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CURRICULUM VITAE
Carolina Sartorio
EDUCATION
PhD in Philosophy (2003), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BA in Philosophy (1996), University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, since 2009
Affiliated with the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, since 2014
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003-2009
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, summers of 2016 and 2017.
Theoretical Underpinnings of Free Will Grant (Big Questions about Free Will project, Florida State University and Templeton Foundation), 2012-2013.
Vilas Associate Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-2009.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Summer Grant, summers of 2003-2006.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Causation and Free Will, Oxford University Press, 2016.
Reviews:
Christopher Franklin, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews(2016).
Neal Tognazzini, Journal of Philosophy (2016).
Stephen Kearns, Ethics (2017).
Helen Beebee, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming).
Taylor Cyr, Journal of Moral Philosophy (forthcoming).
Horacio Spector, Mind (forthcoming).
Sara Bernstein, Philosophical Review (forthcoming).
Alexander Kaisermann, Criminal Law and Philosophy (forthcoming).
Book symposia:
Philosophical Studies (forthcoming). Participants: Randolph Clarke, Alfred Mele, and Derk Pereboom.
Teorema (forthcoming in 2018). Participants: Peter Graham, Carlos Moya, and Ann Whittle.
Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica (forthcoming). Participants: Guido Pincione and Eduardo Rivera López.
ARTICLES
“Situations and Responsiveness to Reasons,” forthcoming in Nous.
“Responsibility and Causation,” forthcoming in D. Nelkin and D. Pereboom (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press.
“Kinds of Moral Luck,” forthcoming in I. Church (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Theories of Luck, Routledge.
“The Puzzle(s) of Frankfurt-Style Omission Cases,” in D. Nelkin and S. Rickless (eds.), The Ethics and Law of Omissions, Oxford University Press, 2017.
“Actual Causes and Free Will,” forthcoming in College de France Press (online open edition), and in Disputatio (special issue on the II Blasco Disputatio workshop), 2017.
“PAP-Style Cases,” Journal of Philosophy 113, 11, 2016, pp. 533-49.
“Frankfurt-Style Examples,” in M. Griffin, N. Levy, and K. Timpe (eds.), Routledge Companion to Free Will, Routledge, 2017, pp. 179-90.
“Ignorance, Alternative Possibilities, and the Epistemic Conditions for Responsibility,” in R. Peels (ed.), Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy, Routledge, 2017, pp. 15-29.
“Vihvelin on Frankfurt-Style Cases and the Actual-Sequence View,” Criminal Law and Philosophy 10, 4, 2016, pp. 875-88.
“A Partial Defense of the Actual-Sequence Model of Freedom,” Journal of Ethics (special issue on responsibility)20, 1, 2016, pp.107-20.
“A New Form of Moral Luck?” in A. Buckareff, C. Moya, and S. Rossell (eds.), Agency, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015, pp. 134-49.
“Resultant Luck and the Thirsty Traveler,” Methode (special issue on Attempts, Beliefs, Intentions and Tryings: Philosophy of Action and Philosophy of Law), volume 4, 6, 2015, pp. 153-72.
“Cómo no Perder el Control en un Mundo Determinista” (“How Not to Lose Control In a Deterministic World”), in O. Lombardi (ed.), Fronteras del Determinismo Científico, Siglo XXI, 2015.
“Sensitivity to Reasons and Actual Sequences,” in D. Shoemaker (ed.), Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Oxford University Press, volume 3, 2015, pp. 104-19.
“The Problem of Determinism and Free Will is Not the Problem of Determinism and Free Will,” in A. Mele (ed.), Surrounding Free Will: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 255-73.
“Dependencia Sin Causación” (“Dependence Without Causation”), in H. Miguel (ed.), Causación, Explicación y Contrafácticos, Prometeo Libros, 2014.
“Actual-Sequence Freedom,” in F. Bacchini, S. Caputo, and M. Dell’Uttri (eds.), New Advances in Causation, Agency, and Moral Responsibility, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
“Difference-Making in Epistemology” (with Juan Comesaña), Noûs 48, 2, 2014, pp. 368-87.
“Making a Difference in a Deterministic World,” Philosophical Review 122, 2, 2013, pp. 189-214.
“Causation and Freedom,” Journal of Philosophy 109, 11, 2012, pp. 629-51.
“Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: Responsibility and Overdetermination,” Legal Theory 18, 2012, pp. 473-90.
“Resultant Luck,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 84, 1, 2012, pp. 63-86.
“Actuality and Responsibility,” Mind 120, 480, 2011, pp. 1071-97.
