About Me Course 1 Course 2 CV Useful Links Home Marina Oshana Associate Professor 330 Griffin-Floyd Hall 352-792-2084 x311 moshana@ufl.edu Office hours, Spring 2008 Wednesday, 2:00 - 5:00	CV Curriculum Vitae Marina A. L. Oshana 2008 Work address Department of Philosophy University of Florida 330 Griffin-Floyd Hall Gainesville, FL 32611-8545 (352) 392-2084 (department) (352) 392-5577 (fax) Education 1993 Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Davis. 1988 M.A., Philosophy, UC Davis. 1987 M.A., Philosophy, summa cum laude, San Francisco State University. 1983 B.A., Philosophy, summa cum laude, San Francisco State University. Employment history 2003–present Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida. 2001-2003 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University. 1998-2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University. Fall, 1996 Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University. 1994–1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Sacramento. 1993-1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State University, San Bernardino. Areas of specialization and competence Specialization: Ethics Competence: Philosophy of Law History of Philosophy Books Personal Autonomy in Society, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). Recent Publications “Autonomy and the Question of Authenticity”, Social Theory and Practice, July 2007. “Moral Accountability,” Philosophical Topics, Vol. 32, Nos. 1 & 2 (2004). “Moral Taint,” Metaphilosophy, special issue on Genocide, Collective Guilt, and Reparations, Vol. 37, Nos. 3/4, July 2006. “Autonomy and Free Agency,” in Personal Autonomy, edited by James Stacey Taylor, Cambridge University Press, 2005. “Autonomy and Self-Identity,” in Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays, co-edited by John Christman and Joel Anderson, Cambridge University Press, 2005. “How Much Should We Value Autonomy?” Social Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 20, No. 2, (2003). Works in Progress The Importance of How We See Ourselves: Self-Identity and Responsible Agency, under contract, Rowman and Littlefield, Lexington Books. “A Commitment to Autonomy is a Commitment to Feminism.” “Legal Obligation and Autonomy.” "Is Substantive Autonomy a Plausible Ideal?" Presentations Past: “Legal Obligation and Autonomy”,, Central Division APA Panel, “Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy,” April 17 – 20, 2008. "Legal Obligation and Autonomy," Faculty Address, Southeastern Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Florida,  March 2008. "Through the Looking Glass: What Philosophy Looks Like From the Inside When You're Not Quite There", Keynote address, Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy, 4th Annual Conference for Topics of Diversity in Philosophy, February 23^rd, 2008, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. “Legal Obligation and Autonomy”, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, February 1, 2008 Panelist on assisted suicide, Accent Speaker’s Series hosting Dr. Jack Kevorkian, January 15, 2008, University of Florida. “Autonomy and the Question of Authenticity”, at the fifth conference on Moral Theory and Practice, Bruge, Belgium, June, 2007. “Legal Obligation and Respect for Autonomy”, workshop on Women, Human Rights, and the 21^st Century, XXIII World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, August 1-6, Krakow, Poland. “Autonomy and the Question of Authenticity”, Philosophy Faculty, University of Leiden, April 12, 2007. “Sex and Shame”, Undergraduate Philosophy Society, forum on Sex and Morals, March 7, 2007. On Personal Autonomy in Society, Faculty Workshop of Practical Philosophy and the Ethics Center, University of Utrecht, February 13, 2007. Commentator: Dr. Rob van Gerwen. “Autonomy and the Question of Authenticity”, Workshop on the Social Conditions of Autonomy, University of Zurich, Ethics center, October 16, 2006. “The Nature of Evil”, Food and Talk series, Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, April 6, 2006. Comments on Rudiger Bittner, “What is Good About Justice?” at the fourth conference on Moral Theory and Practice, Granada, Spain, June, 2005. “Moral Taint.” Keynote address, 32nd Annual Conference on Value Inquiry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, April 8-10th, 2005. “Moral Accountability and Free Agency,” Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Louisiana State University, February, 2004. “Autonomy.” Undergraduate Philosophical Society, University of Florida, October, 2003. “The Value of Autonomy,” third conference on Moral Theory and