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CURRICULUM VITAE CHARLES JOSHUA HORN

University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Department of Philosophy 1801 Franklin St. 470 Collins Classroom Center Stevens Point, WI. 54481-3897 (715) 346-2849 [email protected]

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Early (Descartes through Kant) Analytic Metaphysics

AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Philosophy of Mind/ Social and Political Philosophy Philosophy of Religion Ancient Philosophy

EDUCATION: University of Kentucky 2007—2013 Ph.D. Philosophy Dissertation: Leibniz and the Nature of Compossibility: God, Substance, and the Possibility of Worlds Committee: Brandon Look (Chair), Daniel Breazeale, David Bradshaw Cognitive Science Certificate 2011

University of Kentucky 2009 M.A. Philosophy

Morehead State University 2003-2007 B.A. (Magna cum Laude) Area of Concentration: Philosophy Major: Government Thesis: Justifying Dystopia: Hobbes and Kant on the Necessity of the State

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point 2013—Present Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy University of Kentucky 2007—2013 Instructor, Department of Philosophy Eastern Kentucky University 2009—2013 Instructor, Department of Philosophy Morehead State University Fall 2009, Fall 2010

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PUBLICATIONS: Articles: 1. “Leibniz’s Stoic and Spinozistic Justification for Eternal Damnation” in Philosophical Conceptions of Hell, Ed. Benjamin McCraw and Robert Arp Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming 2015

2. “Identity Across Space and Time: Bioshock Infinite and Theories of Transworld Individuality” in Bioshock and Philosophy, Ed. Luke Cuddy Blackwell, Forthcoming June 2015

3. “The Individual’s Place in Paradise: The Limits, Promise, and Role of Reason in Modern Conceptions of Utopia” in The Individual and Utopia: A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection, Eds. Clint Jones and Cameron Ellis Ashgate Publishing, Forthcoming March 2015

4. “Dreams and Possible Worlds: Inception and the Metaphysics of Modality” Chapter 15 in Inception and Philosophy Pg. 215—230 Wiley Blackwell Publishing 2011

5. “The Triforce and the Doctrine of the Mean” Chapter 17 in The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy Pg. 211—219 Open Court Publishing 2008 Proceedings and Reviews: 1. Review of Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereya, Leibniz’s Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles. Oxford University Press. Journal of the History of Philosophy Forthcoming

2. Review of Michael Shapiro, War Crimes, Atrocity, and . Polity Press. Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict Forthcoming

3. Review of Michael Griffin, Leibniz, God, and Necessity. Cambridge University Press. Review of Metaphysics 66:4 (June 2013) Pg. 836—837

4. “Rethinking the Goal of Philosophy: A Phenomenological Reading of ’s Cave” Proceedings of the Metaphysics World Congress Forthcoming

5. “Leibniz: Naturalism and Eudaemonism” in Terence Irwin’s Development of Ethics Philosophical Forum Wiley Blackwell Publishing 2011 42:3 Pg. 298

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6. “Kant’s Political Philosophy: An Evolution of Social Contract Theory” Proceedings of the Southeast Philosophy Congress, Volume 2 Pg. 95—103 Clayton State University Philosophy Department, 2009

WORKS IN PROGRESS: 1. Leibniz and the Fear of Necessity: Overcoming Spinoza’s Threat (~65k words: Manuscript in Progress) 2. “Lewisian Objections to Leibnizian Actualism”

INVITED LECTURES 1. “Mythos and Logos: The Role of Mythology in Antiquity” Arbor Vitae-Woodruff School February 2014

2. “Leibniz’s Theory of Compossibility: Escaping from Spinoza’s Precipice” Georgetown College September 2012

3. “The Possibility of Possible Worlds: A Story of Radical Philosophers” Morehead State University February 2012

4. “Locke’s Second Treatise” Morehead State University October 2009

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND COMMENTARY: 1. “The Ontological Interpretation of Compossibility” Spinoza-Leibniz Workshop Michigan State University January 2015

2. “Skills Over Content” AAPT Session of the Eastern Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Baltimore, Maryland December 2013

3. “Hope for Economic Liberation: Social Media and the New Capitalist Revolution” Fifth Biennial International Herbert Marcuse Society Lexington, Kentucky November 2013

