Fall Semester 2010 Volume 3, Number 1 semester. A Message from the Chair Our faculty has been equally busy on the research side. Two department members --Gualtiero Piccinini and Robert Northcott The past academic year has been busy – won highly coveted NSF awards while another – Anna Alexan- and productive for the Department of drova — won a prize for the best paper in of Science Philosophy. Here are some accom- by a recent PhD recipient. Jon McGinnis, together with two col- plishments culled from various reports leagues from Washington University, secured a $175,000 grant we‘ve sent forward: In calendar year from the Mellon Foundation to support a series of seminars on 2009 we taught 153 course sections the Comparative Study of Cultures. Collectively the philosophy (67 of them online), generated 7428 faculty published 3 books and 42 papers in AY 2009/10. In addi- student credit hours, and graduated 15 tion, the Department sponsored one graduate and one profes- majors, 6 minors, and 11 MA students. sional conference and placed 7 MA students in PhD programs. In Spring 2010 we graduated an addi- Though the threat of tough budgetary times to come is already tional 7 BAs and 10 MA students. casting a shadow, the Department remains energized. Books and Thomas Knoten, a Philosophy graduate student, was one of papers are in the works, conferences are being organized, and three student speakers at the Spring Commencement. Over the plans are being devised to more actively recruit incoming majors. past academic year, we devised 5 new courses -- Happiness and If you are curious about our activities, please explore our web- the Meaning of Life, Markets and Morals, site, including the personal pages of our faculty. http:// in Historical Perspective, Philosophy of Film, and NeoPlatonism, www.umsl.edu/~philo/. Our spring conferences and colloquia agreed to develop or revamp several online courses, and partici- are open to the public. If you are among our alums, we‘d love to pated in the creation of 3 new interdisciplinary programs -- Evo- hear from you and learn how you are putting your degrees to lutionary Studies, Neuroscience, and History of Science, with yet work. Please send me an e-mail ([email protected] ) to catch me another, Science Literacy, now underway. We are also participat- up on what you‘re doing. ing in the new Freshman Experience course that debuted this ~Stephanie A. Ross

Who the Hell is Avicenna? When I tell your average non- ested in him?‖ nistic thought up through the 500s CE philosophers that I work on Avicenna, Let me begin with how I came to after which philosophy began being they usually look at me blankly as if I work on Avicenna first. Ever since I done in Arabic. Similarly, medieval rattled off, ―Gmv = 8pTmv,‖ while was an undergraduate, I have had two Latinists were focusing research on the when I tell professional philosophers unabated passions: medieval thought intellectual precursors to such Latin that I work on Avicenna, they look at and science. Thus when I began gradu- Avicenna me as if (and sometimes actually say), ate work at Penn, I quickly decided to ―Why would you want to commit in- work on the history of natural philoso- tellectual suicide like that?!‖ Inevita- phy (what we now think of as physics). bly both groups ask me, ―So who is I initially began reading late Latin Avicenna and why did you get inter- scholastic natural philosophers, but soon realized that, since they Inside This Issue: frequently referenced medie- val Arabic philosophers, an understanding of these Mus- Stephanie Ross: A Message from the Chair 1 lim thinkers was going to be Jon McGinnis: Who the Hell is Avicenna? 1 necessary. Unfortunately, Gualtiero Piccinini and Brit Brogaard: when I went to find secondary Dialogue on 3 sources on Arabic natural phi- losophy, I discovered that vir- The Humanities Under Attack 5 tually nothing was available. I Faculty Briefs 6 also noticed that the trend in Calls for Papers and Abstracts 6 classical philosophy was to- wards research on late Helle- (Continued on page 2) University of Missouri-St. Louis Fall Semester 2010 Page 2 Department of Philosophy Newsletter Volume 3, Number 1