Practice, Geneva, Switzerland, June, 2003. “The Value of Autonomy,” Philosophy Department, University of Minnesota, Morris, April 8, 2003. “Moral Accountability and Free Agency”, at the twenty-seventh annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Morris, April 8, 2003. Comments on John Christman’s “Relational Autonomy: Some Worries”, Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 29, 2003. “The Value of Autonomy,” Philosophy Department, University of Virginia, March 12, 2003. “Autonomy and Self-Identity”, Philosophy Department, University of Florida, February 7, 2003. “Legal Moralism,” Bowling Green State University, Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 2002. “How Much Should We Value Autonomy?”, Conference on Autonomy sponsored by the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, April 13, 2002. “The Problem of Evil”, Maumee Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation, February 24, 2002. “Autonomy and Self-Identity”, Philosophy Department, Washington University, St. Louis, November 30, 2001. Comments on Susan Hurley’s “Responsibility, Reasons, and Irrelevant Alternatives”, second conference on Moral Theory and Practice, sponsored by the Program in Applied and Professional Ethics, University of Maryland, Urbino, Italy, June 24 - 26, 2001. “The Misguided Marriage of Autonomy and Responsibility”, Boston University, December, 2000. Comments on F.M. Kamm’s “Does Distance Matter to the Duty to Rescue?”, first conference on Moral Theory and Practice, sponsored by the Program in Applied and Professional Ethics, University of Maryland, Le Lavandou, France, June 6-8, 1999. “Autonomy, Accountability, and Right-Reason,” an invited paper for a symposium on Reasonably Autonomous Persons: Rationality, Neutrality, and the Self, at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, March 20, 1999. “The Autonomy Bogeyman,” Philosophy Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, March 1, 1999. “Wanton Responsibility,” Philosophy Programme, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, July 22, 1998. Comments on Robert Allen’s “Free Agency and Self-Esteem: What Gaslighting Cases Show.” Central Division Meetings, American Philosophical Association, Chicago, May 1998. “Wanton Responsibility,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, January 28, 1998. “Ascriptions of Responsibility,” Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 4, 1997. “Ascriptions of Responsibility,” Bowling Green State University, Ohio, December 11, 1996. Comments on Gale Justin’s “Kant’s Formula of the Universal Law in a Business Context.” Nammour Philosophy Symposium, California State University, Sacramento, March 12, 1996. “The Value of Self-Government.” California State University, Sacramento, Philosophy Club, May 4, 1995. “The Concept of Moral Responsibility.” Nammour Philosophy Symposium, California State University, Sacramento, April 5, 1995. Comments on Claudia Mills’ “Persuasion and Autonomy.” Pacific Division Meetings, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 1993. “Autonomy as a Social Phenomenon.” California State University, San Bernardino, February 11, 1993. “Autonomy as a Social Phenomenon.” Temple University, Philadelphia, January 22, 1993. “Autonomy as a Social Phenomenon.” University of California, Davis, December 9, 1992. Fellowships and Awards · University of Florida / University of Utrecht Faculty Exchange (January – June, 2007). · Senior Research Fellow, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Spring 2002- 2003. · Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Philosophy Programme, Australian · National University, Canberra, June 1 – July 31, 1998. · NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Boulder, Colorado, June 19 - July 28, 1995. · CSU Sacramento Assigned Time Grant, Fall 1994 and Spring 1995. · CSU San Bernardino, School of Humanities Assigned Time Grant, Fall 1993 and Spring 1994. · UC Davis Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1991/92. · UC Davis Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 1991/92 (declined). · University of California Regents’ Graduate Intern-Fellowship, 1987-8, 1988-9, 1989-90, 1990-91. · California State University Doctoral Incentive Fellow, 1987; 1988; 1989. · San Francisco State University Graduate Equity Fellowship, 1985; 1986. Conferences and Speaker Series organized The Evolution of Morality, University of Florida, Spring 2008. Action and Agency, University of Florida, February 18 & 19, 2005. The Moral Legacy of Slavery: Repairing Injustice, Bowling Green State University, October 18 & 19, 2002 (with David Copp, Carolyn Council, and Ian Young).