Department
of Philosophy
The University of Chicago
1115 E 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
nsz [at] uchicago [dot] edu
Education
Ph.D. (candidate) University of Chicago (expected June 2010) B.A., high honors Haverford College, May 2002
Areas of Specialization
Kant, Heidegger, Transcendental Arguments and Skepticism
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Aristotle's Metaphysics and Ethics
Teaching -
Instructor,
Kant and Skepticism, Winter 2008
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Coordinator,
Being and Time undergraduate reading
group, 2007-2008
- Course Assistant, Readings in the History of Aesthetics, Winter 2009
- Writing
Intern, Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities II - Early Modern Philosophy, Winter 2009
- Writing
Intern, Philosophical Perspectives on the Humanities I - Ancient Philosophy, Autumn 2008
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Course
Assistant, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Winter 2007
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Course
Assistant, Meaning, Autumn 2006
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Course
Assistant, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,
Winter 2006
Pedagogy - Co-coordinator, Philosophy Department Teaching Mentor Program, 2008-2009
- Teaching
Consultant, Center for Teaching and Learning, 2008-2009
- Panelist
at “Teaching Your Own Course: The First Week” session of the University of
Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning’s Workshop on Teaching in the College,
September 23, 2008
University Service -
Philosophy
Graduate Assistant Advisor, PRISM (Planning Resources and Involvement for
Students in Majors), 2008-2009
- Vice-President,
Philosophy Graduate Student Administration, 2004-2005
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Student
Assistant, Philosophy Graduate Recruitment, 2005
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Hiring
Committee, Bibliographer for Religion and Philosophy, 2004
Awards
- Graduate
Student Teaching Award for Excellence in Course Design, 2008
- Century
Fellowship, 2003-2007
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Charles
Schwartz Memorial Prize for best undergraduate senior thesis, 2002
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Augustus
Taber Murray Research Fellowship, awarded to one graduate for further study
toward a Ph.D. in the humanities, 2002
Presentations
- “Being and Time and Stroud’s Objection to Transcendental Arguments,” University of Chicago Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop, March 9, 2009
- “
‘Pre-Conceptual’ Intuitions, the B-Deduction and the Myth of the Given”
- Midwest
Study Group of the North American Kant Society, Purdue University, October 19,
2008
- University
of Chicago Modern Philosophy Workshop, October 3, 2008
- “How
Do the Categories ‘Make the World Possible’?”
- Midwest
Study Group of the North American Kant Society, University of Illinois at
Chicago, October 13, 2005 (Chosen best graduate student paper)
- University
of Chicago Contemporary Philosophy Workshop, April 4, 2005
- “Nonconceptual
Perceptual Content and ‘The Waterfall Illusion’,” University of Chicago
Philosophy of Mind Workshop, May 26, 2005
- Commented
on Kurt Mertel, “Gadamerian Themes in McDowell’s Recent Philosophy,” Annual
Meeting of the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics, September
26, 2008
Professional Associations
Languages
German (reading proficiency, some speaking proficiency)
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