Curriculum Vitae


Berit Oskar Brogaard, D.M.Sci, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy

Psychology Faculty

Network for Sensory Research, University of Toronto 

Center for Neurodynamics

University of Missouri, St. Louis

St. Louis, MO 63121

USA

 

Email: brogaardb@gmail.com

Alt. email: brogaardb@umsl.edu

Homepage. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/brogaardb/

Weblog: Lemmings. URL: http://lemmingsblog.blogspot.com/

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION                                                                                             

  • Mind, Language, Epistemology, Philosophical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience

 

AREAS OF COMPETENCE                                                                            

  • Metaphysics, 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)
  • NIH OER Certificate.
  • Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI): Biomedical Responsible Conduct of Research and Social & Behavioral Research
  • University of Copenhagen and the Danish National Hospital, 5-year D.M.Sci. in Neuroscience (August 1996). Supervisor, P.I.: Thue W. Schwartz, Professor, M.D., D.M.Sci.  GLP-1 as a Neurotransmitter in the Brain.
  • University of Copenhagen, M.A. (August, 1996). Majors: Philosophy and Linguistics.

 

ACADEMIC POSTS

  • Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2012-present.
  • Member of the Education Team, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, 2012-present.
  • Research Associate, Network for Sensory Research, University of Toronto, 2011-present.
  • Member of Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, 2011-present.
  • Affiliate Faculty, Neuroscience, Behavior and Cognition Ph.D. Program, Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, March 2010-present.
  • 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, 2008-present.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2005-2008.  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

FREELANCE WRITING POSTS

  • Lance Armstrong Cancer Foundation, LIVESTRONG.com Health, 2010-present

EDITORIAL POSTS

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

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS AND ORGANIZATIONAL POSTS

  • WebmedCentral Neurology Advisory Board, 2011-present.
  • Editorial Board, Studies in Brain and Mind, Springer Book Series, ed. Gualtiero Piccinini, 2010-present.
  • President, Central States Philosophical Association, 2010-present.
  • Vice Present, Central States Philosophical Association, 2009-2010.
  • Board of Reviewers, Philosopher's Digest, 2008-present
  • The Open Applied Linguistics Journal, 2007-present.

 

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Acquired Synesthesia and Savant Syndrome
  • Color Processing in the Absence of a Color Stimulus
  • Unconscious Color Processing in Subjects with Higher Color Synesthesia
  • An Adaptive Cognitive Disassociation between Moral Judgments and Intuitions about Intentional Action

MONOGRAPHS

  • Transient Truths, Oxford University Press, 2012.


