UCLA Department of Philosophy



Curriculum Vitae

Barbara Herman

Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles

405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1451

Phone: 310.206.2799; fax: 310.825.6040; email: herman@humnet.ucla.edu

Education

Harvard University -- Ph.D. 1976 (Philosophy)

Harvard University -- M.A. 1967 (History)

Cornell University -- B.A. 1966 (History)

Fellowships and Honors

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995

Raubenheimer Faculty Teaching Award, USC, 1993

NEH Fellowship, 1992

Perkins Fellowship in Philosophy, Princeton University, Spring 1987

Faculty Research and Innovation Grant, USC, Summer 1986

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985-1986

Howard Foundation Fellowship, 1985-1986 (declined)

Old Dominion Research Fellowship, MIT, 1977

Carrier Dissertation Prize, Harvard University, 1976

Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities Fellowship, 1972-1973

Teaching Positions

Griffin Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, UCLA, 2006-

Griffin Professor of Philosophy, UCLA, 1994-2006

Professor of Philosophy and Law, USC, 1992-1994

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, USC, 1987-1992

Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, Spring 1987

Associate Professor of Philosophy, USC, 1984-1987

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, USC, 1981-1984

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, USC, 1980-1981

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, MIT, 1973-1980

Publications - Books

Moral Literacy, (Harvard University Press, 2007)

Editor, John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2000)

Co-editor with A. Reath, C. Korsgaard, Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

The Practice of Moral Judgment, (Harvard University Press, 1993).

Morality and Rationality: A Study of Kant's Ethics, Garland Publishing (Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy), 1990.

Publications - Articles and chapters:

“Juridical Personality and the Role of Juridical Obligation,” in Normativity and Agency: Themes from the Philosophy of Christine Korsgaard, eds. Tamar Schapiro & Kyla Ebels Duggan, (Oxford University Press, 2021).

“Making Others' Ends our Own: The Challenges of Kantian Beneficence,” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 93 (2019).

“Being Prepared: From Duties to Motives,” in Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, vol. 9, ed. Mark Timmons (Oxford University Press, 2019).

“Other to Self: Finding Love on the Path to Moral Agency,” Amherst Lectures in Philosophy, 2018.

“Doing Too Much,” The Journal of Ethics, Volume 22, no.2, June 2018.

“We are Not Alone: A Place for Animals in Kant’s Ethics” in Kant on Persons and Agency, ed. Eric Watkins (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

“Religion and the Highest Good: Speaking to the Heart of Even the Best of Us” in Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity, ed. Kate Moran (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

“Kantian Commitments,” Studi kantiani” (XXIX, 2016).

“Impermissibility and Wrongness” Norton Introduction to Philosophy (2014).

“Making Exceptions,” in the Proceedings of the 11th International Kant Congress (2013).

“Being Helped and Being Grateful: Puzzles about Imperfect Duties, the Ethics of Possession, and the Unity of Morality,” The Journal of Philosophy, Volume CIX, No. 5/6, 2012.

“Embracing Kant’s Formalism,” Kantian Review, vol. 16, 2011.

“The Difference that Ends Make,” in Perfecting Virtue: Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics, ed. Julian Wuerth (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

“A Mismatch of Methods” in Derek Parfit, On What Matters: vol 2, ed. S. Scheffler (Oxford University Press, 2011).

“Morality and Moral Theory,” John Dewey Lecture, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 83, No. 2, November 2009.

“A Habitat for Humanity” in Kant’s “Idea for a Universal History” eds. A.O. Rorty and James Schmidt (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

“Morality Unbounded,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 36, no. 4, 2008.

“Contingency at Ground Level,” in Moral Universalism and Pluralism: NOMOS XLIX, eds. Henry Richardson and Melissa Williams, (New York University Press, 2008).

“Contingency in Obligation,” in Moral Universalism and Pluralism: NOMOS XLIX, eds. Henry Richardson and Melissa Williams, (New York University Press, 2008).

“Reasoning to Obligation,” Inquiry, vol. 49, No. 1, February 2006.

“Transforming Incentives,” Philosophical Aspects of the Emotions, ed. Asa Carlson, (Thales, 2005).

