Ben Bradley, Curriculum Vitae

Philosophy Department
Syracuse University
541 Hall of Languages
Syracuse, NY 13244-1170
(315) 443-5827 (office)
Email

Education:

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Philosophy, February 1999.
B.A. magna cum laude, Lawrence University, Philosophy, June 1993.

Employment:

Associate Professor, Syracuse University, 2008-.
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, 2003-2008.
Visiting Asst. Professor, Western Washington University, 2002-2003.
Visiting Asst. Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1999-2002.
Visiting Asst. Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1998-1999.

Area of Specialization:

Ethics

Areas of Teaching Competence:

Metaphysics
Epistemology
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Applied Ethics (especially Environmental Ethics)

Book:

(2009) Well-Being and Death. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Review by Steven Luper in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
- Review by Walter Glannon in The Journal of Value Inquiry.

Journal Articles:

(2009) "Saving People and Flipping Coins," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org, vol. 3, no. 1.
(2008) "Desires," with Kris McDaniel, Mind 117: 267-302.
(2008) "The Worst Time to Die," Ethics 118: 291-314.
(2007) “How Bad Is Death?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 37: 111-127.
(2007) “A Paradox for Some Theories of Welfare,” Philosophical Studies 133: 45-53.
(2006) “Two Concepts of Intrinsic Value,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 9: 111-130.
(2006) “Against Satisficing Consequentialism,” Utilitas 18: 97-108; winner of the best paper prize at Utilitarianism 2005.
(2005) “Virtue Consequentialism,” Utilitas 17: 282-298.
(2005) “‘Doing and Allowing’ and Doing and Allowing,” with Michael Stocker, Ethics 115: 799-808.
(2004) “When Is Death Bad for the One Who Dies?” Nous 38: 1-28.
(2002) “Is Intrinsic Value Conditional?” Philosophical Studies 107: 23-44.
(2001) “The Value of Endangered Species,” The Journal of Value Inquiry 35: 43-58.
(1998) “Extrinsic Value,” Philosophical Studies 91: 109-126.

Book Chapters

(forthcoming) “Eternalism and Death’s Badness,” in Campbell, O’Rourke and Silverstein (eds.), Time and Identity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).

Book Reviews:

(forthcoming) Review of The Philosophy of Death by Steven Luper, Ethics.
(forthcoming) Review Essay on Goodness and Justice: A Consequentialist Moral Theory by Joseph Mendola, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
(forthcoming) Review of Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility of Hedonism by Fred Feldman, Utilitas.
(2007) Review of A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good by Robert Merrihew Adams, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (May).
(2005) Review of Reasons and the Fear of Death by R.E. Ewin, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83: 293-295.
(2004) Critical Notice of The Nature of Intrinsic Value by Michael Zimmerman, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69: 492-494.

Edited Collections :

(2009) Proceedings of the 2008 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, with Ryan Wasserman and Jill North, Philosophical Studies 145:1.

Recent and Upcoming Presentations:

Author meets critics, John Fischer's Our Stories, APA Pacific, March 31-April 4, 2010.
TBA, Boston University Ethics Reading Group, April 9, 2010.
TBA, SUNY-Buffalo, January 28, 2010.
TBA, SUNY-Binghamton, November 19, 2009.
Comments on David Benatar, Princeton University Center for Human Values, November 18, 2009.
TBA, Princeton University Center for Human Values, November 18, 2009.
Comments on Uri Leibowitz, "Friendship," UMass Philosophy Reunion, Oct. 17, 2009.
"Analyzing Harm," Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, August 6-9, 2009.
"Analyzing Harm," Lawrence University, April 30, 2009.
"Analyzing Harm," University of Wisconsin, March 13, 2009.
Comments on David Hershenov, "Organisms, Persons and Bioethics," Creighton Club (NY State Philosophical Association), October 18, 2008.
"A Defense of Hedonism," Stockholm University, May 29, 2008.
"Is Death Bad for a Cow? " University of Reading, May 27, 2008.
"A Defense of Hedonism," Oxford University, May 26, 2008.
"A Defense of Hedonism ," Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club, May 20, 2008.
Author meets critics, Ronald Sandler's Character and Environment, group meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics at the APA Central Division meeting, April 17, 2008.
"A Defense of Hedonism," Syracuse University, March 21, 2008.
"Is Death Bad for a Cow?" West Virginia University, November 1, 2007.
"Desires," with Kris McDaniel, Ninth Biennial UMass Philosophy Reunion, October 6, 2007.
"Desires," with Kris McDaniel, Eighth Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University, August 5-9, 2007.
Tolley Dinner Forum, "Non-Human Rights and Community Rights," Syracuse University, April 4, 2007.
Comments on David Hershenov, "A More Palatable Epicureanism," Creighton Club (NY State Philosophical Association), November 4, 2006.
“Williams on Utilitarianism,” University of Nevada-Reno, April 4, 2006 (invited).
“The Worst Time to Die,” Leonard Lecture, University of Nevada-Reno, April 3, 2006 (invited).
“A Paradox for Theories of Welfare,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, March 22-26, 2006 (refereed).
“Correspondence Theories of Welfare,” University of Rochester, February 10, 2006 (invited).
Author meets critics, Erik Wielenberg’s Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe, Eighth Biennial Umass Philosophy Homecoming, University of Massachusetts, October 6, 2005.
“Against Satisficing Consequentialism,” Utilitarianism 2005, Dartmouth College, August 11-15, 2005 (refereed).
Comments on Gustaf Arrhenius, “The Moral Status of Potential People,” Sixth Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University, July 31-August 4, 2005.
“Eternalism and the Time of Death’s Badness,” presented as part of a panel on death at the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Time and Identity, Apr. 1-3, 2005 (invited).
“The Worst Time to Die,” Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Time and Identity, Apr. 1-3, 2005 (refereed).
“Egoistic Concern, Narrative Unity, and the Worst Time to Die,” Creighton Club (NY State Philosophical Association), November 6, 2004 (invited).
“The Worst Time to Die,” SUNY Geneseo, October 29, 2004 (invited).
“The Worst Time to Die,” SUNY Fredonia, October 28, 2004 (invited).
Comments on Elinor Mason, “The High Price of Pluralism,” Fifth Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University, August 1-5, 2004.
“Death and Previous Gains,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, April 22-25, 2004 (refereed).
Panel discussion, “Ethics in the Fashion Industry: Dilemmas of Globalization,” sponsored by NYPIRG, PLACA, FADS and Fashion’s Conscience, Syracuse University, April 1, 2004.
Comments on Owen McLeod, “Adjusting Utility for Justice: A Reexamination of the Connections Between Desert and Intrinsic Value,” Seventh Biennial Umass Philosophy Homecoming, University of Massachusetts, October 11, 2003.
Comments on Gustaf Arrhenius, “Superiority in Value,” Fourth Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University, August 1-5, 2003.
“Virtue Consequentialism,” Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark College, October 25-26, 2002 (refereed).
Comments on Stephen Brown, “Another Way of Naturalizing Virtue Ethics,” Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark College, October 25-26, 2002.
Comments on Elizabeth Harman, “The Potentiality Problem,” Third Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Western Washington University, August 3-6, 2002.
Panel discussion, “Do Corporations Have Responsibilities Toward Society?” Virginia Tech, April 8, 2002.

