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Marina Oshana
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
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Marina Oshana joined the Department of Philosophy at UC Davis in 2009. She completed her Ph.D. at UC Davis and feels quite at home in Northern California. Before coming (back) to Davis, she taught in the California State University system for five years, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and at the University of Florida. She specializes in normative moral philosophy, with a deep interest in the issues of personal autonomy, moral responsibility, identity, and the nature of the self. Her teaching centers in these areas as well as in philosophy of law and political philosophy. She is actively involved in u-POW, the mentoring group for undergraduate women in philosophy.
Professor Oshana’s research reflects her evolving interest in three broadly connected areas in ethics and moral psychology. These are the nature of personal autonomy and the conditions for autonomous agency, the meaning of moral responsibility and the conditions for responsible agency, and the nature of the self and of self-identity. She has recently extended her research to encompass feminist analyses of responsibility.
Undergraduate:
Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Law; History of Ethics; Topics in Ethics (Feminist Analytic Philosophy; Free Will; Evil; Theory of Action; Philosophy of Harry Potter; Recent Ethical Theory; Autonomy and Responsibility); History of Modern Philosophy; Ancient Greek Philosophy; Philosophy of Punishment; Introduction to Philosophy; Introduction to Ethics; Critical Thinking.
Graduate Seminars (at UCD and elsewhere):
Recent Work in Moral Responsibility; Responsibility, Blame, and Forgiveness; Justice and Gender; Pathologies of the Self; Identity and Self-Identity; Self-Identity and Responsible Agency; Free Will and Neurophilosophy; The Moral Limits of Criminal Law