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The Australian National University

Canberra, ACT 0200

Australia

 

Department of Philosophy

University of Missouri

St. Louis, MO 63121

USA

 

Email: brogaardb@gmail.com

Alt. email: brogaardb@umsl.edu

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Weblog: Lemmings. URL: http://lemmingsblog.blogspot.com/

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION                                                                                             

·         Mind, Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE                                                                                              

·         Philosophical Logic, Ethics, Philosophy of Biology

 

EDUCATION                                                                                     

·         SUNY Buffalo, doctoral program in philosophy.  Ph.D.  (June 2000). Dissertation: Temporal Mereology­. Dissertation committee and readers: Barry Smith (Buffalo), Achille Varzi (Columbia), Roberto Casati (Institut Jean Nicod), Ken Barber (Buffalo), Peter Hare (Buffalo)

·         University of Copenhagen, B.A./B.S. (August, 1996). Majors: Philosophy, Linguistics, and Biology

 

ACADEMIC POSTS

·          Visiting Fellow, RSSS Philosophy Program/Centre for Consciousness, The Australian National University, Southern Winter 2009.

·         Visiting Fellow, RSSS Philosophy Program/Centre for Consciousness, The Australian National University, 2008-2009.

·         Research Fellow, RSSS Philosophy Program/Centre for Consciousness, The Australian National University, 2007-2009.

·         Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri—St. Louis, 2007-present.

·         Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri—St. Louis, 2005-2007.  Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, Fall 2007.

·         Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Women and Gender Studies, University of Missouri—St. Louis, 2006-present.

·         Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville, 2001-2005.

·         Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2000-2001.

·         Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Departments of Philosophy, University of Hamburg/SUNY Buffalo, 2000, spring semester.

 

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

·         PhilPapers: Philosophy of Language, Editor, 2009-present.

·         Erkenntnis, Editor, 2009-present.

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS

·         The Open Applied Linguistics Journal, 2007-present.

 

ARTICLES (downloads) 

·          “Colour”, D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annotated (2009).

  

·         “Disjunctivism", D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annotated (2009).

 

·         “Descriptions”, D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annoted (2009)


·        “Descriptions”, The Encyclopedia of the Mind, 2008. Hal Pashler, ed. Editorial Board: Tim Crane, Fernanda Ferreira, Marcel Kinsbourne, Rich Zemel.

 

·         “Centered Worlds and the Content of Perception”, Blackwell Companion, Hales, ed., 2009.

  

·         “Are Philosophers' Colors All White?”, The Center Must Not Hold: White Women on The Whiteness of Philosophy, George Yancy, ed., 2009.

  

·         “Perspectival Truth and Color Perception”, New Waves in Truth, C. Wright and N. Pedersen, ed. 2009.

 

·         “Knowledge-How: a Unified Approach”, Knowledge-How Volume, Moffett and Bengson, ed., 2009.


·          “Introduction to 'Relative Truth' ”, in Relative Truth, Special Issue of Synthese, Brogaard, ed. 2009.  Contributors: David Capps, Andy Egan, Michael Glanzberg, Steven Hales, Max Kolbel, Peter Lasersohn, Michael Lynch, John MacFarlane, Daniel Massey, Sebastiano Moruzzi, Stephen Neale, Duncan Pritchard, Brian Weatherson and Crispin Wright.

  

·         Fitch's Paradox of Knowability, with J. Salerno, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2008/entries/fitch-paradox/>

 

·         Knowledge-The and Propositional Attitude Ascriptions”, F. Lihoreau, ed. Knowledge and Questions (2008).

 

·         “In Defense of a Perspectival Semantics for 'Know' ”, Australasian Journal of Philsophy 86 (2008), 439-459.

 

·         “Counterfactuals and Context”, with J. Salerno, Analysis 68 (2008), 39-46.

 

·         “Moral Contextualism and Moral Relativism”, Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), 385-409. 

  

·         “Remarks on Counterpossibles”,  with J. Salerno, in J. van Bentham, V. Hendricks, J. Symons, and S. A. Pedersen (eds.), Between Logic and Intuition: David Lewis and the Future of Formal Methods in Philosophy, Synthese Library, forthcoming, 2008.

