CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr José Luis Bermúdez
Professor of Philosophy
Director, Center for Programs
Director, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program
Washington University in St Louis
Work address Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Campus Box 1073, Washington University in St Louis, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130
Work telephone 314 935 7149
Home address 8007 Rosiline Drive, Clayton, MO 63105
Home telephone 314 726 1532
Email bermudez@wustl.edu
Citizenship British and Colombian
Place of Birth Bogotá, Colombia
US Residency Status Permanent resident
Areas of Specialisation Philosophy of Mind and Language; Philosophy of Psychology & Cognitive Science; Theory of Rationality
Areas of Competence: Metaphysics; History of Modern Philosophy; Mathematical Logic
Education:
1980 - 1984: St. Paul’s School, London (scholar)
1985 - 1988: M.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy, Cambridge University (King’s College).
1988 -1992 PhD The Unanswerability of the Sceptical Challenge, Cambridge University
Previous Appointments:
• Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (2002 – 2003)
• Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (2000 – 2003)
• Reader (equivalent: Associate Professor, promotion awarded for distinction in research), Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (1999 – 2000)
• Lecturer, (equivalent: Assistant Professor) Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (1996 – 1999)
• British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge (1993 – 1996)
• Member, Interdisciplinary Research Project on Spatial Representation at King’s College, Cambridge (1992 – 1993)
Visiting Appointments
• Visiting Professor, Iranian Institute for Fundamental Science, Tehran, Iran (May 2010)
• Visiting Professor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile (July 2008)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (Spring semester 2002)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Bogotá, Colombia (August 2000)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Barcelona (April 2000)
• Senior Member, McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, SFU, Canada (until 2005)
• Chargé de Recherche, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (October 1998 to June1999)
• Visiting Professor, Centro de Neurobiología, UNAM, Querétaro, Mexico (November-December 1998)
Honorary memberships
• Honorary member, Scots Philosophical Club (elected 2006)
• Honorary member, Sociedad Colombiana de Filosofía (elected 2003)
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books
J. L. Bermúdez, Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Cambridge UP, June 2010)
J. L. Bermúdez, Decision Theory and Rationality (Oxford UP, 2009)
J. L. Bermúdez, Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2005)
J. L. Bermúdez, Thinking without Words (Oxford UP. 2003. Paperback 2007)
J. L. Bermúdez, The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT Press. Representation and Mind series. June 1998. Paperback 2000. Portuguese translation 2001)
Edited Books
J. L. Bermúdez Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings (Routledge, 2006)
J. L. Bermúdez, Thought, Language, and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans (Oxford UP, 2005)
J. L. Bermúdez and A. Millar (eds.), Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality (Oxford UP, 2002)
J. L. Bermúdez and S. Gardner (eds.), Art and Morality (Routledge, 2002. Paperback 2006)
J. L. Bermudez, A. J. Marcel and N. Eilan (eds.) The Body and the Self (MIT Press, 1995. Paperback 1998)
Journal Guest Editorships (by invitation)
J. L. Bermúdez (guest editor), Self-Consciousness. Special issue of The Monist (April 2004)
J. L. Bermudez and M. E. Elton (guest editors), Personal and Subpersonal: Essays on Psychological Explanation. Special issue of Philosophical Explorations (Jan. 2000)
Academic Journal Articles (refereed)
‘Pitfalls for realistic decision theory: An illustration from sequential choice’, forthcoming in Synthese
‘Two arguments for the language dependence of conceptual thought’, forthcoming in Grazer Philosophische Studien
‘Rationality, evolution, and massive modularity’ forthcoming in The Journal of Mind and Cognition
‘What is at stake in the debate on nonconceptual content?’, Philosophical Perspectives 21 (2007), 55-72 (special issue on Philosophy of Mind edited by John Hawthorne)
‘The object properties model of object perception’, Journal of Consciousness Studies 9-10, September 2007, 43-65 (special issue on consciousness and concepts edited by Rocco Gennaro)
‘Indistinguishable elements and mathematical structuralism’ Analysis 67 (April 2007), 112-116
‘Thinking without words: An overview for animal ethics’, Journal of Ethics 11 (September 2007), 319-335(special issue on animal minds edited by Robert Francescotti)
‘Knowledge, naturalism, and cognitive ethology’, Philosophical Studies 127 (January 2006), 299-316
'Properties, first-order representationalism, and reinforcement: Reply to Carruthers, Anthropology and Philosophy 6 (January 2005), 84-88
‘Vagueness, phenomenal concepts, and mind-brain identity’ Analysis 64 (January 2004), 134-139
‘Ascribing thoughts to non-linguistic creatures’ Facta Philosophica 5 (July 2003: special issue on Belief Ascription edited by Marina Sbisa and Chris Gauker), 313-335
‘”I”-thoughts and explanation: Reply to Garrett’, Philosophical Quarterly 53 (July 2003), 432-436
‘Sources of self-consciousness’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (January 2002), 87-107
‘Nonconceptual self-consciousness and cognitive science’, Synthese 129 (October 2001), 129-149.
