The department has reached our full complement! We have hired three new faculty in the last three years, four in the last six years.

Please welcome our most recent addition...

Julie Tannenbaum

Julie works primary in ethics — including ethical theory, history of ethics, and metaethics — moral psychology, and bioethics.

Julie works primarily in the areas of ethics (ethical theory, history of ethics, and metaethics), moral psychology, and bioethics. She received her B.A. and Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles (2002) and has taught at University of California, Santa Cruz, University of California, Los Angeles, and most recently at California State University, Northridge. She was also a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health (2006-2007). While at UCSC she received the Excellence in Teaching award (2005).

She has published and delivered papers on a wide range of topics: the role of emotions in moral action, the conditions for having and satisfying one’s moral obligations, ways of categorizing goods, moral luck, moral status, enhancement drugs, and the war in Iraq.

This fall, Julie will be teaching History of Ethics (Phil 31) and Normative Ethics (Phil 35). Please feel free to stop by and introduce yourself, or .