Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Timothy Allan Schroeder
timothy.allan.schroeder@gmail.com
Education
Ph.D. (philosophy), Stanford University (1998)
B.A. (philosophy), University of Lethbridge (1993)
Areas of Specialization
Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, Ethics, History of Chinese Philosophy
Professional History
Fall 2015 – present Rice University – Professor
Fall 2019 – 2022 Rice University – Chair
Fall 2014 – 2015 Ohio State University – Professor
Fall 2006 – 2014 Ohio State University – Associate Professor
Fall 2005 – 2006 University of Manitoba – Associate Professor
Fall 1998 – 2005 University of Manitoba – Assistant Professor
Summer 1997 University of Lethbridge – Instructor
Summer 1996 University of Lethbridge – Instructor
Citations (per Google Scholar): 1739 as of 12 October, 2021.
Books
3. Schroeder, T. In Progress. To Act.
2. Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. 2014. In Praise of Desire. New York: Oxford University Press.
1. Schroeder, T. 2004. Three Faces of Desire. New York: Oxford University Press.
Papers
50. Schroeder, T. Commissioned. “Agency, Motivation, and Desire.” For Luca Ferrero’s Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Agency. New York: Taylor and Francis.
48. Schroeder, T. To Appear. “Desire.” In Andrea Scarantino (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory. New York: Taylor and Francis.
47. Schroeder, T. 2017. “Empirical Evidence Against A Cognitivist Theory of Desire and Action.” Julien Deonna and Federico Lauria (eds.) The Nature of Desire. New York: Oxford University Press. 221-48.
46. Schroeder, T. 2017. “The Causal Map and Moral Psychology.” Philosophical Quarterly 67, 347-69.
45. Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. 2017. “Addiction, Habits, and Blame.” In Matthew Liao and Collin O’Neil (eds.) Current Controversies in Bioethics. Routledge. 117-131.
44. Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. 2016. Précis of In Praise of Desire and reply to critics. Journal of Value Inquiry 50, 425-32.
43. Pearlberg, D. and Schroeder, T. 2016. “Reasons, Causes, and the Extended Mind Hypothesis.” Erkenntnis 81, 41-57.
42. Cray, W. and Schroeder, T. 2015. “An Ontology of Ideas.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1, 757-75.
41. Schroeder, T. 2015. “Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Moral Agency.” In D. Shoemaker (ed.) Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility: Volume 3. New York: Oxford University Press. 85-103.
40. Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. 2015. “A Causal Theory of Acting for Reasons.” American Philosophical Quarterly. Special Issue eds. John Brunero and Eric Wiland. 103-14.
39. Everett, A. and Schroeder, T. 2015. “Ideas for Stories.” Brock, S. and Everett, A. (eds.). Fictional Objects. New York: Oxford University Press. 275-93.
38. Schroeder, T. and Arpaly, N. 2014. “The Reward Theory of Desire in Moral Psychology.” Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical essays on the new science of ethics. Justin D’Arms and Dan Jacobson (eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 186-214.
37. Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. 2014. “Replies to Critics.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 89, 509-15.
36. Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. 2014. “Précis of In Praise of Desire.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 89, 490-95.
35. Schroeder, T. 2014. “Long-term and Short-term Intentions in Psychological Theory,
Neurotechnology, and Free Will.” In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology,
Volume 4: Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 183-9.
34. Schroeder, T. and Arpaly, N. 2013. “Addiction and Blameworthiness.” Addiction and Self-Control. N. Levy (ed.) New York: Oxford University Press. 214-38.
33. Schroeder, T. 2013. “Moral Motivation.” For the International Encyclopedia of Ethics. [An online encyclopedia.]
32. Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. 2012. “Deliberation and Acting for Reasons.” The Philosophical Review 121, 209-39.
31. Schroeder, T. 2010. “Practical Rationality is a Problem in the Philosophy of Mind.” Philosophical Issues 20.
30. Schroeder, T. 2010. “Desire and Pleasure.” In T. O’Connor and C. Sandis (eds.). A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Wiley-Blackwell.
29. Schroeder, T., Roskies, A., and Nichols, S. 2010. “Moral Motivation.” In J. Doris, S. Nichols, and S. Stich (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
28. Schroeder, T. 2010. “Desire, Philosophical issues about.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. [An online journal.]
27. Schroeder, T. 2010. “Desire and Pleasure in John Pollock’s Thinking about Acting.” Philosophical Studies 148, 447-54.
