Curriculum Vitae Charles Siewert December 30, 2020

Philosophy Department Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251 Office phone: (713) 348-4191 Home phone: (cell) (510) 717-9997 Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, 1994. B.A., Philosophy Reed College, 1983.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Rice University Robert Alan and Kathryn Dunlevie Hayes Chair in Humanities (2010- ) University of California, Riverside Full Professor (2004- 2010) University of Miami Associate Professor (2001-2004) University of Miami Assistant Professor (1995-2001) Reed College Visiting Assistant Professor (1994-95)

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

• The Significance of Consciousness, Princeton University Press, 1998.

Articles:

• “Experience and Reflection,” forthcoming in The Phenomenology of Self- Awareness and Conscious Subjects, Routledge.

• “Why We Need Descriptive Psychology,” forthcoming in a special issue of the European Journal of Philosophy, on Descriptive Psychology.

• “Consciousness: Value, Concern, Respect,” forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind.

• “On Needing Time to Think: Consciousness, Temporality, and Self-Expression,” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: “Time and Intentionality,” published on-line August 2019.

• “Appearance, Judgment, and Norms,” in Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology, edited by Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh, and Irene McMullin, Routledge Publishing, 2019.

• “For Analytic Phenomenology,” in Proceedings of the 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium: Analytical and Continental Philosophy: Methods and Perspectives. De Gruyter Publishers, 2016.

• “On Getting a Good Look: Normativity and Visual Experience,” in Normativity in Perception, edited by Thiemo Breyer and Maxime Doyon, Palgrave Press, 2015.

• “Phenomenological Approaches,” The Oxford Handbook of Perception Online, edited by Mohan Matthen, Oxford University Press, 2014.

• “Speaking Up for Consciousness,” in Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind, edited by Uriah Kriegel, Routledge Press, 2014.

• “Phenomenality and Self-Consciousness,” Phenomenal Intentionality, edited by Uriah Kriegel, Oxford University Press, 2013.

• “Intellectualism, Experience, and Motor Understanding,” in Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World: the McDowell/Dreyfus Debate, edited by Joseph Schear, Routledge Press, 2013.

• “Respecting Appearances,” in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology, edited by Dan Zahavi, Oxford University Press, 2012.

• “On the Phenomenology of Introspection,” in Introspection and Consciousness, edited by Declan Smithies and Daniel Stoljar, Oxford University Press, 2012.

• “Phenomenal Thought,” in Cognitive Phenomenology, edited by Tim Bayne and Michelle Montague, Oxford University Press, 2011.

• “Philosophy of Mind,” in The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, edited by Søren Overgaard and Sebastian Luft, Routledge Press, 2011.

• “Embodied Consciousness and the Explanatory Gap,” Journal of Consciousness Studies: a symposium on Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life, Volume 18, Nos. 5-6, 2011.

• ““Socratic Introspection and the Abundance of Experience,” Journal of Consciousness Studies: Describing Inner Experience: a Symposium Debating Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES), Vol. 18, No. 1, January 2011.

• “Saving Appearances: a Dilemma for Physicalists,” in The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, edited by George Bealer and Robert Koons, Oxford University Press, 2010.

• “Consciousness and Conceptual Thought,” in The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, edited by Tim Bayne, A.Cleeremans, and P. Wilken, Oxford, 2009.

2 • “Who’s Afraid of Phenomenological Disputes?,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV, Supplement, 2007.

• “In Favor of (Plain) Phenomenology,” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences: Special Issue on Dennett and Heterophenomenology, Vol. 6 Nos.1-2 March 2007.

• “Is the Appearance of Shape Protean?,” Psyche 12 (3) July 2006 (http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au)

• “Consciousness,” in A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism. Edited by Hubert Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall. Blackwell Publishers, 2006.

• “Attention and Sensorimotor Intentionality,” Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Mind. Edited by David Smith and Amie Thomasson. Oxford University Press, 2005.

• “Plain Phenomenology,” in Experience and Analysis: Proceedings of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium. Edited by Maria Reicher and Johann Marek. Öbv & Hpt Velagsgesellschaft, 2005.

• “Is Experience Transparent?” Philosophical Studies, 117: 15-41, 2004.

• “Rationality and Self-Knowledge: Shoemaker on Self-Blindness,” in Privileged Access. Edited by Brie Gertler. Ashegate, 2003.