 

·         “What Mary did Yesterday: Reflections on Knowledge-wh,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, (2008), with response by Jonathan Schaffer.

 

·         “Attitude Reports”, Philosophy Compass: Epistemology 3 (2008), 93-118. Epistemology Topic Editor: Tamar Szabo Gendler.  Editor in Chief: Brian Weatherson.

 

·          “Sea Battle Semantics,” Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), 326-335. 

 

·         “The Trivial Argument for Epistemic Value Pluralism.  Or How I learned to Stop Caring about Truth”, ed., D. Pritchard, Alan Millar, and Adrian Haddock, Epistemic Value, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (2008).

 

·         “On Keeping Blue Swans and Unknowable Facts at Bay.  A Case Study on Fitch's Paradox”, in J. Salerno (ed.) New Essays on the Knowability Paradox, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (2008).

 

·         “A Puzzle about Properties”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74, 3 (2007), 635-650.

 

·         The But not All: A New Account of Plural Definite Descriptions”, Mind and Language 22 (2007).

 

·         “Span Operators”, Analysis 67 (2007): 72-79.  

 

·         “Number Words and Ontological Commitment”,  The Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007), 1-20.

 

·         “Descriptions: Predicates or Quantifiers?”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007), 117-136.

 

·         “That may be Jupiter: A Heuristic for Thinking Two-Dimensionally”, American Philosophical Quarterly, October (2007).

 

·         “Sharvy's Theory of Definite Descriptions Revisited”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2007), 160-180.

 

·         “Knowability, Possibility, and Paradox”, with J. Salerno, in Vincent Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard (eds.), New Waves in Epistemology, Palgrave Macmillan (2007), 270-299.

 

·         “Two Modal -- Isms: Fictionalism and Ersatzism,” Philosophical Perspectives 20, Metaphysics, John Hawthorne, ed. (2006), 77-94.

 

·         “Tensed Relations”, Analysis 66 (2006): 194-202.

 

·         “Knowability and a Modal Closure Principle”, with J. Salerno, American Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2006), 261-270.

 

·         “Can Virtue Reliabilism Explain the Value of Knowledge?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (2006), 335-354.  To appear in translation in Philosophical Alternatives 3 (2008).

 

·         “The ‘Gray’s Elegy’ Argument, and the Prospects for the Theory of Denoting Concepts”, Synthese 152 (2006), 47-79.

 

·         The Moral Status of the Human Embryo”, Howard B Rades (ed.), Biomedical Ethics: Humanist Perspectives of Humanism Today (Prometheus Books, 2006). The article first appeared in a magazine called Free Inquiry.  It argues that 4-5 days old embryos do not have the moral status of human beings and was cited in A Report of the President's council on bioethics -- Washington D.C. 2004.  Apparently, President Bush wasn't convinced.  The Government citations to the article can be found here:

      http://www.bioethics.gov/reports/stemcell/chapter3.html

      http://www.bioethics.gov/background/monitor_stem_cell.html

 

·         “Anti-Realism, Theism, and the Conditional Fallacy”, with J. Salerno, Nous 39 (2005), 123-139.

 

·         “On Luck, Responsibility, and the Meaning of Life”, with B. Smith, Philosophical Papers 34 (2005), 443-58, special issue edited by Thad Metz, featuring solicited papers on the meaning of life.

 

·         Species as Individuals”, Biology and Philosophy, 19/2 (2004), 223-42.

 

·         “Contextualism, Skepticism, and the Gettier Problem”, Synthese 139/3 (2004), 367-86. 

 

·         “Epistemological Contextualism and the Problem of Moral Luck”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (2003), 371-83.

 

·         “Adhoccery in Epistemology”, Philosophical Papers 32 (2003), 65-82.

 

·         “A Unified Theory of Truth and Reference”, with B. Smith, Logique et Analyse 169-170 (2003), 49-93, special issue edited by Peter Forrest, featuring solicited papers on truth.

 

·         Sixteen Days”, with B. Smith, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 28 (2003), 45-78. In translation: “Die Ontologie des Embryos: Wann beginnt menschliches Leben?” Forthcoming in: Ludger Jansen, Barry Smith (eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie. Eine kooperative Einführung.

