Olivia Bailey

CONTACT Department of Philosophy livi.bailey@gmail.com

INFORMATION Tulane University obailey@tulane.edu
New Orleans, LA 70118 +1 (802) 379 0223
www.obailey.weebly.com
AREAS OF Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Early Modern Philosophy, Epistemology

SPECIALIZATION

AREAS OF Feminist Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy
COMPETENCE

EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2010–2018
PhD May 2018
Thesis: “The Ethics and Epistemology of Empathy”
Committee: Richard Moran, Susanna Siegel, Matthew
Boyle

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2007–2009
BPhil (with honors)
Thesis: “Knowledge, Reason, and Virtue”
Supervisor: Roger Crisp

Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 2003–2007
BA, Philosophy and French (valedictorian)

Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France 2005–2006

Visiting student in the department of philosophy
DISSERTATION Empathy is a form of emotionally charged perspective taking. Drawing on
ABSTRACT David Hume and Adam Smith, I argue that empathy furnishes a distinct
epistemic good, humane understanding, which is necessary for (and
partially constitutive of) fully virtuous relations with other people. Humane
understanding matters morally because it serves as the unique antidote to
a form of painful isolation, wards off certain kinds of cruelty, and functions
as central means by which we enrich and extend our sense of evaluative
properties’ contours.


PUBLICATIONS “Empathy and Testimonial Trust.”
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).

 MANUSCRIPTS “Humean Empathy: an Idea and its Afterlife”
“Empathy for the Wicked?”
PRESENTATIONS
“In Defense of Empathy: The Moral Value of Humane
Understanding”
• Tulane University Department of Philosophy February 2018
(invited)
• Florida International University Department of January 2018
Philosophy
(invited)
• Queen’s University Department of Philosophy January 2018
(invited)
• University of Richmond, Jepson School of
January 2018
Leadership Studies
(invited)
• Wayne State University Department of Philosophy January 2018
(invited)

“Humean Empathy: an Idea and its Afterlife”

• University of Pittsburgh Department of January 2018
Philosophy
(invited)
• The Wittgenstein Workshop April 2017
University of Chicago
(invited)
• Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology April 2017
Workshop
University of Pennsylvania
(refereed)

“Empathy and Testimonial Trust”
• Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference: Harms July 2017
and Wrongs in Epistemic Practice
University of Sheffield
(invited)
• Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social April 2017
Epistemology Workshop
University of Pennsylvania
(refereed)

“Comments on Isaac Wiegman’s ‘Emotional Actions

without Emotional Goals’” January 2017
• Meeting of the Eastern APA
Baltimore, MD

“Adam Smith’s Double Standard?”

• Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy March 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford University
(refereed)

PRESENTATIONS “Empathy, Care, and Understanding in Adam Smith’s
(CONTINUTED) Theory of Moral Sentiments”
• The Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy May 2014
University of Aberdeen
(refereed)
• Princeton-Penn-Columbia Graduate Conference in April 2013
the History of Philosophy
Princeton University
(refereed)

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

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

“Control, Contempt, and Ignorance of the Law”

• UCLA Law and Philosophy Graduate Conference
April 2012
University of California at Los Angeles
(refereed)

“The Will to Power and the Slave Revolt”

• German Post-Kantian Philosophy Graduate June 2018
Conference
University of Southampton
(refereed)

AWARDS AND Philosophy Department Fellowship (Santayana Fund), AY 2017–2018

FELLOWSHIPS Harvard University

Richard M. Martin Prize Fellowship, Department of AY 2017–2018

Philosophy, Harvard University

Bowen Prize, Department of Philosophy, Harvard June 2017

University
(for “Empathy and Testimonial Trust,” awarded annually
for the best essay on a subject in moral or political
philosophy)

Rev. Mary S. Vanderbilt Scholarship, Harvard University 2010–2016

Certificate of Distinction for Teaching, Harvard University Fall 2016

(for Questions of Character)

Certificate of Distinction for Teaching, Harvard University Fall 2015

(for Emotion)

Pforzheimer Fellow, Houghton Library, Harvard University Summer 2015

(fellowship for writing and research at Harvard’s rare books
and manuscripts library)
AWARDS AND
FELLOWSHIPS Graduate Fellow, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard AY 2014–2015
(CONTINUED) University

Certificate of Distinction for Teaching, Harvard University Spring 2013
(for Introduction to Ancient Philosophy)

Keasbey Scholar, Oxford University 2007–2009

George H. Catlin Award for outstanding overall Spring 2007

achievement, Middlebury College

John T. Andrews Memorial Prize for outstanding Spring 2007

achievement in philosophy, Middlebury College

Stephen A. Freeman Memorial Prize for outstanding Spring 2007

achievement in French, Middlebury College

Phi Beta Kappa Prize for outstanding contribution to the Spring 2007
college’s academic life, Middlebury College

SPECIALIZED Character and the Morally Exceptional: Empirical June 2018

SEMINARS Discoveries and Moral Improvement Summer Seminar
(Part of the Beacon Project)
Wake Forest