26. Schroeder, T. 2010. “Desire.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [An online encyclopedia.]
25. Schroeder, T. 2010. “Rational Action and Addiction.” In D. Ross, H. Kincaid, D. Spurrett, and P. Collins (eds.) What is Addiction? Cambridge, MA:MIT Press. 391-407.
24. Schroeder, T. 2007. “An Unexpected Pleasure.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy: Supplementary volume 32. Christine Tappolet (ed.) 255-272.
23. Schroeder, T. 2009. “Introspection.” The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Sander, D. and Scherer, K. (eds.) New York: Oxford University Press. 226.
22. Schroeder, T. 2009. “Desire.” The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences. Sander, D. and Scherer, K. (eds.) New York: Oxford University Press. 116.
21. Schroeder, T. 2008. “Moravcsik and the Contents of Consciousness.” In D. Follesdal and J. Woods (eds.) Logos and Language: Essays in honor of Julius Moravcsik. College Publications.
20. Schroeder, T. 2007. “Reason, Reflection, and Free Will.” Philosophical Explorations 10.
19. Schroeder, T. 2007. “Two Ways of Seeing Ways of Seeing.” Dialogue 46, 341-45.
18. Schroeder, T. and Caplan, B. 2007. “On the Content of Experience.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75, 590-611.
17. Schroeder, T. 2007. “A Recipe for Concept Similarity.” Mind and Language 22, 68-91.
16. Schroeder, T. and Matheson, C. 2006. “Imagination and Emotion.” In Nichols, S. (ed.) The Architecture of the Imagination: New essays on pretence, possibility, and fiction. New York: Oxford University Press. 19-39.
15. Schroeder, T. 2006. “Desire.” Philosophy Compass. Blackwell. See http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00047.x.
14. Schroeder, T. 2006. “Propositional Attitudes.” Philosophy Compass. Blackwell. See http://www.philosophy-compass.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00010.x.
13. Schroeder, T. 2006. “Reply to Critics.” Dialogue 45, 165-74.
13. Schroeder, T. 2006. “Précis of Three Faces of Desire.” Dialogue 45, 125-30.
12. Schroeder, T. 2005. “Desire.” In T. Honderich (ed.) Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
11. Schroeder, T. 2005. “Frederick Irwin Dretske.” In Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Thoemmes.
10. Schroeder, T. 2005. “Paul Montgomery Churchland.” In Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Thoemmes.
9. Schroeder, T. 2005. “Moral Responsibility and Tourette Syndrome.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71, 106-23.
8. Schroeder, T. 2004. “New Norms for Teleosemantics.” Representation in Mind: New approaches to mental representation. Hugh Clapin, Phillip Staines, and Peter Slezak (eds.). Elsevier. 91-106.
7. Hulse, Donovan, Read, Cynthia N., and Schroeder, T. 2004. “The Impossibility of Conscious Desire.” American Philosophical Quarterly 41, 73-80.
6. Schroeder, T. 2004. “Functions from Regulation.” The Monist 87. 115-35.
5. Schroeder, T. 2003. “Donald Davidson’s Theory of Mind is Non-Normative.” Philosophers’ Imprint 3:1, 1-14.
4. Schroeder, T. 2001. “Monsters Among Us.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy: Supplementary volume 27. Jillian Scott McIntosh (ed.) 167-84.
3. Schroeder, T. 2001. “Pleasure, Displeasure and Representation.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31, 507-30.
2. Schroeder, T. and Arpaly, N. 1999. “Alienation and Externality.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 29, 371-88.
1. Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. 1999. “Praise, Blame and the Whole Self.” Philosophical Studies 93, 161-88.
Reprinted 2007. (In French: Marlène Jouan, trans.) In Marlène Jouan (ed.) Psychologie Morale. Series: Textes Clès. Paris: VRIN.
Book Reviews
Schroeder, T. 2016. Philosophical Review. Review of Berit Brogaard, On Romantic Love. New York: Oxford University Press. 2015.
Schroeder, T. 2016. Mind. Review of Michael Slote, A Sentimentalist Theory of Mind. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014.
Schroeder, T. 2012. Ethics . Review of Daniel Kelly, Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2011.
Schroeder, T. 2012. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Review of Joel Marks, Ethics without Morals: In defense of amorality. Routledge. 2012.