“The Scope of Moral Requirement,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 30, no. 3, 2001 (pub. 2002). (Reprinted in Setting the Moral Compass, ed. Cheshire Calhoun (Oxford University Press, 2004)

“Rethinking Kant’s Hedonism,” in Facts and Values: Essays for Judith Thomson, eds. R. Stalnaker, R. Wedgwood, & A. Byrne (MIT Press, 2001)

“Bootstrapping,” in Contours of Agency, eds. S. Buss & L. Overold (MIT Press, 2001)

“Morality and Everyday Life,” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Nov. 2000.

“Moral Literacy,” in The Tanner Lectures on Human Value, volume 19 (University of Utah Press, 1998),

"Training to Autonomy: Kant and the Question of Moral Education," in Philosophers on Education, ed. Amélie O. Rorty (Routledge, 1998).

"A Cosmopolitan Kingdom of Ends," in Reclaiming the History of Ethics, eds. A. Reath, C. Korsgaard, & B. Herman (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

"Making Room for Character," in Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics, eds. S. Engstrom & J. Whiting, (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

"Pluralism and the Community of Moral Judgment," in Toleration: An Elusive Virtue, ed. David Heyd (Princeton University Press, 1996), pp 60-80. (Reprinted as “Pluralismus und moralische Urteilsgemeinschaft,” in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48(3) 371-391, 2000.)

"Feinberg on Luck and Failed Attempts," Arizona Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring 1995).

"Could It Be Worth Thinking About Kant on Sex and Marriage?" in A Mind of One's Own, eds. Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt, Westview Press, 1993. (Reprinted as “Ob es lohnen könnte über Kant’s Auffasungen von Sexualität un Ehe nachzudenken” hrsg., Dieter Thomâ (VG Bild-Kunst, 2000.)

"Motives" and "Desire" entries in The Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence Becker, Garland Publishing, 1992.

"Agency, Attachment, and Difference," Ethics, 101, No. 4 (July 1991). (Reprinted in Ethics and Personality, ed. John Deigh (University of Chicago Press, 1992) and in volume XIV of The Philosopher's Annual.)

"Obligation and Performance," in Identity, Character, and Morality, eds. Amélie Rorty and Owen Flanagan (MIT Press, 1990).

"What Happens to the Consequences?" in Pursuits of Reason, eds. Paul Guyer, Ted Cohen, and Hilary Putnam (Texas Tech University Press, 1993).

"Murder and Mayhem: Violence and Kantian Casuistry," The Monist, 72, No. 3 (July 1989).

"Justification and Objectivity," in Kant's Deductions, ed. Eckart Förster (Stanford University Press, 1989).

"Comments on Gavison," Southern California Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 6 (September 1988).

"The Practice of Moral Judgment," The Journal of Philosophy, LXXXII, No. 8 (August 1985).

"Mutual Aid and Respect for Persons," Ethics, 94, No. 4 (July 1984). (Reprinted in volume III of Immanuel Kant: Critical Assessments, ed. Ruth F. Chadwick (Routledge Press, 1922); in Liberalism (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993), and in Rational Foundations of Rights and Duties (Routledge, 2005).)

"Rules, Motives, and Helping Actions," Philosophical Studies, 45 (April 1984).

"Integrity and Impartiality," The Monist, 66, No. 2 (April 1983).

"On the Value of Acting from the Motive of Duty," Philosophical Review, XC, No. 3 (July 1981).

Invited talks and lectures - (since 1995)

“Kantian Beneficence,” Lindley Lecture, University of Kansas, October 2019; UCSD, May 2019; Jacobsen Lecture, University of London, June 2019; Princeton University, Moffett Lecture, October 2020.

“Making Others’ Ends our Own,” APA DeGruyter Kant Lecture, April 2019.

“The Challenges of Beneficence,” University of Michigan Law School, March 2019.

“Finding Love on the Path to Moral Agency,” Amherst College, October 2018

“Juridical Obligation,” Queens University Law and Philosophy Colloquium, October 2018; University of Vermont, October 2020.

“Juridical Personality,” NAKS, Vancouver, May 2018.

