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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

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

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 and linguistics. Ph.D.   (July 2000). Dissertation: Temporal Mereology­. Dissertation committee: Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo), Achille Varzi (Columbia University, New York), Roberto Casati (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), Ken Barber (SUNY Buffalo), Peter Hare (SUNY Buffalo)
  • University of Copenhagen, M.A. (August, 1996). Majors: Philosophy and Linguistics.  Thesis: The Language of Perception.
  • NIH OER Certificate.
  • University of Copenhagen, M.S. Biochemistry, with a specialization in neuroscience (August 1996).  Supervisor, P.I.: Thue W. Schwartz, Professor, M.D., D.M.Sci.  GLP-1 as a Neurotransmitter in the Brain.

 

ACADEMIC POSTS

  • Visiting Fellow, RSSS Philosophy Program/Centre for Consciousness, The Australian National University, May-August 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, NSF Grant, Departments of Philosophy, University of Hamburg/SUNY Buffalo, 2000, spring semester.

 

EDITORIAL POSTS

  • PhilPapers: Philosophy of Language, Editor, 2009-present.
  • Erkenntnis, American Editor, 2009-present.

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS AND ORGANIZATIONAL POSTS

  • Vice Present, Central States Philosophical Association, 2009-2010.
  • Philosopher's Digest, Board of Reviewers, 2008-present
  • The Open Applied Linguistics Journal, 2007-present.

 

ARTICLES (downloads) 

  • “Perceptual Content and Monadic Truth: On Cappelen and Hawthorne's Relativism and Monadic Truth”, forthcoming in David Sosa, ed., Philosophical Books.
  • “Strong Representationalism and Centered Content”, Philosophical Studies (2009).
  • “Context and Content: Pragmatics in Two-Dimensional Semantics”, Keith Allan and Kasia Jaszczolt, eds. Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, (2009).
  • “Colour”, D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annotated Biblios (2009).
  • “Disjunctivism”, D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annotated Biblios (2009)
  • “Discriptions”, D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annotated Biblios (2009)
  • “Centered Worlds and the Content of Perception”, Blackwell Companion, Hales, ed., (2009).
  • “Color in the Theory of Colors? Or: 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 Primitivism”, New Waves in Truth, C. Wright and N. Pedersen, ed. (2009).
  • “Knowledge-How: a Unified Approach”, Knowledge-How Volume, J. Bengson and M. Moffett, ed., Oxford, (2009).
  •  “Descriptions”, The Encyclopedia of the Mind, (2009). Hal Pashler, ed. Editorial Board: Tim Crane, Fernanda Ferreira, Marcel Kinsbourne, Rich Zemel.
  • “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 (Summer 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2009/entries/fitch-paradox/>
  • “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 (2009).
  • “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 (2009). 
  • “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 Philosophy 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.
  •  “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.  Reprinted 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.

 

BOOKS AND 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, in progress.
  • Does Perception have Content? Oxford: New York, under contract. 
  • 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, TRAVEL, ETC

  • TBA, SpaWN conference, , Metaphysics, Syracuse, July 2010.
  • TBA, Department talk, University of Aarhus, May 20, 2010.
  • “What is an Unconscious Mental State”, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tuscon, April 2010.
  • “Do We Perceive Natural Kind Properties?”, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 31, 2010.
  • Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, February 20, 2010.
  • “An Alternative to Color Relationalism”, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York City, December 2009.
  • Perception workshop: Vision Beyond Perception, Harvard University, Nov. 14, 2009.
  • “Towards a Theory of the Long-Lasting Emotions”, Department talk, University of Missouri, Columbia, Nov. 6, 2009.
  • “Kaplan's Paradox and the Semantic Values of Predicates”, 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.
  • TBA, Feldman Workshop, University of Copenhagen, August 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.
  •  “Structured Content”, 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, *Erkenntnis, *Journal of Philosophical Logic, *Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Semantics,*Mind, *Mind and Language, *The Monist, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, *Nous, *Philosophical Quarterly, *Philosopher's Imprint, *Philosophical Review, *Philosophical Studies, *Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Sats - Nordic Journal of Philosophy, *Philosophia, *Synthese, Theoria (*refereed multiple submissions)
  • Press referee: Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Wadsworth.
  • Vice President for the Central States Philosophical Association, 2009-2010.
  • Evaluator for the Philosophical Gourmet Report, for Brian Leiter 2008: General rankings.  Specialty rankings: philosophy of language and epistemology.
  • Grant Proposal Referee: University of Missouri Research Board.
  • Board of Reviewers: Philosopher's Digest, 2008-present.
  • Conference referee: Central States Philosophical Association, 2006, SSPP 2009.
  • Parallel Session Chair, Epistemology and Linguistics Conference, Aberdeen May 12-13, 2007, organizer: Martijn Blaauw.
  • Symposium Chair, Context-Sensitivity Symposium, The Eastern Meeting of the APA, D.C. 2006.  Speakers: Herman Cappelen and Jason Stanley.
  • 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: 2006-2008.

 

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

  • Metametaphysics (graduate, fall 2009)
  • Emotions (graduate, fall 2009)
  • Perception (graduate, spring 2009)
  • Language Foundations Seminar (The ANU, graduate, fall 2008)
  • Modal Logic (graduate, spring 2007)
  • 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.

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