Curriculum Vitae

TOBEY KAREN SCHARDING

http://www.tobeyscharding.com
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815

tschardi@bloomu.edu
(570) 389-4563

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Business Ethics, Ethics, Political Philosophy.
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (TT), Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 2014-.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy (TT), High Point University, 2012-14.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Philosophy, Stanford University, 2006-12.
Dissertation: Individual Differences and Political Equality: Two Reconciliations.
Committee: Joshua Cohen (Chair), Debra Satz, Allen Wood.
M.A. Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 2004-06.
B.A. Art and Philosophy, Yale University, 1995-99.
BOOK
This is Business Ethics (under contract with Wiley-Blackwell, complete draft submitted).
ARTICLES
Individually Allocating Principles and Market Risks, Public Affairs Quarterly, Volume
30, Number 3, July 2016, pp. 259-279.
Crafting Maxims, Teaching Ethics, Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2016, pp. 37-53.
Imprudence and Immorality: A Kantian Approach to the Ethics of Financial Risk.
Business Ethics Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 2, April 2015, pp. 243-265.
Income Inequalities in a Context of Political Equality: Guaranteed Basic Income, No
Guaranteed Income, or Guaranteed Work Opportunities, Social Theory and
Practice, Volume 40, Number 1, January 2014, pp. 99-122.
UNDER REVIEW
Monocultures and Universal Laws: A Kantian Approach to the Ethics of Agricultural
Risk.
Structured Finance and the Social Contract: How Tranching Challenges Contractualist
Approaches to Risk.
Risk and the Foundations of Society: A Rights-Based Approach.

Securing Citizens Basic Rights Above All: Fichtes Account of Permissible Risk in the
Closed Commercial State.
IN PREPARATION
Rational Consistency and Proportional Risk: A New Solution to the (New) Trolley
Problem.
Contractualism, Demandingness, and Risk: An Individualized, Probabilistic, Ex Ante
Approach.
A Systematics of Social Risk.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Contractualism, Demandingness, and Risk: An Individualized, Probabilistic, Ex Ante
Approach, 2016-17 Normative Business Ethics Workshop Series of the Carol and
Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania, December 2016.
Remote Consequences for Non-consequentialists: A Kantian Approach to the Ethics of
Uncertainty, Fall 2016 Symposium on Ethics and What Is Not Seen: The Effects of
Remote Consequences on Ethical Analysis, Institute for the Study of Markets and
Ethics, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, November 2016.
Leverage, Illiquidity, and Catastrophic Loss: A Case Against the Contractualist
Approach to Risk 2015 Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics, August 2015.
Imprudence and Immorality: A Kantian Approach to the Ethics of Financial Risk, 2014
Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics, August 2014.
Income Inequalities in a Context of Political Equality: The Appeal of a Regime of
Government Guaranteed Employment, 2013 Meeting of the North Carolina
Philosophical Society, February 2013.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Business Ethics, Bloomsburg University, Fall 2014-Fall 2016.
Medical Ethics, Bloomsburg University, Fall 2014-Fall 2016.
Ethics, Bloomsburg University, Spring 2016.
Business Ethics, High Point University, Fall 2012-Spring 2014.
Living with Luck, High Point University, Fall 2013-Spring 2014.
Communication Ethics, High Point University, Spring 2014.
Social Ethics, High Point University, Fall 2012-Spring 2013.
Individual Morality and Social Justice, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2012.
Technology and the Good Life, Stanford University, Summer 2012.
History of Political Philosophy (Graduate Student Instructor to Niko Kolodny), University
of California, Berkeley, Spring 2012.
Introduction to Business Ethics, Stanford University, Fall 2011.
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Introduction to Bioethics, Stanford University, Summer 2010.

Justice (Teaching Assistant to Joshua Cohen), Stanford University, Fall 2008, Fall 2009.
Philosophy of Race and Racism (Teaching Assistant to Debra Satz), Winter 2009.
Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Teaching Assistant to Tamar Schapiro), Spring 2009.
Expository Writing: Animals in Nature, Politics, and Imagination, Upward Bound
Program at the University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2007.
Bioethics and Molecular Biology (co-instructor), Johns Hopkins University, Summer
2006.
English as a Foreign Language, Fem Dershaneleri, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000.
English as a Foreign Language, Seoul English Academy, Seoul, Korea, 1999.
SERVICE
Chair (Designate), Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Human Subjects Research,
Bloomsburg University, Fall 2016-.
Chair, Search Committee, Department of Philosophy, Bloomsburg University, Spring
2016.
Faculty Participant in Student Panel on Robotic Technology and Artificial Intelligence in
the Work Place: Today and Into the Future, Bloomsburg University, September 21,
2016.
Faculty Advisor for Student Panel on Business Ethics in a Global Environment:
Challenges and Opportunities, Bloomsburg University, March 28, 2016.
Member of Board of Editorial Reviews for Teaching Ethics, 2016-.
Reviewer for Social Theory and Practice, Business Ethics Quarterly, Annual Meetings of
the Society for Business Ethics.
PROFESSIONAL APPLIED ETHICS EXPERIENCE
Researcher at the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins Hospital
(JHH), Baltimore, Maryland, 2004-05. Analyze reports concerning similarly situated
hospitals approaches to ethical and efficiency problems facing JHH.
Civil Rights Paralegal to David W. Sanford, Esq., at Gordon, Silberman, Wiggins &
Childs, PC, and Sanford, Wittels & Heisler, LLP, Washington, D.C., 2002-04. Draft
briefs, motions, and correspondence for class action, anti-discrimination lawsuits.

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