 

·         “Clues to the Paradoxes of Knowability: Reply to Dummett and Tennant”, with J. Salerno, Analysis 62 (2002), 143-150.  The paper develops some new paradoxes of knowability that, unlike Fitch's original paradox, are not blocked by the restricted brands of semantic anti-realism advocated by Dummett and Tennant.

 

·         “Fitch's Paradox of Knowability”, with J. Salerno, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2002 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2002/entries/fitch-paradox/.  Survey of proposals to resolve the knowability paradox.

 

·         “Quantum Mereotopology”, with B. Smith, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 35/1–2 (2002), 153–175.

 

·         “A Unified Theory of Truth and Reference”, with B. Smith, translated into French, J- M. Monmoyer, ed., La Structure du Monde: Objets, Propriétés, États du choses, Paris: Vrin, (2001).

 

·        Living High and Letting Die”, with B. Smith, Philosophy 76/297 (2001), 435-42.

 

·         “Presentist Four-Dimensionalism”, The Monist, vol. 83/3, (2000), 341-356.

 

·         “The Coup de Grâce for Mechanistic Metaphysics”, Transaction­s of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36/1, (2000), 75-108.

 

·         A Peircian Theory of Decision”, Synthese 118/3 (1999), 383-401.

 

·         Peirce on Abduction and Rational Control”, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 35/1 (1999), 129-155.

 

·         “Mead’s Temporal Realism”, Transaction­s of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 35/3, (1999), 563-593.

 

·         Glucagon and glucagon-like peptide 1: selective receptor recognition via distinct peptide epitopes ”, with S. A. Hjorth, K. Adelhorst, O. Kirk and T. W. Schwartz , J. Biol. Chem. Vol. 269, Issue 48, (1994), 30121-30124.

 

  

SHORT NOTES

 ·         “A Counterfactual Account of Essence”, with Joe Salerno, The Reasoner vol. 1, no. 4 (2007).  Jon Williamson, ed.

·         “Williamson on Counterpossibles”, with Joe Salerno, The Reasoner vol. 1, no. 3 (2007).  Jon Williamson, ed.

·         “Why Counterpossibles Are Non-Trivial”, with Joe Salerno, The Reasoner vol. 1, no. 1 (2007).  Jon Williamson, ed.

·         Milic Capek”, In: Nicholas Rescher, Johanna Seibt, and Michel Weber (eds.), A Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt.

 

EDITED COLLECTIONS

·         Special Issue of Philosophical Studies on high-level properties in perception, in progress.

·         Philosophical Issues, a supplement to Nous, on the epistemology of perception, progress.

·         Volume on whether perception has content, Oxford: New York, provisional.

·         Special Issue of Synthese on Relative Truth, 2009 (contributors: Andy Egan, Michael Glanzberg, Steven Hales, Max Kölbel, Peter Lasersohn, Michael Lynch, John MacFarlane, Sebastiano Moruzzi, Duncan Pritchard, Brian Weatherson, Crispin Wright).

·         Rationality and Irrationality, with Barry Smith, Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, (2001), including contributions by David Armstrong, Michael Beaney, Herbert Hochberg, Nicholas Rescher, John Searle, Barbara Tversky.

·         Rationality and Irationality (Constributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 8), Kirchberg: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, (2000), 2 Vol.

·         The Ontology of Fields: Report of the Specialist Meeting held under the auspices of the NSF Varenius Project, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 1998, with D. Peuquet and B. Smith, Santa Barbara: NCGIA.

 

 REVIEWS

·          Book Review for Notre Dame Philosophical Review: Nicholas Griffin and Dale Jacquette (eds.), Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "On Denoting", Routledge, 2009, 384 pp. Contributors: Urquhart, Stevens, Pelletier, Linsky, Klement, Makin, Nasim, Bostock, Marek, Jacquette, Griffin, Loptson, Contessa, Landini, Nelson, Salmon.

 ·        Article Review of Patterson "Inconsistency Theories of Semantic Paradox", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, for Philosopher's Digest.

