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PhilosophyLOGOS 2008–2009 .osu.edu Words from the Chair

This past year, we have said farewell to two of our longtime, valued Columbus campus colleagues: Steve Boer and George Pappas. Steve joined the department as an assistant professor in 1968 and George came to the department in 1969 as an associate professor. Their presence in the department

will be missed by all of us. And James other institutions prior to coming to for Human Values at Princeton Bode retired from the Lima campus Ohio State. This is a large incoming University. Lisa Downing is currently after more than 34 years of service class, and one that continues a working on her book Empiricism there. James, too, will be missed. tradition of excellence. and Newtonianism: Locke, Berkeley, We welcome Dawn Starr, who It is impractical to try to briefl y and the Decline of Strict Mechanism, has just joined us on the Lima list faculty accomplishments in a with the assistance of a grant from campus. Dawn is completing short overview piece like this. (We the National Endowment for the her PhD in the philosophy of have a fuller, but still nothing Humanities. Sukjae Lee was invited language at UCLA. She received approaching complete, listing of such to be a visiting assistant professor at her BA from Kenyon College and accomplishments on pages 12-13.) Cornell University for the autumn an MA in philosophy from Tufts But I would be remiss were I not semester. University. Dawn’s current research to mention some very noteworthy There is also much that could interests are on topics related to the accomplishments. For example, be said about the accomplishments semantics and pragmatics of natural Sigrún Svavarsdóttir was awarded of our graduate students—much languages. a fellowship from the Institute for more than we include in our column We also welcome eight new Advanced Studies of the Hebrew devoted to this (see page 15). Many graduate students, coming from University of Jerusalem, where of our students are very highly a variety of institutions around she spent last spring quarter doing involved in professional activities— DON HUBIN, CHAIR the country and having diverse research. Sigrún also turned down a publishing papers and giving talks philosophical interests including: very prestigious Faculty Fellowship at professional conferences. , ethics, moral in Ethics at Harvard during the Deserving special mention went to press, the department was psychology, , logic, and current academic year in order here, though, is Salvatore Florio undergoing its fi rst program review the history of philosophy. Six of the to accept an equally prestigious whose outstanding record and in 20 years. This review brought eight new graduate students have Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting exciting dissertation project were three distinguished philosophers— completed MAs in philosophy at Fellow at the University Center recognized by a Presidential Don Garrett (New York University), Fellowship. This award, which Louis Loeb (Michigan), and Geoff is highly competitive across the Sayre McCord (University of When the last issue of Logos went to press, the department university, allows just a handful of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)—to was undergoing its fi rst program review in 20 years. This students who show extraordinary campus to review the department promise to devote their attention closely. We knew that this was a review brought three distinguished philosophers…to fully to their research work. terrifi c team of evaluators when campus to review the department closely. When the last issue of Logos (continued on page 2)

INSIDE Don’t Buy the Lies: High School Students Get Philosophical Too ...... 2 It’s Never Too Late: Program 60 ...... 10 Consilience Project Attracts Dubrovnik Conference—2008 and 2009 ...... 11 Academically Diverse Audiences ...... 4 Words About the Faculty ...... 12 Philosophy Student Makes the Times ...... 4 Turnbull Reading Room & Lounge Dedication ...... 14 Summer Research Opportunity Program ...... 5 Words About the Students ...... 15 Students Present and Past...... 6 LOGOS

Don’t Buy the Lies: High School Students Get Philosophical, Too

ummer 2008 marked the “We really worked hard to Department of Philosophy’s “It is a wonderful opportunity to reach out to high school make the course appropriate for Sfi rst foray into K-12 education. students, many of whom have a natural interest in high school students, while at the “Don’t Buy the Lies: Straight same time ensuring that they were Thinking about Crooked Talk,” a philosophy but little opportunity to explore and develop challenged,” says Pat Reeder. This critical reasoning course, was taught that interest.” was no small task: Metro High as a pilot course for fi ve weeks this is a charter school that appeals summer at Metro High School. primarily to highly motivated, self- Metro is a Columbus charter school, who might not otherwise be so concern of ours.” selecting students. The committee located just off campus, which is challenged, to develop their critical Don worked with Marcy was “warned” about them: even run by Ohio State, Battelle Research reasoning skills—the skills she Raymond, the principal at Metro though “Don’t Buy the Lies” was a Foundation, and a consortium believes she developed as a result of High School, to have the course summer course, they could expect of central Ohio school districts. her philosophical education at Ohio included in Metro’s summer the students to be deeply committed. The course emphasized both State in the 1950s. curriculum. “Metro High School “One of our main goals was to make introductory logical reasoning and “I shared Louise’s social con- is the ideal venue for this trial sure the course was practical,” notes political argumentation. cerns,” Don Hubin says, “but, as course,” Don reports, “because it is Sal Florio. “We wanted to make sure This course was made possible chair of the department, I needed used by the various school districts students were able to see just how through a generous donation from to fi nd ways of using these funds connected with the school as an relevant clear reasoning is to their Louise Vigoda, a Denver real estate that would also help us carry out the experimental platform from which own lives.” mission of the department. I saw a to launch programs into other high “We were trying to make this 2 investor with a degree from Ohio State, and her husband Phil. Worried way to do that if we could develop a schools in the area.” class more than just a logic course, that Americans too often lack critical summer curriculum for high school Thus was born the concept of the and we hit on the idea of political reasoning skills, Louise hoped that students. This would be exactly Metro High School course, but the debate,” says Cathy Muller. “We her donation might be used to extend the sort of outreach that Louise development remained to be done by chose this both because it was the philosophy department’s reach. was seeking, and it would help to four terrifi c graduate students: Sal topical and because it seemed likely She asked the department to seek provide summer support for our Florio, Dai Heide, Cathy Muller, and to provide ample opportunity for creative ways to challenge students, graduate students, which is a serious Pat Reeder. discussion of logical fallacies and

Words from the Chair cont’d “…Indeed, the department’s outstanding placement the university selected them. They dents and the graduate program” worked very hard, reviewing (External Review Team Report, record is compelling testimony to the quality of the enormous quantities of data and page 1). graduate students and the graduate program” numerous reports and interviewing The department continues to (External Review Team Report, page 1). faculty, students, and staff. Their cooperate with philosophers in recommendations have guided Croatia and Slovenia to host an the department over the past year annual conference in Dubrovnik. strong assistance from the College of We want to know what’s in fi ne-tuning our program and This year, Justin D’Arms and Sigrún Humanities, we were able to build and happening with you. We lose track practices. While they had numerous Svavarsdóttir organized a terrifi c begin to furnish and decorate the new of many of our former students and such helpful suggestions, we were conference on moral philosophy, lounge. The space is already fulfi lling other friends of the department, gratifi ed by their extremely positive and next year Declan Smithies the intended purpose of promoting and that’s unfortunate. Please take evaluation of our department. As and Wayne Wu are organizing a informal philosophical conversations. a minute to complete the form on one of their summary comments conference in epistemology and We hope to complete the furnishing the back page of this newsletter put it: “The Ohio State philosophy philosophy of mind focusing on the and decorating of the room, and and return it to us (or e-mail me at department has an excellent important but underexplored area you can help. Contributions to the [email protected]). n faculty and a graduate program of attention. Robert G. Turnbull fund—or any of that successfully attracts strong Last spring marked the dedication the department’s other development graduate students that it then of the Robert G. Turnbull Reading funds—can be made very easily by places impressively. Indeed, the Room & Lounge. Through the returning the form on page 15 or by department’s outstanding placement generosity of Marge and Bruce going online to philosophy.osu.edu, record is compelling testimony Turnbull, and numerous alumni and and clicking on the link for making a Don Hubin to the quality of the graduate stu- friends of the department, and with contribution. Chair THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