“Moore on Doing versus Allowing Harm,” Rutgers Law Journal 42, 2, 2011, pp. 435-50.Translated into Spanish as “Moore: Hacer Versus Tolerar el Daño,” in Revista de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal (Lexis Nexis), Argentina, 2016.
“Failing to Do the Impossible,” in New Waves in the Philosophy of Action, J. Aguilar, K. Frankish, and A. Buckareff (eds.), Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010.
“The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation,” in New Waves in Metaphysics, A. Hazlett (ed.), Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010, pp. 259-76.
“Omissions and Causalism,” Noûs 43, 3, 2009, pp. 513-530. Reprinted in Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action, J. Aguilar and A. Buckareff (eds.), M.I.T. Press, 2010, pp. 115-33. Translated into Spanish as “Omisiones y Causalismo,” in Revista de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal (Lexis Nexis), Argentina, 2013.
“Causation and Ethics,” in Oxford Handbook of Causation, H. Beebee, C. Hitchcock, and P. Menzies (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 575-591.
“Moral Inertia,” Philosophical Studies140, 1, 2008, pp. 117-133.
“Causation and Responsibility,” Philosophy Compass 2, 5, 2007, pp. 749-65.
“Disjunctive Causes,” Journal of Philosophy 103, 10, 2006, pp. 521-538.
“Failures to Act and Failures of Additivity,” Philosophical Perspectives, Metaphysics, v.20, 2006, pp. 373-386.
“On Causing Something to Happen in a Certain Way without Causing it to Happen,” Philosophical Studies 129, 1, 2006, pp. 119-136.
“A New Asymmetry between Actions and Omissions,” Noûs 39, 3, 2005, pp. 460-482.
“Causes as Difference-Makers,” Philosophical Studies 123, 1-2, 2005, pp. 71-96.
“How to be Responsible for Something without Causing it,” Philosophical Perspectives, Ethics, v.18, 1, 2004, pp. 315-336. Reprinted in Responsibility: Individual and Collective, P. Bojanic and P. Krstic (eds.), Belgrade, Sluzbeni glasnik, 2008 (in Serbian).
REVIEWS AND REPLIES
Comments on Philip Pettit’s “Three Mistakes about Doing Good (and Bad),”forthcoming in special issue of Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2018.
“Reply to Talbert,” Methode (special issue: Attempts, Beliefs, Intentions and Tryings: Philosophy of Action and Philosophy of Law), volume 4, 6, 2015, pp. 185-90.
“Easy Knowledge Makes No Difference: Reply to Wielenberg,” Logos and Episteme VI, 2, 2015, pp. 221-4.
Review of Kadri Vihvelin’s Causes, Laws, and Free Will: Why Determinism Doesn’t Matter (Oxford University Press, 2013), The Review of Metaphysics 68, 1, 2014, pp. 211-3.
Review of Michael Moore’s Causation and Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2009), Mind 119 (475), 2010, pp. 830-838.
Comments on Randolph Clarke’s “Intentional Omissions,” in Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action, J. Aguilar and A. Buckareff (eds.), M.I.T. Press, 2010, pp. 157-60.
OTHER
Interview on free will and moral responsibility, in “Free Will: Thirty Points of View,” special issue of Methode, Analytic Perspectives, vol. 2, no. 3,2013.
EDITED VOLUMES
“Fischer’s Way and Our Stories,” Social Theory and Practice 37 (1), 2011.
INVITED TALKS
TBA, keynote speaker at the 5th meeting of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Analítica, Villa de Leyva, Colombia, May 2018.
TBA, keynote speaker at Workshop on Nudging and Moral Responsibility, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, April 2018.
TBA, Arizona State University, March 2018.
TBA, keynote speaker at the Harvard/MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference, February 2018.
“More of a Cause?”
Australian National University, Canberra, July 2017
University of California at Irvine, October 2017
“The Actual Causes Model of Free Will,” University of Colorado, Boulder, February 2017.
“Situations and Responsiveness to Reasons,” UNED/ Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, September 2016.
“Two Models of Free Will,” opening lecture for the Master in Analytic Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, October 2016.
“Actual Causes and Free Will”
Australian National University, Canberra, July 2016
Free Will and Causation conference, College de France, Paris, September 2016
II Blasco Disputatio workshop, Valencia, September 2016
“Causation and Free Will,” Argentine Society for Philosophical Analysis, July 2016.
Guest speaker at Cornell University graduate seminar on free will and responsibility (taught by Derk Pereboom), April 2016.
“The Thirsty Traveler Puzzle,” Philosophy Colloquium series, Davidson College, April 2016.
Guest speaker at Senior Philosophy Colloquium on moral responsibility, Davidson College (taught by Meghan Griffith), April 2016.
