Abreviated Curriculum Vitae
(A full CV is available here)
Education:
University of Pittsburgh: Ph.D. Philosophy, 1996
Columbia University: BA in philosophy, summa cum laude. 1988
Dissertation:
Title: Semantic Norms and Temporal Externalism.
Committee: Robert Brandom (Director), John McDowell, Joe Camp, Dan Everett
Employment:
Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, York University, 2002-
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, York University, 2000-2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, York University, 1999-2000
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toledo, 1996-2000
Selected Publications:
“The Pragmatic Method”, in Gendler and Cappelan (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (forthcoming).
“Externalism, Metasemantic Contextualism and Self-Knowledge”, in Goldberg, (ed.) Externalism, Self-Knowledge and Skepticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 228-247.
“Meaning Holism”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, September 15, 2014.
"Semantic Intuitions, Conceptual Analysis and Cross-Cultural Variation", Philosophical Studies, Volume 146, Number 2, November 2009, pp. 159-177.
"William James", in Misak, (ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press, October 2008 (pp. 60-86),
"Comments on Hales: Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy" International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol 16, No. 2, (May 2008) pp. 255-62.
"Minimalism, psychological reality, meaning and use" Preyer and Peter (eds), Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford University Press, November 2007, pp. 320-336.
"Incompatibility Arguments and Semantic Self-Knowledge", Southwest Philosophy Review, v. 23, n. 1, Jan 2007.
"Temporal Externalism, Constitutive Norms, and Theories of Vagueness" In Marvan (ed.), What Determines Content? The Internalism/Externalism Dispute, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press (2006), pp. 221-242.
“Temporal Externalism, Deference and Our Ordinary Linguistic Practice” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 86 (2005) 379-94.
“Intuitions and Semantic Theory” Metaphilosophy. Vol. 36, no. 3 (April 2005) pp. 363-380.
“Descriptive Atomism and Foundational Holism: Semantics between the Old Testament and the New” in Gerhard Preyer, (ed): Protosociology, Vol 21: Compositionality, Concepts and Representations, 2005, pp. 7-21.
“Jamesian Pluralism and Moral Conflict: Comments on Talisse and Aikin’s ‘Why Pragmatists Cannot be Pluralists’”, Transactions of the C.S Peirce Society, Vol. XLI, No. 1 (Winter 2005) pp. 123-28.
“Epistemology and Language”, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed). Elsevier, 2005.
“Contextualism in Epistemology”, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed). Elsevier, 2005.
“James’s Empirical Assumptions: On Materialism, Meliorism and Eternalism” Streams of William James. Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 23-27,
“Temporal Externalism and Epistemic Theories of Vagueness” Philosophical Studies, Vol. 117, No.1-2, (January 2004), pp.79-94.
“Expression, Thought and Language”, Philosophia, Vol. 31, No. 1-2 (October 2003), pp. 33-54.
“Foundationalism, Coherentism and Rule Following Skepticism” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 11, No. 1, (March 2003), pp. 25-41.
“Charity, Self-Interpretation, and Belief” Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 28 (2003), pp. 145-170.
“Semantic Pragmatism and A Priori Knowledge” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol 31, No. 4, (Dec 2001) pp. 455-480.
“Ordinary Language, Conventionalism, and A Priori Knowledge” Dialectica, Vol 55. No.1 (2001), pp. 1-11.
“Belief, Rationality and Psychophysical Laws," in the Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 9: Philosophy of Mind. Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000; pp. 47-54.
“Deference and Self-Knowledge” Southwest Philosophy Review, V.16, n. 1, Jan 2000: pp. 171-180.
“Moderate Holism and the Instability Thesis”, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4, October 1999, pp. 361-369.
“We Live Forwards but Understand Backwards: Linguistic Practices and Future Behavior”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (1999) pp. 157-177.
"Prudential Arguments, Naturalized Epistemology, and the Will to Believe”, Transactions of the C.S Peirce Society Winter 1999, Vol. XXXV, No. 1: pp. 1-37.
