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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
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)
'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.
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
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)
'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.
