
Karen Bennett
I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers-New Brunswick (on sabbatical '24-25). I came to Rutgers in the fall of 2018 after spending 11 years at Cornell. Before that, I was an assistant professor at Princeton as well as a post-doc at the Australian National University in Canberra. Before THAT, I received my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan under the direction of Steve Yablo, Jim Joyce, Alan Gibbard, and Mark Crimmins. Let's keep rewinding: I went to Oberlin College, attended a giant public high school in suburban Phoenix, and spent my childhood in rural central Pennsylvania, an area sometimes charmingly called 'Pennsyltucky'.
I live in Princeton with my husband, poet/critic David Orr, and our 7th grade daughter, who currently wants to be a classicist but would make an equally good screenwriter or assassin. We also share our home with this old grey cat, and mourn the recent loss of her friend Snoop.
Making an odd face while giving a talk. In real life I am working my way towards accepting my gray hair.
Upcoming conferences and whatnot
Reduction in Metaethics, Metaphysics, and Mind (Fribourg)