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argumentation, as well as a chance for the students to apply their newly acquired skills.” Because campaigns and their noteworthy moments are unpredictable, the committee built fl exibility into the curriculum. “In the second week of the course, we spent an entire day debating the meaning and implications of the New Yorker’s controversial cartoon depicting the Obamas as political radicals,” Dai Heide says. Later in the course, teams of students were randomly assigned positions to take on gun control and then, after some signifi cant research, formally debated the issue. “The work they put in was incredible,” Dai reports. “Several of them read signifi cant portions of D.C. v. Heller,” 3 a recent Supreme Court Decision METRO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS striking down Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns. impressed with the students’ In the end, the committee was abilities. “A couple of them are “One of our main goals was to make sure the course was not let down. Dai notes that the better at this stuff now than I was students worked “amazingly hard,” in college,” he says. practical….We wanted to make sure students were able to adding, “Some of them routinely Dai is enthusiastic about see just how relevant clear reasoning is to their own lives.” asked for extra work—and would the experience of teaching this do it even without the promise of course, saying, “I’d do it again in a students came out of the course with at Metro High School in future extra credit. One of my students heartbeat. It was hard work, but the an improved ability to understand summers. But the department has spent several nights trying to level of commitment blew me away. and critically evaluate arguments, set its sights higher than mere repeat formulate a prisoners’ dilemma for What more can you ask for? It was especially in the context of political performances at Metro. Don Hubin an electoral voting scenario. It was the most fun I’ve ever had teaching.” debates and campaigns. On this the and Marcy Raymond have agreed really impressive.” The fi nal week of Based on student evaluations, students and Dai agree. to work together to develop grant the course focused on introductory this attitude was shared by the All of the students who evaluated applications that would allow the symbolic logic. Dai reports being students. More importantly, the the course expressed their gratitude course to be rolled out to a wider for the generosity of the Vigodas for audience of students at a variety of making the course possible. One central Ohio high schools. concluded the evaluation with these “This has the potential to be sentiments: “Because of Louise and a very widely employed summer Philip Vigoda, I was able to take program, with the prospect of part in this amazing course that helping us to provide summer will help me for years to come in the employment for more of our future. I would like to thank both of graduate students in a way that them with the deepest appreciation realizes Louise Vigoda’s vision for their donation that made this of improving the general level of possible not only for me but for my critical reasoning in our society,” fellow classmates. This is something Don says. “It is a wonderful that will help us—no matter where opportunity to reach out to high we end up—to make wiser and more school students, many of whom have logical conclusions.” a natural interest in philosophy but In light of the success of this little opportunity to explore and course, it will certainly be reprised develop that interest.” n SALVATORE FLORIO, DON HUBIN, LOUISE VIGODA, AND DAI HEIDE AT METRO HIGH SCHOOL LOGOS

FEATURE Consilience Project Attracts Academically Diverse Audiences

n autumn quarter 2006, graduate students While sponsoring colloquia has been Mike Ferreira (Philosophy), Ellen Furlong a CP mainstay since its inception, the I(Psychology), and Danny Pearlberg organization has recently evolved in a (Philosophy) collaborated in an attempt to somewhat different direction. The offi cers stimulate dialogue between graduate students now make an effort to work in conjunction working in different academic departments. The with specifi c faculty members in order to result was the formation of the Consilience Project sponsor colloquia directed at enhancing (CP), an offi cially recognized and still active Ohio selected graduate student seminars. For State student organization. Many thanks are owed, instance, in spring quarter 2008, CP and the too, to Owen King (Philosophy) for volunteering Department of Philosophy co-sponsored a his time to act in the capacity of web master for visit from Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh). the CP web site (consilience.org.ohio-state.edu), Machery was invited to share some recent as well as to John Opfer (Psychology) for his work relevant to a seminar in the philosophy assistance as the CP faculty advisor. of science taught by Richard Samuels. This The avowed mission of CP—to facilitate latest CP program, too, attracted a diverse dialogue across departments—is grounded in at academic audience. least two assumptions. On the one hand, CP takes It goes without saying that Ohio State is a it for granted that keeping in periodic touch with nearly ideal environment for an organization high-quality research in areas related to, though like CP. For one thing, the university’s distinct from, one’s own is a worthy end in itself. SOURCE (Student Organization Resource 4 Minimally, then, CP functions as an organization Center) provides an incredible fi nancial committed to satisfying the intellectual curiosity resource to any student organization with of its members and others in the university an acceptable mission and an adequate level community. of organization. But, more importantly, both in our home department and in the wider university community, we are rich in It goes without saying that Ohio high-quality faculty and graduate students. State is a nearly ideal environment Perhaps the best way to characterize CP for an organization like CP. is to call it an organization aimed at both exploiting and contributing to those rich On the other hand, perhaps more substantially, intellectual resources. n DANNY PEARLBERG AND MIKE FERREIRA—CONSILIENCE PROJECT CP assumes that facilitating dialogue between experts and graduate students across disciplines has the potential to yield genuine insights of a sort unattainable when researchers do not collaborate. Philosophy Student Makes the Times Of course, the suggestion is intentionally vague, and in practice CP is committed to little more than the sharing of skills and knowledge toward ho says philosophers don’t deal with the about the motivations of female suicide attackers. the extension, where possible, of our collective “real world”? One of our accomplished My larger work on the subject analyzes the strategic knowledge of the natural world. Wgraduates has had the distinction value and the inter-group dynamics involved in So far, the chosen course for implementing recently of publishing an op-ed piece in The employing women attackers.” n CP’s mission has been to invite visits and New York Times: “Behind the Woman Behind presentations from academics in residence at the Bomb” (August 2, 2008). Lindsey O’Rourke other institutions whose own interests tend to be began to pursue her interest in the phenomenon broadly interdisciplinary. However, CP has also of suicide bombing when she wrote a thesis for sponsored presentations from faculty and graduate graduation, with distinction in honors, under the students in residence at Ohio State. Highlights direction of philosophy professor Neil Tennant. from the fi rst two years of programming include Her interdisciplinary project passed with fl ying a stimulating presentation from our own Tim colors in an examination that involved both the Schroeder and visits from Jesse Prinz (UNC- Departments of Philosophy and Political Science. Chapel Hill) and Susan Carey (Harvard). All Lindsey is now in the political science PhD program three talks were well attended and featured an at the University of Chicago, where she specializes academically diverse audience. in international relations. She says her op-ed piece “was aimed to correct common misperceptions LINDSEY O’ROURKE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Summer Research Opportunity Program

