Curriculum Vitae Julia Borcherding Department of Philosophy New York University 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 (+1) 212-992-8318 AREA OF SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF COMPETENCE early modern philosophy ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, feminist philosophy, medieval philosophy, ancient philosophy EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION 2018 - Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University 2017 - Bersoff Faculty Fellow, New York University, Department of Philosophy 2011-2017 PhD in Philosophy with distinction, Yale University, New Haven, USA Dissertation: Divine Minds: Leibniz on Knowledge and the Pursuit of Happiness Committee: Michael Della Rocca (chair), Stephen Darwall, Kenneth Winkler, Martha Brandt Bolton (external committee member, Rutgers) 2005-2011 Magister Artium (M.A.) with distinction (double major Philosophy, Modern History) Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany PUBLICATIONS ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Modern Moral Philosophy, forthcoming in: The PSR in Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), ed. F. Amjee & M. Della Rocca; under contract with Oxford University Press.
Anne Conway s Theory of Cognition, forthcoming in: Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. S. Bender and D. Perler, under contract with Routledge. The Metaphysics of Leibniz s New System, forthcoming in: Leibniz s Key Philosophical Writings, ed. P. Lodge & L. Strickland, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Loving the Body, Loving the Soul: Conway s Vitalist Critique of Cartesian and Morean Dualism, forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 9 (2019). Reflection, Intelligibility, and Leibniz s Case Against Materialism, forthcoming in Logical Analysis and the History of Philosophy 21 (2018). A View from Nowhere? The Place of Subjectivity in Spinoza s Rationalism. In: Th. Ekenberg, J. Kauka & T. Kukkonen, Subjectivity, Selfhood and Agency in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 16). Dordrecht: Springer, 2016, 235-261. (reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Sept 26, 2016) Antoine Arnauld: Intentionalität, Repräsentation und Phänomenologie. In: D. Perler & J. Haag (eds.), Ideen. Repräsentionalismus in der frühen Neuzeit, vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, 232-251. (with Stephan Schmid) TRANSLATIONS/COMMENTARIES Antoine Arnauld: Übersetzung. (translation of of a selection of Arnauld s writings from French to German) In: D. Perler & J. Haag (eds.), Ideen. Repräsentionalismus in der frühen Neuzeit, vol. 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, 231-258. (with Stephan Schmid) Antoine Arnauld: Kommentar (commentary on selected texts) In: D. Perler & J. Haag (eds.), Ideen. Repräsentionalismus in der frühen Neuzeit, vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, 209-231. (with Stephan Schmid) Pierre Gassendi: Übersetzung. (translation of a selection of Gassendi s writings from Latin to German) In: D. Perler & J. Haag (eds.), Ideen. Repräsentionalismus in der frühen Neuzeit, vol. 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, 85-118. (with Maria Seidl) TALKS Leibniz s Monads and Conway s Monads, Hamburg-Berlin Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin, June 15, 2018. Re-Examining Conway s Metaphysics of Substance, SWIP Ireland Annual Conference, University College Dublin, May 18, 2018. Nothing Is Simply One Thing, New York University, February 2, 2018.
Every Feeling is the Perception of a Truth, University of Pittsburgh, January 29, 2018 (invited); Rice University, January 18, 2018 (invited); University of Notre Dame, December 8, 2017. (invited) Re-examining Anne Conway s Metaphysics of Substance, Lehigh University 5 th Annual Philosophy Conference: Women in Early Modern Philsophy, October 19, 2017. Moral Knowledge in Leibniz s New Essays, Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop, Harvard, September 29, 2017. Conway s Argument from Love, Atelier Franco-Américain, ENS Lyon, June 9, 2017. Leibniz on Moral Instincts, Nature, Mind and Action in Leibniz, Turku University, June 1, 2017. Every Feeling is the Perception of a Truth, Williams College, February 28, 2017 (invited); University of Richmond, February 20, 2017 (invited); University of Chicago, February 9, 2017. (invited) Leibniz s Reflection Argument Against Materialism, University of Memphis, February 3, 2017. (invited) Every Feeling is the Perception of a Truth, University of Groningen, December 6, 2016. (invited) Divine Minds? Leibniz and the Similarity Thesis, X. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress, Hanover, July 18-23, 2016. Every Feeling is the Perception of a Truth. Moral Knowledge in the New Essays, X. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress, Hanover, July 18-23, 2016. Reflection, Intelligibility, and Leibniz s Case Against Materialism, Leibniz Doctoral Seminar, Hanover, July 12-16, 2016. Loving the Body, Loving the Soul. Conway s Vitalist Critique of Cartesian and Morean Dualism, New Naratives in Philosophy: Rediscovering Neglected Works by Early Modern Women, Duke University, March 2016. Loving the Body, Loving the Soul. Conway s Vitalist Critique of Cartesian and Morean Dualism, Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford, March 2016. The Nature of Things and the Nature of Mind. Leibniz on Self-Knowledge, First Carinthian Workshop on Topics from Early Modern Philosophy to Kant: Cognition, Self-Knowledge and the Self, University of Klagenfurt, September 2015. Knowledge Human and Divine, The Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Workshop: Necessity and Contingency in Early Modern Philosophy, Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, August 2014. The Marble s Veins. Locke and Leibniz on Innate Ideas, Princeton Graduate Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, Princeton, February 2014. Leibniz s Formalist Epistemology of Necessity, 4th NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, Fordham University, March 2014.
