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NATALIE H. VANIAPHILOSOPHER AT VENTURE
550 Ortega Avenue, B-421 Mountain View, California 94040 Summary
Specialization in moral, political, social, and legal philosophy and competence in philosophy of science. Foci on moral and rational theory, deontology, Kant, Zoroaster, and philosophy of finance and entrepreneurship. Teaching record in ten universities and colleges. Speaking record of fifteen talks. Currently in self-styled investigation of venture industry and business world with philosophical objective of testing Nietzschian and Kantian theories of personal identity and practical objective of establishing a livelihood.
Academic Employment
- Lecturer The University of Illinois at Springfield, 1996
Liberal Studies Colloquium,
Opting For Morality; Human Nature As It Impacts Social Debate
- Lecturer The Department of Philosophy, Stanford University,1992-1994
The Program in Culture, Ideas, and Values,
Deontological Rationality, Research Seminar
- NEH Summer Seminar Participant Northwestern University, 1992
Religion and Politics in Hobbes and Spinoza, Professor Ed Curley
- Assistant Professor Saint Cloud State University, Minnesota, 1991-1992
Wrote Grant Proposal to The Council for Philosophical Studies and directed grant for professor's visit to campus for four days, coordinated all aspects of funding for project among four institutions. Taught 9 courses; Introduction to Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Ethics, Business Ethics, Philosophy in Literature
- Lecturer The University of Maryland at College Park, The Department of Philosophy, 1986-1991
Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Introduction to Philosophy, Virtue Ethics, Philosophy of Art
- Lecturer to The White House Communications Agency, 1987
Ethics
- Research Assistant The Institute For Philosophy and Public Policy, 1987-1988
- Lecturer Roosevelt University, 1985-1986
Ethics, Logic, Introduction to Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy
- Teaching Assistant, Lecturer The University of Illinois at Chicago, 1982-1985
Introduction to Morality, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy Business Ethics, Philosophy of Death, Logic, Critical Reasoning, Philosophy of Love and Sex
- Research Assistant The Department of Physics, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 1981
Laser investigation of electrical and optical properties of esoteric semiconductors.
- Research Assistant The Enrico Fermi Research Institutes, 1978
Built components for a 1 Million electron volt scanning electron microscope.Dissertation
Ignoring The Good and Deontological Rationality
A project which offers a clearer and stronger account of moral deontology and a deontological view of rationality. This is accomplished by overturning an unquestioned assumption, that the good always provides some reason to wish for or to promote its obtaining. This assumption, the pro tanto assumption, is relied upon explicitly by the moral consequentialist and rational optimizer. It is implicitly relied upon by the moral deontologist and rational satisficer. I argue instead for the non pro tanto thesis, that something’s being good may provide no reason to wish for or to promote its obtaining. In conjunction with the non pro tanto assumption, I offer support for agent centered restrictions in morality and rationality. Prudence itself, not only morality, can be deontological and provide the agent with categorical imperatives. It’s suggested how the constructive view which is offered can be integrated into Kant’s practical Reason and his teleology.
Academic Awards
1990 The Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow
1989 The Graduate School of The University of Maryland, Travel Award
Dissertation Committee
Advisor, Michael Slote, Chair, Philosophy
Keith Campbell, Former Chair, Philosophy
Jerrold Levinson, Professor, Philosophy
William Galston, Director, The Institute For Philosophy and Public Policy, and, Former Senior Policy Advisor to The White House
Ernie Schlaretzki, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy
Publications
Accelerating Leadership and The North American Zoroastrian Youth
Guest Editor, Fall 2001, The FEZANA Journal.Defining A Value Proposition For The Next Century's Zoroastrianism
Guest Editor, Fall 2001, The FEZANA Journal.Ambassadorship and Leadership - Object Lessons for the New Zoroastrian Youth
Spring 2001, The FEZANA Journal.Contemporary Moral Philososphy and The Gathas: A Gathic Moral Vision (Version 1),
Winter 2001, Vohuman.org.
Memorial volume in honoring a distinguished Iranian Zarthoushti.Alexander Burns Persepolis: Impact Historical, Religious, and Upon Identity for Zarathushtis, The FEZANA Journal, Winter, 2001.
What is Data Mining Virtue?
Publication solicitation, July, 1997, Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc.A Zoroastrian Ethos for Professional Ethics
Spring, 1997, The FEZANA JournalEthical Egoism: A Moral Theory
1980, The University of Chicago, Bachelor's PaperBusiness Innovation and Human Creative Endeavor in the Era of New Commerce
February, 2, 2000, The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Sunnyvale
Panel Organizer and ModeratorElectronic Commerce and Art Start-ups: The New Business of Creativity
November 4, 1999, The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Sunnyvale
Panel Organizer and ModeratorInternet and E-Commerce Business Models
August 12, 1999, The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, Redwood CityData Mining: An Intellectual Fascination
July, 1997, Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc. With a Powerpoint slide presentation.Finance As A Human Science
May 2, 1997, The Center for the Study of Ethics in The ProfessionsBarings: Trader Character and Agency in Brave New Finance
May 20, 1996, to the Over The Counter Debt Formation Course, The Stuart School of BusinessPolitics as a System of Categorical Imperatives: Foot, Hobbes’ Fool and Deontological Rationality
August 6, 1992, to NEH Summer Seminar, Northwestern University
December 7, 1992, to The Ethics and Political Theory Workshop, Stanford UniversityThe Categorical Imperative of Prudence
March 31, 1991 to The Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University
November 19, 1991 to The Minnesota Philosophical SocietyEat, Drink, and Be Merry: Deontology Precluded?
October 10, 1991 to The Department of Philosophy, St. Cloud State UniversityIgnoring The Personal Good
November 10, 1990 to The Department of Philosophy, The University of MarylandIgnoring The Good
September 11, 1988 to The Conference on Contemporary Moral Theory The University of St. Andrews, ScotlandPapers or Speeches Presented on Zoroaster, (a major world thinker)
as above, Contemporary Moral Philososphy and The Gathas: A Gathic Moral Vision (Version 1), Vohuman.org, Winter, 2001.
Being Zoroastrian
July 3, 1998, The Eleventh North American Zoroastrian Congress, New York estimate of audience size: 700 peopleThe Yashts: A Light Ecology Ethics
November 1996, The Third World Gathic Conference, Rochester, New YorkThe Opening Speech: The Zoroastrian Name in the New North American Epoch 2050
July 3,1995, The Seventh North American Youth Congress, Stanford University estimate of audience size: 320 peopleKant: The Enlightenment Zoroastrian
December 7, 1994, Guest Lecturer to Professor Eckart Forster, Stanford University
October 29, 1994, The Second World Gathic Conference, Costa MesaZoroastrian Thought and Liberal Education: A Mutual Relationship
July 3, 1994, The Ninth North American Zoroastrian Congress, Valley Forge estimate of audience size: 500+Excursion in The Past: A Project in Reviving Memory
March 23, 1993 to The Zoroastrian Anjuman of Northern CaliforniaMemberships
The Forum For Women Entrepreneurs, Palo Alto
The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Program Committee, 1999-2000
The American Philosophical Association
The North American Kant Society
The Stanford Alumni Association, Life Member
The University of Chicago Alumni Association
The University of Tech-Venture Club
The International Institute of Angel Investors
Service
1991-1992, General Education Committee, St. Cloud State University
1991-1992, Grant Director, St. Cloud State University
Languages
French, reading knowledge
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