his past summer, three philosophy undergraduate majors from other Tinstitutions were at Ohio State for six weeks to participate in the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP). This program is designed to help minority undergraduates explore opportunities for graduate study and academic careers. SROP participants work with a faculty sponsor on a project of mutual interest, with the intention of developing the kind of student- professor relationship that is crucial to success in graduate school. Viktoriya Kamara (Northwestern) worked with our colleague Robert Perry of the Department of Physics on a project concerning Kant and quantum mechanics. Marvin Brown did research with Allan Silverman on Plato’s “noble lie,” a myth that seems to offer support for a stratifi ed social structure. And John Camacho worked on a project on the nature of belief and 5 desire under the direction of Don Hubin. John took some time to describe his background and what brought him to the SROP program. He relates that he was intimidated by the idea of taking philosophy courses when he entered Georgia Southern University as a freshman. Nevertheless, he enrolled in an Introduction to Philosophy course in his second semester there. BACK (L TO R): ROBERT PERRY (PHYSICS), DON HUBIN, ALLAN SILVERMAN; FRONT (L TO R): VIKTORIYA KAMARA, JOHN CAMACHO, AND MARVIN BROWN “Looking back,” John says, “it was one of the most important decisions in my collegiate life. We paper titled “Rawls and The Right to Security.” read Plato, Descartes, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Through the 2007-08 academic year, John wrote and Albert Camus. I particularly enjoyed reading This program is designed to help an honors thesis called “The Ethics of Electronic Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito. I developed Surveillance Laws.” It was during this year that he minority undergraduates explore a great love for philosophy and found enjoyment became aware of Don Hubin’s research on reasons in reading, writing, and discussing the ethical opportunities for graduate study and for acting and the connection between morality and political themes in philosophy. This led me academic careers. and rationality, so he applied to Ohio State’s SROP to organize discussion groups with classmates program to work with Don. John worked through and upperclassmen. At this point, philosophy no the summer reading widely in the area and wrote longer intimidated me. I dropped the political a paper on the “direction of fi t” account of the science major and became a philosophy major.” difference between belief and desire. John didn’t know, though, where a philosophy This fall, John is off to Salamanca, Spain, to degree would lead him. In his sophomore year, immerse himself in the study of the Spanish he transferred to Georgia State University. The language. John plans to graduate from Georgia rigorous philosophy culture there strengthened State in spring 2010 and pursue graduate studies his desire to pursue a PhD in philosophy. Then in law and philosophy. Though the SROP program a visit to Georgia State by Brian Leiter helped to is over, John’s relationship with Don is not. Part crystallize John’s plans for the future. Professor of the goal of the SROP program is to establish an Leiter spoke about combined JD/PhD programs enduring mentorship between the faculty member in philosophy and John realized that there are and the student. Don will continue to read and options available for pursuing philosophy and law comment on John’s work, and to help advise him in academia. in making decisions about his advanced studies in John began directing his research toward this law and philosophy. n objective. In summer 2007, John worked with Professor George Rainbolt (Georgia State) on a LOGOS

STUDENTS PRESENT AND PAST Surili Sheth Current Undergraduate

urili Sheth began questioning early on. As I try to argue in this format. I was she puts it: “‘But why?’ was probably the amazed at the level of persuasion that Sphrase my parents heard the most out of my philosophers could reach through mouth. As a teenager, if I couldn’t go to a sleepover, logic. Furthermore, many of their or I had to be home at a certain time, I would texts followed the pattern that I think always ask why. Then, when my dad gave me an in. I argue with myself as I work out explanation, I immediately provided a counter- a problem in my head, and Descartes argument, to which he provided a counter- provides counter-arguments to the counter-argument. It went on like that until arguments he presents in his fi rst either he had provided me a fi rm, rigid enough meditation, and at some points explanation, or I had so completely exhausted even counters those. Using this and derailed each argument he came up with that method, Decartes meticulously casts he had no choice but to let me go or invoke the readers into a general doubt about ‘because I said so’ argument. If he did the latter, he their perceptions and everything knew I would be prodding him for justifi cation the around them, and then proceeds to entire time I was home.” build his foundation that leads to This is a familiar story to parents of teenagers, his conclusions. Learning how to at least those who would tolerate the argumentative construct an argument that is sound SURILI SHETH AND LISA SHABEL dialectic as much as Surili’s father would. But (and inversely how to analyze an argument piece plight of poor people. “There should not be huge 6 Surili’s fondness for questioning, challenging, by piece) was one of the most attractive qualities of gaps in basic standards of living between classes of and arguing was not simply a means to getting a philosophy to me. The seeking-justice-wannabe- people,” Surili says, “and working to provide relief teenager’s way. In her junior year of high school, she lawyer in me was jumping up and down.” and opportunities for employment and aid on a joined the Mock Trial Team as an “attorney” and After Surili’s introduction to philosophy small community level would be my fi rst step in was thrilled to fi nd out that her arguing skills could in Lisa Shabel’s course, she took a class on rectifying this problem.” actually be put to use. When coming up with lines macroeconomics and then on the history of This is not just rhetoric for Surili. This past of questioning for cross examinations, Surili had to economic thought, both taught by Dr. Justin Elardo summer she volunteered at a non-governmental think carefully through each and every answer that in the economics department. Surili learned that organization in Ahmedabad, India, named her witness could give and frame her questions so the standard defi nition of economics taught in Manav Sadhna (translated “Service to Mankind”). the witness could give her only the answer that she almost every introductory economics class—some There, her main project was to teach 40 5th- wanted. This year is Surili’s fourth year as a Mock variation of “the study of how limited resources are 9th-grade impoverished children basic English Trial member. allocated to unlimited wants”—has a bias, because vocabulary. Surili learned that need-based, it implicitly assumes that people are unlimitedly focused projects aimed at specifi c problems are selfi sh. It takes that view of human nature as a given, much more benefi cial and effective than those Surili wants to spend her time which many people often do not recognize. If such a that begin as large, indirect projects. However, basic defi nition was biased, how many more things, to really help these people, she felt, she needs to researching what causes poverty and Surili wondered, had she unquestioningly accepted understand better how they ended up in their then create laws and, most throughout her education? respective situations. She also needs to learn In her Evolution of Economic Thought course, importantly, implement ideas that how to communicate effectively with people Surili read the primary texts of many prominent in such situations as well as those who work in reduce the plight of poor people. economic thinkers like Aristotle and Adam Smith. governments, legal offi ces, and bureaucracies. Through the process of reading and critically “To do that, I have to be able to recognize the evaluating these writers, the on perspective through which they look at the world,” In 2007, Surili came to Ohio State knowing she which their economic theories were based became she explains, “and provide arguments to persuade would be pre-law, but she had no idea what major more and more apparent. “Philosophy provides a them to help me change the drastic economic to choose from the vast array of choices available. way to seek the foundation and the very basis of inequalities that exist within it.” Then, she enrolled in an honors Introduction to everything around me,” Surili says, “and that is This ambition is a long way from arguing Philosophy course with Lisa Shabel, in which she one of the reasons it is so appealing to me.” with her father about whether she could go to a was introduced to Descartes’ Meditations. Decartes’ Surili is now a double major in economics sleepover. But the skills that fi rst developed in the skeptical arguments in the fi rst meditation and philosophy and is doing outstanding work pursuit of a teenager’s interests have served Surili immediately captured Surili’s imagination. in both areas. She still plans to go to law school, well in her philosophical and economic studies She notes: “Professor Shabel guided us possibly eventually to practice international law. and, with the further honing they will receive, will through the arguments and counter-arguments Surili wants to spend her time researching what provide the basis for achieving the ambitious goals that Descartes presented. This technique was causes poverty and then create laws and, most she has set for herself. n intriguing to me, because I recognized the way importantly, implement ideas that reduce the THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