Works in Progress:

"TBA," commissioned article for a special issue of Social Theory and Practice devoted to the work of John Martin Fischer.
"TBA," with Kris McDaniel, commissioned article to be included in a collection tentatively titled Death: Metaphysics and Ethics, to be edited by James Stacey Taylor.
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Death (co-editor with Fred Feldman and Jens Johansson), under contract with Oxford University Press.
"Analyzing Harm," manuscript in progress.
"Intrinsic Value," and "Instrumental Value," for the International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Blackwell), edited by Hugh LaFollette, forthcoming in 2011.

Service:

To the profession:

Referee and other advisory work for:

Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Kluwer Academic Publishers
MIT Press
Mayfield Publishing Company
Routledge Publishing Company
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
Nous
Ethics
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Philosophical Studies
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Philosophical Quarterly
Synthese
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
American Philosophical Quarterly
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Philosophical Papers
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
Journal of Philosophical Research
Journal of Moral Philosophy
Inquiry
Journal of Applied Philosophy
Polish Journal of Philosophy
Southern Journal of Philosophy
Journal of Social Philosophy
British Society for Ethical Theory
The Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference

Program Committee, 2008 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference.
Master's thesis external examiner for Emilio Mora, Monash University, 2008.
Session chair at the 2001 and 2004 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, 2003 Syracuse Workshop in Metaphysics, 2004 Syracuse Workshop on the A Priori, 2005 APA Pacific Division Meeting, 2007 SPAWN on Practical Reason, and 2007 Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop.
Participant at the 2004 Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop
Contributor to PEA Soup, a weblog devoted to Philosophy, Ethics and Academia. http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup

To Syracuse University:

Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009-.
Arts & Sciences lower-division advisor, 2004-.
Instructional Committee, 2009.
Summer advising program, 2004.
First-year Forum leader, 2004 and 2009.
New Faculty Orientation small group discussion leader, 2004 and 2005
Minnowbrook Future Professoriate Project, May 12-14, 2004

To the Syracuse University Philosophy Department:

Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2008-.
Executive Committee, 2008-.
Graduate admissions committee, 2008-9.
Organizer of the 2006 Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network, July 16-18, 2006.
Administration, Operations, and Governance subcommittee, 2005-6.
Mentoring sessions for PHI 107 instructors, 2004-8.
Search committee, 2004-5, 2007-8, 2008-9.
Colloquium committee, 2004-5 and 2007-8.
Professional Development Seminar - Publishing in Philosophy, Apr. 30, 2004.
PhD supervisor for Patrick Beach (in progress).
MA supervisor for Kelly McPherson, "Maintaining Discrimination in Operation Iraqi Freedom," 2008.
Dissertation committee member for John Draeger (2004), Craig Hanson (2006), Larry James (2006), Kevin Kukla (2007), Michael McKeon (2007) and Nathan Hanna (2007).

Courses Taught:

Graduate Seminars:

Foundations of Analytic Ethics (with Kris McDaniel) (Syracuse)
Death (Syracuse)
Parfit (with Kris McDaniel) (Syracuse)
Intrinsic Value (Syracuse)
History of Ethics (Virginia Tech)

Graduate/Undergraduate Courses:

Topics in Moral Philosophy (Syracuse)
The Metaphysics of Modality (Virginia Tech)
Epistemology (Virginia Tech)
Philosophy of Mind (Virginia Tech)
Social and Political Philosophy (Virginia Tech)

Undergraduate Courses:

Majors Seminar: Death (Syracuse)
Environmental Ethics (Syracuse, Illinois Wesleyan, UMass)
Contemporary Ethics (Syracuse)
Global Ethics (Syracuse, Virginia Tech)
Business and Professional Ethics (Virginia Tech)
Medical Ethics (UMass)
History of Modern Philosophy (UMass)
Contemporary Philosophy: The Analytic Tradition (Western Washington)
Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Syracuse, Western Washington, Virginia Tech, Illinois Wesleyan, UMass)
Introduction to Philosophy (Syracuse, Western Washington, UMass)
Introduction to Logic (Western Washington, UMass)