·          Book Review for Notre Dame Philosophical Review: Andrea Bottani and Richard Davies (eds.), Modes of Existence: Papers in Ontology and Philosophical Logic, Ontos, 2006.  Contributors: Mulligan, Raspa, Kroon, van Inwagen, Varzi, Reicher, Barbero, Orillo, Spolaore.

 ·         Thomas Sattig, The Language and Reality of Time, Oxford UP, 2006.  Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

·         Andy Clark. Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York. 2001. Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, ad Cognitive Science (1-5, 2001).

·         Casati and Varzi: Parts and Places, MIT Press, 1999. Studia Logica (2001).

·         Passive Verbs. Engh., Jan. Verb i passiv fulgt av perfektum partisipp: bruk og historie. Oslo: Novus forlag, 1994 (4 MS pages), Language, Vol. 74, no. 1.

·         Norwegian Grammar. Hertzber, Fryds, Norsk grammatikk - debatt i historisk lys, Oslo-studier i sprakvitenskap, 12. Oslo: Norus Forlag, 1995 (4 MS pages), Language, Vol. 74, no. 1.

·         Norwegian Dialects. Jahr, Ernst Hakon and Olav Skare (eds.), Nordnorske dialekter. Oslo: Novus forlag, 1996 (4 MS pages), Language, Vol. 74, no. 1.

 

   

TALKS (AND OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES)  downloads

 

·         Against Color Relationalism, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York City, December 2009.

 

·         TBA, Issues in contemporary Semantics and Ontology: Predicates and Properties, org. Eleonora Orlando, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra and Ezequiel Zerbudis, Bueno Aires, Argentina, August 26-28, 2009.

 

·         Some Kind of Seeing, Annual Meeting of the Australian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne 2009.

 

·         Do We Perceive High-Level Properties?”, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Australian National University, May 14, 2009.

 

·         Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism, Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Vancouver April 2009.

 

·         Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism, Department of Philosophy, Kansas State University, March 26, 2009.

 

·         Disjunctivism and Primitive Knowledge, Russell V Conference, Bay Area, org. Bruce Russell, March 12-15, 2009.

 

·         Propositions as Hyperintensions, Hyperintensionality and Impossible Worlds Workshop, org. David Chalmers, The ANU, 25-26. Nov, 2008.

 

·         Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism, Copenhagen University, Oct. 24. 2008

 

·         Knowledge-How: A Unified Account, Epistemology workshop, org. Mikkel Gerken, Oct. 23, 2008.

 

·         Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism, The Second Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop, October 17-18, 2008, The University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska.

 

·         Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism, August 2008, Auckland, NZ.

 

·         On Luck, Responsibility and the Meaning of Life, August 2008, Wellington, NZ.

 

·         Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism, August 2008, Otago, NZ.

 

·         Knowledge without Belief, Australian Asscoiation of Philosophy, July 2008.

 

·         On the Knowledge Argument, The Epistemology at the Beach Conference, Feb. 15-18, 2008, ANU's Kioloa Coastal Campus, hosted by David Chalmers' Centre for Consciousness and Daniel Stoljar's Basic Knowledge Grant and organized by Declan Smithies. 

 

·         Counterpossibles, Impossible Worlds and Essence, with Joe Salerno, Arizona Ontology Conference, Arizona, January 9-12, 2008.  Organizer: Laurie Paul.  Commentator: Gillian Russell.

 

·         An Extensional Approach to Quantifier Domain Restriction, the Eastern Meeting of the APA, Baltimore, December 27-30, 2007.  Commentator: Jason Stanley.

 

·         Making Sense of Ontological Commitment, Ontological Commitment Workshop, Sydney, Nov 30-Dec , December 27-30, 2007Confirmed speakers: Berit Brogaard (Missouri/ANU), Mark Colyvan (Sydney), Uriah Kiegel (Arizona/Sydney), Kristie Miller (Sydney), Luca Moretti (Sydney), Jonathan Schaffer (ANU) and Amie Thomasson (Miami).

 

·         Perceptual Content, PhilSoc, Philosophy RSSS, Australian National University, October 23, 2007.

 

·         Rutgers Semantics Workshop, October 5-7, 2007.  Organizers: Lepore and Stanley.

