MARK ALFANO Institute for Advanced Study 001.908.370.4437 (mobile) Notre Dame University [email protected] 1124 Flanner Hall www.alfanos.org Notre Dame, IN 46556

AOS: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Nietzsche AOC: Epistemology, of Mind, Medical Ethics, Experimental Philosophy

EDUCATION The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY GC) M.A., 2009; M.Phil., 2009; Ph.D., 2011 DISSERTATION: Factitious virtue COMMITTEE: Jesse Prinz (CUNY GC), Gilbert Harman (Princeton), John Doris (Washington U. in St. Louis), Michael Levin (CUNY GC), Rohit Parikh (CUNY GC)

Princeton University, B.A., Philosophy, with honors, 2005

EMPLOYMENT DISTINGUISHED GUEST FELLOW, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, 2011-2012 WRITING FELLOW, City University of New York, 2009-2011 ADJUNCT LECTURER, City University of New York, 2007-2009

PUBLICATIONS MONOGRAPHS 1. Factitious Virtue: An Empirically-Informed Approach to Moral and Intellectual Character. Cambridge University Press, (under contract).

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 2. Extending the situationist challenge to responsibilist virtue epistemology. Philosophical Quarterly, (forthcoming). 3. The Rum Tum Tugger model: Preference indeterminacy and instability. Synthese, (forthcoming). 4. The centrality of belief and reflection in Knobe effect cases. (co-authored with James Beebe & Brian Robinson) The Monist, (forthcoming). 5. Identifying and defending the hard core of virtue ethics. Journal of Philosophical Research, (forthcoming). 6. Nietzsche, naturalism, and the tenacity of the intentional. Journal of Nietzsche Studies, (forthcoming). 7. Ambivalence, the self, and ambivalence about the self in Nietzsche. Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies, (forthcoming). 8. Explaining away intuitions about traits: Why virtue ethics seems plausible (even if it isn’t). Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2:1, 121-136, (2011). 9. The tenacity of the intentional prior to the Genealogy. Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 40, 123-140, (2010). MARK ALFANO – CV 2

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (CONTINUED…) 10. Sensitivity theory and the individuation of belief-formation methods. Erkenntnis, 70:2, 271-81, (2009). 11. A danger of definition: Polar predicates in moral theory. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 3:3, 1-13, (2009). 12. Hypothetical intentionalism and statutory interpretation. US-China Law Review, 6:12, 54-58, (2009). 13. A critical discussion of the compatibility of Bayesianism and inference to the best explanation. Philosophical Writings, 34, 39-58, (2007).

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES 14. Group differences in measured intellectual virtue: Facts and artifacts. (co- authored with Jesse Prinz) In Flanagan & Fairweather (eds.), Naturalizing Virtue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming). 15. Is experimental philosophy a social science? In Kuchler, D. (ed.) Philosophy of Social Science. (forthcoming). 16. The situation of the jury: Bias in the trials of accused serial killers. In Waller, S. (ed.) Serial Killers – Philosophy for Everyone.] 41-50. Oxford: Blackwell. (2010).

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES 17. Experimental moral philosophy. (co-authored with Don Loeb) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (in progress).

REVIEWS 18. Virtues, intelligences, and situations. [Review of Russell, D., Practical Intelligence and the Virtues and Snow, N., Virtue as Social Intelligence: An Empirically Grounded Theory.] Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, (forthcoming). 19. Revivals of non-cognitivism. [Review of chapter 92 of Irwin, T., The Development of Ethics.] The Philosophical Forum, 42:3, 269-342, (2011).

WORKS IN PROGRESS OR UNDER CONSIDERATION 20. The situationist challenge to reliabilist virtue epistemology 21. The situationist challenge to consequentialism 22. Gyges in the Panopticon: An empirical investigation of social distance heuristics 23. The most agreeable of all vices: Nietzsche as virtue epistemologist 24. An empirically-informed theory of desire, contentment, and aversion 25. Varieties of intellectual courage: An empirically informed account 26. From libertarian paternalism to moral technology 27. Vindicating placebo as treatment