‘Normativity and rationality in delusional psychiatric disorders’, Mind and Language 16 (November 2001), 457-493
‘Bodily self-awareness and the will: Reply to Power’ Minds and Machines 11 (February 2001), 139-142
‘Frege on thoughts and their structure’ Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse 4 (January 2001), 87-105
‘Rationality, logic and fast and frugal heuristics’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (October 2000), 744-745
‘Self-deception, intentions and contradictory beliefs’, Analysis 60 (October 2000), 309-319
‘Naturalized Sense Data, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (October 2000), 353-374
‘The Originality of Cartesian Scepticism’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 17 (October 2000), 333-360
‘Consciousness, higher-order thought and stimulus-reinforcement learning: Comments on Rolls’s The Brain and Emotion’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (April 2000), 194-195
‘Personal and Subpersonal: A Difference without a Distinction’, Philosophical Explorations 2 (January 2000), 63-82
‘Psychologism and Psychology’, Inquiry 42 (October 1999), 487-504
‘Rationality and the backwards induction argument’, Analysis 59 (October 1999), 243-248
‘Cognitive impenetrability, phenomenology and nonconceptual content’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, 367-368.
‘Naturalism and Conceptual Norms’, Philosophical Quarterly 49 (January 1999), 77-85
‘Levels of Scepticism in the First Meditation’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (September 1998), 237-245.
‘Philosophical Psychopathology’, Mind and Language 13.2 (June 1998), 287-307.
‘Scepticism and Science in Descartes’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (December 1997), 743-772.
‘Reduction and the Self’, Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (October 1997), 458-466. Reprinted in J. Shear and S. Gallagher (eds.), Models of the Self (Thorverton, Imprint Academic 1999).
‘Nietzsche and the Tradition’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (September 1997), 402-414
‘Practical Understanding vs Reflective Understanding’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (September 1997), 635-641
‘Defending Intentionalist Accounts of Self-Deception’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (March 1997), 107-108.
‘Locke, Property Dualism and Metaphysical Dualism’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (September 1996), 223-245
‘The Moral Significance of Birth’, Ethics 106 (January 1996), 378-403
‘Nonconceptual Content: From Perceptual Experience to Subpersonal Computational States’ in Mind and Language 10 (December 1995), 333-369. Reprinted in Y. Gunther (Ed.), Theories of Nonconceptual Content, MIT Press, 2003.
‘Transcendental Arguments and Psychology’, Metaphilosophy 26 (October 1995), 379-401
‘Aspects of the Self (John Campbell’s Past, Space and Self)’ Inquiry 38 (September 1995), 1-15
‘Syntax, Semantics and Levels of Explanation’, Philosophical Quarterly 45 (July 1995), 361-367
‘Scepticism and Subjectivity: Two Critiques of Traditional Epistemology Reconsidered’ International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (June 1995), 141-158
‘Scepticism and the Justification of Transcendental Idealism’ in Ratio 8 (June 1995), 1-23
‘Is the Postmodern World a Nietzschean World?’ in International Studies in Philosophy 27 (April 1995), 1-14
‘The Unity of Apperception in the Critique of Pure Reason’ in European Journal of Philosophy 2, (December 1994), 213-240
‘Peacocke’s Argument against the Autonomy of Nonconceptual Content’ in Mind and Language 9 (December 1994), 203-218. Reprinted in Y. Gunther (Ed.), Theories of Nonconceptual Content, MIT Press, 2003.
‘The Adequacy of Simple Ideas in Locke - A Rehabilitation of Berkeley’s Criticisms’ in The Locke Newsletter 23 (1992), 25-58
Contributions to Edited Works (refereed)
‘Bodily awareness and self-consciousness’. Forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of the Self.edited by Shaun Gallagher (Oxford University Press)
‘Mindreading in the animal kingdom?’ forthcoming in Animal Minds, edited by Robert Lurz (Cambridge University Press)
‘Self-knowledge and the sense of “I”’ forthcoming in Self-Knowledge, edited by Anthony Hatzimoisis (Oxford University Press)
‘Truth, indefinite extensibility, and Fitch’s paradox’. In New Essays on the Knowability Paradox, edited by J. Salerno (Oxford University Press)
‘The distinction between conceptual and nonconceptual content’. In Oxford Handbook to Philosophy of Mind, edited by B. McLaughlin (Oxford UP, 2009), 457-473.
