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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
  • Logic and Language
  • Philosophy of Religion

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”
  • Invited Talks
    • “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.

  • Editorial Experience

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
      • Summer 08
    • Rochester Scholars Summer Institute: How to write a college essay
      • Summer 08
    • Introduction to Logic (FOL with multiple generality and identity)
      • TA Spring 08
      • Lectures
    • Philosophy of Law
      • TA Fall 07
      • Supervised instruction
    • Early Connections Opportunity Program: Reason and Argument
      • Summer 07
    • Rochester Scholars Summer Institute: Critical Thinking
      • Summer 07
    • Introduction to Philosophy
      • TA Spring 07
    • Reason and Argument
      • TA Fall 06
  • Saint John Fisher College, Adjunct Professor
    • Fall 08
      • Introduction to Philosophy
      • Introduction to Logic
    • Spring 08
      • Statistics 221
    • 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