“Thinking About Imperfect Duties,” NYU Colloquium in Legal, Social, and Political Philosophy, October 2016; UCLA Law and Philosophy, March 2017

“Being Prepared: From Duties to Motives,” University of Toronto Law School, March 2017; USC, April 2017.

Mini-course on Kant’s Ethics, Six Lectures, Stanford University, June 2016

“A Place for Animals in Kant’s Ethics,” University of Notre Dame, April 2016

“Other to Self,” Karl-Franzens-Univeristy Graz, November 2015

“Thinking Again about the/an Ethics of Care,” Karl-Franzens-University Graz, November 2015

“Choosing Between Love and Morality,” University of Nebraska, Cedric Evans Lecture, September 2015

“We Are Not Alone,” University of Nebraska, September 2015

“Animals and Agency,” Villanova University, October 2015

“Can Morality be Self-Contained?” Political Theory Workshop, Stanford University, May 2015

“Imperfect Duties,” NYU Law and Philosophy, October 2014, Georgetown University, October 2014, and UCLA Legal Theory Workshop, March 2015.

“The Moral Side of Non-Negligence,” Dewey Lecture, University of Chicago Law School, February 2014.

“Religion and the Highest Good,” Brown University, October 2013.

“A Concurrence of Wisdom and Nature,” Frankfurt University, September 2013.

“Articulated Beneficence,” Princeton University Center for Human Values, November 2012.

“Love and Morality,” Utrecht University; Tilburg University; Temple University; September-October 2012; Metropolitan State University, April 2014.

“Love’s Complexities,” University of Pittsburgh, March 2012.

“Doing Too Much,” Cornell University, September 2011; Amsterdam University, Antwerp University, September 2012.

“The Ratio of Proportionality,” Cardozo Law School, September 2011.

“Being Helped and Being Grateful,” Safra Center for Human Values, Harvard University; Columbia University; Tulane University; Antwerp University; ALPC; North American Kant Society. Winter-Spring 2011.

“Progressive Obligations: Comments on Arthur Ripstein’s Force and Freedom,” Cardozo Law School, June 2010.

“Making Exceptions,” Plenary Address, XI International Kant Congress, Pisa, Italy, May 2010; University of Colorado, Boulder, January 2011.

“What Human Rights are Not: Comments on Charles Beitz’s Human Rights,” Stanford University, May 2010.

“Kantian Commitments,” Notre Dame, October 2009; NYU, November 2009; California State Los Angeles, February 2010; University of Utrecht, September 2012.

“The Difference that Ends Make,” North American Kant Society, San Diego, October 2009.

“Embracing Formalism,” Author-Meets-Critic session on Moral Literacy, American Philosophical Association, April 2009

“Morality and Moral Theory,” The Dewey Lecture, American Philosophical Association, April 2009.

“Sources of Moral Content,” American Philosophical Association, December 2008

“Simon Lectures, University of Toronto, November 2008

Sources of Moral Content

Acting Against Principle

Workshop on Kant’s Practical Philosophy, Cambridge University, September 2008

Kant on Self-Knowledge and Moral Knowledge

Kantian Traditions and Misappropriations

“Kant and the Necessary Lie,” Plenary Address, British Society for Ethical Thought, Edinburgh, July 2008

Six lectures on Kant’s ethics: University of Turku, Finland, August 2007

“Rethinking Kant’s Ethics” three lectures at University of Saskatchewan, April 2007

“Morality Unbounded,” Workshop on Practical Judgment, EUI, Fiesole, September 2006; revised versions at Georgetown University, November 2006; Princeton University, April 2007; Northwestern University, May 2007; Aarhus University, Denmark, November 2007.

Jerusalem Law and Philosophy Conference on “Contingency in Obligation”, June 2006

“The Kantian Option,” Conference on Moral Philosophy, Dubrovnik, May 2006

“Ends Justifying Means,” UC Riverside and at NYU, March 2006, University of Virginia, January 2008, UC Santa Cruz, February 2008

“Morality and Political Necessity,” Purdue University; Indiana University, October 2005

“Moral Justification and Political Necessity,” Plenary Address, X International Kant Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2005.

“Reasoning to Obligation,” Kant bis Hegel Conference, University of Pittsburgh, April 2005.

