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The Australian National University

Canberra, ACT 0200

Australia

 

Department of Philosophy

University of Missouri

St. Louis, MO 63121

USA

 

Email: berit.brogaard@anu.edu.au

Alt. email: brogaardb@gmail.com

Alt. email: brogaardb@umsl.edu

Homepage. URL: http://brogaardb.googlepages.com/home

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

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION                                                                                             

·         Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Mind

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE                                                                                              

·         Philosophical Logic, Logic, Ethics

 

EDUCATION                                                                                     

·         SUNY Buffalo, doctoral program in philosophy.  Ph.D.  (June 2000). Dissertation: Temporal Mereology­. Dissertation committee: 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, 2008-2009.

·         Level B Research Fellow, RSSS Philosophy Program/Centre for Consciousness, The Australian National University, 2007-2008.

·         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-

·         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.

 

BOOKS (in progress)

    ·         Transient Truths: an Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions.  Draft of manuscript available at:

         http://www.umsl.edu/~brogaard/.

    ·         The Missing Dimension: Two-Dimensional Approaches to Matters Epistemic.  Monograph defending 

         two-dimensionalism.  Table of contents available upon request.

   ·         Impossible Thoughts, monograph on counterpossibles and epistemic modals, with Joe Salerno.

         Sample chapters available upon request.

  

ARTICLES, M & E & LANGUAGE (downloads) 

·         “Inscrutability and Commitment”, Philosophical Studies

 

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

 

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

 

·         “In Defense of a Perspectival Semantics for 'Know' ”, Australasian Journal of Philsophy, forthcoming, 2009.

 

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

 

·         “Moral Contextualism and Moral Relativism”, Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming, 2008. 

 

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

 

·         “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.

 

·         “Attitude Reports”, Philosophy Compass: Epistemology.  Epistemology Topic Editor: Tamar Szabo Gendler.  Editor in Chief: Brian Weatherson.

 

·          “Sea Battle Semantics,” Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming 2008. 

 

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

 

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

 

·         “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.

 

·         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.

 

·         “A Puzzle about Properties”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXXIV, 3 (2007).

 

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

 

·         “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. 

 

·         “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.

 

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

 

·         “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.

 

·         “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.

 

·         “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).

 

·         “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.

 

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

 

 

OTHER ARTICLES AND 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”, forthcoming in Nicholas Rescher, Johanna Seibt, and Michel Weber (eds.), A Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt.

·         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

      Some other citations:

      http://library.bethel.edu/about/friends/stemcell

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

·         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.

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

·         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.

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS (downloads) 

·         Transient Truths: an Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions (book).  Draft of manuscript available on my website: http://www.umsl.edu/~brogaard/.

·         Two-Dimensionalist Approaches to Epistemic Possibility

·         Papers on ontological Commitment (one of them for Price and Moretti volume, and one for Wright and Pedersen volume)

·         Paper on knowledge-how (for Moffett volume)

·         Paper defending a unified semantics for indicative and subjunctive conditionals (for book project)

·         Donkey Sentences and Quantifier Variability

·         The Multiple Functions of Number Words

·         Special Double Issue of Synthese on Relative Truth, forthcoming, spring 2008 (contributors: Paul Boghossian, Andy Egan, Michael Glanzberg, Steven Hales, Max Kölbel, Peter Lasersohn, Michael Lynch, John MacFarlane, Sebastiano Moruzzi, Duncan Pritchard, Brian Weatherson, Crispin Wright).

·         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.

 

EDITORIALS

·         Special Issue of Synthese on Relative Truth, forthcoming, spring 2008 (contributors: Paul Boghossian, 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

·         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.

   

RECENT OR UPCOMING TALKS (AND OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES)  downloads

 

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

 

·         TBA, August 2008, Auckland, NZ.

 

·         TBA, August 2008, Otago, NZ.

 

·         TBA, August 2008, Wellington, 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.

 

·         Public Lecture, Literary Lecture Series organized by Henrik Gade Jensen.  May 23, 2007, Palace Hotel, Raadhuspladsen, Copenhagen.

 

·         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. 

 

·         Epistemic Modals, 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.