Rosalind Chaplin - Curriculum Vitae

Employment
  • Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2022-present
  • Bersoff Faculty Fellow, New York University, 2021-2022​
Education
  • PhD, University of California, San Diego, Philosophy, 2015-2021
  • Humboldt-Universität ​zu Berlin, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Research Fellow
  • MA, Simon Fraser University, Philosophy, 2012-2015
  • BA, Middlebury College, Independent Scholar Program, Minor in Chinese, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, 2005-2009
Areas of Specialization
  • Kant (esp. theoretical), Early Modern Philosophy, Moral Psychology
Areas of Competence
  • Normative Ethics, Metaphysics
​Publications​
  1. "Blaming and Forgiving as Intimates," in Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Personal Relationships, Eds. Monika Betzler and Sarah Stroud (forthcoming). 
  2. "Quantitative Indeterminacy and Potential Infinity: Kant's Solution to the Second Antinomy," Ergo (forthcoming).
  3. "Kant's Supreme Principle of Pure Reason and the Principle of Sufficient Reason," Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming).
  4. "Being Ashamed of Others: Shame and Partial Concern for Persons," The Philosophical Quarterly, early view, 1-20, 2024.
  5. "Kant on the Conceptual Possibility of Actually Infinite Tota Synthetica," Kantian Review​, First View: 1-20, 2024. [Selected for the 2024 Philosopher's Annual]
  6. "Personal Reactive Attitudes and Partial Responses to Others: A Partiality-Based Approach to Strawson's Reactive Attitudes," Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 25(2): 323-345, 2023. 
  7. "Kant on the Givenness of Space and Time," European Journal of Philosophy​, 2022.
  8. "Kant's First Antinomy and the Indeterminate Extent of the Empirical World," Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress 'The Court of Reason' (Oslo, 6-9 August 2019). Ed Camilla Serck-Hanssen and Beatrix Himelmann. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, scheduled for 2021.
  9. ​“Taking it Personally: Third-Party Forgiveness, Close Relationships, and the Standing to Forgive,” Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Vol 9, 73-94, 2019.
Book Reviews and Reply Pieces
  1. Daniel Smyth, Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 260pp., $110.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781009330312, Notre Dame Philosophical Review, 2025.
  2. “How Competitive Can Virtuous Envy Be?,” APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy, 23 (2): 30-33, 2024.
  3. Ian Proops, The Fiery Test of Critique: A Reading of Kant’s Dialectic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021 Pp. xi 486 ISBN 9780199656042 (hbk) £105.00. Kantian Review, 27(2), 329-334. doi:10.1017/S136941542200005X (2022)
Presentations
  1. “Kant’s Rejection of Self-Grounding Things,” Chapel Hill Kant Workshop, UNC Chapel Hill, Feb 2025.
  2. “Attached Blame and Victim-Focused Forgiveness,” NYU Ethics Workshop Series, Feb 2025.
  3. Comments on Mario Schärli's "Anlytic Inclusion and Synthetic Addition: The Syntheticity of Existential Judgments and Non-Existent Objects in the '100 Thalers Passage'," Eastern APA, NYC, Jan 2025.
  4. “The Role of Cognition in the Antinomies’ Resolutions: The Case for Controversial Metaphysics,” 14th International Kant Congress, Bonn, September 2024.
  5. "Kant on Self-Explaining and Self-Grounding Things (and the Dissatisfaction of Reason)," 300 Jahre Kant. Perspektiven für die Philosophie des 21. Jahrhunderts, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, April 2024.
  6. Comments on Karl Schafer's Kant's Reason: The Unity of Reason and the Limits of Comprehension in Kant (2023), AMC Session at the Pacific APA in Portland, OR.
  7. "Shame and Partial Concern for Character," Colloquium Talk at Virginia Tech, February 2024.
  8. "Kant's Rejection of Self-Grounding Things," Colloquium Talk at The University of Tennessee Knoxville, November 2023.
  9. “Partial Demands, Partial Concern, and the Character of the ‘Moral’ in Strawson,” Blue Ridge Women's Workshop, Floyd VA, August 2023.
  10. "Two Kinds of Actual Infinity in Kant," Berlin Summer Colloquium in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, June 2023.
  11. "Being Ashamed of Others: Rethinking the Self-Appraisal Account of Shame," East Coast Tritons Workshop, Rutgers University-Camden, March 2023.
  12. Comments on Miranda Fricker's "The Art of Blaming and Forgiving," 6th Annual Maynard Adams Symposium for  the Humanities, UNC Chapel Hill, March 2023. 
  13. Is Kant's Supreme Principle of Pure Reason the Principle of Sufficient Reason?", Kant's Transcendental Dialectic, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 2022. 
