Amy Mullin rev. Jan. 2014 Biographical Information Citizenship: Canadian and U.S. Office address: Office of the Dean, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd. N., Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6 Office phone: (905) 828-3719, Office fax: (905) 828-3979 Internet: vpdean.utm@utoronto.ca Degrees AB Magna Cum Laude, Harvard College, 1985 Ph.D. Yale University, 1990 Thesis Topic: The Divided Self Thesis Supervisor: Karsten Harries Employment 2011 - current Vice Principal Academic and Dean, University of Toronto Mississauga 2010-11 Interim Vice Principal Academic and Dean, University of Toronto Mississauga 2006 - current Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga 1995-2006 Associate Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga 1990 - current: Member, Graduate Faculty, University of Toronto 1990-1995: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga Professional Affiliations and Activities External Consultant, McMaster University Department of Philosophy, 2012 Executive Committee, Society for Analytic Feminism, 2009-2011 Steering Committee, Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, 2006-2011 External Consultant, Queen s University Department of Philosophy, 2009 Board of Editorial Consultants, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2002-2007 Coordinator, Canadian Society of Women in Philosophy, 1998-2000 Vice-Coordinator, Canadian Society of Women in Philosophy, 1997-1998 Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Philosophical Association, 1994-96 Referee, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2012-present Referee, Florida Philosophical Review, 2012-present Referee, Feminist Media Studies, 2012-present Referee, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2012-present Referee, Philosophical Papers, 2012-present Referee, MIT Press, 2011-present Referee, Fordham Press, 2011-present Referee, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2011-present
Referee, Hasting Centre Report, 2010-present Referee, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2010 present Referee, European Journal of Philosophy, 2010- present Referee, Social Theory and Practice, 2009-current Referee for Taylor and Francis, 2009-present Referee for Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2009-present Referee, British Journal for History of Philosophy, 2009-present Referee, Women s Health and Urban Life, 2008 current Referee, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2007- current Referee, Bioethics, 2006 current Referee, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2006 - current Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), 2006 current Referee, Oxford University Press, 2003-current Referee, Review in Politics, 2002-current Referee, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2001-current Referee, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2000-current Referee, Eidos, 1997-current Referee, Hypatia, 1996-current Referee, Resources for Feminist Research, 1996-current Referee, International Journal of Canadian Studies, 1994-current Referee, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1994-current Referee, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, 1994-current Referee, Toronto Studies in Philosophy, 1993-current Referee, Canadian Philosophical Association, 1991-current ACADEMIC HISTORY Research Endeavours Feminist Philosophy: philosophy of care, conceptions of the self Aesthetics: feminist aesthetics, art and morality Research Awards Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research Grant, Project Title: Children and Parents: Ethics and Relationships, 2009-12, $39, 723. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, Project Title: Children, responsibility and care, 2004-7, $38,646. SSHRC SIG Grant, Reproductive Labour and Citizenship, July 2003-July 2004, $2500 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, 2000-2003, Project Title: Women s Experiences of Change During Pregnancy and Childcare, $25,135 Connaught New Staff Grant, 1990-1992, $12,000 SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK
