Niko Kolodny

Curriculum Vitae

 

Department of Philosophy

314 Moses Hall #2390

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-2390

Email: kolodny@berkeley.edu

Office: (510) 642-4323

 

Education

 

                        Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Philosophy, 2003

Dissertation: Relationships as Reasons, supervised by Samuel Scheffler (Chair), R. Jay Wallace, and Christopher Kutz (Law)

Jacob Javits Fellowship, 1998–2001

University Fellowship, 1997–98, 2001–03

 

                        M.A., University of Oxford, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (papers in Philosophy and Economics), First Class, 1996

Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy, 1996

 

                        B.A., Williams College, Philosophy, 1994

                       

Positions

 

University of California, Berkeley

Assistant Professor, since fall 2005

 

Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences

Visiting Fellow, fall 2008

Funded by an Australian Research Council grant awarded to Geoffrey Brennan and Robert Goodin for the project, Norms

 

Harvard University

Assistant Professor, fall 2003–spring 2005

 

Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences

Research Associate, summer 2004

Funded by an Australian Research Council grant awarded to Michael Smith for the project, Reasons and Rationality

 

Areas of specialization: Moral and Political Philosophy

 

Articles

 

Which Relationships?, in Impartiality and Partiality in Ethics, edited by Brian Feltham, John Cottingham, and Philip Stratton-Lake (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in preparation)

 

Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent?, Ethics (forthcoming)

 

How Does Coherence Matter?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (forthcoming)

 

 State or Process Requirements?, Mind 116:462 (2007)

 

Why Be Rational?, Mind 114:455 (2005)

 

Love as Valuing a Relationship, Philosophical Review 112:2 (2003)

 

Promises and Practices Revisited, co-authored with R. Jay Wallace, Philosophy and Public Affairs 31:2 (2003)

 

Do Associative Duties Matter?, Journal of Political Philosophy 10:3 (2002)

 

The Ethics of Cryptonormativism: A Defense of Foucaults Evasions, Philosophy and Social Criticism 22:5 (1996)

 

Encyclopedia Entries

 

Objectivity in Ethics, in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, ed. Donald Borchert (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006)

 

Addendum to Love, in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, ed. Donald Borchert (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006)

 

Reviews

 

R. Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler, and Michael Smith, Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004) in Mind 115:458 (2006)

 

Harry G. Frankfurt, The Reasons of Love (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004) in Journal of Philosophy 103:1 (2006)

 

Invited Talks

 

Colloquium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, spring 2008

 

Comments, Conference on Reason and Value, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2008

 

Law and Philosophy Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, spring 2008

 

Law and Philosophy Workshop, University of Southern California, fall 2007

 

The Myth of Practical Consistency, 2007 SPAWN on Practical Reason, Syracuse University, July 2007

 

How Does Coherence Matter? Moral Sciences Club, University of Cambridge, April 2007

 

How Does Coherence Matter? Aristotelian Society, London, April 2007

 

How Does Coherence Matter? Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, April 2007

 

How Does Coherence Matter? Colloquium, University of Southern California, March 2007

 

Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent? Workshop on Value Theory and Epistemology, University of Stirling, November 2006

 

Do Intentions Change Our Reasons? Departmental Seminar, University of Stirling, November 2006

 

Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent? University of California, Irvine Colloquium, November 2006

 

Why Be Disposed to Be Coherent? Hester Seminar on Agency and Action, Wake Forest University, September 2006

 

Do We Have Reason to Be Disposed to Be Rational? Ohio State University/Maribor/Rijeka Conference, Dubrovnik, May 2006

 

Do We Have Reason to Be Disposed to Be Rational? Workshop on the Normativity of Reasons, Universit de Fribourg, May 2006

 

Why Have Consistent Beliefs? In Pursuit of Reason: Engaging Joseph Raz on Reason and Value Conference, Institute of Philosophy, University of London, May 2006

 

Why Have Consistent Intentions? Moral Philosophy Seminar, University of Oxford, May 2006

 

Why Have Consistent Intentions? Workshop on Practical Reasons, University of Leeds, May 2006

 

Why Have Consistent Intentions? Bay Area Forum for Law and Ethics (BAFFLE), University of California, Berkeley, April 2006

 

Why Have Consistent Intentions? Moral and Political Philosophy Group Talk, University of Toronto, March 2006

 

Which Relationships? Impartiality and Partiality in Ethics Conference, University of Reading, December 2005

 

Does Intending the End Give One Reason to Take the Means? Seminar in Ethics and Normative Theory (SENT), Stanford University, November 2005

 

Does Intending the End Give One Reason to Take the Means? Seminar for Phrnesis Analytic Philosophy Group, Universitat de Valncia, November 2005

 

Why Be Coherent? Seminar for Phrnesis Analytic Philosophy Group, Universitat de Valncia, November 2005

 

Why Be Coherent? Forry and Micken Lecture at Amherst College, November 2005

 

Rationality and Reasons, Ohio State University, April 2005

 

Rationality and Reasons, Moral Psychology Conference, Franklin and Marshall College, February 2005

 

Rationality and Reasons, University of California at Los Angeles, January 2005

 

Rationality and Reasons, University of California, Berkeley, January 2005

 

What is Love? Monash University, Melbourne, July 2004

 

The Normativity of Rationality, Reasons and Rationality Conference, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, June 2004

 

What is Love? Phi Sigma Tau Honors Society, California State University at Chico, April 2004

 

Partiality and the Contours of the Moral, Brandeis University, October 2003

 

Partiality and Morality, University of California at Los Angeles, February, 2003

 

Partiality and Morality, Columbia University, January, 2003

 

Partiality and Morality, New York University, January, 2003

 

Other Talks

 

Rationality and Reasons, ECAP 5 Conference, Lisbon, August 2005

 

Comments on papers by Margaret Gilbert and Michael Pratt, Session on Promises, Pacific APA Convention, March 2005

 

Comments on A. John Simmons, Legitimacy and Territory, Fourth Annual Leadership Conference, Kennedy School of Government, March 2005

 

The Problems of Partiality, Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, South Molle Island, July 2004

 

Scanlon on Promising, Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference, April 2002

 

Teaching

 

Introductory:

Individual Morality and Social Justice, UC Berkeley, fall 2007, fall 2006, summer 2002

Are There Any Moral Truths?, Harvard University, spring 2005

Objectivity and Subjectivity in Ethics, Harvard University, spring 2004

 

Intermediate:

Political Philosophy, UC Berkeley, summer 2007; Harvard University, fall 2003

Ethical Theories, UC Berkeley, spring 2007

History of Political Philosophy, UC Berkeley, spring 2007; Harvard University, fall 2004

 

Graduate seminars:

Training Seminar for First-time Graduate Student Instructors, UC Berkeley, fall 2007

Reasons and Rationality, UC Berkeley, fall 2006

Wronging, Harvard University, fall 2004

Partiality in Ethical Theory, Harvard University, fall 2003

Workshop in Moral and Political Philosophy, fall 2003 and spring 2004

 

Refereeing

 

Ethics, Journal of Political Philosophy, Mind, Oxford University Press, Philosophers Imprint, Philosophical Studies