STUDENTS PRESENT AND PAST Mark Lance logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy (especially Former Undergraduate particularism), and applied areas of political philosophy. His second book (written with Rebecca Kukla) is ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The Pragmatic Topography ark Lance came into philosophy by a night at Larry’s for multi-hour debates over beer, of the Space of Reasons (forthcoming from Harvard back door. Though academically gifted more beer, and even some other things. One could University Press). Mand engaged growing up—he came always count on fi nding faculty and students deep One other prominent element of Mark’s life also to Ohio State as a National Merit Scholar—his in discussion in the department lounge over lunch. began in his days at Ohio State. In his last year, he main passion was music. In his fi rst two years of Honestly, I’ve never seen a faculty so eager to interact was challenged on his political ignorance by a few college as a trumpet performance major, he played with undergrad students outside class, nor such a other undergraduates, especially Ken Rose. “It says in Ohio State’s Symphony Orchestra, Concert fun and challenging group of undergrads. It felt a lot about the culture of intellectual seriousness Band, and Wind Ensemble. He also helped form very much like our own self-contained community, in place at Ohio State,” Mark recalls, “that one just the Midwestern Brass Quintet and played with the whether we were engaged in serious intellectual work didn’t ignore such a challenge.” This led him to begin Columbus Symphony Orchestra. or frivolous adventures. (I might note that there was reading indepth not only in political theory, but on Mark had always had an interest in mathematics, a notorious incident involving the kidnapping of G.E. topical political issues. As a result of his readings, so, much to the puzzlement of his music professors, Moose in those days, an incident to which neither Mark decided that it was his duty to be involved in he took a string of I nor any other undergraduate major has ever been social justice and antiwar activism. And he has been honors courses in defi nitively linked.*) active ever since, in a variety of ways, from engaging math. As he saw it, this After Ohio State, Mark went on to graduate in civil disobedience with grassroots activist groups, was just something to school at the University of Pittsburgh, where he to serving on the board of national organizations, to do in his spare time, studied with Nuel Belnap, Wilfrid Sellars, and founding an interdisciplinary program on justice between rehearsals, Joe Camp, and wrote his dissertation under the and peace. but the rest of the direction of Bob Brandom. Mark had fi rst met Bob At present Mark is professor of philosophy, academic world still when he was still an undergraduate, at an Ohio State professor of justice and peace, and director of the 7 held little interest philosophy department party at Robert Kraut’s program on justice and peace that he founded at for him. This was all house. Mark recalls that Robert, Bob, and he were Georgetown University. He is working on a project to change, due to a “still up at that party at 2:30 in the morning, arguing in the foundations of mathematics with Joe Mourad MARK LANCE WITH DAUGHTER, EMMA fortuitous random about mathematical ontology, which, as you can (who was an Ohio State undergrad with Mark); a JUNE HUBBARD LANCE course selection. imagine, was about the coolest possible thing for a followup to the book with Rebecca Kukla, which will Mark describes himself as “grudgingly satisfying nerdy undergrad.” look at the nature of social authority; and a book on a humanities distribution requirement,” when Mark’s fi rst job was a three-year postdoc at “constructive anarchism.” He lives in Washington, he signed up for Robert Kraut’s Introduction to Syracuse University where he taught with, among D.C., with his partner Amy Hubbard and their Philosophy in spring 1978, a course experience he other future philosophers, John Hawthorne. daughter Emma Lance. now describes as “magical.” All his life, Mark reports Later, Mark and John wrote The Grammar of Of his days as an undergraduate philosophy in retrospect, he had thought philosophically, but Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Since major at Ohio State, Mark says, “They were without knowing that he was doing so. Like many then, Mark has written dozens of papers in the amazingly exciting and happy times that I will who are naturally drawn to philosophical questions, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophical treasure my entire life.” n he had never really heard of philosophy, and just fi gured he was odd. “Suddenly,” he says, “there was this whole amazing world of people who argued, *During Mark’s tenure here as an undergraduate, thought, and engaged with the most abstract ideas.” the department’s rather lifeless but still fascinating Under Robert’s mentorship, Mark continued to mascot, G.E. Moose, was purloined and held ransom. The captors’ demands were not for money take more and more philosophy courses, including but for a variety of changes in the behavior of a graduate course in philosophy of mind with Bill individual faculty. Dan Farrell, for example, would Lycan and logic courses with George Schumm. be required to “ask at least one question during a After a year or so, the change was complete. Mark colloquium without apologizing fi rst” and Tamar left music behind and graduated with a major in Rudavsky was to “stop claiming that her pregnancy philosophy and a minor in music. Along the way, was a case of immaculate conception.” The crime he won the Bingham Prize, awarded for the best is, as Mark’s comments suggest, still unsolved. undergraduate essay in philosophy, for his paper, However, unlike true kidnappings, there is no “Reference without Causation.” statute of limitations for moosenapping. (We defy The intellectual community at Ohio State in anyone to show us one statute that sets a limit to those days (1977–83) was, Mark says, extraordinary: the liability of moosenappers to just punishment.) “Not only were there superb teachers like Robert And, as chair, I assure all involved that we Kraut, Bill Lycan, George Pappas, Bob Turnbull, are pursuing the perpretators of this crime as Don Hubin, and Dan Farrell, but there was an aggressively today as we ever have. enormously lively group of undergraduates and —Don Hubin G.E. MOOSE—CAPTURED graduate students, who would assemble most every LOGOS

STUDENTS PRESENT AND PAST Salvatore Florio Current Graduate

fter graduating from the Università di of language and by linguists, and it is diffi cult to Firenze in Italy, Salvatore Florio joined assimilate all of it. “One of Salvatore’s particular Athe PhD program at Ohio State in concerns is the extent to which unrestricted autumn 2003. After having given up his high quantifi cation runs afoul of the paradoxes, such as school dream of becoming a Sartre scholar, he that of Russell and Burali-Forti. This brings him focused on epistemology as an undergraduate, to work in mathematical logic and the foundations writing a thesis on epistemic externalism. Now, of mathematics. This is a rather popular topic Salvatore’s main interests are in philosophy of these days, as witnessed by a volume edited by language, philosophical logic, and philosophy Oxford University Press. What Salvatore brings to of mathematics. He has worked on the Church- this issue is the relevance of work in linguistics on Fitch paradox of knowability and his paper “The generality and logical consequence.” Paradox of Idealisation,” co-written with Julien To develop his expertise in philosophy of Murzi (University of Sheffi eld), is forthcoming in mathematics, Salvatore has also completed the Analysis, a very strong philosophy journal. course work for a master’s degree in mathematics Salvatore is currently writing a dissertation and is working on a thesis with Harvey in semantics under the supervision of Stewart Friedman. Salvatore’s work in the Department Shapiro and Neil Tennant. His dissertation of Mathematics has included core courses in real concerns the notions of quantifi cation and logical analysis and algebra, as well as advanced topics in consequence in natural language—in particular mathematical logic and set theory. the issues of plural quantifi cation and plural For this academic year, Salvatore holds a 8 logic. In addition to singular quantifi cation Presidential Fellowship. This is an extremely over objects (“there is a unicorn in the doorway,” competitive award designed to honor “the “there is an even prime number”), English allows outstanding scholarly accomplishments and SALVATORE FLORIO plural quantifi cation (“there are some unicorns potential of graduate students entering the fi nal in the doorway,” “there are sets that are not phase of their dissertation research…Recipients members of themselves”). The proper account of of this award embody the highest standards of this kind of quantifi cation, and its role in logic, scholarship in Ohio State graduate programs.” metaphysics, and philosophy of mathematics, has Though this is a very signifi cant honor, those been a matter of controversy in philosophy and working with Salvatore were not surprised by linguistics. One of the main questions is whether his success. Neil Tennant says of Salvatore: “He In addition to singular quantifi cation plural quantifi cation is reducible to singular is one of the most acute and tenacious thinkers over objects (“there is a unicorn in quantifi cation, and so describable in the usual I’ve had the pleasure of supervising for a PhD. the doorway,” “there is an even logical framework, or whether it is instead a sui He has the originality, the discipline, the focus, generis phenomenon that requires a revision of our and the dedication to make a real mark in our prime number”), English allows logical resources. In his dissertation, Salvatore fi eld.” Salvatore has also been the recipient of the plural quantifi cation (“there are explores these issues and defends the view that P.K. Chu Memorial Scholarship and graduate plural quantifi cation is best understood in terms student travel awards from the Central and some unicorns in the doorway,” of a specifi c sort of singular quantifi cation. This Eastern Divisions of the American Philosophical “there are sets that are not members undermines many recent proposals to avoid Association. ontological commitments in metaphysics and When not doing philosophy, he enjoys of themselves”). justify set theory by appealing to certain uses of running and playing soccer (especially with the plural quantifi cation. department team, SoccerTease). n Stewart Shapiro points out that there is a lot of work that bears on this, both by philosophers THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