ARTICLES

    1. "Vision for Action and the Content of Perception", Journal of Philosophy, 2012.
    2. “What do We Say When We Say How or What We Feel?” Philosophers Imprint, 2012
    3. "Seeing as a Non-Sensory Mental State: The Case from Synesthesia and Visual Imagery", forthcoming in: Richard Brown, ed., Phenomenology and the Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, Neuroscience Series, Synesthese Library, 2012.
    4. "Non-Visual Consciousness and Visual Images in Blindsight", Consciousness and Cognition.
    5. "Are There Unconscious Perceptual Processes", Consciousness and Cognition 20 (2011): 449-63.
    6. "Conscious Vision for Action Vs. Unconscious Vision for Action", Cognitive Science 35 (2011): 1076–1104.
    7. "Color Experience in Blindsight?" Philosophical Psychology 24 (2011): 767-786.
    8. "Stupid People Deserve What They Get", Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, (2010), 332-334
    9. "Seeing as a Non-Sensory Relation: The Case from Synesthesia and Visual Imagery", forthcoming in: Richard Brown (ed.), Phenomenology and the Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, Neuroscience Series, Synthese Liberary, 2012.
    10. "Perceptual Reports", forthcoming in Mohan Matthen, ed. Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
    11. “Do we Perceive Natural Kind Properties?“, forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
    12. “Are Conscious States Conscious in Virtue of Representing Themselves?", forthcoming in Philosophical Studies 2012.
    13. "The Status of Consciousness in Nature", in Steven Miller, The Constitution of Consciousness, Volume 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.
    14. "Context and Content: Pragmatics in Two-Dimensional Semantics", in Keith Allen and Kasia Jaszczolt, eds. Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, 2012.
    15. "Moral Relativism and Moral Expressivism", forthcoming in: Dan Zeman and Max Kolbel, eds., Relativism about Value, 50 year's anniversary issue of Southern Journal of Philosophy.
    16. "Widescope Requirements and the Ethics of Belief", 
    17. "Towards a Eudaimonistic Virtue Epistemology", Forthcoming in: Abrol Fairweather (ed.), Naturalizing Virtue Epistemology, Synthese Library, 2012.
    18. "Intellectual Flourishing as the Fundamental Epistemic Norm", in ed. C. Littejohn and J. Turri, Epistemic Norms, 2010, Oxford University Press.
    19. "Presentism, Primitivism and Cross-Temporal Relations: Lessons from Holistic Ersatzism and Dynamic Semantics", in Roberto Ciuni, Kristie Miller and Giuliano Torrengo, eds. New Papers on the Present: Focus on Presentism, Philosophia Verlag, 2010.
    20. "An Emotion Ontology Based on the Perceived Response Theory", Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Interontology Meeting, Tokyo, Feb 23-24, 2012.
    21. “Perceptual Content and Monadic Truth: On Cappelen and Hawthorne's Relativism and Monadic Truth”, forthcoming in David Sosa, ed., Analytic Philosophy. 
    22. “Strong Representationalism and Centered Content”, Philosophical Studies (2009).
    23. “Colour”, D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annotated Biblios (2009).
    24. “Disjunctivism”, D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annotated Biblios (2009)
    25. “Discriptions”, D. Pritchard, ed. Oxford Annotated Biblios (2009)
    26. “Centered Worlds and the Content of Perception”, Blackwell Companion, Hales, ed., (2009).
    27. “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).
    28. “Perspectival Truth and Color Primitivism”, New Waves in Truth, C. Wright and N. Pedersen, ed. (2009).
    29. “Knowledge-How: a Unified Approach”, Knowledge-How Volume, J. Bengson and M. Moffett, ed., Oxford, (2009).
    30.  “Descriptions”, The Encyclopedia of the Mind, (2009). Hal Pashler, ed. Editorial Board: Tim Crane, Fernanda Ferreira, Marcel Kinsbourne, Rich Zemel.
    31. “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.
    32. “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/>
    33. “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).
    34. “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). 
    35. “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/>
    36. “Knowledge-The and Propositional Attitude Ascriptions”, F. Lihoreau, ed. Knowledge and Questions (2008).
    37.  “In Defense of a Perspectival Semantics for 'Know' ”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008), 439-459.
    38. “Counterfactuals and Context”, with J. Salerno, Analysis 68 (2008), 39-46.
    39.  “Moral Contextualism and Moral Relativism”, Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), 385-409.
    40. “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).
    41. “What Mary did Yesterday: Reflections on Knowledge-wh,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, (2008), with response by Jonathan Schaffer.
    42. “Attitude Reports”, Philosophy Compass: Epistemology 3 (2008), 93-118. Epistemology Topic Editor: Tamar Szabo Gendler.  Editor in Chief: Brian Weatherson.
    43. “Sea Battle Semantics,” Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008), 326-335.
    44.  “A Puzzle about Properties”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74, 3 (2007), 635-650.
    45. “The But not All: A New Account of Plural Definite Descriptions”, Mind and Language 22 (2007).
    46. “Span Operators”, Analysis 67 (2007): 72-79.
    47. “Number Words and Ontological Commitment”,  The Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007), 1-20.
    48.   “Descriptions: Predicates or Quantifiers?”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85 (2007), 117-136. 
    49.  “That may be Jupiter: A Heuristic for Thinking Two-Dimensionally”, American Philosophical Quarterly, October (2007).
    50. “Sharvy's Theory of Definite Descriptions Revisited”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (2007), 160-180.
    51. “Knowability, Possibility, and Paradox”, with J. Salerno, in Vincent Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard (eds.), New Waves in Epistemology, Palgrave Macmillan (2007), 270-299.
    52.  “Two Modal -- Isms: Fictionalism and Ersatzism,” Philosophical Perspectives 20, Metaphysics, John Hawthorne, ed. (2006), 77-94.
    53. “Tensed Relations”, Analysis 66 (2006): 194-202.
    54. “Knowability and a Modal Closure Principle”, with J. Salerno, American Philosophical Quarterly 43 (2006), 261-270.
    55.   “Can Virtue Reliabilism Explain the Value of Knowledge?” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (2006), 335-354.  Reprinted in translation in: Philosophical Alternatives 3 (2008).
    56. “The ‘Gray’s Elegy’ Argument, and the Prospects for the Theory of Denoting Concepts”, Synthese 152 (2006), 47-79.
    57. “The Moral Status of the Human Embryo”, Howard B Rades (ed.), Biomedical Ethics: Humanist Perspectives of Humanism Today (Prometheus Books, 2006). 
    58. 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
                • “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

