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Curriculum Vitae
SANFORD C. GOLDBERG
2814 Grant St. Department of Philosophy
Evanston, IL 60201 Crowe 3‐179
(847) 864‐1344 (home) 1880 Campus Drive
(224) 595‐5029 (cell) Northwestern University
s‐goldberg@northwestern.edu Evanston, IL 60208‐2214
847 491‐8524 (Office)
847 491‐3658 (Philosophy Dept)
847 491‐2547 (Fax)
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (7/07 ‐ )
Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (Fall ‐
Winter 2005)
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (6/02 – 7/07)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (9/99 ‐ 5/02)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA (9/95 ‐ 6/99)
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
Ph.D. Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, 1995
M.A. Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, 1993
B.A. Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy, 1989
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION and COMPETENCE:
AOS: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
AOC: Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy
MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE:
Chair, Northwestern Philosophy Department (9/08 – present)
Member, Cognitive Science Program Committee, Northwestern University (9/07 ‐
present)
Member, Arché Basic Knowledge Network, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (1/08‐
present)
Director of the Cognitive Science Program, University of Kentucky (8/04 – 5/07)
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President, Central States Philosophical Association (8/04 – 7/05)
Executive Council, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (5/04 – 5/07)
Founder of the Cognitive Science Program, University of Kentucky
Member, UK College of Arts and Sciences Self‐Study Committee (10/03 ‐ 8/04)
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky (6/02 –
8/04)
Teaching Director, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky (9/00 ‐ 6/02)
College Council Representative, UK College of Arts and Sciences (6/03 ‐ 6/04)
Member, Linguistics Program, University of Kentucky (9/99 – 5/07)
Chair, Linguistics Concentration, Grinnell College (9/98 ‐ 6/99)
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS:
Lady Davis Fellowship, Hebrew University, Fall/Winter 2005‐2006
Major Research Award, University of Kentucky, April 2004 ($10,000)
Summer Faculty Travel Grant, University of Kentucky, Summer 2003
Special Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky, Summer 2001
Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Kentucky, Summer 2000
Summer Faculty Travel Grant, Grinnell College, Summers 1996 and 1998
Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, Academic Years 1993‐1995
Columbia Presidential Fellow, Columbia University, Academic Years 1991‐1993
Henry Rutgers Scholar, High Distinction in Philosophy, 1989
Phi Beta Kappa, Rutgers College, January 1989
PUBLICATIONS:
Authored Books:
Anti‐Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification. (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy), 2007.)
Gray Matters: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (New York: M.E. Sharpe,
1997). With Andrew Pessin.
Edited Books and Special Editions of Journals:
Editor, special edition of Philosophical Studies 124: 1 (January 2009), devoted to the 2007
Midwest Epistemology Workshop.
Editor, Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology. Oxford University
Press, 2007.
Co‐editor (with Andrew Pessin), The Twin Earth Chronicles (New York: M.E. Sharpe,
1996). With an introduction by Hilary Putnam.
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Articles and Invited Contributions:
[50] “Putting the norm of assertion to work: the case of testimony.” To appear in J.
Brown and J. Cappelen, eds., Assertion (Oxford University Press). (Forthcoming)
[invited]
[49] “Internalism and Externalism.” Entry in the Sage Encylopedia of The Mind, ed. H.
Pascher. (Forthcoming) [invited]
[48] “Anti‐Individualism about Cognition.” Entry in the Sage Encylopedia of The Mind,
ed. H. Pascher. (Forthcoming) [invited]
[47] “Self‐Knowledge.” Entry in the Routledge Companion to Epistemology, eds. S.
Bernecker and D. Pritchard (forthcoming). [invited]
[46] “Metaphysical Realism and Thought.” American Philosophical Quarterly 45:2, 149‐
64 (April 2008).
[45] “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?” Erkenntnis (forthcoming).
[44] “Introduction: The Midwest Epistemology Workshop.” Philosophical Studies 124:
1, 1‐3 (January 2009). [invited]
[43] “Reliabilism in Philosophy.” Philosophical Studies 124: 1, 105‐17 (January 2009).
[invited]
[42] “Experts, Semantic and Epistemic.” Noûs (forthcoming).