“Moral Universalism and Pluralism,” American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, December 2004

“Contingency in Obligation,” Yale Legal Theory Workshop, October 2004

Scottish Centenary Lectures, May 2004

at University of Sterling, “Imperfect Duties”

at St. Andrews, “Moral Improvisation”

at Edinburgh University, “Contingent Obligations”

“Contingent Obligations,” Oberlin Philosophy Colloquium, April 2004

“Moral Improvisation,” University of Colorado, Boulder, October 2003

“A Doctrine of Ends,” Chapel Hill Colloquium, October 2003

“Imperfect Duties and Supererogation,” Uppsala University, September 2003

“Transforming Incentives,” Plenary Address, Nordic Women’s Philosophical Association, September 2003

“Making Morality Better and Making it Our Own,” Ohio State University, May 2003.

The Whitehead Lectures. “Extending the Scope of Moral Requirement.” Harvard University, May 2003.

Lecture 1: Obligatory Ends

Lecture 2: Moral Improvisation

‘The Will and its Objects, Part One” Syracuse University, November 2002.

“The Unity of the Will,” University of Pittsburgh, April 2002.

“The Will and its Objects,” UC Riverside, March 2002.

“Beneficence and Obligatory Ends,” UC Davis, June 2001.

“Moral Ends,” Gramlich Lecture, Dartmouth University, May 2001.

“The Scope of Moral Requirement,” Kennedy School, Harvard University, April 2001.

“Morality and Everyday Life,” Presidential Address, Pacific Division APA, April 2000.

“The Practical Role of Feeling,” University of Virginia, February 2000.

“Rethinking Kant’s Hedonism,” MIT, February 2000.

“Bootstrapping,” Conference in honor of Harry Frankfurt, Wake Forest, November 1999.

“Toleration,” California Polytechnical College, Pomona, October 1999

“The Role of Moral Feeling in Kant’s Ethics,” Cornell University, October 1999.

“Back to Kant! - NeoKantianism in Ethics,” Central Division APA, May 1999.

“Transforming Incentives,” University of Santa Clara, April 1999.

"The Perils of Heteronomy," University of New Mexico, April 1998.

The Seybert Lectures. University of Pennsylvania, November 1997.

Lecture 1: The Perils of Heteronomy

Lecture 2: Training to Autonomy: Making Autonomy Empirically Real

"Kant and the Question of Moral Education," Indiana University, September 1997.

"Kant and the Problem of Moral Education," UCSD, May 1997.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Moral Literacy. Stanford University, April 1997.

Lecture 1: Responsibility and Competence

Lecture 2: Can Virtue Be Taught? The Problem of New Moral Facts

The Carl G. Hempel Lectures. The Circumstances of Moral Agency. Princeton, April 1997.

Lecture 1: An Argument for a Distinctly Moral Motive

Lecture 2: The Problem of New Moral Facts

Lecture 3: The Idea of History From a Cosmopolitan Point of View

"Method and Reason in The Practice of Moral Judgment," APA, Eastern Division, December 1996.

"Moral Motivation," Southern California Philosophy Meetings, October 1996.

"In Defense of a Distinctly Moral Motive," Arizona State University, September 1996.

"Moral Literacy," Harvard University, April 1996.

"A Cosmopolitan Kingdom of Ends," NYU, December 1995.

"The Place of the Ideal in Moral Judgment," Eighth International Kant Conference, March 1995.

"Making Room for Character," Georgetown University, February 1995.

Other Professional Activities

Board Member, Center for Moral and Political Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2014-

Associate Editor, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2003-2015

Search Committee, White’s Professor, Oxford, 2013-2014

Search Committee, Meldin Chair, UC Irvine, 2005-2006

Member, Graves Award Committee, 2002-2008

Search Committee, Professorship in Ethics, University of Turku, Finland, winter 2003

Phi Beta Kappa, Romanell Lecture Committee, 2003-2005

Chair, APA Prize Essay Committee, 2003-2004

President, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 2000-2001

Associate Editor, Ethics, 1991-1994; Editorial Board, 1994-

Program Committee, APA Pacific Division, 1994-96

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