audrey l. anton

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AUDREY L. ANTON
CONTACT
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: [phone]
Web site: https://wku.academia.edu/AudreyAnton
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Ancient Philosophy
Ethics
Moral Psychology (free will and moral responsibility)
Philosophical Gerontology
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Medieval Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Kant
Social and Political Philosophy
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Assistant Professor Western Kentucky University 2011—
Visiting Assistant Professor Denison University 2008—2011
Graduate Teaching Instructor The Ohio State University 2009—2011
Adjunct Instructor Ohio University 2009—2010
Adjunct Instructor Columbus State Community College 2008
Graduate Teaching Assistant The Ohio State University 2006—2008
Adjunct Instructor Erie Community College 2005—2006
Instructor Center for Talented Youth 2005 (II)
Teaching Assistant Center for Talented Youth 2005 (I)
Graduate Teaching Instructor SUNY at Buffalo 2004—2006
Volunteer English Instructor Centro de Estudios Interamericanos 2003
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Philosophy (2011); M.A. in Philosophy (2009), The Ohio State University
Dissertation: Sources and Reasons: Moral Responsibility and the Desert of Praise and
Blame (Timothy A. Schroeder (Chair), Tamar Rudavsky, Allan Silverman)
M.A. in Philosophy (2006), SUNY at Buffalo
Thesis: Freedom, Inclination, and Moral Worth: An Analysis of Some Interpretations of
Kantian Moral Worth and Their Implications for a Deontological Ethics (William
Anton
Baumer (chair) and Jiyuan Yu)
B.A. in 1. Philosophy and 2. Social and Rehabilitation Services (2002), Assumption College
Summa Cum Laude
Certificate of Gerontology (2002), Consortium for Gerontology Studies Program (Worcester,
MA).
OTHER EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING EXPERIENCES
Inside-Out Prison Teaching Initiative Training
-60 hours of training to teach college-level courses comprised of “outside” students from
my home institution and “inside” students from amongst a prison population (January 5-
11, 2015)
Capacity-Character Workshop, TU Delft, the Netherlands (May 21-22, 2012)
National Endowment for the Humanities
-Summer Seminar: Free Will in Jewish Medieval Philosophy, Jonathan Jacobs, Project
Director, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY (2010)
University of California, Berkeley
Summer Greek Workshop (2009)
Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
-Liberty Fund Workshop: State as Protector or Enemy of Liberty, Arlington, VA
(February 6-8, 2009)
-Summer Seminar: Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students, Brown University
(June 2008)
-Humane Studies Research Colloquium: Arlington, VA (May 9-11, 2008)
-Weekend Workshop: Social Change, UC, Berkeley (March 27-29, 2008)
-Career Development Seminar: Arlington, VA (November 9-11, 2007)
-Summer Seminar: Advanced Studies in Freedom, Loyola University of Chicago (July
2007)
-Summer Seminar: Liberty and Society, Emory University (June 2004)
William J. Fulbright Foundation Research Year
-Research project in the philosophy of social gerontology: Intergenerational Perspectives
of Aging, Republic of Ecuador (2002-2003)
The Age Center, Worcester, MA
-Long-term care ombudsman training and certification (2000)
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
-Aristotle’s Vice (in progress, projected completion date: 2018)
This book is a comprehensive examination of Aristotle’s view of the vicious character. It
is a culmination and expansion of my work in several papers on topics such as:
Aristotle’s notion of the voluntary, the possibility of character change, the relationship
between incontinence and vice, the ontological status of the character types, the
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culpability of ignorance of universals, and why the vicious are miserable.

-(2015). Moral Responsibility and Desert of Praise and Blame (Lexington Books):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0739191756
This book addresses the question of the relationship between retrospective moral
responsibility and praise- and blameworthiness. In it, I review critically those
contemporary views that are referred to as sourcehood views, sentiment views, and
reasons-responsive views, showing that each type fails to capture something essential
about our intuitions concerning retrospective moral responsibility and the desert of praise
and blame. I argue that these views all commit the error of considering retrospective
moral responsibility primary to praise- and blameworthiness, and this error generates
philosophical problems. In conclusion, I advance a moral attitude account whereby
praise- or blameworthiness is prior to retrospective moral responsibility. We are
deserving of praise and blame in virtue of our moral attitudes, which are morally
significant evaluative stances we take (both particular and general) in relation to actual
moral reasons. Given that some moral attitudes are entrenched and longstanding whereas
others are fleeting, I acknowledge that we are almost certainly deserving of both praise
and blame at any given moment. This consequence, I argue, is not problematic. We are
only tempted to consider it problematic if we fail to distinguish what grounds desert of
praise and blame (our moral attitudes) from what justifies us in praising and blaming each
other (a more complex set of scenarios, which includes epistemic conditions,
consequentialist conditions, the moral status quo, the individual’s personal progress, and
the totality of the individual’s relevant moral attitudes at the time). Finally, I argue that
we are retrospectively morally responsible for the consequences of our actions and
omissions that express our relevant moral attitudes, and we may be held accountable only
when third parties are justified in doing so.

