CURRICULUM VITAE
Thomas Michael Hurka
July, 2010
Contact information
Business Address: Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 2M8
Business Phone: (416) 978-2056; Fax: (416) 978-8703
E-mail: tom.hurka@utoronto.ca Birth date: August 10, 1952 Citizenship: Canadian
Academic Appointments
University of Toronto: Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Chair in Philosophical Studies, 2003-; Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2002-
University of Calgary: Professor, Department of Philosophy, 1992-2002; Associate Professor, 1984-92; Assistant Professor, 1979-84; Lecturer, 1978-79
Education
D. Phil., Philosophy, Oxford University, 1980 (Thesis Title: “Perfectionist Ethics”; Supervisor: R.M. Hare; Examiners: Derek Parfit, C.C.W. Taylor)
B. Phil. (also called M. Phil.), Philosophy, Oxford University, 1977
B.A. (Hons.), Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1975
Academic Prizes and Awards
Keeley Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford University, April-June, 2009; Visiting Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University, Oxford University, January-March, 2009
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University, April-June, 2007; H L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow, University College, Oxford University, January-April, 2007
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2006-07
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, elected 2001
Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Humanities, University of Calgary, 1994-95
John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy, Oxford University, 1976
Publications: Books
Drawing Morals: Essays in Ethical Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, in press)
The Best Things in Life (New York: Oxford University Press, in press)
Virtue, Vice, and Value (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001; paperback, 2003)
– excerpt reprinted in Mark Timmons, ed., Conduct and Character: Readings in Moral Theory, 4th ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson, 2003)
Perfectionism, Oxford Ethics Series (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback, 1995)
– excerpts reprinted in Steven Wall and George Klosko, eds., Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); and in Thomas L. Carson and Paul K. Moser, eds., Morality and the Good Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Principles: Short Essays on Ethics (Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1993; 2nd edition, 1999)
Publications: Books Edited
Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers From Sidgwick to Ewing (Oxford: Clarendon Press, in press)
Ethics and Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect (co-edited with Harold Coward) (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993)
Publications: Articles
“Common Themes From Sidgwick to Ewing,” in Thomas Hurka, ed., Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers From Sidgwick to Ewing (Oxford: Clarendon Press, in press)
“Underivative Duty: Prichard on Moral Obligation,” Social Philosophy and Policy, in press
“Asymmetries in Value,” Nous 44 (2010): 199-223.
“Right Act, Virtuous Motive,” Metaphilosophy 41 (2010): 58-72; also forthcoming in Heather Battaly, ed., Virtue and Vice: Moral and Epistemic (Oxford: Blackwell)
“The Consequences of War,” in N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen, and Jeff McMahan, eds., Ethics and Humanity: Themes From the Writing of Jonathan Glover (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 23-43
“From Thick to Thin: Two Moral Reduction Plans” (co-author Daniel Y. Elstein), Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39 (2009): 515-36.
“Proportionality and Necessity,” in Larry May, ed., War: Essays in Political Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 127-44
Publications: Articles (continued)
“Five Questions About Normative Ethics,” in Thomas S. Petersen and Jesper Ryberg, eds., Normative Ethics: 5 Questions (Automatic Press, 2007), 55-65
“Audi’s Marriage of Ross and Kant,” in John Greco, Alfred Mele, and Mark Timmons, eds., Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 64-72
“Liability and Just Cause,” Ethics and International Affairs 21 (2007): 199-218
“Nietzsche: Perfectionist,” in Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhibabu, eds., Nietzsche and Morality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), 9-31
“Value and Friendship: A More Subtle View,” Utilitas 18 (2006): 232-42
“A Kantian Theory of Welfare?”, Philosophical Studies 130 (2006): 603-17
“Games and the Good,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 80 (2006): 217-35
– reprinted in William J. Morgan, ed., Ethics in Sport, 2nd ed. (Human Kinetics, 2007)
“Intrinsic Value,” “Moore, George Edward (addendum),” and “Teleological Ethics,” entries in Donald Borchert, ed., Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006), vol. 4, 719-20; vol. 6, 352-53; vol. 9, 382-84
“Value-Theory,” in David Copp, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 357-79
“Virtuous Acts, Virtuous Dispositions,” Analysis 66 (2006): 69-76