 

·         Remarks on Counterpossibles, Synthese Annual Conference: Between Logic and Intuition: David Lewis and the Future of Formal Methods in Philosophy, Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, October 3-5, 2007.  Program Committee: Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks, John Symons, and Stig Andur Pedersen.

 

·         The Content of Thought, Philosophy RSSS, September 14, 2007.

 

·         What Mary Did Yesterday: Reflections on Knowledge-wh, Epistemology Conference, Copenhagen, May 25-26, 2007.  Organizer: Klemens Kappel and Danish Epistemology Network.  Speakers: Duncan Pritchard, Erik Olsson, Nikolaj Nottelman, Erik Carsson, Kristoffer Ahlstrom, Berit Brogaard, and Esben Nedenskov.  Discussants (among others): Lars Bo Gundersen, Eline Busck Gundersen, Jesper Kallestrup, Klemens Kappel, and Anders Schoubye.

 

·         Adjectives Conference, St. Andrews, May 19-20, 2007, invited participant.  Organizer: Herman Cappelen and Jason Stanley.  Keynote addresses: Delia Graff Fara, John Hawthorne, Chris Kennedy, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietoski, Daniel Rothschild, Jonathan Schaffer, Gabriel Segal, Jason Stanley.

 

·         Remarks on Counterpossibles, with Joe Salerno, Epistemology Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK, May 15, 2007.  Organizers: Jesper Kalestrup and Matthew Chrisman.  Speakers: Berit Brogaard, Ram Neta, Duncan Pritchard, Joe Salerno, Jonathan Schaffer. 

 

·         What Mary Did Yesterday. Remarks on Knowledge-wh,, the Linguistics and Epistemology conference, Aberdeen, UK, May 12-13 2007, organized by Martijn Blaauw, 30 min talk. Keynote speakers: Kent Bach, Peter Ludlow, Jonathan Schaffer, Jason Stanley.

 

·         Donkey Sentences and Quantifier Variability,  the Central Division of the APA in Chicago, April 19-21 2007.  Commentator: Jessica Rett, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University. 

 

·         Sea Battle Semantics, the Pacific Division of the APA in San Francisco, April, 2007.  Commentator: Peter Ludlow, University of Michigan.

 

·         What Mary Did Yesterday: Reflections on Knowledge-wh, Philosophy Department Colloquium, St. Louis University.  March 30, 2007.

 

·         What Mary Did Yesterday. Remarks on Knowledge-wh, Knowledge and Questions Workshop, 15-16 March 2007 at the Archives H.-Poincaré, Nancy, France.

 

·         Commentator on Graff's paper 'Coincidence by Another Name' at the 2007 Arizona Ontology Conference.  Jan 18-21, 2007.  Speakers: Ted Sider, Carolina Sartorio, David Chalmers, Delia Graff, Mike Rea, Cian Dorr, John Hawthorne, Sarah McGrath, and Ned Hall.

 

·         The But not All: A New Account of Plural Definite Descriptions, The Eastern Division of the APA in D.C. December 2006.  Commentator: Zoltan Szabo, Yale University.

 

·         The Puzzles of Coincidence and the Temporary Identity Thesis. University of Missouri, St. Louis, WiP Philosophy Colloquium, October 3, 2006.

 

·         Rutgers Semantics Workshop, Sep 29-30, 2006, invited participant.

 

·         In Defense of a Perspectival Semantics for ‘Know’ .  Philosophy Department Colloquium. Syracuse. Sep 2006

 

·         In Defense of a Perspectival Semantics for ‘Know’ . NAMICONA.  Epistemology Workshop, University of Copenhagen, August 22, 2006.

 

·         The Trivial Argument for Epistemic Value Pluralism.  Or How I Learned to Stop Caring about Truth, plenary, Epistemic Value Conference, organized by Duncan Pritchard, the University of Stirling, August 19-20, 2006.  Invited speakers: Jason Baehr, Berit Brogaard, Pascal Engel, Stephen Grimm, Ward Jones, Mark Kaplan, Martin Kusch, Alan Millar, Christian Piller, Wayne Riggs, Matt Weiner, W. Jay Wood.

