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Dr. Peter Olen Lake-Sumter State College 9501 U.S. Highway 441 Leesburg, FL 34788 [email protected] https://lssc.academia.edu/PeterOlen 407.920.5132

Area of Specialization, Area of Competence AOS: History of Philosophy, Epistemology AOC: Philosophy of Science, Logic, American Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind

Employment  Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Lake-Sumter State College (Fall 2019 – current)  Instructor, Lake-Sumter State College (Fall 2014 – Spring 2019)  Visiting Lecturer, University of Central Florida (Fall 2013 – Summer 2014)

Education  Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of South Florida (2012)  M.A. (Philosophy), University of South Florida (Spring 2009)  B.A. (Major: Philosophy, Minor: Cognitive Science), University of Central Florida (Spring 2006)

Books  Wilfrid Sellars and the Foundations of Normativity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).  Pragmatism in Transition: Contemporary Perspectives on C. I. Lewis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 – co-edited with Carl Sachs).

Articles  “Emotion and Affect in the Space of Reasons” in a special issue of Philosophical Inquiries (in progress)  “Perspectivalism and Behaviorism: A Response to Katzav” in the Australasian Philosophical Review (forthcoming)  “Author’s Response to Critics” in a special issue of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (Summer 2019)  “Consequences of Behaviorism: Sellars and de Laguna on Explanation” in Philosophy of the Social Sciences (2017).  “Was Sellars an Error Theorist?” (co-authored with Stephen Turner) in Synthese, Vol. 163 (2016), pp.2053-2075.  “From Formalism to Psychology: Meta-philosophical Shifts in Wilfrid Sellars' Early Works” in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 6, No.1 (2016), pp.24-63.  “A Forgotten Strand of Reception History: Understanding Pure Semantics” in Synthese (2016). 2

 “The Realist Challenge to Conceptual Pragmatism” in the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2015), pp.152-167.  “Durkheim, Sellars, and the Origins of Collective Intentionality” (co-authored with Stephen Turner) in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 5 (2015), pp.954-975.  “Normativity and Social Explanation” (co-authored with Stephen Turner), in Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, Ed. Duncan Pritchard. New York: Oxford University Press.  “Now is that really Blasphemy? Heretical Meaning and Belief” in The Florida Philosophical Review,Vol. VIII, No. 1 (Summer 2008), pp.31-40.

Book Chapters  “C. I. Lewis: Between Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism” in the Routledge Handbook of Pragmatism (in progress)  “What does Normativity ‘Explain’?” in Stephen Turner and the Philosophy of the Social (Brill – forthcoming)  “Ajdukiewicz and Sellars on World-Perspectives” in Wilfrid Sellars and Twentieth Century Philosophy (Routledge 2020).  “The Varieties and Origins of Sellars’ Behaviorism” in Sellars and the History of Modern Philosophy (Routledge 2018).  “Introduction” in Pragmatism in Transition: Contemporary Perspectives on C. I. Lewis (Palgrave 2017).  “Diverging Paths? Conceptual Pragmatism and Logical Positivism” in Pragmatism in Transition: Contemporary Perspectives on C. I. Lewis (Palgrave 2017).

Reviews  Review of Pretense and Pathology: Philosophical Fictionalism and its Applications (Bradley Armour-Garb and James Woodbridge, Cambridge University Press 2015) in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2017).  Review of From Empiricism to Expressivism (Robert Brandom, Harvard University Press, 2015) in Philosophy in Review Vol. 35, No.3 (2015), pp.130-2.  Review of William James in Focus (William J. Gavin, Indiana University Press, 2013) in Philosophy in Review Vol 34, No. 3-4 (2014), pp.158-60.  Review of American Philosophy: The Basics (Nancy Stanlick, Routledge Publishing, 2013) in the Transactions of the Charles Sanders Peirce Society, Vol. 49, No. 4 (2013), pp.578-580.  Review of Self, Language, and World: Problems from Kant, Sellars, and Rosenberg (edited by Jim O’Shea and Eric Rubenstein, Ridgeview Publishing Company) in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2 (2010), pp.303-307.

Awards and Fellowships  Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2014) 3

 Bright House Endowed Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2011)  Travel Award, Carnegie Mellon University (2008)  Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida (2008)  Graduate Teaching fellowship, University of South Florida (2007-2012)

Invited Presentations  “Animals and Language in the Pragmatist Tradition” at Wesleyan University (October 2016).  "Comments on Stanlick's American Philosophy" presented at the Florida Philosophical Association meeting at Stetson University (November 2013).