‘Jerry Fodor: Philosophy of mind and cognitive science’, forthcoming in C. Belshaw and G. Kemp (Eds.), Twelve Analytical Philosophers (Blackwell, 2009), 115-133
‘Antecedents of Cartesian skepticism’ in Oxford Handbook to Skepticism, edited by J. Greco (Oxford University Press, 2008)
‘The phenomenology of bodily awareness’ in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, edited by A. L. Thomasson and D. W. Smith (Oxford University Press, 2006), 295-317.
‘Animal reasoning and proto-logic’, in Rational Animals, edited by S. L. Hurley and M. Nudds (Oxford University Press, 2006), 127-139
‘General Introduction’ in Thought, Reference and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans, edited by J. L. Bermúdez (Oxford University Press, 2005), 1-42
‘Evans and the sense of “I” in Thought, Reference and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans, edited by J. L. Bermúdez (Oxford University Press, 2005), 164-195
‘Arguing for eliminativism' in Paul Churchland: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, edited by B. Keeley (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 32-66
‘A plausible eliminativism?’ in Experience and Analysis. Papers of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium Vol. 12 (Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2005), 189-205
‘The elusiveness thesis, immunity to error through misidentification, and privileged access’, in Self-Knowledge and Privileged Access, edited by B. Gertler (Ashgate Epistemology and Mind series, 2003), 213-233
‘The scope of folk psychology’, in Mind and Persons, edited by A. O’Hear (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 25-49
‘Rationality without language’, in Bermúdez and Millar (eds.) Reason and Nature (OUP, 2002), 233-264.
‘Introduction’ (with A. Millar), in Bermúdez and Millar (eds.) Reason and Nature (OUP, 2002), 1-15
‘Ethics and aesthetics: An introduction’ (with S. Gardner) in Bermúdez and Gardner (eds.) Art and Morality (Routledge), 111-131
‘The concept of decadence’ in Bermúdez and Gardner (eds.) Art and Morality (Routledge, 2003), 111-131
‘Categorising colour experience: Some problems’ in Proceedings of SimCat 1997. Technical Report of the Edinburgh University Artificial Intelligence department, 9-13
‘The body and the self: Interdisciplinary issues’ (co-author) in Bermúdez, Marcel and Eilan (eds.) The Body and the Self, 1-28
‘Ecological self-perception and the notion of a nonconceptual point of view’ in Bermúdez, Marcel and Eilan (eds.) The Body and the Self, 153-174
Encyclopedia/Companion Articles (refereed)
‘Self: Body awareness and self awareness’. Forthcoming in Elsevier Encyclopedia of Consciousness (8000 words)
‘Self-consciousness’ forthcoming in the Oxford Companion to Consciousness, edited by M. Cleersmans (4000 words: Oxford University Press)
‘Self-consciousness’ in the Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, edited by S. L. Schneider and M. Velmans (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 456-467.
‘Mental content, nonconceptual’, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (revised entry co-authored with Arnon Cahen)
‘Nonconceptual content’. In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (2003: 4000 word essay)
‘Self-consciousness’, In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (2003: 4000 word essay)
Various entries in Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Book Reviews
K. Binmore, Rational Decision, forthcoming in Economics and Philosophy
De Gaynesford, I, The Philosophical Review, 634-637
R. Kirk, Zombies and Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly, April 2007, 306-308
D. Papineau, Thinking about Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly, April 2004, 333-335
J. Campbell, Reference and Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly, January 2004, 191-194
A. Clarke, Sentience, Mind 111 (July 2002), 653-657
P. Carruthers, Phenomenal Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly 52 (April 2002), 265-268
J. Fodor, The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way, Philosophical Quarterly 51 (October 2001), 549-552
C. Peacocke, Being Known, Philosophical Psychology 14 (June 2001), 250-256
Gottlob Frege, Idéographie (French translation of Begriffsschrift), Dialectica 55 (January 2001), 67-72