STUDENTS PRESENT AND PAST Sheldon Smith Former Graduate

few months after graduating from nearby Pomona College, Sheldon Smith left his A home town of Pomona, California, in his red Ford Tempo for the three-and-a-half day drive to Columbus. It was Jim Bogen—at the time a professor at Pitzer College but a previous visitor to Ohio State—who urged him towards the Buckeye state. Sheldon recalls, “Jim knew that I wanted to study philosophy of science, and since Ronald Layman, Robert Batterman, and Mark Wilson were all at Ohio State at the time, he knew that it would be a great place for me.” So, in the late summer of 1991, Sheldon made his fi rst trip to states east of Las Vegas. While at Ohio State, Sheldon realized that he particularly wanted to specialize in philosophy of physics. Having arrived at the university with little scientifi c background, he had to learn as much mathematical physics as he could in a short amount of time. Apparently, this endeavor 9 resulted in a noticed absence from the philosophy department, even leading his advisor, Mark Wilson, to put a note in his box asking if he had dropped out of the program. Ultimately, he wrote his dissertation under Wilson’s direction with Robert Batterman and George Pappas as SHELDON SMITH committee members. His thesis was about the way laws of nature and causation are related within the applied mathematics of physical theory, a topic on Now that he has seen a larger portion of the which he works still. philosophy world, he appreciates his time at Ohio “My dissertation served me well since In 1998, he got his fi rst teaching job at State even more. He claims, “Ohio State seemed Metropolitan State College of Denver. In some to me a very relaxed department even though it set me on a really fruitful research ways, this was an ideal job for him since his wife people did and do very serious and interesting path that I don’t feel that I have had become a graduate student at the relatively research there. As a graduate student, it was a very exhausted even now.” nearby University of Colorado, Boulder. When his philosophically stimulating environment.” In wife fi nished her graduate program, they moved addition, he recalls fondly the social life of the to Paris, France, for two years, where he continued department and how it was entangled with the his causation research with the support of an NSF department’s intellectual life. He reminisces, “It grant. In 2003, he started as an assistant professor is something that I miss to this day; parties at at UCLA where he was promoted to associate Dan Farrell’s or William Taschek’s house after professor in 2007. He claims, “My dissertation colloquia; drinks at Larry’s with faculty after served me well since it set me on a really fruitful graduate seminars.” All in all, he thinks of his research path that I don’t feel that I have exhausted time at Ohio State as one of the most enjoyable even now.” Though he has done some historical times of his life: “I met my wife at Ohio State. work on Kant—having developed an interest in We adopted our now 16-year-old cat there.” Kant from graduate seminars by Wilson, Pappas, Unfortunately, the Ford Tempo isn’t still with him. and Calvin Normore—his research continues to It died in Columbus. So, next time he comes back be mostly in the philosophy of physics. to Columbus, he’ll fl y. n

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It’s Never Too Late: Program 60 Provides Opportunities to Keep on Studying

es Taylor’s love for philosophy began when Les has been taking one or two courses a he was a freshman at Ohio State, 45 years quarter for three years now. “Without exception, Lago. He took an Introduction to Philosophy the department faculty has been very kind and course in which he was inspired by the professor supportive,” he reports. “They are always willing to consider some of the fundamental issues that to engage in philosophical discussion whether philosophers have addressed through the ages. it’s in class, during offi ce hours, or in chance He took a few more philosophy courses and even encounters in the hallways.” Because he is not considered majoring in the subject, but his family a paying student, Les follows a personal rule discouraged him from doing so and he fi nally of etiquette: don’t get in the way of the paying chose mathematics. “It wasn’t a bad decision,” Les students. He generally defers most of the class says. “I had a good career in computers, starting discussion time to them. “But,” says Les, “when I out as a programmer and retiring as a computer think my question, observation, or opinion will consultant.” help the class, I voice it.” When Les retired, he discovered Program Though not required, Les undertakes the 60 at Ohio State. With this program, any Ohio work of a regular student, writing papers and resident aged 60 or over can audit for free almost taking exams. “I have even prepared a couple any course Ohio State offers. Participants in of presentations that were well received,” Les Program 60 do not receive grades or college reports. Dan Farrell, though, notes that this is credit, but that didn’t bother Les; he wanted to a real understatement: “In my Philosophy of explore the great issues he had been provoked to Art class, Les volunteered to lead a small-group 10 ponder all those years ago. Les studied the course class presentation and the resulting presentation catalog and determined his own curriculum of inspired the other students in the class to do high- LES TAYLOR philosophy courses: all of the lower-level history of quality presentations as well.” philosophy courses in addition to selected courses Les’s career in business doesn’t help much of old ideas. Much to the contrary, there have in philosophical topics. with fi guring out what Descartes was saying, been many new philosophical ideas developed but his experience can provide a perspective on since he was in school. Saul Kripke’s work in the other areas of philosophy—for example, political philosophy of language and John Rawls’ writings philosophy. He took Don Hubin’s Political in political philosophy are two examples that he Prior to his participation in Program Philosophy course, which focuses on economic has come across in his recent studies. justice and includes a discussion of theories Les’s studies in philosophy through Program 60, he thought of philosophy as the of distributive justice that ground various 60 have been rewarding. He notes, “What a study of old ideas. Much to the tax policies. “Les raised the level of classroom privilege it is for me to study philosophers old and contrary, there have been many new discussion,” Don reports. “Few students have new with the distinguished faculty at Ohio State! thought much about what tax policies say about Not only is this study enjoyable, but philosophy’s philosophical ideas developed since our conception of fairness and justice. Les’s focus on foundational issues deepens my he was in school. experience in business, and his life experience in understanding of where we are in this world.” general, provided a valuable perspective in the The Ohio State University Offi ce of classroom discussion.” Continuing Education facilitates Program 60. To As for philosophy itself, Les says that ask questions, or to be placed on the mailing list, his biggest surprise was the extent to which call (614) 292-8860. For more information, visit philosophy has developed since he was an the Program 60 web site at ced.osu.edu/CED_ undergraduate. Prior to his participation in pro60.html. n Program 60, he thought of philosophy as the study THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Dubrovnik Conference—2008 and 2009

