Lori Gallegos de Castillo Department of Philosophy Email: LoriGallegos@txstate.edu Texas State University Website: LoriGallegos.weebly.com 601 University Drive Phone: (512) 245-2285 San Marcos, TX 78666 Areas of Specialization: Areas of Competence: Ethics (esp. moral psychology), critical philosophy of race, Latin American and Latinx philosophy Philosophy of emotion, feminist philosophy ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Texas State University, 2016 Present EDUCATION Educational Background Ph.D. Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 2016 Dissertation: Empathy s Contribution to Moral Knowledge: Cultivating Agency under Conditions of Social Inequality M.A. Philosophy, Stony Brook University, 2012 B.A. Philosophy / Foreign Languages, University of New Mexico, 2012 Additional Professional Training Center of Study and Investigation for Decolonial Dialogues, Summer School, Barcelona, 2014 Graduate Certificate, Women s and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University, 2012 RESEARCH Journal Articles Toward a Program for Mexican-American Philosophy: Beginning with the Concerns and Intuitions of Mexican Americans, co-authored with Francisco Gallegos (under review) Unconscious Racial Prejudice as Psychological Resistance: A Limitation of the Implicit Bias Model, Critical Philosophy of Race (forthcoming 2018) Professional Philosophy in Pursuit of Genuine Dialogue: Embracing Radical Friction, Journal of Speculative Philosophy 34:1 (March 2018), 92-111 Moral Bioenhancement, Social Biases, and the Regulation of Empathy, co-authored with Keisha Ray, Topoi: An International Journal on Philosophy (Spring 2017) Page 1 of 5
Skillful Coping and the Routine of Surviving: Isasi-Díaz on the Importance of Identity to Everyday Knowledge, APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 15:2 (Spring 2016), 7-11. (Winner of the Essay Prize in Latin American Thought) Sketch of a Decolonial Environmentalism: Challenging the Colonial Conception of Nature through the Biocultural Perspective, Inter-American Journal of Philosophy 6:1 (May 2015), 32-47 Book Reviews Colonial Legacies of Visibility/Invisibility : Response to María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo s Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (under review) Review of Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience, ed. Tina Fernandes Botts, Hypatia Online Review (March 2017) Review of Serene Khader s Adaptive Preferences and Women s Empowerment, Journal of Applied Philosophy 31:3 (Aug 2014), 324-26 Review of José Medina s The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations, APA Newsletter on Hispanics in Philosophy 13:2 (Spring 2014), 15-17 Papers Presented at Professional Meetings The Ethics of Home-Making: Strategies of Survival and the Politics of Assimilation. The American Philosophical Association 2018 Pacific Division Meeting. San Diego, California. March 30, 2018 Empathy s Contribution to Moral Agency: The Epistemic Value of Sharing Emotions. Mentoring Workshop for Pre-Tenure Women in Philosophy. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 11, 2017. Toward a Program for Mexican-American Philosophy: Beginning with the Concerns and Intuitions of Mexican-Americans. Society for Mexican-American Philosophy. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, May 17, 2017. Loving Perception in Cross-Racial Contexts: The Moral Psychology of Lugones and Ortega. Roundtable on Latina Feminism. University Heights, Ohio, May 5, 2017 World-Traveling and the Task of Responsible Translation. American Philosophies Forum. Atlanta, Georgia, April 8, 2017 Affective Tools for Epistemic Aims: Loving Perception and Solidarity in Latina Feminist Philosophy. PhiloSOPHIA. Boca Raton, Florida, March 31, 2017 Unconscious Racial Prejudice as Psychological Resistance: A Limitation to the Implicit Bias Model. California Roundtable for Philosophy and Race. Atlanta, Georgia, September 17, 2016 Isasi-Díaz s Latina Feminist Particularism as a Method for Global Ethics. Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Portland, Oregon, March 3-5, 2016 Moral Responsibility for Implicit Social Prejudice. Conference of Ford Fellows, The National Academies and the Ford Foundation. Washington, DC, September 2015 Page 2 of 5