                                                    1.   “A Counterfactual Account of Essence”, with Joe Salerno, The Reasoner vol. 1, no. 4 (2007).  Jon Williamson, ed.
                                                    2. “Williamson on Counterpossibles”, with Joe Salerno, The Reasoner vol. 1, no. 3 (2007).  Jon Williamson, ed.
                                                    3. “Why Counterpossibles Are Non-Trivial”, with Joe Salerno, The Reasoner vol. 1, no. 1 (2007).  Jon Williamson, ed.
                                                    4. “Milic Capek”, In: Nicholas Rescher, Johanna Seibt, and Michel Weber (eds.), A Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt.

                                                           

                                                          EDITED COLLECTIONS

                                                            1. Special Issue of Philosophical Studies on high-level properties in perception, in progress.
                                                            2. Philosophical Issues, a supplement to Nous, on the epistemology of perception, in progress.
                                                            3. Does Perception have Content? Oxford: New York, under contract. 
                                                            4. 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).
                                                            5. 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.
                                                            6. Rationality and Irationality (Constributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 8), Kirchberg: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, (2000), 2 Vol.
                                                            7. 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

                                                                          1. Subjective consciousness reduced? Review of Uriah Kriegel: Subjective Consciousness, Oxford 2009, ProtoSociology.
                                                                          2. 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.
                                                                          3.  Article Review of Patterson "Inconsistency Theories of Semantic Paradox", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, for Philosopher's Digest.
                                                                          4. 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.
                                                                          5. Thomas Sattig, The Language and Reality of Time, Oxford UP, 2006.  Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
                                                                          6. 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).
                                                                          7. Casati and Varzi: Parts and Places, MIT Press, 1999. Studia Logica (2001).
                                                                          8. 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.
                                                                          9.  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.
                                                                          10. 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