Leibniz on Knowing Necessary Truths, South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Texas A&M, September 2013. The Marble s Veins. Locke and Leibniz on Innate Ideas, New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, Yale University, May 2013. A View from Nowhere, University of Groningen, January 2013. The Bounds of Reason: The Place of Subjectivity in Spinoza s Ethics, Subjectivity, Selfhood and Agency in the Arabic and Latin Traditions, Uppsala University, August 2012. Mind the Gap. Leibniz Use of Analogies and the Principle of Continuity, 2 nd HU Berlin King s College London Joint Graduate Workshop, King s College London, May 2011. INVITED COMMENTS Comments on Martin Lin, Metaphysical Rationalism, Author Meets Critics Martin Lin: Being and Reason, HU Berlin, June 2016. Comments on Donald Rutherford, Sapientia est Scientia Felicitatis: The Foundations of Leibniz s Perfectionism, 11 th Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America, October 2017. Comments on Samuel Levey, A Quibble over Words? Revisiting the Dispute Between Leibniz and Arnauld Concerning Substance, Baltimore, Eastern APA, January 2017. Comments on Stephen Darwall, Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Leibniz, Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale, October 2015. Comments on Samuel Rickless, Locke s Ontology of Relations, Yale Locke Workshop, October 2014. Comments on Julia Jorati, Leibnizian Spontaneity and Teleology, Pittsburgh Area Colloquium, 2013. Comments on Martha Bolton, Metaphysics and Psychology in Leibniz s Theory of Ideas, Yale Leibniz Workshop, October 2012. Comments on Rory Campbell, Fodor s Causal Account of Content, 1 st HU Berlin King s College London Joint Graduate Workshop, HU Berlin, October 2010. Comments on Marcelo Dascal, Leibniz s Two-Pronged Dialectic, HU Berlin Leibniz Workshop, June 2008. Comments on Steven Nadler, Spinoza and Consciousness, HU Berlin Spinoza Workshop, June 2007. AWARDS & HONORS Sept 2017- Bersoff Faculty Fellowship, New York University offer to join the Dartmouth Society of Fellows (declined)
July 2016 Spring 2017 Full stipend to participate in the Leibniz Summer School 2016, Leipzig and Hanover Selected for the Associates in Teaching program at Yale (a competitive program at allowing a graduate student to partner with a senior faculty member to design, develop and deliver a new undergraduate class) 2013-16 Dodge Fellowship June 2014 Sept 2013 June 2012 Yale GSA CTF Award 2011-13 Yale Graduate Student Fellowship 2008-2009 Humboldt-Universitäts-Stipendium July 2006 Droysen-Preis, Humboldt University TEACHING EXPERIENCE AS PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR Early Modern Women Philosophers, NYU, Fall 2018 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies: Early Modern Women on Education, Love, Liberty and Happiness, NYU, Fall 2018 Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, NYU, Spring 2018 Leibniz and His Correspondents, NYU, Fall 2017 Reconsidering Rationalism (with Michael Della Rocca), Yale, Spring 2017 AS TEACHING FELLOW Perspectives on Human Nature (Prof. Joshua Knobe), Yale, Spring 2015 & Fall 2016 Introduction to Ethics (Prof. Shelly Kagan), Yale, Fall 2014 Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy (Prof. Michael Della Rocca), Yale, Spring 2014 Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (Prof. Verity Harte), Yale, Fall 2013 FURTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate Fellow, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, 2015 Volunteer at New Haven Reads (reading tutor for elementary school students), 2011-2012 Volunteer at the Holocaust Memorial Memorial Foundation of Illinois (instructor and museum guide for high school students), 2004-2005
ACADEMIC SERVICE Referee for Journal of the History of Philosophy Area Editor for PhilPapers Member of the Yale Philosophy Department s Committee for Academic Climate, 2014-2017 LANGUAGES German (native), English (fluent), French (advanced), Turkish (intermediate), Latin (advanced, Großes Latinum), Ancient Greek (intermediate, Graecum)