Tina Rulli received her PhD in Philosophy from Yale University in 2011. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Clinical Center Bioethics Department at the National Institutes of Health from 2011-2013. She joined the UC Davis Department of Philosophy in 2014.
Tina Rulli’s research is in normative ethics, applied ethics, and bioethics. On the applied side, she is interested in applications of the duty to rescue and the ethics of procreation and adoption. On the normative, theoretical side, her work spans across population ethics, the demands of morality, and the possibility for moral options.
Rulli, T. “On Value Dependence and Meliorative Projects,” Inquiry, Invited Symposium on Samuel Scheffler’s Why Worry About Future Generations (Online, May 2020).
Rulli, T. “Conditional Obligations,” Social Theory and Practice Vol 46, No. 2 (April 2020): 365-390.
Tina Rulli teaches courses in normative ethics and bioethics, including a large Introduction to Bioethics lecture course (PHI 015) and a smaller, discussion-focused upper division undergraduate course in Bioethics (PHI 121). Her Ethical Theories course (PHI 116) focuses on normative ethical theories—theories about right and wrong action and how to live a good life.
Hellman Fellow, Hellman Fellows Fund, 2017-2018
UC Davis Institute of Social Sciences Individual Research Grant, 2015–2016
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Associate Editor at The Journal of Applied Philosophy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14685930
Member of the UC Davis Ethics Commons https://ethicscommons.ucdavis.edu
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