Refereed Publications Books Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience and Reproductive Labor, 2005, Cambridge University Press (214pp). Chapters in Books Children, Vulnerability and Emotional Harm in Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy, eds. C. Mackenzie, W. Rogers and S. Dodds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, 266-287. Art, Imagination and Revisioning the Maternal forthcoming in Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: The Power of Critical Vision and Creative Engagement, ed. L. Ryan Musgrave, Springer. Narrative, Emotion and Autonomy in Narrative, Emotion and Insight, eds. Noel Carroll and John Gibson, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012, 92-108. Read All About It: A Feminist Bibliography of Pregnancy and Mothering in Motherhood and Philosophy, ed. Sheila Lintott, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 215-221. Paid Childcare, Responsibility and Trust in Maternal Thinking: Philosophy, Politics, Practice, ed. Andrea O Reilly, Demeter Press, 2009, 52-63. Children, Caregivers, and Friends: Models of Care in Taking Responsibility for Children, eds. Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle, Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2007, 47-71. Like a Mother : Paid Mother-work Performed in Private Spaces in Motherhood and Space, eds. Caroline Wiedemer and Sarah Hardy (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005, 203-220. Journal Articles Children, Paternalism, and the Development of Autonomy forthcoming in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, special issue on Private Autonomy, Public Paternalism? eds. A. Dufner and M. Kühler The Ethical and Social Significance of Parenting: A Philosophical Approach in Parenting 2012 (Vol. 12, No. 2-3, 134-143). Children and the Argument from Marginal Cases in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2011 (Vol. 14, No. 3, 291-305). Gratitude and Caring Labour in Ethics and Social Welfare, 2011, special issue on Ethics of Care, eds. Christine Koggell and Joan Orme (Vol. 5, No. 2, 110-122). Filial Responsibilities of Dependent Children in Hypatia Winter 2010 (Vol. 25, No. 1) Children, Autonomy and Care in Journal of Social Philosophy Winter 2007 (Vol. 38, No. 4, 536-553). Giving as well as receiving: Love, Children and Parents in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Fall 2007 (Vol. 12, No. 2). Parents and Children: An Alternative to Unconditional and Selfless Love in Hypatia Winter 2006 (Vol. 21, No. 1, 181-200). Trust, Social Norms and Motherhood in Journal of Social Philosophy Fall 2005 (Vol. 36, No. 3, 316-330). Moral Defects, Aesthetic Defects and the Imagination in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Summer 2004 (Vol. 62, No. 3, 249-261)
Feminist Art and the Political Imagination, in Hypatia Fall 2003 (Vol. 18, No. 4, 189-213) Evaluating Art: Morally Significant Imagining versus Moral Soundness, in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Spring 2002 (Vol. 60, No. 2, 137-149) If Truth Were Like Money: Descartes and His Readers, in History of Philosophy Quarterly April 2002 (Vol. 19. No. 2, 149-169). Pregnant Bodies, Pregnant Minds in Feminist Theory Spring 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 1, 27-46). Art, Understanding and Political Change, Hypatia, Fall 2000 (Vol. 15, No. 3, 113-139) Nietzsche s Free Spirit, Journal of the History of Philosophy, July 2000 (Vol. 28, No. 3, 383-405) Adorno, Art Theory, and Feminist Practice, Philosophy Today, Spring 2000 (Vol. 44. No. 1, 16-30) Descartes and the Community of Inquirers, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Jan. 2000 (Vol. 17, No. 1, 1-27) "Whitman's Oceans, Nietzsche's Seas", Philosophy Today, Fall 1998 (Vol. 42. No. 3, 270-283) "Purity and Pollution: Resisting the Rehabilitation of a Virtue", Journal of the History of Ideas, July 1996 (Vol. 57, 509-524) "Art, Politics, and Knowledge: Feminism, Modernity, and the Separation of Spheres", Metaphilosophy, Jan./April 1996 (Vol. 27, Nos. 1&2, 118-145) "As the Lights Go On", Philosophy Today, Winter 1995 (Vol. 39:4, 408-420) "The Safeguarded Self", Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Winter 1995 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, 45-59) "Selves Diverse and Divided: Can Feminists Have Diversity Without Multiplicity", Hypatia, Fall 1995, (Vol. 10, No. 4, 1-31) Encyclopedia Articles Motherhood forthcoming in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (online edition has been published) Pregnancy, Sexuality: The Essential Glossary, ed. Jo Eadie, London: Arnold Press, 2004, 170. Moral Purity, Encyclopedia of Ethics, eds. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker, second edition. New York: Routledge, 2001, 1151-1154. Commissioned Reviews Nietzsche s Dancers in Hypatia 2008, Vol. 22, No. 3, 221-223. Private Selves, Public Identities in Hypatia 2007, Vol. 22., No. 2, 204-207. Unbecoming Mothers: The Social Production of Maternal Absence in the Journal for the Association of Research on Mothering, Fall/Winter 2005 (Vol. 7, No. 2, 186-7). Feminist Moral Philosophy University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/5 (Vol. 74, No. 1, 325-6). Birth by Design in the Journal for the Association of Research on Mothering, (Fall/Winter 2004, Vol. 6, No. 2, 191-2) Between Ethics and Aesthetics University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2003/4 (Vol. 73, No. 1, 115-117). Pregnancy Stories Journal for the Association of Research on Mothering Spring/Summer 2004 (Vol. 6, No. 1, 194-5).
