Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Connecticut    PhD (Philosophy) August 2010

University of Connecticut      MA (Philosophy) May 2004

New College of Florida            BA (Philosophy) May 2000

Articles and Chapters

1. "The Importance of Realism about Gender Kinds: Lessons from Beauvoir,"  Analyse & Kritik  (2023)

2. "On the Limitations and Criticisms of Experimental Philosophy," in Bauer, M. & Kornmesser, S. (eds.) Compact Compendium of Experimental Philosophy, De Gruyter (2023)

3. "Same-Tracking Real Kinds in the Social Sciences," Synthese (2022)

4. "Why the Empirical Study of Non-Philosophical Expertise does not Undermine the Status of Philosophical Expertise," Erkenntnis (2021)

5. "In Defense of Armchair Expertise," Theoria (2019)

6.  "Real Kinds in Real Time: On Responsible Social Modeling," The Monist (April 2019)

7. "Is it Time to Regulate the Sale of Sugar to Minors?" Hastings Center Bioethics Forum (May 2018)

8.  "Children and Added Sugar: The Case for Restriction," Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol 35 (2018)

9. "Social Categories are Natural Kinds, not Objective Types (and Why it Matters Politically)," Journal of Social Ontology, Vol 2. No 2., (2016)

10. "Going Live: On the Value of a Newspaper-Centered Philosophy Seminar" Journal of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, (2015)

11. "A Unified Account of General Learning Mechanisms and Theory-of-Mind Development," Mind and Language, Vol. 29, no. 3, (2014): 351-381.     

12. “Psychological Concept Acquisition,” Hardy-Vallée & Payette (Eds.). (2013) Connected Minds: Cognition and Interaction in the Social World, Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

13. “Gender is a Natural Kind with a Historical Essence,” Ethics, 122 (2012): 231-272.

14. “Analogical Cognition: Applications in Epistemology and the Philosophy of Mind and Language,” Philosophy Compass 7/5 (2012): 348-360.

15. “Structure-Mapping: Directions from Simulation to Theory,” Philosophical Psychology  24 (2011): 23-51.

16. “Pornography as Simulation,” in Monroe, D (ed.) (2010) Pornography - Philosophy for Everyone: How to Think With Kink. NY: Wiley Blackwell.

Review Essays

1. Review of Sally Haslanger, "Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique." Ethics 124/3: (2014): 612-617.

Presentations Refereed unless (invited)

1. "A Moderate Defense of Expertise and Philosophical Method," presented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York, NY, January 15-18, 2024

2. "The Social Scientific Identification of Real Kinds," presented at Social Ontology 2023, Stockholm Sweden, Aug 2023.

3. "Reevaluating the Expertise Defense," presented to the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Louisville KY., March 2023.

4. "Social Kinds and the Constraints of History," (invited), presented to the the fifth Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium (TMC), Agency and Freedom: Individual and Collective, on behalf of the Taiwan Association for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology. July 21-23 (2022), online and in Taipei, Taiwan. 

5. "Are Experts Better at Identifying Theoretical Virtues?," presented at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago IL., February 2020

6.  "In Defense of Armchair Expertise," presented to the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati OH., March 2019

7. "An Empirical Defense of Philosophical Expertise," presented at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago IL, February 2018

8. "Domains, Cognitive Development, and Feedback," presented to the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans LA., April 2015

9. "Children and Added Sugar: The Case for Restriction," presented at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, St. Louis MO, February 2015

10. "The Role of Comparison in Social Cognition," Discussant, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec City, July 2014.

11. "The New York Times in the Philosophy Classroom," presented at the Biennial Conference of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Collegeville MN., July 2016.

12. "Intuitions, Analogical Cognition, and Epistemic Virtue," presented to The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Austin TX., 2013.

13. "An Empirical Account of Expert Intuition," colloquium paper presented at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans LA., February 2013.

14. "An Empirical Account of Expert Intuition," presented at the Buffalo Experimental Philosophy Workshop, Buffalo New York, October 2012. 

15. "Gender is a Natural Kind with a Historical Essence," (invited) presented to the Legal Theory Workshop, UCLA, October 2012.

16. "The Selection and Intersection of Social Historical Kinds," (invited) presented at the Seminar in the Philosophy of Science at the University of Oslo, Norway, Oslo, September 2012.

17. "Historical Kinds and Conflicting Functions", presented at the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Conference in Barcelona: Issues in Philosophical Methodology, Barcelona Spain, June 2012.

18.  "Ontological Intersectionality" (invited) paper presented to the Philosophy Department at Southern Connecticut State University, April 2012.

19. "An Ontological Framework for the Study of Intersectionality," presented to the Eastern Society for Women in Philosophy Annual Conference, Baltimore, April 2012.

