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Dr. Melissa Ebbers

melissa [dot] ebbers [at] gmail [dot] com

https://philpeople.org/profiles/melissa-ebbers

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Ph.D., Philosophy. University of Maryland, College Park.

M.A., Philosophy. Western Michigan University.

B.A., Philosophy. The Ohio State University.

B.S., Psychology. The Ohio State University.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS:

Centre for Consciousness Studies, School of Philosophy, The Australian National University, Visiting Fellow. (June-December 2010; June-December 2011; September 2016-August, 2017).

Arché, Department of Philosophy, the University of St. Andrews, Visiting Fellow. ((October-November 2015; March-August 2016).

Philosophy Department, University of Memphis,Coordinator of the Online Bachelor of Arts Program in Philosophy. (July 2012-June 2016).

Philosophy Department and the Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), Rutgers University, Visiting Scholar. (September 2007-August 2008).

Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, Graduate Teaching Assistant. (September 2005-June 2012).

Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, Graduate Teaching Assistant. (September 2003-May 2005).

PUBLICATIONS

Savage, Heidi; Ebbers, Melissa & Martin, Robert M. (2020). The Meaning Of Language, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Fellowships and other funding:

Full Funding for Graduate Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Philosophy Department, Ph.D. Program.

Full Funding for Graduate Studies, Western Michigan University, Philosophy Department, M.A. program.

Moreland Perkins Fellowship in Philosophy.

Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant.

Distinguished Alumna Honors:

Invited as Distinguished Alumna Speaker at Graduate Philosophy Conference at Western Michigan University (2008).

Teaching awards:

University-wide Graduate Teaching Award at the University of Maryland, College Park.

University-wide Graduate Student Award for Teaching Effectiveness from Western Michigan University.

INVITED TALKS

March 2017: "Phenomenal Concepts and the Non-Deducibility Premise", Panel on Russellian Monism with Torin Alter and Robert Howell, Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savanna, GA, USA.

November 2016: "How Not to Construct Epistemic Space: an Objection to Chalmers' Approach in Constructing the World", School of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, AUS.

May 2016: “A Counterexample to the Generalized A Priori Scrutability Thesis”, Arche Reading Party, West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland, UK.

May 2016: “The Correspondence Thesis Challenge for the Two Dimensionalist’s Modal Epistemology”, The University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK.

November 2015: “Do Spatiotemporal Statements A Priori Entail Phenomenal Statements?”, The University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK.

November 2015: “Rethinking A Priori Scrutability”, The University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK.

September 2015: “The Conceptual Approach to the Structure and Dynamics Argument Against A Priori Physicalism”, Invited Department Colloquium Talk, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS.

March 2013: “Two Utilitarian Approaches to International Food Assistance” and “A Kantian Approach to International Food Assistance”, Invited Lectures for Food Ethics Course, Southwestern College, Winfield, KS.

November 2011: “Two Dimensional Semantics and the Problem of Informativity”, Department talk, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

November 2010: “Why Can’t We Be Friends?: Epistemic Two-Dimensional Semantics and NeoCarnapian Antirealism”, Department talk, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

December 2008: “Sneaky Semantics” (invited as Distinguished Alumna Speaker), Western Michigan University Graduate Conference, Kalamazoo, MI.

TALKS AND OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

March 2016: Commentator for Gabriel Rabin’s, “The Meta-Semantic Dilemma for Two-Dimensional Semantics”, The American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, Il.

June 2015: Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

April 2015: Commentator for Torin Alter’s, “The Structure and Dynamics Argument”, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia.

April 2015: Food Ethics Workshop, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.

March 2015: “Reevaluating ‘A Priori Equivalence’ in Chalmers’ Interpretation of the Structure and Dynamics Argument”, The Mississippi Philosophical Association, Jackson, MS.

March 2015: “Reevaluating ‘A Priori Equivalence’ in Chalmers’ Interpretation of the Structure and Dynamics Argument”, The Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, TN.

April 2014: “Accessibility on a Broader Scale”, Invited Inaugural Lecture for the Celebrate Faculty Innovation Lecture Series, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

February 2013: “Conceptual Analysis, Reductive Explanation, and Natural Kind Terms”, Department talk, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

July 2010: “Structural Ambiguity and Epistemic Two-Dimensional Semantics”, Australasian Association of Philosophy, Sydney, Australia.September 2008: "Why Chalmers' Two-Dimensional Argument is Consistent with the Possibility of Materialism", Graduate Conference on Essentialism, University of California Davis, Davis, CA.

April 2008: "The Gap within the Gap", (with Angela Harris) Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, AZ.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Referee for Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Topoi, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Synthese.