M. Victoria Costa
Curriculum Vitae
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
The College of William and Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
[email protected]
Degrees:
2003 Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Grade: 10 (on a scale of 1 to 10) with
recommendation of publication.
1995 M.A. (Licenciada en Filosofía), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
1992 B.A. (Profesora en Filosofía), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Dissertation Title: Political Justice and Citizenship Education
Areas of Specialization: Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Applied Ethics
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Education; Environmental Ethics; Bioethics; History of Political
Philosophy; History of Ethics; Philosophy of Law
Academic Positions:
2013-present: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The College of William and Mary.
2011-2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, The College of William and Mary.
2010-2011: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Illinois State University.
2005-2009: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
2004-2005: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Long
Beach
Fall 2003: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Dartmouth College
Fall 2002: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
1992-2004: Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de La Plata,
Argentina
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Winter 1999: Research Assistant, Educational Policies Department, University of Alberta, Canada
1997-1999: Teaching Assistant, Department of Education, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Publications:
Books:
Rawls, Citizenship and Education, New York, Routledge, 2011.
Aspectos del contractualismo moderno: Thomas Hobbes. La Plata, Editorial de la Universidad,
1997 (a short introductory book on Hobbes’ political philosophy).
Articles in Journals:
“Cosmopolitanism as a Corrective Virtue,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, forthcoming.
“Republican Liberty and Border Controls,” Critical Review of International Social and Political
Philosophy, forthcoming.
“Freedom-Based Arguments for Informed Consent: The Neo-Republican Alternative,” Journal of
Social Philosophy 46, 3, 2015, 357-372.
“Is Neo-Republicanism Bad for Women?” Hypatia 28, 4, 2013, 921-936.
“Civic Virtue and High Commitment Schools,” Theory and Research in Education 11, 2, 2013,
129-134.
“Justice as Fairness and Educational Policy: A Response to Levinson,” Social Theory and Practice
39, 2, 2013, 353-361.
“Citizenship and the State,” Philosophy Compass 4, 6, 2009, 987-997.
“Rawls on Liberty and Domination,” Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy 15, 4,
2009, 397-413.
“Neo-Republicanism, Freedom as Non-Domination and Citizen Virtue,” Politics, Philosophy and
Economics 8, 4, 2009, 401-419.
“Justice as Fairness, Civic Identity and Patriotic Education,” Public Affairs Quarterly 23, 2, 2009,
95-114.
“Freedom as Non-Domination, Normativity and Indeterminacy,” Journal of Value Inquiry 41, 2/4,
2007, 291-307.
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“Los derechos humanos en la teoría de la justicia internacional de Rawls,” Revista
Latinoamericana de Filosofía 23, 2, 2007, 247-267. Reprinted in Julio Montero and Mariano
Garreta Leclerq, eds., Derechos Humanos, Justicia y Democracia en un Mundo Transnacional,
Buenos Aires, Prometeo, 2009, 143-160.
“Galston on Liberal Virtues and the Aims of Civic Education,” Theory and Research in Education
4, 3, 2006, 275-289.
“Human Rights and the Global Original Position Argument in The Law of Peoples,” Journal of
Social Philosophy 36, 1, 2005; 49-61.
“Political Liberalism and the Complexity of Civic Virtue,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 42, 2,
2004; 149-170.
“Rawlsian Civic Education: Political, not Minimal,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 21, 1, 2004; 114.
“Las virtudes ciudadanas en el liberalismo político rawlsiano,” Revista Latinoamericana de
Filosofía 28, 1, 2002; 119-130.
“Pluralismo, concepciones de la buena vida y educación,” Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía
27, 1, 2001; 127-140.
“El concepto de autonomía en la ética médica: problemas de fundamentación y aplicación,”
Perspectivas Bioéticas 1, 2, 1996, 89-116.
Chapters in Books, Encyclopedia Entries, and Conference Proceedings:
“Care”; “Civic Humanism”; “Civic Republicanism”; “Moral Education”; in Jon Mandle and David
Reidy (eds.), The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 8486, 100-101, 102-103, 507-511.
“Extending Rawls to Address Questions about Education and Race,” Philosophy of Education,
forthcoming.
“John Rawls” in Denis Phillips (ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy, Los
Angeles, Sage, 2014, vol. 2, 696-699.
