Kay Mathiesen

Curriculum Vitae

Kristy Kay Mathiesen, Ph.D.

School of Information Resources and Library Science
University of Arizona
http://www.sir.arizona.edu/faculty/mathiesen/mathiesen.html

Note: Work reflecting my research agenda on group information rights is marked by an asterisk, including works that provide the underlying philosophical background.

Education

B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 1988.
M.A. in Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, June 1992.
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, June 1998.

Major Fields: Group Information Rights, Information Ethics, Social and Political Theory, Social Epistemology

Employment

Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, 1998-1999.
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Fall 1999-Spring 2004.
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Montclair State University, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
Senior Lecturer, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, January 2006-present.

Service and Outreach

Community

Pima County Library Internet Policy Committee, October 2006-February 2007.

Profession

Editorial Board and referee for the Journal of International Women's Studies, Fall 1999-present.
Co-organizer, Information Ethics Roundtable 2003, 2004 (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts), 2005 (Montclair State University), 2006 (Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association), 2008 (Hunter College, New York).
Referee for Journal of Library and Information Science Education 2007-present.
*Chair of organizing committee, Information Ethics Roundtable 2007 on "Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Property," March 2007.

Departmental

Chair, Policy Committee, Spring 2006-present.
Admissions Committee, Fall 2006-present.
Peer-Evaluation Committee, Fall 2006-present.
Chair, Undergraduate Minor Committee, Fall 2007-present.

Publications

Refereed Book Chapters and Journal Articles
- "Virtue Ethics and Rescuers of Jews in the Holocaust" [with Kristen Monroe and Jack Kraypo] The Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Vol. 6, 1998.
- "Game Theory in Business Ethics: Bad Ideology or Bad Press?" Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1999.
- "The Ethical Presuppositions Behind the Library Bill of Rights." [with Martin Fricke and Don Fallis] Library Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4, 2000.
- "Searle, Collective Intentions, and Individualism." Social Facts and Collective Intentionality, George Meggle editor, Dr. Hansel-Hohenhausen AG: New York, 2002.
- *"Collective Identity." ProtoSociology, Vol. 18-19, 2003.
- "What is Information Ethics?" Computers and Society, Vol. 32, No. 8, 2004.
- "Collective Consciousness." Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Amie Thomasson and David Woodruff Smith, editors. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2005.
- *"We're all in this Together: Responsibility of Collective Agents and their Members." Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 30, 2006.
- *"Epistemic Features of Group Belief." Episteme, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2006.
- *"Epistemic Risk and Community Policing." Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 44, Supp. 2006.
- *"Censorship and Access to Information." Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Kenneth E. Himma and Herman T. Tavani Editors. John Wiley and Sons: New York [Forthcoming].
- *"Information Ethics and the Library Profession." [with Don Fallis] Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Kenneth E. Himma and Herman T. Tavani Editors. John Wiley and Sons: New York [Forthcoming].
Works Edited
- Special Issue of Journal of Information Ethics on "Intellectual Property," Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007.
- *Special Issue of Social Epistemology on "Collective Knowledge and Collective Knowers," Vol. 21, No. 3, 2007.
Opinion Pieces, Introductions, Book Reviews, and Refereed Conference Proceedings
- Review of The Cambridge Quintet by John Casti, [with Don Fallis] Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol..21, No. 3, 1999.
- "Consistency Rules for Classification Schemes" [with Don Fallis] in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, Ergon Verlag: Germany, 2000.
- Review of Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net edited by Steve Jones, [with Don Fallis] Journal of Documentation, Vol. 56, No. 5, 2000.
- Review of Sex and Social Justice by Martha Nussbaum, Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2000.
- Response to "A Utilitarian Case for Intellectual Freedom in Libraries" by Tony Doyle, [with Don Fallis] Library Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2001.
- Introduction to Special Issue on "Intellectual Property," Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007.
- *Introduction to Special Issue on "Collective Knowledge and Collective Knowers," Social Epistemology, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2007.