Skillful Coping and the Routine of Surviving: Dreyfus and Isasi-Díaz on Everyday Knowledge. University of New Mexico s Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. Albuquerque, NM, April 10-11, 2015 Sketch of a Decolonial Environmentalism: Challenging the Colonial Conception of Nature through the Biocultural Perspective. The American Philosophy Association 2014 Pacific Division Meeting. San Diego, CA, April 18, 2014 The Affective Dimensions of Active Ignorance. Georgetown University Philosophy Conference 2014. Georgetown University, Washington D.C., April 12, 2014 Can Personal Identity be the Basis of Moral Obligation? The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, The 51 st Meeting. Rochester, NY, November 2012 The Evangelical Question: A Religious Challenge to the Habermasian Post-Secular Ideal. Conference of Ford Fellows, The National Academies and the Ford Foundation. Irvine, CA, October 2011 Undocumented Immigration in the United States: Examining the Human Rights Approach. Celebrating Diversity and Academic Excellence. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, May 2011 Rethinking Egoism in the Evaluation of Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics. International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Fordham University, New York, NY, October 2010 Invited Talks, Lectures, and Presentations Academic Philosophy and the Pursuit of Genuine Dialogue: Embracing Radical Friction. Texas A & M University. College Station, Texas, September 7, 2017 Knowing Thyself-In-Relation: Practices and Dispositions for a Coalitional Philosophy. St. Mary s University. San Antonio, Texas, September 1, 2017 Cross-Cultural Mediation in Philosophy: A Latina Feminist Approach to Ethical Translation. University of Texas, El Paso. El Paso, Texas, April 18, 2017 Navigating the Borders of U.S. Philosophy: Latina Feminism and Methods for Cross Cultural Mediation. St. Mary s University. San Antonio, Texas, November 17, 2016 Unconscious Racial Prejudice: The Limits of the Cognitive Scientific Account. Department of Philosophy, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, August 11, 2016 Moral Responsibility for Implicit Bias: A Character-Based Approach. Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 20, 2016 The Limitations of Emotion-Based Accounts of Morality: Implicit Bias and the Inhibition of Empathic Response. Cognitive Science in the Arts and Humanities: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, March 13, 2014 Response to Yasha Rohwer s Thinking about Coalitions: The Third Man. The American Philosophy Association, 2012 Eastern Division Meeting. Atlanta, GA, December 2012 Page 3 of 5
Response to Serene Khader s Adaptive Preferences and Women s Empowerment. Department of Philosophy, Philosophy Book Celebration. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, November 2012 Autonomous Endorsement and the Sources of Normativity. Center for Inclusive Education Research Café. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, September 2011 Grants and Fellowships Funded External Grants and Contracts Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2015-16 AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship, 2015 (declined) Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2011-14 Funded Internal Grants and Contracts Turner Summer Research Grant, Stony Brook University, 2011, 2012, 2014 TEACHING Courses Taught Texas State University PHIL 5361, Philosophy of Emotion PHIL 1320, Ethics and Society Central New Mexico Community College PHIL 1110, Introduction to Philosophical Thought Stony Brook University PHI 100, Concepts of the Person PHI 104, Introduction to Moral Reasoning Farmingdale State College PHI 106, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy PHI 201, Ethics Teaching Honors and Awards President s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, 2014 Additional Teaching Experience Graduate Assistant, Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI), Summer 2015 Page 4 of 5
SERVICE Department Strategic planning committees on research and graduate studies, 2016-18 Professional Member, Committee for Hispanics, American Philosophical Association, 2016-2018 Referee for New Mexico Texas Philosophical Society conference, 2017 Reviewer for Critical Philosophy of Race, 2016 Community Presenter on the critical philosophy of race at the San Marcos Public Library, part of the Texas State University Philosophy Dialogues Series. San Marcos, TX, March 21, 2018 Panel presenter on restorative justice and immigration at the 2017 Summer Dialogues on Activism, part of the Texas State University Philosophy Dialogue Series. San Marcos, TX, June 21, 2017 Panel presenter at An Uncertain Future Film Screening and Discussion. Hosted by Jolt Texas and Latinx Spaces. Austin, TX, June 9, 2017 Board of Directors, Olé, Albuquerque, NM, 2014-2016 Updated 01/2018 Page 5 of 5