• “Is Visual Experience Rich or Poor?,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, Special Issue: “Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion?”, Vol. 9, No. 5-6, 2002.

• “Consciousness and Intentionality,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward Zalta (http://plato.stanford.edu) June 2002 (revised December 2006; rewritten August 2016).

• “Self-Knowledge and Phenomenal Unity,” Noûs, Vol. 35, No. 4, December 2001

• “Plato’s Division of Reason and Appetite,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4, October 2001.

Articles for symposium on The Significance of Consciousness in the on-line journal Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness (http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au):

• “Consciousness, Natural Representation, and First-Person Warrant: Reply to Dretske,” Psyche 10 (03), November 2004. • “Phenomenality and Intentionality: Which Explains Which? Reply to Gertler,” Psyche 10 (02), October 2004. • “Consciousness, Intentionality, and Concepts: Reply to Nelkin,” Psyche 10 (02), September 2004. • “First-Person Reflection and Hidden Physical Features: Reply to Witmer,” Psyche 9(06), February 2003.

3 • “Eliminativism, First-Person Knowledge, and Phenomenal Intentionality: Reply to Levine,” Psyche 9(03) January 2003. • “Phenomenality, Intentionality, and Reflexivity: Replies to Ludwig and Thomasson,” Psyche 8(09) October 2002. • “Consciousness Neglect and Inner Sense: Reply to Lycan,” Psyche, 7 (07) April 2001. • “Spontaneous Blindsight and Immediate Availability: Reply to Carruthers,” Psyche 7 (07) April 2001. • “Précis of The Significance of Consciousness,” Psyche 6 (12) October 2000.

Reviews

• Review of Angela Mendelovici’s The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality, forthcoming in The European Journal of Philosophy.

• Review of Christopher Hill’s Consciousness, Philosophical Review 122 (2), April 2013.

• “Review of Dan Zahavi’s Subjectivity and Selfhood,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 840-843, October 2008.

• “Review of Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life, Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews, January 2008.

• “Review of Galen Strawson’s Mental Reality,” Philosophical Psychology 9: 404-408, Sept.1996.

• “What Dennett Can’t Imagine and Why,” Inquiry 36: 96-112, March 1993.

PROFESSIONAL

Funded Research:

Participant, NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002. Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, 2001 Max Orovitz Summer Award in the Arts and Humanities, 1997

Editorial Responsibilities:

Referee of journal articles for: Journal of Consciousness Studies; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Consciousness and Cognition; Mind and Language; Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; European Journal of Philosophy; Noûs; Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

4 Review of book manuscript on phenomenal intentionality for Oxford University Press (December 2016) Review for Swiss National Science Foundation grant proposal (February 2015) Reviewer of book manuscript on cognitive phenomenology, for Routledge (2014) Reviewer of book proposal on the epistemic significance of consciousness, Oxford University Press (2011) Reviewer of book proposal on the metaphysics of experience, Oxford University Press (2009) Reviewer of book proposal, The Phenomenological Mind, for Routledge (2005) Reviewer of book manuscript on consciousness for Oxford University Press (2002) Reviewer of grant proposals for the Institute for Consciousness Studies (1999) Reviewer of book manuscript for MIT Press on Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (1996).

Professional Reviews:

• Tenure review, Lewis and Clark College, 2006. • Review for promotion to Full Professor, University of Alabama, 2007. • Tenure review, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007. • Mid-term review (with Eric Schwitzgebel), University of California, Merced, 2007. • Tenure review, Southern Methodist University, 2008. • Tenure review, University of Toronto, 2008. • Tenure review, Pomona College, 2009. • Tenure review, Boston University, 2010. • Career review for promotion above scale, University of California, Irvine, 2010. • Tenure review, U.C. Merced, 2011. • Tenure review, Ohio State University, 2011. • Career review for promotion to full professor, Claremont McKenna College, 2011. • Career review for promotion to full professor, University of Virginia, 2012. • Career review for promotion, University of California, Riverside, 2012. • Tenure review, New York University, 2012. • Career review for promotion, University of California, Riverside, 2013. • Tenure review, internal report, Rice University, 2013. • Career review for hire at rank of full professor, Brown University, 2015 • Tenure review, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2015. • Tenure review, University of Wisconsin, 2017 • Tenure review, internal report, Rice University, 2018. • Tenure review, Arizona State University, 2019 • Review for promotion to professor, Universität Salzburg, 2020