Presentations  Author meets Critics session at the Eastern meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Spring 2018).  “Pragmatics within Pragmatism” presented at the Southeast Roundtable of the Philosophy of the Americas at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (September 2016).  “Empirical or Structural? Historical Ties between Pragmatism and Pragmatics” presented at the Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon (July 2016).  “Behaviorism, Rationalism, and Explanation” presented at the meeting for the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota (June 2016).  “Behaviorism, Rationalism, and Explanation” presented at the Pacific American philosophical Association meeting of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy (April 2016).  “The Necessity of Practical and Modal Realism” presented at the Eastern American Philosophical Association meeting of the Wilfrid Sellars Society (January 2016).  “Internal and External Conceptions of Normativity” presented at the Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University College Dublin (June 2015).  “Was Sellars an Error Theorist?” presented at the Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy Conference at Trinity College (June 2015).  “Diverging Paths? Conceptual Pragmatism and Logical Positivism” presented at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Meeting at Grand Valley State University (March 2015).  “Too Cute to Shoot? The Kakapo and Conservation” (co-authored with Elizabeth Victor) presented at the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World meeting at the Eastern American Philosophical Association (December 2014).  “Making Sense of Reception History: Logical Empiricism in North America” presented at the International Society for Intellectual History meeting at the University of Toronto (June 2014). 4

 “Durkheim, Sellars, and the Origins of Collective Intentions” (co-authored with Stephen Turner) presented at the Current Trends in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Symposium, Academy of Finland Centre for Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Science (June 2014).  "Sellars vs. Lewis, Round 1: Pragmatism and Critical Realism" presented at the Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy meeting at the Central American Philosophical Association (February 2014).  "Explanation, Pragmatics, and Weakness of Will" presented at the 2013 Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association meeting, Dalhousie University (October 2013).  "Chasing Ghosts: Understanding Carnap's Pure Semantics" presented at the International Conference "Carnap on Logic", July 4th-6th, Munich, Germany (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy).  “Between American Philosophy and Logical Empiricism: Assessing Sellars's place in the History of Analytic Philosophy” presented at the Eastern American Philosophical Association meeting (December 2012).  "New Realism and Behavioral Science: Tracing the Philosophical Roots of American Behaviorism" accepted for the Fifth Annual U.S. Intellectual History Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City (November 2012).  “Pure Pragmatics and Logical Empiricism: Contextualizing Wilfrid Sellars’s Early Publications” presented at the 9th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science, Dalhousie University/The University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia (June 2012).  “From Formalism to Psychology: Meta-philosophical Shifts in Wilfrid Sellars’s Early Works” presented at the Sellars Centenary Conference, Dublin (June 2012).  “Method as Madness: American Philosophy’s Tortured Narrative of ‘Progress’” presented at the Fourth Annual U.S. Intellectual History Conference and inaugural Meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City (November 2011).  “Meaning and Frameworks: Sellars on Ryle and Inner Episodes” presented at the Prague International Colloquium on Normativity and Meaning: Sellarsian Perspectives (May 2011).  “Pragmatism and Positivism as Scientific Philosophy? Reconsidering the 1930s” presented at the 8th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Central European University, Budapest (Summer 2010).  “Now, Is That Really Blasphemy?” presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Blasphemy, Heresy, and Freedom of Speech, University of Central Florida (January 2007).

Courses Taught  Acquisition of Knowledge  Contemporary Ethics  Critical Thinking  Introduction to Ethics  Introduction to Philosophy 5

 Introduction to Formal Logic  Philosophy of Mind  Senior Research Seminar  Special Topics in the Philosophy of Science  Theories of Knowledge  Undergraduate Teaching Internship

Online Courses:  Contemporary Ethics  Introduction to Philosophy  Logic and Disputation

Other:  Carnegie Melon workshop on teaching undergraduate formal logic online

Professional Service  Faculty Rank & Promotion committee member (Fall 2020 – current)  Internal Review Board member (Fall 2019 – current)  Technology committee member (Fall 2017 – current)  Secretary/Treasurer, Wilfrid Sellars Society  Assessment/analytic reasoning rubric committee member (Spring 2016)  Faculty Search Committee, Lake Sumter State College (Spring 2015)  Member, College of Arts and Humanities Scholarship Committee, University of Central Florida (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014).  University of Central Florida/The Burnett Honors College Alumni Mentor for honors undergraduate students (Spring 2013).  Manager, Wilfrid Sellars Listserv (Summer 2011 – current). o http://groups.google.com/group/sellars-listserv  Editor, Florida Philosophical Review (Spring 2013 - Summer 2016)  Assistant Editor, Florida Philosophical Review (Spring 2011 – Summer 2012).  Referee for various journals and publishers (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Routledge, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Synthese, The International Journal for the History of Philosophy of Science, Perspectives on Science, Florida Philosophical Review).  Undergraduate Ethics Bowl team coach

Membership in Professional Organizations  International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science  Wilfrid Sellars Society  Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy  American Philosophical Association  Society for U.S. Intellectual History

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 Michael Strawser, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department, University of Central Florida o [email protected]  Rebecca Kukla, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University o [email protected]  Stephen Turner, Graduate Research Professor, University of South Florida o [email protected]  Willem deVries, Professor, University of New Hampshire o [email protected]