“Introduction” to reprint of Bernard Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2005), 7-20
“Moore’s Moral Philosophy,” entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), posted 2005
“Proportionality in the Morality of War,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 33 (2005): 34-66
“Normative Ethics: Back to the Future,” in Brian Leiter, ed., The Future for Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), 246-64
“Satisficing and Substantive Values,” in Michael Byron, ed., Satisficing and Maximizing: Moral Theorists on Practical Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 71-76
“Desert: Individualistic and Holistic,” in Serena Olsaretti, ed., Desert and Justice (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003), 45-68
“Moore in the Middle,” Ethics 113 (2003): 599-628
Publications: Articles (continued)
“Capability, Functioning, and Perfectionism,”Apeiron 35/4 (December, 2002): 137-62
“The Common Structure of Virtue and Desert,” Ethics 112 (2001): 6-31
“Vices as Higher-Level Evils,” Utilitas 13 (2001): 195-212
“The Three Faces of Flourishing,” Social Philosophy and Policy 16/1 (Winter, 1999): 44-71; also in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Human Flourishing (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 44-71
“Two Kinds of Organic Unity,” Journal of Ethics 2 (1998): 283-304
“Perfectionism,” entry in Edward Craig, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998), vol. 7, 299-302
“How Great a Good is Virtue?” Journal of Philosophy 95 (1998): 181-203
“The Justification of National Partiality,” in Robert McKim and Jeff McMahan, eds., The Morality of Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 139-57
– reprinted in Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton, eds., Global Ethics: Seminal Essays (St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2008)
“Philosophy, Morality, and The English Patient,” Queen's Quarterly 104 (Spring, 1997): 47-56
“Self-Interest, Altruism, and Virtue,” Social Philosophy and Policy 14/1 (Winter, 1997): 286-307; also in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Self-Interest (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 286-307
“Perfectionnisme,” entry in Monique Canto-Sperber, ed., Dictionnaire d’ethique et de philosophie morale (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996), 1114-1120
“Monism, Pluralism, and Rational Regret,” Ethics 106 (1996): 555-75
“Sustainable Development: What Do We Owe to Future Generations?”, Unasylva 47 (1996): 38-43
“Indirect Perfectionism: Kymlicka on Liberal Neutrality,” Journal of Political Philosophy 3 (1995): 36-57
“Ethical Principles” and “Conclusion,” in Harold Coward and Thomas Hurka, eds., Ethics and Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993), 23-38 and 165-69
“Excellence: Trying, Deserving, Succeeding,” in Dudley Knowles and John Skorupski, eds., Virtue and Taste: Essays on Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993), 52-64
Publications: Articles (continued)
“Virtue as Loving the Good,” Social Philosophy and Policy 9/2 (Summer 1992): 149–68; also in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds., The Good Life and the Human Good (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 149-68
“Perfectionism and Equality,” in Rodger Beehler, David Copp, and Bela Szabados, eds., On the Track of Reason: Essays in Honor of Kai Nielsen (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), 19–38
“Consequentialism and Content,” American Philosophical Quarterly 29 (1992): 71-78
“Future Generations” and “Perfectionism,” entries in Lawrence C. Becker, ed., Encyclopedia of Ethics (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992), 391–94 and 946–49
“Fossil Fuels and Future Generations,” in Harold Coward, ed., The Future of Fossil Fuels (Calgary: Calgary Institute for the Humanities and Canadian Energy Research Institute, 1992), 83–87
“Two Kinds of Satisficing,” Philosophical Studies 59 (1990): 107–11
“Sumner on Natural Rights,” Dialogue 28 (1989): 117–30
“The Well-Rounded Life,” Journal of Philosophy 84 (1987): 727–46
“Why Value Autonomy?” Social Theory and Practice 13 (1987): 361–82
– excerpts reprinted in Ian Carter, Matthew H. Kramer, and Hillel Steiner, eds., Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)
“‘Good’ and ‘Good For’,” Mind 96 (1987): 71–73
“Rights and Punishment—A Reply to McKerlie,” Dialogue 23 (1984): 141–48
“Value and Population Size,” Ethics 93 (1983): 496–507
– excerpt reprinted in David Boonin and Graham Oddie, eds., What’s Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
“Rights and Capital Punishment,” Dialogue 21 (1982): 647–60
– reprinted in Thomas Carroll, ed, Social Ethics (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 2006); Michael D. Bayles and Kenneth Henley, eds., Right Conduct: Theory and Applications (New York: Random House, 1989); David Theo Goldberg, ed., Ethical Theory and Social Issues (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1989); and Jan Narveson, ed., Moral Issues (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1983)
“More Average Utilitarianisms,” Analysis 42 (1982): 115–19