Review of José Bermúdez and Sebastian Gardner, eds., Art and Morality for Notre Dame Philosophy Review 2003.09.03 http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2003/9/mullin-bermudezgardner.html Pamela Klassen s Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America, Journal for the Association of Research on Mothering Fall/Winter 2003 (Vol. 5, No. 2, 197-198). Kirk Pillow s Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel in The Philosophical Quarterly 53 (212) July 2003, 454-56. Dennis Des Chene s Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes in Transcendent Philosophy June 2001, 2:2, 96-98. Caroline Joan S. Picart s Resentment and the Feminine in Nietzsche s Politico-Aesthetics, Philosophy in Review, February 2000, 20:1, 70-72. Sue Campbell s Interpreting the Personal, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, June 1999, 26:2, 285-288. In Defense of Beauty: Francis Sparshott s The Future of Aesthetics, Books in Canada, March 1999, 28-29 Richard J. White s Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty, Philosophy in Review, February 1998, 18:1, 76-78 Feminism and Philosophy, Feminist Frameworks, Feminist Philosophies, APA Newsletter on Feminism, Fall 1997, 97:1 "Stuart Sim's Beyond Aesthetics", Canadian Philosophical Reviews August 1994, 14: 4, 68-70 Papers Presented to Meetings, Colloquia and Symposia Children, Parents, Gratitude and Respect at Family Ethics: Partiality Revisited, Berne, Switzerland, January 2014 Children, Gratitude and Care at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Victoria, British Columbia, May 20013 Mothers, Parents and Responsibility for Children s Health, Keynote address to Mothering Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI), Toronto, Oct. 18-20, 2012 Children's Caregivers: Ruddick's Maternal Thinkers and the Complexities of Paid Care at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy annual conference, Victoria, British Columbia, October 2011 Children and Emotional Maltreatment, Centre for Research in Parenting Workshop, Toronto, Oct. 22-23, 2010 Parents and Children: Relationships and Unmet Needs, Vulnerability, Agency and Justice, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, August 2009 Supporting Children s Development of Autonomy, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, August 2009 Gratitude and Caring Labour at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Ottawa, Ontario, May 2009 Pregnancy and the Burdens of Change, Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy and Childbirth, Portland, Oregon, May, 2009 Narratives, Emotions and Autonomy at University of Toronto Emotional Life and the Life of Emotions: Models and Histories of Emotion and Affect in the Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, March 2009
Children s Responsibilities to Parents at University of Toronto, Parenting Research Group, Toronto, Ontario, February 2009 Parents Responsibilities, Children s Responsibilities at University of Waterloo Colloquia, Waterloo, Ontario, November 2008 Trust in and of Children at In Dialogue: Canadian and Italian Feminists in Montreal, September 2008 Wanted Pregnancies and Women s Autonomy at American Philosophical Association Central Division, Chicago, April 2008 Getting the Message Out: Parents, Children, Love and Care at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy annual conference, Edmonton, Alberta, October 2007 Love, Parents and Children at the Feminist Ethics and Social Theory conference in Clearwater, Florida, October 2007 Identifying and Respecting Children s Local Autonomy at Good Families conference, Montreal, Quebec, May 2007 Love Between Parents and Children: Melding Eros and Agape at Feminist Symposium on Eros, Montreal, Quebec, April 2007 Moral and Aesthetic Value, Commentary at American Philosophical Association Central Division, Chicago, April 2007 Children and the Boundaries of Trust at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy annual conference, Peterborough, Ontario, October 2006 Love, Trust and Autonomy at Good Families Conference, London, Ontario, July 2006 Brian Lightbody s The Perennial Problems of Nietzsche s Perspectivism, Commentary at Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 2006 Children, Autonomy and Love at Canadian Philosophical Association conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 2006 James Harold s Aesthetic and Moral