n conjunction with our colleagues in Croatia (Michigan), Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA), Nadeem The Ohio State 2009 conference organizers are and Slovenia, Ohio State’s philosophy Hussain (Stanford), Karen Jones (Melbourne), Declan Smithies and Wayne Wu, in collaboration Idepartment continues to host outstanding Friderik Klampfer (Maribor), Maggie Little with Boran Berˇcic´ (Rijeka), Nenad Mišˇcevic´ conferences each summer at the Inter-University (Georgetown), Colleen MacNamara (UC (Maribor), and Matjaž Potrˇc (Ljubljana). Like Centre in Dubrovnik. The conference series traces Riverside), Nenad Mišˇcevic´ (Maribor/Budapest), previous conferences in Dubrovnik, this one will its history back to 1989 when George Pappas and Philip Pettit (Princeton), Abe Roth (Ohio State), draw an outstanding group of external participants, Dan Farrell worked together with Nenad Mišˇcevic´ Nishi Shah (Amherst), John Skorupski (St. including Michael Brady (Glasgow), John Campbell (Maribor/Budapest) and Matjaž Potrˇc (Ljubljana) Andrews), and Michael Smith (Princeton). (UC Berkeley), Austen Clark (Connecticut), Imogen to organize the fi rst Ohio State /Maribor/Rijeka In the 2009 conference, Attention and the Dickie (Toronto), Naomi Eilan (Warwick), Benj conference. It has developed into an annual event Philosophy of Mind, participants will focus Hellie (Toronto), Terry Horgan (Arizona), Hemdat that draws the very best philosophers from around on a phenomenon that is often invoked by Lerman (Warwick), Fiona MacPherson (Glasglow), the world to an intense, week-long conference on a philosophers yet infrequently given sustained Michael Martin (U. College, London), Christopher targeted subject. philosophical discussion. Attention has played an Mole (Dublin), Johannes Roessler (Warwick), The 2008 conference, organized by Justin important role in discussions of consciousness, Susanna Siegel (Harvard), Charles Siewert (UC D’Arms and Sigrún Svavarsdóttir, was in moral perception, the nature of demonstrative thought, Riverside), and Daniel Stoljar (ANU). philosophy, focusing on the theme of evaluating action, and reasoning. It is likely to have broader The location is astonishingly beautiful and agents. Participants presented papers on the application in debates within moral psychology participants have time in the evenings to relax nature of agents and agency, and on different and epistemology. The goal of the conference and socialize, but these conferences have serious forms of evaluation and appraisal. External is to bring together philosophers from all over objectives: to bring the top philosophers in a given participants included: Boran Berˇcic´ (Rijeka), the world who have recognized the importance area together to discuss issues of common interest 11 Michael Bratman (Stanford), John Broome of attention and to provide new impetus for and to do this in a venue where young Eastern (Oxford), David Copp (Florida), Allan Gibbard philosophical work on this important topic. European philosophers and their students are able to join in the conversation. n LOGOS

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Ben Caplan has published “On colloquia at various universities in the and Compatibilism in Leibniz” at for the Stanford Encyclopedia of the Content of Experience,” with United States and Canada. Rice University, and by Dan Garber Philosophy (plato.stanford.edu/entries/ Tim Schroeder, in Philosophy and to respond to a paper by Catherine occasionalism/), and he recently Phenomenological Research, and Lisa Downing has been awarded Wilson about his book at the Second published “Passive Natures and No “Defending ‘Defending Musical a National Endowment for the Annual Conference, held at Princeton Representations: Malebranche’s Two Perdurantism,’” with Carl Matheson, Humanities Fellowship and will University in September. Another ‘Local’ Arguments for Occasionalism” in British Journal of Aesthetics. He be taking the upcoming year to presentation, “Two New Cartesian in The Harvard Review of Philosophy, has also reviewed Julian Dodd’s work on her book, Empiricism and Circles” (coauthored with Patrick vol. XV. Also, “Necessary Connections Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology Newtonianism: Locke, Berkeley, and K. Lewtas), was given at the Central and Continuous Creation: for British Journal of Aesthetic and the Decline of Strict Mechanism. Lisa Division APA Meeting in Chicago. Malebranche’s Two Arguments Trenton Merricks’ Truth and Ontology has recently published “Locke’s Also this year, Glenn received the for Occasionalism” was published for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Ontology” in The Cambridge “Leibniz Award” for service to the in the Journal of the History of Ben has presented two papers co- Companion to Locke’s Essay, Lex Leibniz Society of North America as Philosophy. Presentations this past written with David Sanson: “The Newman, ed. (Cambridge); and “The the founding editor of its journal The year included a paper, “Substantial Way Things Were” at Franklin and ‘sensible object’ and the ‘uncertain Leibniz Review, 1991-2008. Independence: Leibniz’s Criticism of Marshall, Central Michigan, and philosophical cause’” in Kant and Occasionalism as Spinozism,” which Illinois State; and “Locality and the Early Moderns, Daniel Garber Don Hubin was awarded the Rosalene Sukjae presented at the Dubrovnik Necessity” at Maryland, Carleton, and and Beatrice Longuenesse, eds. Sedwick Faculty Service Award for Conference and at UNC-Chapel Hill the APA’s Pacific Division Meeting in (Princeton). She wrote a review of 2008. He is also an associate editor for last year. “Must Substances Be Active? Pasadena, CA. He also commented Michael Ben-Chaim’s Experimental Ethics. Don did some international An Examination of Leibniz’s Critique on Kris McDaniel’s “A Return to Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical travel this year when he presented of Occasionalism in ‘De Ipsa Natura’” the Analogy of Being” at the 11th Science: Boyle, Locke, and Newton “Procreator’s Duties” at the Bearing was given at the Colloquium on Annual INPC at the University of (Ashgate) for Isis. Lisa presented and Raising Children Conference Causalité et liberté dans la philosophie Idaho and Washington State in “Rationalism, Empiricism, and at the University of Cape Town in du 17e siècle, University of Neuchâtel, March 2008 and on Arthur Sullivan’s Mechanism in Locke” at the Central Cape Town, South Africa. The event Switzerland. And lastly, Sukjae 12 “Multiple-Proposition Views in Division APA in Chicago; at the was sponsored by the Jean Beer presented “Berkeley on the Activity of Recent Philosophy of Language: A Otago/Sydney Early Modern Seminar Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia Spirits” at the International Berkeley Preliminary Investigation” at the CPA in Dunedin, New Zealand; and as State University, the Society for Society, APA Eastern Division Annual Congress at UBC in May 2008. the keynote speaker at the Ohio Applied Philosophy, and the University Meeting, Baltimore. Philosophical Association Meeting of Cape Town. Don also presented Justin D’Arms published in Granville. Her paper “Maupertuis “The Limits of Consequentialism” Abe Roth has an article, “Shared “Sentimental Rules and Moral on Attraction as an Inherent Property at the XXII World Congress of Agency,” forthcoming in the Stanford Disagreement: Comment on of Matter” was presented at the Philosophy, in Seoul, South Korea. Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Abe was Nichols” in Moral Psychology vol.2: University of Minnesota in April, and invited to comment on papers by The Cognitive Science of Morality: also at the 7th Biennial Congress Robert Kraut published “Aesthetic Michael Bratman and Margaret Intuition and Diversity, edited by of the International Society for the Theory and Artistic Practice: Danto’s Gilbert in a symposium on shared Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and History of the Philosophy of Science Transfiguration of the Artworld” in intention, “Constructivism and published by MIT Press, and “Envy in Vancouver. the Online Conference in Aesthetics: Constitutivism in the theory of Shared in the Philosophical Tradition,” with Arthur Danto’s Transfiguration Intention,” at the Pacific Division Alison Duncan Kerr, in Envy: Theory Daniel Farrell’s “Rationality, of the Commonplace—25 Years Meeting of the APA. In a symposium and Research, Richard Smith ed., Meaning and the Crisis of Faith” was Later (artmind.typepad.com/ on group intentions, he delivered Oxford University Press. He has a published in Philosophers Without onlineconference/). He has an “Who or What is the Company Man?” number of articles in press, including, Gods, Louise Antony, ed. (Oxford article, “Critical Monism and Critical at the Central Division Meeting of the “Regret and Irrational Action,” with University Press). Dan also presented Pluralism,” forthcoming in Blackwell APA. Abe also delivered “Hume on Daniel Jacobson, in Practical “The Quest for Esoteric Knowledge in Companion to Aesthetics, Second Reasoning: Simple vs. Sophisticated” Reason, David Sobel and Stephen Modernist Visual Art” at The School Edition (Blackwell Publishers Ltd.). at the Hume Society meeting at the Wall, eds., Cambridge University of Visual Arts in New York for the 21st Robert also presented “Ontology Pacific Division Meeting of the APA. Press; “Prinz’s Theory of Emotion” Annual Conference on the Liberal and Artworld Interpretation” at the in Philosophy and Phenomenological Arts and the Education of the Artist. Philosophy Department Colloquium, Tamar Rudavsky has Maimonides, a Research; “Demystifying Sensibilities: Vanderbilt University. Another paper, book-length manuscript in contract, Sentimental Values and the Instability Glenn Hartz was invited to present “Remarks on Artworld Ontology,” was with Blackwell’s “Great Minds” series. of Affect,” with Daniel Jacobson, in (along with J.A. Cover) “Leibniz’s given at the American Society for Her co-edited volume (with Professor The Oxford Handbook on Philosophy Three-Tiered Ontology” for a Aesthetics, Eastern Division Meetings, Steven Nadler), The Cambridge of Emotion, Peter Goldie, ed.; and symposium at the Central Division Philadelphia. History of Jewish Philosophy: From a review of Anthony Appiah’s APA meeting in Chicago. Glenn Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century, Experiments in Ethics in the Times was also invited by Mark Kulstad, Sukjae Lee is visiting assistant is in the final stages of production. Literary Supplement. He has presented for the First Annual Conference of professor at Cornell University for the Other forthcoming articles include his recent research at several national the Leibniz Society of America, to autumn quarter 2008. Sukjae has just “Time, Space and Cosmology in and international conferences, and at present “Composition, Continuity, finished the entry on “occasionalism” Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” chapter THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