4. “Theodicean Solutions to Leibniz’s Problem of Contingency” Metaphysics 2012 World Congress Rome, Italy November 2012

5. “Rethinking the Goal of Philosophy: A Phenomenological Reading of Plato’s Cave” Metaphysics 2012 World Congress Rome, Italy November 2012

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6. “The Necessity of Freedom and the Possibility for the Good Life” Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Seattle, Washington April 2012

7. “The Passions of the Soulless: What Spinoza Can Tell Us About True Blood” Far West Popular Culture and American Culture Association Las Vegas, Nevada February 2012

8. “Leibniz, Lewis, and the Metaphysics of Modality” Alabama Philosophical Society Pensacola Beach, Florida September 2011

9. “Leibniz and the Possibility of Worlds: Commensurability and the Principle of the Best” Florida Philosophical Association Daytona Beach, Florida November 2010

10. “Optimization and Maximization: A Leibnizian Response to Rowe’s ‘No Best World’ Thesis” Alabama Philosophical Society Pensacola Beach, Florida September 2010

11. “The Aristotelian Roots of Leibnizian Panorganicism” Kentucky Philosophical Association Eastern Kentucky University April 2010

12. “The Cause for Rejecting Causation” Gonzaga University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference Spokane, Washington April 2009

13. “A New Theory of Belief: Constitution and ” Louisiana State University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference Baton Rouge, Louisiana April 2009

14. Kant’s Political Philosophy: An Evolution of Social Contract Theory Southeast Philosophy Congress at Clayton State University Morrow, Georgia February 2009

15. Commentary on “Relief Philosophy: To Sacrifice or Not to Sacrifice” Julian Gonzalez, St. Edwards University University of Kentucky Graduate Conference April 2008

16. Commentary on “Basic Rights and Autonomy: Thinking About Global Poverty” Timothy Weidel, Loyola University University of Kentucky Graduate Conference April 2008

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AWARDS AND HONORS: Undergraduate Education Initiative Grant UW-Stevens Point 2014 ($1045) 2013 ($315)

College of Arts and Sciences Certificate of Outstanding Teaching University of Kentucky 2013 ($500)

Annual Essay Prize University of Kentucky 2012 ($500) “The Ontological Interpretation of Compossibility”

Distinguished Teaching Award University of Kentucky 2012 ($500)

Faculty All Star Award Eastern Kentucky University 2012

Department of Philosophy Travel Grant University of Kentucky 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 ($2,500 total)

Graduate School Travel Grant University of Kentucky 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 ($2,800 total) Teaching Assistantship University of Kentucky 2007—2013

Haynes Essay Prize Morehead State University May 2007 ($200) “Pacifism Apologetics: Kant’s Categorical Imperative and Just War Theory”

Dean’s List Morehead State University 2003—2007

CLASSES TAUGHT: University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (Including Future Commitments) Lower Division Courses: Introduction to Philosophy American Politics Upper Division Courses: Social and Political Philosophy 17th and 18th Century Philosophy Ethics and Medicine Philosophy in a Popular Mode: Science Fiction Politics of Terrorism Special Topics: Philosophy of Death Metaphysics Independent Studies: Politics and German Idealism Spinoza and the Pantheism Controversy

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University of Kentucky Lower Division Courses: Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality Introductory Logic Introduction to Philosophy: Morality and Society Upper Division Courses: History of Philosophy II: Renaissance to the Present Era Health Care Ethics Philosophy and Science Fiction The Individual and Society Death, Dying, and the Quality of Life Eastern Kentucky University Lower Division Courses: Introduction to Philosophy Beginning Ethics Morehead State University Lower Division Courses: Introduction to Philosophy

COURSE WORK: SEMINARS Platonic Metaphysics (Eric Sanday) Ancient Political Philosophy (Eric Sanday) (David Bradshaw) Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity (Brandon Look) Causation (Brandon Look) Philosophy of Perception (Ronald Bruzina and Clare Batty) German Political Philosophy: Kant, Fichte, Hegel (Daniel Breazeale) Philosophy of Religion (David Bradshaw) Becoming (Brandon Look)* Late Medieval Philosophy (David Bradshaw)* Space, Time, and Worlds (Megan Wallace)* Kantian Idealism (Stefan Bird-Pollan)*

