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Connie Rosati

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Michigan, J.D., Harvard Law School
Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy
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I received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.  I am currently a member of the faculty at the University of Arizona in Tucson, but I have previously taught at Rutgers, Northwestern, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Davis, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of San Diego Law School.  Over the years, I have taught a variety of courses in ethics, political philosophy, law, and the philosophy of law.  My research interests lie principally in the foundations of ethics and in jurisprudential questions about constitutional interpretation and the objectivity of law.

Selected Publications

  • "Moral Motivation," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006.
  • "Darwall on Welfare and Rational Care," Symposium on Stephen Darwall’s Welfare and Rational Care, Philosophical Studies 130 (2006): 619-635.
  • "Preference-Formation and Personal Good," Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 81, Supp. 59 (2006): 33-64.
  • "Mortality, Agency, and Regret," in Moral Psychology (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 94), ed. Sergio Tenenbaum. Amsterdam/ New York, NY: Rodopi, (forthcoming, 2006).
  • "Personal Good," in Metaethics After Moore, ed. Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • "Some Puzzles About the Objectivity of Law," Law and Philosophy 23 (2004): 273-323.
  • "Agency and the Open Question Argument," Ethics 113 (2003): 490-527.
  • "Brandt’s Notion of Therapeutic Agency," Ethics 110 (2000): 780-811.
  • "Internalism and the Good for a Person," Ethics 106 (1996): 297-326.
  • "Naturalism, Normativity, and the Open Question Argument," Nôus 29 (1995): 46-70.
  • "Persons, Perspectives, and Full Information Accounts of the Good," Ethics 105 (1995): 296-325.