Olivia Bailey

C ONTACT I NFORMATION Department of Philosophy obailey@gmail.com

UC Berkeley livi.bailey@gmail.com
Berkeley, CA 94720 www.obailey.weebly.com

A REAS OF SPECIALIZATION Ethics, Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

A REAS OF C OMPETENCE Feminist Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy

E MPLOYMENT U NIVERSITY OF C ALIFORNIA , B ERKELEY 2020–PRESENT

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

T ULANE U NIVERSITY 2018–2020

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

EDUCATION H ARVARD U NIVERSITY

PhD May 2018 2010–2018
Thesis: “The Ethics and Epistemology
of Empathy”
Committee: Richard Moran (chair), Susanna
Siegel, Matthew Boyle

U NIVERSITY OF O XFORD 2007–2009

BPhil (with honors)
Thesis: “Knowledge, Reason and Virtue”
Supervisor: Roger Crisp

M IDDLEBURY C OLLEGE 2003–2007

BA, Philosophy and French (valedictorian)

“Empathy and Testimonial Trust.”

A RTICLES Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 84 (2018).

“Empathy, Concern, and Understanding in The Theory of Moral

Sentiments.”
The Adam Smith Review 9 (2017).

“What Knowledge Is Necessary for Virtue?”

The Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 4(2) (2010)

R EVIEWS “Review of Sophie de Grouchy’s Letters on Sympathy: A Critical

Engagement with Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments.”
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2020)
M ANUSCRIPTS “Empathy with Vicious Perspectives: A Puzzle”
“Empathy and the Value of Humane Understanding
“Hume and Smith on the Virtue of Humanity”

T ALKS (SELECTED ) “Empathy with Vicious Perspectives”

 Rice University, Department of Philosophy (February 2020)
 New Orleans Philosophy, Politics and Economics Roundtable
(January 2020)

“The Epistemic Significance of Empathetic Dialogue”

 American Philosophies Forum, Emory University (April 2019)
 Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Annual Conference (March 2019)
 Empathy and/or Ways of Understanding Conference,
Harvard University (March 2019)

“The Moral Value of Humane Understanding”

 University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of
Philosophy (April 2020)
 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Department of
Philosophy (April 2020)
 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Philosophy
(March 2020)
 New York University, Department of Philosophy
(February 2020)
 Humane Understanding Conference, Fordham University
(June 2019)

“Humean Empathy: An Idea and its Afterlife”

 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Philosophy
(January 2018)
 University of Chicago, The Wittgenstein Workshop(
(April 2017)

“Empathy and Testimonial Trust”

 Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference: Harms and Wrongs
in Epistemic Practice, University of Sheffield (July 2017)
 Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Workshop
(April 2017)

“A Critical View of Scheler’s Rejection of Projectionism”

 North American Society for Early Phenomenology
Annual Conference, St. John’s University (May 2016)
 “Adam Smith’s Double Standard?”
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy,
University of Oxford (March 2016
T ALKS (SELECTED ) “Empathy, Care, and Understanding in Adam Smith’s Theory of
Moral Sentiments”
 Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy,
University of Aberdeen (May 2014)
 Princeton-Penn-Columbia Graduate Conference in the
History of Philosophy (April 2013)

“Adam Smith and the ‘Wise Distinction of Ranks’”

 Graduate Conference in Political Thought, University of
California, Berkeley (March 2013)

“Control, Contempt, and Ignorance of the Law”

 University of California, Los Angeles, Law and Philosophy
Graduate Conference (April 2012)

C OMMENTARIES Comments on Ronald de Sousa’s “Emotions and the Ontology of

Values”
 Meeting of the Pacific APA (May 2020) [event cancelled,
discussion hosted online at PEA soup]

“Author Meets Critics: Samuel Fleischacker’s Being Me, Being You”

 Meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society
New Orleans (March 2020)

Comments on Nir Ben-Moshe’s “An Adam Smithian

Account of Moral Reasons”
 Meeting of the Central APA
Denver (February 2019)

Comments on Paul Katsafanas’ “Importance and Dialectical

Invulnerability”
 Bechtel Reunion Workshop
Northwestern University (September 2018)

Comments on Isaac Wiegman’s “Emotional Actions without

Emotional Goals”
 Meeting of the Eastern APA
Baltimore (January 2017)

A WARDS AND Philosophy Department Fellowship (Santayana Fund), Harvard

University (AY 2017–2018)
F ELLOWSHIPS
Richard M. Martin Prize Fellowship, Department of Philosophy,
Harvard University (AY 2017-2018)
A WARDS AND Bowen Prize, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
Awarded annually for the best essay on a subject in moral or
F ELLOWSHIPS political philosophy (June 2017)

Rev. Mary S. Vanderbilt Scholarship, Harvard University

(2010–2016)

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University

For Questions of Character (Fall 2016)

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University

For Emotion: New Developments (Fall 2015)

Pforzheimer Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Fellowship for writing and research at Harvard’s rare books and
manuscripts library (Summer 2015)

Graduate Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

(AY 2014–2015)

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University

For Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (Spring 2013)

Keasbey Scholarship, University of Oxford (2007–2009)

George H. Caitlin Award, Middlebury College

For outstanding overall achievement (May 2007)

Stephen A. Freeman Memorial Prize, Middlebury College

For outstanding achievement in French (May 2007)

Phi Beta Kappa Prize, Middlebury College

For outstanding contribution to the college’s academic life
(May 2007)

