Daniel Avi Gilbert Coren 13-100 Beddoe Drive, Hamilton Ontario Canada, L8P 4Z2 Email: [email protected] Web site: danielcoren.wordpress.com Phone: 289-244-0143

Employment Visiting Assistant Professor, McMaster University, July 2019-June 2020

Education 2019 PhD in , University of Colorado, Boulder Aristotle on Animal Self-Motion (Committee: Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee (dissertation advisor), Ursula Coope (Oxford), Robert Pasnau, Carol Cleland, Dominic Bailey) 2013 M.A. in Philosophy, McMaster University (Thesis: The Power of a Paradox: The Ancient and Contemporary Liar, Committee: David Hitchcock (thesis advisor), Nicholas Griffin, and Richard Arthur) 2011 B.A. with honors in Philosophy, Deans’ Honour List, McMaster University

Areas of Specialization (1) Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and (2) agency and responsibility

Areas of Teaching Competence Epistemology, early modern, logic, medieval, , philosophy of race

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Ancient [16] “Aristotle on Motion in Incomplete Animals” Apeiron, 2020 (15,016 words)

[15] “Neither Pardon Nor Blame: Reacting in the Wrong Way” , 2020 (11,763 words)

[14] “Aristotle against (unqualified) self-motion: Physics VII 1 α241b35-242a49 / β241b25- 242a15” Ancient Philosophy, 2019 (9,941 words)

[13] “Making Sense of the Sentence: Aristotle’s EN 1094a18-22” Journal of Philosophical Research 43 (2018) 205-222.

[12] “Why Does Aristotle Defend the Principle of Non-Contradiction Against its Contrary?” The Philosophical Forum 49 (2018) 39-59. Cited in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry entitled “Aristotle on Non-contradiction.”

[11] “Aristotle on flights in birds: air as an external resting point” Rhizomata (conditional acceptance May 8, 2020) (7,519 words)

[10] “Aristotle on Self-Change in Plants” Rhizomata 2019 (14,161 words)

Agency and responsibility [9] “Non-symmetric awe: why it matters even if we don’t” Philosophia, 2020 (9,827 words)

[8] “Evaluating Epistemic Virtues” Synthese, 2019 (6,039 words)

[7] “Freedom, Gratitude, and Resentment: Olivi and Strawson” Res Philosophica 96 (2019) 1-

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[6] “Testing for intrinsic value, for us as we are” Inquiry, 2019 (11,983 words)

[5] “Epistemic Conservatism and Bare Beliefs” Synthese, 2019 (8,029 words)

[4] “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Asymmetry.” Acta Analytica 33 (2018) 145-159.

[3] “On Young’s Version of the Principle of Alternate Possibilities.” Philosophia 45 (2017) 585-594. Response by G. Young, “A response to Coren’s objections to the principle of alternate possibilities as sufficient but not necessary for moral responsibility.” Philosophia: The Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 45: 1365-1380.

[2] “Always Choose to Live or Choose to Always Live” Southwest Philosophy Review 2018 (7,153 words)

[1] “Anthropocentric Biocentrism in a Hybrid.” Ethics and the Environment, 20/2 (2015): 48- 60.

Book manuscripts under review or in progress [2] For Us As We Are: Strawsonian Emphases on Agency – Cambridge University Press requested the complete manuscript; six chapters complete (and three published)

[1] Aristotle On Animal Self-Motion – complete, requested manuscript under review at Oxford University Press since August 22, 2019

Book reviews in peer-reviewed journals 2018. “Review of Aristotle on Political Community. By David J. Riesbeck. Cambridge University Press.” Ancient Philosophy 38: 222-225.

Languages Ancient Greek (reading, advanced/intermediate), Latin (reading, intermediate), French (reading, intermediate), German (beginner)

Teaching McMaster (Visiting Assistant Professor) 2020 Philosophy 4K03, Seminar in Ancient Philosophy (20 students)

Philosophy 1B03, Law, Philosophy, and Society (290 students)

Argumentation (63 students)

2019 Philosophy 2P03, Ancient Greek Philosophy (119 students)

Philosophy 1B03, Law, Philosophy, and Society (289 students)

Critical Thinking (53 students)

Colorado Boulder (Instructor of Record) 2019 Philosophy 1400, Philosophy and the Sciences

Philosophy 2200, Major Social Theories

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2018 Augmester 2018 (08/06/2018-08/23/2018): Philosophy 3100, Ethical Theory

PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy, spring semester.

2017 Philosophy 1000, Introduction to Philosophy, spring semester.

2016 Philosophy 1010, Introduction to Western Philosophy: Ancient, spring semester.

2015 Philosophy 1020, Introduction to Western Philosophy: Modern, fall semester.

Teaching Assistant (leading 2-3 recitation sections each) 2015 Philosophy 1000, Introduction to Philosophy (Colorado Boulder). Dr. Garrett Bredeson. 2014 Philosophy 1200, Philosophy and Society (Colorado Boulder). Dr. Daniel Sturgis. 2013 Philosophy 2B03, Introductory Logic (McMaster). Dr. Mark Vorobej. 2012 Philosophy 2P03, Ancient Greek Philosophy (McMaster). Dr. David Hitchcock. Philosophy 2H03, (McMaster). Dr. Barry Allen. 2011 Philosophy 1E03, Problems of Philosophy (McMaster University). Dr. Brian Garrett.