Schroeder, T. 2011. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Review of Bruno Mölder, Mind Ascribed: An elaboration and defense of interpretivism. John Benjamins. 2010.
Schroeder, T. 2007. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Review of Graham Macdonald and David Papineau (eds.), Teleosemantics: New philosophical essays. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006.
Schroeder, T. 2006. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Review of Shaun Gallagher, How the Body Shapes the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005.
Schroeder, T. 2006. Philosophy in Review 26, 213-15. Review of Colin McGinn, Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2004.
Schroeder, T. 2005. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Review of Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith, Mind, Morality, and Explanation: Selected collaborations. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Schroeder, T. 2005. Dialogue 44, 196-8. Review of Jason Holt, Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. 2003.
Schroeder, T. 2004. Philosophy in Review 24, 303-5. Review of Michael Tye, Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity. MIT Press. 2003.
Schroeder, T. 2003. The Review of Metaphysics. Review of Krista Lawlor, New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive policies as the ground of singular concepts. Garland Press. 2001.
Schroeder, T. 2003. Dialogue. 42, 148-9. Review of Ruth Millikan, On Clear and Confused Ideas. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000.
Schroeder, T. 2001. Philosophy in Review 21, 235-7. Review of Robert Brandom, Articulating Reasons: An introduction to inferentialism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2000.
Book Symposia
2016 (April), American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
Authors: Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T.
In Praise of Desire
Critics: Peter Railton (University of Michigan), Gideon Rosen (Princeton University),
Tatyana Kostochka and Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California)
2006 (March), American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
Author: Schroeder, T.
Three Faces of Desire
Critics: John Doris (Washington University), Steve Downes (University of Utah), Christopher Hill (Brown University)
2005 (May), Canadian Philosophical Association
Author: Schroeder, T.
Three Faces of Desire
Critics: Andrew Brook (Carleton University), Ronald de Sousa (University of Toronto), Noa Latham (University of Calgary), Paul Thagaard (University of Waterloo)
Invited (*) and Peer-Reviewed Talks and Comments
2019 (August) Models of Control and Moral Responsibility (Copenhagen University)
*Schroeder, T. “Responsibility as Acting for Reasons.”
2019 (July) The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Mind and Action (University of Tübingen)
*Schroeder, T. “The Architecture of Choice”
2018 (June) Canadian Philosophical Association
*Schroeder, T. “Desire and Wellbeing”
2017 (September) Rhodes College
*Schroeder, T. “Depression: Some lessons for philosophers”
2017 (March) Pleasure, Reward, and Value (Brown University)
*Schroeder, T. “Interpreting the Value in the Phrase ‘Expected Value’”
2016 (May) NeuroX (Rice University)
*Schroeder, T. “The Philosophy of the Midbrain Dopamine System.” (poster session)
2016 (May) Baylor College of Medicine
*Schroeder, T. “The Philosophy of the Midbrain Dopamine System.”
2015 (September) Conference on Desire and Action (Antwerp, Belgium)
*Schroeder, T. “The Reward System Does Not Represent Value”
2015 (July) Suffering’s Role and Value (Glasgow, UK)
*Schroeder, T. “Perceiving Things as Worse”
2015 (April) Emotional and Physical Suffering: Roles and Values (Bochum, Germany)
*Schroeder, T. “Perceiving Things as Worse”
2014 (December) Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Cray, W. and Schroeder, T. “An Ontology of Ideas”
2014 (October) Brain Circuits for Positive Emotions (Ascona, Switzerland)
*Schroeder, T. “The Positive Emotional Aspects of Reward”
2014 (May) The Affective Face of Desire (Rennes, France)
*Schroeder, T. “Psychological Hedonism Refuted by Neuroscience and Philosophy,
Working Together”
2014 (April) Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. “Desire and Virtue”
2014 (February) Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on Dan Kelly’s Yuck!”