for Cambridge History of Jewish British Journal for the History of Vincent F. Hendricks and Hannes in The Harvard Philosophical Review) Philosophy, (in press); “Spinoza: Philosophy; and “Wilfrid Sellars’ Anti- Leitgeb, eds., Automatic Press; and is to be reprinted in Papers from the Jewish philosophical influences” in Descriptivism” in Categories of Being: “Faith and Reason: The Perpetual Harvard Review of Philosophy (Open The Encyclopedia of Spinoza and Essays on Metaphysics and Logic. War” in Philosophers Without Gods, by Court). Forthcoming in the Cambridge His Times (in press); and “Creation, Louise Antony, ed., Oxford University Companion to Frege is “On Sense and Time and Biblical Hermeneutics in Timothy Schroeder published Press. Bedeutung: A Critical Reception.” Early Modern Jewish Philosophy” “On the Content of Experience,” William presented “Truth, Assertion, in Interpreting Nature and Scripture, coauthored with Ben Caplan, in Declan Smithies is still away and the Horizontal: Frege on the J. Vandermeer, ed. (in press). Last Philosophy and Phenomenological continuing his three-year postdoctoral ‘Essence of Logic’” at the Dubrovnik February, Tamar presented “Astrology Research. A solicited article, “Reason, research fellowship at the Australian Conference on metaphysics and and Free Will in 12th Century Jewish Reflection, and Free Will,” was National University. Before he left, he epistemology. Philosophy” at the Warburg Institute published in Philosophical Explorations. was nominated for the Outstanding in London. Tim also presented papers over the Teaching Award in the Colleges of the Neil Tennant presented the following past year in Tallahassee; SUNY Arts and Sciences. While in Australia, papers: “Rational Belief Revision” at Richard Samuels is working on his Albany; Cleveland State University; Declan has been busy presenting a the University of Natal in Durban, book Descartes’ Challenge: Flexibility University of Cincinnati; and at the number of papers. “The Mental Lives South Africa; “The History of the and the Architecture of Cognition Moral Psychology Research Group in of Zombies” was presented for the Explanatory Gap” at the University (Oxford University Press). Recently Minnesota. Philosophy Society at the Australian of Natal in Pietermaritzburg; published papers include: “Is National University in November 2007. “Natural Foundations for Synthetic Innateness a Confused Notion?” Lisa Shabel presented her paper He also presented “The Normative Projective Geometry” for the in The Innate Mind: Foundations “Representation and Reasoning: Role of Knowledge” at Australian Midwest Workshop in Philosophy of and the Future (Oxford University Kant on Symbols, Diagrams and National, University of Sydney, and Mathematics VIII at Notre Dame; Press); “Varieties of Dual-Process Mathematical Demonstration” at two the Free University in Amsterdam. and “Core Logic” at the Sixth Theory for Probabilistic Reasoning” workshops—McGill University in Other papers were presented in Quadrennial Fellows Conference in Behavioral and Brain Sciences; February and the University of Nancy, Dublin, at Harvard University, and of the Center for Philosophy of and “Psychology” in The Routledge France, in May. Lisa is currently also in Dubrovnik. Declan is also Science, at Ohio University. Neil’s 13 Companion to the Philosophy of Science. working on an invited essay on Kant’s the co-organizer for the Ohio State/ article “Existence and Identity in Free Richard presented several papers “Transcendental Aesthetic,” which has Maribor/Rijeka Conference on Logic: A Problem for Inferentialism?” in different venues: “The Extended been solicited for the new Cambridge attention in Dubrovnik next May. appeared in Mind, vol. 116, 2007. Mind Hypothesis” at CUNY; “On Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Neil edited the special issue Carnap the Modularity of Central Systems” Reason (forthcoming from Cambridge Sigrún Svavarsdóttir was awarded and Some Contemporaries of the at the University of Arizona; and University Press). She is also working a fellowship at the Institute for journal Philosophia Mathematica “Modularity and the Many Problems of on two entries for the Stanford Advanced Studies of the Hebrew (III) 16, 2008. The issue carried Cognitive Relevance” at Workshop on Encyclopedia of Philosophy, one on University of Jerusalem from March his editorial introduction and his Cognitive Perspectives on Mind and Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics and to August of 2008. For 2008-09 she article “Carnap, Gödel and the Language, Instituto de Investigaciones the other on Descartes’ Mathematics. is a Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Analyticity of Arithmetic.” His paper Filosóficas, U.N.A.M., México. Lisa’s research is currently being Fellow at the University Center for “Inferentialism, Logicism, Harmony, supported by an Arts and Humanities Human Values at Princeton University. and a Counterpoint” will be published David Sanson has two articles in Seed Grant. Sigrún was also awarded, but declined, in Essays for Crispin Wright: Logic, the works: “The Way Things Were,” a Faculty Fellowship in Ethics at the Language and Mathematics (Oxford with Ben Caplan, Philosophy and Stewart Shapiro has had Vagueness Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at University Press). Phenomenological Research; and “The in Context (Oxford University Press) Harvard. Presentations of her paper, Early Arabic Liar,” with Ahmed reissued in paperback. Articles Stewart “The Practical Role of Value Judgments” Wayne Wu has two papers Alwishah, Vivarium. David presented has had published recently include: were given at University of Rochester, forthcoming in top journals: “Visual “Locality and Necessity,” with Ben “The Objectivity of Mathematics” in Tufts University, Oxford University, Attention, Conceptual Content Caplan, at the APA Pacific Meeting. Synthese; “Where in the (World and Ben-Gurion University. Last June, and Doing it Right” in Mind and He was also invited to present “The Wide) Web of Belief is the Law of Non- she presented “Valuing and Judging “Confronting Many-Many Problems: Essentially Unreal Past” to the APA Contradiction?” (with Jack Arnold) Valuable” at the Ohio State/Maribor/ Attention and Agentive Control” in Central Meeting. in Noûs; “Burali-Forti’s Revenge” Rijeka Conference, Dubrovnik, and Noûs. Wayne presented “Comments in Revenge of the Liar, J.C. Beall, ed. “Practical Rationality: An Unrealistic on Barbara Montero’s ‘Highly Skilled Kevin Scharp is co-editing with (Oxford University Press); “Corcoran Ideal?” at the Hebrew University of Movements and Bodily Awareness’” Robert Brandom In the Space the Mathematician” in Current Jerusalem. at the Workshop on Proprioception of Reasons: Selected Writings of Topics in Logic and Analytic Philosophy, and Bodily Awareness at Harvard Wilfrid Sellars (Harvard University Concha Martinez, José L. Falguera, William Taschek’s paper “Truth, University. Another presentation, Press). Kevin also has three papers and José M. Sagüillo, eds., Santiago Assertion, and the Horizontal: Frege on “Attention and Its Phenomenology,” forthcoming: “Aletheic Vengeance” de Compostela, Universidade de the ‘Essence of Logic’” was published was given at the Central Division in a collection on revenge paradoxes Santiago de Compastela; “Philosophy in Mind. Another paper, “Making Meeting, APA. n (Oxford University Press); “Locke’s of Mathematics: 5 Questions” in Sense of Others: Donald Davidson on Theory of Reflection” in The Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions, Interpretation,” (originally published LOGOS