Edited Volume
-The Bright and the Good (in progress, under contract with Rowman and Littlefield
International: projected completion date 2017): This is an edited collection of essays
addressing topics concerning the apparent connection between intellectual and moral
virtues. Contributions include works on historical figures and movements such as
Pythagoreanism, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Augustine, Rousseau, Hume, and Kant as
well as specific virtue complexes such as patience, intellectual courage, and intellectual
trust.

Academic Articles and Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed):
12. “Regret as a Reactive Attitude: The Conditions of Responsibility and Revision,"
forthcoming in The Moral Psychology of Regret, edited by Ana Gotlib, Rowman &
Littlefield International.
11. “How Long Should People Work? The Debate Over the Retiring Age” forthcoming in
The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Aging, edited by Geoffrey Scarre, Palgrave
MacMillan.
10. “Aging in Classical Philosophy” forthcoming in The Palgrave Handbook of the
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Philosophy of Aging, edited by Geoffrey Scarre, Palgrave MacMillan.
9. “The Epistemological Benefits of Socrates’ Religious Experience” forthcoming in
Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, “Ancient Epistemology” Vol. 19 (2016).
8. (2015): “Kant on Irresistible Inclinations: Moral Worth, Happiness, and Belief in God”
Minerva - An Open Access Journal of Philosophy Vol. 19: 106-128:
http://www.minerva.mic.ul.ie//Vol19/Kant.pdf.
7. (2014): “Fixed and Flexible Characters: Aristotle on the permanence and mutability of
distinct types of character,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter, Vol. 15
no.1: 22-28.
6. (2013). “The Virtue of Sociopaths: how to appreciate the neurodiversity of sociopathy
without becoming a victim” Ethics and Neurodiversity, edited by Alexandra Perry and
C.D. Herrera. Cambridge Scholars Press: 111-130.
5. (2012): “Respecting One's Elders: In Search of an Ontological Explanation for the
Asymmetry Between the Proper Treatment of Dependent Adults and Children,”
Philosophical Papers, Vol. 41 no.3: 397-419.
4. (2012). “Does Technology Make Old Age Obsolete?” in Morality and Spirituality in the
Contemporary World, edited by Chandana Chakrabarti and Sandra Jane Fairbanks.
Cambridge Scholars Press: 152-181.
3. (2006): “Breaking the Habit: Aristotle on recidivism and how a thoroughly vicious
person might begin to improve.” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. 13 no. 2:
58-66.
2. (2006): “Duty and Inclination: Defending Kant against the “moral automaton” problem.”
Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 22 no.1: 199-207.
1. (2005): “The Question of Natural Rights in Aristotle and the “Necessary” Connection
Between Rights and Responsibilities: A response to Jeppe von Platz.” The Proceedings of
the Kent State University May 4th Conference, 4: ISSN: 1546–6663
http://philosophy.kent.edu/proceedings.

Pedagogy Articles:
2. “Teaching Plato’s Cave Through Your Students’ Past Experiences,” forthcoming in
American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy.
1. “Using Adobe AfterEffects and Articulate Storyline to Create Interactive Self-Checks,”
with Hannah Digges Elliott and Andrew Swanson, Online Classroom: Ideas for Effective
Online Instruction, Vol. 16, no. 4 (April 2016): 1, 7.

Philosophy and Pop Culture Articles:
2. (2013) “The Weight of the World: Superman as a case for limiting individual moral
responsibility” in Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do?, edited
by Mark D. White. The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, 41: 157-167.
1. (2007). “The Nietzschean Influence in The Incredibles and the Sidekick Revolt.” in The
Amazing Transforming Superhero, edited by Terrence Wandtke. McFarland Publishing,
209-229.
