Michele M. Moody-Adams

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Michele M. Moody-Adams (day/month/year - )

Dr. Moody-Adams was born in the city of _____ to schoolteacher father ____ and _____. (siblings?)

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She received her doctorate at Harvard University, writing her dissertation on Moral Philosophy Naturalized: Morality and Mitigated Skepticism in Hume.

At Cornell, Professor Moody-Adams was Director and Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life. She ddid research and teaching on a variety of issues in ethical theory, the history of ethics, political philosophy, practical ethics, the philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy. Professor Moody-Adams has published on such topics as moral relativism, moral objectivity, and moral psychology, as well as on problems of social and economic justice, feminism and equality, and the moral implications of reproductive technologies. She has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and serves on the editorial board of several scholarly journals.

In 2009, Dr. Moody-Adams became dean of Columbia College.

She is married to James Eli Adams, a professor in English and comparative literature at Columbia University. They have one daughter, Katherine.

Selected Works

Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture and Philosophy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).

"The Idea of Moral Progress," Metaphilosophy (1999).

"Grrffin's Modest Proposal," Utilitas (1999).

"A Commentary on Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race," Ethics (1999).

"The Virtues of Nussbaum's Essentialism," Metaphilosophy (1998).

"Culture, Responsibility, and Affected Ignorance," Ethics (1994).

"Theory, Practice and the Contingency of Rorty's Irony," Journal of Social Philosophy (1994).

"Race, Class and the Social Construction of Self-Respect," Philosophical Forum (1992-3).

"On the Old Saw that Character is Destiny, " in Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology,

ed. O. Flanagan and A. Rorty (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 1991).

"Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices," in Feminist Ethics, Ed. Claudia Card (Lawrence: University

Press of Kansas, 1991).

"On Surrogacy: Morality, Markets and Motherhood," Public Affairs Quarterly (1991).

"On the Alleged Methodological Infirmity of Ethics," American Philosophical Quarterly (1990).