Curriculum Vitae Julia Borcherding 103 Lawrence St New Haven, CT 06511 USA (+1) 203-507-1905 julia.borcherding@yale.edu www.juliaborcherding.wordpress.com Department of Philosophy Yale University P.O. Box 208306 New Haven, CT 06520 (+1) 203-432-1665 AREA OF SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF COMPETENCE early modern philosophy epistemology, ethics, medieval philosophy, ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy, metaphysics EDUCATION 2011-2017 PhD candidate, Philosophy (expected) 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) 2008-2009 Visiting Graduate Student University of Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Philosophy 2005-2011 Magister Artium (M.A.) with distinction (double major philosophy, history) Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany PUBLICATIONS Articles 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. (recently reviewed by Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: Sep 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) Under Review The Nature of Things and the Nature of Mind: Reflection, Intelligibility, and Leibniz s Case Against Materialism (revise and resubmission requested from Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie) Loving the Body, Loving the Soul: Conway s Vitalist Critique of Cartesian and Morean Dualism (under review) 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 (* = refereed) 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, 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. (invited speaker) 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 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, 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 July 2016 Spring 2016 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 CO-PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR Reconsidering Rationalism (with Michael Della Rocca), 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 Writing Fellow, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning (designing and leading workshops for graduate students on academic writing, presenting, and publishing), 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
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2009-2011 Research Assistant, Chair for Social and Economic History, Prof. Alexander Nützenadel 2006-2008 Research Assistant, Leibniz Prize Research Group Transformations of the Mind: Philosophical Psychology 1500 1750, Prof. Dominik Perler ACADEMIC SERVICE Member of the Yale Philosophy Department s Committee for Academic Climate, 2014- Co-organizer of the Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale, 2014- Co-organizer, The Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America, Yale, 2013 Co-organizer, Yale Leibniz Symposium, Yale, 2012 LANGUAGES German (native), English (fluent), French (advanced), Turkish (intermediate), Latin (advanced, Großes Latinum), Ancient Greek (intermediate, Graecum) REFERENCES Michael Della Rocca, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University Kenneth Winkler, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University Stephen Darwall, Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, Yale University Martha Brandt Bolton, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University Joshua Knobe, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University (Teaching Reference)