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 Foucault’s 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, Université 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 Phrónesis Analytic Philosophy Group, Universitat de València, November 2005

“Why Be Coherent?” Seminar for Phrónesis Analytic Philosophy Group, Universitat de València, 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