“Average Utilitarianisms,” Analysis 42 (1982): 65–69
“The Speech Act Fallacy Fallacy,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 12 (1982): 509–26
“Geach on Deriving Categorical ‘Oughts’,” Philosophy 55 (1980): 101–4
Publications: Books Reviewed
C.A.J. Coady, Morality and Political Violence, The Philosophical Review 119 (2010): 115-17
Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2008) (online)
A.C. Grayling, Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made The Modern World, Globe and Mail, Jan. 19, 2008
Gabriele Taylor, Deadly Vices, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2007) (online)
Margaret Moore, The Ethics of Nationalism, Canadian Journal of Political Science 36 (2003): 1120-21
Steven Wall, Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint, Mind 110 (2001): 878-80
Joel J. Kupperman, Value ... And What Follows, Philosophical Review 110 (2001): 281-83
Ian Carter, A Measure of Freedom, Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 3, 2000
Ronald Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, Globe and Mail, July 22, 2000
Alan Gewirth, Self-Fulfillment, Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2000): 268-70
Mark Kingwell, Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac, Books in Canada 27/6 (September 1998): 23-24
George Sher, Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics, Ethics 109 (1998): 187-90
John Ralston Saul, Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century, Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 30, 1997
Robert Nozick, Socratic Puzzles, Globe and Mail, July 5, 1997
Michael Smith, The Moral Problem, Times Literary Supplement, Oct. 27, 1995
Paul M. Churchland, The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, Globe and Mail, Sept. 2, 1995
Rex Martin, A System of Rights, Mind 104 (1995): 178-82.
F.M. Kamm, Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics 20 (1994): 121-22
Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism and “The Politics of Recognition,” Globe and Mail, Jan. 19, 1993
Bart Schultz, ed., Essays on Henry Sidgwick, Canadian Philosophical Reviews 12 (1992): 356-59
Publications: Books Reviewed (continued)
James W. Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights, Philosophical Books 30 (1989): 54–56
James Griffin, Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement and Moral Importance, Mind 97 (1988): 463–69 (Critical Notice)
Peter Simpson, Goodness and Nature: A Defence of Ethical Naturalism, Ethics 98 (1988): 870–71
Samuel Scheffler, The Rejection of Consequentialism, Dialogue 23 (1984): 165–67
Vinit Haksar, Equality, Liberty, and Perfectionism, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (1983): 449–70 (Critical Notice)
Writing in Progress
“Permissions and the Moving Band” (co-author Esther Shubert)
British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing (scholarly book under contract to Oxford University Press)
Media Contributions (Selected)
“The Monday Column,” weekly commentary, “Midday,” CBC-TV (National), October, 1998–June, 2000
“The Moral Superiority of Casablanca over The English Patient,” Globe and Mail, Jan. 25, 1997
“Canadian Nationalism and the Distinctiveness Fetish,” Globe and Mail, May 11, 1996
“Principles,” weekly ethics column, Globe and Mail, Toronto, October, 1989–March, 1992; Globe and Mail columns reprinted in numerous anthologies
Recent Oral Presentations (Selected)
“Kraut on ‘Good For’,” Author Meets Critics Session on Richard Kraut, What is Good and Why, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, April, 2009
“Love and Friendship,” Lund Philosophical Society, Lund, Sweden, April, 2009; also Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, March, 2009
“Underivative Duty: Prichard on Moral Obligation,” Department of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, April, 2009; also Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, March, 2009; Conference on Moral Obligation, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, November 13-15, 2008
“Right Act, Virtuous Motive,” Conference on Virtue and Vice: Moral and Intellectual, California State University/Fullerton, June 26, 2008
“Common Themes From Sidgwick to Ewing,” Conference on British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing,” University of Toronto, April 21, 2008
Replies to Jonas Olson, Brad Hooker, Philip Stratton-Lake, and Michael Brady, Conference on Values and Virtues: Themes From the Work of Thomas Hurka, University of Glasgow, May, 2007
“From Thick to Thin: Two Easy Moral Reduction Plans” (co-author Daniel Elstein), Workshop on Metaethics, St. Andrews University, May, 2007
“Asymmetries in Value,” Department of Philosophy, University of Lund, April, 2009; also Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, March, 2009; Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, May, 2007; Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge University, February, 2007; Institute of Philosophy, University of London, February, 2007; Moral Philosophy Seminar, Oxford University, January, 2007; Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, September, 2006; Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University, May, 2006