Works in Progress

"The Value of Information" (Article)
*"Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Intellectual Property and Privacy" (Article)
*"Access to Information as a Human Right " (Article)
*"Age and Article V of the Library Bill of Rights: Parent's Rights or Children's Rights?" (Article)
*"The Poverty of Epistemic Individualism" (Article)
*"Race as an Institutional Fact" (Article)
*Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Property (Book Project, Editor)
Group Belief, Action, and Identity: A Philosophical Analysis of Collectives (Book Project)

Scholarly Presentations

Invited Talks

"The Constitution of Collective Identity" presented at the Texas Tech University Philosophy Department Colloquium, November 1998.
"A Philosophical Analysis of Collectives" presented at the Union College Philosophy Colloquium series, November 2000.
"Collective Identities and Collective Entities," presented at the Action Theory and Social Ontology Conference, University of Miami, January 2002.
*"What Do We Know? Collective Knowledge and Collective Knowers" and presented at St. Louis Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, University of Missouri, St. Louis, March 21, 2003, presented at Middlebury College Philosophy Colloquium, April 12, 2003, presented at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia, November 2, 2003, and presented at Montclair University Philosophy Colloquium, Montclair University, November 15, 2004.
*"Collective Identity and Collective Rights" presented at Messiah College Philosophy Forum, Grantham Pennsylvania, February 7, 2004.
*"Can Liberal Theorists Defend a Collective Right to Privacy?" presented at the 2^nd Annual Information Ethics Roundtable, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, May 2, 2004.
"What do We mean by 'We'?" presented at San Jose State University Philosophy Colloquium, February 8, 2005 and presented at Phenomenology Workshop, University of California, Irvine, March 16, 2005.
"Who's to Blame? Individual and Collective Responsibility," presented at the Brantl Lecture Series, Montclair State University, March 10, 2005.
"Collective Consciousness," presented at the Consciousness Center Colloquium, University of Arizona, 2006.
*"How Groups Think: Varieties of Collective Cognition," presented at Cognitive Science Brown Bag Series, Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, 2006.
"Information Ethics," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2006.
"Information Ethics and the Information Professions," presented at the School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, April 15, 2006.
*"Group Rights to Culture vs. Individual Rights to Information," presented at the School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, August 29, 2007.
*"The Poverty of Epistemic Individualism," to be presented at the Workshop on Collective Epistemology, University of Basel, Switzerland, October 3-5, 2008.

Refereed Conference Presentations

"Fraternity: The Missing Value" presented at the 14th Annual Social Philosophy Conference, Kingston, Ontario, August 1997.
"Tracking the User: Private Thoughts on the Internet" presented at the Computing and Philosophy Conference at the World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998.
"Searle on Collective Intentions" presented at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, December 1999.
"Interdependent Utilities and Collective Intentions" presented at the Expert Seminar on Rationality and Intentions, Amsterdam, November 1999.
"Are Collective Identities Contrary to Human Dignity?" presented at the 16th Annual Social Philosophy Conference, Villanova University, July 1999.
"A Philosophical Analysis of Collectives" presented at the Collective Intentionality Workshop II, Leipzig, Germany, October 2000.
"Consistency Rules for Classification Schemes" [with Don Fallis] presented [by Don Fallis] at the Sixth International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, Toronto, Canada, July 2000.
"What is Information Ethics?"presented at the Computing and Philosophy Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, October 30, 2003.
"Collective Epistemic Goals" [with Don Fallis] presented at the Collective Intentionality Conference IV, Siena, Italy, October 14, 2004.
"Rebuking Dissenters: Gilbert on Collective Belief" presented at the New Jersey Regional Philosophy Conference, April 30, 2005.
"Information Ethics and the Value of Information" presented at the European Computing and Philosophy Conference, Trondheim, Norway, June 2006.
"Collective Responsibility" presented at the Collective Intentionality Conference V, Helsinki, Finland, August 2006.
*"Access to Information as a Human Right" presented at Knowledge Rights and Information Sharing in the 21st Century, University of Central Florida, January 30, 2008.
*"Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Culture and Individuals' Rights to Access" presented at the I-Conference 2008, University of California, Los Angeles, February 27, 2008.
*"Access to Information as a Human Right," presented at the International Conference on Libraries from a Human Rights Perspective, Ramallah, Palestine, March 31, 2008.
*"Race as an Institutional Fact," to be presented at Collective Intentionality Conference VI, University of California, Berkeley, July 8-11, 2008.

