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Jeff Engelhardt
Department of Philosophy, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 17013
(717) 254-8301 | jjmengelhardt gmail.com
Employment
Associate Professor, Dickinson College, 2021-present
Assistant Professor, Dickinson College, 2014-2021
Assistant Professor, Siena Heights University, 2011-2014
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Georgetown University 2011, with distinction
Dissertation: The Metaphysical Role of Causal Roles
Chair: Wayne Davis
Graduate Certificate, Cognitive Science, Rutgers University 2011
B.A., Philosophy & Classics, Saint Peter’s College, Summa cum laude 2004
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Analytic Feminism
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Logic, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Race and Gender, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Book
Nonideal Theory and Content Externalism (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Articles
(With Molly Moran) Using the ideal/nonideal distinction in philosophy of language (and elsewhere) Australasian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
Some reflections on gaslighting and language games Feminist Philosophy Quarterly Vol. 9, No. 3 (2023)
The Logic of Misandrogyny Philosophers' Imprint Vol. 22 (2022)
(with Patrick Mayer) Unlucky on Twin Earth Journal of Philosophical Research (2022)
"Ideal DoLLs as Ideology" Studia Philosophica Estonica (2019)
"Resources, Rules, and Oppression" Hypatia (2019)
"Linguistic Labor and Its Division" Philosophical Studies (2019) 176(7): 1855-1871.
(with Sarah Campbell) "False Double Consciousness" Journal of Applied Philosophy (2019) 36(2): 298-312.
“Interactive, Inclusive Substance Dualism" (2017) Philosophia 45(3), 1149-1165.
“Mental Causation Is Not Just Downward Causation” (2017) Ratio 30(1), 31-46.
“Token Causal Powers" (2016) Philosophical Papers, 45(1-2), 159-180.
“The Problem of Secondary Effects” (2016) The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 54(2), 247-266.
“What We Talk About When We Talk about Content Externalism” (2016) Synthese, 193(1), 125-143.
“What Is the Exclusion Problem?” (2015) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 96(2) 205-232.
“Emergent substances, physical properties, action explanations” (2015) Erkenntnis, 80(6) 1125-1146.
“Property Reductive Emergent Dualism” (2015) Philosophia, 43(1) 63-75.
“Married Causes” (2014) Acta Analytica, 29(2) 161-180.
“Inattention and the Speckled Hen” (2014) Teorema, 33(1) 5-17.
“Varieties of Multiple Antecedent Cause” (2012) Acta Analytica, 27(3) 231-246.
“Visual Transparency” (2009) Teorema, 27(1) 5-20.
Awards & Fellowships
Student-Faculty Collaborative Summer Research Grant, Dickinson College, 2016, ‘17, ‘18, ’19, ’20, ’21, ‘22, ‘23
Research and Development Travel Grant, Dickinson College, 2015, 2016
Travel Grant, Siena Heights University, 2011, 2012, 2013
Travel Grant, Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers University, 2010
Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University, 2006-07
Presentations
“Hermeneutics and Metaphysics of Mind”, Society for European Philosophy, Dundee, Scotland 2015
“Conceptual Harm, Injustice, and Subjugation”, Issues in Applied Analytic Philosophy Workshop, Essen, Germany 2015
“Visual Processing's Aristotelian Ontology”, University of Southern Indiana, 2014
“Introspection and Mindreading”, Midsouth Philosophy Conference, 2014
“Blindsight or Unconscious Consciousness?” Siena Heights University, 2013
“The Problem of Second Effects” Society for Exact Philosophy, 2013
“Can Pictures Give Reasons?” Reasons and Reasoning Conference, Georgetown University, 2013
“The Many Exclusion Problems” Western Michigan University, 2012
“The Problem of Second Effects” Eastern APA, 2012
“The Problem of Second Effects” Indiana Philosophical Association, 2012
“The Problem of Second Effects” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, 2012
“Visual Transparency and Visual Attention”, University of Toledo, 2012
“Synchronic Causal Preemption” Central APA, 2012
“Synchronic Causal Preemption” Indiana Philosophical Association, 2011
“Synchronic Causal Preemption” Society for exact Philosophy, 2011
“Synchronic Causal Preemption” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, 2011
“Varieties of Multiple Antecedent Cause” International Philosophical Symposium, 2010
“Twin Causes” Biola University Graduate Conference, 2010
“Twin Causes” NYU-Columbia Graduate Conference, 2010
“Twin Causes” Society for Exact Philosophy, 2010
Comments
Meyers’s “Thinking, Simulated Thinking, and AI” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, 2012
Audi’s “Properties, Powers, and the Subset Account of Realization” Rutgers University, 2011
Lim’s “Derivative Properties and the Too Many Thinkers Problem” Midsouth Philosophy Conference, 2011
Courses Taught
Philosophy of Mind (Georgetown 2007; Siena Heights 2012; Dickinson College 2014, 2016)
Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Siena Heights 2013; Dickinson College 2014)
Philosophy of Race and Gender (Dickinson College 2015)
Metaphysics (Georgetown 2009; Siena Heights 2012; Dickinson College 2015)
Souls and Science (Siena Heights, 2014)
Symbolic Logic (Siena Heights 2012, 2013, 2014)
Introductory Logic (Georgetown 2008; Siena Heights 2011, 2012, 2013)
Introduction to Philosophy (Georgetown 2006; Siena Heights 2011-2014; Jackson College 2014 (online); Dickinson College 2015, 2016)
Inquiry and Truth (Siena Heights 2013, 2014)
Sex, Science, and Society (Siena Heights 2012, 2013, 2014)
Epistemology (Siena Heights 2013)
Philosophy of Science (Siena Heights 2013)
TV and Philosophy (Siena Heights 2013)
Free Will (Siena Heights 2013) (Independent study)
Advanced Logic (Siena Heights 2012)
Modern Philosophy (Siena Heights 2012)
Introduction to Ethics (Siena Heights 2011; Jackson College 2014)
Moral Psychology (Georgetown 2008)
Ethics and Psychology (Georgetown 2008) (Independent study)
Academic Service
Department Chair, Philosophy, Dickinson College 2023-present
Department Chair, Philosophy, Siena Heights, 2011-2014
Organizer, Aquinas Forum, Siena Heights, 2013-2014
Organizer, Philosophy Department Lecture Series, Siena Heights, 2012-2014
Faculty Advisor, Thinking Hard Club (Philosophy Club), Siena Heights, 2012-2014
Session Chair, Metaphysical Virtues Conference, Western Michigan University, 2013
Session Chair, “Knowledge and Its Absence”, Eastern APA, 2011
Referee, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2013-present
Referee, Philosophical Studies, 2011-present
Graduate Student Representative, Georgetown Undergraduate Philosophical Society, 2004-06
Languages
Italian
Ancient Greek
Latin
References (Please see document below for contact details.)
Wayne Davis
Steve Kuhn
Linda Wetzel
James Mattingly
Zenon Pylyshyn
John Sarnecki