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Encyclopedia Entry (peer reviewed):
1. (2014). “Causality” in Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics, SAGE Publications, Inc.:
83-85.

Book Reviews:
4. (2013). Review of Taming Anger: The Hellenic Approach to the Limitations of Reason by
Kostas Kalimtzis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review: BMCR 2013.02.53
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-02-53.html
3. (2013). Review of Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato’s Statesman by D. A. White,
Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 16: 375-380.
2. (2012). Review of Intelligent Virtue by Julia Annas, Metapsychology Online Reviews,
16.33 (August 14, 2012)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6601&cn=394
1. (2011). Review of Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings edited by
Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias and Shaun Nichols, Metapsychology Online
Reviews, 15.47 (November 22, 2011).
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=6313&cn=135
PRESENTATIONS
Refereed Papers
40. “Ancient Western Reconciliations of Justice and Mercy”
-Kentucky Philosophical Association annual meeting, Louisville, KY, April 16,
2016.
39. "Wicked Misery According to Aristotle: how we can be unhappy and not know it"
-World Congress, “Aristotle 2400 Years” to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, May
23-28, 2016.
-Classical Association of the Middle West and South 112th annual meeting,
Williamsburg, VA, March 16-19, 2016.
-Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Group Panel on “Philosophy
and Happiness," American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting,
Washington D.C., January 8, 2016.
38. “Vicious Art or Vicious Audience? Understanding the Effects of Art on the Youthful
and Vicious Audience in Aristotle’s Poetics ”—With Erika N. Brown,
Faculty/Undergraduate Student Engagement Grant recipient, WKU.
-Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, annual meeting, New York City, NY,
October 23-25, 2015.
37. “Creating Interactive Formative Assessments and Simulations to Foster
Engagement”—With Hannah Digges-Elliott, Instructional Designer, WKU.
-Online Learning Consortium International Conference, Orlando, FL, October 13-
16, 2015.
36. “Aristotle on Moral Motivation and the Importance of Politics”
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-“Aristotle’s Moral and Political Philosophy,” 25th International Conference on
Philosophy (hosted by the Society for Classical Studies), The Olympic Center for
Philosophy and Culture, Olympia, Greece, July 22-25, 2016.
- “The Philosophy of Aristotle,” World Congress of Philosophy, University of
Athens, Athens, Greece, July 10-15, 2016.
-Kentucky Philosophical Association, Summer Workshop, Danville, KY, July 23-
24, 2015.
35. “Aristotle’s Theory of Moral Motivation in Nicomachean Ethics X”
- “Political and Ethical Philosophy in the Aristotelian Traditions,” 10th Annual
Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition,
Milwaukee, WI, 24-26 June 2015.
-Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Annual Meeting, New York City, NY,
October 24-26, 2014.
-The Last Chapter, Lehigh University Conference, Bethlehem, PA, October 3-4,
2013.
34. “Retrospective Moral Responsibility and Desert of Praise and Blame” (formerly “The
Real Relationship Between Moral Responsibility and Desert of Praise and Blame”) (Cf
invited talks)
-American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, St. Louis, MO,
February 18-20th, 2015.
-Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization and Engineering, Delft,
Netherlands, August 24-27, 2009.
-Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference, Edinburg, TX, March 27-
28, 2009.
33. “Fixed and Flexible Characters: Aristotle on the Permanence and Mutability of Distinct
Types of Character” (Cf invited talks)
-American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Group Program
session for Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Chicago, IL, February 28-
March 1, 2014.
-Kentucky Philosophical Association Conference, Danville, KY, April 28, 2012.
-American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Group Program
session for Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion, Seattle, WA, April 4-7,
2012.
32. “The Price of Utopia, the Epicurean Collective, and Virgil’s Allegory of the Bees
(Georgics 4)”—with Stephen Kershner
-Utopia in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of North
Georgia’s College of Arts and Letters Biennial Conference, Dahlonega, GA,
February 28-March 2, 2014.
31. “Agent Causation, Randomness, and Acting for Reasons”
-Tennessee Value and Agency Conference, UT Knoxville, November 15-17,
2013.
30. “Ignorance and Moral Vice According to Aristotle, or Why Stupid Jerks Are the
Worst” (Cf invited talks)
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-Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy annual meeting, Bronx, NY, October 11-
13, 2013.