Professional Organizations:

American Philosophical Association The International Society for Phenomenological Studies

5 Society for the Study of Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy The Society for Exact Philosophy Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology

Honors and Awards:

• University of Miami, Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999 • American Philosophical Association Book Prize for the years 1997-99, awarded to The Significance of Consciousness. • Phi Kappa Phi, 1999 • Phi Beta Kappa, 1983

Other Professional Activities:

Presentations

• “How Consciousness and Reflection are Made for Each Other,” keynote address at Mark Shapiro Graduate Student Conference, Brown University November 9, 2019. • Presentations at CEU Summer School on Cognitive Phenomenology, July 8-17, 2019, Budapest. o “Why Understanding is Included in Experience—and Why it Matters,” July 8, 2019 o “How is the Experience of Thinking Related to its Content?” July 8, 2019. o “Thought’s Temporality and the Experience of Self-Expression,” July 9, 2019. • “Consciousness, Reflection, and First-Person Warrant,” at Conference on Introspection and Self-Awareness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, April 24, 2019 • "Visual Recognition and Content," invited talk, Oxford Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar, Oxford University, February 5, 2019 • “The Need for Descriptive Psychology,” Descriptive Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Conference, University of Salzburg October 19, 2018. • “Recognitional Appearances,” invited talk, University of Wisconsin, October 12, 2018. • “Reflective Attention and Acquaintance,” Conference on Acquaintance and Direct Grasp,” Institut Jean Nicod (ENS), Paris July 3, 2018 • “Is Pre-Reflective Consciousness Self-Consciousness?” Conference on the Phenomenology of Self-Awareness and the Nature of Conscious Subjects,” at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, May 24, 2018. • “Consciousness and Subjective Curiosity,” Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, San Antonio, March 16, 2018. • “Comments on Taylor Carman’s “Husserl’s Internalism,” Dreyfus Memorial Conference, Wake Forest University, September 24, 2017 • “Consciousness, Thought, and Self-Expression,” Institut Jean Nicod (ENS), Paris June 26, 2017

6 • “Sketch for a Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness,” Conference on Self- Awareness and Phenomenal Consciousness, at Üniversität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, May 8, 2017 • “Consciousness and Self-Expression,” York University, Toronto, Canada, March 31, 2017 • “On Needing Time to Think,” presented the Time and Intentionality Conference, at the Université de Montréal, September 30, 2016. • “A Place for Reflection,” presented at the Workshop on Consciousness, sponsored by the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, London, Centre l’Oubradou, Plan de la Tour, France, September 16, 2016. • “Experienced Thought and Self-Knowledge,” presented at the Conference on Nonphysicalist Views of Consciousness, at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, May 25, 2016 • “How Subjectivity Makes Things Apparent,” presented at the Rice Summer Workshop on the Interface Between Perception and Thought, May 6 2016. • “On the Legitimacy of First-Person Reflection,” presented at Reed College, April 15, 2016 • “On the Cognitive Richness of Experience: Phenomenal Conceptual Thought,” presented at the Workshop on the Metaphysics and Phenomenology of Thought, at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, November 20, 2015.

• Seven Lectures on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness, given at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, November 12-17, 2015. o “What is consciousness? How is it related to self-consciousness?” o “Against higher-order thought accounts” o “Against inner sense and self-representational theories” o “State-reflexive self-consciousness as reflective attention” o “Is there a consciousness of self?” o “The Problem of Primitive Self-Consciousness” o “Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution.”

• “Self-Consciousness: Reflective and Pre-Reflective,” presented at the Workshop on Pre-reflective Consciousness, King’s College London, November 1, 2015.

• Four Lectures on Subjectivity and Self-Knowledge, presented at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, October 5-14, 2015.

o “First-person reflection and the study of consciousness” o “Phenomenal intentionality and vision” o “On the cognitive richness of experience” o “The problem of self-knowledge: a critical-phenomenal approach.”