R. Tallis, Philosophical Explorations, Times Literary Supplement (30 June 2000)
S. Hurley, Consciousness in Action, European Journal of Philosophy 7 (April 2000), 106-110
E. J. Lowe, Subjects of Experience, Philosophical Quarterly (May 1999), 272-275
P. Carruthers and P. K. Smith (Eds.), Theories of Theory of Mind, Philosophical Quarterly 45 (January 1999), 115-119
N. Nelkin, Consciousness and the Origins of Thought, Philosophical Books 39 (December 1998), 258-260
J. Kim, Supervenience and Mind, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (September 1995), 403-406.
M. Tiles and J. Tiles, Introduction to Historical Epistemology, Philosophical Books 37 (April 1996), 124-125
A. W. Price, Mental Conflict, Mind 10 (April 1996), 357-362.
Electronic journal articles (refereed)
Electronic symposium (2007) on Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction
(http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/mind/swifpmr/0520063.pdf). The symposium contains replies to commentaries by George Botterill, E. J. Lowe, Karen Shanton, and E. J. Lowe.
‘Primitive self-consciousness: Reply to Evans on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000)
‘Circularity, “I”-thoughts and the linguistic requirement for concept possession: Reply to Fuller and Slater on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000)
‘The cognitive neuroscience of primitive self-consciousness: Reply to Gallese on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11
‘Direct self-consciousness: Reply to Myin on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000)
‘Concepts and the priority principle: Reply to Robbins on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000)
See also the electronic symposium on The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (http://www.uniroma3.it/kant/field/bermudezsymp.htm). The symposium contains replies to commentaries by Andrew Brook, José Luis Díaz, Vittorio Gallese, Gianfranco Soldati
‘Nonconceptual content and the nature of perceptual experience’ (with Fiona Macpherson), Electronic Journal of Analytical Philosophy 6 (1998)
Foreign Language Publications
‘Evolution, bounded rationality, and massive modularity’ forthcoming in Chinese in the Journal of Mind & Cognition (published by Tsinghua University, China)
‘La Conciencia’ in Gran Enciclopedia Larousse 4th Edition (Aleph, Barcelona, forthcoming)
Portuguese translation of The Paradox of Self-Consciousness, February 2001
‘ Nichtbegriffliche Selbstfahrung und das Paradox des selbstbewusstseins’ in Selbst und Gehirn, hg. von A. Newen und K. Vogeley (2000 Paderborn, Mentis-Verlag)
‘Tres niveles de racionalidad animal’, Revista Mexicana de Psicología 16 (December 1999), 189-194.
‘Autoconciencia no conceptual’, Ciencia 50 (September 1999), 16-28
‘Autoinganno, intenzioni e credenze contraddittorie. Un commento a Mele’, Sistemi Intelligenti 3, 521-531
INVITED PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Invited conference papers
Content and Computation (London, October 1997); Animal Minds (Oxford, May 1998); European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Lisbon, September 1998); Cognitive Science and Consciousness (Brussels, May 1999); Self-Awareness and Consciousness (Bonn, June 1999); European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Warwick, July 1999); Object Perception (Paris, June 2000); Phenomenological and Experimental Approaches to Cognition (Paris, June 2000); Self-Consciousness (Fribourg, November 2000); Belief Ascription (San Marino, December 2000); Abstraction (Gif-sur-Yvette, September 2001) Mind and Persons (Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, London October 2001), Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (Barcelona, June 2002), German Congress of Philosophy (Bonn, October 2002), Being Rational (Parma, March 2003), Self-Representation (Bremen, April 2003), Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (Pasadena, March 2004), Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (Chicago, April 2004), 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg Austria, August 2004), Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (April, 2005), Conference on Thought and Language (Bogotá, Colombia, August 2005), Graduate Conference on Perception (Glasgow, October 2005), Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Society (Portland OR, March, 2006), International conference on Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, Objectivity (Copenhagen, September 2006), Pacific Division of American Philosophical Association (San Fransisco, April 2007), Danish Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Copenhagen, May 2007), Conference on Realistic Decision Theory (Columbia, MO, April 2008), Conference on Perception (Saint Louis University, May 2008), Biannual Symposium of the Science of Behavior (Guadalajara, Mexico, February 2010), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (April 2010)
Invited papers at international workshops