                                                                                            1. Attention conference, Antwerp, September 1-2, 2012.
                                                                                            2. TBA, World Online Neuroscience Conference, June 14-16, 2012.
                                                                                            3. Relativism and Contextualism, jointly sponsored OSU/Maribor/Rijeka, Philosophy Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 11-16, 2012.
                                                                                            4. "One is Not Born, But Rather Becomes, a Woman: Reflections on the Social Meaning of 'Sex' ", Gender Studies Colloquium, University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 18, 2012.
                                                                                            5. "Visual Imagery in the Absence of V1 Activation, Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, April 9-14, 2012.
                                                                                            6. "Moral Relativism and Aesthetic Relativism", Aesthetics and Relativism Symposium, Victoria, Canada, April 7-9, 2012
                                                                                            7. "Varieties of Synesthesia and Implications for the Philosophy of Perception", Invited Synesthesia Symposium, Pacific division meeting of the APA, Seattle, April 4-7, 2012.
                                                                                            8. "One is Not Born, But Rather Becomes, a Woman: Reflections on the Social Meaning of 'Sex' ", Feminist Metaphysics Symposium, The Society for Analytic Feminism, The Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Seattle, April 4-7, 2012.
                                                                                            9. "The Role of Vision for Action in Cognitive Task Performances", SSPP, Savanna, Georgia, March 22-24, 2012
                                                                                            10. "Seeing mathematics: perceptual experience and brain activity in acquired synesthesia", Department of Mathematics/Department of Physics/Department of Computer Science, Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri, St. Louis, March 15, 2012.
                                                                                            11. "Centered Properties and Color Primitivism", Color and Philosophy Conference, Auburn, March 2-3, 2012.
                                                                                            12. "The Status of Consciousness in Nature", Department talk, Union College, March 1, 2012.
                                                                                            13. "What Does It Mean to be Human? From Neanderthals to the Technological Singularity", Big History Lecture, University of Missouri, St. Louis, February 28, 2012.
                                                                                            14.  "Seeing mathematics: perceptual experience and brain activity in acquired synesthesia", Department of Philosophy, Keio University, Tokyo, February 25, 2012.
                                                                                            15. "An Emotion Ontology Based on the Perceived-Response Theory", Department of Philosophy, Keio University, Tokyo, February 22-25, 2012.
                                                                                            16. "Perceptual Content and Phenomenal Seemings", Department talk, University of Texas, Austin, February 17, 2012.
                                                                                            17. "Perspectivality in Perceptual Content", Seminar Talk, University of Texas, Austin, February 16, 2012.
                                                                                            18. "Phenomenal Seemings and Sensible Dogmatism", Department talk, Colorado, Boulder, February 3, 2012.
                                                                                            19. "Phenomenal Seemings and Sensible Dogmatism", Department talk, University of Vermont, January 27, 2012.
                                                                                            20. "The Superhuman Mind", Philosophy Salon, UMSL, January 20, 2012
                                                                                            21. Unity of Consciousness Panel, Brown Conference on the Unity of Consciousness, Brown University, November 5-6, 2011.
                                                                                            22. Talk and Panel Discussion, Cortical Color Workshop and Conference, Vancouver, August 3-7, 2011.
                                                                                            23. "Do 'Looks' Reports Reflect the Contents of Perception?", The Language of Consciousness workshop, ANU, Australia, July 28-29, 2011.
                                                                                            24. "Degrees of Consciousness", Consciousness at the Beach, ANU Kioloa Coastal Campus, July 22-25, 2011.
                                                                                            25. "A Common Flaw in the Empirical Study of Consciousness", Australasian Association of Philosophy, New Zealand, July 3-8, 2011.
                                                                                            26. "Do 'Looks' Reports Reflect the Contents of Perception?", Department talk, Munich, Germany, May 19, 2011.
                                                                                            27. "Degrees of consciousness", Workshop on the Ontology and Epistemology of Consciousness, Southern Danish University, May 13, 2011.
                                                                                            28. "The Status of Consciousness in Nature", Department talk, Southern Danish University, May 12, 2011.
                                                                                            29. Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, May 8 -11.
                                                                                            30. "The Superhuman Mind: From Synesthesia to Savant Syndrome", with Jason Padgett, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Stockholm, May 2 - 8, 2011.
                                                                                            31. "The Superhuman Mind: From Synesthesia to Savant Syndrome", Synesthesia symposium, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Stockholm, May 1, 2011.
                                                                                            32. Commentator, Pacific APA, April 20-24, 2011.
                                                                                            33. "Color in Blindsight", BBOB Presentation, Psychology, UMSL, April 6.
                                                                                            34. "A Common Flaw in the Empirical Study of Consciousness", Joint PNP/Medical School talk, East Building of Medical School Campus, Washington University St. Louis, March 9, 2011
                                                                                            35. "A Case of Acquired Synesthesia and Savant Syndrome after A Brutal Assault", Med school talk, Washington University St. Louis, March 7, 2011.
