Ariel Zylberman
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Ariel Zylberman
Department of Philosophy
University at Albany, SUNY
HU250
1400 Washington AVE
​Albany, NY 12222


Employment

2018-               Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY.
2016-2018       Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law and Philosophy, School of Law and Department of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles.
2015-2016       Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University.
2013-2015      SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, McGill University. 

Education

2008-2013      Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Toronto.
2003-2005     B.A., Philosophy and Politics, Oxford University.
1998-2003      B.A. (Hons.), University of Winnipeg. 

Areas of Research
       
AOS: Ethics, Legal and Political Philosophy, Immanuel Kant
        AOC: Philosophy of Action, Moral Psychology, German Idealism
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Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
 
2016-2018       Law and Philosophy Fellowship, UCLA.
2016                 Conference Grant (Direction of Moral Duties), Canadian Journal of Philosophy ($1500)
2015-2016       Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Dept. of Philosophy, SFU
2013-2015       SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship ($81,000)
2013                 Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow in the Humanities, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto.
2011-2012        SIAS Summer Institute, The Second Person: Comparative Perspectives, National Humanities Center and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
2009-2012      Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, (Canada’s most prestigious graduate scholarship, valued at
                                 $150,000. Sole philosophy recipient in 2009).

2008                Martha Lile Love Award (for best essay submitted in 2008-2009 competition), University of Toronto.
2008-2013     Philosophy Doctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto.
2003-2005    Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom.
2003                University Silver Medal, Awarded for the Second Highest Standing in Arts (Honours Course), University of Winnipeg.
2003                University Gold Medal, Awarded for Achievement in an Honours Course (Philosophy), University of Winnipeg.
 
Publications (selected) 

Articles

(forthcoming)       'Relational Primitivism', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
(forthcoming).      'Humanity without Dignity'
2018                        'The Relational Structure of Human Dignity', Australasian Journal of Philosophy
2017                        'Two Second-Personal Conceptions of the Dignity of Persons', European Journal of Philosophy
2017                        'The Indivisibility of Human Rights', Law and Philosophy
2016                       ‘Human Rights, Categorical Duties: A Dilemma for Instrumentalism’, Utilitas  
2016                       ‘Why Human Rights? Because of You’, Journal of Political Philosophy 24:3, 321- 343.
2016                       ‘Human Rights and the Rights of States: A Relational Approach’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46:3, 291–317.
2016                       ‘Human Dignity’, Philosophy Compass 11:4, 201–210.
2016                       ‘The Public Form of Law: Kant on the Second-Personal Constitution of Freedom’, Kantian Review 21:1, 101-126.
2014                       ‘The Very Thought of (Wronging) You’, in  J. Conant and S. Rödl (eds.), Philosophical Topics, special issue on the second person, 42:1, 153-175.
 
Book Chapters
Forthcoming        ‘Bread as Freedom: Kant on the State’s Duties to the Poor’, in D. Heide and E.  Tiffany (eds.), Kantian Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
2014                        ‘Kant’s Juridical Idea of Human Rights’, in A. Føllesdal and R. Maliks  (eds.), Kantian Theory and Human Rights (New York: Routledge), 27-51.


Teaching

2020               PHI 441/541 Seminar: Practical Reason, Morality, and Modernity, UAlbany
2020               PHI 325 Philosophy of Law, UAlbany
2019                PHI 441/541. Seminar: The Unity of Kant's Practical Philosophy, UAlbany. 
2019                PHI 114 Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy, UAlbany
2019                PHI 325 Philosophy of Law, University at Albany (SUNY)
2019                PHI 114 Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy, University at Albany (SUNY)
2018                PHI 580 Seminar in Metaethics: Constitutivism, University at Albany (SUNY)
2018.               PHI 166 Philosophy of Law, Dept of Philosophy, UCLA
2017                PHIL 257/LAW 687 Graduate Seminar in Legal Philosophy: Authority and Human Rights, Dept of Philosophy, UCLA.
2016/2017      LAW 217 Legal philosophy, School of Law, UCLA.
2016                PHL 435-4 / 822-5 Honors and Graduate Seminar, Topics in Ethics: The Direction of Moral Duties, Dept of Philosophy, SFU
2015                PHL 120W Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Dept of Philosophy,SFU
2014                Honors and Graduate Seminar in Political Philosophy: Democratic Theory, Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba
2006-2008   Post-Graduate Workshops on Human Rights, Development Theory, and Philosophy of Education, UTEA, Peru
2006               PHL 015.120 L01 Introduction to Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba
2005-6           PHIL 35.2302/6 Logic
                         PHIL 35.1301/6 Introduction to Logical Reasoning, Philosophy,
                                    University of Winnipeg