[41] “If that were true I would have heard about it by now” (forthcoming). To appear in
Goldman and Whitcomb, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology. [invited]
[40] “Internalism, Externalism, and the Epistemology of Linguistic Understanding.”
Communication and Cognition (forthcoming).
[39] “Testimony as Evidence.” Philosophica 78: 29‐52 (2006). [invited]
[38] “The Epistemology of Silence”. To appear in Haddock, Millar, and Pritchard, eds.
Social Epistemology. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). (forthcoming) [invited]
[37] “The Problem of the Many Minds.” Minds and Machines 16: 463‐70 (2006). With
Brad Monton.
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[36] “The knowledge account of assertion and the conditions on testimonial
knowledge.” Contribution to Williamson on Knowledge, eds. D. Pritchard and P.
Greenough. Oxford: Oxford University Press (in preparation). [invited]
[35] “Brown on Self‐Knowledge and Discrimination.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
87:3, 301‐14 (2006).
[34] “Testimonial Knowledge in Early Childhood, Revisited.” Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 76:1, 1‐36 (January 2008).
[33] “An Anti‐Individualistic Semantics for ‘Empty’ Natural Kind Terms.” Grazer
Philosophische Studien 70: 55‐76 (January 2006).
[32] “The Epistemic Utility of What is Said.” In Compositionality, Context, and Semantic
Values: Essays in Honor of Ernie Lepore, eds. R. Stainton and C. Viger. Springer Verlag
(2008). [invited]
[31] “Anti‐Individualism, Content Preservation, and Discursive Justification.” Noûs
41:2, 178‐203 (March 2007).
[30] “Testimonial knowledge from unsafe testimony.” Analysis 65:4, 302‐11 (October
2005).
[29] “How lucky can you get?” Synthese 158: 315‐27 (special edition on Epistemic Luck).
[invited]
[28] “Monitoring and Anti‐Reductionism in the Epistemology of Testimony.”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72: 3, 576‐93 (May 2006). With David
Henderson.
[27] “The Social Diffusion of Warrant and Rationality.” The Southern Journal of
Philosophy, 44 (Spindel Conference Supplement), 118‐138 (May 2006). [invited]
[26] “Semantic Externalism and Epistemic Illusions,” in S. Goldberg, ed. Internalism and
Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007),
235‐52. [Invited]
[25] “Introduction,” in S. Goldberg, ed. Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and
Epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 1‐12. [Invited]
[24] “Propositional Attitudes: Issues in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology.”
Encyclopedia entry, for The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition. New York:
MacMillian. (Forthcoming.) [Invited]
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[23] “The Primary Bearers of Truth.” Encyclopedia entry, for The Encyclopedia of
Language and Linguistics, 2 nd Edition. Robert Stainton, Section Editor. Oxford:
Elsevier. (Forthcoming.) [Invited]
[22] “The Dialectical Context of Boghossian’s Memory Argument.” Canadian Journal of
Philosophy 35:1, 135‐48 (March 2005).
[21] “Can there be a science of mind?” University of Kentucky College of Arts and
Sciences Magazine, 5:1, 2004‐2005. [Invited]
[20] “Radical Interpretation, Understanding, and Testimonial Transmission.” Synthese
138:3, 387‐416 (March 2004).
[19] “(Non‐standard) Lessons from World‐Switching Cases.” Philosophia 32:1, pp. 95‐
131 (2005).
[18] “Reductionism and the Distinctiveness of Testimonial Knowledge,” in Lackey, J.
and Sosa, E., eds. The Epistemology of Testimony (Oxford: Oxford University Press),
127‐44 (2006). [Invited]
[17] “Anti‐Individualism, Conceptual Omniscience, and Skepticism.” Philosophical
Studies 116:1, 53‐78 (October 2003).
[16] “What do you know when you know your own thoughts?” in Nuccetelli, S. ed.,
New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self‐Knowledge (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2003), pp. 241‐56. [Invited]
[15] “On our alleged a priori knowledge that water exists.” Analysis 63:1, pp. 38‐41
(January 2003).
[14] “Do anti‐individualistic construals of the attitudes capture the agent’s conceptions?”