29. “Aristotle’s Voluntary Pathê” (formerly “The Voluntary Nature of Aristotelian
Emotions")
-Kentucky Philosophical Association Summer Workshop, Danville, KY, July 18-
19, 2013.
-Center for the History of Philosophy Inaugural Conference, Emotions in the
History of Philosophy, University of York, May 13-15, 2011.
28. “Second-hand Discrimination: How student-teacher romantic relationships affect
women in Philosophy”
-Diversity in Philosophy Conference, Dayton, OH, May 29-31, 2013.
27. “Ancient Justice and Mercy: East and West”
-Society of Indian Philosophy and Religion Group Meeting at the Eastern
American Philosophical Association annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, December 26-
30, 2012.
26. “Knowing No Better: Plato’s Socrates as Blame Incompatibilist?”
-Annual Meeting of the International Plato Society, Ann Arbor, MI, October 4-7,
2012.
25. “Luxury and Leisure”—with Adam Grant Johnson, Faculty/Undergraduate Student
Engagement Grant recipient, WKU.
-International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, Nottingham, UK, July 19-21,
2012.
24. “Mean and Stupid: what it’s like to be vicious according to Aristotle”
-Contemporary Aristotelian Society Meeting, Nottingham, UK, July 18, 2012.
23. “Must Indeterminate Rational Actions be Random?”
-38th Conference on Value Inquiry: Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Science,
Salem State University, Salem, MA, April 18-20, 2012.
-International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Freedom and Sovereignty,
Globalization and Colonization, Davis and Elkins College, WV, November 14-16,
2008.
-Society for Student Philosophers’ Annual Conference, Austin, TX, March 1-2,
2008.
22. “Leibniz on Divine Freedom and Rational Choice”
-Houston Baptist University 2nd annual conference, Divine and Human Action:
Agency and Action in Philosophy and Theology, Houston, TX, March 30-31,
2012.
21. “Willing, Unwilling and Binding Addiction”
-Kentucky Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Highland Heights, KY,
October 22, 2011.
-Alabama Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Pensacola, FL, September 23
24, 2011.
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20. “Does Technology Make Old Age Obsolete?”
-Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion Conference, Living Well in the 21st
Century: Challenges and Responses, Barry University, Miami, FL, September 16
17, 2011.
19. “Collective Responsibility about Omissions”
-American Philosophical Association (APA), Group Program session on
Philosophy in the Contemporary World, New York, December 27-30, 2009.
18. “The Transparency of Imagination: on Martin’s Refutation of Intentionalism”
-American Philosophical Association (APA), Group Program session on Mind
and Language, Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA,
April 8-12, 2009.
17. “The Earthly Nature of Justice and the State in Plato's Republic”
-American Philosophical Association (APA), Main Program, Central Division
Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 18-21, 2009.
-Ancient Philosophy Society 8th annual meeting, New York, NY, April 10-13,
2008.
-Battleground States: Graduate Student Conference, Bowling Green University,
Bowling Green, OH, February 22-23, 2008.
16. “Collective Intentions As Effects of Influence”
-Collective Intentionality VI-Social Change, Berkeley, CA, July 8-11, 2008.
15. “Respecting One’s Elders: in search of an ontological explanation for the asymmetry
between the proper treatment of dependent adults and children”
-Philosophy in the Contemporary World Annual Conference, Winter Park, CO,
July 7-10, 2008.
14. “Sculpting Character: Aristotle’s voluntary as affectability”
-American Philosophical Association (APA), Main Program, Central Division
Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 17-20, 2008. [one of four symposia papers selected
for this year]
13. “The “Best” Explanation for the Diversity in Moral Judgments”
-New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society Annual Conference, El Paso,
TX, April 4-6, 2008.
-Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference at the University of Iowa, Iowa City,
IA, April 28, 2007.
-American Philosophical Association (APA), Society for Student Philosophers
Group Panel, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 5-8, 2007.
12. “Suarecian Universals: Evidence of the ontic-epistemic connection of metaphysics
according to Francisco Suárez”
-“Vagantes”, a graduate conference on the medieval period, Columbus, OH,
February 28-March 1, 2008.
11. “Kantian Phenomenology and Moral Worth: knowing “what it’s like” to act from duty”
-Loyola University of Chicago Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference,
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Chicago, IL, March 16-18, 2007.