Judgments: Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism, Commentary at Canadian Philosophical Association, Toronto, Ontario, May 2006 Trust in Relation: Children and Trustworthy Caregivers at Feminist Ethics and Social Theory conference in Clearwater, Florida, January 2006 Children, Autonomy and Relationships at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy annual conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2005 Children and the Argument from Marginal Cases at Canadian Philosophical Association in London, Ontario, May 2005 Commentary on a Cosmopolitan Dependency Critique, at American Philosophical Association Central Division, Chicago, April 2005 Pregnancy, Phenomenology and Ethics at Feminist Ethics and Social Theory conference in Clearwater, Florida, October 2003 Pregnancy and the Social Model of Disability: Health, Illness, Impairment and Disability at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2003 Disability Theory, Children and Care at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Symposium at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2003 Like a Mother : Paid Motherwork and the Ideology of Motherhood, at Mothering and Work/Mothering as Work, Association for Research on Mothering Conference, York University, May 2003
Bearing and Raising Children at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy conference in Edmonton, Alberta, October 2002 Caring for Children, Caring for Friends: Paradigm, Contrast or Comparison? at the Queen s University Colloquium Series, September 2002 Children, Caregivers and Friends: Models of Care at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 2002 Pregnant Pauses: Making Plans, Accomodating Change at the Canadian Women s Studies Association annual conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 2002 Reciprocity, Mutuality, and Dependence at the University of Western Ontario, Children and Responsibility Conference, February 2002 Mothers and Others: Who Can be Maternal Thinkers? at the University of Guelph Dept. of Philosophy Visiting Speakers Series, Guelph, November 2001 Morally Significant Imagining versus Moral Soundness read at the American Society for Aesthetics annual conference in Reno, Nevada, October 2000 Feminine and Masculine Social Relations: From Nietzsche to Noddings read at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy conference in Vancouver, BC, October 2000 Pregnant Bodies, Pregnant Minds, read at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy conference in Hamilton, October 1999 Nietzsche s Free Spirit read at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec, June 1999 Taking Care to Take Change Seriously read at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy meeting in Calgary, October 1998 Feminism, Postmodernism and Homelessness read at the Roundtable on Homelessness, Toronto, October 1997 Art, Heterogeneity and Intercultural Understanding, read at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy meeting in Halifax, September 1997 Art and/or Activism read at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting, St. John s, June 1997 Sincerity read at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting, St.Catherine s, June 1996 Masks and Accusations: Descartes and Bourdin read at the Descartes 400 Colloquium, Toronto, April 1996 "Whitman's Oceans, Nietzsche's Seas" read at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting, Montreal, June 1995 "Activist Art: Responding to Critics' Fear of the Collective" read at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting, Montreal, June 1995 "Art, Politics and Knowledge" read at "Knowing Politics: Between Feminist Theory and Feminist Activism", London, Ontario, October 1994 "Descartes and Bourdin: The Community of Inquirers, read at the Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting, Calgary, June 1994 "Art, Politics, and Knowledge: Feminism, Modernity, and the Separation of Spheres", read at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy meeting in Calgary, June 1994 "Woman and Women" read at the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy meeting in Calgary, Sept. 1993 "Purity and Pollution" read at Canadian Philosophical Association annual meeting in Ottawa, June 1993