“Convention and Language”, Synthese, 117 (3) 1998: pp. 295-312.
“Individualism and Interpretation” Southwest Philosophy Review, V.14, n. 1, Jan 1998, pp. 31-38.
“James’ Pragmatic Account of Intentionality and Truth”, Transactions of the C.S Peirce Society Winter 1998, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1: pp. 155-181.
“Radical Interpretation and the Permutation Principle”, Erkenntnis. 1996, v. 44, no. 3: pp. 317-326.
Undergraduate Courses Taught
York University
Phil 4900: Honors Seminar: Pragmatism and Neo Pragmatism
Phil 4400: Seminar in Pragmatism
Phil 4350: Topics in the Philosophy of Language
Phil 4230: Topics in Epistemology
Phil 4090: Topics in Metaphysics
Phil 4080: Topics in the Philosophy of Mind
Phil 3035: Knowledge and Reality
Phil 3400: Pragmatism
Phil 2160: Mind and Body
Phil 2100: Introduction to Logic
Phil 1100: The Meaning of Life
Phil 1000: Introduction to Philosophy
University of Toledo
Philosophy 4650, Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy 4600: Philosophy of Language)
Philosophy 4280, 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
Philosophy 3630, Philosophy of Psychology
Philosophy 3600: Theory of Knowledge
Philosophy 3140, Computers and Culture
Philosophy 3060, Philosophy of Language
Philosophy 1010: Introduction to Logic
Philosophy 1000: Critical Thinking
University of Pittsburgh
(Only classes for which I was the primary instructor.)
Philosophy 7500: Introduction to Logic
Philosophy 7300: Introduction to Ethics
Philosophy 7010: Concepts of Human Nature
Philosophy 7320: Introduction to Social Philosophy
Philosophy 7200: Introduction to Modern Philosophy
Philosophy 7200: Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
Graduate Courses Taught
York University
Phil 6065, Pragmatism: William James
Phil 6315: Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Language: Neo-Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Language.
Phil 6320, Philosophy of Logic and Language: Contemporary Theories of Truth
Phil 6320, Philosophy of Logic and Language: Concepts and Conceptual Analysis
Phil 6065, Pragmatism: Brandom’s Hegel
Phil 6065, Pragmatism: Classical and Neo-Pragmatism
Phil 5800: Core Theoretical Philosophy
University of Toledo
Philosophy 5280, 20th Century Analytic Philosophy
Philosophy 5600: Philosophy of Language
Philosophy 5650, Philosophy of Mind
Thesis Supervision
Vitaly Kiryushchenko (Director, Ph.D. Thesis, in Progress)
Vanessa-Lehan Streisel (Director, Ph.D. Thesis, in Progress)
Andrey Shamis (Director, Ph.D. Thesis, in Progress)
Jill Cumby (Director, Ph.D. Thesis, May 2015)
Marc Champagne (Director, Ph.D. Thesis, July 2014)
James Connelly (Director, Ph.D. Thesis, April 2008)
Non-University Professional Service
Series Co-Editor: Studies in American Philosophy, Pickering & Chatto (2014-2015), Routledge (2015-)
William James Society, Vice President 2015-2016.
Co-chair, Society for Realist-Anti-Realist Discussion 2008-2015
Board member, Canadian Philosophical Association 2004-2007
Selected University Service (York):
Deputy Chair: 2013-2015
Associate Chair: 2011-2012
Chair: 2010-2011
Modes Coordinator: 2013-2014, 2014-2015
Undergraduate Program Director: 2004-2009
Placement Officer: 2000-2003, 2014-2015
Speaker Series, 2001-2002
Computer Coordinator, 2001-2003
Selected University Service (Toledo):
Director of Graduate Studies 1998-9
Junior Faculty Search Committee, 1992-3. Colloquium Series Director 1996-1999
Departmental Webmaster 1996-1999
Philosophy Club Director 1996-7