Curriculum Vitae

Johns Hopkins University
280 Gilman Hall
3400 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218

http://lnanditheunissen.org/
nandi.theunissen@jhu.edu

Areas of Specialty

Meta-ethics, normative ethics, Kant’s practical philosophy

Areas of Competence

Ancient philosophy, moral psychology

Dissertation Title

The Value of Humanity

Dissertation Committee

Katja Maria Vogt, Joseph Raz, Patricia Kitcher

Current Position

Duane L. Peterson Assistant Professor in Ethics
Johns Hopkins University (Fall 2012).

Education

PhD in Philosophy with distinction
Columbia University (May 2012)

MPhil in Philosophy
University of Sydney (2004–2006)

BA, First Class Honours with University Medal (Philosophy)
University of Sydney (2003)

BA (Philosophy, English)
University of Western Australia (1999–2002)

Scholarships and Awards

GSAS Summer Teaching Fellow
Columbia University, 2011

Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow
ISERP, Columbia University 2010–2011

Kluge Fellowship
Columbia University Scholars Program, 2010–2011

Toby Strober Memorial Scholarship
Dissertation Fellowship 2009–2010; and 2010–2011

Summer School Scholarship
Central European University, 2009

Columbia University GSAS Scholarship
Full funding for the graduate program, 2006–2012

Travelling Scholarship
University of Sydney, 2006–2009

Lucy Firth Prize
Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 2005

Andrew Donald Campbell Memorial Prize
Highest course-work results in MPhil Program, University of Sydney, 2004

Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)
Full Funding For MPhil Program
University of Sydney, 2004–2006

APA Supplementary Scholarship Award
Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, 2004–2006

University Medal
Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 2003

John Anderson Prize For Best Honours Thesis
Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 2003

UWA Graduates Association Prize Arts (English)
Faculty of Arts, University of Western Australia, 2002.

James Bourke Memorial Prize in Third Year English
Department of English, University of Western Australia, 2002.

S A Grave Prize in Third Year Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Australia, 2002.

Walter Murdoch Prize in First Year English
Department of English, University of Western Australia, 1999.

Papers

‘Kant’s Commitment to Metaphysics of Morals’, European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).

‘On the Value of Human Beings’ (under review).

Reviews

Luck, Value, and Commitment: Themes From the Ethics of Bernard Williams, Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang (eds.), Notre Dame Philosophical Review, February 2013.

Invited Presentations

‘On the Distinctive Value of Human Beings’, presented at Dignity and Autonomy in Kant’s Ethical Theory, University of St Andrews, May 2011.

Presentations

‘Responsibility and the Value of Noumenal Beings’, to be presented at Northwestern University Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics, Evanston IL, May 2013.

‘On Regress Arguments for Human Value’, to be discussed at the Mentoring Workshop for Women in Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, June 2013.

Commentary on Eamon Quinn’s ‘Values in Partiality’, presented at Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder Colorado, August 2011.

‘On the Non-Relational Value of Human Beings by Regress’, presented at the Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Columbia University, May 2011.

Commentary on Anne Baril’s ‘Eudaimonist Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Normative Ethical Theory’, presented at Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder Colorado, August 2010.

‘Korsgaard on Moral Responsibility’, presented at Aspects of Responsibility, Central European University, July 2009.

‘Fundamental Moral Error’, presented at Scepticism Reading Group, Columbia University, April 2009.

‘Conservatism and Criticism’, presented at The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, July 2008.

‘The Value of Truth: On Friction and Sincerity’, presented at The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 3–8 July 2005.

Teaching

Topics in the Theory of Value, Johns Hopkins University, 2013.
Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 2013.
Ethical Topics in Plato, Johns Hopkins University, 2012.
The Value of Humanity, Columbia University, 2011; Johns Hopkins University, 2012.

Service

Referee, Philosophical Quarterly, 2012.
Referee, Columbia–NYU Graduate Conference, 2006–2010.
Columbia Colloquium Committee Graduate Student Representative, 2010.
Research Assistant, Katja Vogt, 2009.
Research Assistant, Paul Redding, 2006.

Referees

Katja Maria Vogt
Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Tel: +1 212-854-3539
http://www.katjavogt.com/
kv2101@columbia.edu

Joseph Raz
Professor at the Law School, Columbia University
Research Professor, Oxford University
Tel: +1 212-854 5191
http://sites.google.com/site/josephnraz/
raz@law.columbia.edu

Wolfgang Mann
Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Tel: +1 212-854-7887
http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/wolfgang-mann
wrm4@columbia.edu

David Velleman
Professor of Philosophy, NYU
Tel: +1 212-998-8320
https://files.nyu.edu/dv26/public/index.html
jdvelleman@nyu.edu

Jens Timmermann
Head of Department and Reader in Moral Philosophy, The University of St Andrews
Tel: +44 (0)1334 462468
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/dept/staffprofiles/?staffid=120
jt28@st-andrews.ac.uk