The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia
St. Louis, MO 63121
USA
Email: brogaardb@gmail.com
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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:
· “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, 2007. Confirmed 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.