Ruth Chang Associate Professor Contact Information Office: Davison Hall 43 Email: Phone: (732) 932-9861 x153

Education

A.B., Dartmouth College; J.D., Harvard Law School; D.Phil., Balliol College - Oxford University

Speciality

Normative Ethics, Metaethics, Axiology, Phil. of Practical Reason

Research

I am currently working on a book which attempts to weave together views about the nature of value, the foundations of practical reasons, and the role of rational agency in human life.

Publications

Monograph Making Comparisons Count (New York: Routledge, 2001), Studies in Ethics, series editor, Robert Nozick Edited Work Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) Selected Publications "Voluntarist Reasons and the Sources of Normativity", forthcoming Practical Reason and Action, eds. Sobel and Wall, (Cambridge University Press) "Parity, Interval Value, and Choice", 114 Ethics January 2005 "All Things Considered" 18 Philosophical Perspectives, December 2004 "Can Desires Provide Reasons for Action?" in Reason and Value: Themes from the Moral Philosophy of Joseph Raz, eds. R. Jay Wallace, Philip Pettit, Samuel Scheffler, and Michael Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) "Putting Together Morality and Well-Being", in Practical Conflicts, eds. M. Betzler and P. Baumann, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) "The Possibility of Parity", 112 Ethics July 2002 "Against Constitutive Incommensurability, or, Buying and Selling Friends" 11 Philosophical Issues (annual special issues supplement to Nous), December 2001 "Two Conceptions of Reasons for Action" 62 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research No. 2, March, 2001 "Value Pluralism", International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, eds. N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, (philosophy editor, Philip Pettit), vol. 24, (Pergamon, Oxford, 2001) "Comparison and the Justification of Choice" 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1998 "Introduction" in Ruth Chang, ed., Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997) "The Philosophers Menu" (co-authored with many)