 

·         Moral Contextualism and Moral Contextualism, plenary, Moral Contextualism Conference, organized by Peter Baumann and Martijn Blaauw, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, July 3-5, 2006.  Keynote speakers: Berit Brogaard, John Greco, John Hawthorne, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Alan Thomas, Ralph Wedgwood.

 

·         Adverbs and Quantifier Domain Restriction, the Central Division of the APA in Chicago, April 2006.  Commentator: Andy Egan, University of Michigan.

 

·         Knowability, Possibility, and Paradox, with J. Salerno, book launch event for Hendricks and Prichard (eds.), New Waves in Epistemology (Ashgate, 2005), the Pacific Division of the APA in Portland, 2006.

 

·         Russell’s Theory of Descriptions vs. the Predicative Analysis: a Reply to Graff, the Eastern Division of the APA in New York, December, 2005.  Commentator: Delia Graff, Princeton University.

 

·         What Price Presentism? University of Missouri, St. Louis, WiP Philosophy Colloquium, December 2005.

 

·         Commentator on Kit Fine’s ‘Coincidence’, Kline Workshop, University of Missouri, Columbia, organized by Matthew McGrath, March, 2005.

 

·         Contextualism vs. Subject-Sensitive Invariantism, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, July 30, 2004.

 

·         A Solution to Fitch’s Paradox, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, July 30, 2004.

 

·         Identity and Proper Names, Ontology Workshop, organized by Achille Varzi, SUNY Buffalo, November 9, 2002.

 

·         Is there Logical Space for an Epistemic Theory of Truth, SUNY Buffalo, Philosophy Colloquium, jointly with Buffalo Logic Colloquium, November 8, 2002.

 

·         Anti-Realism and Possibility, with J. Salerno, the Pacific Division of the APA in Seattle, WA, March, 2002.

 

·         Plantinga’s Paradox of Knowability, with J. Salerno, the Central Division of the APA in Chicago April, 2002.  Commentator:  Michael Rea.

 

·         To Be is to Be Considered, with J. Salerno, the Society for Realist and Anti-Realist Discussion, Pacific Division of the APA in Seattle, WA March 29 - March 30, 2002.

 

·         The Meaning of Life, with Barry Smith, Philosophy Department, SUNY Brockport, April 12, 2001.

 

·         Elusive Reference, Grounded Truth. The 23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, August, 2000.

 

·         Quantum Mereotopology, American Association for Artificial Intelligence-2000 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Granularity. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Austin, Texas, July 30, 2000.

 

·         Should We Be Afraid of Human Cloning?, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, April 27, 2000.

 

·         Brain Death and Technological Development, Brain Death and Human Identity - An Ad Hoc Symposium, University of Hamburg, Germany, March 9, 2000.

 

·         Presentist Four-Dimensionalism, the Hamburger Kreis, University of Hamburg, Germany, February 10, 2000.

 

·         Mereology and Causation, Winter Symposium, University of Aarhus, Denmark, January, 2000.

 

·         The Ontology of Fields, NCGIA Annual Meeting 1999, Santa Barbara, CA, December 3, 1999.

 

·         The Ontology of Species, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, October 8, 1999­.

 

·         Spaces of Representation, in the round-table discussion: Catastrophe Theory Based Models of Meaning, The Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Mass, August 10, 1998.

 

·         Language and Time, University at Urbino, Italy, July 1998.

 

·         The Ontology of Fields, The Ontology of Fields, Specialist Meeting of the NSF Varenius Project, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 1998.

 

·         Intentionality, 6th Congress of the IASS-AIS, Guajadelaja, Mexico, July 15, 1997.

 

·         An Aristotelian Approach to Animal Behavior, 6th Congress of the IASS-AIS, Guajadelaja, Mexico, July 14, 1997.

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

·         Journal referee: Applied Ontology, *Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, *Cladistics, Constructivist Foundations*Dialectica, Dialogue--Canadian Philosophical Review, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Journal of Philosophical Research, *Mind, *Mind and Language, *The Monist, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, *Nous, *The Philosophical Quarterly, *Philosopher's Imprint, *Philosophical Studies, *Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Sats - Nordic Journal of Philosophy, *Synthese (*refereed multiple submissions)

·         Press referee: Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Wadsworth.