“Omissions, Causation, and Responsibility,” Argentine Society for Philosophical Analysis, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2015.
“Causality, Determinism, and Freedom,” keynote speaker at philosophy undergraduate/graduate student conference, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, September 2014.
“A New Form of Moral Luck?”
Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2013
Rutgers University, December 2013
“Actual-Sequence Freedom,” University of Pennsylvania, November 2013
“How to Not Lose Control in a Deterministic World”
University of Buenos Aires, July 2013
Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, June 2014
“Grounding Responsibility,” University of Barcelona, November 2012
“Three Categories in Metaphysics and Morality: Doing, Allowing, and Enabling Harm”, University of Buenos Aires, June 2012
“Who Killed the Thirsty Traveler? And Other Mysteries in Causation in the Law,” University of Arizona, April 2012
“Making a Difference in a Deterministic World,” Duke University, October 2011
Guest speaker at Duke University graduate seminar on the metaphysics of causation and moral responsibility, October 2011 (taught by Sara Bernstein)
“Difference-Making in Epistemology” (with Juan Comesaña), University of Buenos Aires, July 2011
Guest speaker at Princeton University graduate seminar, February 2011 (taught by Elizabeth Harman and Sarah McGrath, topic: “Ethics and…”)
“Causation and Freedom”, Freedom Center Brown Bag, University of Arizona, September 2010
“Metaphysics and Responsibility in Michael Moore”, Torcuato Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2010
“Forking Paths: Rethinking Dual Control”
Purdue University, April 2010
Arizona State University, April 2010
Ohio State University, May 2010
“Causality and Free Will”
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2009
“Actuality and Responsibility”
University of California-Los Angeles, April 2009
“The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation”
Sievert Lecture, University of Iowa, November 2008
“Failing to Do the Impossible”
University of British Columbia, October 2008
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, September 2008
Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina, August 2008
“Resultant Luck”
Cornell University, October 2007
University of Arizona, September 2007
“Moral Inertia”
University of Notre Dame, October 2007
Northern Illinois University, September 2007
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March 2007
“Dependence without Causation,” University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2007
“Omissions and Causalism,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln, December 2006
“On Causing Something to Happen in a Certain Way without Causing It to Happen”
Princeton University, February 2005
University of Texas-Austin, December 2004
“The Lesser of Evils,” Thomas Howell Lecture, Rhode Island College, April 2004
“How to be Responsible for Something without Causing it”
University of California-Los Angeles, January 2003
University of Vermont, January 2003
University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 2003
“A New Asymmetry Between Actions and Omissions”
New York University, January 2003
University of Michigan, January 2003
State University of New York-Buffalo, December 2002
University of Missouri-Columbia, December 2002
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
TALKS
“More of a Cause?” Interdisciplinary Symposium on Responsibility and Causation, 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Munich, August 2017.
“Situations and Responsiveness to Reasons,” Workshop on Causation, Control, and Abilities: The Agency Dimension of Moral Responsibility, Humboldt-University Berlin, August 2017.
Symposium on Causation and Free Will, Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, June 2017.
Author-meets-critics session on Causation and Free Will, Eastern APA, Baltimore, January 2017.
“Causal Contribution: Some Considerations,” Conversations on War conference, Palermo, Italy, October 2016.
“Puzzles about moral responsibility for omissions,” Workshop on Normative Ethics and Political Philosophy, Australian National University, July 2016.
Speaker at book symposium on Fiona Woollard’s Doing and Allowing Harm, Central APA, Chicago, March 2016.
“PAP-Style Cases,” Workshop on Agency and Responsibility, Bogotá, November 2015.
“The Puzzle(s) of Frankfurt-Style Omission Cases,” Workshop on Omissions, University of California, San Diego, April 2015.
“Omissions, Possibilities, and the Ability to Do Otherwise,” “Real Possibilities, Real Absences?” Workshop, University of Cologne, December 2014.
“A New Form of Moral Luck?” Workshop in Metaethics, Jean Nicod Institute, Paris, June 2014.
“Causation and Free Will,” Invited speaker, Free Will, Metaphysics, and Science Workshop, University of Tennessee, April 2014.
“What Difference Does It Make? On Acting Freely and Making a Difference,” Invited symposium on difference-making, moral responsibility and free action, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2014.
“Manipulation and Moral Luck,” Big Questions of Free Will conference, Tallahassee, December 2013.
Speaker at Roundtable on Causal Overdetermination, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, November 2013.
“Sensitivity to Reasons and Actual Sequences,” New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility, New Orleans, November 2013.
