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Curriculum Vitae Updated March 24, 2021 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Dr José Luis Bermúdez Professor of Philosophy Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts Texas A&M University Work address Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843-4223 Email [email protected] Citizenship British and Colombian Place of Birth Bogotá, Colombia US Residency Status Permanent resident * * * Areas of Specialisation Philosophy of Mind and Language; Cognitive Science; Decision Theory and Theory of Rationality Areas of Competence: History of Philosophy; Mathematical Logic Education 1980 - 1984: St. Paul’s School, London (scholar) 1985 - 1988: B.A./M.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy, Cambridge University (King’s College). 1988 -1992: PhD The Unanswerability of the Sceptical Challenge, Cambridge University (King’s College) Previous Appointments • Associate Provost, Texas A&M University (2014 – 2015) • Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University (2010 – 2014) • Director, Center for Programs, Washington University in St Louis (2006 – 2010) • Director, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University in St Louis (2003 – 2010) • Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis (2003 – 2010) • Interim Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Stirling (2003) • Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (2002 – 2003) • Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (2000 – 2003) • Reader (equivalent: Associate Professor, promotion awarded for distinction in research), Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (1999 – 2000) • Lecturer, (equivalent: Assistant Professor) Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (1996 – 1999) • British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge (1993 – 1996) • Member, Interdisciplinary Research Project on Spatial Representation at King’s College, Cambridge (1992 – 1993) Visiting Appointments • Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Croatia (May, 2017). Delivered a 5-session graduate class on my book Understanding “I” by video link, due to scheduling conflicts. • Visiting Conférencier, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (April 2016). Delivered 3 public lectures on my in-progress book The Power of Frames: New Tools for Rational Thought • Visiting Professor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile (July 2008). Delivered two graduate short classes in the Philosophy MA program. Updated March 24, 2021 2 • Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (Spring semester 2002). Taught a graduate class and an undergraduate class. • Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Bogotá, Colombia (August 2000). Delivered lectures in the PhD program • Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Barcelona (April 2000). Delivered a short graduate class in the PhD program. • Chargé de Recherche, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (October 1998 to June1999). Delivered a graduate class in the DEA en Science Cognitives (masters level). • Visiting Professor, Centro de Neurobiología, UNAM, Querétaro, Mexico (November-December 1998). Delivered lectures in the interdisciplinary neuroscience program. Citations • According to Google Scholar ranking of Philosophy citations, I am number 125 (number 45 when restricted to living scholars with a primary appointment in a Philosophy department) with 6,551 citations and an h-index of 31 (2086 citations in the last 5 years). My books The Paradox of Self- Consciousness (MIT, 1998) and Thinking without Words (Oxford, 2003) have been cited 1032 and 888 times respectively. External awards and fellowships • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (ACLS) 2018-2019 – the only philosopher to receive an award in this cycle • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend 2018 • Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) Research Leave Award, 2001 to support a semester free from teaching and service obligations • Chargé de Recherche, CNRS, France, 1998-1999. One year fully funded visiting research appointment that I took at the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (CREA), at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. • Visiting European Research Fellowship (Royal Society of Edinburgh), 1998 used to support a visit to CREA at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. • British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Outstanding Early Career Scholars, 1992- 1995 (3 years of no-strings-attached funding awarded competitively across all humanities and some social sciences disciplines in the UK. I held mine at the University of Cambridge.) Internal awards • Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Research, 2021 • Texas A&M Arts and Humanities