Rivka Weinberg,
Professor of Philosophy; Mary W. and J. Stanley Johnson Chair in the Humanities; Chair, Department of Philosophy
Phone: 71819
Academic History
- B.A. Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Academic Focus
- Ethics, procreative ethics, bioethics.
- Ethical and metaphysical questions regarding birth, death, and meaning.
Courses Taught
- Ethical Theory
- Ethical Theory Seminar: The Moral Deal
- Ethics of the Beginning and End of Life
- Political Philosophy
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Death
- The Meaning (?) of Life
- Senior Seminar
Selected Research and Publications
Books
- The Meaning of It All, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- Oxford University Press, 2015.
- The Philosopher, February 2023.
- (Replies to Response papers to Weinberg, "Ultimate Meaning: We Don't Have it, We Can't Get it, and We Should Be Very, Very, Sad," Journal of Controversial Ideas, 2021 1: 4-24), Journal of Controversial Ideas, 2022 2.
- "Between Sisyphus's Rock and a Warm and Fuzzy Place: Procreative Ethics and the Meaning of Life," The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life, ed. Iddo Landau, 2022.
- " Journal of Controversial Ideas, 2021: 1 4-25.
- ed. Stephen Gardiner, 2021.
- "," Journal of Practical Ethics, 2018 6: 55-72.
- "'" in New Directions in the Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia, Springer, 2015.
- "" co-authored with Paul Hurley, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2015 12: 699-730.
- "," Bioethics, 27(9), November 2013: 471-484.
- "" The South African Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue on Antinatalism, 31, May 2012: 26-37.
- "," Utilitas, 21(2), June 2009: 144-162.
- "," Bioethics 22(3), March 2008: 166-178.
- "," Philosophical Studies 137(1), January 2008: 3-18.
- "," Public Affairs Quarterly, 16:4 (2002), 405-425.