Curriculum Vitae for Trent
Dougherty
379 Quinby Rd.
Rochester, New York
14623
585.719.5661
Trent "dot" Dougherty "at" Rochester "dot" edu
EDUCATION
- PhD, University of Rochester,
Rochester, New York, Richard Feldman, advisor. Expected graduation, May 2009.
- MA,
Philosophy, University
of Missouri-Columbia,
Director Jon Kvanvig—graduated Dec. 2004
- AB,
Philosophy and Classics, University of Missouri-Columbia—graduated May 1996
DISSERTATION
- Against
Pragmatic Encroachment: A Defense of Simple Moderate Invariantism.
- Committee:
- Richard
Feldman, Chair
- Earl
Conee
- Greg
Carlson, Chairman, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Metaphysics
and Epistemology
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
- Philosophy
of Science
- Decision
Theory
- Philosophy
of Mind
Publications
- Books
- Evidentialism and Its Discontents
(Under Contract with Oxford University Press), edited volume of leading
epistemologists on the role of evidence in epistemology.
- Research
Articles
- “Fallibilism, Epistemic Possibility, and Concessive
Knowledge Attributions” (co-authored with Patrick Rysiew) Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.
- “Hell,
Vagueness, and Justice: A Reply to Sider,” (co-authored with Ted Poston),
Faith and Philosophy,
forthcoming.
- “Divine
Hiddenness and the Nature of Belief,” (co-authored with Ted Poston) Religious Studies (Cambridge
University Press, 2007), 43:2.
- “A
User’s Guide to Design Arguments,” (co-authored with Ted Poston) Religious Studies (Cambridge
University Press), forthcoming.
- “Epistemological
Considerations Concerning Skeptical Theism,” (all by myself), Faith and Philosophy, 25:2, April
2008.
- Book
Reviews
- Review
of Charles Nataoli’s Fire in the
Dark: Essays on Pascal's Pensées and Provinciales, for American Theological Inquiry.
- Critical
Notice of John Leslie, Infinite
Minds, in Religious Studies
Review. (solicited)
- Review
of Sosa and Bonjour, Epistemic
Justification, in Review of
Metaphysics. (solicited)
- Review
of Richard Swinburne’s Epistemic
Justification (2001) in Philosophia
Christi.
- Book
Chapters
- “What
Evidence is.” Evidentialism and its Discontents, forthcoming.
- Appendix
to Socratic Logic (St. Augustine’s
Press, 2004): “Problems with Extensional Logical Systems”
Discussions of my work
- J.L.
Schellenberg, “A Reply to Poston and Dougherty,” Religious Studies (2007) 43:2.
- Benjamin
S. Cordry, “Divine hiddenness and belief de re,” Religious
Studies, forthcoming.
- Dodd,
Dylan. “Confusion about Concessive
Knowledge Attributions,” Synthese,
forthcoming.
- “How
to be a fallibilist without contradiction,” Dialectica, forthcoming.
- Carter,
Adam. The Value of Knowledge and the Problem of Luck. Postdoctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh.
Other Academic work
- In Progress
- Book
- God and Evil, with Alexander
Pruss
- Articles
- “What
evidence is”
- “Internalism,
externalism, and the basing relation”
- “Realizing Virtue: A Unified Virtue
Epistemology”
- “How
to Think About Counterfactual Analyses”
- “Dealing
with Disagreement from the First Person Perspective.” August 2009. International Conference on Responsible
Belief in the Face of Disagreement, part of the Knowledge, Belief, and
Normativity Project.
- “The
Epistemic Goodness of Believing in Based on the Evidence.” March 2009. International Epistemic Goodness
Conference, University
of Oklahoma.
- “On
the Relationship between Greco’s Virtue Epistemology and (Any Plausible)
Evidentialism.” Epistemic Agency Conference, Episteme Group, University of Geneva, Spring 2008.
- “Augustine
on Original Sin” 2008 Augustine Lectio, Cornell University
- Evidentialism.” Spring 2008. In conjunction with a series of
lectures by John Greco prior to the Epistemic Agency Conference.
- “Knowledge,
Understanding, and Evidence.” Edinburgh Graduate
Epistemology Conference on Knowledge and Understanding. University of Edinburgh. Part of tenure as Postgraduate Research
Fellow, University
of Edinburgh. Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK. Fall 2007.
o “Realizing
Virtue: A Unified Virtue Epistemology” National ACPA, October 2006
o “Augustine
on Atemporal Creation.” Annual Augustine
Lectio, University
of Massachusetts. Spring 2006
o “Two
Kinds of Teleological Arguments.” Jon
Kvanvig’s Philosophy of Religion Class, Fall 2004
o “Hasker
v. Zagzebski on Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom.” Jon Kvanvig’s Philosophy of Religion Seminar,
Spring 2002.
