Radzik from Texas A&M to Binghamton


Linda Radzik, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Binghamton University (SUNY).

Radzik works mainly in ethics and philosophy of law, writing about “moral issues that arise in the aftermath of wrongdoing, including the ethics of forgiveness, reconciliation, criminal punishment, tort law, collective moral responsibility, and the roles third parties play in enforcing and promulgating moral norms.” Her books include Making Amends: Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics (Oxford, 2009) and The Ethics of Social Punishment: The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life (Cambridge, 2020). You can learn more about her writing here.

She takes up her new position at Binghamton this fall.

The chair of Binghamton’s Department of Philosophy, Tony Reeves, adds:

It may also be of interest to those in the profession that Binghamton Philosophy has made eight appointments that will support its doctoral program in the past four years. In order of appointment: Mateo Duque (ancient, aesthetics, Latin American), Rebecca Harrison (soc & pol, feminist, phil language), Casey Doyle (epistemology, mind, technology), Jordan Pascoe (feminist, Kant, soc & pol), Emilie Pagano (metaphysics, social, feminist), Austen McDougal (ethics, phil religion), Nicolas Garcia Mills (continental, 19th century, Latin American), and, of course, Linda Radzik. 

It was not mentioned whether Radzik’s move is related to the recent authoritarian measures adopted at Texas A&M.

UPDATE: In a comment below, Professor Radzik writes, “Yes, I’m moving because of the censorship policies at Texas A&M. My colleagues and students there have been wonderful. They are doing their best in very difficult times. The Board of Regents has broken trust with them. I’m also very excited about the programs and people at Binghamton.”

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Joel Pust
Joel Pust
4 months ago

Congratulations to Linda.

Bilingual
Bilingual
4 months ago

Congratulations on the new position! Linda, if you’re active on this website and happen upon this comment, could I ask whether your decision to move was influenced at all by the emergent threats to academic freedom facing public universities in Texas?

Last edited 4 months ago by Bilingual
Linda Radzik
Linda Radzik
4 months ago

Yes, I’m moving because of the censorship policies at Texas A&M. My colleagues and students there have been wonderful. They are doing their best in very difficult times. The Board of Regents has broken trust with them.

I’m also very excited about the programs and people at Binghamton.

Kenny Easwaran
Reply to  Linda Radzik
4 months ago

Congratulations! I’m glad you’ve found a good place to move to. Thank you for everything you did to make things work during my time at Texas A&M.

Radzik Fan
Radzik Fan
4 months ago

Linda Radzik is a saint.

Martin Peterson
Reply to  Radzik Fan
4 months ago
Christopher Menzel
Christopher Menzel
4 months ago

I am deeply grieved to lose my longtime colleague and friend. The only effect of Texas A&M’s reactionary quest to suppress free inquiry and control classroom dialog has been to drive away top talent.

Jill Hernandez
Jill Hernandez
Reply to  Christopher Menzel
3 months ago

That’s part of the strategy, surely!

Eli Tist
Eli Tist
4 months ago

Congratulations to Linda Radzik! Philosophy of law is far from my forte but by happy chance I encountered Making Amends in a bookstore one day. Reading it enriched my life well beyond anything that I could have anticipated.