2013 (November) New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility
Schroeder, T. “Obsessive-Compulsive Moral Scrupulosity”
2013 (March) Causation and Agency in our Indeterministic World (Utrecht, Netherlands)
*Schroeder, T. “Acting for Reasons in an Indeterministic World”
2012 (July) Control and the Absent Mind (Essen, Germany)
*Schroeder, T. “Deliberating out of Habit”
2012 (June) The Nature of Desires (Geneva, Switzerland)
*Schroeder, T. “The Neuroscience of Moral Motivation”
2012 (June) Workshop in Moral Psychology and Human Agency (Ann Arbor)
*Schroeder, T. and Arpaly, N. “The Neuroscience of Desire”
2012 (March) Ohio Philosophical Association (Cleveland)
*Comment on Smyth
2012 (February) Davidson College
*Schroeder, T. “In Praise of Desire”
2011 (November) Western Kentucky University
*Schroeder, T. “Loving the Good”
2011 (October) Western Canadian Philosophical Association
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on Franco”
2011 (May) Northwestern Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics
Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. “Deliberation and Acting for Reasons”
2011 (April) American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
*Schroeder, T. "Comment on Dancy"
2011 (April) Ohio Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “Deliberation and Acting for Reasons”
2011 (January) Davis Group in Ethics and Related Subjects
*Arpaly, N. and Schroeder, T. “Deliberation and Acting for Reasons”
2009 (December) American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division)
*Schroeder, T. “Comments on Campbell and Craver”
2008 (May) University of Cincinnati
*Schroeder, T. “Explaining Virtue”
2008 (April) Moral Psychology Research Group (Minnesota)
*Schroeder, T. “Explaining Virtue”
2008 (April) Cleveland State University
*Schroeder, T. “Explaining Virtue”
2008 (February) SUNY Albany
*Schroeder, T. “Explaining Virtue”
2008 (January) Free Will and Science (Tallahassee)
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on Arpaly”
2007 (December) American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division)
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on Egan and Doggett”
2007 (May) What Is Addiction? (Birmingham)
*Schroeder, T. “Addiction, Expectation, and Habit”
2007 (April), American Philosophical Association (Central Division)
Schroeder, T. “The Neuroscience of Moral Motivation”
2007 (April) American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on Morino”
2006 (November) UC Riverside Moral Pychology discussion group
*Schroeder, T. “Addiction as Habit”
2006 (November) California Institute of Technology
*Schroeder, T. “Addiction as Habit”
2006 (February) Colloquium on Neuroscience and Moral Psychology (Salt Lake City)
*Schroeder, T. “The Neuroscience of Moral Motivation (or, What Makes Kantians Tic?)”
2005 (October) University of Texas at Austin
*Schroeder, T. “The Neuroscience of Moral Motivation (or, What Makes Kantians Tic?)”
2005 (October) Western Canadian Philosophical Association (Winnipeg)
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on Rosen”
2005 (September) University of Winnipeg
*Schroeder, T. “The Neuroscience of Moral Motivation (or, What Makes Kantians Tic?)”
2005 (September) Washington University
*Schroeder, T. “The Neuroscience of Moral Motivation (or, What Makes Kantians Tic?)”
2005 (May) The Modularity of the Emotions (Montreal)
*Schroeder, T. “An Unexpected Pleasure.”
2005 (March) American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
Schroeder, T. and Caplan, B. “On the Content of Experience”
2004 (June) Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “Three Faces of Desire”
2003 (October) Western Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “Three Faces of Desire”
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on Rysiew”
2003 (June) Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “Moral Responsibility and Tourette Syndrome”
*Schroeder, T. Comment on Bardsley
*Schroeder, T. Comment on Schellenberg
2003 (April) American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
Hulse, D., Read, C., and Schroeder, T. “The Impossibility of Conscious Desire”
2002 (October) Western Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “The Reflexive Content of Experience”
2002 (May) Canadian Philosophical Association
Hulse, D., Read, C., and Schroeder, T. “Searle on Conscious and Non-Conscious Desires”
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on Hattiangadi”
2002 (April) Mistakes of Reason: A conference in honour of John Woods
*Schroeder, T. “The Force of Reason”
2002 (March) Northern Countries Conference (Iceland)
*Schroeder, T. “North-Atlantic Theories of Love”
2001 (October) Western Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “Moral Responsibility and Tourette Syndrome”
2001 (June) University of Iceland
*Schroeder, T. “Ghosts of Desires Past”
2001 (April) Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference
Schroeder, T. “Moral Responsibility and Tourette Syndrome”
2001 (April) American Philosophical Association (Central Division)
Schroeder, T. “Problems and Prospects for the Representational Theory of Desire”
2000 (October) Western Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “Ghosts of Desires Past”
2000 (June) Representation In Mind Conference (Sydney)
Schroeder, T. “New Norms for Teleosemantics”
2000 (May) University of Sheffield