• “Comments on Angela Mendelovici’s ‘Phenomenality in Thought,’” presented at the SPAWN Conference on Consciousness, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY July 29, 2015. • “The Subjective Character and Intentionality of Vision,” presented at the Congrès de Société de Philosophie Analytique, in Montreal, June 18, 2015, • “Agentive Experience and First-Person Reflection,” presented at “Illuminating Reasons: Moral Phenomenology” conference, University of Arizona, Tucson October 18, 2014.

7 • “Visual Experience: the Objectivity from Subjectivity Puzzle,” presented at the “Dimensions of Intentionality” conference, Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany, September 29, 2014. • “For Analytic Phenomenology,” presented at the 37th Wittgenstein Symposium “Analytical and Continental Perspectives,” Kirchberg, Austria, August 16, 2014.

• Six Lectures on the Problems of Consciousness, presented at the University of Salzburg, June 11-25, 2014.

o Phenomenology: Hetero Vs. Plain o Self-Examination and “the Unreliability of Introspection” o “Inner Sense” o The Regress of Self-Representation o The Phenomenal Thought Controversy o The Cognitive Is Phenomenal Too

• “On Getting a Good Look,” presented at “Beyond Brentano: Consciousness, Self- Consciousness and Thought,” Workshop at the University of Salzburg, June 10, 2014. • “On Getting a Good Look,” presented at Workshop on Existential Phenomenology, Wake Forest University, April 27, 2014. • “On Getting a Good Look,” presented at The Workshop in Phenomenological Philosophy, Rice University, April 24, 2014 • Comments on Jennifer Church’s Possibilities of Perception, an “Author Meets Critics” session, meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, April 19, 2014. • “On Getting a Good Look,” presented at the “Normativity in Perception” conference, McGill University, Montreal, August 22, 2013 • “The Phenomenal Thought Controversy,” invited symposium on “The Phenomenology of Thought,” meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, June 2, 2013 • “Speaking Up for Consciousness,” Keynote address, meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, June 3, 2013 • “Warrant for Introspective and Perceptual Beliefs: the Role of Phenomenal Character,” for invited symposium “The Epistemic Significance of Consciousness,” Pacific APA Division meeting, San Francisco, March 29, 2013 • “Phenomenality and Self-Consciousness,” for invited symposium “Buddhism and Philosophy of Mind,” Central APA Division meeting, New Orleans, February 23, 2013. • Author Meets Critics Session on Uriah Kriegel’s Sources of Intentionality, Eastern APA Division meeting, Atlanta, December 30, 2012. • “What is Consciousness? Why is it Important?” for Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University, October 16, 2012. • “Phenomenality and Introspection,” Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Copenhagen, August 8, 2012. • “How to Understand ‘What It’s Like,’” NEH Summer Seminar on “Investigating Consciousness.” Charleston, SC, May 2012. • “Phenomenality and Self-Consciousness,” NEH Summer Seminar on “Investigating Consciousness.” Charleston, SC, May 2012.

8 • “Phenomenal Introspection,” presented at University of Fribourg Workshop on The Normative Significance of Consciousness, December 11, 2011. • “’A Phenomenological Conception of Consciousness.” Presented at Rice University, Conference on Consciousness, Phenomenality and Intentionality, October 27, 2011. • “On the Phenomenology of Introspection,” presented the University of Luxembourg, Workshop in Introspection, June 2011. • Comments on Kevin Connolly’s “Concept Acquisition and Perceptual Phenomenology,” presented at the Pacific Division Meeting of the APA. April 21, 2011 • “Introspection, Inner Sense and Attention,” presented at the Tucson Conference,“Toward a Science of Consciousness,” April 14, 2010. • “Attention, Introspection, and Inner Sense,” Maribor/Ohio State/Rijeka Conference on The Philosophical Significance of Attention, Dubrovnik, May, 2009. • “Consciousness, Curiosity, and Thought,” at Rice University, January 2009. • Comments on Richard Swinburne’s presentation, “Substance Dualism,” at UC Riverside, meeting of SCP, October 2008. • “Consciousness and Curiosity,” presented at the University of Arizona, October 2008. • “The Question of Phenomenal Thought” presented at “Consciousness and Thought” conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 2008. • “The Charge of Intellectualism: Dreyfus, McDowell and Merleau-Ponty,” presented at the Asilomar Conference for the International Society for Phenomenological Studies, Monterey, CA, July 2008. • “The Question of Phenomenal Thought” presented at the Workshop on Phenomenology and Intentionality, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, June 2008. • Comments on John Campbell’s “Practical vs Reflective Ways of Understanding Causation,” presented at the Conference on the Self, Agency, and Self- Awareness,” University of California, Riverside, February 2008. • “The Question of Phenomenal Thought” presented at the Meeting of the California Phenomenology Circle, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, June 2007. • “Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and the Regress Challenge,” presented at Workshop on Phenomenology and Intentionality, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, April 2007. • “Consciousness and Self-Consciousness,” presented at the Pacific APA meeting of the California Phenomenology Circle, April 2007. • “Who’s Afraid of Phenomenological Disputes?” presented at the Spindel Conference on the First-Person Perspective in Philosophical Inquiry, University of Memphis, Sept. 2006. • “On Perceptual Constancy and Sensorimotor Skill,” presented at Asilomar Conference for the International Society for Phenomenological Studies, Monterey, CA, July 2006. • “Who’s Afraid of Phenomenological Disputes?,” presented at Pomona College, on March 2006. • Reply to John Campbell’s Comments on “In Favor of (Plain) Phenomenology,” presented at the SPAWN Conference on Consciousness at Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, on July 30, 2005.