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PRESENTATIONS TALKS AT REFEREED CONFERENCES 1. Extending the situationist challenge to reliabilist virtue epistemology. APA Pacific Division Conference. Seattle, Washington (April 2012). 2. Extending the situationist challenge to virtue epistemology. (with Michael Sechman, U. Colorado-Boulder) Joint session of the North & South Carolina Philosophical Societies, Elon University (February 2012). 3. Rationalizing the side-effect effects through doxastic heuristics. (with Brian Robinson, CUNY GC) APA Eastern Division Conference, Washington DC (December 2011). 4. Extending the situationist challenge to reliabilist virtue epistemology. Indiana Philosophical Association annual meeting, Hanover (October 2011). 5. An empirical investigation of social distance heuristics. APA Pacific Division Conference, San Diego, California (April 2011). 6. The situationist challenge to consequentialism. North Carolina Philosophical Society Conference, Boone, North Carolina (February 2011). 7. Virtue presupposes care: A lesson from the Tale of Genji. APA Eastern Division Conference, Boston, Massachusetts (December 2010). 8. Virtue presupposes care. New York Society for Women in Philosophy Workshop, New York (November 2010). 9. Having your cake and eating it too: Why inconsistent desires are actually a problem about belief. The Nature of Belief – The Ontology of Doxastic Attitudes Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense (October 2010). 10. Ambivalence, the self, and ambivalence about the self in Nietzsche. Self, Other, and the Social Good in a Cross-Cultural Context Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (October 2010). 11. Social cues in the public good game. KEEL 2010, How and Why Economists and Philosophers Do Experiments Conference, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan (March 2010). 12. Nietzsche, naturalism, and the tenacity of the intentional. APA Central Division Conference, Chicago (February 2010). 13. Nietzsche’s naturalism and the tenacity of intentional states. 17th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Nietzsche on Mind and Nature, St. Peter's College, Oxford (September 2009). 14. Hypothetical intentionalism and statutory interpretation. New York State Political Science Association Conference, John Jay College (April 2009). 15. Metaphor and self-overcoming. Princeton Graduate Student Conference (spring 2008).

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INVITED TALKS 16. Is contentment the dual of desire? Mind and Metaphilosophy Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (February 2012). 17. Gyges in the Panopticon: An empirical investigation of social distance heuristics. Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (January 2012). 18. Does situationism challenge virtue epistemology? Conversation with Abrol Fairweather for Philosophy TV (December 2011). 19. Is contentment the dual of desire? Northwestern University Semantics and Philosophy of Language Workshop. Chicago (November 2011). 20. Factitious moral virtue. SUNY Buffalo philosophy colloquium (November 2011). 21. Extending the situationist challenge to virtue epistemology. San Francisco State University (November 2011). 22. Factitious intellectual virtue. Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (November 2011). 23. Gyges in the Panopticon: An empirical investigation of social distance heuristics. Notre Dame Moral Psychology Lab (October 2011). 24. Factitious virtue. Cardiff University (September 2011). 25. Factitious virtue. Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (September 2011). 26. Are we all Rum Tum Tuggers? Preference indeterminacy and instability. Joint Session of PNP and BBC colloquia. Washington U. in St. Louis (October 2011). 27. An experimental approach to desire, contentment, and free will. Free Will Boot Camp. Yale University (August 2011). 28. Are we all Rum Tum Tuggers? Unstable desires as a problem for folk- psychological prediction and explanation. CUNY Cognitive Science Symposium (July 2011). 29. Is contentment the dual of desire? An experimental investigation. Metro Experimental Research Group, NYU (May 2011). 30. Co-opting the situationist challenge with social distance heuristics. Georgia State University, Atlanta (January 2011). 31. Norms, belief-attribution and -formation heuristics, and the side-effect effect. (with Brian Robinson, CUNY GC) Metro Experimental Research Group Lab Meeting, NYU (September 2010). 32. Advances in moral technology: Social cues in the public good game. CUNY Cognitive Science Symposium (August 2010). 33. Theories and data: Who wears the pants? (with Brian Robinson, CUNY GC) Metro Experimental Research Group Lab Meeting, NYU (July 2010). 34. The logic of desire and contentment. (with Brian Robinson, CUNY GC) CUNY Computational Logic Seminar (May 2010). 35. Gyges in the Panopticon. Metro Experimental Research Group Lab Meeting, NYU (March 2010). 36. Toward a semantics for the primary processes. CUNY Computational Logic Seminar (fall 2008). 37. Toward a semantics for the primary processes. CUNY Cognitive Science Symposium (summer 2008).

