Curriculum Vitae (Short)
Rachel Katharine Sterken, MSc, PhD Georg Morgenstiernes hus Blindernveien 31, 0371 Oslo Norway [email protected] [email protected]
AOS: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Linguistics AOC: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Logic, Social/Feminist Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Methodology, Philosophy of Social Science
Employment Fixed Term Associate Professor, University of Oslo 2014-present Visiting Researcher and Teaching Fellow, University of Oslo 2013-2014
Education PhD in Philosophy, University of St Andrews and University of Oslo 2013 MSc in Logic, University of Amsterdam (ILLC) 2008 H. BSc in Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Toronto 2005
Awards and Fellowships CSMN, Grant to conduct empirical study, University of Oslo 2015-2016 CSMN PhD Fellowship, University of Oslo 2009-2013 IFIKK Travel Fellowship, University of Oslo 2011 Overseas Research Award, University of St Andrews 2008-2011
Publications ‘The Meaning of Generics’ Forthcoming Philosophy Compass ‘Review: Between Logic and the World – An Integrated Theory of Generics’ Forthcoming Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ‘The Structures of Social Structural Explanations’ Forthcoming Disputatio (for a special issue on the work of S. Haslanger) ‘Generics, Covert Structure and Logical Form’ Forthcoming Mind and Language ‘Generics in Context’ 2015 Philosopher’s Imprint ‘Leslie on Generics’ 2015 Philosophical Studies ‘Generics, Content and Cognitive Bias’ 2015 Analytic Philosophy
Commissioned and In Preparation ‘Genericity in Philosophy and Linguistics: An Introduction’ (with B. Nickel) Inquiry (for a special issue co-edited with B. Nickel) ‘Generics and the Metaphysics of Kinds’ commissioned by Philosophy Compass ‘Transformative Communicative Disruptions’ commissioned for OUP volume Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, edited by A. Burgess, H. Cappelen and D. Plunkett ‘Quantified Generalisations and Social Essentialism’ (with J. Saul and E. Hoicka, tentative title)
Selected Presentations ‘Transformative Communicative Disruptions’ June 2017 Semantics and Communicative Effects of Slurs Workshop Arche, University of St Andrews ‘Nickel’s Between Logic and the World’ Jan 2017 Author-Meets-Critics Session Eastern Division APA, Baltimore, MD ‘Transformative Communicative Disruptions’ Jan 2017 Ranch Metaphysics Workshop, Tucson, AZ ‘Generics, Quantified Generalisations and Social Prejudice’ Oct 2016 What is Cognitive Science Series, Cognitive Science Center, Rutgers University ‘Generics in Context’ Oct 2016 Semantics Reading Group Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University ‘Haslanger on Social Structural Explanation’ June 2016 Symposia on Sally Haslanger’s Carus Lectures NOMOS Network Meeting, University of Pompeu Fabra ‘Amelioration, Meaning Change and Deception’ May 2016 Meaning and Language Seminar, Arche, University of St Andrews ‘Generics and Conceptual Engineering’ Feb 2016 ConceptLab Core Seminar, University of Oslo ‘Amelioration, Meaning Change and Deception’ Nov 2015 Workshop on Deception, King’s College London ‘Generics in Context’ Philosophy of Language Workshop, Dartmouth College Sept 2015 ‘Generics, Kind-Predication and Context’ Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association July 2015 ‘On Generics and Social Prejudice’ CSMN Colloquium, CSMN, University of Oslo May 2015 Philosophical Society, University of Umea Nov 2013 ‘Generics, Context-Sensitivity and Logical Form’ Philosophy and Linguistics Colloquium, University of Umea Nov 2013 Institut Jean-Nicod Colloquium, École Normale Supérieure Apr 2013 ‘Generics, Covert Structure and Logical Form’ Arché Reading Party, University of St Andrews Sept 2012 Workshop on Contextualism, Cambridge University May 2010 ‘Generics, Pragmatics and Blindness’ Philosophy of Language Workshop, Harvard University Dec 2011 Society for Exact Philosophy, University of Alberta May 2009 Harvard/MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference Apr 2009 Yale/UConn Graduate Philosophy Conference Apr 2009 Princeton/Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Conference Apr 2009
Comments E. Corraza, ‘The Essentiality of Indexical Thoughts’ Sept 2014 PLM Network Workshop, University of the Basque Country M. Devitt, ‘Linguistic Intuitions Revisited’ Oct 2009 Linguistic Intuitions Workshop, CSMN, University of Oslo
Teaching Lecturer Introductory History of Philosophy and Science 2016 Introductory Ethics 2015, 2016 Philosophy of Mind / Metaphysics 2015, 2016 Philosophy of Language 2013 Seminar Leader/Teaching Assistant Introductory History of Philosophy and Science 2016 Introductory Ethics 2015, 2016 Introductory Logic 2007, 2015, 2016 Mind and Language 2009 MA Evaluation Committee Solveig Nygaard Selseth 2016
Service Organizer Stanford-Oslo Generics Workshop, Stanford University, 2017 UCLA-Oslo Meaning Change Workshop, UCLA, 2017 Lexical Innovation and Meaning Change Workshop, University of Oslo, 2017 Genericity in Philosophy and Linguistics Workshop, Harvard University, 2015 Arché / CSMN Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2011 Generics Workshop, CSMN, University of Oslo, 2009 Arché / CSMN Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2009 Referee Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, Inquiry, Social Theory and Practice, Thought, Canadian Journal of Philosophy