Curriculum Vitae
Brian Berkey
University of California-Berkeley
Department of Philosophy
301 Moses Hall
Berkeley, California 94702
E-mail: bberkey@berkeley.edu
Weblog:http://brianberkey.blogspot.com
Education
- 2005-Present: University of California-Berkeley
- 2005: New York University, M.A., Humanities and Social Thought
- 2004: New York University, B.A., Philosophy with Honors (second major Politics), summa cum laude
Main Areas of Interest
Moral and Political Philosophy
Other Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics (incl. Bioethics), Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of History, Marx
Teaching
As Teaching Assistant
- Philosophy 138: Philosophy of Society (UC-Berkeley Philosophy Department, Fall 2008, Professor John Searle)
- UGBA 107: The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business (UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Summer 2008, Professor Alan Ross)
- Philosophy 108: Contemporary Ethical Issues (UC-Berkeley Philosophy Department, Spring 2008, Professor Niko Kolodny)
- Philosophy 107: Moral Psychology (UC-Berkeley Philosophy Department, Fall 2007, Professor R. Jay Wallace)
- UGBA 107: The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business (UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Summer 2007, Professor Alan Ross)
- Philosophy 138: Philosophy of Society (UC-Berkeley Philosophy Department, Spring 2007, Professor John Searle)
- Philosophy 2: Individual Morality and Social Justice (UC-Berkeley Philosophy Department, Fall 2006, Professor Niko Kolodny)
- UGBA 107: The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business (UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Summer 2006, Professor Alan Ross)
Professional Service
- Organizer of Berkeley/Stanford/Davis Graduate Student Conference (2008)
- Chair, Author Meets Critics Session at Pacific APA: David Levy and Sandra Peart: The Vanity of the Philosopher (April 2007)
- Organizer of Berkeley/Stanford/Davis Graduate Student Conference (2007)
- Department Colloquium Committee (Berkeley 2006-07)
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
- Philosophy Department Stipend (Berkeley Summer 2006)
- Ralph W. Church Fellowship (Berkeley 2005-06)
- Phi Beta Kappa at New York University (2004)
- Founders Day Award (New York University 2004)
- Trustee Scholarship (New York University 2001-04)
- National Merit Scholarship (New York University 2001-04)
Talks and Presentations
- Comment on Han van Wietmarschen, "Redistribution, the Corporation, and Poverty in Hegel's Philosophy of Right," Berkeley/Stanford/Davis Graduate Student Conference, April 2008
- "On Getting There From Here: Inequality, Social Justice, and Individual Motivation," Richard Wollheim Society, UC-Berkeley, November 2007
- Comment on Richard Parkhill, "Assurance in Scanlon's Theory of Promises," Berkeley/London Graduate Student Conference, Berkeley, May 2007
- "Institutions, Non-Ideal Theory, and the Demandingness of Morality," Richard Wollheim Society, UC-Berkeley, April 2007
- “The Demandingness of Morality and the Unity of the Normative Realm,” Berkeley/Stanford/Davis Graduate Student Conference, Berkeley, April 2007
- Comment on Brooke Roberts, “A Critique of Wolf’s Criterion for Meaningfulness in a Life,” Berkeley/Stanford/Davis Graduate Student Conference, Stanford, April 2006
Updated on Wed Aug 27 21:13:21 -0700 2008 by Brian Berkey