9 • “In Favor of (Plain) Phenomenology,” presented at the University of California Irvine, May 23, 2005. • “In Favor of (Plain) Phenomenology,” presented at a meeting of the California Phenomenology Group, Los Angeles, CA, May 21, 2005. • “In Favor of (Plain) Phenomenology,” presented at the meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 26, 2005. • “Plain Phenomenology,” presented at California State University Los Angeles, March 3, 2005. • “Plain Phenomenology,” presented at the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 10, 2004. • “Comments on Van Gulick’s ‘Jackson’s Change of Mind: Representationalism, A Priorism and the Knowledge Argument,’” presented at La Pietra Conference, Florence, Italy, June 23, 2004. • “Minimal Phenomenology,” presented to the Society for the Study of Husserl’s Philosophy, Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 24, 2004. • “Attention and Higher Order Representation,” presented at East Carolina University Philosophy Conference, Greenville, North Carolina, April 2, 2004. • “Is Experience Transparent?,” presented at the University of California, Riverside, CA, January 13, 2004. • Workshop on The Significance of Consciousness, at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany, December 13, 2003. • “Is Experience Transparent?,” presented at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany, December 12, 2003. • “Is Experience Transparent?,” presented at the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, December 11, 2003. • “Consciousness and Higher Order Representation,” presented at the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, December 11, 2003. • “Is Experience Transparent?”, presented at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, May 21, 2003. • “Is Experience Transparent?”, presented at the Institute for Subjectivity Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 15, 2003. • “Attention and Inner Sense,” presented at the Institute for Subjectivity Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 13, 2003. • “Attending to Experience,” presented at Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 27, 2003. • “Phenomenal Thought,” presented at NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, University of Californian Santa Cruz, July 9, 2002. • “Is Vision Rich or Poor?” presented at the Tucson Conference,“Toward a Science of Consciousness,” April 11, 2002. • Author Meets Critics: The Significance of Consciousness, with replies to Glen Braddock and Joseph Levine, Pacific APA Meeting, March 30, 2002. • Symposium on The Significance of Consciousness and John Perry’s Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness, Meeting of the Husserl Society, at Pacific APA Meeting, March 28, 2002. • Guest Lectures on Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Motor Intentionality, for Hubert Dreyfus’ Course in Phenomenology, University of California, Berkeley, February- March 2002.

10 • “The Phenomenology of Inattentional Blindness,” Asilomar Conference for th International Society for Phenomenological Studies, Monterey, CA, June 2001. • Symposium on The Significance of Consciousness, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans April 2001 • “Shoemaker on Self-Blindness and Self-Knowledge,” presented at the University of Florida, Gainesville, November 2000. • Symposium on The Significance of Consciousness, University of Miami, May 2000. • “Self-Knowledge and Phenomenal Unity,” presented at the Tuscon IV Conference,“Toward a Science of Consciousness,” April 2000. • “Blindsight, Consciousness Neglect, and Indexical Belief,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, March 2000. • “‘Spirit’ in Plato’s Soul,” presented at the University of Miami, and at the annual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, November 1999 • Symposium on The Significance of Consciousness, at the annual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, November 1998. • “Blindsight as a Guide to Consciousness,” presented at the Tuscon III Conference, “Toward a Science of Consciousness,” April 1998. • “The Importance of Consciousness,” presented at Reed College, November 1994 • .“Clarifying Consciousness,” presented at the University of Connecticut, March 1994.