  14. Comments on Fatema Amijee's "Brute Facts: What Are They? What Do We Want Them To Be?," The Principle of Sufficient Reason, Yale University, June 2022
  15. "A New Solution to the Problem of Trading Up," Montclair State University, May 2022
  16. "The Finitude of the Mind and the Size of the Spatiotemporal World," Virtual NAKS Women Scholars Network Series, March 2022
  17. Comments on Sara Protasi's The Philosophy of Envy, Eastern APA, Author Meets Critics Session, January 2022
  18. "Is Kant's Supreme Principle of Pure Reason the Principle of Sufficient Reason?", Eastern APA, Society for German Idealism and Romanticism, January 2022
  19. "Limits of Blame," Panel Discussion (with Per-Erik Milam, Hannah Tierney, and Robert Wallace), Northwest Philosophy Conference, November, 2021
  20. "Is Kant's Supreme Principle of Pure Reason the Principle of Sufficient Reason?", Midwest Study Group Meeting, North American Kant Society, October 2021
  21. "A New Solution to the Problem of Trading Up," California Polytechnic State University, San Louis Obispo, April 2021
  22. "Kant on the Possibility of Actually Infinite Aggregates," Eastern APA Symposium Session, January 2021
  23. Comments on Yuliya Kanygina's "The Self-Other Asymmetry and the Duty of Self-Care," Obligations to Oneself: An Online Workshop, July 2020
  24. "Personal Reactive Attitudes and Partial Responses to Others: A Revision to the Strawsonian Account," Central APA Colloquium Session, Chicago, February 2020
  25. ​Comments on Andrew Roche's "Apriority and Ideality in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason," Eastern APA, Philadelphia, January 2020
  26. "The First Antinomy and the Indeterminate Extent of the Empirical World," 13th International Kant Congress, University of Oslo, Norway, August 2019
  27. “Indeterminacy and Potential Infinity in Kant’s Second Antinomy,” 15th Annual Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society, Brandeis University, May 2019
  28. Comments on Leonard Feldblyum’s “Untangling Motivation, Desire, and Action in Kant’s Empirical Psychology,” Eastern APA, NYC, Jan 2019
  29. “Kant’s First Antinomy and the Indeterminate Extent of the Empirical World,” North American Kant Society Biennial Conference, Simon Fraser University, May 2018
  30. “The Real and the Ideal in Crusius’s Account of Space and Time,” UC San Diego Graduate Conference with Hannah Ginsborg, April 2018
  31. “Taking it Personally: Third-Party Forgiveness, Close Relationships, and the Standing to Forgive,” Workshop in Normative Ethics (WiNE), University of Arizona, Jan 2018
  32. ”The First Antinomy and the Actual Infinity of Space and Time,” The Disunity of Reason: A Conference on Kant’s Antinomies, Freie Universität, Berlin, July 2016
  33. ”Kant on Givenness and the Phenomenological Non-Presence of Space and Time,” North American Kant Society Pacific Study Group Meeting, Simon Fraser University, Nov 2015
  34. Comments on Adam Westra’s “Kant’s Anti-Mystical Theory of Symbolic Representation,” Canadian Philosophical Association 59th Annual Congress, University of Ottawa, June 2015
  35. “Hume on Existence and the Content of Perceptions,” Texas A&M Graduate Student Conference in Early Modern Philosophy, Nov 2013
Awards​
  1. Schwab Academic Excellence Award, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC Chapel Hill, 2025
  2. Junior Faculty Development Award, Provost's Office, UNC Chapel Hill, 2024
  3. Visiting Scholar, Johannes Guttenberg Universität-Mainz, Summer 2023
  4. Markus Herz Prize (North American Kant Society) - awarded to the best graduate student paper presented at the regional meetings, 2019
  5. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 10-month fellowship for study with Tobias Rosefeldt at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2019-2020
  6. Graduate Student Association (GSA) Community Award for Outstanding Graduate Leader, UC San Diego, 2019
  7. Graduate Student Essay Prize - “Kant’s First Antinomy and the Indeterminate Extent of the Empirical World,” UC San Diego Philosophy, 2018
  8. Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, UC San Diego Philosophy Department, 2018
  9. North American Kant Society Graduate Student Travel Award, 2015
  10. Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Simon Fraser University Philosophy Department, Summer 2014
  11. Graduate Essay Prize - “Culling Possible Worlds with the Physicalist’s Conditional,” Simon Fraser University Philosophy, 2014
  12. Graduate Essay Prize - “Associative Obligations and Intergenerational Duties of Distributive Justice,” Simon Fraser University Philosophy, 2013
Teaching
As Instructor of Record:​
  • Contemporary Neo-Kantian Ethics, graduate seminar co-taught with Susan Wolf, UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2025
  • Dissertation Research Seminar, UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2023, Fall 2024
  • Moral Responsibility, 400-level, UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2024
  • Proto-Seminar, UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2023
  • Virtue, Value, and Happiness: Introduction to Moral Theory, UNC Chapel Hill, Spring 2023, Spring 2025
  • The Principle of Sufficient Reason, early modern graduate seminar, UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2022
  • Introduction to Philosophy through Great Works, NYU, Spring 2022 and UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
  • Kant, upper level undergraduate, NYU, Fall 2021
  • Ethics in Society, UC San Diego, Summer 2020
  • Introduction to Philosophy, UC San Diego, Summer 2019
As Teaching Assistant:
  • Science Fiction and Philosophy, UC San Diego, Summer 2020
  • Introduction to Epistemology, UC San Diego, Spring 2018
  • Introduction to Philosophy: Nature of Reality, UC San Diego, Winter 2018
  • Introduction to Ethics, UC San Diego, Fall 2017
  • Rome, Christianity, and the Middle Ages, UC San Diego Humanities Program, Spring 2017
  • Foundations of Western Civilizations: Israel and Greece, UC San Diego Humanities Program, Winter 2017
  • Introduction to Logic, UC San Diego, Fall 2015, Winter 2016, Spring 2016
  • Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, and Spring 2014
  • Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology, Simon Fraser University, Fall 2013 and Fall 2014
  • Critical Thinking, Simon Fraser University, Summer 2013
Pedagogical Training:
  • ​Introduction to College Teaching, Summer Graduate Scholars Teaching Program, 10-week course, Spring 2019​
Languages
  • German (reading, speaking, writing), French (some reading), Mandarin Chinese (out of use, now rusty)


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