The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia
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, 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.
· 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.