Turnbull Reading Room & Lounge Dedication

ob Turnbull had a vision for Ohio State’s Department of BPhilosophy. It was a vision that he worked successfully to bring to reality during the course of his 12 years as chair of the department. The vision was of a vibrant, stimulating philosophical community of faculty and graduate students. Early in the 1970s, when Bob helped to design the space for the philosophy department in the newly constructed University Hall, he included common space now known as the Everett Nelson Common Room. This still serves as our venue for colloquia and various other functions. However, because it is often loaned out to other university units for meetings and talks, in recent years it has not served as the sort of informal, impromptu meeting space in which philosophical exchanges would develop over a cup of coffee. 14 In summer 2007, with help from the College of Humanities and numerous generous donors, the department was able to reconfi gure MARGE TURNBULL AND DON HUBIN AT THE TURNBULL LOUNGE DEDICATION space in the area long occupied by the Gluck Philosophy Library. The library remains, redesigned to be Robert G. Turnbull, chair of the both leaner and more useable. But, Department of Philosophy at with the reconfi guration, we were Ohio State and himself a most able to create four new faculty distinguished scholar/teacher. It offi ces and, most importantly, a new was Bob Turnbull who forced me to faculty and graduate student lounge re-think the scholastic philosophy and reading room. from my earlier academic work, In an informal ceremony last with the insights and rigor of May, this space was dedicated as contemporary analytic philosophy. the Robert G. Turnbull Reading That combination indeed made my Room & Lounge. The ceremony scholarly life possible.” was attended by Bob’s wife, Marge Tony is just one of many Turnbull, and by Bob and Marge’s graduate students whose careers son, Bruce Turnbull. Also in and lives were so positively attendance were former graduate infl uenced by Bob Turnbull. And students such as John Martin Bob had a similarly positive and Tony Lisska, who is now the infl uence on the development of Maria Theresa Barney Professor of our department. This infl uence (L TO R) JOHN MARTIN, ANTHONY LISSKA, DICK GARNER, REIK OLDENQUIST, AND MARGE TURNBULL AT THE Philosophy at Dennison University. continues through the Turnbull TURNBULL LOUNGE DEDICATION In his narrative curriculum vitae, Collection in Greek Philosophy and Tony remembers Bob Turnbull History of Science. To contribute fondly and with gratitude: to this fund, or one of the other “My most important graduate philosophy department funds, school mentor—although we didn’t please see the information on use that term in the late 1960s—was page 15. n THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

A number of our current graduate an invited lecture at the Chinese Art Words About the Students students presented papers at meetings Research Institute in Beijing, China, of the American Philosophical on “Theories of Musical Expression.” Placement News: Carol Hay (PhD Theory Either).” For more than 80 years, Association. Michael Martin Dai Heide presented “Kant’s ‘Rejected’ 2008) is beginning a new tenure track the department has also recognized an presented “Rehabilitating the Ability Alternative” at both the North American job at the University of Massachusetts, outstanding undergraduate philosophy Hypothesis,” at the APA Central Kant Society Eastern Division Meeting Lowell, in January 2009. Julian Cole paper with the William Bingham Division meetings. Audrey Anton and the Atlantic Canada Seminar in (PhD 2005) has moved from a tenure Award. The recipient of the 2007 presented “The ‘Best’ Explanation for Early . Eric Carter track job at the University of Texas, Bingham prize was John Wasserman for the Diversity in Moral Judgments” at presented “Speaker Discursivism: Pan American, to a tenure track job at his paper “On Death.” Salvatore Florio the Pacific Division meetings. (That An Explanation and Defense” at the Buffalo State. And Lee Franklin (PhD was awarded a Presidential Fellowship same month, Audrey also presented Society for Exact Philosophy in May. 2001) left a tenure track position at for the current academic year. These “Kantian Phenomenology and Moral Ryan Jordan presented: “Being Sneaky SUNY Albany to take a tenure track fellowships recognize the outstanding Worth: Knowing ‘What It’s Like’ to Act in the Field: The Ethics of Recording position at Franklin and Marshall. scholarly accomplishments and from Duty” at the Loyola University of Surreptitiously” to the Society for potential of graduate students entering Chicago’s Graduate Student Philosophy Ethnomusicology National Conference; Promotions: Congratulations to the final phase of their dissertation Conference.) Zac Cogley presented “Cooke’s Musical Vocabulary” to the Sheldon Smith (PhD 1998), who was research or terminal degree project. “Comments on Ben Vilhauer” at the American Society for Aesthetics–Rocky recently promoted and tenured at The fellowships provide financial Pacific Division meetings. Several of Mountain Division Annual Meeting; and, UCLA. Mike Almeida (PhD 1988) is support so that the student may devote our first-year students presented papers “There’s More than One Way to Arouse now chair of the Department of Classics one year of full-time study to the at APA meetings this past year, before a Cat” to the Musicology Program at and Philosophy at the University of completion of the dissertation or degree joining our program. Gabriel Stern Ohio State. James Macpherson presented Texas, San Antonio. (Mike has just project, unimpeded by other duties. presented “Action Guidance and Virtue “Legislative Intentionalism by Proxy” at published a new book, The Metaphysics Recipients of this award embody the Ethics” at the Pacific Division meetings, the University of California, Berkeley, of Perfect Beings, Routledge). highest standards of scholarship in our and Ryan Pflum presented “Testimony conference on collective intentionality. graduate programs. Salvatore also won and Epistemic Priority” at the Central At the Ohio Philosophical Association Awards: The Fink Award, named two Travel Awards from the American Division meetings and “Butler’s Annual Meeting, Doug Dunsmoor in honor of William H. Fink, is Philosophical Association in 2007. Account of Self-Deception and Some presented “Consequentialism and awarded annually for the best graduate Problems it Poses for Motivationism” at Retribution.” And, first-year student philosophy paper. The winner of the Publications and Presentations: the Pacific Division meetings. David Blanks presented “Justification, 15 2007 Fink Award was Wesley Cray for Salvatore Florio’s paper “The Paradox Truth and Bergmann’s Theory of his paper “Modal Realism Without of Idealisation,” coauthored with Julien And it wasn’t only at APA meetings Justification” at the University of Iowa Overlap (and Without Counterpart Murzi, is forthcoming in Analysis. that our students were active in Graduate Philosophical Conference this presenting papers. Ryan Jordan gave past March. n

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