Noûs 36:4, pp. 597‐621 (December 2002).
[13] “Belief and its linguistic expression: Towards a belief‐box account of first‐person
authority.” Philosophical Psychology 15:1, 65‐76 (2002).
[12] “Reported Speech and the Epistemology of Testimony.” Protosociology 17, pp. 57‐
75 (December 2002). [Invited]
[11] “Mentalistic Explanation and Mental Causation.” Manuscrito Vol XXV, Special
volume on Mental Causation, ed. André Leclerc, Giovanni da Silva de Queiroz, and
Michael B. Wrigley, pp. 199‐216 (March 2002). [Invited]
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[10] “Testimonially Based Knowledge from False Testimony.” Philosophical Quarterly
51:205, 512‐26 (October 2001).
[9] “Context‐Sensitivity in the Interpretation of Utterances.” The Explanation of Human
Interpretation, ed. João Sàágua. (Lisbon: Colibri Editions, 2005), pp. 473‐87.
[8] “The Semantics of Interlocution.” Communication and Cognition 33:3, 243‐80 (Fall
2001).
[7] “Externalism and Self‐Knowledge of Content: A New Incompatibilist Strategy.”
Philosophical Studies 100:1, 51‐78 (July 2000).
[6] “World‐Switching, Word‐Ambiguity, and Semantic Intentions.” Analysis 60:3, 260‐
64 (July 2000).
[5] “The Psychology and Epistemology of Self‐Knowledge.” Synthese 118:2, 165‐99
(1999).
[4] “Reply to Brueckner.” Analysis 59:3, 212‐17 (July 1999).
[3] “The Relevance of Discriminatory Knowledge of Content.” Pacific Philosophical
Quarterly 80:2, 136‐56 (June 1999).
[2] “The Very Idea of Computer Self‐Knowledge and Self‐Deception.” Minds and
Machines 7:4, 515‐29 (November 1997).
[1] “Self‐Knowledge, Self‐Ascription, and the Memory Argument.” Analysis 57:3, 211‐
219 (July 1997).
BOOK REVIEWS:
Review of Q. Cassam’s The Possibility of Knowledge, Mind (forthcoming).
Review of J. Brown’s Anti‐Individualism and Knowledge, Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research (2007).
Review of Frapolli and Romero, eds., Meaning, Basic Self‐Knowledge, and Mind: Essays
on Tyler Burge, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (January 2004).
Review of R. Hanna’s Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy, Journal of the
History of Philosophy 40:1, 128‐30 (January 2002).
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Review of G. Graham’s The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry, Philosophical Books 43:1,
37‐8.
Review of M. Loux’s Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Second Edition),
Transcendental Philosophy.
Review of Bermudez, Marcel, and Eilan (eds.), The Body and the Self, Philosophy and
Technology.
Review of P. Horwich’s Meaning, Philosophy in Review 20:5, 350‐4 (October 2000).
Review of P. Mortons’ A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Teaching
Philosophy 22:1, 84‐7 (March 1999).
Review of M. Sainsbury (ed.), Thought and Ontology, Philosophy in Review 19:1, 70‐1
(February 1999).
Review of A. Goldman’s Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science, Philosophical
Books 35:2, 110‐12 (April 1995).
WORK UNDER CONSIDERATION and IN PROGRESS:
Socializing Reliabilism: Towards an Account of our Epistemic Reliance on Others.
(Book‐length manuscript; currently under review)
The World in Mind: Combining Anti‐Individualism and Fregeanism. (Book project)
Morgenbesser as Philosopher. Editor (Edited volume; expected contributions from
Jonathan Adler, David Albert, Alan Berger, Arthur Caplan, Noam Chomsky, Arthur
Danto, James Higginbotham, Daniel Hausman, Arnold Koslow, Igal Kvart, Isaac Levi,
Charles Parsons, David Rosenthal, David Schatz, Robert Schwartz, Mark Steiner, and
Josef Stern. )
“The Social Epistemic Virtues: Two Models.” (article)
“Social Sensitivity.” (article)
“Meaning, Communication, and Knowledge.” (article)
PUBLIC TALKS:
“Trust in Oneself and Others,” invited to be given at a conference on Collective
Knowledge and Epistemic Trust, to be given at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg
in Greifswald, Germany (May 2010).
