Mark Collier

University of Minnesota, Morris

Professor of Philosophy (2021-ongoing)

Associate Professor of Philosophy (2011-2020)

Assistant Professor (2005-2010)

Peking University

Visiting Professor (Spring 2012)

Pomona College

Visiting Assistant Professor (2004-2005)

University of Pittsburgh

Visiting Lecturer (Fall 2003)

Stanford University

Lecturer (2002-2004)

Fellow in the Humanities (1999-2001)

University of California, San Diego

Ph.D. Cognitive Science & Philosophy (1999)

Committee: Paul Churchland (co-chair), Pat Kitcher (co-chair), Nick Jolley, Jeff Elman, Jean Mandler.

Columbia University

B.A. Philosophy & French Literature (1992)

"Humean Vice Epistemology: The Case of Prejudice", in Stapleford and Wagner (Eds.) Hume and Contemporary Epistemology, 2024. 

"Disguising Change: Hume and Cognitive Science on the Continued Existence of Selves", in Dan O'Brien (Ed.) Hume on the Self and Personal Identity, 2022, 275-293.

"Natural Belief in Persistent Selves", Philosophical Psychology, 34, 2021, 1146-1166.

"A Humean Approach to the Boundaries of Morality", Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 18, 2020, 1-16.

"Hume's Legacy: A Cognitive Science Perspective", in A. Coventry and A. Sager (Eds.) The Humean Mind, 2018, 434-445.

"The Natural Foundations of Religion", Philosophical Psychology, 27, 2014, 665-680.

"Toward a Science of Criticism: Aesthetic Values, Human Nature, and the Standard of Taste", in M. Bruhn and D. Wehrs (Eds.) Cognition, Literature, and History, 2014, 229-242.

"The Humean Approach to Moral Diversity", Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 11, 2013, 41-52.

"Hume's Science of Emotions: Feeling Theory without Tears", Hume Studies, 37, 2011, 3-18.

"Hume's Natural History of Justice", in C. Taylor and S. Buckle (Eds.) Hume and the Enlightenment, 2011, 131-142.

"Hume's Theory of Moral Imagination", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 27, 2010, 253-273.

"Two Puzzles in Hume's Epistemology", History of Philosophy Quarterly, 25, 2008, 301-314.

"Why History Matters: Associations and Causal Judgment in Hume and Cognitive Science", Journal of Mind and Behavior, 28, 2007, 175-188.

“Hume and Cognitive Science: The Current Status of the Controversy over Abstract Ideas”, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 4, 2005, 197-207.

“A New Look at Hume’s Theory of Probabilistic Inference”, Hume Studies, 31, 2005, 21-36.

“Filling the Gaps: Hume and Connectionism on the Continued Existence of Unperceived Objects”, Hume Studies, 25, 1999, 155-170.

“On the Compatibility of Connectionism and Cognitive Linguistics”, Center for Research in Language Newsletter, 11, 1998, 3-11.

Faculty Affiliate, University of Minnesota Center for Cognitive Sciences (2011-ongoing)

Chair, Planning Committee (2021-ongoing)

Chair, Philosophy Discipline (2010-14, 2016-17, 2021-22, 2023-ongoing)

Chair, Humanities Division Advisory Committee (2023-2024)

Founders Scholar of the Liberal Arts, UMN-Morris (2024-5)

Emerging Technologies Faculty Fellow, University of Minnesota (2024-5)

Organizer, 48th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Expanding the Canon (2023-4)

Coordinator, Central APA Hume Society Meetings (2021-2023)

Organizer, 46th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Structural Change (2021-22) 

Organizer, 45th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Conspiracy Theory (2020-21) [YouTube Channel]

Organizer, 44th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Implicit Bias (2019-20)

Organizer, 42nd Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Happiness (2017-18)

Organizer, 41st Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: New Directions in Environmental Philosophy (2016-17)

Organizer, 40th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Philosophy of Biology (2015-16)

Co-Organizer (with Alan Love), UMM/UMTC Joint Symposium on Philosophy of Biology (2016)

Organizer, 35th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Learning from Chinese Philosophy (2010-11)

Organizer, 34th Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Justice and Higher Education (2009-10)

Organizer, 33rd Annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium: Frontiers of Environmental Ethics (2008-09)

Panelist, AskPhilosophers.org (2009-2011)

Official Convenor, Pacific APA Hume Society Meetings (2001-2004)

Graduate Seminars (Stanford, Peking University)

Hume Seminar - Peking University (Spring 2012)

Hume - Stanford University (Winter 2003)

(With Patrick Suppes) - Passion, Freedom, and Morality in Hume’s Treatise - Stanford University (Winter 2001)

Undergraduate Courses (UCSD, Stanford, Pittsburgh, Pomona, Minnesota)

Ancient Wisdom and the Good Life - Minnesota

Social-Political Epistemology - Minnesota

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence - Minnesota

Moral Sentimentalism - Minnesota

International and Biomedical Ethics - Minnesota

The Scottish Enlightenment - Minnesota

Philosophy of Mind - Minnesota

Ancient Philosophy - Minnesota

Problems from Hume - Minnesota

Modern Philosophy - Minnesota

Marx, Nietzsche, Freud - Minnesota

The Self - Minnesota

Fatalism - Minnesota

Introduction to Philosophy - Minnesota

History of Ethics - Pomona 

Hume - Pomona

International Ethics - Pittsburgh

World Philosophies - Pittsburgh

Global Philosophy of Religion - Pittsburgh

Biomedical Ethics - Stanford 

Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment - UCSD