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ARTHUR SCHIPPER
Assistant Professor in Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy Section, College of the Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University
Personal
Email: arthur[dot]schipper[at] nyu [dot] edu; schipper.philosophy[at]gmail.com
Main Research Areas
Logic & Metaphysics (especially Metaphysics of Mind & Language and the Methodology of Metaphysics)
Other Research Areas & Areas of Teaching Competence
Philosophy of Mind & Language, The History of Anglo-American-Austrian Philosophy, Philosophical Methodology (especially analytical, realist, and dialectical); Epistemology, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy (esp. Early Modern Philosophy Descartes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, but also Ancient Philosophy and History of Analytical Philosophy), Social and Political Theory (esp. Liberty, Democratic Theory, and Socialist Theory, Marxism), Philosophy of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Practical Ethics, Philosophy of the Humanities
Education
2002: The Dwight School, New York, New York, International Baccalaureate (HL: Dutch Language, English Literature, Modern History, Mathematics; SL: Physics, Chemistry; 4 AP exams), High School Diploma
2002-2006: New York University, BA (honours, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Philosophy and Politics (double major)
2006-2009: University College London, MPhil Stud, Philosophy
2009-2016: University College London, PhD, Philosophy
Publications
See Online Papers page and Homepage: three full-length, original, peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals Philosophical Studies and Synthese; two book reviews in Philosophical Quarterly and Marx & Philosophy Review of Books; (*: Original Peer-reviewed Research Article; ^: Invited Article (e.g. book chapters); +: Book Review):
*Acting on Reasons: Synchronic Executive Control
European Journal of Philosophy (accepted in 2023 and forthcoming)
*Henry Habberley Price.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Published on 4 November 2023: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/price/
co-authored with Paul F. Snowdon
*Singular Terms and Ontological Seriousness.
Journal of the American Philosophical Association. (2023; Volume 9, Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 574 - 595) (behind paywall)
https://www.doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.10, but available to view on the Cambridge Core Share site: https://tinyurl.com/schipper-j-apa2022-ccshare
*Necessitation and the Changing Past.
Theoria (Stockholm). (2022; Volume88, Issue5, October 2022, pp. 997-1013) (behind paywall):
https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12424; pre-publication (available without paywall): here
*Inquiry and Ordinary Truthmakers
Metaphysica. (2022, Volume 23, Issue 2; published by De Guyter on 26 August 2022)
https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-0035; pre-publication version: https://tinyurl.com/schipper-metaphysica2022-pp
*Ontological accounting and aboutness: on Asay's A Theory of Truthmaking. (2022).
Asian Journal of Philosophy (Peer-reviewed): (2022; 1(1):1-8). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs44204-021-00005-z
^Williamson’s Abductive Paradigm and Theory Comparison in Philosophy. (Forthcoming). In Philosophical Methods by Timothy Williamson. Book Chapter (Beijing: Renmin University Press).
*Fundamental truthmakers and non-fundamental truths. (2021).
Synthese 198(4): 3073-3098; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02266-x; 26 pps. total; downloaded 4,200+ times so far. OPEN ACCESS
*Aboutness and ontology: a modest approach to truthmakers. (2020).
Philosophical Studies, February, 177 (2): 505-533; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-018-1192-6; 29 pps.; downloaded 3,200 times so far; OPEN ACCESS
*Aboutness and negative truths: a modest strategy for truthmaker theorists. (2018).
Synthèse August, Volume 95, Issue 8, pp. 3685-3722. doi: 10.1007/s112299-017-1396-x (Downloaded 5,000+ times so far); 38 pages total; OPEN ACCESS
+Review of The Equal Society: Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice edited by G. Hull. (2017). The Philosophical Quarterly 67(269): 863-865. doi: 10.1093/pq/pqw063
+Review of Dialectics in World Politics by S. Brincat. (2016). Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. Published 29 Feb., 2016; url: http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2016/2227
Employment
2023-present: UAE University, Assistant Professor in Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy Section, College of the Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University
Courses taught:
Critical Thinking (Every semester)
Philosophy of Mind (Autumn 2023)
Epistemology (Spring 2023)
2019-2023: Peking University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Assistant Professor (tenure-track); Senior Member of the Institute for Foreign Philosophy
Courses taught:
Themes in Metaphysics: the Metaphysics of Truth (Spring 2022)
Introduction to Philosophy (Autumn 2021; for non-majors; co-taught)
Philosophy of Language & Reality (Autumn 2021; Summer 2021 at Sichuan University University Immersion Program)
Themes in Metaphysics: Meta-ontology (Spring 2021)
Topics in Philosophical Research: Kripke and Animalism (Spring 2021; co-taught)
Metaphysics (2020-2021)
Philosophical Research and Writing (2019-2020), PhD and Master's Pro-seminar
2018-2020: University of Amsterdam; Department of Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy (an extraordinary five-year position); Senior Member of the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC)
Courses taught:
1. Metaphysics (2017-2018; 2018-2019)
2. Theoretical Philosophy (lecture on Universals; 2017-2018)
3. Text, Context, and Debate: The Philosophy of Saul Kripke (2018-2019, in Dutch)
4. Philosophy of the Humanities (2018-2019)
5. Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives (2018-2019; MA course)
6. Philosophy of Science (Wetenschapsfilosofie )(2018-2019, in Dutch))
