, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Review (2), Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies (6), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy Compass, Ratio, Res Philosophica, Social Theory and Practice, Utilitas (5) Book Proposal Referee Oxford University Press Book Manuscript Referee Oxford University Press Departmental Service at Ohio State Colloquium Committee Undergraduate Committee Salary Committee Graduate Committee Graduate Admissions -17-18 -18-17 -17 Organizer and Fundraiser The Princeton Workshop on Well-Being May 2013 Co-organizer The 2018 OSU/Maribor/Rijeka Philosophy Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia New York Early Career Ethics Workshop Spring 2015 LAST UPDATED August 7, 2018 7