Xiaofei Liu | Curriculum Vitae |1 XIAOFEI LIU 421 Strickland Hall University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211, USA Mobile: 1-573-529-6716 Email: [email protected] Website: http://sites.google.com/site/liuxiaof/ ——————————————————————————————————— EDUCATION Ph.D. (Philosophy) University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S. 2012 (expected) Dissertation: An Attitudinal Account of Moral Responsibility Committee: Peter Vallentyne (advisor), Peter Markie (second reader), Philip Robbins, Sara Chant, Paul Litton M.A. (Philosophy) University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S. 2008 Committee: Peter Vallentyne, Robert Johnson, Paul Weirich, Brian Kierland M.Litt. (Philosophy) University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 2005 Thesis: The Unsolved Challenge to Act-consequentialism Advisor: Elizabeth Ashford B.A. (Law) Beijing University, China, 2001 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Moral Responsibility, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Chinese Philosophy, Logic PUBLICATION ‘A Robust Defense of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing’, Utilitas (forthcoming) Xiaofei Liu | Curriculum Vitae |2 PRESENTATIONS ‘Does Moral Responsibility Require Choice’, Pacific APA (main program), San Diego, April 20-23, 2011 ‘Deep Attributability and Authorship’, the 28th Annual Research and Creative Activities Forum, University of Missouri, March 5, 2011 ‘A Hybrid View of the Ontology of Consent’, Pacific APA (main program), San Francisco, March 31-April 04, 2010 ‘A Hybrid View of Consent’, the 63rd Annual Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, University of Reno, Nevada, October 15-17, 2009 HONORS AND AWARDS Presentation Award (Second Place), the 28th Research and Creative Activities Forum (Creative Arts/Humanities), University of Missouri, 2011 Graduate Student Stipend, the APA Pacific Division, 2011 Professional Presentation Travel Fellowship, University of Missouri, 2010 Kline Fellowship for Metaphysics, University of Missouri, 2009 Kline Fellowship for Moral Theory, University of Missouri, 2008 Mingde Fellowship, Beijing University, 1998-2001 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught Introduction to Philosophy, University of Missouri, Fall 2010/11 Introduction to Ethics (Online), University of Missouri, Summer 2010 Introduction to Ethics, University of Missouri, Spring 2010 Contemporary Moral Issues, University of Missouri, Fall 2009, Summer 2008/09 Business Ethics, University of Missouri, Spring 2009 Introductory Bioethics, University of Missouri, Fall 2008 Introduction to Logic, University of Missouri, Spring 2008 Courses Assisted Elementary Logic, University of Missouri, Spring 2011 Introductory Bioethics, University of Missouri, Fall 2007 Introduction to Philosophy, University of Missouri, Spring 2007 Introduction to Logic, University of Missouri, Fall 2006/ 2008-present (Online) Xiaofei Liu | Curriculum Vitae |3 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Referee: Philosophy Study Review Member: Central States Philosophical Association 2011 Conference LANGUAGES Chinese, English DISSERTATION ABSTRACT Does moral responsibility require choice? A recent debate in the moral responsibility literature focuses on the volition condition: volitionism holds that moral responsibility for a behavior requires that the behavior be, directly or indirectly, chosen, while non-volitionism holds that no such choice is necessary. A successful defense of non-volitionism has to answer two questions: first, why choice is not necessary; second, what moral responsibility requires, if not choice. I defend a non-volitionist account of moral responsibility in my dissertation. In my answer to the first question, I compare a paradigm case of choice with some typical cases of non-choice mental activities, and show that no responsibility-generating power can be found uniquely in choice. Thus there is no good reason to believe that only choice can give rise to moral responsibility. In my answer to the second question, I explain how, from a Strawsonian conception of moral responsibility, an attitudinal account of moral responsibility can be naturally derived, and how this account is able to answer two lingering problems facing all the current non-volitionist accounts, including the problem of brain manipulation. In particular, I propose a causal account of deep authorship, which enables us to distinguish ordinary causation from manipulation. GRADUATE COURSEWORK (* indicates unofficial audit) University of Missouri ProtoSeminar Peter Markie Empiricists Peter Markie Rationalists* Donald Sievert Aristotle Shane Duarte Ethical Theory Robert Johnson Meta-ethics* Brian Kierland Social & Political Philosophy Peter Vallentyne Decision Theory Paul Weirich Xiaofei Liu | Curriculum Vitae Seminar in Logic* Paul Weirich Advanced Symbolic Logic Zachary Ernst Formal Logic (Mathematical Logic) Matthew McGrath Metaphysics: A Survey Matthew McGrath Metaphysics (Action Theory) Sara Chant Foundation of Cognitive Science Andrew Melnyk Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Andrew Melnyk Cognitive Science Philip Robbins Philosophy of Science André Ariew Philosophy of Language* Claire Horisk Aesthetics* Joseph Bien University of St. Andrews Current Issues I: Phil of Mind & Epistemology A. Millar, D. Pritchard Current Issues II: Ethics & Phil of Language E. Ashford, F. Moltmann Classical Philosophy: Plato Sarah Broadie 19th Century Moral and Political Philosophy John Skorupski Philosophy of Perception Alan Millar REFERENCES (Special request for reference letters should be sent to [email protected]) Peter Vallentyne Florence G. Kline Professor Department of Philosophy University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 [email protected] 1-573-882-2871 Peter Markie Curators' Teaching Professor Department of Philosophy University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 [email protected] 1-573-884-6955 Paul Weirich Curators' Professor Department of Philosophy University of Missouri Columbia, Mo 65211 [email protected] 1-573-882-6760 Matthew McGrath Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy University of Missouri Columbia, Mo 65211 [email protected] 1-573-882-6546 |4 Xiaofei Liu | Curriculum Vitae Philip Robbins Associate Professor Department of Philosophy University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 [email protected] 1-573-882-2764 |5
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