"The City and the Self" read at The City: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives, in Toronto, May 1993 "Divided Selves, Divided Societies" read at Colloquium: Self, Democracy and Practical Reason, Montreal, October 1991 Teaching Undergraduate Courses Seminar in Aesthetics, Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Introduction to Philosophy Graduate Courses Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Emotions, Feminist Philosophy, Seminar in Aesthetics, Nineteenth Century Philosophy Doctoral Students Charles Repp, Art and Morality, PhD defense November 2012 Ryan Beaton, Nietzsche, dissertation supervisor, PhD defense 2011 Joshua Brandt, dissertation committee, 2011- Susan Sinclair, Beauty and Critical Theory, dissertation supervisor and area committee, 2008- present Suzan Poyraz, Private Punishment, dissertation committee and area committee, 2006-present Joshua Morhart, Emotions and Psychopathology, area committee, 2006-7. Paula Schwebel, Critical Theory, area committee, 2005-6 Marika Warren, Disability Rights, co-supervisor, PhD defense 2006 Chloe Taylor, Confession and Autobiography, area committee and dissertation committee, PhD defense 2006 Kelly Holloway, Feminism, Autonomy and Fertility Clinics, Nursing MA thesis ctte, 2004-2006 Michael Horton, comprehensive examinations OISE, 2003 Tanja Juric, Kant, Nietzsche and Adorno, co-supervisor, PhD defense 2004. Tony Kostroman, Heidegger and Davidson, dissertation committee Thea Miller, Feminist Archival System, dissertation readiness committee, 2000-2002 Nandita Biswas-Mellamphy, Nietzsche s Political Theory, 2000-2003, dissertation committee, PhD defense 2003 Donovan Miyasaki, Freud or Nietzsche: The Drives, Pleasure, and Social Happiness, cosupervisor, PhD defense 2003. Katherine Thomson, The Ethics of Aesthetic Form, co-supervisor, PhD defense 2003. Jay Gupta, Hegel s critique of the Concept of Consciousness, co-supervisor, PhD defense 2001 Douglas Wright, Ghost Writers: Philosophical Autobiography from Augustine to Nietzsche, cosupervisor, PhD defense 2000 Michael Hallett, Liberalism and Religion, area committee, 2000-2001 Klaus Jahn, 19 th century German philosophy, area committee, 1999-2000
Administrative Positions Vice Principal Academic and Dean, University of Toronto Mississauga, March 2011- present Acting Vice Principal Academic and Dean, University of Toronto Mississauga, July 2010-March 2011 Acting Graduate Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, 2008-9 Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2003-2010 Associate Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto at Missisauga, 2002-2003 Institute of Women s and Gender Studies Executive Council, UTM Representative, 2000-2001 Faculty Association, Status of Women Committee, 2001-2 Graduate Courses Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Emotions, Feminist Philosophy, Seminar in Aesthetics, Nineteenth Century Philosophy Doctoral Students Charles Repp, Truth, Justification, and Literary Merit, dissertation co-supervisor, PhD defense 2012 Ryan Beaton, Nietzsche, dissertation supervisor, PhD defense 2011 Susan Sinclair, Beauty and Critical Theory, dissertation supervisor and area committee, 2008- present Suzan Poyraz, Private Punishment, dissertation committee and area committee, 2006-present Joshua Morhart, Emotions and Psychopathology, area committee, 2006-7. Paula Schwebel, Critical Theory, area committee, 2005-6 Marika Warren, Disability Rights, co-supervisor, PhD defense 2006 Chloe Taylor, Confession and Autobiography, area committee and dissertation committee, PhD defense 2006 Kelly Holloway, Feminism, Autonomy and Fertility Clinics, Nursing MA thesis ctte, 2004-2006 Michael Horton, comprehensive examinations OISE, 2003 Tanja Juric, Kant, Nietzsche and Adorno, co-supervisor, PhD defense 2004. Tony Kostroman, Heidegger and Davidson, dissertation committee Thea Miller, Feminist Archival System, dissertation readiness committee, 2000-2002 Nandita Biswas-Mellamphy, Nietzsche s Political Theory, 2000-2003, dissertation committee, PhD defense 2003 Donovan Miyasaki, Freud or Nietzsche: The Drives, Pleasure, and Social Happiness, cosupervisor, PhD defense 2003. Katherine Thomson, The Ethics of Aesthetic Form, co-supervisor, PhD defense 2003. Jay Gupta, Hegel s critique of the Concept of Consciousness, co-supervisor, PhD defense 2001 Douglas Wright, Ghost Writers: Philosophical Autobiography from Augustine to Nietzsche, cosupervisor, PhD defense 2000 Michael Hallett, Liberalism and Religion, area committee, 2000-2001 Klaus Jahn, 19 th century German philosophy, area committee, 1999-2000