Dr. Michael Ridge
Curriculum Vitae
14 Blantyre Terrace
Edinburgh
United Kingdom, EH10 5AE
www.michaelridge.com
mridge@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
 University of Edinburgh
Department of Philosophy
Dugald Stewart Building, George Square
Edinburgh
United Kingdom, EH8 9AD

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
EDUCATION
  • Wake Forest University, B.A. in Philosophy (with distinction), 1992
  • Tufts University, M.A. in Philosophy, 1995
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, M.A. in Philosophy, 1997
      Thesis Title: "Justice for All: The Circumstances of Justice from David Hume to Adam Smith."
      Committee: Geoffery Sayre-McCord, Simon Blackburn, Michael Smith.
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, PhD in Philosophy, 1999
      Dissertation Title: "The Shape of Practical Reasons."
      Committee: Geoffery Sayre-McCord (director), Simon Blackburn, Thomas E. Hill, William Lycan, Gerald Postema
PhD STUDENTS SUPERVISED
    At Edinburgh: Dan Dennis, Zohar Kohavi, Hannah Wildman, Raymond Critch, Christos Kyriacou, Ana Barandalla
    At the ANU: Campbell Brown, Daniel Cohen, Henry Fitzgerald
PUBLICATIONS
RECENT LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
    Conference Papers
    1. "Reflective Endorsement and the Understanding in Hume's Treatise," 24th Hume Society Conference, Monterey, California, July 30, 1997.
    2. "General Rules in Hume's Treatise," comments on "General Rules and Justificational Criteria," by Jack Lyons, Hume Society Meeting, Pacific APA, Los Angeles, March 26, 1998.
    3. "Why Particularists Cannot Explain Supervenience," Central APA, New Orleans, 1999 (Winner of 1999 Graduate Student Travel Stipend).
    4. "Why Particularists Cannot Explain Supervenience," Australasian Association for Philosophy, Melbourne, July, 1999.
    5. "From Non-Cognitivism to Agent-Neutralism," Australasian Association for Philosophy, Brisbane, July, 2000.
    6. "Non-Cognitivism, Higher-Order Attitudes and Stevenson`s 'Do so as well!'," Australasian Association for Philosophy, Tasmania, 2001.
    7. "Giving the Dead Their Due," Central APA, Minneapolis, 2001
    8. "Epistemology Moralized: David Hume's Practical Epistemology," Scots Philosophy Club Meeting, Edinburgh University, 2001.
    9. "Universalizability for Collective Rational Agents: A Critique of Agent-Relativism," Paton Colloquium, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, St. Andrews, 2002.
    10. "Giving the Dead Their Due," The Moral Legacy of Slavery: Repairing Injustice, Bowling Green State University, October, 2002.
    11. "Proportionality in Criminal Justice: If the Price is Right," Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Special Session on Economics and Law, December, 2002.
    12. "From Moral Knowledge to Moral Principles," Moral Epistemology Conference, University of Edinburgh, November, 2003.
    13. "Turning on Default Reasons," Moral Particularism Conference, University of Kent, December, 2004.
    14. "Hume's Circumstances of Justice and Paternalism", Hume Society Conference, Toronto, July 19-23, 2005.
    15. "Particularism and the Contingent A Priori," Particularism Conference, Bled, Slovenia, June, 2005.
    16. "Hume's Circumstances of Justice and Paternalism: A New Problem," Hume Society Conference, Toronto, July, 2005.
    17. "Ecumenical Expressivism: The Best of Both Worlds?", Second Annual Workshop in Metaethics, Madison, Wisconsin, September, 2005.
    18. "Fairness and Non-Compliance," Workshop on the Demandingness of Morality, Scottish Ethics Network (SEN), St. Andrews, August, 2005.
    19. "Fairness and Non-Compliance," Conference on Demandingness, University of Reading, December, 2005.
    20. "The Truth in Ecumenical Expressivism," Practical Reason and Moral Motivation Conference, Helsinki, Finland, December, 2005.
    21. "Climb Every Mountain?" Conference on Derek Parfit`s Climbing the Mountain, Reading University, October, 2006.
    22. "Anti-Reductionism and Supervenience," Cambridge University, November, 2006.
    23. "Epistemology for Ecumenical Expressivists," The Aristotelian Society, Bristol, July, 2007.
    24. "Assertion for Expressivists," Workshop on Epistemic Expressivism," University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2008.
    25. "Reply to LeBar," Central APA, Colloquium on Practical Reasoning, 2008. [with Sean McKeever]
    26. "A Defence of the Naïve Practical Reasoner: Simple Reasons for Simple People?" Workshop on the Philosophy of Stephen Darwall, University of Stirling, December, 2008.
    27. "An Opportunity for Expressivism?” Pettit and His Critics, University of Newcastle, March, 2009.
    28. TBA, Invited paper at Bled Workshop on Epistemic Value, June, 2009.
    29. TBA, Invited paper at Sheffield Workshop on Constructivism and Practical Reasoning, June, 2009.
    30. "Particularism and Aesthetics," [working title], Scottish Ethics Network, workshop on practical reason, Edinburgh, June, 2009 [with Sean Mckeever].