TEACHING

Teaching Specialization (courses taught):

• Graduate seminars on consciousness, self-consciousness, perception, and self- knowledge • Graduate seminars on phenomenology (Brentano, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty) • Undergraduate Research Seminar • Philosophy of mind (upper division) • Philosophy of psychology (upper division) • Metaphysics (upper division) • Ancient philosophy (Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic Philosophy) • Plato (upper division) • Aristotle (upper division) • Modern philosophy (Descartes through Kant) • Introduction to Philosophy • Humanities (Ancient Greece and Rome, Judaism and Early Christianity)

Qualifying Committees, Thesis and Dissertation Advising (2005- )

Rice University:

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, • Darren Medeiros (Dissertation Director, Fall 2017-) • Don Oxtoby (Dissertation Director, Fall 2017-) • Peter Zuk (Dissertation Co-director, Spring 2016-2019)

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Qualifying Exam Committees

• Darren Madeiros (Spring 2017) • Don Oxtoby (Spring 2017) • Roma Hernandez (Spring 2017)

University of California, Riverside:

• Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Samantha Matherne (2010-2013) • Director of Proposition Committee Samantha Matherne (2009) • Director of Master’s Thesis Robert Sanchez (2006) Young Koh (2007) • Member, Oral Qualifying Committee for Ph.D.: Richard Doan (2005) Nathan Westbrook (2007)

At other institutions:

• Ph.D. Dissertation Committee (outside member), Julien Bugnon, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (2020). • Ph.D. Dissertation Committee (outside member), Anna Giustina, Institut Jean Nicod (École Normale Superiere) Paris (2018). • Ph.D. Dissertation Committee (outside member) Kevin Connolly, University of Toronto (2011) • Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Christopher Lay, University of California, Irvine (2007-10) • Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Chad Kidd, University of California, Irvine (2008-) • Outside reviewer, Master Thesis, Kevin Sinclair, Macquarrie University, Sydney, Australia (2008) • Oral Qualifying Committee for Ph.D., Chad Kidd, University of California, Irvine (2008)

SERVICE

Committee and Administrative Responsibilities

American Philosophical Association:

• Pacific Division, Program Committee (2007-10)

Rice University Philosophy Department:

• Director of Undergraduate Studies (2011- ) • Transfer Credit Advisor (2011-) • Graduate Admission Committee (2012, 2015, 2017, 2018)

12 • Member, Search Committee for named chair in Philosophy (2012-13) • Chair, Search Committee for Assistant or Associate Professor, specializing in Metaphysics or Epistemology (2013-14) • Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor, specializing in Philosophy of Mind (2014-15) • Chair, Search Committee for Associate or Full Professor, specializing in Philosophy of Mind (2014-15) • Chair, Search Committee for Assistant or Associate Professor, specializing in Modern Philosophy (2016) • Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor, specializing in Modern Philosophy (2017-18)

Rice University

• Faculty Advisory Panel for Humanities Research Center (2016-2019) • Member, Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum (2013-14)

UC Riverside:

• Member, Search Committee for Director of University Writing Program (2006-7).

UC Riverside Philosophy Department:

• Member, Search Committee for Asst. or Associate Professor in Philosophy, specializing in 19th or 20th century European Philosophy. (Fall 2006-7) • Chair, Search Committee for Asst. Professor in Philosophy, specializing in Moral and Political Philosophy. (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)

University of Miami:

• Member, Committee for U.M. Excellence in Teaching Award (2000) • Member, University of Miami College Council (1997-2000) • Member, U.M. College Curriculum Committee (1999)

University of Miami Philosophy Department:

• Director of Undergraduate Studies for the University of Miami Philosophy Department (2000-4)

• Committees:

Graduate admissions Qualifying examination Search Committee for junior position in Modern Philosophy (1999-2000) Search Committee for junior position in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Philosophy (1999-2000) Search Committee for junior position (open) (2000-1)

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