Fellowship, 2020 – 2023 • Samuel Rhea Gammon Professorship in Liberal Arts, appointed 2018 Grants • $47,599, Collaborative Research Grant (Convening) from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a project entitled ‘Reconsidering the sources of the self in the ancient, medieval, and early periods’ [with Dr. Catherine Conybeare, Classics, Bryn Mawr College] • $46,379 for ‘Phase 1 planning for the Texas A&M Philosophy-Law-Economics Program’, Texas A&M Foundation • $37,750 for ‘Rationality and self-control’ from Philosophy and Psychology of Self-Control project at Florida State University, directed by Al Mele (2016) and funded by the Templeton Foundation • $23,100 from National Science Foundation to support an interdisciplinary collaborative workshop at the Center for Psychology and Cognitive Science at Tsinghua University, China, 2006 • ~$25,000 Senior Grant from McDonnell Project for Philosophy and the Neurosciences (2000 – 2005), funded by the McDonnell Foundation • Royal Society of Edinburgh European Visiting Research Fellowship (~$6,500, 1998) • Carnegie Trust Major Research Grant (~$8,000, 1997) Updated March 24, 2021 3 Editorships • Editor, New Problems in Philosophy book series, published by Routledge • Editor, International Library of Philosophy book series, published by Routledge (2000-2003) • Scientific Editor, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (1999-2001) • Member of Advisory Board, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences • Member of Advisory Board, Philosophical Compass • Member of Advisory Board, Philosophical Inquiries • Member of Advisory Board, Ideas y Valores Honors and boards • Honorary member, Sociedad Colombiana de Filosofía (elected 2003) • Honorary member, Scots Philosophical Club (elected 2006) • Senior Member, McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, SFU, Canada (2000 – 2005) • Member, High-Level Expert Group advising European Union Directorate of Research on What it means to be human (January – June 2005) • Member, NINDS Special Emphasis Panel, Specialized Neuroscience Research (March 2013) • Executive Committee and Board of Directors, Institute for Nautical Archeology (2010 – 2014) • Board of Directors, Private Enterprise Research Center (2010 – 2014) • Board of Directors, Center for Study of First Americans (2010 – 2014) • Member, European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers (2018 – ) • Jury member, Teorema essay prize (2020) Languages French (fluent), Spanish (conversational), Ancient Greek (reading) PUBLICATIONS Single-authored Books J. L. Bermúdez, A Guidebook to Aristotle’s De Anima. Under contract to Oxford UP. J. L. Bermúdez, Frame It Again: New Tools for Rational Thought (Cambridge UP, 2020) J. L. Bermúdez, The Bodily Self: Selected Essays (MIT Press, 2018) J. L. Bermúdez, Understanding “I”: Language and Thought (Oxford UP, 2017) J. L. Bermúdez, Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Cambridge UP, June 2010). Second edition published in February 2014. Third edition published in 2020. J. L. Bermúdez, Decision Theory and Rationality (Oxford UP, 2009. Paperback 2011) J. L. Bermúdez, Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2005. Hardback and Paperback) J. L. Bermúdez, Thinking without Words (Oxford UP. 2003. Paperback 2007) J. L. Bermúdez, The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT Press 1998. Representation and Mind series. 1998. Paperback 2000. Portuguese translation 2001) Edited Books J. L. Bermúdez (ed.), Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality (Cambridge UP, 2018) J. L. Bermúdez and B. N. Towl (ed.), Philosophy of Psychology: Critical Concepts (4 Vols. Routledge, 2013) J. L. Bermúdez (ed.), Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings (Routledge, 2006) J. L. Bermúdez (ed.), Thought, Language, and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans (Oxford UP, 2005) J. L. Bermúdez and A. Millar (eds.), Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality (Oxford UP, 2002) J. L. Bermúdez and S. Gardner (eds.), Art and Morality (Routledge, 2002. Paperback 2006) Updated March 24, 2021 4 J. L. Bermudez, A. J. Marcel and N. Eilan (eds.) The Body and the Self (MIT Press, 1995. Paperback 1998) Published reviews of my books Reviews of Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality: New Essays • J. Grayot, Journal of Economic Methodology 27 (2020), 184-189 • R. Pettigrew, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (11/09/2019), online Reviews of Understanding “I” • H. Cappelen and J. Dever, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (11/21/2017), online • D. Grcki, Croatian Journal of Philosophy 17 (2017), 265-271 • G. Rattan, Analysis 79 (2019), 183-186 Reviews of Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind • A. F. Beavers, Philosophical Psychology
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