    Departmental Papers
    1. "Non-Cognitivist Rationalism," ANU Staff Seminar Series, November 18, 1999.
    2. "Giving the Dead Their Due," LaTrobe University Seminar Series, March, 2000.
    3. "From Non-Cognitivism to Agent-Neutralism," Monash University Seminar Series, March, 2000.
    4. "From Non-Cognitivism to Agent-Neutralism," Macquarie University, August, 2000.
    5. "Disagreement In Attitude," ANU Staff Seminar Series, February 8, 2001.
    6. "Giving the Dead Their Due," Social and Political Theory Group Series, ANU, RSSS, March 6, 2001.
    7. "Non-Cognitivism, Higher-Order Attitudes, and Stevenson's "Do so as well!"," Sydney University Seminar Series, March 30, 2001.
    8. "How Non-Cognitivists Should Avoid the Frege-Geach Problem," Glasgow University, 2001.
    9. "How Non-Cognitivists Should Avoid the Frege-Geach Problem," Oxford University, 2001.
    10. "Disagreement," Stirling Philosophy Staff Seminar, October, 2002.
    11. "Sincerity, Acceptance Conditions and Non-Cognitivism," St. Andrews, December, 2002.
    12. "Generalist Non-Cognitivism and the Frege-Geach Problem," Cambridge Moral Sciences Club, February, 2003.
    13. "Non-Cognitivism and Agent-Centered Value," Aberdeen, February, 2003.
    14. "Betting on Hedges: A Defense of Default Principles," Florida State University, October, 2003 (co-authored with Sean McKeever)
    15. "Are the Victims of Racial Injustice Owed Reparations?" Ithaca College, October, 2003.
    16. "Principled Reasons and Reasons for Principles," University of Reading, Jan. 13, 20004 (co-authored with Sean McKeever)
    17. "Fairness and Non-Compliance," York Political Theory Workshop, February 10, 2004.
    18. "Betting on Hedges: A Defense of Default Principles," (co-authored with Sean McKeever) University of Reading, January 13, 2004.
    19. "Fairness and Non-Compliance," Dartmouth College, July 16, 2004.
    20. "Fairness and Non-Compliance," Wake Forest University, September 9, 2004.
    21. "Expressivism, Agent-Relativity and Disagreement," University of Wisconsin Madison, September 22, 2004.
    22. "How to Be a Rule-Consequentialist," Leeds, February 17, 2005
    23. "Ecumenical Expressivism: The Best of Both Worlds?" Oxford, Jowett Society, May, 2005.
    24. "Ecumenical Expressivism," Glasgow Philosophy Department, 2005.
    25. "Ecumenical Expressivism," York Philosophy Seminar, November, 2005.
    26. "Ecumenical Expressivism," Sheffield Philosophy Seminar, December, 2005.
    27. "Fairness and Non-Compliance," Edinburgh Law Seminar, January, 2006.
    28. "How to combine non-cognitivism about reasons with cognitivism about reason," Jowett Society, Cambridge University, April, 2008.
    29. TBA, Lund Departmental Seminar, March, 2009.
    30. TBA, Manchester Departmental Seminar, March, 2009.
PRIZES, GRANTS AND AWARDS
  • Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Grant, 2003-2004.
  • Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded in 2003.
  • Carnegie Grant for a series of workshops on normativity, awarded in 2008 [co-applicant]. (this grant spans three univerisities – Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Stirling and is the successor to the Scottish Ethics Network)
CONFERENCES ORGANISED
  • Moral Epistemology Conference, University of Edinbirgh, November 21-22, 2003 (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong).
  • Utilitarianism Conference, University of Edinburgh, October 24, 2004 (with Elinor Mason)
  • Conference on the Demandingness of Morality, 2006 (funded by the Scottish Ethics Network)
  • British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Meeting, 2008 (with Elinor Mason and David McCarthy)
  • Member of the Advisory Board for a large AHRC Grant on Constructivism (organized through Sheffield University). The Board helps organize a series of workshops.
PROFFESIONAL SERVICES
  • Referee for the Standard Research Grants program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Referee for the following journals: American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, European Journal of Philospohy, Ethics, Hume Studies, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Political Philosophy, Nous, Philosophy and Biology, The Philosopher’s Imprint, Social Theory and Practice and Philosophical Quarterly.
  • Referee for Brian Leiter's Philosophical Gourmet Report.
  • Book Referee for Cambridge University Press.
  • Book Referee for Oxford University Press.
  • External Examiner for PhD, Sheffield University, 2008.
EDITORIAL WORK
  • Editorial Board Member, Ethics, 2007-2010.
  • Editorial Board Member, Philosophical Quarterly, 2007 - present.
  • Editorial Board Member The Journal of Political Philosophy, 2002 - 2008.
  • Editorial Board Member, The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2005 - present.
  • Guest Editor for a special issue of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, forthcoming, 2009.
REFERENCES
  • Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge
  • Jonathan Dancy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
  • Julia Driver, Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
  • Thomas E. Hill, William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Philosophy, UNC
  • Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Philosophy, UNC
  • Michael Smith, Professor of Philosophy, RSSS, Australian National University