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Title

J. P. Morgan Chase Professor of Ethics

Degree

Ph.D., Princeton University

Field of Specialty

Moral, social, and political philosophy.

Contact Information

Mandel Center for the Humanities 110
781-736-2792
smiley@brandeis.edu

Marion Smiley

Marion Smiley received her Ph. D in 1984 from Princeton University and joined the Brandeis faculty in the Spring of 2002 after having taught at Wellesley, Wesleyan, and the University of Wisconsin/Madison. She is the author of Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community. Accountability and Power From a Pragmatic Point of View and Falling Through Tap Doors. The Philosophy and Politics of Group Identification (forthcoming), as well as numerous articles on free will and determinism, moral agency, collective responsibility, feminist social and political thought, autonomy and paternalism, John Dewey and the philosophy of pragmatism, democratic theory, multiculturalism, and the practice of rights. She is currently at work on two book length projects: Dependence, Autonomy and the Welfare State and Democracy and Paternalism. Professor Smiley is the recipient of several teaching awards, as well as research fellowships from Princeton University, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Harvard University Ethics Program, and the Swedish Institute for Advanced Study.

Publications

Smiley, Marion. "Collective Moral Responsibility: What Does Causation Have To Do With It?." Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXXIII. 3 (2014): 25 pp.. (forthcoming)

Smiley, Marion. "Moral Responsibility and the Social Practice of Blameworthiness." Quels Lendemains Pour La Responsibilite? (What Future for Responsibility?). first ed. Ed. Andre Duhamel and Allison Marchildon. Note Bene, 2014. 28 pp.. (forthcoming)

Smiley, Marion. "Volitional Excuses, Self-Narratives, and the Primacy of Fairness." Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13. 4 (2014): 22 pp.. (forthcoming)

Smiley, Marion. "Collective Responsibility" (new essay)." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010): 26 pp.

Smiley, Marion. "From Moral Agency to Collective Wrongs: Re-Thinking Collective Moral Responsibility." Journal of Law and Policy, Special Volume on the Philosophy and Psychology of Collective Responsibility XIX. (2010): 31 pp.

Smiley, Marion. "After Identity: Re-thinking Race. Sex, and Gender." Political Theory (2009): 8 pp.

Smiley, Marion. "Pragmatism and the Philosophy of 'The Practical'." Five Questions for Pragmatism. Ed. James Johnson. Automatic Press/VP, 2009. 25 pp.

Smiley, Marion. Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community, Power and Accountability From a Pragmatic Point of View. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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