David James Barnett Department of Philosophy • 807 Union Street • Schenectady, NY 12308 917 657 5326 • [email protected] • www.davidjamesbar.net

AREAS OF , Philosophy of Mind SPECIALIZATION

AREAS OF Early Modern Philosophy, Logic, , Bioethics COMPETENCE

ACADEMIC Union College. 2012-present, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department APPOINTMENTS Union College. 2012-present, Affiliated Professor, Neuroscience Program . 2015-2016, Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department University of Edinburgh. Summer 2013, Visiting Fellow, Eidyn research center

EDUCATION New York University. 2003-2012, PhD New College of Florida. 1998-2003, BA (Honors) in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

DISSERTATION Self-Knowledge and the Boundaries of the Mind Committee: Paul Boghossian (chair), Don Garrett, James Pryor

PUBLICATIONS “Perceptual Justification and the Cartesian Theater”, forthcoming Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Runner-up, 2015 Marc Sanders Prize in Epistemology “Inferential Justification and the Transparency of ”, 2016 Noûs 50(1): 184-212. “Is Memory Merely Testimony from One’s Former Self?”, 2015 Philosophical Review 124(3): 353-392. “What’s the Matter With Epistemic Circularity?”, 2014 Philosophical Studies 171(2): 177-205. WORKS IN “Moore’s Paradox and Self-Knowledge” draft available PROGRESS “Epistemic Autonomy and the Cartesian Circle” draft available “A Note on Egan’s Counterexamples to Causal Decision Theory” draft available “Higher-Order Evidence is the Wrong Kind of Reason” outline available “The Agony of Higher-Order Defeat” in progress

PRESENTATIONS “Higher-Order Evidence is the Wrong Kind of Reason” AND New York University (Epistemology Reading Group) November 2015 COMMENTARIES Comments on Nathan Ballantyne’s “Verbal Disputes in Philosophy” New York State Philosophical Association (“Creighton Club”) October 2015 “A Puzzle about Perceptual Justification” University of Texas at Austin (ERGo reading group) March 2015 Mount Holyoke College (Roger Holmes Colloquium Series) November 2014 New York State Philosophical Association (“Creighton Club”) September 2014 “What’s the Matter With Epistemic Circularity?” University of Texas at Austin (Graduate Seminar on March 2015 Applications of Bayesianism to Traditional Epistemology) David James Barnett curriculum vitae, page 2 of 4 PRESENTATIONS Comments on Anna-Sara Malmgren’s “Availability, Goodness, AND and Argument Structure” COMMENTARIES Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy October 2014 (CONTINUED) “Inferential Justification and the Transparency of Belief ” Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN) August 2013 Northwestern University (Epistemology Brownbag Lunch) November 2013 “Belief, Inner Assertion, and Moore’s Paradox” Northern New England Philosophical Association August 2013 “Is Memory Merely Testimony from One’s Former Self?” Northern Institute of Philosophy (Super Special Seminar) July 2013 Union College February 2012 Duke University January 2012 Comments on Thomas Mcclelland’s “Receptivity and Phenomenal Self-Knowledge” Northern Institute of Philosophy Early Career Conference June 2013 Comments on Theodore Everett’s “Peer Disagreement and Two Principles of Rationality” New York State Philosophical Association (“Creighton Club”) November 2012 Comments on Thomas Kelly’s “Disagreement, Dogmatism, and the Burdens of Judgment” Disagreement Project, New York Institute of Philosophy March 2010 Comments on James Dreier’s “Relativism (and Expressivism) and the Problem of Disagreement” Disagreement Project, New York Institute of Philosophy March 2009 “Knowledge, Luck, and the Cartesian Circle” NYU Spinoza reading group July 2008 “Disagreement and Undermining” NYU Washington Square Circle November 2007 Comments on Martin Godwyn’s “Cognitive Bloat” NYU-Columbia Graduate Conference April 2005

HONORS, Runner-up, 2015 Marc Sanders Prize in Epistemology (for 2015 FELLOWSHIPS, “Perceptual Justification and the Cartesian Theater”) AND GRANTS Faculty Travel Grant, Union College ($1,500 - $1,800) 2013, 2014, 2015 Humanities Faculty Research Grant, Union College ($3,000) Summer 2013 Graduate Fellow, New York Institute of Philosophy’s Project on 2008-2010 the Nature, Limits, and Significance of Disagreement Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship (full tuition and stipend, NYU) 2003-2008 David James Barnett curriculum vitae, page 3 of 4 PROFESSIONAL Member, sexual assault hearing board (Union College) 2014 - present SERVICE College liaison, Central New York Humanities Corridor 2015 - present Department website administrator (Union College) 2012 - present Faculty talks czar (Union College) 2012 - present Editorial assistant, Philosophers’ Imprint February 2011 - October 2012 Research assistant, Paul Boghossian (for Fear of Knowledge) November 2005 Graduate assistant, Mind and Language Seminar (NYU) Spring 2005 Member, curriculum committee (NYU) 2004 - 2005 Coordinator, department picnic (NYU) Spring 2004 Social czar (NYU) 2003 - 2004 Referee Analytic Philosophy Australasian Journal of Philosophy Canadian Journal of Philosophy Episteme Journal of Philosophical Research Mind MIT Press Oxford University Press Philosophical Review Synthese TEACHING Assistant Professor, Union College EXPERIENCE Reason, Science, and Humanity Spring 2015 Spring 2015, Winter 2014, Symbolic Logic Winter 2013 Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking Spring 2015, Winter 2014 Minds and Machines Winter 2015 Riddles of Existence Winter 2015 Perception and Reality Spring 2014, Fall 2013 Belief, Truth, and Knowledge Fall 2013 Intellectual Autonomy and Dependence Spring 2013 Early Modern Philosophy Fall 2012 First-Year Philosophy Seminar Fall 2012

Instructor, New York University Summer 2010, Fall 2009, History of Modern Philosophy Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Summer 2007 Logic Spring 2010, Summer 2009 Philosophy of Language Spring 2009 Belief, Truth, and Knowledge Summer 2006 Philosophy of Mind Summer 2005 Life and Death Summer 2004 Teaching Assistant, New York University Ancient Philosophy (Matthew Evans, Jacob Rosen) Fall 2010, Fall 2007 Central Problems of Philosophy (James Pryor) Spring 2008 History of Modern Philosophy (Timothy Rosenkoetter) Fall 2006 Consciousness (Ned Block) Fall 2004 David James Barnett curriculum vitae, page 4 of 4

REFERENCES Paul Boghossian Department of Philosophy Phone: (212) 998-8333 New York University E-mail: [email protected] 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 USA

Ram Neta Department of Philosophy Phone: (919) 962-3321 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill E-mail: [email protected] 204 Caldwell Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA

James Pryor Department of Philosophy Phone: (212) 998-8864 New York University E-mail: [email protected] 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 USA