- Presentations
- “Knowledge
Ascription as a Justification-tracking Heuristic.” Epistemic Agency Conference, Episteme
Group, University
of Geneva, Spring
2008.
- “Sosa
and the Problem of the Criterion.”
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK. Fall 2007.
- “An
Analyticity Account of Self-Evidence.”
Reason, Intuition, Objects:
The Epistemology and Ontology of Logic. University at Buffalo, Fall 2007.
- “What
is Formal Epistemology For?”
Fourth Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW), Carnegie Mellon University,
Summer 07.
- “A
Pragmatic and Semantic Defense of Fallibilism.” International Linguistics and
Epistemology Conference, University of Aberdeen,
Scotland, UK. Spring 2007.
- “Reply
to Sider on Hell and Vagueness.” Rutgers University Graduate Philosophy of
Religion Conference. Winter 2007.
o “Realizing
Virtue: A Unified Virtue Epistemology.”
National Meeting of the ACPA, Society for Catholicism and Analytic Philosophy,
Fall 2006.
o “A
User’s Guide to Teleological Arguments.” Saint Louis University
Graduate Student Conference The
Epistemology of Religious Belief, Fall 2006.
o “Realizing
Virtue: A Unified Virtue Epistemology.”
Regional Meeting of the ACPA, Spring 2006
o “Divine
Hiddenness and the Nature of Belief.”
Central Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers. Spring 2005.
o “A
User’s Guide to Teleological Arguments.”
Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers. Fall 2004
- Commentaries
- Comments
on James Ross’s Thought and World:
The Hidden Necessities, University
of Notre Dame Press,
Author meets Critics, Eastern APA, 2008.
- Comments
on Grimm on epistemic value, ACPA national meeting 2007.
- Comments
on “An Argument Against Swamping,” by Kristoffer Ahlstrom, Gothenburg University, Sweden. 2006, 4th Biennial Rochester Graduate
Conference in Epistemology.
- Comments
on “Vagueness and Pointless Evil,” by Michael Schrynemakers. 2006 National ACPA.
- Comments
on “Animals, Brainstems, and Persistence” by William Baur. 2006 Pacific SCP.
- Comments
on “Redemption, Justice, and Mercy: a New Theory of the Atonement” by
James Montmarquet. 2005 CSPA
- Comments
on “Aquinas on Causation” by Louis Mancha and Jim Madden. 2005 ACPA, Notre Dame.
- Reference
Articles
- “Evidence.” Oxford
Bibliographies Online.
- “Pragmatic
Encroachment in Epistemology,” for The
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
In progress.
- Conference
Organization while Kline Chair Assistant, Peter Vallentyne, Kline Chair
o The Metaphysics of Identity. Main
Speakers: Kit Fine, Ted Sider, Eli Hirsch, Tamar Gendler. Spring 2005
o Equality, Poverty, and Global Justice. Main Speakers: Thomas Pogge, Mathias Risse,
Larry Temkin. Spring 2004
o Current Issues About Physicalism. Main Speakers: Philip Pettit, David Papineau,
Barry Loewer, Ned Block. Fall 2004
o Symposium on John Hawthorne’s Knowledge, Closure, and Lotteries. University of Missouri, Fall 2003. Main speakers: John Hawthorne, Fritz Warfield
and Marian David, Jason Stanley, Richard Fumerton.
o Edited
MS for Peter Vallentyne, Liberty, Equality, and Security, forthcoming
o Edited
MS for Peter Kreeft, Socratic Logic, St. Augustine’s Press
o
Edited MS for Norman Geisler, Thomas Aquinas, Baker Academic
- Academic
Service
- Board
of Editorial Consultants, American
Philosophical Quarterly
- MS
Peer reviewer, Nous
- MS
Peer reviewer, Synthese
- MS
Peer reviewer, Erkenntis
- MS
Peer reviewer, Dialectica
- Content
reviewer, Oxford Bibliographies Online.
- External
reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
- Book
Notes contributor, Religious
Studies Review
- Content
Reviewer for the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/ Reviewed
multiple articles in both Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion.
- Paper
selection committee, 4th and 5th Biennial Rochester
Graduate Conferences in Epistemology.
- Organizer,
5th Biennial Rochester
Graduate Conferences in Epistemology.
- Athena Report Committee, www.AthenaReport.org. Graduate-student-led survey and report
on graduate programs in Philosophy in the USA.
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Postgraduate
Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK. Fall 2007.
- Heidi
M. Payne Memorial Essay Prize ($300) for best essay by a first year
student. 2005
- Dean’s
Fellowship, University
of Rochester. 2005 to 2008. Resigned
to take up a full-time position as Assistant Professor at Saint John Fisher College
while I finished the dissertation and applied for permanent jobs.
- Kline
Endowment Assistantship, University
of Missouri. 2003-2005
- Selected
for the First Annual Summer Seminar on Thomism and Analytic Philosophy at Princeton.