·         Evaluator for the Philosophical Gourmet Report, for Brian Leiter 2008: General rankings.  Specialty rankings: philosophy of language and epistemology.

·         Board of Reviewers, Philosopher's Digest.

·         Conference referee: Central States Philosophical Association, 2006, SSPP 2009.

·         Grant Proposal Referee: University of Missouri Research Board.

·         Symposium Chair, Context-Sensitivity Symposium, The Eastern Meeting of the APA, D.C. 2006.  Speakers: Herman Cappelen and Jason Stanley.

·         Parallel Session Chair, Epistemology and Linguistics Conference, Aberdeen May 12-13, 2007, organizer: Martijn Blaauw.

·         Co-Organizer, the 23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Rationality and Irrationality, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 13-19 August 2000, http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/kirchberg.

 

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE

 

University of Missouri—St. Louis

 

·         Faculty Senate: 2006-

 

Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri—St. Louis

 

·         Job search committees: 2005, 2006.

 

Southern Illinois University:

 

·         College of Arts and Sciences Planning Committee: 2002-2005.

 

Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University:

 

·         Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: 2002-2005.

·         Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: 2001-2002.

·         The Fritz Marti Lecture Committee: 2002-2005.

·         Job search committees: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.

 

COURSES TAUGHT

   ·          Language Foundations Seminar (The ANU, graduate, fall 2008)

    ·          Philosophy of Language (graduate, summer reading course 2006, fall 2006)

·         Epistemology (graduate, fall 2005, fall 2006)

·         Metaphysics (graduate, spring 2006)

·         Topics in Metaphysics (undergraduate, spring 2004)

·         Topics in Analytic (graduate/undergraduate, spring 2006)

·         Philosophy of Language (undergraduate, spring 1999, fall 2005)

·         Symbolic Logic (undergraduate, spring 1998)

·         American Philosophy (undergraduate, fall 2001)

·         Existentialism (undergraduate, fall 2003)

·         Putnam’s Philosophy (undergraduate, spring 2004)

·         Plato (undergraduate, fall 2001)

·         Ethics (undergraduate, fall 2001)

·         Ethical Theory (undergraduate, summer 2001)

·         Medical Ethics (undergraduate, fall 2003)

·         Introduction to Philosophy (undergraduate, spring 2003)

·         Critical Thinking (undergraduate, fall 2001, spring 2003, fall/spring 2002, fall 2004)

  

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS (POST-GRADUATE)

·         Research Board Grant, University of Missouri, 2008. 

·         Travel Grant, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2008.

·         Travel Grant, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2007.

·         Research Award, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2006.

·         Travel Grant, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2006.

·         Travel Grant, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2005.

·         Internal Research Grant, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 2002

·         The Perry Dissertation Prize for an outstanding PhD dissertation in the Department of Philosophy, SUNY  

         Buffalo, 2001.

·         Travel Grant, National Science Foundation, 2000, summer term.

·         Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, University of Hamburg/SUNY Buffalo, 2000, spring Semester.

REFERENCES

·         David Chalmers, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.  Email: chalmers@anu.edu.au.

 

·         Jonathan Schaffer, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. Email: schaffer@philos.umass.edu

 

·         Zoltan Szabo, Department of Philosophy, Yale University. Email: zoltan.szabo@yale.edu

 

·         Ernie Lepore, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers, New Brunswick, 26 Nichol Avenyue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.  Email: lepore@ruccs.rutgers.edu

 

·         Peter Ludlow, Department of Philosophy and Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003. Email: ludlow@umich.edu.

 

·         Jason Stanley, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers, New Brunswick, 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Email: jasoncs@ruccs.rutgers.edu.

 

·         Kent Bach, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, CA. 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132.  Email:  kbach@sfsu.edu.

 

·         Delia Graff Fara, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, tel (609) 258-4311.  Email: graff@princeton.edu.

 

·         Barry Smith, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, Park Hall, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260-1010, tel. (716) 645-2444.  Email: phismith@buffalo.edu.

 

·         Ken Barber, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, Park Hall, Buffalo, N. Y. 14260-1010, tel (716) 645-2444. Email: kfbarber@acsu.buffalo.edu.