Faculty Accomplishments

Renée Bolinger

Gave invited lectures at University College London, Harvard University, and Boston University; delivered one of the online keynote addresses at the June 12 meeting of the Social (Distance) Epistemology series on the topic “Epistemic Issues in the Law”; edited and published a topical collection in Synthese on “Norms for Risk,” together with Alan Hájek and Seth Lazar; published five papers: “Varieties of Moral Encroachment” in Philosophical Perspectives; “Contested Slurs: Delimiting the Linguistic Community” in Grazer Philosophische Studien; “Strictly Speaking,” co-authored with Alexander Sandgren, in Analysis; “Demographic Statistics in Defensive Decisions” in Synthese; and “Moral Risk and Communicating Consent” in Philosophy and Public Affairs; authored two additional papers that are in press as of August 2020: “Metalinguistic Negotiations in Moral Disagreement” in Inquiry, and “The Moral Grounds of Reasonably Mistaken Self-Defense” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Joseph Chan

Gave public lectures on the ethics of resistance and the case of Hong Kong at Yale University and the University of Toronto.

Andrew Chignell

Elected President of the North American Kant Society; invited to be a senior visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s philosophy department; interviewed by the Princeton We Roar podcast on the topic of “Hope in Turbulent Times”; interviewed by the Sigma Nutrition podcast on the topic of “The Ethics of Veganism and Omnivorism.”

Johann Frick

Gave lectures at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Southern California, the University of California-Berkeley, and New York University; taught “Introduction to Moral Philosophy” to 371 students, the largest lecture course in the history of Princeton’s philosophy department.

Eric Gregory

Published “Charity, Justice, and the Ethics of Humanitarianism” in an edited volume, “Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology Meets Anthropology and the Social Sciences”; “Animal Ethics in a Fallen World” in Syndicate online; and “Beyond Critique: Just War as Theological Political Theology” in Modern Theology; gave talks on “Confessions of a Religious Liberal: Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Religion Without God’” at New York University School of Law, and “Political Theology and the Limits of Critique” at Harvard Divinity School.

Stephen Macedo

As President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and with the support of the UCHV, hosted the September 2019 meeting in Princeton on the topic of “Truth and Evidence.” The proceedings, revised and expanded, will be published as “NOMOS LXIV”; delivered the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society on “After the Backlash: Populism and the Politics, Economics, and Ethics of Migration”; published articles on “Populism and Democratic Theory” and “Liberalism Beyond Toleration: Religious Exemptions, Civility, and the Ideological Other”; completed articles on “Marriage, Monogamy, and Moral Psychology” and “After the Backlash: Populism and the Politics and Ethics of Migration”; and nearly completed a book on the latter topic; concluded terms on the Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy and the Executive Committee of the Council of the Princeton University Community; became chair of the University’s Naming Committee.

Victoria McGeer

Promoted to full professor (part time) in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University; interviewed for BBC Future story, “Is it wrong to be hopeful about climate change?”; continued work on the moral psychology of responsibility, punishment, guilt, and shame with lectures delivered in Oxford, England; Bielefeld, Germany; Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Oslo, Norway; and Leuven, Belgium.

Jan-Werner Müller, Melissa Lane, and Philip Pettit pose for a photo at the Welcome Dinner

Jan-Werner Müller

Published the book “Furcht und Freiheit,” which received the Bavarian Book Prize (English, French, Finnish, and Serbian translations forthcoming); delivered a Liebert World Affairs Lecture at Florida Gulf Coast University; received a fellowship at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) and will spend the 2020-21 academic year in Berlin.

Philip Pettit

Conferred with a Ph.D. (honoris causa) by the University of Buenos Aires; elected Correspondant en Philosophie de l’Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Institut de France); presented the Inaugural Charles Taylor Lecture Series in Montreal and the Giuseppe Rotelli Lectures (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele) in Milan (virtually); gave the opening address at X Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia Política in Monterrey-México, the Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture (University of Toronto Faculty of Law), and the 12th Bloustein Lecture in Law and Ethics (Rutgers University); presented the Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture in London.

Peter Singer

Published a fully updated 10th anniversary edition of “The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty,” including an audiobook edition with chapters read by celebrities such as Kristen Bell, Stephen Fry, and Paul Simon, available free online from The Life You Can Save, a charity he founded; published four peer-reviewed articles: “The Ethics of the Global Kidney Exchange Programme,” co-authored with Francesca Minerva and Julian Savulescu, in The Lancet; “Parfit on Act Consequentialism,” co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, in Utilitas; “Comparing the effect of emotional and rational appeals on donor behavior,” co-authored with Matthew Lindauer, Marcus Mayorga, Joshua Greene, Paul Slovic, and Daniel Västfjäll, in Judgment and Decision Making; and “Pandemic Ethics: The Case for Risky Research,” with Richard Yetter Chappell, in Research Ethics; wrote five op-eds on different ethical aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and our response to it, and other articles for popular media on ethical aspects of COVID-19.

Anna Stilz

Published “Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration” (Oxford University Press, 2019); appointed Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy & Public Affairs; named 2019 recipient of the John H. Pace, Jr. ’39 Center for Civic Engagement’s Community Engagement Award.