Summer 2006
COURSEWORK
- Epistemology
- University of Missouri (MA)
- Introduction
to Epistemology: Jonathan Kvanvig
- Epistemic
Logic Seminar: Jonathan Kvanvig
- Epistemic
Justification Seminar,: Peter Markie
- Direct
Realism Study: Jonathan Kvanvig
- Contextualism
Study: Jonathan Kvanvig
- University of Rochester (PhD)
- Introduction
to Epistemology: Earl Conee
- Introduction
to Epistemology: Richard Feldman (audit)
- Contextualism
Seminar: Richard Feldman
- Self-Trust
(summer readings, three books): Feldman and Conee
- Self-Evidence:
Earl Conee
- A
Priori Justification Seminar: Earl Conee
- Writing
Seminar: Justification of basic non-introspective beliefs, Richard
Feldman
- Probabilistic
Inference and Induction: Henry Kyburg
- Independent
Study: Henry Kyburg
- The
Epistemology of Disagreement, seminar: Richard Feldman
- Metaphysics
- University of Missouri (MA)
- Material
Constitution Seminar: Matthew McGrath
- Vagueness
Seminar: Matthew McGrath
- Causation
Seminar: Jonathan Kvanvig
- University of Rochester (PhD)
- Metaphysics
of Modality: Edward Wierenga
- Causation:
Alyssa Ney
- Dispositions:
Gabriele Contessa
- Philosophy
of Religion
- University of Missouri (MA)
- Foreknowledge
and Free Will Seminar: Jonathan Kvanvig
- University of Rochester (PhD)
- Augustine,
Anselm, Aquinas: Edward Wierenga
- Topics
in Philosophical Theology, Divine Attributes: Edward Wierenga
- The
Problem of Evil: Edward Wierenga (audited second half of course: Peter
van Inwagen’s Gifford Lecture.)
- Saint Louis University
- Richard
Swinburne, visiting professor
- Other
Analytic Philosophy
- University of Missouri (MA)
- Philosophy
of Mind Seminar: Andrew Melnyk
- Philosophy
of Science Seminar: Andrew Melnyk
- Decision
Theory Seminar: Paul Weirich
- Set
Theory with Arithmetic: Paul Weirich
- Modal
Logic (Hughes and Cresswell): Matthew McGrath
- Computability
Study: Matthew McGrath
- Philosophy
of Language Seminar: Claire Horisk
- University of Rochester (PhD)
- Formal
Semantics: Greg Carlson (audit with coursework and special meetings)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Saint John Fisher College,
Assistant Professor
- Spring
09
- Introduction
to philosophy, 2 sections
- Introduction
to Logic, 1 section
- Introduction
to Ethics, 1 section
- Fall
08
- Introduction
to Philosophy, 3 sections.
- Introduction
to Logic, 1 section.
- University of Rochester
- Philosophy
of Religion
- Summer
course for Department of Philosophy, Summer 08
- Early
Connections Opportunity Program: Reason
and Argument
- Rochester
Scholars Summer Institute: How to write a college essay
- Introduction
to Logic (FOL with multiple generality and identity)
- Philosophy
of Law
- TA
Fall 07
- Supervised
instruction
- Early
Connections Opportunity Program: Reason
and Argument
- Rochester
Scholars Summer Institute: Critical Thinking
- Introduction
to Philosophy
- Reason
and Argument
- Saint John Fisher College,
Adjunct Professor
- Fall
08
- Introduction
to Philosophy
- Introduction
to Logic
- Spring
08
- Fall
07
- Statistics
221 (Economics Department)
- Introduction
to Logic (Philosophy Department)
- Summer
07
- Statistics
221 (Economics Department)
- Nazareth College,
Rochester, New York, Lecturer
- Logic
and Inquiry
- Winter
’06 to Fall ‘07 (including summer classes)
- University
of Missouri-Columbia, 2002-2005
- Introduction
to Ethics
- Six
sections of 18-24 students
- Cair Paravel Latin
School, Topeka, KS,
1999-2002
- Instructor
- Medieval
and Renaissance Literature
- British
Literature
- Moral
Theory
- Political
Theory
- US
History
- Geometry
- Advanced
Latin
- Introductory
Greek
- Curriculum
Committee
- Whitefield Academy, Overland Park, KS,
1998-1999
- Instructor
- Ancient
History
- Classical
Literature
- World
Literature
- Director
of Classical Studies
- Intro
to Greek
- Intro
to Latin
- Intermediate
Latin
- Advanced
Latin
MEMBERSHIPS
- American
Catholic Philosophical Association
- American
Philosophical Association
- Central
States Philosophical Association
- Society
of Christian Philosophers
- International
Society for Bayesian Analysis
REFFERENCES
PhD work
MA work
Other References
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