10. “Regret, Responsibility, and Revision”
-Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference, Austin, TX, January 20-21,
2007.
9. “Freedom and the Ontology of the Mind”
-Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion Annual International Conference
(annual theme: mind and consciousness). Calcutta, India, July 27-30, 2006.
8. “Kant and Happiness: trying not to think of pink elephants”
-Eastern regional meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, The
Enlightenment Project, Revisited, Houghton, NY, May 18-20, 2006.
7. “The Paradoxical Nature of Justice in Plato’s Republic: the possibility of ruling justly”
-“Discourse, Democracy, Justice”, Loyola University of Chicago Annual
Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL, March 10-12, 2006.
6. “Duty and Inclination: Defending Kant against the “moral automaton” problem”
-67th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society, Fayetteville,
AR, November 10th-13th 2005.
-Society for Student Philosophers Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, October
1-2, 2005.
5. “The Nietzschean Philosophy in The Incredibles: mediocrity and the Sidekick Revolt”
-Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association,
St. Louis, MO, October 14-16, 2005.
4. “Covering Up the Lie: Kant’s Doctrine of Truthfulness and his Solipsistic Ethics”
-American Philosophical Association (APA), Society for Student Philosophers
Group Panel, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 27-30, 2005.
3. “Breaking the Habit: how a thoroughly vicious person might begin to change”
-Graduate student conference on Aristotle, State University of New York at
Buffalo, NY, April 9, 2005.
-Waterloo Philosophy Graduate Student Association (PGSA) conference,
Waterloo, ON, March 3-4, 2005.
2. “No “Other” Left Behind: A discussion on the extent to which a given ethical theory
can consider others”
-“Encounters with the Other,” Loyola University of Chicago Annual Graduate
Student Conference, Chicago, IL, March 18-20, 2005.
1. “Heidegger’s Conception of Being: the “as such” or a more-general regional
ontology?”
-Alabama Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Mobile, AL, October 29-30,
2004.

Invited Talks:
25. “Ancient Western Reconciliations of Justice and Mercy”
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-Guest speaker for the Austin Peay State University Ancient Mediterranean Club
and Eta, Sigma, Phi Club Lecture Event, to be given April 8, 2016.
24. “Why Are Bad People Bad?”
-“Food for Thought” series, hosted by WKU Society for Lifelong Learning, May
6, 2015.
-Guest lecture for Dr. Grace Hunt’s PHIL 101 Truth and Relativism class, April
23, 2015.
23. “The Usual Suspects: let us count the ways they are bad”
-WKU Philosophy Film and Discussion series, Bowling Green, KY, November
19, 2014.
22. “Ignorance and Moral Vice According to Aristotle, or Why Stupid Jerks are the Worst”
-WKU Greek and Roman Classics Club, Bowling Green, KY, April 21, 2014.
-Austin Peay State University Philosophy Club and Classics Club, Clarksville,
TN, March 25, 2014.
21. “Fixed and Flexible Characters: Aristotle on the Permanence and Mutability of Distinct
Types of Character”
-Mississipi State University, Department of Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series,
Starkville, MS, February 18, 2014.
20. “Gasland: the Ethical Implications of Fracking”
-WKU Philosophy Film and Discussion series, Bowling Green, KY, November
21, 2013.
19. “The Ethics of Identity in the film, Moon”
-Western Kentucky University Philosophy Club, Bowling Green, KY, March 20,
2013.
18. “Retrospective Moral Responsibility and Desert of Praise and Blame” (formerly “The
Real Relationship between Moral Responsibility and Desert of Praise and Blame”) (Cf
refereed papers)
-The University of Kentucky Philosophy Department Colloquia Series,
Lexington, KY, January 18, 2013.
-James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, February 21, 2011.
-Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, VA, February 4, 2011.
-University of Houston, Victoria, TX, December 1, 2010.
17. “Are Philosophy and Gerontology Soul Mates?”
-Works In Progress roundtable, Western Kentucky University Gerontology
Studies Program, Bowling Green, KY, October 12, 2012.
16. “Comment on Harry Chalmers’ paper,” the 2012 student essay contest winning paper
entitled, On the Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism: Exploring the Role of
Choice.
-Centre College, Lexington, KY, April 28, 2012.
15. “Plato on Democracy or Foretelling Idiocracy?”
-Film and Lecture Series, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY,
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