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“The Social Epistemic Virtues: Two Models,” invited paper to be given at the Bled
Epistemology Workshop, Bled, Slovenia (June 2009).
“Socializing Relibility,” invited talk, to be given at the University of Chicago (May 2009).
“Socializing Reliability,” Keynote lecture, Graduate Philosophy Conference, University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada (April 2009).
“Anti‐Individualism,” panel participant (as the author) at the Author‐meets‐Critics
session for my book Anti‐Individualism, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver,
British Columbia (April 2009).
“Epistemic Injustice,” panel participant (as a critic) at the Author‐meets‐Critics session
for Miranda Fricker’s book Epistemic Injustice, APA Eastern Division Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA (December 2008).
“Socializing Realibility,” invited talk, The Epistemology of Democracy conference, the
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (November 2008).
“Philosophy and the Imagination,” invited talk at the 2008 Ideafestival, Lexington, KY
(September 2008).
“A Question of Freedom,” panel participant at the 2008 Ideafestival, Lexington, KY
(September 2008).
“What’s the big idea?” panel participant at the 2008 Ideafestival, Lexington, KY
(September 2008).
“Socializing Reliability,” invited colloquium talk, Grand Valley State University, Grand
Rapids, MI (September 2008).
“Context and the Epistemic Significance of Speech,” invited talk for a workshop on
Mind and Language, Córdoba, Argentina (August 2008).
“Metaphysical Realism and Thought,” invited colloquium talk, University of St.
Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland (May 2008).
“Putting the norm of assertion to work: the case of testimony,” invited workshop talk,
Arché workshop on assertion, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland (May
2008).
“Metaphysical Realism and Thought,” invited colloquium talk, University of Wisconsin
– Milwaukee (April 2008).
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“Assertion and Testimony,” invited colloquium talk, University of Oklahoma, Norman,
OK (March 2008).
Cognitive Science Proseminar (with Dedre Gentner and Andrew Ortony), Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL (November 2007).
“Knowledge, Language, and Knowledge of Language,” colloquium talk, Cognitive
Science and Language and Cognition Group, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
(October 2007).
“If that were true I would have heard about it by now,” invited talk for conference on
Social Epistemology, Stirling University, Stirling, Scotland (to take place September
2007).
Reply to “Avoiding Accidents: Justification Internalism and Knowledge Externalism,”
APA Central, Chicago, IL (April 2007).
Reply to “Externalism and Conceptual Analysis,” APA Pacific, San Francisco, CA (April
2007).
“Metaphysical Realism and Thought,” invited colloquium talk, University of Buffalo
(March 2007).
“Testimony and Assertion,” invited colloquium talk, University of Colorado (February
2007).
“Testimony, Assertion, and Norms,” invited colloquium talk, Northwestern University
(November 2006).
Reply to R. Loeffler’s “Belief Ascriptions and Semantic Externalism,” Central States
Philosophical Association, Memphis, TN (October 2006).
“Rational Differential Dubitability and Content‐Transparency,” invited talk for a
workshop entitled, “Language, Context, and Cognition,” Punta del Este, Uruguay (May
2006).
“Accepting Testimony,” invited colloquium talk, Philosophy Department, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington (April 2006).
“Combining Fregeanism and Anti‐Individualism,” invited seminar talk, Graduate
Epistemology Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (April 2006).
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“The Epistemology of Linguistic Understanding,” invited colloquium paper, APA
Pacific, Portland, Oregon (March 2006).
“Linguistic Understanding,” invited colloquium talk, Philosophy Department, Bar‐Ilan
University, Ramat Gan, Israel (January 2006).
“Assertion and Testimonial Belief,” invited colloquium talk, Philosophy Department,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (December 2005).
“Linguistic Understanding and Mental Representation,” invited colloquium talk,
Cognitive Science Program, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (December 2005).
“Linguistic Understanding,” invited colloquium talk, Philosophy Department, Haifa
University, Haifa, Israel (November 2005).