“The Fragility of Patriotism,” Philosophy of Education 2011, 9-12.
“El manejo de la información médica: El consentimiento informado y la confidencialidad,” in
Florencia Luna and Arleen L.F. Salles (eds.), Bioética: Nuevas reflexiones sobre debates clásicos,
Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008, 165-196.
“Justicia y educación en el pensamiento político contemporáneo,” in Adriana Marrero (ed.), Todas
las escuelas, la escuela: Miradas transmodernas sobre educación, Valencia, Germania, 2007, 6386.
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“Cultural Cosmopolitanism and Civic Education”, Philosophy of Education 2005, 250-258.
“Women’s Reproductive Rights and Public Policy in Argentina” (with S. Sommer), in Arleen L.F.
Salles and Maria Julia Bertomeu (eds.), Bioethics: Latin American Perspectives. New York,
Rodopi, Value Inquiry Book Series, 2002, 53-74.
“A Proposal for Moral and Citizenship Teaching” (with M.J. Bertomeu), in Mal Leicester, Celia
Modgil and Sohan Modgil (eds.), Education, Culture and Values; Volume VI: Politics, Education
and Citizenship. London, New York, Falmer Press, 2000, 141-148.
Selected Presentations:
“The International State System, Border Controls, and Freedom as Non-Domination,” XXVII
World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy,
Washington D.C., July 2015. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Department of
Philosophy, George Washington University, Washington D.C., October 2014.
“Freedom as Non-Domination as an Educational Ideal,” Conference on Affective, Moral and Civic
Education, Center of Research in Ethics, University of Montreal, Canada, May 2015.
“Cultivating Cosmopolitan Virtue,” Conference on Civic Education in a Pluralistic Context:
Potential and Limits, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada, February
2015.
Discussion of Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift’s Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child
Relationships, Association for Philosophy of Education, American Philosophical Association
Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, December 2014.
“Can Ideals of Freedom Support Informed Consent?” Dean’s Lecture Series, George Washington
University, Washington D.C., October 2014. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the
Northern New England Philosophical Association Conference, Hanover, New Hampshire, August
2013.
“Cosmopolitanism as a Virtue,” Seventh Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of
Colorado Boulder, August 2014. An earlier version was presented to members of the Philosophy
Department, University of North Carolina Greensboro, November 2013.
Comments on Winston Thompson’s “Returning to Rawls: Race, Education, and Rectified Ideals,”
Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, March 2014.
Comments on Sigal Ben-Porath’s “Deferring Virtue: The New Management of Students and the
Civic Role of Schools,” Conference on Virtue (Moral and Epistemic) and Education: Can We Be
Taught to Act and Believe Wisely?, Stanford University and Spencer Foundation, October 2012.
“Cosmopolitanism and National Belonging,” Colloquium on Cosmopolitan Imaginings: Language,
Self and Other in a Global World, American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference,
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Boston, March 2012. A substantially revised version was presented at the Universidad Argentina de
La Empresa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2013 (in Spanish).
Comments on Debra Satz’s “Unequal Chances: Race, Class and Schooling,” Conference on Race,
Opportunity and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Spencer Foundation,
Boston, October 2011.
Comments on Eamonn Callan’s “Patriotism without Bad Faith,” Philosophy of Education Society
Annual Meeting, St. Louis, March 2011 (invited discussion of the Presidential Address).
“Democratic Education and Freedom as Non-Domination,” presented at the Conference on
Democracy, Scientific Expertise, and Education, Spencer Foundation, Chicago, October 2010.
“Recent Debates on Citizenship.” Lecture for general public presented at Universidad Argentina de
la Empresa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2010 (in Spanish).
“Free and Equal Citizens in Justice as Fairness,” Department of Philosophy, Illinois State
University, March 2010; Also presented to the Department of Philosophy, College of William and
Mary, February 2010; Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, January
2010; and Fourth Political Philosophy Conference “Discrimination and Violence,” Mar del Plata,
Argentina, June 2011 (in Spanish).
“Cosmopolitanism, Culture and Norms,” Department of Philosophy, College of William and Mary,
February 2010. Also presented to the Department of Liberal Studies, Kettering University,
February 2010; Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, January 2010.