GRADUATE COURSES Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz (Brandon Look) Modern Philosophy: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Reid (Brandon Look) Philosophy of Mind (Clare Batty) Cognitive Science (Philipp Kraemer) Early Cognitive Development (Ramesh Bhatt) Symbolic Logic II (Brandon Look) Social and Political Philosophy (David Bradshaw) American Philosophy (Roger Ward) Proseminar on Teaching Methodology and Pedagogy (Brandon Look) Becoming Nietzsche: A Melodrama in Five Acts (Daniel Breazeale)* Modern Philosophy: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Daniel Breazeale)*

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INDEPENDENT STUDY Leibniz on Logic and Modality (Brandon Look) The Development of Ousia in Aristotle (David Bradshaw)

*Denotes courses which were audited.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE: DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY: Merit Evaluation Committee 2013—2014 Student Awards Committee 2013—2015 Philosophical Society Adviser 2013—2015 Search and Screen Committee 2013—2014, 2014—2015 Chair, COLS Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee 2014—2015 COLS Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee 2013—2014 UNIVERSITY: Department Review Subcommittee 2014—2015

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: Organizer of the 2015 Wisconsin Philosophical Association University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point 2015

Referee for the Calloway Prize in Ethics Morehead State University 2014—2015

Referee for the Central States Philosophical Association 2013—2014

Chair of the Leibniz Colloquium at the Eastern meeting of the American Philosophical Association December 2012

Teaching Workshop Sponsored by the American Philosophical Association January 2011

Committee Member, Kentucky Philosophical Association Financial Restructuring Subcommittee 2011

Organizer of the 2010 University of Kentucky Graduate Student Philosophy Conference: “Manifestations of Freedom” March 2010

Vice President of the Philosophy Graduate Student Association 2009—2010

Referee of Papers for the University of Kentucky Philosophy Graduate Conference 2007—2010 LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: French Latin

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Philosophical Association Leibniz Society of North America North American Kant Society Society for the Philosophy of Religion

DISSERTATION ABSTRACT: Leibniz and the Nature of Compossibility: God, Substance, and the Possibility of Worlds Committee: Brandon Look (Chair), Daniel Breazeale, David Bradshaw

One of the principal motivations for Leibniz’s metaphysical system was the necessitarianism entailed by Spinoza’s philosophy. Based upon his commitment to a particular form of monism and the principle of sufficient reason, Spinoza held that the entire causal history of the world is necessarily the result of prior causes and thus, anything that could happen, does happen. In his attempt to preserve the anthropomorphic conception of God and a meaningful sense of freedom, Leibniz maintained a commitment to an infinite number of possible worlds and God’s choice of creating only the best. This complex metaphysical system is only intelligible on the supposition that Leibniz can provide an adequate analysis of compossibility, the necessary condition for possible worlds. My dissertation systematically analyzes the different interpretations of compossibility put forth in the literature in the last century, while also offering a novel interpretation which can preserve the major facets of Leibniz’s thought. The philosophical implications for Leibniz’s and theology are then examined on the basis of the new interpretation. In short, my view is that compossibility should not be understood as related to substances or laws of nature as the traditional interpretations suggest, but instead that compossibility is a relation between essences, some of which represent substances which constitute the actual world and others which exist in the divine intellect. Further, these essences should be understood as a maximally consistent set of propositions. Thus, a world is possible if and only if the propositions which express finite essences are maximally consistent.

REFERENCES: Dr. Brandon Look Dr. Daniel Breazeale 1401 Patterson Office Tower 1417 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky University of Kentucky Lexington, Ky. 40506—0027 Lexington, Ky. 40506—0027 (859)-257-3071 (859)-257-4376 [email protected] [email protected]

Dr. David Bradshaw Dr. Natalie Nenadic 1405 Patterson Office Tower 1407 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky University of Kentucky Lexington, Ky. 40506—0027 Lexington, Ky. 40506—0027 (859)-257-7107 (859)-257-1849 [email protected] [email protected]

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