Other Professional Presentations

Guest lecturer on "Ethics and Medical Informatics" for Seminar on Medical Informatics, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, April 1999.
Co-Presenter, "Service Learning at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts," Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Spring 2001.
Panelist, "Service Learning Conference", Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Fall 2002.
Commentator at large, Information Ethics Roundtable, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Spring 2003.
Panelist, "What is Information Ethics?", Computing and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, August 10, 2004.
Commentator on "Globalization and the Ethics of Care" by Lisa Cassidy, New Jersey Regional Philosophy Conference, November 15, 2004.
Commentator on "Hobbesian Naturalism" by Shelly Weinberg, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, March 23, 2005.
"Aristotle in the Workplace: Virtuous Workers and Virtuous Organizations" presented to the Montclair State University chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals, April 17, 2005.
Commentator on "The Social Diffusion of Warrant and Rationality" by Sanford Goldberg, Spindel Conference on Social Epistemology, University of Memphis, September 10, 2005.
Commentator on "On the Ownership of Digital Data " by Luciano Floridi, 7^th Annual Information Ethics Roundtable, Hunter College, New York, May 9, 2008.

Seminars and Workshops Attended

"The Philosophical Foundations of Social Epistemology," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, July 1-August 7, 2000.
"Service Learning in Philosophy," Minnesota Campus Compact, Minneapolis, Spring 2001.
"Pre-Law Advisors Conference," Northern Association of Pre-Law Advisors, College of William and Mary, Summer 2001.
"Information Technology Across the Curriculum: Approaches and Perspectives," Commonwealth Technology Initiative, Framingham, Massachusetts, Fall 2001.
*"Philosophical Perspectives on Law, Democracy, and Human Rights," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, July 5-August 1, 2007.

Teaching Experience

Graduate Courses: Ethics for Library and Information Professionals, Intellectual Property, Distributed Cognition, Intellectual Freedom, Group Information Rights, Knowledge Structures I.
Undergraduate Courses: Information and Society, Ways of Knowing, Introduction to Ethics, Feminist Theory, Introduction to Women's Studies, Self and Society, Logic and Critical Thinking, Introduction to Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Liberalism and its Critics, The Nature of Human Nature, Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, Philosophy of the Social World, Modern Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual, Introduction to Human Nature.

Fellowships and Grants

Travel Grant, University of Arizona. Awarded October 1998. ($500)
Course Development Grant, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Awarded January 2000. ($500)
Stipend for Summer Seminar on "The Philosophical Foundations of Social Epistemology," National Endowment for the Humanities. Awarded June 2000. ($3,000)
Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative Course Development Grant, Awarded Spring 2002. ($1,000)
American Philosophical Assocation Mini-Conference Grant, Awarded Spring 2005. ($2,000) [25% effort]
Foreign Travel Grant, University of Arizona. Awarded Spring 2006. ($700)
Udall Center, Conference Grant, Awarded Fall 2006. ($8,000)
Arizona Library Association, Conference Grant, Awarded Fall 2006. ($1,000)
Stipend for Summer Seminar on "Philosophical Perspectives on Law Democracy and Human Rights," National Endowment for the Humanities. Awarded June 2007. ($3,000)

This is a true and accurate statement of my activities and accomplishments. I understand that misrepresentation in securing promotion and tenure may lead to dismissal or suspension under ABOR Policy 6-201 J.1.b.