“Rawls’ Theory of Justice, the Family and Children’s Education,” American Philosophical
Association Eastern Division meeting, Association for Philosophy of Education Group Session,
New York, December 2009. Substantially revised versions of this paper were presented to the
Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, January 2010; Political Philosophy Conference,
“Justice, Equity, and Equality,” Mar del Plata, Argentina, June 2010 (in Spanish); Department of
Philosophy, Illinois State University, April 2011.
Comments on Robert Talisse’s “Religion in Politics: What Respect Requires,” Conference on
Religion in the Public Sphere, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, November 2009.
“Multiculturalism, National Education and Cosmopolitan Education,” Teacher's College, Columbia
University, New York, October 2009.
“Neo-republicanism, Freedom as Non-Domination and Civic Virtue,” Centro de Investigaciones
Filosoficas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2009 (in Spanish). Earlier versions of this paper were
presented at the Dartmouth College/ University of Vermont Colloquium, Hanover, August 2008;
Philosophy Department, University of Florida, Gainsville, January 2008; Philosophy Department,
University of Edinburgh, October 2007.
“Justice as Fairness and Patriotic Education,” Annual Meeting of the National Academy of
Education, University of Washington, Seattle, October 2008.
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“Reasonable Citizens in Justice as Fairness,” Department of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de
La Plata, Argentina, June 2008 (in Spanish).
“State Domination and the Problem of Indeterminacy,” Pacific Division APA Meeting, Pasadena,
March 2008.
“Normative and Non-normative Readings of Freedom as Non-domination,” Philosophy Department
and Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Florida Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions,
Jacksonville, November 2006.
Comments on Shelley Wilcox “Immigrant Admissions and Globalized Relations of Harm,” Pacific
Division APA Meeting, Portland, March 2006.
“Cultural Cosmopolitanism and Civic Education”, Philosophy of Education Society Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, March 2005.
“Human Rights in Rawls’ Law of Peoples,” Philosophy Department, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, December 2004. An earlier version was presented at the Pacific
Division APA Meeting, Mini Conference on Global Justice, Pasadena, March 2004.
“Rawlsian Civic Education,” Philosophy Department, California State University Long Beach,
Long Beach, January 2004. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at: West Midlands Branch
of the Philosophy of Education Society, School of Education, University of Birmingham, February
2001; South West Branch of the Philosophy of Education Society, School of Education, University
of Exeter, February 2001.
“Political Liberalism and Civic Virtue,” Philosophy Department, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, January 2003. Also presented at the Philosophy Department, University of Texas El
Paso, El Paso, February 2003.
Comments on the Panel “Medical Ethics in Latin America,” Society for Iberian and Latin American
Thought, Eastern Division APA Group Meeting, Philadelphia, December 2002.
“Moral and Civic Education in Pluralistic and Democratic Societies,” Cambridge Branch of the
Philosophy of Education Society, Cambridge School of Education, November 2000. Other versions
of this paper were presented at: Maryland School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland,
College Park, February 2000; Department of Educational Policies, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada, March 1999; Department of Philosophy, University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
March 1998.
“Latin American Debates on Reproductive Rights,” V World Congress of the International
Association of Bioethics, Imperial College, London, September 2000.
“Autonomy, Informed Consent and Access to Contraception in Latin American Societies” (with S.
Sommer). III Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Meeting, Imperial College, London, September
2000.
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“The Challenge of Philosophy in Argentina,” Department of Philosophy, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, March 1998.
“A Just Society: Theory, Organization and Rights,” Department of Philosophy, University of
Alaska, Fairbanks, March 1998. Also presented at Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
March 1998.
“Character Education and Civic Virtue” (with M. J. Bertomeu). Conference on Moral Education in
a Diverse Society. Durham, Duke University, February 1998. Also presented at Ethics Institute,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, February 1998.
Short Papers:
Fourteen published short papers, mainly conference proceedings in Spanish, 1994-2003.
Book reviews/notes:
Review of No Citizen Left Behind by Meira Levinson, in Theory and Research in Education 11, 3,
2013, 316-318.
Review of The Teacher and the World: A Study of Cosmopolitanism as Education by David
Hansen, in Journal of Moral Education 42, 4, 2013, 514-515.
