NATALIE VANIA July, 2007 ACADEMIC SUMMARY Dr. Natalie Vania specializes in moral philosophy and the philosophy of rationality. She has competence in the philosophy of science and social, political and legal philosophy. She received her PhD in philosophy from The University of Maryland at College Park in 1992, where she completed dissertation work as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow under the direction of the esteemed Virtue Theorist Professor Michael Slote. Natalie has taught in ten universities, including St. Cloud State University (Assistant Professor), Stanford University (The Program in Cultures, Ideas, and Values), Sangamon State University (Liberal Studies Honors Colloquium) and to a White House agency. Her article " Optimizing the Workings of Globalization, A Review of Martin Wolf's 'Why Globalization Works'" appeared in Synergy, The Journal of the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce, and the article "Capital Access: Lunch with Dick Kramlich, NEA, New Enterprise Associates" appears in its 2005 Inaugural Issue. Her article "Contemporary Moral Philosophy and The Gathas: A Gathic Moral Vision" is published in the book "Atas-E Dorun, The Fire Within, Jamshid Soroush Soroushian Memorial Volume II," 2003, ISBN 1-4140-1971-8. Natalie's current research extends to finance as a modern science, implications of the new science for theories of rationality, and to entrepreneurship. SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE 1996-Present THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD > Adjunct Lecturer / Associate Faculty, The Department of Philosophy, first program offering degrees in Philosophy online. > Instructor for Ethics, Opting for Morality; Human Nature as it Impacts Social Debate. > Instructor in Rationality and Moral Choice, offered with The Warsaw School of Economics. > Arshiya Ventures, Monville, NJ, Springfield, IL and Mountain View, CA. Central Illinois Entrenet partner. 1992-1994 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA Lecturer > Taught in The Program in Culture, Ideas, and Values for The Department of Philosophy. > Taught a Research Seminar, Deontological Rationality, based on dissertation. 1992 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Evanston, IL NEH Summer Seminar Fellow > Religion and Politics in Hobbes and Spinoza, Professor Ed Curley 1992-1993 ST. CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY St. Cloud, MN Assistant Professor > Taught nine courses, including Introduction to Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Ethics, Business Ethics, Philosophy in Literature > Grant Director, American Council of Learned Societies for Professor Shelly Kagan's visit to campus for four days, coordinated all aspects of funding for project among four institutions. 1986-1991 THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK College Park, MD Lecturer > Taught Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Introduction to Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, Philosophy of Art for The Department of Philosophy. 1987 TO THE WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS AGENCY Washington, DC Lecturer > Taught Ethics for Continuing Education at The University of Maryland at College Park 1987-1988 THE INSTITUTE FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY College Park, MD Research Assistant 1985-1986 ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY Chicago, IL Lecturer > Taught Ethics, Logic, Introduction to Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy 1982-1985 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO Chicago, IL Teaching Assistant, Lecturer > Taught Introduction to Morality, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy Business Ethics, Philosophy of Death, Logic, Critical Reasoning, Philosophy of Love and Sex SELECTED EDUCATION ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Chicago, IL Stuart School of Business Masters of Science in Financial Markets, all degree requirements completed. > 4.0 GPA over 2003-2004. > Special interest in received view of Rationality in derivatives markets. THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK College Park, MD The Graduate School Doctor of Philosophy, The Department of Philosophy, June 1992. > Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow, National Award for Culture and Values Leadership, Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Graduate School Travel Award. > Worked with Virtue Theory leader, political theorists, 4 world leaders in Philosophy of Physics. > M.A., Philosophy, The University of Illinois at Chicago. > Dissertation on the normative structure of Rationality and deontological moral theory. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Chicago, IL The College Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Concentration in Philosophy, 1980. > The Physics Undergraduate Journal Club. > Bachelor’s Paper, The Department of Philosophy, relating to the nature of Rationality. DISSERTATION Ignoring The Good and Deontological Rationality A project which offers a clearer and stronger account of moral deontology and a deontological view of rationality. This is accomplished by overturning an unquestioned assumption, that the good always provides some reason to wish for or to promote its obtaining. This assumption, the pro tanto assumption, is relied upon explicitly by the moral consequentialist and rational optimizer. It is implicitly relied upon by the moral deontologist and rational satisficer. I argue instead for the non pro tanto thesis, that something’s being good may provide no reason to wish for or to promote its obtaining. In conjunction with the non pro tanto assumption, I offer support for agent centered restrictions in morality and rationality. Prudence itself, not only morality, can be deontological and provide the agent with categorical imperatives. It’s suggested how the constructive view which is offered can be integrated into Kant’s practical Reason and his teleology. AWARDS 1990 The Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 1989 The Graduate School of The University of Maryland, Travel Award DISSERTATION COMMITTEE Advisor, Michael Slote, Chair, Philosophy Keith Campbell, Former Chair, Philosophy Jerrold Levinson, Professor, Philosophy William Galston, Director, Institute For Philosophy and Public Policy, Former White House Senior Policy Advisor Ernie Schlaretzki, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy COMPLETED DRAFTS 1992 - Ignoring The Good 1992 - Categorical Prudence and Deontological Rationality 1993 - Initial Thoughts For The Categorical Imperative of Prudence 1993 - Normative Justification: Newtonian Good or Quantally Ineffable? 1993 - Taking Scheffler into the Arena of Rationality: Restriction Against Odd Bodily Usage 1993 - Politics As A System of Categorical Imperatives: Foot's Fool, Gauthier's MAD, and Deontological Rationality 1989 - Moral Theory By Construction 1985 - The Introduction to the Third Critique and Regulative Ideals of Reason, for Prof. Michael Friedman 1984 - Deontological Obligation Towards Future Generations 1983 - Einstein's Final Thoughts on the Incompleteness of Quantum Mechanics, for Prof. Arthur Fine - "Excellent"