(Continued from page 1) decided to learn Arabic. What fol- lative theology and a generous help- luminaries like Thomas Aquinas, lowed was a number of intense years ing of plain and simple Avicenna. albeit limiting themselves to Greek, studying the language, made possi- Indeed his philosophical synthesis Jewish and Latin forerunners, and ble through a series of Foreign Areas was one of the most influential phi- Muslim thinkers only in Latin trans- Study Fellowships, Two summer losophical theologies in the Islamic lation. Not to put too fine a point on immersion programs at Middlebury East well into the 19th century (and it, both research trends were bump- College, a Graduate Fellowship at is still being taught in Iran as living Harvard and finally a Fulbright Fel- philosophy); it profoundly influ- lowship that took me to Cairo for a enced the thought of Latin School- year. men like Thomas Aquinas, Duns As for why I finally latched onto Scotus and scores of others; and it Avicenna, this question is perhaps provided the philosophical vision of best answered by addressing the ini- metaphysics that remained the pre- tial question, ―So who is Avicenna?‖ vailing model even in Europe until Avicenna lived between 980–1037 Kant. Even within the more tradi- in what is now modern-day Iran and tional scientific disciplines he was something like the intellectual showed himself a mind with which rock star of his time. He w as a prod- to be reckoned. For example, his igy, who at the age of 10 had memo- analysis of inclination foreshadows rized the entire Koran and begun Galileo‘s and Newton‘s conceptions studying law. By around the age of of inertia, and his theory of motion 11 he had outstripped his private at an instant with its accompanying teacher in the study of logic, geome- account of a limit predates the ap- try and astronomy. Thereafter he pearance of the Calculus by 600 taught himself and claims to have years, while anticipating a number mastered all the sciences by eight- of salient features of it. Finally, his een. Avicenna‘s adult life, like that Canon of Medicine was the standard of few others (and even fewer phi- medical textbook in Europe until as losophers), has all the elements of a late as the Eighteenth century and best selling novel: There was politi- even traditional healers in the Mid- cal intrigue, battles, imprisonment, dle East still use it today. harrowing escapes, alleged poison- After relating some of these details ings, drinking parties and (if one is in answer to the question, ―So who to believe Avicenna‘s biographer) is Avicenna?‖ I always feel free to lots of sex. Between afternoons raise my own query: ―The important ing up against the domain of Islamic spent working as vizier for the Sul- question isn‘t, ‗Who is Avicenna?‘ philosophy and yet scholars were not tan ‗Alā‘ al-Dawla (d. 1041/42) and but ‗Why don‘t we in the West know entering. It seemed to me that Arabic late evenings given over to riotous who Avicenna is?‘‖ philosophy was the last unexplored parties, Avicenna found time to de- lands of our Western intellect tradi- velop a philosophical system that ~ Jon McGinnis tion and I wanted to chart the way. was a unique mixture of Greek phi- Associate Professor Thus in a very mercenary move, I losophy and science, Islamic specu-