CREA-Tucson Joint Workshop (Villard-de-Lans, June 1998); Paris-London Workshop on Perception (Paris, April 1999); McDonnell Workshop in Philosophy and the Neurosciences (British Columbia, June 2000); UBC Spring Colloquium (Vancouver, March 2002), Syracuse Philosophy Workshop on Consciousness (July, 2005); Workshop on Concepts and Language (Zurich, March 2007), US-China Interdisciplinary workshop on Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Beijing, July 2007), Workshop on Neurophilosophy (Munich, February 2008), Workshop on Defining Thoughts (Bochum, Germany, June 2008), Workshop on Memory and Self-Understanding (June 2009), Workshop on Self-Consciousness (Berlin, 2010)
Invited seminars and colloquia
Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo (March 1996); Cognitive Science, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (March 1996); Psychology, Leeds (February 1997); Philosophy, Birmingham (February 1997); Philosophy, Glasgow (May 1997);Cognitive Science, Hong Kong (May 1997); Philosophy, Hong Kong (May 1997); Philosophy, Australian National University (April 1997); Philosophy, Hertforshire (November 1997); Philosophy, Aberdeen (November 1997); Cognitive Science, Sussex (January 1998), Philosophy, Sussex (January 1998); CREA, Paris (June 1998); Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon (November 1998); Neurobiology, Quéretaro, Mexico (December 1998); Philosophy, Aix-en-Provence (January 1999); Geneva (March 1999); Sheffield (December 1999), Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon (March 2000); Cognitive Science, Barcelona (April 2000); Philosophy (Bologna (May 2000); Neurophysiology, Parma (May 2000); Philosophy, UCSD (November 2000); Durham (November 2000); Philosophy, Vercelli (April 2001); Glasgow (June 2001); Philosophy, Simon Fraser University (March 2002); Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis (November 2002 and January 2003), Philosophy, Bielefeld (February 2003), Philosophy, Cincinatti (May 2004); Philosophy, University of Missouri, Colombia (January, 2006); Cognitive Science, University of Chile (August 2007); Philosophy, University of California at Santa Barbara (October 2007); Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (June 2008); Ruhr University, Bochum (November 2008); Distinguished Lecture, Berlin School of Mind and Brain (March 2010)
ADMINISTRATION
Washington University administration
• Director, Center for Programs (2007, ongoing)
• Director, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program (2003, reappointed 2007)
• McDonnell International Scholar’s Academy Ambassador to the University of Chile
• Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan Working Group (2007, ongoing)
• University Task Force on Responsible Conduct of Research (2007, ongoing)
• Faculty Advisory Committee for McNair Grant (2007, ongoing)
• University Travel Policy Advisory Committee (2007, ongoing)
• Arts and Sciences Communication Committee (2006, , ongoing)
• Computer Science and Engineering Curriculum Transformation Advisory Committee (2006, ongoing)
• Committee to review Environmental Studies curriculum (CHAIR] (2007, ongoing)
• Ad hoc committee to consider promotion case of Chair of Philosophy department [CHAIR] (2005 – 2006)
• Guidelines on relations between Departments and Interdisciplinary programs (2005)
• Steering Committee for Center for Programs (2006, , ongoing)
• Steering committee for Luce Professorship
• Search Committee for PNP Open Rank Search (ongoing)
• Search Committee for PNP Postdoctoral Research Fellows, 2006-2007 (search successful)
• Search Committee for Metaphysics and Epistemology, 2003 – 2004 (search successful)
• Search Committee for PNP, 2003 – 2004 (search successful – 2 appointments made)
• Search Committee for Early Modern Philosophy (ongoing)
• Search Committee for Kant 2004 – 2005 (search successful – 2 appointments made)
• Search Committee for Linguistics 2004 – 2005 (search successful – 2 appointments made)
Faculty and University Committees (Stirling)
• Chair, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Sciences (search successful)
• Academic Council
• University Research and Postgraduate Education Committee
• University Ethics Committee
• University Environmental Responsibility Committee
• Arts Faculty Board
• Arts Faculty Equipment Committee
• Arts Faculty Research Committee (Chair for Autumn Semester, 2002)
Departmental administration (Stirling)
• Chair of Department (from August 2002)
• Deputy Director, St Andrews-Stirling Graduate Programme in Philosophy
• Coordinator, Stirling Philosophy Department RAE submission
• Postgraduate Tutor
• Admissions Tutor
• Member, Department Research Committee
• Member, Department Recruitment Working Group
• Co-author of successful departmental proposal to Strategic Change Fund for funding for postdoctoral research fellows
• Departmental Library Representative
• Convener of visiting speaker programme
• Adviser of Studies
Professional services
• Chief Editor, New Problems in Philosophy (Routledge)
• Chief Editor, International Library of Philosophy (Routledge)
• Organizer, US-China Joint Workshop on Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives [NSF FUNDED] (Beijing, China: July 2007)
