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Last update: May 2021
Juan Pablo Bermúdez Espace Tilo-Frey 1, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland [email protected] | (+41) 76 528 3123
Employment Jan. 2016– Docente Investigador [equivalent to Assistant Professor] Philosophy Program, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences Externado de Colombia University (on leave 2020-2022) Bogotá, Colombia Jan. 2020- Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Philosophy University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Education May 2016 Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Toronto March 2008 M.A. in Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia July 2005 Philosopher, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Research interests Areas of specialization: Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of action, Philosophical psychology Areas of competence: Experimental philosophy, Ancient Greek philosophy, Political philosophy
Works in Peer Reviewed Journals (Forthcoming) Perceiving utilitarian gradients: heart rate variability and self-regulatory effort in the moral dilemma task. Social Neuroscience. (2021) The skill of self-control. Synthese. (2021) Intentional mind-wandering as intentional omission: The Surrealist method. With S. Arango. Synthese. (2021) Willpower needs tactical skill. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44(e32), 17–18. (2019) Decision conflict drives reaction times and utilitarian responses in sacrificial dilemmas. With A. Rosas & D. Aguilar-Pardo. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(5), 555–564. (2018) Viewing others as equals: The non-cognitive roots of shared intentionality. With A. Rosas. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 9(3), 485–502. (2018) Is a bad will a weak will? Cognitive dispositions modulate folk attributions of weakness of will. With A. Rosas and A. Gutiérrez. Philosophical Explorations, 21(3), 350–363. (2017) Do we reflect while performing skillful actions? Automaticity, control, and the perils of distraction. Philosophical Psychology, 30(7), 896-924. (2017) Truth and falsehood for non-representationalists: Gorgias on the normativity of language. Journal of Ancient Philosophy, 11(2), 1-21. (2017) Can reason establish the goals of action? Assessing interpretations of Aristotle’s theory of agency. Discusiones Filosóficas, 18(30), 35–62. (2016) Practical reason, habit, and care in Aristotle. Praxis Filosófica, 43, 77–102. (2011) Nature and the good: An exploration of ancient ethical naturalism in Cicero's De finibus. Pensamiento y Cultura 14-2: 145-163. 2011.
Last update: May 2021
Other Publications (2018) Remembering as a mental action. With S. Arango. In K. Michaelian, D. Debus, & D. Perrin (Eds.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Memory (pp. 75–96). Routledge. (2018) The post-truth temperament: What makes belief stray from evidence? And what can bring them back together? In C. G. Prado (Ed.), America’s post-truth phenomenon: When feelings and opinions trump facts and evidence (pp. 87–109). Praeger. (2017) Social media and self-control: the vices and virtues of attention. In C. G. Prado (Ed.), Social Media and Your Brain (pp. 57–74). Praeger.
Edited publication Expected Fall 2021: Topoi special issue Habitual Action, Automaticity, and Control (with F. Felletti).
Invited talks May.2021 What is the feeling of effort about? Universität Bern. Bern, Switzerland. Apr.2021 What is the feeling of effort about? Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. Nov.2020 Intentional mind-wandering: The surrealist method (with Santiago Arango). Red Iberoamericana de Filosofía de la Mente. UNAM, Mexico City. Jul.2020 Intentional mind-wandering: The surrealist method (with Santiago Arango). Conceptos, Lenguaje & Cognición seminar. University of Córdoba, Argentina. Oct.2019 What is self-control? Assessing the folk concept. Pittsburgh Empirical Philosophy Lab. University of Pittsburgh, USA. Oct.2019 Unifying self-control. Institute of Philosophy. University of Neuchâtel. Switzerland. Sep.2019 Unifying self-control. Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Aug.2019 The upside of mental effort. Workshop Mind Wandering and Mental Action. Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. Jul.2019 How to control yourself: Self-control as task-hacking. LMU Munich, Germany. Mar.2019 What is self-control? Assessing the folk concept. U. Michigan. Ann Arbor, USA. Mar.2019 How to deal with appetites: Self-control as motivation hacking. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, USA. Sep. 2018 Is remembering a mental action? Perspectives on Cognition and Mental Agency workshop. Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. Nov. 2016 Shared intentionality: From dominance to equality. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, Mexico City. Feb. 2016 Framing effects and agentive control. Encuentro de Filosofía de la Ciencia. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Refereed presentations Jun.2020 We are too self-reliant: Uncovering an internalist bias in lay judgments about self-control (with Sam Murray & Sergio Barbosa). Online XPhi Europe conference. Oct.2019 Is the mental more automatic than the bodily? Automaticity and Bias in Thought and Action conference. TU Dortmund. Dortmund, Germany. Jul.2019 The upside of mental effort. Actions: The Bodily and the Mental conference. University of Warwick, UK. May.2019 Intentional mind-wandering as intentional omission: the surrealist method (with Santiago Arango). Rethinking Conscious Agency workshop. University of Barcelona. May. 2018 Self-control as vigilant attention control. ALFAn V (V meeting of the Latin American Analytic Philosophy Association). Universidad de los Andes, Villa de Leyva, Colombia. Sept. 2017 Remembering as a mental action (with Santiago Arango). Minds Online Last update: May 2021
conference. Brains Blog. Jul. 2017 Remembering as a mental action (with Santiago Arango). Issues in philosophy of memory conference. Universität zu Köln. Nov. 2016 Political aspects of Aristotle’s theory of agency. III history of philosophy conference. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, Mexico City. Sept. 2016 Shared intentionality: from dominance to equality (with Alejandro Rosas). Philosophy of mind, language and action conference. Universidade de Sao Paulo. Sept. 2016 Do we reflect when performing skillful actions? Minds Online conference. Brains Blog. Jun. 2016 Automaticity and autonomy: Framing effects and agentive control. Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference. University of Texas, Austin. Feb. 2016 Framing effects and agentive control. Philogica conference. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. Sept. 2015 Practical reason, habit, and care in Aristotle. II history of philosophy conference. Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia. Mar. 2014 Bounded rationality and human agency. Chilean Society for Analytic Philosophy conference. Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Santiago, Chile.
Awards, grants and fellowships 2021 Collaborative award for “Self-control and regulatory flexibility” – Project leader. LATAM Free Will project (funded by John Templeton Foundation) 2020 Participant – LATAM Free Will project’s 2nd yearly seminar: Agency. U. los Andes & UCSD (funded by John Templeton Foundation) 2019 Visiting fellowship – Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. September - December 2019 2019 Startup award for “The upside of mental effort” (with Chandra Sripada) – Getting Better at Simple Things project, John Templeton Foundation 2017-2019 Short-term research fellowship – Getting Better at Simple Things project, John Templeton Foundation & Universidad de los Andes 2017 Research grant for “Cognitive dispositions and moral judgment” (with Alejandro Rosas) – Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2014 Ian Hacking travel award – University of Toronto 2008-2015 Graduate fellowship – University of Toronto 2008-2010 Robinson fellowship – University of Toronto 2007 Cum laude mention for MA thesis – Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2005-2007 Graduate fellowship – Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2006 Mobility Fellowship – Public Latin American and Caribbean Macro-universities
Event organization Apr.2021 Workshop Striving and Doing. Université de Neuchâtel (online). Participants: Ophelia Deroy, Guido Gendolla, Olivier Massin, Elisabeth Pacherie, Joëlle Proust, Kevin Reuter, Joshua Shepherd, Chandra Sripada, Andrew Westbrook. Jul.2020 Symposium The Nature and Value of Collective Efforts. International Social Ontology Society 2020 conference (online). Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Participants: Olle Blomberg, Wayne Christensen & Marcell Székely. Aug.2019 Workshop Mind-Wandering and Cognitive Control. Externado de Colombia University. Participants: Santiago Amaya, Santiago Arango, Zachary Irving, Samuel Murray, Julia W.Y. Kam, Hernando Santamaría-García, Paola Agudelo Orjuela. Last update: May 2021
Teaching Universidad Externado de Colombia (2012–2019) Undergraduate courses: Moral psychology; Philosophy of action: the problem of skill; Introduction to the philosophy of mind; Political philosophy; Introductory logic; Spinoza’s Ethics; Aristotle’s ethics; Plato and Socrates; Introduction to ancient philosophy. Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2014) Graduate courses: Philosophy of psychology: Automaticity and control (with A. Rosas); Philosophy of psychology: Akrasia and self-control (with A. Rosas). University of Toronto (2013) Undergraduate course: Environmental ethics.
Service PhilPapers editor of the “Trying”, “Skills” and “Habits” categories. (2019–present.) Referee for Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese (x3), Analysis, Mind and Language, Review of Philosophy and Psychology (x2), Philosophical Psychology (x2), Routledge, Estudios de Filosofía, Universitas Philosophica, Revista Colombiana de Bioética, Eidos.