20. "Does Analogical Cognition track Natural Kinds?" (invited) paper presented at the Philosophy Department at Marquette University, February 2012.

21. “Relational-System Natural Kinds and the Function of Analogy,” colloquium paper presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego CA., April 20-April 23, 2011

22. "Relational-System Natural Kinds and the Function of Analogy,” presented to The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, April 2011

23. “The Objects of Pretense,” presented to The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA, April 15-17, 2010 *Griffith Award Winner for most outstanding paper by a recent Ph.D./ Graduate Student.

24.  “Varieties of Simulation-Theory Hybrids,” colloquium paper presented at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago IL., February 17-20, 2010

25. “Gender, Essentialism, and Historical Kinds,” colloquium paper presented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York, NY, December 27-30, 2009

26. "Pretense and the Abstraction of Relational Categories,” presented to The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA, April 9-11, 2009

27.  “Structure-Mapping: Directions from Simulation to Theory,” presented at Cognitio 2007, Montreal, June 15-17

Comments

1. Comments on Tanner Whitlow, "Explaining Sexual Orientation," presented to the Central Divisional Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago IL., February 23 - 26, 2022.

2. Comments on Eleonore Neufeld, "Meaning Externalism and Causal Model Theory," presented to The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March 12-14, 2020.

3. Comments on Brian Robinson, "Gossip: Social Intelligence and Evolutionary Origins," presented to The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati OH., March 2019.

4. Comments on Philip Robbins and Paul Litton, "Crime, Punishment, Causation," presented to The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA, March 22-24, 2017

5. Comments on Armin Schulz and Kamuran Osmanoglu, "Familiar Faces, Familiar Races: A Familiarity-Based Account of Early Racial Cognition," presented to the Central Divisional Meeting of the the American Philosophical Association, Kansas City. MO., March 1-4, 2017.

6. Comments on Jack Marley-Payne, "Intellectualism and Psychology," presented to the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology," New Orleans, LA., April 2015.  

7. Comments on Anna Moltchanova, “Gustav Shpet on the Existence of a Collective Subject of Consciousness,” presented to the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego CA., April 16-20, 2014.

8. Comments on Wenwen Fan, "The Evidential Support for the Modularity Theory Versus Interactive Theory," presented to The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston, Feb. 6-8, 2014.

9. Comments on Yasha Rohwer, “Modeling the Evolution of Human Intelligence: Our Lousy Iterated Theory of Mind,” presented at the 2011 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Washington D.C., Dec. 27-30

Awards and Grants (selected)

BGSU Firelands Dean's Special Recognition Award (2023)

BGSU Firelands Distinguished Creative Scholar Award (2022) 

BGSU Faculty Improvement Leave Grant (Spring 2019)

BGSU Firelands Distinguished Creative Scholar Award  (2014)

BGSU Speed Grant for "The New York Times in the Philosophy Classroom", presented at the Biennial Conference of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Collegeville MN., (July 2014)

Alumni Teaching Fellowship, New College of Florida, (2013) 

BGSU Speed Grant for "Historical Kinds and Conflicting Functions", presented at the Gender, Race, and Sexuality Conference in Barcelona: Issues in Philosophical Methodology, Barcelona Spain, (June 2012)

The Richard M. Griffith Memorial Award  (philosophy paper of “the highest merit” by a recent Ph.D./graduate student) 102nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, (2010) http://southernsociety.org/griffithaward.htm

American Philosophical Association Graduate Student Stipend Award.  Eastern Division Meeting,  (2009).

Service to the Profession:

Referee service: Mind, Philosophical Studies, Ethics, Philosophers' Imprint, Synthese, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychological Review, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Erkenntnis, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Metaphysics, The Philosophical Quarterly, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Biology and Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Systems Research, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Journal of Social Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, EurAmerica: A Journal of European and American Studies, Routledge

Local Arrangements Coordinator and Hotel Negotiator for the Annual Conference of the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology, 2014-2018

References:        

Ruth Millikan  Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut; ruth.millikan@uconn.edu

Sally Haslanger  Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies; Department of Philosophy and Linguistics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; shaslang@mit.edu

Dedre Gentner  Director, Cognitive Science Program; Co P.I., Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center; Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor, Department of Psychology; Professor, School of Education and Social policy; Northwestern University, Department of Psychology; gentner@northwestern.edu

Diana Tietjens Meyers; Professor, Ignacio S.J., Ellacuría Chair in Philosophy; Philosophy Department, Loyola University Chicago; diana.meyers@uconn.edu

Dan Ryder Associate Professor of Philosophy, Barber School of Arts and Sciences; University of British Columbia; dan.ryder@ubc.ca

Austen Clark Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut; austen.clark@uconn.edu

Tom Bontly Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut; Director of Cognitive Sciences; thomas.bontly@uconn.edu