Virtue and Happiness Summer Seminar

(Part of the Virtue, Happiness & the Meaning of Life June 2016
Project)
Moreau Seminary, University of Notre Dame

TEACHING: As lead instuctor:

GRADUATE AND
UNDERGRADUATE Questions of Character: Virtue Ethics East and West
Tulane University Spring 2019
Harvard University Fall 2016

Sentiment and Morality: Hume and Smith
Tulane University Spring 2019

Feminist Philosophy
Tulane University Fall 2018

Graduate Workshop: Instructional Styles in Philosophy

with Edward Hall AY 2016–2017
Harvard University AY 2015–2016

TEACHING: As instrucAs lead instructor (continued) Fall 2015
GRADUATE AND Emotion
UNDERGRADUATE Harvard University
(CONTINUED)

As teaching fellow:
Introduction to Early-Modern Philosophy
Instructor: Alison Simmons
Harvard University

Self, Freedom, and Existence Fall 2013

Instructor: Richard Moran
Harvard University

Introduction to Ancient Philosophy Spring 2013

Instructor: Russell Edward Jones
Harvard University

Race and Social Justice Fall 2012

Instructor: Tommie Shelby
Harvard University

Medieval Philosophy Fall 2012

Instructor: Jeffrey McDonough
Harvard University

Life Fall 2009
Instructor: Shelley Kagan
Yale University

TEACHING: As instructor
OTHER Crime and Punishment Summer 2018
Harvard Summer School (high-school students)

How to Argue and Crime and Punishment

Teachers as Scholars (continuing education for Fall 2017
secondary-school teachers) Fall 2016

Ethics: Theory and Practice

Harvard Summer School (high-school students) Summer 2017

Consent and Civic Participation Summer 2017
Thinkeranalytix (NPO) and Harvard Ed Portal
(high-school students from under-resourced
schools).

 ACADEMIC WORK Mentor, Job Candidate Mentoring Program for AY 2018–2019
AND SERVICE Women in Philosophy

Newcomb Faculty Fellow AY 2018–2019

(supporting the higher education of women through
the Newcomb College Institute

Member, MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) 2014–2018

Committee, Harvard chapter

Coordinator, Moral and Political Philosophy 2016–2017

Workshop

Bok Teaching Fellow 2015–2017

Video Consultant, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and 2015–2017

Learning (serving the Philosophy and Gender Studies
programs)

Co-founder and organizer, the Talk-Shop at Harvard 2010–2017

Instructor, Student Mental Health Workshop November 2016

Instructor, Fall Teaching Conference 2015, 2016

Organizer, Harvard-Yale History Conference April 29–30, 2016

Coordinator, Varieties of Self-Knowledge Workshop March 11–12, 2016

Member, Teaching Reform Committee 2014–2015

Organizer, History of Philosophy Works in Progress 2012–2015

Group

Lead indexer for Frances Kamm’s Bioethical Prescriptions 2013

Coordinator for the New England Early Modern

Conference May 18–20, 2012

Representative, Graduate Student Council

2011–2012
Organizer and referee, Harvard MIT Graduate
Philosophy Conference 2011–2012

LANGUAGES English (native speaker), French (fluent), Turkish

(beginner)

(* not taken for credit)

 GRADUATE
COURSEWORK
*Episodic Memory, Susanna Siegel
Philosophy in Translation: French, Richard Moran
Elementary Turkish I and II, Himmet Taskomur
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
Subjectivism, Cheryl Chen
*The Moral Sentiments, David Sussman
Deductive Logic, Edward Hall
Cartesian Man, Alison Simmons
Punishment and Social Justice, Thomas Scanlon and Tommie Shelby
*Adam Smith: Philosophy and Political Economy, Amartya Sen and Emma
Rothschild
Plato, Russell Edward Jones
Epistemic Normativity, Selim Berker
Hume’s Ethical Theory, Chistine Korsgaard
Philosophy of Mind, Peter Godfrey-Smith
British Empiricism, Alison Simmons
*History of Modern Moral Philosophy, Christine Korsgaard
First-Year Colloquium (Harvard), Bernhard Nickel, Selim Berker, Edward Hall
*Hegel and Marx, Jerry Cohen and Allen 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: Nieztche, Peter Kail
Supervision: Moral Philosophy, Jonas Olson


















 REFERENCES Richard Moran 1 (617) 496-6169
Professor, Department of Philosophy moran@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University

Matthew Boyle 1 (773) 702-8513

Professor, Department of Philosophy mbboyle@uchicago.edu
The University of Chicago

Susanna Siegel 1 (617) 495-1884

Professor, Department of Philosophy sseigel@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University

Samuel Fleischacker 1 (312) 413-1026

Professor, Department of Philosophy fleischert@sbcglobal.net
The University of Illinois at Chicago

Roger Crisp 44 (186) 527-4819

Professor of Moral Philosophy roger.crisp@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
St. Anne’s College, Oxford University

Cheryl Chen 1 (617) 496-6169

Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy ckchen@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University

Edward Hall 1 (617) 495-2468

Professor, Department of Philosophy ehall@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University

Alison Simmons 1 (617) 295-0516

Professor, Department of Philosophy asimmons@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University