“Spreading Knowledge,” Presidential Address to the Central States Philosophical
Association, Lexington, KY (October 2005).
“The Social Diffusion of Warrant and Rationality,” invited lecture for the 2005 Spindel
Conference on Social Epistemology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (October
2005).
“Do you know what I mean?”, invited colloquium talk, Philosophy Department,
University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi (September 2005).
“Speech Act Theory and Language Pedagogy,” invited colloquium talk at the Foreign
Language College, Shanxi University, Taiyuan City, China (September 2005).
“Meaning, Intention, World,” invited colloquium talk at the Graduate School of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (September 2005).
“Language, Communication, Knowledge,” invited colloquium talk at the Institute of
Philosophy and Research at Shanxi University, Taiyuan City, China (September 2005).
“Words and Concepts,” invited colloquium talk at the Philosophy Department of Hebei
University, Hebei, China (September 2005).
Reply to L. Bonjour, conference in honor of Robert Audi, Notre Dame University, South
Bend, IN (April 2005).
“How lucky can you get?” talk at an Author‐meets‐critics session of the Society for
Skeptical Philosophy devoted to Duncan Pritchard’s Epistemic Luck, APA Pacific
Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA (March 2005).
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“Cognitive Science and Social Psychology: The Challenge,” delivered as a brown‐bag
lecture to the Social Psychology Group at UK (February 2005).
“An Ideological Introduction to Cognitive Science,” delivered to the UK Chapter of Psi
Chi, Psychology Honors Society (January 2005).
“Testimonial Knowledge in Early Childhood, Revisited,” colloquium talk at the
Department of Philosophy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (January 2005).
“Testimony, Justification, Knowledge,” colloquium talk at the Department of
Philosophy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri (November 2004).
“The Epistemic Dimension of the Extended Mind,” keynote lecture given to the Bowling
Green University/Northern Ohio University 3 rd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference (Bowling Green, Ohio, May 2004).
Reply to Brad Rives’ “Concept Possession and Epistemology,” APA Central meeting,
Chicago, IL (April 2004).
“Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology,” invited paper presented
at the 2004 Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference (April 2004,
New Orleans, LA).
“An Anti‐Individualistic Semantics for ‘Empty’ Natural Kind Terms.” 2004 meeting of
the APA Pacific (Pasadena, California, April 2004); and at the Twelfth annual conference
on Logic, Methodology, and the Philosophy of Science, Bilbao, Spain (August 2003).
“Can there be a Science of Cognition?” public lecture delivered as part of the UK College
of Arts and Sciences Week, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (February 2004).
“Externalism and Self‐Knowledge Revisited,” Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond,
KY (February 2004)
Reply to Anthony Newman’s “Two Grades of Internalism (Pass and Fail),” Central
States Philosophy Association, Chicago, IL (October 2003).
Reply to Henry Jackman’s “Temporal Externalism and Our Ordinary Linguistic
Practice,” APA Central, Cleveland, OH (April, 2003).
Reply to Max Goss’ “Does Language Track Ontology?”, APA Pacific, San Francisco, CA
(March 2003).
“Philosophical issues in Language Cognition,” brown bag lecture delivered to the
Cognition Group, UK Department of Psychology, Lexington, KY (March 2003).
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“Formulating Anti‐Individualism,” paper delivered at the Central States Philosophy
Association, Columbia, Missouri (October 2002).
Reply to Jennifer Lackey’s “The Epistemology of Testimony and the Infant/Child
Objection,” APA Pacific, Seattle, WA (March 2002).
“Mentalistic Explanation and Mental Causation,” delivered at the Third International
Colloquium in the Philosophy of Mind, Joãão Pessoa, Brazil (March 2002).
“Context‐Sensitivity in the Interpretation of Utterances,” paper delivered to the Third
annual Mind in Action conference, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (May
2001).
“Do anti‐individualistic construals capture the agent’s conceptions?”, paper delivered to
the Philosophy Department, University of Cincinnati (November 2000).
“Is ‘I am presently thinking that p’ self‐verifying?”, paper delivered at the Central States
Philosophy Association, Lincoln, Nebraska (October 2000).