2015-2018: Leiden University, the Institute for Philosophy, Assistant Professor (University Lecturer; one-year position) in Theoretical Philosophy
Courses taught:
1. Logic (2015-2016; BA-Plus; Dutch) (2017-2018; BA-Plus; Dutch) (2017-2018; Standard, Minors, Elective; Dutch) (2017-2018; Global and Comparative Perspectives track; English)
2. History of Philosophy: the Presocratics to 20th Century (2015-2016), (2016-2017)
3. Taalfilosofie (Philosophy of Language), (2015-2016)
4. Epistemology (2014-2015), (2016-2017), (2017-2018, both the Dutch and English versions)
5. Introduction to Logic and Epistemology (2017-2018; Elective for Philosophy Minors and others, Leiden University College, Liberal Arts Program)
6. Truth and Metaphysics (2017-2018; Advanced Seminar)
2009-2015: Heythrop College, University of London, Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Examiner, & Module Coordinator
Courses taught:
1. Knowledge and Reality (2010-2015; Examiner 2013-2015)
2. History of Modern Philosophy (2009-2015; Examiner 2013-2015); Lectures on "Leibniz's Rationalist Project"
3. Contemporary Issues in Philosophy (2012-2014)
4. MA Philosophy of Mind and Psychology (2013); Lectures on "Functionalism and Consciousness"
5. Philosophy of Mind and Psychology (2010-2011/2011-2012; half philosophy of psychology and mind, half psychoanalysis)
6. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (2010/2011)
7. Epistemology (2009/2010)
8. Philosophy of Psychology (2009/2010; Examiner 2010)
9. Philosophical Texts Seminar (2009-2015; Course/Module Convenor); Descartes's Meditations and Hume's first Enquiry
10. Philosophy of Language (Examiner, 2012)
11. Mind and Psychology (2010-2011)
2007-2014: University College London, University of London, Teaching Assistant
Courses taught:
1. Practical Ethics (Autumn 2010)
2. Tutorials Module (Autumn 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011); (see sample syllabus for details)
3. Political Philosophy: Privacy (Pre-BA Summer Session, 2010)
4. Empiricism (Advanced BA course, 2014, only the section "Hume on Causation and Induction")
5. History of Early Modern Philosophy (BA course, 2014, only the section "The Emotions: Hume, Descartes, and the Stoics")
2010-2013: Aristotelian Society, Assistant Administrator
Talks
2021, Oct; TBD, invited lecture series, Wuhan University
2021, May; [Title Withheld], invited lecture at Conference on Meta-ontology, Sun Yat-sen University
2021, May; [Title Withheld], invited lecture, Huaqiao University, Xiamen
2020, Nov.; [Title Withheld], invited lecture for the Special Workshop for the Centenary of Russell's Chinese lecture series in 1920, Peking University
2020, Nov.; Panellist for Professor Alan Hajek’s lecture “Why Counterfactuals are Mostly False, Still” for Mathematical Philosophy on the occasion of the centenary of Bertrand Russell’s visit to Peking University 1920-1921, invited expert panellist
2020, Sept; Williamson’s Abductive Paradigm and Theory Comparison in Philosophy, Official Interlocutor to Timothy Williamson’s lecture series on Philosophical Methods, Peking University, Beijing, (28/09/2020; invited talk, to be published with Renmin University Press)
2020, Aug.; What are we really talking about?, a talk as part of the Special Symposium Conceptualising Aboutness and Subject Matter with Stephen Yablo (MIT), Matteo Plebani (Turin), Osorio-Kupferblaum (Vienna), and Schipper, Utrecht University, The European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP10) 2020 (Talk on 09/08/2020, symposium discussion on 24/08/2020; invited talk and invited symposium participation)
2020, July; Response to Ivan Ivanov’s “The Sensory Form of Mind-Independence”, Peking University, WIP Workshop
2020, March; [Title Withheld], invited lecture at the United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain
2020, Feb; [Title Withheld] invited lecture at the Propositions, properties, sets, and other abstract objects conference organised by Thomas Schindler; University of Amsterdam
2020, Jan; Invited lecture series, University of Cape Town (post-poned due to COVID-19)
2019, December; [Title Withheld], at Peking University's Philosophy and Curiosity Lecture Series.
2019, August; "What is Philosophy About?: Workshop with Stephen Yablo", Vienna Forum for Analytical Philosophy, University of Vienna; "[Title Withheld]"
2019, July; Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, Durham University; "[Title Withheld]"
2019, May; Buenos Aires, Argentina, ICSO V: Perspectives on Content; "[Title Withheld]"
2019, April; Peking University; "Metaontology and Non-Being"
2019, March; Shandong University, Jinan PRC, Analytical Philosophy Series; "The Paradox of Non-Being"
2019, Spring; University of Amsterdam; "Aboutness and Representation"
2018, Spring; Leiden University; "Skepticism: Closure, and Truth-tracking"
2018, Spring; Amsterdam; "Skepticism and Film: External and Internal Perspectives"; Invited
2017, Autumn; Leiden University; "Explanatory Power, Modest Realism, and Truth"
2017, Spring; Utrecht, Thinking Planet; "A Background of Philosophical Traditions"; Invited
2016, Autumn; Leiden University; "Logical Thinking: an Everyday Phenomenon"
2016, Autumn; Symposion, Leiden; "Objective Truth and Kurosawa's Rashômon"; Invited
2016, Spring; Leiden University; "Intentionality and Negative Truths"
2015, Spring: Leiden University; "Truthmaking, Aboutness, and Fundamentality"
2014, Summer: Tilburg University; "The Demands of Rationality"
2013, Summer: University College London; "Truthmakers and Grounding"
2013, Summer: London, Chapter & Verse; Categorial Pluralism & Truthmakers
2012, Summer: University College London; "Role of Language in Ontological Enquiry"
2011, Summer: University College London; "Obvious Ontology"
2010, October: Annual University College London Graduate Conference, paper entitled "Truthmaking and Minimalism"; click here for a link to the program; paper abstract
2009, Autumn; Goodenough Philosophical Society, Invited; "Mental Causation"
Current Research
Book manuscript: Aboutness and Truth: A Defence of Modest Metaphysics