                                                                                            36. "What Does it Mean to be Human? From Neanderthals to the Technological Singularity" Big History Lecture, University of Missouri, St. Louis, February 28, 2011.
                                                                                            37. Commentary on Nemira Gasiunas's "Grapheme-color synesthesia as perception without awareness", The Third Online Consciousness Conference, Feb 18 - March 4, 2011.
                                                                                            38. Chair, Perception workshop, Harvard Dec 4, 2010.
                                                                                            39. "Does Color Synesthesia Differ Phenomenally from Visual Imagery", NYU, New York, Nov 20, 2010.
                                                                                            40. "Degrees of Consciousness", Spawn conference, , Metaphysics, Syracuse, July 2010.
                                                                                            41. TBA, Department talk, University of Aarhus, May 20, 2010.
                                                                                            42. “What is an Unconscious Mental State”, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tuscon, April 2010. 
                                                                                            43. “Do We Perceive Natural Kind Properties?”, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 31, 2010.
                                                                                            44. “Comments on Uriah Krigel's Subjective Consciousness”, Author-Meets-Critic Session, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, April 1, 2010. 
                                                                                            45. Author meets critic, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, February 20, 2010.
                                                                                            46. “An Alternative to Color Relationalism”, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York City, December 2009.
                                                                                            47. Perception workshop: Vision Beyond Perception, Harvard University, Susanna Siegel, org, Nov. 14, 2009.
                                                                                            48. “Towards a Theory of the Long-Lasting Emotions”, Department talk, University of Missouri, Columbia, Nov. 6, 2009. 
                                                                                            49. “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.
                                                                                            50. TBA, Feldman Workshop, University of Copenhagen, August 2009.  
                                                                                            51. “Some Kind of Seeing”, Annual Meeting of the Australian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne 2009.
                                                                                            52. “Do We Perceive High-Level Properties?”, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Australian National University, May 14, 2009.
                                                                                            53.  “Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism”, Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Vancouver April 2009.
                                                                                            54. “Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism”, Department of Philosophy, Kansas State University, March 26, 2009.
                                                                                            55.  “Disjunctivism and Primitive Knowledge”, Russell V Conference, Bay Area, org. Bruce Russell, March 12-15, 2009.
                                                                                            56.  “Propositions as Hyperintensions”, Hyperintensionality and Impossible Worlds Workshop, org. David Chalmers, The ANU, 25-26. Nov, 2008.
                                                                                            57.   “Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism”, Copenhagen University, Oct. 24. 2008
                                                                                            58.  “Knowledge-How: A Unified Account”, Epistemology workshop, org. Mikkel Gerken, Oct. 23, 2008. 
                                                                                            59.  “Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism”, The Second Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop, October 17-18, 2008, The University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska.
                                                                                            60.  “Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism”, August 2008, Auckland, NZ.
                                                                                            61.   “On Luck, Responsibility and the Meaning of Life”, August 2008, Wellington, NZ.
                                                                                            62.   “Primitive Knowledge Disjunctivism”, August 2008, Otago, NZ.
                                                                                            63. “Knowledge without Belief”, Australian Asscoiation of Philosophy, July 2008.
                                                                                            64.   “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. 
                                                                                            65.  “Counterpossibles, Impossible Worlds and Essence”, with Joe Salerno, Arizona Ontology Conference, Arizona, January 9-12, 2008.  Organizer: Laurie Paul.  Commentator: Gillian Russell.
                                                                                            66.  “An Extensional Approach to Quantifier Domain Restriction”, the Eastern Meeting of the APA, Baltimore, December 27-30, 2007.  Commentator: Jason Stanley.
                                                                                            67.  “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).
                                                                                            68.   “Perceptual Content”, PhilSoc, Philosophy RSSS, Australian National University, October 23, 2007.
                                                                                            69.  Rutgers Semantics Workshop, October 5-7, 2007.  Organizers: Lepore and Stanley.
                                                                                            70.  “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.
                                                                                            71. “Structured Content”, Philosophy RSSS, September 14, 2007.
                                                                                            72. “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.
                                                                                            73.  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.
                                                                                            74.   “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. 