“Understanding and Knowledge of What is Said: Problem Cases”, reply to Elizabeth
Fricker’s talk at the Epistemology of Language conference, University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, United Kingdom (July 2000).
“Semantic Intentions and the ascription of Truth‐Conditions and Meaning: What
Interlocution Cases Teach Us”, Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Meaning
and Truth, Moscow, Idaho (March 2000) and Kentucky Philosophy Association,
Louisville, KY (November 1999).
“Knowing That One Knows vs. Knowing What One Knows: Question‐begging episodes
in discussions of External‐World Skepticism,” Philosophy Club of Transylvania
University, Lexington, KY (November 1999).
“The Relevance of Discriminatory Knowledge of Content,” poster at the Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, Annual Meeting, Palo, Alto, CA (July 1999); delivered at
the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (January 1999); and at the Iowa Philosophical
Society, Indianola, Iowa (November 1998).
“Interpretation, Self‐Knowledge, and the Degree‐of‐Coherence Problem,” Central States
Philosophy Association, Clive, Iowa (October 1998).
“Words, Pictures, and Things”, Alumni College of Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (May
1998).
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“The Psychology and Epistemology of Self‐Knowledge,” Philosophy Club of Kenyon
College, Gambier, Ohio (March 1998).
“Basic Self‐Knowledge is not Knowledge of Content: A Strategic Proposal,” APA Pacific
Division Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California (March 1998); and the Iowa
Philosophical Society, Ames, IA (November 1997).
“Why Self‐Ascription is not Self‐Knowledge: The Real Case from Memory,” Central
States Philosophy Association, St. Louis, Missouri (October 1997).
“Self‐Knowledge, Self‐Ascription, and the Memory Argument,” Iowa Philosophical
Society, Grinnell, IA (November 1996).
“The Very Idea of Computer Self‐Knowledge and Self‐Deception,” Conference on
Philosophy and Computing, Carnegie‐Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(August 1996).
“Self‐Knowledge as a Cognitive Achievement,” Mid‐South Philosophy Conference,
Memphis, Tennessee (February 1996); and the Southern Society for Philosophy and
Psychology, Nashville, Tennessee (April 1996).
“Searle on Consciousness, Intentionality, and Reduction,” Mid‐South Philosophy
Conference, Memphis, Tennessee (February 1996).
“Should the Avowal Theory of Self‐Knowledge be wed to the No Cognitive
Achievement Thesis?”, Iowa Philosophical Society, Iowa City, Iowa (October 1995).
“Kripke on Wittgenstein on the Authority of First‐Person Avowals,” Columbia
University Colloquium (April 1994).
“Is there a Phenomenology of Intentional Self‐Knowledge?”, the Journal Club of St.
Vincent’s Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY (March 1994).
MEMBERSHIP on EDITORIAL BOARDS:
The Arché Journal
Southern Journal of Philosophy
Perspectiva Filosófica
REVIEWER FOR:
Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; McGraw‐Hill Publishing
Company; Wadsworth Publishing Company; Broadview Press; Longman Publishers;
Mind; Noûs; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophical Studies;
Synthese; Philosophical Psychology; American Philosophical Quarterly; Canadian Journal of
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Philosophy; Erkenntnis; Minds and Machines; Dialectica; European Review of Philosophy;
Journal of Philosophical Research; Philosophica; Philosophy Compass; Iyyun; Learning and
Behavior; Journal of the History of Philosophy; Perspectiva Filosófica; Manuscríto; Cognitive
Science Society; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Episteme Annual Conference;
Society for Philosophy and Psychology; Southern Society for Philosophy and
Psychology; Central States Philosophical Association; International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Seminars:
The A Priori
The Epistemology of Testimony
Semantic Externalism and Self‐Knowledge
The World in Mind
Conceptual Analysis: For and Against
Cognitive Significance, Meaning, and Thought
Graduate Courses:
Philosophy of Mind
(7 times)
Philosophy of Language (6)
The History of Analytic Philosophy (6)
Metalogic (5)
Cognitive Science (2)
Philosophy of Psychology (1)
Undergraduate Courses:
Introduction to Philosophy
(9 times)
Introductory Logic (7)
Predicate Logic (4)
Contemporary Civilization I (2)
Contemporary Civilization II (2)
Humanities: The Ancient Greek World (2)
Emotion and Cognition (1)
Knowledge and Reality (1)
Philosophy of Science (1)
Relativism (1)
Philosophical Classics (1)
Existentialism (1)
Independents and Guided Readings:
Philosophy of Language
(6 times)
Epistemology (5)
Metalogic (2)
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Philosophy of Mind (2)
Philosophy of Science (2)
Conditionals (1)
Contemporary Receptions of Frege (1)
Concepts of Epistemic Justification (1)
Concepts and Conceptions (1)
Modal Logic (1)
Philosophy of Mathematics (1)
Foundations of Cognitive Science (1)
Neural Networks (1)
The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (1)
The Concept‐Innateness Hypothesis (1)
Philosophical Issues in Science Fiction (1)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING:
APA Program Committee, 2008 Meeting of the APA Central Division.