Review of Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan
Values and Collective Identities edited by Kevin McDonough and Walter Feinberg, in Ethics 117,
1, 2006, 136-139.
Review of Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education by Rob Reich, Ethics
114, 4, 2004, 863.
Other Presentations:
Fourteen papers presented at Philosophical and other Professional Meetings on Education, Law and
Medicine in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Mexico, 1994-2003.
International Fellowships:
September 2007-June 2008: National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellowship, U.S.
November 2000-February 2001: British Council Award for Advanced Studies, Host Institution:
University of Plymouth, U.K. Advisor: Mark Halstead.
January 1998-March 1998: Fulbright Fellowship, Host Institution: Dartmouth College, Hanover,
New Hampshire, U.S. Advisor: Bernard Gert.
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National Fellowships, Grants and Prizes from Argentina:
Research Participant, “Rights, Freedom and Property in Modern and Contemporary
Republicanism,” National Council for Scientific Research, Argentina (2016-2019).
Co-PI, “Reflective Equilibrium, Republican Ethics and Political Philosophy” (2008-2011)
Argentine Agency for Scientific Advancement. Also funded by the National Council for Scientific
Research, Argentina (2010-2014).
Co-PI, “Democracy, Freedom and Vulnerable Groups” (2004-2007), Argentine Agency for
Scientific Advancement.
Post-doctoral Fellowship, “Justice, democracy and public institutions,” (2003-2004), National
Council for Scientific Research, Argentina.
Premio Educación, Fundación Navarro Viola National Award for Recent Graduates in Philosophy,
Argentina, 1995.
University Awards/Grants:
Reves Center Faculty International Conference Travel Grant, William and Mary, August 2015.
Scheduled Semester Research Leaves. Fall 2013 and Spring 2015.
Summer Research Award, William and Mary, Summer 2013.
Summer Research Award, William and Mary, Summer 2012.
First Year Assistant Professor Award, Florida State University, Summer 2006.
National and University Fellowships from Argentina (as a graduate student):
October 2001-September 2002: Research Fellowship, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Tecnológicas. Subject: Justice, citizenship and education.
September 2001-October 2001: Research Grant, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Researched
dissertation at the School of Education, Stanford University. U.S. Advisor: Eamonn
Callan.
October 1999- September 2001: Research Fellowship, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Tecnológicas. Subject: Universalism and particularism in moral and
citizenship education.
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October 1997-September 1999: Research Fellowship, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Cientificas y Tecnológicas. Subject: Problems of ethics applied to education.
April 1995-March 1997: Research Fellowship, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Subject: Kantian
autonomy and the right to education.
June 1993-March 1995: Research Fellowship, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Subject:
Autonomy in Kantian ethics and its contemporary uses in applied ethics.
Professional Service:
Member of the Advisory Board of Social Theory and Practice, 2010-present.
Member of the Advisory Committee to the Eastern APA Program Committee, 2010-1013.
Co-editor of Social Theory and Practice, 2006-2009.
Co-organizer of the Conference on Virtue and Social Diversity, Florida State University, March
2007.
Co-organizer of the Werkmeister Conference on Cosmopolitanism, Florida State University, March
2006.
Manuscript reviews for journals and presses:
American Political Science Review; Analisis Filosofico; Curriculum Inquiry; Dianoia; Ethical
Theory and Moral Practice; European Journal of Political Theory; Hypatia; International
Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics; Journal of Applied Philosophy; Journal of Human
Rights; Journal of Philosophy of Education; Journal of Political Philosophy; Journal of Politics;
Journal of Value Inquiry; Oxford University Press; Philosophy and Social Criticism; Polish
Journal of Philosophy; Political Studies; Politics, Philosophy and Economics; Polity; Res
Publica; Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia; Social Theory and Practice; Southern Journal of
Philosophy; Studies in Philosophy and Education; Theory and Research in Education
Manuscript reviews for conferences:
Member of the Program Committee, Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, 2014.
Reviewer for Florida Philosophical Association Meeting 2006.
Member of the Program Committee, Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, 2006.
External reviews of research activities for two tenure cases in the U.S. and one promotion case
outside the U.S.
Memberships in Philosophical Societies and Centers:
American Philosophical Association, since 2002.
Philosophy of Education Society, since 2004.