“Just War Consequence Conditions,” Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy, Cambridge University, February, 2007
“Liability and Just Cause,” Workshop on Just War Theory, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, October, 2006
“Games and the Good,” Joint Session of the Mind Association and Aristotelian Society, University of Southampton, July, 2006
“Games and the Good,” “The Consequences of War,” and “Asymmetries in Value,” Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan (James B. and Grace J. Nelson Philosopher-in-Residence), November, 2005
“The Consequences of War,” Conference on Justice, Security and Rights, University of Stirling, Scotland, October, 2005
Recent Oral Presentations (Selected) (continued)
“On the Marriage of Ross and Kant,” Author Meets Critics Session on Robert Audi, The Good in the Right, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, March, 2005
“The Best Canadian Philosophy Book: Bernard Suits on the Value of Games,” Keynote Address, Ontario Philosophical Society Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, November, 2004
“Reply to Timmons and Shafer-Landau,”Author Meets Critics Session on Virtue, Vice, and Value, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April, 2004
“Proportionality in the Morality of War,” Murphy Institute Series in Ethics and Political Philosophy, Tulane University, February, 2004; also Roundtable on Just War Theory, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, May, 2003; and Rice University Lecture Series on Ethics, Politics, and Society, Rice University, March, 2003
“Nietzsche: Perfectionist,” Conference on Moral Theory After Nietzsche, University of Texas, February, 2003
“Normative Ethics: Back to the Future,” Moral Philosophy Seminar, Oxford University, November, 2002
“Moore in the Middle,” Conference on G. E. Moore’s Principia Ethica a Century Later, Georgia State University, April 2002; also Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, November, 2002
“Desert: Individualistic and Holistic,” Conference on Desert and Justice, Cambridge University, July, 2001
“Vices as Higher-Level Evils,” Invited Symposium on Virtues and Vices, American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, 2000
“The Common Structure of Virtue and Desert,” Feature Paper, International Society for Utilitarian Studies Conference, Wake Forest University, March, 2000; also University of Toronto Philosophy Department, Colloquium Series, October, 1999
“Two Kinds of Organic Unity,” Conference on Intrinsic Value, University of North Carolina/ Greensboro, April, 1998
“The Three Faces of Flourishing,” Conference on Human Flourishing, La Jolla, California, September, 1997
“Sen on Functioning and Capability: A Perfectionist Critique,” Conference on Eudaimonia and Well-Being, University of Cincinnati, May, 1996
“Reply to Sumner, Isaacs, and Weinstock,” Author Meets Critics session on Perfectionism, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Universite de Quebec a Montreal, June, 1995
Research Grants
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant, “British Moral Philosophers From Sidgwick to Ewing,” 2010-13
Chancellor Jackman Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 2006
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Moral Theory from Sidgwick to Ross,” 2005-09
Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Fellowship, 2001-02
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Perfectionist Value-Theory,” 2000-04
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Virtue and Vice: A Perfectionist Account,” 1996-2000
Killam Resident Fellowship, University of Calgary, 1996
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Virtue as Loving the Good,” 1992–96
SSHRC Strategic Research Network (co-director), “Ethics and Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect, 1990-92
Calgary Institute for the Humanities Annual Fellowship, 1989–90
Professional Activities
Editorial Board Co-ordinator and Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1995–2002; Executive Editor, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1992-2002
Member, Editorial Board, Ethics, 2001-
Referee: American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Dialogue, Ethics, Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Ethics, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Nous, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophiques, Social Theory and Practice, University of Toronto Law Journal, Broadview Press, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, McLelland & Stewart, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge
Member: Canadian Philosophical Association, 1979– (Board of Directors, 1984–86); Canadian Association of University Teachers, 1979–; American Philosophical Association, 1981–
Graduate Students Supervised
Annette Dufner, Ph.D., 2009; Marin Gillis, Ph.D., 2005; David Mellow, Ph.D., 2003; David Mellow, M.A., 1998; Risa Kawchuk, M.A., 1996; Onkar Ghate, M.A., 1991; Gordon Jackson, M.A., 1989; Brian Zamulinski, M.A., 1987; Philip Nielson, M.A., 1985