| Curriculum Vitae |
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Education |
| Ph.D candidate in Philosophy & Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego (Defense scheduled for November 6, 2009) |
| M.A. in Philosophy, University of California, San Diego (June 2007) |
| B.A. in Philosophy, B.S. in Psychology, summa cum laude, Santa Clara University (June 2002) |
Areas of Specialization |
| Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Phenomenology & Cognitive Science |
Areas of Competence |
| Philosophy of Science, Applied Ethics, Epistemology |
Dissertation |
| Beyond Folk Psychology? Toward an Enriched Account of Social Understanding [abstract] |
| Committee: William Bechtel (chair), Paul Churchland, Rick Grush, Gedeon Deák, Rafael Núñez |
Publications |
| Journal Articles |
| "False-Belief Understanding and the Phenomenological Critics of Folk Psychology." (2008). Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15(12), 33-56. [published version] |
| "Folk Psychological and Phenomenological Accounts of Social Perception." (2008). Philosophical Explorations, 11(3), 223-235. [published version] |
| Book Chapters |
| "Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences" with William Bechtel. (in press). In Fritz Allhoff (Ed.), Philosophies of the Sciences. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. |
| Conference Proceedings |
| "The Concept of Simulation in Control-Theoretic Accounts of Motor Control and Action Perception." (2008). In V. Sloutsky, B. Love, and K. McRae (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 315-320). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. |
Works in Progress |
| "'Simulation' in Control Theory and Simulation Theory" |
| "Mirroring is Not Always Simulation" |
Presentations |
| Professional Conferences |
| "Mirroring is Not Always Simulation." Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA, March 31-April 4, 2010. |
| "The Concept of Simulation in Control-Theoretic Accounts of Motor Control and Action Perception." 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, D.C., July 24, 2008. |
| "Control-Theoretic Models of Action Understanding: Simulation, Theory, or Both?" Poster presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 26, 2008. |
| "Folk Psychological and Phenomenological Accounts of Social Perception." Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pasadena, CA, March 21, 2008. |
| "False Belief Understanding and the Phenomenological Critics of Folk Psychology." Poster presented at the 33rd annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada, July 14-17, 2007. |
| Graduate Student Conferences, In-House Talks |
| "The Role of Simulation in Control-Theoretic Accounts of Action Perception." UC San Diego Graduate Philosophy Conference, May 31, 2008. |
| "The Phenomenological Critics of Folk Psychology: The Case of False Belief." Berkeley/Stanford/Davis Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, University of California, Berkeley, April 14, 2007. |
| "Beyond Folk Psychology? Toward an Enriched Account of Social Understanding." UC San Diego Graduate Philosophy Colloquium, January 23, 2007. |
| "What's Special About the Second Person in Social Understanding?" Experimental Philosophy Lab, UC San Diego, October 5, 2006. |
| "Philosophical and Empirical Approaches to Understanding Other Minds." UC San Diego Graduate Philosophy Colloquium Series, March 6, 2006. |
| "Agentive Staticism and the Sensorimotor Theory of Perception" (with Nellie Wieland & Cory Wright). UC San Diego Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 17, 2004. |
Teaching Experience |
| Primary Instructor |
| Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego |
| Phil 1: Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2009) [syllabus] |
| Phil 12: Logic and Decision Making (Winter 2010) |
| Teaching Assistant |
| Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego |
| Phil 10: Introduction to Logic (Summer 2007, Fall 2007) |
| Phil 12: Scientific Reasoning: Logic and Decision Making (Spring 2004, Winter 2009) |
| Phil 27: Ethics and Society (Fall 2003, Winter 2004, Summer 2008) |
