Contact information

Email: Sarah Stroud
Tel.: 514-398-3250
Office: LEA 942
Office hours (Fall 2009): Wed. 1:45 - 2:45 or by appt.

Education

Princeton University, PhD in Philosophy, 1994
Harvard University, AB magna cum laude in Philosophy, 1988

Academic appointments

Associate Professor of Philosophy, McGill University, 1999-
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, McGill University, 1993-99
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, MIT, 1995-96

Teaching and research areas

Moral theory
Moral psychology
Metaethics
Moral and practical reasoning
History of moral philosophy
Ethics and public affairs
Analytic philosophy

Research interests

My research interests range across much of contemporary analytic moral philosophy but centre on foundational issues in moral psychology and moral theory and on the intersection of such issues with metaethics. One main theme of my current research is partiality in moral psychology and moral theory; other research interests include the structure of practical and moral reasoning, and practical irrationality in all its forms.

Selected publications

"Moral Worth and Rationality as Acting on Good Reasons," Philosophical Studies 134 no. 3 (June 2007), pp. 449-456.

"Epistemic Partiality in Friendship," Ethics 116 no. 3 (April 2006), pp. 498-524.

“Rationalité, humanité, normativité,” Philosophiques 31 (2004), pp. 405-408

Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, eds., Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. x, 317 pp. [a collection of eleven new essays plus introduction] http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-925736-1

Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, "Introduction," in Stroud and Tappolet 2003, pp. 1-16

"Weakness of Will and Practical Judgement," in Stroud and Tappolet 2003, pp. 121-146

"À la recherche de la source des normes déontologiques," Philosophiques 28 (2001), pp. 151-171

"Moral Commitment and Moral Theory," Journal of Philosophical Research XXVI (2001), pp. 381-398

"The Aim of Affirmative Action," Social Theory and Practice 25 (1999), pp. 385-408

"Déontologisme et droits," Philosophiques 26 (1999), pp. 139-148

"Moral Overridingness and Moral Theory," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1998), pp. 170-189

"Moral Relativism and Quasi-Absolutism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LVIII (1998), pp. 189-194

"Dworkin and Casey on Abortion," Philosophy & Public Affairs 25 (1996), pp. 140-170

Forthcoming and in preparation

Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet, eds., Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality (see above), paperback edition forthcoming 2007 from Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press.

“Weakness of Will,” commissioned entry for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming (10,000 words).

“La partialité par les projets,” forthcoming in Les ateliers de l’éthique (6,500 words).

“Permissible Partiality, Projects, and Plural Agency” (draft: 8,000 words), in preparation for a volume on partiality and impartiality edited by J. Cottingham, B. Feltham, and P. Stratton-Lake.

Editorial positions

I am Associate Editor (for Metaethics) of the International Encylopedia of Ethics, now in preparation for Blackwell under the editorship of Hugh LaFollette, to be published in print (in c. 8 volumes) and online in 2010.

I am also an Executive Editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Research grants

2006-2008: member of FQRSC-funded team led by Prof. Christian Nadeau of Université de Montréal. Topic: Conséquentialisme, déontologie et institutions sociales. Histoire, aspects normatifs et éthique publique

2001-2004: FQRSC team grant with Profs. Fabienne Pironet and Christine Tappolet of Université de Montréal. Topic: La nature de la délibération : un débat entre philosophes médiévaux et contemporains

1998-2001: FCAR team grant with Profs. Fabienne Pironet and Christine Tappolet of Université de Montréal. Topic: L'acrasie (faiblesse de la volonté) est-elle possible? Un débat entre philosophes médiévaux et contemporains

Teaching 07-08

PHIL 230, Introduction to Moral Philosophy, fall 2007

PHIL 434, Ethics II, fall 2007 (topic: metaethics)

PHIL 334, Ethics I, winter 2008

Teaching 06-07

PHIL 230, Introduction to Moral Philosophy, fall 2006

PHIL 334, Ethics I, winter 2007

PHIL 534, Seminar: Ethics, winter 2007 (topic: parents and children)

Teaching 04-05

PHIL 230, Introduction to Moral Philosophy, fall 2004

PHIL 534, Seminar: Ethics, fall 2004 (topic: moral intuitionism)

PHIL 434, Ethics II, winter 2005 (topic: metaethics)