Presentations (Selected)
'Action as Deed', 
  Conference on Kant's Doctrine of Right, University of Chicago, March 2020
'Moral Rights without Balancing'
   Conference on Status, Dignity, and Equality, Monash University, Dec 2019
'Action and Relation'
​  Conference on Shared Agency and Relational Normativity, University of Vienna, June 2019
'The Claim of Sincerity'
   Ethics and Epistemology Workshop, Fordham University, Nov 2018
'Causal Power and Moral Obligation in Kant'
   Symposium on Obligation with Barbara Herman and Stephen Darwall. North American Kant Society, Vancouver, May 2018
'Rights as Relational Reasons'

    Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, May 2017
‘The Relationship of Respect: the Relational Source of Moral Normativity’
    Ethics Workshop, UCSD, March 2017
    Department of Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY, Jan 2017
    Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, Jan 2017
    UCLA, Ethics Workshop, Jan 2017
    The Direction of Moral Duties, Simon Fraser University, May 2016
    Philosophy Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, Feb. 2016           
‘The Organic Unity of the State: Kant on Life, Rights, and the State’
     Oxford University, September 2016
‘The Bounds of Rights’                       
     Philosophy Department, Stirling University, June 2016
‘Human Dignity: A Dilemma for Darwall’s Second-Personal Approach’
    APA Pacific, April 2015         
‘The Indispensability of Human Dignity’
    Philosophy Department, Indiana University, Feb 2016
    Philosophy Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Feb. 2015
    Philosophy Department, Stirling University, Dec. 2014
    Speaker Series, Philosophy Department, University of Manitoba, Nov. 2014
    Workshop on Human Rights, McGill University, Nov. 2014        
‘Bread as Freedom: Kant on the State’s Duties to the Poor’
    Conference on Kantian Freedom, Simon Fraser University, Oct. 2014                    
‘The Juridical Epigenesis of Reason: Kant on Life, Dignity, and the Second Person’
     Practical Philosophy Workshop and Human Rights Workshop, University of Chicago, Jan. 2014
‘The Public Form of Law: the Second-Personal Constitution of Freedom’
    German Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, June 2014
    APA Pacific, April 2014
    Workshop on Kant’s Doctrine of Right, University of Leipzig, July 2013.
‘Matters of International Concern: On the Interdependence of Human Rights and State Sovereignty’  
     Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, Jan. 2014
     Department of Government, Harvard University, Nov. 2013
     Political Theory Research Workshop, University of Toronto, Nov. 2012
‘Bread as Freedom: A Defense of the Human Right to Food’
     Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, Dec. 2012
Commentary on “The Complete Object of Practical Knowledge”, by Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh).
     University of Toronto’s CPAMP Workshop in Hylomorphism, Nov 2012
‘The Very Thought of (Wronging) You’
     Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, SIAS Summer Institute on the Second Person, 2012
     McMaster University, Graduate Conference for Legal Theory, 2012
‘The Kantian Idea of Human Rights’
     Princeton University, Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory, 2011
     University of Toronto Philosophy Department, Graduate Forum, 2011
     University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics, 2011
‘Fichte’s Principle of Right and Other Persons Skepticism’, University of Calgary,
     Western Canadian Philosophical Association, 2010
Commentary on "Making up your Mind and the Activity of Reason", by Matthew Boyle (Harvard).
University of Toronto’s CPAMP Workshop "Perceiving oneself (and one another) perceiving in the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition," 2010.
‘Agency, Self-knowledge and Functionalism’,
     University of Toronto Graduate Conference, 2009
‘Jumping Over Rhodes: Or, How our Knowledge Claims (Including this one) are
     Relative’, University of Winnipeg Philosophy Colloquium, 2006.        



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