Rima Basu Curriculum Vitae 3709 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451 B [email protected] Í www.rimabasu.com Interests Ethics, Epistemology Education 2011–present PhD in Philosophy, University of Southern California. Committee: Ralph Wedgwood (Advisor), Stephen Finlay, Mark Schroeder, Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA), and Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M) 2010–2011 MA in Philosophy, University of Toronto. 2006–2010 Hons. BA (High Distinction) in Philosophy, University of Toronto. Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships 2014-2015 2012-2015 2011-2012 2011-2016 2010-2011 2010 2009-2010 Center for Excellence in Teaching TA Fellow SSHRC Doctoral Award Carl and Carolyn Franklin Endowed Fellowship College Merit Award Ontario Graduate Scholarship Gombay Prize in Philosophy Jackman Humanities Institute Undergraduate Fellowship Conference Activity Refereed Presentations Dec 2014 “Against the Orthodoxy: Rethinking Epistemic Reasons and Pascal’s Wager”, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop: Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology May 2014 “Dutch Book Arguments Repragmatized”, University of Toronto Graduate Philosophy Conference June 2013 “Practical Reason and Practical Success”, Canadian Philosophical Association May 2013 “Radical Probabilism”, 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy Nov 2012 “The Inescapability of Diachronic Dilemmas”, 16th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference Oct 2012 “The Inescapability of Diachronic Dilemmas”, 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy Nov 2011 “Naive Expressivism”, 63rd Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference March 2011 “Tracking Commitments: Revisiting the Frege-Geach Problem”, 12th Annual PrincetonRutgers Graduate Philosophy Conference Other April 2015 Comments on Ryan Nichols “Assessing the Case against Moral Nativism”, Pacific APA Nov 2014 Invited Panelist, ’Doctors vs. Parents: Decision-making in Pediatrics’, Zygo Student Lunchtime Series on Ethics in Medicine April 2014 Symposium Chair for invited symposium on Rational Choice, Pacific APA Feb 2014 Comments on Nilanjan Das’s “Moral Heroism”, USC-UCLA Graduate Philosophy Conference June 2013 Comments on Mandy Kamangar’s “The Decider”, Canadian Philosophical Association May 2013 Chair and Comments on Chrisoula Andreou’s “Temptations, Resolutions, and Regret”, St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality March 2013 Colloquium Chair for Mark Rosner’s “The Rational Relations View Wide and Narrow”, Pacific APA April 2012 Colloquium Chair for Vladimir Vlaovic’s “Negation and Normative Belief”, Pacific APA April 2012 Symposium Chair for invited symposium on Akrasia, Pacific APA Jan 2012 Chair for Tom McKay’s “Stuff and Coincidence”, 1st Annual California Metaphysics Conference on Persistence Nov 2011 Comments on Kenneth Boyce’s “On Believing in Neutrons but not Numbers”, 63rd Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California Spring Fall Spring Fall 2014 2013 2013 2012 PHIL140 PHIL101 PHIL140 PHIL155 - Contemporary Moral and Social Issues Foundations of Modern Western Culture Contemporary Moral and Social Issues Modern Philosophy and the Meaning of Life Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto Spring 2011 PHL247 - Critical Reasoning Fall 2010 PHL273 - Environmental Ethics Academic Service University of Southern California 2011-present Referee for USC/UCLA Graduate Conference 2013-2014 Speculative Society Meeting Organiser 2012-2013 Treasurer, Pegasus (Philosophy Graduate Student Group) University of Toronto, Mississauga 2008-2010 2009-2010 2009-2010 2008 President of the Philosophy Academic Society Advisory Committee, search for Principal of UTM Student Advisory Committee, Department of Philosophy Job Search Search committee for Chair of Philosophy Last updated Nov 11th 2014