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Department of Philosophy them. They’re available on the opening page of our web- 599 Lucas Hall site, and each issue has short but substantive articles by University of Missouri-St. Louis department members. Vol. 1 features Anna Alexandrova One University Blvd. writing on “Do Children Make Us Happy?”; Eric Wiland on St. Louis, MO 63121-4400 “Evaluating Evaluations,” and Stephanie Ross on “What Makes Bad Art Bad?” Vol. 2 features Robert Northcott on Phone: (314) 516-5631 “What Makes Something Innate?” Gualtiero Piccinini and Fax: (314) 516-4610 email: [email protected] Berit Brogaard on Philosophy Blogs, and Ronald Munson Web: http://www.umsl.edu/~philo on “Perpetual Stranger,” a real-life-based bioethics case. University of Missouri-St. Louis Fall Semester 2010 Department of Philosophy Newsletter Page 3 Volume 3, Number 1 background. Now I understand why you know so much Dialogue on Neurophilosophy neuroscience! A coincidence: I have achromatopsia, so if you decide to work on that topic, you can use me as a subject. As to my research, I have three main pro- Gualtiero: Until re- Between jects. The first is on what constitutes concrete computation-- cently, you were known what distinguishes for armchair philoso- things that compute phizing and not at all Brit Brogaard and Gualtiero Piccinini from things that for empirical research. Could you don't. This is rele- briefly explain how you became interested in doing empiri- vant to many sciences: computer science, computational cal research and what your current empirical projects are? psychology and neuroscience, and even physics. The second Brit: Actually, I started out in the sciences. I have a 5-year is on how to integrate psychology and neuroscience into a M.S. in neuroscience from University of Copenhagen and unified explanation of cognition. It piggybacks on the first The Danish National Hospital. My research was on neuro- project, because both psychology and neuroscience give transmitters, specifically glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). computational explanations of cognition. Once we are clear As a hormone, GLP-1 stimulates insulin-secreting cells. As on how computational explanation works, we should be in a a neurotransmitter, it modulates stress and anxiety. I was, better position to say how psychology and neuroscience go and still am, very interested in mood disorders, so I really together. The third project is on the legitimacy of data from loved this project. But owing to a terrifying event described first-person reports (and other "first-person data") in psy- in the personal information section of my website, I decided chology and neuroscience. I argue that this kind of data is to go to graduate school in philosophy. I already had degrees scientifically legitimate because such data are actually public in philosophy and linguistics as well. One of my main areas data--the outcome of a process of self-measurement on the of specialization in philosophy was, and still is, philosophy part of the subject. But while my work is deeply engaged of language. by its very nature is a with various sciences, I don't do any experiments, whereas very empirical area of philosophy. We look at what the lin- you do. How hard was it for you to start designing and con- guists do, and they look at what we do. But you are right. ducting experiments on your own? Did your prior scientific Until recently I didn't design my own experiments or studies. training prepare for it or did you need extra help? And do My interest in designing my own studies was sparked by a you now consider yourself a philosopher, a scientist, or series of events taking place around the time of my divorce. both? To deal with the consequences of these events, I felt that I Brit: I didn't know you had achromatopsia. I certainly will had to expand on my knowledge of the brain. Another coin- be working on that topic sooner or later. To begin with your cidence sparked my interest in synesthesia. I am now testing last question, I consider myself both a philosopher and a for unconscious color processing in 40 higher synesthetes. neuroscientist. I have the sufficient background for design- Owing to a nice McDonnell grant, Kathleen Akins and I will ing studies and experiments and know statistics pretty well. be able to host a workshop on abnormal color vision But I must confess that I still get help with the statistics part. (synesthesia, achromatopsia, color blindsight, etc) next year Statistics is hard. Kathleen Akins calls herself a in Vancouver. I am also working on a large project about the ―neurophilosopher.‖ I don't call myself that. I still do some effects of personality assessments on judgments of inten- armchair philosophy. I also draw heavily on other people's tional action. That project started out as response to Knobe. empirical results in my work on psycholinguistics and phi- My third project is on blindsight and will be done in collabo- losophy of language. When I think about neuroscience, I am ration with a team of researchers in Europe. Your own work a neuroscientist. But I think I have an advantage. Because I seems to be heavily inspired by empirical research. What are am a philosopher, I am used to coming up with counterex- your current projects and how did you become interested in amples (that's what we do, right?). So, when I design studies them? or look at data, it is very easy for me to spot alternative hy- Gualtiero: Wow, I didn't know you had such a scientific (Continued on page 4)

Department of Philosophy Hopes to Sponsor Study Abroad in Turkey

Department members are working to devise a Western Civilization course that looks at the geographical area of modern Turkey during the Greek, Roman, Christian, Islamic, and Ottoman periods (roughly 585 BC to 1600) with onsite visits to Ephesus, Pergamon, Troy, Istanbul, and more. A current member of the department will be in the Department at Bogazici University; we will have several other contacts there as well. Our an- cient and medieval historian of philosophy, Jon McGinnis, will be the UMSL representative for this venture. University of Missouri-St. Louis Fall Semester 2010 Page 4 Department of Philosophy Newsletter Volume 3, Number 1

