Curriculum Vitae

Allison Kuklok

Education 

PhD in Philosophy, Harvard University 

Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Wellesley College

Academic Employment

Philosophy Department Head and Instructor, Edmonds College, Lynnwood, WA (September 2022 – Present)

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT (August 2013 – July 2022; tenured June 2019) 

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (September 2005 – May 2010) 

Courses Taught  

Edmonds College: Introduction to Philosophy; Contemporary Moral Issues; Critical Thinking; Artificial Intelligence and Human Values

Saint Michael’s College: Introduction to Philosophy; Philosophy of Society; Modern Philosophy; Author/Text: Hume; Author/Text: Kant; Philosophy of Action 

Harvard University (as Teaching Fellow): Kant and Hegel; The Rationalists; A Philosophical Introduction to Human Rights; Introduction to Ancient Philosophy; Metaphysics; History of the Mind Body Problem; Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy; The British Empiricists; Introduction to Philosophy; Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason; Justice

Awards and Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Project title: ‘Being Human: The Status of Man in John Locke’s (1632-1704) Natural Philosophy’ (August 2020 – July 2021)

Honors Program Faculty Award, Saint Michael’s College, 2016-2017

Merit Course Reduction, Saint Michael’s College, Spring 2016

Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, Saint Michael’s College, Summer 2015

Hume Society Young Scholar Award, 2015 & 2013 

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2002-2003

Peer Reviewed Papers 

‘More Than A Feeling,’ Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 102 (2): 192-219 (2021) 

‘The Univocity of Real Essence in Locke,’ Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, vol. X: 61-99 (2021) 

‘Strings, Physies and Hogs Bristles: Names, Species and Classification in Locke,’ Locke Studies 18: 1-27 (2018)

Invited Chapters

‘Locke on Essences,’ The Lockean Mind (Routledge): 309-320 (2021)

Invited Talks  

‘‘Featherless Biped with Broad Nails’: Locke on the Essence of Man,’ Department of the History of Philosophy Colloquia (online), University of Groningen, March 2022. 

‘‘Featherless Biped with Broad Nails’: Locke on the Essence of Man’ University of Nevada, Reno Philosophy Department Colloquium, November 2021. 

‘The Univocity of Real Essence in Locke,’ Dartmouth Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, May 2017

‘Hume on Locke on the Difference between our Ideas of Substantial and Modal Sorts,’ Hume Society Group Session, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 2017

‘A Reply to Hume on Causal Power: What Locke Would Have Said,’ Hume and His 18th-Century Critics: An International Symposium, September 2014, Central Michigan University 

Refereed Talks 

‘Making Lockean Species: A Realist Account,’ Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy XI, May 2020, Edinburgh, Scotland (postponed due to Covid); The 2021 John Locke Conference, Naples, Italy (online) 

‘The Status of Mechanism in Hume’s Account of Causal Power,’ 42nd Annual International Hume Society Conference, July 2015, Stockholm, Sweden 

Mentoring Program for Early-Career Women in Philosophy, June 2015, Co-Directors: Louise Antony (UMass Amherst) and Ann Cudd (Kansas) 

‘Locke, Hume, and Causal Power in Bodies,’ Locke Workshop, May 2015, University of Western Ontario

‘More than a Feeling,’ 40th Annual International Hume Society Conference, July 2013, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

‘Strings, Physies, and Hogs Bristles: Objective Kinds in Locke,’ Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, April 2012, Princeton University; Margaret Wilson Conference, June 2012, Dartmouth College; Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, June 2012, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; American Philosophical Association, Eastern Conference Division Meeting, December 2012

Commentator on 'How Locke didn't argue for the primary/secondary quality distinction' by Edwin McCann, Locke Workshop, June 2012, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Service (Edmonds College)

“Perusing Perusall, A Social Annotations Platform,” Teaching and Learning Day, October 25, 2024

Campus Green Committee, 2024 - 2025

Faculty Senate Artificial Intelligence and DEI Activity Group Facilitator, 2023 - 2025

“The Case for Robot Friendship,” AI for Everybody Day, April 26, 2024

“Perusing Perusall, A Social Annotations Platform,” Teaching and Learning Day, October 27, 2023 

“Ethics and AI,” AI for Everybody Day, May 13, 2023

“Responsible Computing in the Curriculum,” Building Community Day, May 5, 2023

Idea Lab, Fall 2022 – Winter 2023

Service (Saint Michael’s College)

Art Committee, 2018-2020

Undergraduate Research Committee, 2016-2018

Library, Education, and Technology Committee, 2014-2016 

Faculty Advisor, Philosophy Club – 2014-2015; 2017-2019 

Phi Beta Kappa Ad Hoc Committee on Eligible Courses – Fall 2015

Faculty panelist, ‘The Arts in the Digital Age,’ March 25, 2015

Faculty panelist, ‘What is Feminism?’ March 26, 2015

Phi Beta Kappa ad hoc Membership Committee – 2013-2015

Co-organizer, 6th Annual Plato Lecture, October 2, 2014 

Phi Beta Kappa Committee, Regular Member – 2013-present

Philosophers’ Table, ‘The Value of Literary Fiction?’ November 7, 2013

Professional Service

Moderator, ‘The Buy-In,’ Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Embedded Ethics Conference, March 7, 2023

Co-Organizer, The 48th Annual Hume Society Conference, July 2022, Prague, Czech Republic

Referee, 45th (2018) & 46th (2019) Annual Hume Society Conferences

Organizer and Session Chair, American Philosophical Association Hume Society Group Sessions, Eastern Conference, 2017-2019 

Session Chair, 41st Annual International Hume Society Conference, Portland, Oregon, July 2014

Referee, Philosophers' Imprint; British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Locke Studies, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, The Southern Journal of Philosophy

Professional Associations

American Philosophical Association, Hume Society, John Locke Society