“Causal Reasons-Sensitivity,” Invited speaker, Formal Epistemology workshop, Toronto, June 2013.
“Sensitivity to Reasons in Actual-Sequence Freedom,” Back at the Ranch Metaphysics conference, Tucson, Arizona, January 2013.
“Causation and Free Will”
Invited speaker, Southern Methodist University, Free Will Workshop, February 2013.
Florida State University, Big Questions of Free Will conference, Tallahassee, January 2013.
Invited speaker, Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Alghero, Italy, September 2012.
“The Metaphysics and Moral Significance of Enabling Harm,” Workshop on Enabling Harm, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, June 2012.
“Difference-Making in Epistemology” (with Juan Comesaña), “Philosophy Today” conference, Mexico City, June 2012.
“Who Killed the Thirsty Traveler? And Other Mysteries in Causation in the Law,” Causation in the Law symposium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April 2012.
“The Problem of Determinism and Free Will Is Not the Problem of Determinism and Free Will,” symposium on the work of J. Campbell, University of Arizona, March 2012.
“Moore on Doing versus Allowing Harm,” symposium on Michael Moore’s Causation and Responsibility (Oxford 2009), Institute for Law and Philosophy at Rutgers-Camden, August 2010.
“The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Group Meeting of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science, April 2009.
“Moral Inertia,” Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2007.
“Omissions: An Exclusion Problem for Causalism”
Symposium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April 2007
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (Topic: Action, Ethics, and Responsibility), Moscow, Idaho, 2006
“Omissions and Causalism”
Arizona Ontology Conference, January 2007
MITing of the Minds, January 2007
“Overdetermination Arguments,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2005.
“On Causing Something to Happen in a Certain Way without Causing It to Happen,” Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2004.
“Switches and Trolleys,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2004.
“Disjunctive Causes,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 2004.
“Causes as Difference-Makers,” Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2003.
“How to be Responsible for Something without Causing it,” Syracuse Metaphysics Conference, August 2003.
“A New Asymmetry Between Actions and Omissions,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 2002.
COMMENTS
Commentary on Alfred Mele’s book manuscript Manipulated Agents: A Window into Responsibility, workshop at the University of Arizona, April 2017.
Commentator on “Agency, Causalism, and Intentional Omissions,” by Andrei Buckareff, Central APA, February 2015.
Commentator on “Less Than Fully Responsible,” by Manuel Vargas, Central APA, Society for the Philosophy of Agency, February 2014.
Commentator on “Omissions, Morality, and Possibility” by Sara Bernstein, Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference, Boulder, August 2012.
Commentator in invited symposium at American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2009. Title: Responsibility and Omissions. Speakers: Michael Murray and Angela Smith.
Commentator on “Structural Equations and Causation” by Ned Hall, New York University conference on Causation, La Pietra, Florence, June 2006.
Commentator on “Omissions: Responsibility and Causation” by Roberta Ballerin, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2006.
Commentator on “Monism” by Jonathan Schaffer, Arizona Ontology Conference, January 2006.
Commentator on “Overdetermining Causes” by Jonathan Schaffer, Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2002.
OTHER
Radio podcast interview, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Open University), Madrid, September 2016.
Participant at “Complicity and Causationin War” workshop, Venice, September 2015.
Participant at “Arguments for Liberty,” conference organized by the Liberty Fund, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2010.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
EDITORIAL WORK
Co-editor for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (since 2013)
Metaphysics Section Editor for Philosophy Compass (since 2014)
Member of Editorial Board for Legal Theory (since 2013)
Member of Editorial Board for Grazer Philosophische Studien (since 2015)
Project Editor for Social Philosophy and Policy (since 2013)
REFEREEING
Referee for American Philosophical Quarterly, Análisis Filosófico, Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Critica, Dialectica, Diccionario Interdisciplinario Austral, Disputatio, Ergo, Erkenntnis, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Ethics, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Inquiry, Journal of Ethics, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Legal Theory, Mind,MIT Press, Noûs, Oxford University Press, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophia, Philosophical Explorations, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Political Studies, Publicaciones del Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM, Res Philosophica, Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía, Social Philosophy and Policy, Social Theory and Practice, Synthèse, Teorema, Theoria, Thought.
OTHER
Mentor-at-large at “Athena in Action” (second Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy), Princeton University, August 2016.
Program Committee member, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 2014-2016.
External evaluator for research projects in philosophy, CONICET, Argentina, since 2013.
Program Committee member, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, 2007.
Evaluator for Philosophical Gourmet Report, since 2006.
Lecturer at the Summer Institute in Philosophy for Minority Students, Rutgers University, 2003.