                                                                                            75. “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.
                                                                                            76. “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. 
                                                                                            77. “Sea Battle Semantics”, the Pacific Division of the APA in San Francisco, April, 2007.  Commentator: Peter Ludlow, University of Michigan.
                                                                                            78.   “What Mary Did Yesterday: Reflections on Knowledge-wh,” Philosophy Department Colloquium, St. Louis University.  March 30, 2007.
                                                                                            79.  “What Mary Did Yesterday. Remarks on Knowledge-wh,” Knowledge and Questions Workshop, 15-16 March 2007 at the Archives H.-Poincaré, Nancy, France.
                                                                                            80.  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.
                                                                                            81.  “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.
                                                                                            82.   “The Puzzles of Coincidence and the Temporary Identity Thesis”. University of Missouri, St. Louis, WiP Philosophy Colloquium, October 3, 2006.
                                                                                            83.  Rutgers Semantics Workshop, Sep 29-30, 2006, invited participant.
                                                                                            84.  “In Defense of a Perspectival Semantics for ‘Know’ ”.  Philosophy Department Colloquium. Syracuse. Sep 2006.
                                                                                            85.  “In Defense of a Perspectival Semantics for ‘Know’ ”. NAMICONA.  Epistemology Workshop, University of Copenhagen, August 22, 2006.
                                                                                            86.   “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.
                                                                                            87.  “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.
                                                                                            88.  “Adverbs and Quantifier Domain Restriction”, the Central Division of the APA in Chicago, April 2006.  Commentator: Andy Egan, University of Michigan.
                                                                                            89.  “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.
                                                                                            90.   “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.
                                                                                            91.  “What Price Presentism?” University of Missouri, St. Louis, WiP Philosophy Colloquium, December 2005.
                                                                                            92.  Commentator on Kit Fine’s ‘Coincidence’, Kline Workshop, University of Missouri, Columbia, organized by Matthew McGrath, March, 2005.
                                                                                            93.   “Contextualism vs. Subject-Sensitive Invariantism”, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, July 30, 2004.
                                                                                            94.   “A Solution to Fitch’s Paradox”, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, July 30, 2004.
                                                                                            95.  “Identity and Proper Names”, Ontology Workshop, organized by Achille Varzi, SUNY Buffalo, November 9, 2002.
                                                                                            96.  “Is there Logical Space for an Epistemic Theory of Truth”, SUNY Buffalo, Philosophy Colloquium, jointly with Buffalo Logic Colloquium, November 8, 2002.
                                                                                            97.   “Plantinga’s Paradox of Knowability”, with J. Salerno, the Central Division of the APA in Chicago April, 2002.  Commentator:  Michael Rea.
                                                                                            98.  “Anti-Realism and Possibility”, with J. Salerno, the Pacific Division of the APA in Seattle, WA, March, 2002.
                                                                                            99.  “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.
                                                                                            100.  “The Meaning of Life”, with Barry Smith, Philosophy Department, SUNY Brockport, April 12, 2001.
                                                                                            101.  “Elusive Reference, Grounded Truth”. The 23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, August, 2000.
                                                                                            102.  “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
                                                                                            103.    “Should We Be Afraid of Human Cloning?”, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, April 27, 2000.
                                                                                            104.  “Brain Death and Technological Development”, Brain Death and Human Identity - An Ad Hoc Symposium, University of Hamburg, Germany, March 9, 2000.
                                                                                            105.   “Presentist Four-Dimensionalism”, the Hamburger Kreis, University of Hamburg, Germany, February 10, 2000.
                                                                                            106.    “Mereology and Causation”, Winter Symposium, University of Aarhus, Denmark, January, 2000.
                                                                                            107.  “The Ontology of Fields”, NCGIA Annual Meeting 1999, Santa Barbara, CA, December 3, 1999.
                                                                                            108.  “The Ontology of Species”, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, October 8, 1999­.
                                                                                            109.  “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.
                                                                                            110.  “Language and Time”, University at Urbino, Italy, July 1998.
                                                                                            111.   “The Ontology of Fields”, The Ontology of Fields, Specialist Meeting of the NSF Varenius Project, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 1998.
                                                                                            112.   “Intentionality”, 6th Congress of the IASS-AIS, Guajadelaja, Mexico, July 15, 1997.
                                                                                            113.   “An Aristotelian Approach to Animal Behavior”, 6th Congress of the IASS-AIS, Guajadelaja, Mexico, July 14, 1997.