(Continued from page 3) theories in . But philosophy of mind also potheses and to come up with ways of ruling them out. I provides us with results which neuroscience cannot give think neuroscience is hard, just about as hard as good phi- us. For example, neuroscience as it is currently carried out losophy. Did you ever consider doing empirical experiments cannot give us an answer to the question of what conscious- or studies on your own or in collaboration with others? Why? ness is. Neuroscience, however, can provide an answer to the Why not? question of what the correlates of are. So, both Gualtiero: I usually don't consider doing experiments, areas have an important role to play. What is your take on mostly because I'm already busy enough with what I'm do- the new experimental turn in philosophy? And how do you ing. But I do have a little bit of relevant experience. For my think results in neuroscience can influence theories in phi- undergraduate honors' thesis, I designed and conducted a losophy of mind, and vice versa? fairly serious piece of experimental cognitive psychology. At Gualtiero: I agree with you on experimental philosophy. the time I wanted to become a cognitive psychologist, but I'm always glad when people try to back up their theories later I decided to go back into philosophy. I found it interest- with empirical evidence, especially given that some philoso- ing that you don't consider yourself a neurophilosopher. Me phers tend to trust their intuitions too much. If philosophers neither, because to me, neurophilosophy sounds too much have the expertise and resources to collect their own data, like picking your favorite neuroscience papers and putting a more power to them. That being said, some experimental "philosophical" spin on them. I think of myself as a philoso- philosophers tend to exaggerate the consequences of their pher of mind and of the sciences of mind. How about you; theories, as if a couple of simple experiments could easily why don't you consider yourself a neurophilosopher? You and directly refute all kinds of theories. Testing theories is also don't seem to consider yourself an experimental philoso- harder than some experimental philosophers seem to think. pher. Why? Experimental philosophy seems to be all the Even worse, too many philosophers, including philoso- rage. Why aren't you jumping on the bandwagon? phers of mind, still act as though empirical evidence is irrele- Brit: Well, strictly speaking, my intentional action project vant to their theories. Occasionally this is true, but many falls under the category of "experimental philosophy". But I times it's not. And since the mind is a product of the nervous am not sure I think the field ought to be called "experimental system, it should be blindingly obvious that neuroscience and philosophy". As far as I am concerned, it's social psychology. philosophy of mind have much to learn from each Hopefully over time I will be able to add a neuroscientific other. Philosophy of mind should look at what is known touch to my project on intentional action. But right now, I about the nervous system to constrain its theories, while neu- don't see the difference between that project and other similar roscience can take much inspiration from philosophical theo- projects in social psychology. To say that what other people ries about the mind. call "experimental philosophy" really is social psychology is This has happened before, by the way. For example War- not to say that it has no philosophical relevance. It certainly ren McCulloch, a pioneer of computationalism, was a neuro- does. I think that some of the results, as far as they hold up, physiologist and psychiatrist but also studied a lot cast some doubt on some of the armchair characterizations of of philosophy. His project was to explain intentionality the notion of intentional action. I also think philosophers, to and knowledge in neuroscientific terms. He didn't quite suc- the extent that they have sufficient training in designing ex- ceed, but he did make a strikingly innovative proposal that periments, can bring new advances to this particular area of transformed the whole field. If we are going to improve on social psychology. I agree with you about your characteriza- our current understanding of the mind-brain, we would do tion of neurophilosophy. I prefer to just think of myself as well to emulate McCulloch and study both philosophy and working in two distinct areas: neuroscience and philosophy. neuroscience. The theories I advance in neuroscience are, of course, in- spired by my work in philosophy of mind, and vice versa. Brit Brogaard and Gualtiero Piccinini are Associate Profes- Discoveries in neuroscience can provide counterexamples to sors in the UMSL Department of Philosophy. Brogaard writes the blog “Lemmings” and Piccinini writes “Brains.”

