Associate Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Office: 1220 Social Sciences
Phone: (403) 220-3163
Fax: (403) 289-5698
Email: brake@ucalgary.ca

Education

Ph.D., Moral Philosophy, University of St. Andrews
M.Litt., Philosophy, University of St. Andrews
B.A., Classics and English, First Class, Magdalen
       College, University of Oxford

Areas of Specialisation

Ethics
Political Philosophy
Feminist Philosophy
Philosophy and Literature

Awards

SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2005-2008

Fellowship, Murphy Institute Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University, 2007-2008

Selected Publications

"Marriage, Morality, and Institutional Value," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10:3 (2007), 243-254.

"Fatherhood and Child Support: Do Men Have a Right to Choose?," Journal of Applied Philosophy 22 (2005) 55-73.

"Justice and Virtue in Kant's Account of Marriage," Kantian Review 9 (2005) 58-94.

"Rawls and Feminism: What Should Feminists Make of Liberal Neutrality?," Journal of Moral Philosophy 1 (2004) 295-312.

"'To live outside the law, you must be honest': freedom in Dylan's lyrics," in Dylan and Philosophy, ed. Peter Vernezze and Carl Porter (Chicago: Open Court, 2006): 78-89. 

"Responsibility, Paternity, and the Costs of Rearing Children: Do Abortion Rights Undermine Child Support Obligations?," Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (Beihefte), Part 1: Justice (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004): 211-218.

"A Liberal Response to Catharine MacKinnon," Southwest Philosophical Studies 22 (2001).

"Love's Paradox: Hegel's Account of Marriage," Women's Philosophy Review, Special Issue on Hegel (journal of U.K. Society of Women in Philosophy, 2000).

"Marriage, Influence and Deception in Merchant Ivory's Adaptations of The Europeans and The Bostonians," in: Henry James on the Stage and Screen, ed. John Bradley (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).

"Personhood and the Family: Hegel's Account." Contemporary Political Studies (Proceedings of the Political Studies Association, 1997).

Recent Teaching

Kant's Ethics (Phil 505.08/609.41)
Contemporary Moral Problems (Phil 347
Social and Political Philosophy (Phil 453)
Introduction to Humanities (Humn 200)
Liberalism and Its Critics (Phil 553/653)
Ethics (Phil 249)
Philosophy in Literature (Phil 315
Bioethics (Phil 313)
Social and Political Philosophy (Phil 453)
Kant's and Hegel's Ethical Theories (505.07/609.35)
Feminist Issues in Moral Philosophy (Phil 547.08/649.24)

Supervisees

Current Students

• Tina Strasbourg

MA (Completed)

• Ryan Chynces Moral Skepticism and Environmental Metaethics, 2006
• Sean Hughes Madison or Madison Avenue? Liberalism and the Media, 2004
• Rodrigo Morales Racism and Rawls' Theory of Justice, 2006

• Victoria Seaville Catholicism and Homosexuality, 2002