                                                                                             

                                                                                            PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

                                                                                            • American Editor of the international philosophy journal Erkenntnis.
                                                                                            • Journal referee: *Analysis, Analytic Philosophy, 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, *Grazer Philosophical Studien, Journal of Moral Philosophy, *Journal of Philosophical Logic, *Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Semantics,*Mind, *Mind and Language, *The Monist, *Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, *Nous, *Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, *Philosophical Quarterly, *Philosophers' Imprint, *Philosophical Psychology, *Philosophical Review, *Philosophical Studies, Philosophy Study, *Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Sats - Nordic Journal of Philosophy, *Philosophia, *Synthese, Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Theoria (*refereed multiple submissions)
                                                                                            • Press referee: Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Wadsworth.
                                                                                            • Co-organizer, More or Less: Workshop and Conference on Cortical Color Processing, Vancouver, August 2011.
                                                                                            • Organizer, the 2011 meeting of the Central States Philosophical Association, St. Louis.
                                                                                            • President for the Central States Philosophical Association, 2010-present.
                                                                                            • 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, 2007, 2010, 2011
                                                                                            • Board of Reviewers: Philosopher's Digest, 2008-present.
                                                                                            • Conference referee: Central States Philosophical Association, 2006, SSPP 2009.
                                                                                            • 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

                                                                                            • College of Arts and Sciences Scholarship and Awards Committee, 2010-present.
                                                                                            • Express Scripts Grant Committee, 2010-present
                                                                                            • Behavioral Economics Research Committee, 2010-present
                                                                                            • Neuroscience certificate committee, 2010-present
                                                                                            • History of Philosophy Certificate Committee, 2010-present
                                                                                            • Faculty Senate: 2006-2008.
                                                                                            • Gender Studies Governing board, 2006-present

                                                                                             

                                                                                            Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri—St. Louis

                                                                                            • Director of Graduate studies, Department of Philosophy, 2010-present
                                                                                            • Graduate Adviser, Department of Philosophy, 2010-present
                                                                                            • Chair of Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Philosophy, 2010-present
                                                                                            • Chair of Colloquium Committee, 2010-present
                                                                                            • Job Search Committees: 2005, 2006, 2007

                                                                                             

                                                                                            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.


                                                                                            PLACEMENT OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

                                                                                            • Adam Arico (University of Arizona)
                                                                                            • Luvell Anderson (Rutgers University)
                                                                                            • John Gabriel (Washing University, St. Louis)
                                                                                            • Adam Taylor (SUNY Buffalo)
                                                                                            • Malcolm Keating (University of Texas, Austin)
                                                                                            • Pen Roberts (University of Nottingham)
                                                                                            • Katherine Tullman (CUNY)
                                                                                            • Jonathan Spellman (University of Colorado, Boulder)
                                                                                            • David Pruitt (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
                                                                                            • Jeff Dauer (Washington University, St. Louis)
                                                                                            • Liz Lane (Ph.D.)
                                                                                            • Lisa Cagle, (Washington University, St. Louis)

                                                                                            COURSES TAUGHT

                                                                                            • Neuroscience (graduate, fall 2010, spring 2011)
                                                                                            • Foundations in Analytic Philosophy (graduate, fall 2011)
                                                                                            • Love 101 (undergraduate, fall 2011)
                                                                                            • Sexual Ethics (undergraduate, spring 2011)
                                                                                            • Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (summer 2011)
                                                                                            • Metametaphysics (graduate, fall 2009)
                                                                                            • Proseminar (graduate, fall 2006, fall 2010)
                                                                                            • Epistemology (graduate, spring 2006, spring 2007, spring 2009, spring 2010, spring 2011)
                                                                                            • 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).
                                                                                            • Metaphysics (graduate, fall 2006, fall 2010)
                                                                                            • 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)

                                                                                            • College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, 2011.
                                                                                            • College of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, 2011.
                                                                                            • 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.
                                                                                            • Research Board Grant, University of Missouri, 2008.

                                                                                            REFERENCES

                                                                                            • David Chalmers, NYU/Philosophy Program, RSSS, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.  Email: chalmers@anu.edu.au.
                                                                                            • Jonathan Schaffer, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. Email: schaffer@philos.umass.edu
                                                                                            • Zoltan Szabo, Department of Philosophy, Yale University. Email: zoltan.szabo@yale.edu
                                                                                            • Ernie Lepore, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers, New Brunswick, 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Email: lepore@ruccs.rutgers.edu.
                                                                                            •  Peter Ludlow, Department of Philosophy and Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003. Email: ludlow@umich.edu.
                                                                                            • Jason Stanley, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers, New Brunswick, 26 Nichol Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Email: jasoncs@ruccs.rutgers.edu.
                                                                                            • Kent Bach, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, CA. 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132.  Email:  kbach@sfsu.edu.
                                                                                            • Delia Graff Fara, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, tel (609) 258-4311.  Email: graff@princeton.edu.
                                                                                            • Barry Smith, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, Park Hall, Buffalo, N.Y. 14260-1010, tel. (716) 645-2444.  Email: phismith@buffalo.edu.