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The Humanities Under Attack: The Arts and Humanities are under attack of late, a result of the lin- gering financial crisis. A recent budget-balancing exercise in Britain will eliminate all state support for the arts and humanities in Britain‘s universities. The New York Times has addressed this issue in a pair of debates run on its ―Opinion Pages.‖ The first is from ―Philosophy‘s New Take on Old Problems‖ (http://www.nytimes.com, August 23, 2010). The second is from ―Do Colleges Need French Departments?‖ (http://www.nytimes.com, October 18, 2010).

anxiety about the What might help philosophy is the short-term “market more widespread recognition that phi- Where the Smart Kids Are value” of all courses losophy remains the only humanistic —Brian Leiter of study. That pres- discipline that really teaches students sure has been felt to think critically and analytically, most keenly at which is why philosophy students re- Philosophers from antiquity to the schools more dependent on tuition main the leading performers on pro- present have been concerned with the revenue. While the so-called “elite” fessional school exams like the LSAT. nature of the human mind and agency, universities have uniformly sustained Even in the 21st century, smarts mat- the sources of motivation, the relative and in some cases increased their ter — to lawyers, to doctors, to prob- contributions of reason and passion in commitment to philosophy and other lem-solvers in all fields, as well as to a human behavior, and the capacity for humanities disciplines, other schools good life. After nearly 20 years in law individuals to exercise conscious con- have been more short-sighted. I am teaching, I can confirm that no one is trol over their lives. skeptical that at these schools philoso- smarter than the serious undergradu- Once the scientific revolution of the phy informed by ate philosophy major. Any school that early modern era reached the human would stand a better chance of dodg- cuts philosophy might as well put up a sciences in the late 19th century, a new ing the bullet from administrators con- sign that says, „The smart kids should set of tools became available for as- sumed with “the bottom line.” apply elsewhere.‟ sessing the accuracy of claims about these perennial philosophical topics beliefs -- knowing how to understand other lan- about the mind and action. The idea The Point of Education guages, interpret cultural that philosophical work on these top- expressions, and evaluate ics could proceed independently of —Louis Menand belief systems is as indis- what is now called “cognitive science” pensable to functioning — an idea some retrograde philoso- First, no department is an island. effectively in the professional world phers still embrace — is unfortunate. Universities are places where schol- as knowing how to use a computer. By the same token, cognitive science ars in one field have opportunities to This knowledge may or may not needs philosophy, to clarify its find- debate, collaborate with, and learn make you a better person; it can cer- ings and frame their import. from scholars in very different tainly make you more productive But the centrality of cognitive sci- fields. The loss of any department is and successful in the workplace. ence to worthwhile philosophy is or- a loss to every department at that One might wonder how much at- thogonal to the issue of philosophy‟s institution. tention was given to these sorts of current place in the university. Phi- Second, what parent does not considerations at Albany. The rea- losophy has been, for at least 30 years, want his or her child to have access son for closing departments, as eve- the most interdisciplinary of all the to literature, philosophy and the ryone knows, is because that is the humanistic disciplines, one that inter- arts? Who thinks those are dispen- only way to lay off tenured faculty. acts continuously with psychology, sable luxuries for educated profes- Humanities divisions tend to house biology, physics, linguistics, law, sionals in an advanced society? You many small departments. would have to have a very primitive This fact, and not some genuine mathematics, and medicine, to name a view of the purpose of education to pedagogical calculation, is what few of the fields that count philoso- believe that the cultural heritage of makes them vulnerable to the budg- phers among their active members and humanity has no place in it. etary reaper. It looks like you are contributors. Finally, of course the humanities merely clearing away some of the Despite this, philosophy, like other teach something. Their subject mat- underbrush. But you are damaging humanities fields, is under attack at ter is culture, and since everything the ecology of the entire institution. many institutions of higher education. human beings do is mediated by And SUNY Albany was a great flag- This attack has other causes. The cur- culture -- by language, by represen- ship public institution. rent crisis of capitalism has increased tations, by systems of values and University of Missouri-St. Louis Fall Semester 2010 Department of Philosophy Newsletter Page 6 Volume 3, Number 1