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COMMENTS 38. TBD. Nietzsche and Community. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (April 2012). 39. What can pleasure tell us about the good?, by Christiana Olfert. Pacific APA main session. San Deigo (April 2011). 40. Objects, worldmaking, and nihilism in Nietzsche, by Justin Remhof. Central APA main session, Minneapolis (March 2011). 41. Essence and potentiality, by Barbara Vetter. 12th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, CUNY GC (April 2009). 42. Art & history: Taking the past seriously, by Derek Allen. American Society for , Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia (April 2008).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE EDITORIAL 1. Editorial board: Philosophy Study 2. Manuscript referee for journals: Erkenntnis, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Journal of Philosophical Research, Business Ethics Quarterly, European Journal of , Ethical Perspectives, Philosophy Study 3. Manuscript referee for conferences: CUNY Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, Society for Student Philosophers 4. Editor: www.philpapers.org categories on Skepticism about Character and Desire

EVENT ORGANIZATION 5. Panel organizer: Does situationism threaten virtue epistemology? At the joint session of the North & South Carolina philosophical societies. Elon University (February 2012) 6. Conference chair: Indiana Philosophical Society Annual Meeting. Hanover (October 2011) 7. Chief organizer: Notre Dame Moral Psychology Research Group. (2011-2012) 8. Conference chair: Central APA session on experimental philosophy. Minneapolis (March 2011) 9. Conference chair: North Carolina Philosophical Society Annual Conference. Boone (February 2011) 10. Conference assistant: Conference on Eastern and Western Philosophical Themes, CUNY GC and , New York (December 2009) 11. Conference chair: Long Island Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Long Island University (October 2009) 12. Conference assistant: Metro Experimental Research Group, Experimental philosophy boot camp, CUNY GC (October 2009) 13. Conference chair: 17th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, “Nietzsche on Mind and Nature”, St. Peter's College, Oxford (September 2009) 14. Symposium assistant: Metro Experimental Research Group, CUNY GC (September 2009)

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EVENT ORGANIZATION (CONTINUED…) 15. Conference chair: 10th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, CUNY GC (April 2007) 16. Conference assistant: Nietzsche in New York, CUNY GC and (March 2007)

OTHER SERVICE 17. Primary author, “CUNY philosophy program placement handbook.” (2011) 18. Workshop leader, “Publishing while in graduate school.” CUNY GC, Program in Philosophy (March 2011) 19. Faculty workshop leader, “Responding to student writing.” (March 2011) 20. Workshop leader, “Dissertation completion for dummies.” CUNY GC, Program in Philosophy (February 2011) 21. Faculty workshop series leader, “Crafting a writing-intensive syllabus.” Hostos Community College (November 2010-June 2011) 22. Placement Committee, CUNY GC, Program in Philosophy (2010-11) 23. Workshop leader, “What’s a research statement anyway?” CUNY GC, Program in Philosophy (October 2010) 24. Faculty workshop leader, “Responding to student writing.” Writing-Across-the- Curriculum Mini-Conference, CUNY GC (August 2010) 25. Beta-tester for www.philpapers.org 26. Logic Tutor, CUNY GC, Program in Philosophy (2009-2011) 27. Research assistant: Sean Kelly, co-editor, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 20th-Century (2003)

HONORS AND AWARDS 1. Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, Distinguished Guest Fellow (2011-2012) 2. Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Postdoctoral Fellowship, Finalist (2011) 3. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Washington University in St. Louis, Finalist (2011) 4. Experimental Philosophy of Free Will Workshop and Bootcamp. Yale University (2011) 5. Experiment Month Selectee (with Brian Robinson & James Beebe). Yale Cognitive Science and American Philosophical Association (2010) 6. Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Finalist (2010) 7. New Perspectives in Epistemology, Summer School in Philosophy, University of Cologne (2010, declined) 8. Sue Rosenberg Zalk Student Travel and Research Grant (2009, 2010) 9. Belle Zeller / Irwin Polishook Doctoral Scholarship, Finalist (2009) 10. CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant (2009, 2010, 2011) 11. Chancellor’s Fellowship, CUNY, GC (2006-2010) 12. Honors on CUNY GC examinations in metaphysics (2007) and (2008)