The Philosophy Department is honored to welcome Professor Anne M. Coughlin, University of Virginia School of Law.

OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE, DEBATING THE DOBBS CASE

February 10, 2023. 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Curtin Hall 175

Professor Coughlin has taught at the University of Virginia School of Law since 1995. Her research interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, feminist jurisprudence, and law and humanities.

She has served as co-chair of the National Association of Women Lawyers Supreme Court Evaluation Committee, lead the Molly Pitcher Project, which challenged the ban on women in military combat, and served as managing editor for the New York University Law Review.

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Fabrizio received his PhD at Harvard in 1972, working with Hilary Putnam and David Kaplan. Between 1972 and 1984, he held various academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania, UNAM (Mexico), the University of Auckland (New Zealand), the University of Paris, and the University of Münster. He came to UW-Milwaukee in 1984 and became Professor in 1991.

Fabrizio’s research trajectory began in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of language.  His Italian translation of Quine’s Word and Object was published as Parola e oggetto (1970) while he was still a graduate student.  His PhD thesis (1972) dealt with modal semantics and determinate names.  “Available Properties” (1986) and his ground-breaking Philosophical Review paper (co-authored with Adam Morton, also regrettably recently deceased), “Modal Realism: The Poisoned Pawn” (1976), are very much papers in contemporary philosophy.  His work then gradually turned to historical excavation of the roots of modal metaphysics, first in the work of Leibniz – with several important papers in Studia Leibnitiana on essentialism, superessentialism, and compossibility from the mid-1970s onward – and later in the work of Duns Scotus, which increasingly occupied Fabrizio’s scholarly attention from 2000 on and which led to another set of important papers in medieval philosophy, most notably “The Independence of the Possible According to Scotus”, which appeared in the 2005 proceedings of the septcentennial Scotus conference, Duns Scot à Paris 1302-2002.  After his retirement in 2014, he continued to publish papers and to work on a book manuscript on Duns Scotus.

Fabrizio’s work consisted in exceptionally close readings of texts and arguments.  He read  several languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian) and was a skillful reader of the Latin used by Scotus and his commentators.  He was the recipient of several awards for his work, including a Humboldt Research Fellowship, and his work was honored at a conference, Themes from Mondadori, held at McGill University in 2008.

His scholarly reputation helped the department to grow what was to become a premier MA program at UW-Milwaukee, to which Fabrizio contributed by teaching, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, courses in metaphysics and history of philosophy (especially Medieval Philosophy).

Fabrizio had many and diverse interests outside of philosophy.  He possessed detailed knowledge of the areas that interested him and held strong opinions about what was good and bad in them.  In games and sports, he loved chess, football (the Premier League variety), basketball, and snooker.  In art, he loved Mannerism (especially the work of Bronzino); in cinema, he was a huge fan of Peckinpah’s movies, but also of more popular movies like John Carpenter’s or movies featuring Peter Sellars.  His musical tastes ranged from Bach and Corelli to Sigur Ros and Dylan. His knowledge and love of literature was immense and ranged from Jorge Luis Borges (whom he read in the original), Brian O’Nolan, and James Kelman; to modern poetry from T.S. Eliot, through the Beats, and John Ashbery; and to horror writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and Algernon Blackwood.  He delighted in the etymology of English slang.  He loved to travel and simply walk around his favorite cities – Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Buenos Aires – and, upon his return, to regale his friends with tales of his adventures.

Fabrizio was one of a kind, a great conversationalist with a unique sense of humour.  He will be sorely missed by his friends at UW-Milwaukee and across the world.

Fabrizio is survived by his wife, Céliane, daughter, Emma, son-in-law, Parker, and grandson, Elio.  For those wishing to honor him, his family has requested that donations in his name be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or at 

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During his time at 51���� Dr. Golightly was a scholar, activist, and public philosopher. He published in top tier philosophy journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Philosophy of Science, The Monist, and the like. His academic work addressed philosophical topics of interest at the time (e.g., Mind-body Causation, The James Lange theory of emotion). Writings in more public venues engaged matters of concern to the Black educational community.  While in Milwaukee he was very active in public education. He was the first African American elected to the Milwaukee School Board. Dr. Golightly fought to introduce busing to promote the integration of Black students into schools throughout the city, and in the early 1960s he advocated for a federally sponsored free breakfast program for poor students. Unfortunately, both efforts were thwarted.

There is a biography of Cornelius Golightly in the most recent APA Newsletter for Philosophy and the Black Experience. It is a republished version of this article at Black Past: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dr-cornelius-golightly-1917-1976-life-academic-and-public-intellectual/

Here is a partial bibliography of Dr. Golightly’s work (compiled by Margaret Atherton):

1941 Thought and Language in Whitehead’s Categories, Doctoral Dissertaion, University of Michigan

1942 “Negro Higher Education and Democratic Negro Morale” The Journal of Negro Education

1942 “England in East Africa”

1945 “The Psychopathology of Crime” The Journal of Negro Education

1945 “Negro Employment in the Federal Government” JADavis, CL Golightly, Phylon.

1947 “Race, Values and Guilt”, Social Forces

1947 “Social Science and Normative Ethics” The Journal of Philosophy

1951 “Inquiry and Whitehead’s Schematic Method” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

1952 “Mind-body, causation and correlation” Philosophy of Science

1952 “Legerdemain in Ethics” The Philosophical Review

1953 “The James-Lange theory: a logical post-mortem” Philosophy of Science

1955 “On Scientific Inference” The Midwest Sociologist

1956 “Value as a Scientific Concept” The Journal of Philosophy

1963 “De Facto Segregation in Milwaukee Schools” Integrated Education

1968 “The Negro and Respect for the Law” Chicago Daily Law Bulletin April 25, 1968

1971 “A Philosopher’s view of values and ethics” The Personnel and Guidence Journal

1972 “Ethics and Moral Activism” The Monist

1974 “Justice and ‘Discrimination For’ in Higher Education” Philosophic Exchange

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