Note: Additional works and full bibliographic information can be found on faculty curriculum vitae posted on their bio pages at http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/Faculty/faculty.html

Anna Alexandrova recently co-authored a paper with Dan Haybron of St. Louis U. The title is ―High Fidelity Economics.‖ It will appear in The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology (eds. D. Wade Hands and John Davis). She has organ- ized a symposium "Becoming Scientific: How Everyday Things Travel to Science and Back" at the upcoming Philosophy of Science Association Meeting in November 2010 in Montreal. Her 2010 presentations include ―High Fidelity Economics‖ (with Dan Haybron) 12th Annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Saint Louis University, March 2010 ―Doing Well In The Circumstances‖ American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2010 and Washington University in St Louis, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Colloquium, January 2010 ―Values and the Science of Wellbeing‖ The Oxford Handbook for Philosophy of Social Science conference, Birmingham, AL, April 2010 ―Against Mindless Economics‖ Saint Louis Area Philosophy of Science Association, 2nd Annual Conference, Saint Louis University, January 2010. Brit Brogaard is finishing up her monograph, Transient Truths, which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. John Brunero‘s paper "Instrumental Rationality, Symmetry and Scope" has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies. He will also be giving two APA presentations this academic year: "Instrumental Rationality, Symmetry, and Scope" at the Eastern APA in Boston in December, and "Evidence, 'Ought' and the Mine Shaft Paradox' at the Pacific APA in San Diego in April. Also, John and Eric Wiland are organizing SLACRR 2, after a very successful conference last year. Jamie Dreier (Brown University) will give the keynote address. See: http://www.umsl.edu/~slacrr/ for updates on the conference. Gualtiero Piccinini has gained new editorial responsibilities. He is now editor of the Synthese yearly issue on ―Neuroscience and Its Philosophy,‖ editor of the Springer book series ―Studies in Brain and Mind,‖ on the Board of Editors for The Also from “Philosophy Takes a New Rutherford Journal: The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Look at Old Problems” Science and Technology, and is Philosophy Editor for the Journal of Cognitive Sci- in ence. “Going Back to Aristotle” Waldemar Rohloff has a paper forthcoming in Grazer Philosophical studies on (http://www.nytimes.com): Bolzano and Kant, and another paper forthcoming in a special edition of Bolzano's New Anti-Kant. This fall he presented a paper on Kant's philosophy of geometry at “The point of the research university is the Midwest philosophy of mathematics workshop at Notre Dame. that there is something to be gained from pursuing our many disciplinary studies alongside one another. Otherwise we could all go off and work in disciplinary Congratulations to our 2010 MA Graduates Now Enrolled in PhD Programs: research institutes. Research universi- ties that close down their philosophy programs lose one of the key depart- Jeff Dauer: Washington University ments in making cross-disciplinary link- David Pruitt: University of Connecticut ages and thus undermine their claim to David Redmond: University of Iowa be doing what they exist to do. So — to Pendaran Roberts: University of Nottingham put it, no doubt, a little polemically — Jonathan Spelman: University of Colorado the real question isn‟t about the viability Katie Tullmann: City University of New York of philosophy in the university, it‟s about Jim Virtel: University of Illinois at Chicago the viability of the university without it.” —K. Anthony Appiah

Call for Abstracts The second St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Ra- tionality, with keynote speaker James Dreier of Brown Uni- Call for Papers: versity, will take place May 22-24, 2011, at the University of 6th Annual Gateway Graduate Conference April 8-10, 2011 Missouri-St. Louis. The conference is designed to provide a Keynote Speaker: Eric Schwitzgebel (UC-Riverside) forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly

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