| Phil 163: Bio-Medical Ethics (Summer 2004) |
| Dimensions of Culture program, Thurgood Marshall College, UC San Diego |
| DOC 1: Imagination (Fall 2004, Fall 2009) |
| DOC 2: Justice (Winter 2005) |
| DOC 3: Imagination (Spring 2005, Spring 2010) |
Professional Service |
| Book Review Editor, Philosophical Psychology (2007-current) |
| Editorial Assistant & Publications Editor, Philosophical Psychology (2005-2007) |
| Graduate Student Representative to the Department of Philosophy (elected), University of California, San Diego (2006-2007) |
| Ad Hoc Referee: |
| Journal of Consciousness Studies (2008, 2009) |
| Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2008) |
| Canadian Philosophical Association conference (2008) |
| Cognitive Science Society conference (2009) |
Graduate Course Work |
| Philosophy |
| PHIL 120: Symbolic Logic I (Samuel Rickless) |
| PHIL 122: Modal Logic (Gila Sher) |
| PHIL 200: Proseminar on Freedom and Responsibility (Dana Nelkin) |
| PHIL 201A: Locke's Essay (Samuel Rickless) |
| PHIL 201A: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Michael Hardimon) |
| PHIL 204: Philosophy of Science: Core Course (William Bechtel) [audited] |
| PHIL 210: Plato's Parmenides (Samuel Rickless) |
| PHIL 215: Kantian Epistemology (Eric Watkins) |
| PHIL 232: Epistemology: Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Gila Sher) |
| PHIL 234: Philosophy of Language: Naming and Necessity and its Wake (Jonathan Cohen) |
| PHIL 236: Philosophy of Mind (Paul Churchland, Peter Gärdenfors) |
| PHIL 260: Persons & Values (David Brink) [audited] |
| PHIL 267: Political Philosophy (Richard J. Arneson) |
| PHIL 285: The Nature of Logic: Philosophical and Cognitive Perspectives (Gila Sher & Rafael Núñez) |
| PHIL 285: Self and Subject in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy (Michael Hardimon) |
| PHIL 285: Group Minds, Group Agency, Group Responsibility (Rick Grush) |
Cognitive Science, Psychology |
| COGS 200: Neurophilosophy (Patricia Churchland) |
| COGS 200: Time and cognition (Rick Grush) |
| COGS 200: Ten theses in Cognitive Science (Gary Cottrell) |
| COGS 200: Science and Morality: What Can Science Teach us about Morality? (Patricia Churchland) |
| COGS 200: Spatial Cognition at Multiple Scales (Gary Cottrell) |
| COGS 200: Morality & the Social Brain (Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, Ralph Greenspan) |
| COGS 202: Cognitive Science Foundations: Computational Modeling of Cognition (Jeff Elman) |
| COGS 213: New Faces of Developmental Science (Gedeon O. Deák) |
| COGS 234: Distributed Cognition (Ed Hutchins) |
| COGS 260: Developing Language Comprehension (Gedeon O. Deák) |
| COGS 260: Neuropsychological Issues in Autism (Natacha Akshoomoff) |
| PSYC 220: Social Psychology (Piotr Winkielman) |
| PSYC 257: Development and Neurobiology of Theory of Mind (David Liu) [audited] |
Fellowship, Awards and Scholarships |
| APA Pacific Division Graduate Student Stipend award (2010) |
| Cognitive Science Society Student Travel Grant, sponsored by the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation (2008) |
| University of California, San Diego |
| Graduate Research Fellowship (2008) |
| Department of Philosophy Travel Grants (2006-2007, 2 grants; 2007-2008, 1 grant) |
Professional Organization Memberships |
| American Philosophical Association |
| Society for Philosophy and Psychology |
| Cognitive Science Society |
| Phi Sigma Tau, International Honor Society of Philosophy, National Alumni Chapter |
| Psi Chi, Psychology National Honor Society |
References |
| William Bechtel, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego, bill@mechanism.ucsd.edu |
| Paul Churchland, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego, pchurchland@ucsd.edu |
| Rick Grush, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego, rick@mind.ucsd.edu |
| Gedeon Deák, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego, deak@cogsci.ucsd.edu |
| Gerald Doppelt (Teaching Reference), Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego, jdoppelt@ucsd.edu |
| Daniel D. Hutto, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, d.d.hutto@herts.ac.u |