*Schroeder, T. “Ghosts of Desires Past”
1999 (October) Western Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “New Norms for Teleosemantics”
1999 (July) Royal Institute for Philosophy Conference (Edinburgh)
Schroeder, T. “Troubling Foundations for Cathedral Semantics”
1999 (June) Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “Troubling Foundations for Cathedral Semantics”
1999 (April) American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
Schroeder, T. “Tye on Pleasures, Pains, Emotions and Moods”
1998 (November) Western Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “The Nature and Methodology of Represenationalism”
*Schroeder, T. “Comment on McIntosh”
1998 (October) University of Lethbridge
*Schroeder, T. “Tye on Pleasures, Pains, Emotions and Moods”
1998 (September) University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities
*Schroeder, T. “Tye on Pleasures, Pains, Emotions and Moods”
1997 (December) American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division)
Schroeder, T. “Alienation and Externality” (with Nomy Arpaly)
1996 (November) Western Canadian Philosophical Association
Schroeder, T. “Absolutism and Information”
*Schroeder, T. “Cash on Misrepresentation”
1995 (September) University of Lethbridge
*Schroeder, T. “Information and the Mind”
Honours, Awards, and Grants
2015 $3,040, funding for Credence Tree database and web development from the Humanities Research Center at Rice University
2012-13 $36,000 Residential Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
2012 $5,000 Research Enhancement Grant from Ohio State University
2007 $2,250 Research Enhancement Grant from Ohio State University
2004-2007 $34,160 Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada – “The Normativity of Practical Reason: A
naturalistic account”
2004 $5,000 University of Manitoba Rh Award
2001-2004 $25,500 Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada – “A Theory of Desire: Its influence on motivation,
judgement and skill”
2000 $5,000 Bridge Funding from the University of Manitoba
1999 $2,250 UM/SSHRC Research Grant – “Three Faces of Desire”
1997-98 Mellon Foundation Fellowship
1993-97 Stanford University Fellowship
Selected Professional Service Activities
2021 Program Committee Member, ACPA 2021
2020 Program Committee Member, ACPA 2020
2019 Program Committee Member, ACPA 2019
2018 Conference Organizer. Responsibility Workshop. Held at Rice University.
2018 Program Committee Member, ACPA 2018
2017 Program Committee Member, ACPA 2017
2012 Conference Organizer. Order and Disorder in the Moral Mind. Held at Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.
2005 Conference Co-Organizer (with Ben Caplan). 42nd Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association. Held at the Hotel Fort Gary, Winnipeg Manitoba.
Referee for book publishers, including: Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Blackwell, Routledge, Norton, and Acumen.
Referee for journals, including: Philosophical Review, Ethics, Noûs, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Mind, Philosophical Studies, Cognitive Science, Mind and Language, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Biology and Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Papers, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Journal of Philosophical Research, Philosophical Analysis, Ethical Perspectives, Linguistics and Philosophy, Economics and Philosophy, Theoria, Dialectica, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Moral Philosophy, and the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
Outreach and Related Activities
2021. “Distinguished Guest” for Rice Pancakes for Parkinson’s event
2021. Gave an interview for PhilTalk (YouTube channel)
2019. “Philosophy Cafe” as part of A Night of Philosophy (Houston).
2015. Faculty supervisor for Rice’s High School Ethics Bowl program.
2015. Discussion leader for Rice’s Common Reading Program.
2010. Gave a talk to the OSU Philosophy Club on deliberation.
2010. Spoke on a podcast about desire (http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=9456)
2008. Gave a talk to the OSU Philosophy Club on consent
2008. Gave a talk on the nature of love to a group of Ohio State residential students.
2008. Debated the existence of God for Campus for Christ at the University of Manitoba.
2007. Gave a talk to the OSU Philosophy Club on Tourette syndrome and moral responsibility.
2004. Spoke on the panel “Three Questions for God,” organised by the Campus Crusade for Christ at the University of Manitoba.
2002. Organised a telephone survey of students who graduated between 1965 and 2001 with a minor, major, or M.A. in philosophy from the University of Manitoba. The survey sought to determine the occupations, as of 2002, of these graduates, and so to answer the question “What can I do with a degree in philosophy?”
2002. Gave a radio interview on the existence of God on Winnipeg commercial radio station CJOB’s “God Talk” and debated the existence of God at a University of Manitoba event sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ.
2000. Gave a radio interview on University of Manitoba student radio station UMFM’s “Cognitive Encounters.”
1999. Gave an interview to the Global television network on the philosophical significance of The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor.