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Dr Bronwyn Finnigan BA Hons. (Melbourne), MA (Sydney), PhD (Auckland) Senior Lecturer and ARC Early Career Research Fellow School of Philosophy, RSSS The Australian National University Canberra ACT 2601 Australia +61 2 6125 2632 (x52632) [email protected] https://sites.google.com/site/bronwynfinnigan

ACADEMIC POSITIONS Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy, ANU (January 2018 – current) Deputy Head and Undergraduate Convener, School of Philosophy, ANU (2015 – 2017) Lecturer, School of Philosophy, ANU (September 2014 – 2017) Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University (2012-2014) Professional Teaching Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland (2011-2012) Senior Tutor/Graduate Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Auckland (2006-2009) EDUCATION PhD in Philosophy (University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2012) Dissertation Title: The Practical Intellect: Investigating Non-Deliberative Ethical Action Dissertation Advisors: John Bishop (Auckland), Rosalind Hursthouse (Auckland) Examiners: Garrett Cullity (Adelaide), John McDowell (Pittsburgh) MA in Philosophy (University of Sydney, Australia, 2005) Advisor: Caroline West BA (Hons.) in Philosophy (University of Melbourne, Australia, 2002) Advisor: Karen Jones FELLOWSHIPS and VISITING POSITIONS ARC Early Career Research Fellow (June 2018 – June 2020) Invited Faculty, Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison, NY, USA (Summer 2015) Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Kyoto (Summer 2014) Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, USA (Spring 2009) Visiting Student, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden (Fall 2008) Visiting Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Kyoto, Japan (Nov 2007) Invited Student, Department of Oriental Literatures and Languages, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Spring 2004) Visiting Student, Department of Philosophy, Smith College, USA (Spring 2003) Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia (2003-2004)

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PUBLICATIONS Co-Authored Books 1. The Cowherds (2011), Moonshadows: Conventional Truth and Buddhist Philosophy, (= Georges Dreyfus, Bronwyn Finnigan, Jay Garfield, Guy Newland, Graham Priest, Mark Siderits, Koji Tanaka, Sonam Thackchoe, Tom Tillemans, Jan Westerhoff, Oxford University Press Refereed Articles 2. (2017) ‘Buddhism and Animal Ethics’, Philosophy Compass, 12(7):1-12 3. (2015) ‘Phronēsis in Aristotle: Reconciling Deliberation and Spontaneity’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 91(3): 674-697 4. (2015) ‘Meta-Ethics for Madhyamaka: investigating the justification of moral judgements’, Philosophy East and West, 69(3): 765-785 5. (2014) Examining the Bodhisattva’s Brain, Zygon, 49(1): 231-241 6. (2010-11) ‘Buddhist Meta-Ethics’, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 33 (1-2): 267-297 7. (2011) ‘How Can a Buddha Come to Act? The Possibility of a Buddhist Account of Ethical Agency’, Philosophy East and West, 61(1): 134-159 8. (2011) ‘A Buddhist Account of Ethical Agency Revisited: A Reply to Garfield and Hanson’, Philosophy East and West, 61(1): 183-194 9. (2006) ‘The Dialectical Method in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics’, Phronimon, 7 (2): 1-15 Book Chapters 10. (2017) ‘Buddhist Idealism’ in K. Pearce & T. Goldschmidt (eds.) Idealism: Contemporary Issues in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 178-199 11. (2017) ‘The Nature of a Buddhist Path’ in J.H. Davis (ed.) A Mirror is for Reflection: Understanding Buddhist Ethics, Oxford University Press, 33-52 12. (2018 in press) ‘Madhyamaka Ethics’ in D. Cozort & M. Shields (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics, Oxford University Press 13. (2011) Carnap's Pragmatism and the Two Truths (co-authored with Koji Tanaka), Moonshadows, Oxford University Press 14. (2011) Ethics for Mādhyamikas (co-authored with Koji Tanaka), Moonshadows, The Cowherds, Oxford University Press 15. (2010) ‘Don’t Think, Just Act’ (co-authored with Koji Tanaka), in G. Priest & D. Young (eds.) Philosophy and the Martial Arts, Open Court, pp. 25-32 Book Reviews 16. (2015) Book Review of Dan Arnold’s ‘Brains, Buddhas and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive Scientific Philosophy of Mind’ in Journal of Religion 95(1): 143-46 Forthcoming 17. (forthcoming) Śāntideva and the moral psychology of fear, Readings of the Bodhicaryāvatāra, J. Gold & D. Duckworth (eds.) Columbia University Press 18. (forthcoming 2018) Is consciousness reflexively self-aware? A study in conventional truth and Buddhist philosophy of mind, Ratio 19. (forthcoming 2019) The Affective Science of Fear: a Buddhist analysis, Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology

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ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award ANU CASS Teaching Excellence Award, Winner ANU CASS Teaching Excellence Award, ‘Highly Commended’ Shortlisted for the Annette Baier Prize ANU CASS Internal Grants Scheme Early Career Researcher Travel Grant, ANU Summer Faculty Fellowship, Graduate School, Marquette University Interdisciplinary Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette University 2012 Faculty Development Award, Graduate School, Marquette University 2009 Honorarium, Chicago Buddhist Studies Forum, University of Chicago Honorarium, Five Colleges Buddhist Studies Forum, Smith College 2008 New Zealand Postgraduate Study Abroad Award, Education New Zealand Doctoral Research Fund, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland Performance Based Research Fund, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Auckland Elizabeth De Boer Fund, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 2007 Graduate Research Fund, University of Auckland 2006-2009 Doctoral Scholarship, University of Auckland Australian Postgraduate Award (awarded but declined) 2004 Elizabeth De Boer Fund, University of Lausanne, Switzerland PRESENTATIONS 2017 ‘The Conventional Truth of the Buddhist Self Awareness Thesis’ - Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress Group, School of Philosophy, RSSS, ANU ‘Ahiṃsā and the moral status of animals’ - Invited Paper, Department of Philosophy Seminar, University of Wollongong, Australia ‘Do you have a self?’ - University of Wollongong Philosophy Forum ‘Conceptuality and craving in Buddhism: Response to Loy’ - Invited Comments, Max Charlesworth 2nd Biennial Lecture, Deakin University, Melbourne ‘Comments on Albahari's Perennial Idealism’ - Invited Comments, Idealism & the Mind-Body Problem Workshop, NYUShanghai, China ‘The moral psychology of fear and trust’ - Invited Paper, Readings of the Bodhicaryāvatāra Conference, Princeton University 2016 ‘Closing Reflections: Reflexive Theories of Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Workshop’ - Workshop Organiser & Chair, Australian National University (co-sponsored with NYU Global Institute for Advanced Studies) ‘Know-how and the practical mode of presenting a proposition’ - PHILSOC, School of Philosophy, Australian National University ‘Madhyamaka Ethics’ - Australasian Moral Philosophy Workshop, ANU Kioloa Campus, Australia 3

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- Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies (AABS) Seminar, University of Sydney, Australia ‘Uncovering Mental States: a study in Buddhist Philosophy of Mind’ - Invited Paper, Contemporary Buddhist Philosophy Symposium, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada ‘Inciting Fear to Achieve Fearlessness: a puzzle in Buddhist moral philosophy’ - Invited Plenary Lecture, Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison NY - Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Conference, Macquarie University - Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada ‘Contemplative Neuroscience and the Problem of Informational Content’ - Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (ASACP) Conference, Monash University, Australia ‘Discovering Fear’ - Invited Group Workshop, Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison NY ‘Should we be Pluralists about Buddhist Ethics?’ - Invited Paper, SOPHIS Seminar, Monash University, Australia - Invited Paper, Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy, Columbia USA - MSPT Seminar, School of Philosophy, ANU ‘The Nature of a Buddhist Path: Is there a single approach to Buddhist Ethics? - Invited Paper, Pacific APA, Vancouver, Canada ‘Phronēsis in Aristotle: Reconciling Deliberation and Spontaneity’ - Thursday Seminar, School of Philosophy, ANU ‘Know-how and the practical mode of presenting a proposition’ - Department of Philosophy, Kyoto University, Japan ‘Know-how and the practical mode of presentating a proposition’ - New Zealand Philosophy Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand ‘Peacemaking and Nonviolence in the Buddhist Tradition: Dr Eleanor Rosche’ - Chair, Peacemaking and Non-Violence in World Religions Symposium, Marquette University, USA ‘Owen Flanagan: The Bodhisattva’s Brain, Author-meets-Critics’ - Invited Critic, Pacific APA, San Francisco, USA ‘Phronēsis in Aristotle: Reconciling Deliberation and Spontaneity’ - Midwest Annual Aristotle and Aristotelianism Conference, Marquette University - Melbourne Ancient Philosophy Colloquium, Melbourne Australia - Department of Philosophy, Auckland University, New Zealand ‘The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate: Disputing the nature and function of phronēsis’ - Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, USA ‘The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate: Disputing the nature and function of phronēsis’ - Invited Paper, Eastern APA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Invited Paper, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA ‘How can a Buddha come to Act? A Debate Revisited’ - Invited Paper, Department of Philosophy, Union College, USA - Invited Paper, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, USA ‘Madhyamaka Buddhist Ethics: Comments on Asher Walden’ - Invited Comments, Eastern APA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 4

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‘Buddhist Ideas on Conventional Truth and their Presentation in Moonshadows’ - Invited Panel Commentator, Eastern APA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ‘Rationality in Action’ - Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand ‘Buddhist Meta-Ethics’ - Department of Philosophy, University of Waikato, New Zealand - Invited Paper, Chicago Buddhist Studies Forum, University of Chicago, USA - Invited Paper, Five Colleges Buddhist Studies Forum. Smith College, USA ‘Humeans and Kantians in Early Modern India? Desire, Motivation and Action in Sanskrit Philosophy’ - Invited Comments with Parimal Patil, Columbia Forum for Comparative Philosophy, Columbia University, USA ‘What is a Moral Motive?’ - Invited Comments on Michael Schulman ‘How to Become Moral: The Sources of Moral Motivation’, Columbia Forum for Comparative Philosophy and University Seminar on Ethics, Moral Education and Society, Columbia University, USA ‘Ethics for Madhyāmikas’ - Workshop: Analytical Philosophers and Asianists on Buddhism: What is Conventional Truth and What’s True about it? Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ranjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University, Nepal ‘Normativity and Rational Action’ - Workshop: Acting for a Reason: Normativity and Mentality in a World of Causality, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Sweden ‘Does Intentional Action require Practical Reasoning?’ - Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Melbourne, Australia ‘How Can a Buddha Come to Act? The Possibility of a Buddhist Account of Ethical Agency’ - Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia - XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Emory University, USA - Analytic Philosophy and Asian Thought International Conference, University of Kyoto, Japan - Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand ‘Non-Deliberative Ethical Agency’ - Invited Paper, Department of Philosophy, University of Kyoto, Japan ‘Moral Rationality, McDowell and Particularism’ - Association of Philosophy Conference, Armidale, Australia - Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand ‘Metaphysics and Dialectical Reasoning in Aristotle’s Ethics’ - New Zealand Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Wellington, New Zealand - Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Canberra, Australia ‘A Challenge to the Ontological Commitments of Parfit’s Reductionism’ - Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Sydney, Australia

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TEACHING The Australian National University (ANU) Undergraduate PHIL 1004 Fundamental Ideas in Philosophy: An Introduction (2015, 2016, 2017) PHIL 2012 Buddhist Philosophy (2015) PHIL 2061 Philosophy of Mind (2014) PHIL 2064 Theories of Ethics (2014) PHIL 3062 Advanced Philosophical Topics: comparative philosophy of the self (2016) PHIL 3062 Advanced Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy: Kantian Ethics (2017) Kyoto University, Japan Graduate Semantics and Meta-Ethics for Mādyamikas and Pramāṇavādins (Asian Philosophy Summer Course, co-taught with Koji Tanaka, 2014) Marquette University, USA Graduate PHIL 6430 Theories of Knowledge: Practical Knowledge and Know-How (2013) Guest Lecturer ‘Using Presentation Technology’, Seminar on Professional Teaching Development (2012, 2013) Undergraduate PHIL 3450 Epistemology: Empiricism and Scientific Knowledge (2013, 2014) PHIL 3380 Asian Philosophy: Indian Buddhist Philosophy (2013) PHIL 2310 Theories of Ethics (2012, 2013, 2014) University of Auckland, New Zealand Graduate Guest Lecturer PHIL 746 Philosophy of Action (2008) Undergraduate PHIL 211 Ethical Theory: Ethical Naturalism - Hume, Kant and Foot (2011) PHIL 224/344 Buddhist Philosophy (co-taught with Koji Tanaka, 2009) PHIL 102 Introduction to Ethics (2008) Teaching Assistant/Tutor PHIL 202/322 Philosophy of Language (2012) PHIL 214 Classical Chinese Philosophy (2007) PHIL 211 Ethical Theory: Welfare and the Good Life (2007) University of Melbourne, Australia Undergraduate Guest Lecturer Philosophy of Buddhism, (2002)

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SERVICE School/Department of Philosophy Deputy Head & Undergraduate Convener (January 2015 – 2017) Acting Head of School (March 2-4, 2015) Chair, Student Representative Meeting (2015-2017) Chair, Course Evaluation Meeting (2015-2017) Representative on CASS Education Committee (January 2017 – 2017) Representative on CASS Coursework Committee (2015-2016) Member of Post-Doctorate Search Committee (2014) Teacher-training presentation to graduate students in the use of presentation software PHILSOC: ‘Your Powerpoints Suck’ (2014) Graduate Committee Member, Department of Philosophy, (Marquette 2012-2014) Convenor of Brown-Bag Work-in-Progress Series, Department of Philosophy, (Marquette 2013) Professional teaching development seminar to incoming Marquette graduate students in the use of presentation software, (2012, 2013) Chair and Convenor of Auckland Philosophy Graduate Seminars (Auckland 2007) University HASS Showcase Presentation (to high school students in ACT/NSW region) ‘What is a Good Life? Philosophy and why it is good for you’ (2016) Invited Speaker at Ursula Hall Academic Dinner (2016) Invited Speaker at Burton & Garran Hall (2016) Invited Guest at Burton & Garran Hall Academic Dinner (2017) Invited Guest at Tuckwell Scholars Academic Dinner (2015, 2016, 2017) Invited Guest at Bruce Hall Academic Dinner (2016) Invited Guest at Unilodge Academic Dinner (2017) Shortlisted to give the ANU ‘Last Lecture’ (2015, 2016, 2017) Contemplative Community Steering Committee Member (Marquette 2013-2014) Profession Advisor to ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies [BSSS] on developing a philosophy course as part of the ACT High School curriculum (May 2017) Interviewee for documentary ‘Ethics Matters’ to air on ABC3 (July 2017) Chair and Conference Organiser, ‘Reflexivity in Consciousness: A Cross-Cultural Workshop’ (Joint NYU Global Institute of Advanced Studies, 2016) Referee for Philosophy East and West, Philosophy of Moral Education, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Sophia, Humanites, Journal of the Academic Study of Religion External PhD Examiner, Trevor Smith, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University (2015) Workshop Organiser and Chair of ‘Subjectivity and Self-Awareness in Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives’, Marquette University, USA (2014) Chair of ‘Peace-making and Nonviolence in the Buddhist Tradition: Dr Eleanor Rosche’ as part of ‘Peace-making and Non-Violence in World Religions’ Symposium, (Marquette 2013) Chair, ‘Conventional Truth’ Symposium, (Melbourne 2007) Conference Assistant, ‘Asian and Comparative Philosophy’ Conference, (Melbourne, 2004)

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