C ONFERENCES AND Liberty Fund Conference: Liberty, Growth, and Justice

SEMINARS Tucson, Arizona (January 2020)

Character and the Morally Exceptional: Empirical Discoveries and

Moral Improvement Summer Seminar (Part of the Beacon Project)
Wake Forest University (June 2018)

Virtue and Happiness Summer Seminar

(Part of the Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life Project)
Moreau Seminary, University of Notre Dame (June 2016)
T EACHING : G RADUATE
AND U NDERGRADUATE A S L EAD I NSTRUCTOR

Introduction to Feminist Philosophy

Tulane University (Spring 2020)

Graduate Seminar in the History of Moral Philosophy

Tulane University (Spring 2020)

Introduction to Ethics
Tulane University (Fall 2019)

Philosophy of Emotion
Tulane University (Fall 2019)
Harvard University (Fall 2015)

Hume and Smith: Sentiment and Morality

Tulane University (Spring 2019)

Questions of Character: Virtue Ethics East and West

Tulane University (Spring 2019)
Harvard University (Fall 2016)

Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy

Tulane University (Fall 2018)

Graduate Workshop: Instructional Styles in Philosophy

(co-instructor: Edward Hall)
Harvard University (AY 2016–2017, AY 2015–2016)

A S T EACHING F ELLOW

Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy

Instructor: Alison Simmons
Harvard University (Spring 2014)

Self, Freedom, and Existence

Instructor: Richard Moran
Harvard University (Fall 2013)

Introduction to Ancient Philosophy

Instructor: Russell Edward Jones
Harvard University (Spring 2013)

Race and Social Justice

Instructor: Tommie Shelby
Harvard University (Fall 2012)
 Medieval Philosophy
Instructor: Jeffrey McDonough
Harvard University (Fall 2012)

Life
Instructor: Shelley Kagan
Yale University (Fall 2009)

T EACHING : O THER
Crime and Punishment
Harvard Summer School (secondary-school students)
(Summer 2018)
Teachers as Scholars (continuing education for secondary
school teachers) (Fall 2017)

Ethics: Theory and Practice

Harvard Summer School (Summer 2017)

How to Argue
Teachers as Scholars (Fall 2016)

Consent and Civic Participation

Thinkeranalytix (NPO) and the Harvard Ed Portal
(high-school students from under-resourced schools)
(Summer 2016)

A CADEMIC WORK AND

Reviewer: Noûs, Synthese, Journal of Social Philosophy, Southern
SERVICE Journal of Philosophy, Acta Analytica

Newcomb Faculty Fellow, Tulane University

Supporting women’s higher education through the Newcomb
College Institute (2018-2020)

Chair, Undergraduate Education Committee, Department of

Philosophy, Tulane University (AY 2019–2020)

Mentor, Job Candidate Mentoring Program for Women in

Philosophy (AY 2018–2019)

Member, MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) Committee, Harvard

Chapter (2014–2018)

Coordinator, Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, Harvard

University (2016–2017)

Bok Teaching Fellow, Harvard University (2015-2017)

A CADEMIC WORK AND Consultant, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Serving the Philosophy and Gender Studies programs at Harvard
SERVICE University (2015-2017)

Co-founder and organizer, the Talk-Shop

Department of Philosophy, Harvard University (2010-2017)

Instructor, Student Mental Health Workshop and Fall Teaching

Conference, Harvard University (2015, 2016)

Organizer, Harvard-Yale History Conference (April 2016)

Coordinator, Varieties of Self-Knowledge Workshop (March 2016)

Member, Harvard Philosophy Teaching Reform Committee (2015)

Organizer, Harvard History of Philosophy Works in Progress Group

(2012-2015)

Lead indexer and copyeditor for Frances Kamm’s Bioethical

Prescriptions (2013)

Coordinator for the New England Early Modern Conference

(May 2012)

L ANGUAGES English (native speaker), French (fluent), Turkish (beginner)

G RADUATE * (not taken for credit)

C OURSEWORK *Episodic Memory, Susanna Siegel
Philosophy in Translation: French, Richard Moran
Safra Center Graduate Workshop in Ethics, Eric Beerbohm and
Frances Kamm
*Other Minds, Richard Moran and Matthew Boyle
Instructional Styles in Philosophy, Bernhard Nickel
*Kant’s Ethical Theory, Christine Korsgaard
Deductive Logic, Edward Hall
Cartesian Man, Alison Simmons
Punishment and Social Justice, T.M. Scanlon and Tommie Shelby
Subjectivism, Cheryl Chen
*The Moral Sentiments, David Sussman
*Adam Smith: Philosophy and Political Economy, Amartya Sen and
Emma Rothschild
Plato, Russell Edward Jones
Epistemic Normativity, Selim Berker
Hume’s Ethical Theory, Christine Korsgaard
Philosophy of Mind, Peter Godfrey-Smith
G RADUATE British Empiricism, Alison Simmons
*History of Modern Moral Philosophy, Christine Korsgaard
C OURSEWORK First-Year Colloquium (Harvard), Bernhard Nickel, Selim Berker,
Edward Hall
*Hegel and Marx, G.A. Cohen and Alan Ryan
*Scanlon’s Moral Dimensions, Alison Hills
Moral Philosophy Workshop, Derek Parfit
First –Year Colloquium (Oxford), John Tasioulas
* Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, Terence Irwin
Supervision: Aesthetics, John Hyman
Supervision: Nietzsche, Peter Kail
Supervision: Ethics, Jonas Olson