Creator (with Al Casullo) and Workshop Organizer, First Annual Midwest
Epistemology Workshop, Northwestern University (November 2007).
Participants: Robert Audi, Al Casullo, Richard Fumerton, Sanford Goldberg,
John Greco, David Henderson, Jennifer Lackey, Matthew McGrath, Baron Reed,
Ernest Sosa.
Conference Organizer, “Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology,”
UK (April 2005).
Participants: Jessica Brown, Tony Brueckner, Richard Fumerton, Sanford
Goldberg, David Henderson, Terry Horgan, Duncan Pritchard, Jim Pryor, Sarah
Sawyer, David Sosa.
Program Chair, Central States Philosophical Association annual meeting, Iowa City
(October 2004).
Philosophy Program Chair, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual
meeting, New Orleans (April 2004).
Conference Organizer, “Semantics and Pragmatics,” UK (April 2002).
Participants: Emma Borg, Chris Gauker, Ernie Lepore, Peter Ludlow, Jason
Stanley, Zoltan Szabo.
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED or DIRECTING (dates received in parenthesis):
Ben Cordry, “Reference and Reality” (PhD, Spring 2002)
Carl Ehrett (Philosophy of Language), Vagueness
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Matthew Mullins (Epistemology), Disagreement
SERVICE on other PhD or MA COMMITTEES (dates received in parenthesis):
Laura Bennett (MA, Linguistics) (Spring 2005)
Paul Carelli (PhD, Philosophy) (Spring 2008)
Kamper Floyd (MA, Philosophy) (Spring 2005)
Andrea Friedrich (PhD, Cognitive Psychology) (Spring 2007)
Aaron German (MA, Philosophy) (Spring 2005)
George Harvey (PhD, Philosophy) (Spring 2004)
Michael Horton (PhD, Philosophy) (Expected 2009)
Joel Hunter (MA, Philosophy) (Spring 2003)
Christine Metzo (PhD, Philosophy)
Greig Mulberry (PhD, Philosophy) (Spring 2006)
Erin Murphy (MA, Philosophy) (Spring 2005)
Joseph Okello (PhD, Philosophy) (Spring 2007)
Nathdir Rawashdeh (PhD, Electronic Engineering) (Spring 2007)
Jennifer Woodward (MA, Philosophy) (Spring 2003)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
American Philosophical Association, member.
Central States Philosophical Association, member (Vice‐President 2003‐2004; President
2004‐
2005).
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, member.
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, member (executive council, 2004‐
2007).
RECOMMENDERS:
Paul Boghossian, Silvers Professor
Department of Philosophy
New York University
503B Silver Center
100 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
pb3@nyu.edu
Lawrence Bonjour, Professor
Department of Philosophy
Savery 256
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
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onjour@u.washinton.edu
Anthony Brueckner, Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106‐3090
brueckne@philosophy.ucsb.edu
Tyler Burge, Distinguished Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095‐1451
burge@ucla.edu
Richard Fumerton, F. Wendell Miller Professor
Department of Philosophy
The University of Iowa
262 English‐Philosophy Building
Iowa City, IA 52242‐1408
richard‐fumerton@uiowa.edu
(Last updated: April 2009.)
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