MICHAEL G. TIBORIS
CURRICULUM VITAE
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2012 Philosophy, University of California, San Diego (AOS: Ethics and Political
Philosophy; AOC: Education, Law, and Environmental Ethics)
Dissertation: Youth and Diminished Responsibility
MA 2007 Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
BA
2002 Philosophy, Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
EMPLOYMENT
20152013-2015
2012-2015
2012-2013
2011-2012
2011-2012
Fellow, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Fellow, San Diego State University Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
Assistant Editor, The Philosopher's Index
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California/Spencer Foundation
Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach,
Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed
2015 “Sustainable Development and the Growth Ideology” Georgetown Journal of
International Affairs
2015 “Learning to Occupy Yourself: The Substantive Content of Educating for Autonomy”
with Scot Danforth. Social Theory and Practice.
2014 "What's Wrong With Undermatching?" The Journal of the Philosophy of Education,
48.4: 646-664.
2014 "Blaming the Kids: Children's Agency and Diminished Responsibility" The Journal of
Applied Philosophy, 31:77-90.
Reviews and Other Writing
2015 “Politics and Divergent American Attitudes about Climate Change” forthcoming in
Foreign Policy
2012 Review Article: "T.J. Mawson, Free Will: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum,
2011)," published by the Templeton Foundation, “The Order Project”
Michael Tiboris
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2011 Review Article: "Joel J. Kupperman, Theories of Human Nature (Hackett, 2010)" in
Teaching Philosophy 34(4) Dec. 2011.
2009 "Pundits and Parrhesiastes: Stephen Colbert and Democratic 'Free Speech'" in Stephen
Colbert and Philosophy. Aaron Schiller (ed.), Open Court, 2009 (with Kory Schaff)
HONORS AND AWARDS
2015
2014
2013
2012
2009
2009
2002
2002
2002
American Council of Learned Societies, Public Fellowship
Course Development Institute, Online Course Development Grant, SDSU
Fellowship, Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs, SDSU
Spencer Foundation Grant ($40,000): Initiative on Philosophy in Educational
Policy and Practice, with Richard Arneson
Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSD Philosophy
Graduate Fellowship Award, UCSD
Phi Beta Kappa, elected Alpha Chapter of Wisconsin
Graduation with Distinction, UW, Madison
Ruth Knatz Gross Wisnewsky Memorial Prize for Excellence in the Humanities
SERVICE
2015-2016 First Mentor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
2014-2015 Colloquium Committee Chair, SDSU
2009-2010 Head of Graduate Teaching, UCSD
2007-2008 Chair, Philosophy Graduate Colloquium Series, UCSD
2006-2007 Graduate Representative to the Faculty, UCSD
2004-2005 Editorial Assistant, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Conferences Organized
2015 Henry Janssen Memorial Conference on Life, Work, and Death (SDSU)
2013 UCSD Ethics in the Public Sphere: "The Aims of Education"
Presentations
2015 “Water Scarcity and Public Policy” Chicago Council on Global Affairs
2015 "How Should the Human Right to Water Be Understood?" San Diego State University
2015 "A Right to Water?" Viterbo University
2014 "The Substantive Content of Autonomy and Dewey's Lab School" Southern California
Philosophy Conference, SDSU
2013 "Undermatching and Autonomous Preferences" APA Central Division Meeting,
Philosophy of Education Society Group Meeting
2013 "Undermatching and Autonomous Preferences" UCSD Ethics in the Public Sphere
2012 "What's Wrong with Adaptive Preference?" CSU, Long Beach Philosophy Day
Symposium
2012 "Negative Duties and Global Economic Decline" Thomas Pogge Workshop, SDSU
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2010 "Deliberation and Decision-Making in a Deterministic World" UCSD Symposium in
honor of Derk Pereboom
2010 "Risk, Wholeheartedness, and Punishing Failed Criminal Attempts" Society for Applied
Philosophy Annual Meeting, St. Anne's College, Oxford, UK
2010 "Risk, Wholeheartedness, and Punishing Failed Criminal Attempts" APA Central
Division Meeting
2010 "Risk, Wholeheartedness, and Punishing Failed Criminal Attempts" Southern California
Philosophy Conference, CSU Pomona
2010 "Childhood and Status in Kantian Non-Ideal Theory" Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress,
Boulder Colorado
2010 "Immaturity, Normative Competence, and Moral Responsibility" University of Essex
2010 "Abolish the Juvenile Court?" Association for the Study of Law Culture, and the
Humanities, Brown University
2010 "Political Liberalism, Gender, and the Family" University of Toronto Graduate
Conference
2009 "Immaturity and Diminished Responsibility After the 1990's Juvenile 'Crime Wave'"
Negotiating Legal Boundaries, UC Santa Barbara
2007 "Gender Justice in the Family" Constructing the Political, Loyola University Chicago
2006 "Choice, Circumstance, and Political Responsibility" Discourse, Democracy, Justice,
Loyola University Chicago
2005 "Stoic Children: The Moral Psychology of the Cradle" UCSD History of Philosophy
Round Table
2005 "Kant and Korsgaard: Reflective Endorsement and the Value of Autonomy" UCSD
Symposium in honor of Robert Pippin
Panel/Discussant
2012 "Justice and Education" Commentary on Gina Shouten, APA Eastern Division Meeting
2012 "Conscience and What We Care About" Commentary on Ian Blaustein, APA Pacific
Division Meeting
2009 "Giving Eudaimonism Its Due" Commentary on Jonathan Sands Wise, APA Pacific
Division Meeting
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
San Diego State University
Social Ethics (2014)
Political Philosophy (2014, 2015)
Water Wars: Environmental Exploitation, Resource Scarcity, and Human Rights (2014)
Morality and the Law (2013, 2014)
Ethical Theory (2013)
California State University, Long Beach
Philosophy of Law (2011, 2012)
Critical Reasoning (2011)
University of California, San Diego
Introduction to Philosophy (2010, 2011)
Theories of Knowledge (2011, 2012)
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Technology and Human Values (2011)
Philosophy of Law (2009)
Analytical Writing (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010)
The Ethics and Politics of California's Water Scarcity (2006, 2007)
Short-Form Courses and UCSD Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Introduction to Greek and Roman Philosophy, SDSU Osher (2013)
Introduction to Modern Philosophy, SDSU Osher (2013)
Environmental Philosophy and Policy (2009)
Introduction to Ethics (2009)
Ethics and Society (2004, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Philosophy of Religion (2008)
Contemporary Moral Philosophy (2005)
Biomedical Ethics (2004, 2005)
Epistemology (2004, 2005)
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Georgios Anagnostopoulos: A Companion to Aristotle
Dana Nelkin: Forgiveness and the Reactive Attitudes
David Brink: Immaturity and Diminished Responsibility
Gerald Doppelt: "The Place of Self-Respect in a Theory of Social Justice"
Wayne Martin: Theories of Judgment
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association
Society for Applied Philosophy
LANGUAGES
Ancient Greek (reading, with a dictionary)
Modern Greek (basic speaking)
References available upon request
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