• Scientific Editor, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (1999-2001)
• Member of Editorial Board, Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
• Member of Editorial Board, Philosophical Compass
• Member of Editorial Board, Ideas y Valores
• Member of High-Level Expert Group advising European Union Directorate of Research on What it means to be human (January – June 2005)
• Member of Steering Committee, Research Project on Abstraction (CNRS, France, 2000-2001)
• Member of Program Committee, Cognitive Science Society Conference, 2005
• Member of Program Committee, Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, Dundee, 2001, 2003, 2005
• Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Cognitive Science, Consciousness and Art, Brussels, May 1999
• Reviewing for the following journals: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Consciousness and Cognition, British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind and Language, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Consciousness Studies, British Journal of Psychology, Australasian Journal of Philosoph, Mind, Erkenntnis
• Manuscript reviewing for Erlbaum, Macmillan, Blackwells, Routledge, MIT, CUP and OUP
• Evaluation of research proposals for European Science Foundation, Austrian Science Fund
• Tenure/promotion evaluations for UC Santa Barbara, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, University of Houston, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, University of Barcelona, University of Sussex, University of Nottingham, St John’s College (Cambridge), George Washington University
Research project administration (Stirling)
• Director, Consciousness in the Natural World Project (1997 – 2002)
• Organizer, Conference on Epistemology and Naturalism (Stirling, April 1997)
• Organizer, Conference on Rationality and Naturalism (May 1998)
• Organizer, Workshop on Colour Perception and Psychophysics (November 1999)
• Organizer, Workshop on Self-Deception (February 2000)
TEACHING
Undergraduate & Graduate Courses taught at Washington University
Mathematical Logic 2 (Phil 402), Spring 2008, Spring 2010
Mathematical Logic 1 (Phil 401), Fall 2007, Fall 2009
Introduction to Cognitive Science (PNP 200). Spring 2009, Fall 2009
From Descartes to Hume (PHIL 349), Spring 2007
Philosophy of Psychology (PHIL 419), Fall 2003, Spring 2006
Philosophy of Mind Seminar: Self-Knowledge (PHIL 515), Spring 2004, Spring 2005
Advanced Metaphysics (PHIL 4142), Spring 2004
Proseminar (PHIL 502), Fall 2004
Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 315), Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
Current Controversies in Cognitive Science (PHIL 418), Fall 2005
Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Language (PHIL 4601), Fall 2006
Cognition and Computation (PNP 4332), Spring 2007
Graduate student supervision at Washington University
Brandon Towl (PNP, dissertation advisor – prospectus defended, 2005)
Arnon Cahen (PNP dissertation adviser – prospectus defended, May 2006)
Santiago Amaya (PNP, dissertation advisor)
Sarah Robins (PNP, dissertation advisor)
Eddie Westbrook (Computer Science, committee member – prospectus defended, September 2007)
Jeff Karpicke (Psychology, committee member – graduated 2007)
Regular courses taught at Stirling
• Minds, Bodies and Behaviour (3rd semester core course: unit coordinator)
• Rationalism and Empiricism (5th semester core course)
• Honours Seminar (6th and 8th semester core course: unit co-cordinator)
• Seventeenth Century Rationalism (5th and 7th semester advanced option: unit coordinator)
• Metaphysics (6th and 8th semester advanced option; unit coordinator)
• Aesthetics (5th and 7th semester advanced option)
Graduate teaching on Stirling-St Andrews Joint Programme
• Perception (taught option: unit coordinator)
• MLitt dissertation supervision
• PhD supervision
Visiting examining
• MPhil in Philosophy of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex (1998-2001)
• Member of PhD review committee, University of St Andrews
• DPhil external examiner, University of Oxford (January 2000)
• Phd external examiner, University of Durham (April 2001)
Invited Teaching Abroad
• Invited Professor, Eoropean Summer School on Social Cognition. Alghero, Sardinia (September 2009)
• Invited Professor (4 classes), First European Graduate School on Mind, Science, and Language , Bochum, Germany (November 2008)
• 20-hour course in the Center for Cognitive Studies, University of Chile
• Visiting professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada (Spring semester 2002): Philosophy of Psychology and Thinking without Words
• Invited course at University of Bogotá (August 2000): El Lenguaje sin pesamiento
• Invited course at University of Barcelona (April 2000): El Lenguaje sin pesamiento
• 10 hour postgraduate course for DEA en Sciences Cognitives (jointly organised by École Polytechnique, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Paris VI), taught and examined in French (January - February 1999)