Honors and Awards 2019 Offered Full-Time Instructor Position at Colorado Boulder (Competitive position awarded to only one recent graduate of the PhD program each year) 2018 Graduate Research Award from the Center for the Study of Origins 2017 University of Colorado at Boulder, Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2016 Colorado Boulder Philosophy Department Summer Research Assistantship ($2,000) Katherine J. Lamont Scholarship Colorado Boulder Philosophy Department Dissertation Fellowship 2015 Cost of travel ($1,820) paid for by Durham University (England) to present “Making Sense of the Sentence: NE I.2.1094a18-22”, at a workshop hosted by the Department of Classics and Ancient History. Colorado Boulder Philosophy Department Summer Research Assistantship 2014 Colorado Boulder Center for Western Civilization Summer Study Grant, used for tuition for two Ancient Greek language learning courses taken in Summer 2014. (Value: $1,000) 2012 McMaster Graduate Scholarship (Value: $3,000) 2011 McMaster Graduate Scholarship (Value: $5,000) Graduated on the Deans’ Honor List at McMaster University 2010 McMaster University Senate Scholarship (Value: $800) 2006 McMaster University Entrance Scholarship, Honor Award Level 1 (Value: $1,200)

Presentations 2020 Invited presentation at the 2020 Canadian Philosophical Association, “Pollution, Posterity, and Consistent Incompatible Desires” Invited presentation at the Wisconsin Philosophical Association 2020 Meeting, “Pollution, Posterity, and Consistent Incompatible Desires” Invited presentation at the Ohio Philosophical Association 2020 Meeting, “Pollution, Posterity, and Consistent Incompatible Desires” Invited presentation at the Kentucky Philosophical Association 2020 Meeting, “Pollution, Posterity, and Consistent Incompatible Desires” 2019 Invited to co-lead a workshop on life during the dissertation, for philosophy graduate students at McMaster University; Mark Johnstone and I gave detailed advice to grad students at the workshop. Invited to co-lead a publishing workshop for philosophy graduate students at McMaster University; I distributed a detailed documented on publishing in philosophy

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Invited to co-lead a publishing workshop for philosophy graduate students at University of Colorado Boulder; I co-led the workshop with Brian Talbot, and distributed a detailed documented on publishing in philosophy 2018 Invited talk: “Aristotle on Life and the Origins of Motion” at the Center for the Study of Origins Fall 2018 Symposium: The Exploration of Life’s Origin from Antiquity to the Present. James Lennox’s “The Place of Mankind in Aristotle’s Zoology” at the Center for the Study of Origins, University of Colorado at Boulder Commentator for Harry Platanakis (University of Athens), “Aristotelian Leadership”, 2018 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) University of Colorado at Boulder “Aristotle on Motion in Incomplete Animals” (dissertation chapter) at Bob Pasnau’s History of Philosophy Group, University of Colorado at Boulder 2017 Presented James Lennox’s “The Complexity of Aristotle’s Study of Animals” at the Center for the Study of Origins, University of Colorado at Boulder Presented “Always Choose to Live or Choose to Always Live” at 2017 Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, Weber State University Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association Conference “Pre-emptive forgiving and promises to forgive” (co-authored with Patrick Bondy) Commentator for Arden Ali (Northeastern University), “Virtue and Excuse”, 2017 Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME), University of Colorado at Boulder Commentator for Morgan Davie (Virginia Tech), “The Theoretical Fruitfulness of Pluralistic Constitution Theory”, 2017 Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference, Colorado Boulder “Everything in motion must be moved by something: Aristotle’s Physics VII.1 & VIII.4” at Bob Pasnau’s History of Philosophy Group Seminar at Colorado Boulder Invited talk: “Making Sense of the Sentence: Nicomachean Ethics 1094a18-22”, at a workshop hosted by the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University (England). Funds for flight & accommodation provided by Durham. Commentator for John Komdat (University of Rochester), “What Does Fallibilism Require of Epistemic Possibility”, 2015 Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference, Colorado Boulder Commentator for Ian Tully (Washington University St Louis), “A Defense of Nomic Error Theory”, 2014 Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference, Colorado Boulder 2016 Workshop at Indiana University-Purdue University on Aristotle in Phenomenology, “Aristotle on Non-Human Intentionality” Meeting of the International Association for Presocratic Studies, “Aristotle against Protagoras on the Principle of Non-Contradiction” London (UCL’s Institute of Classical Studies) Ancient Science Conference, “Are Aristotle’s animals really self-movers?” 2015 Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP), “Making Sense of the Sentence: Nicomachean Ethics I.2.1094a18-22” Workshop on ancient accounts of infinity and infinite regress arguments, “Making Sense of the Sentence: Nicomachean Ethics I.2.1094a18-22” Congress of Logic, Methodology and , “On the Importance of ”. Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Analytic Philosophy, “An Easy Solution to Meno’s Paradox.”

Professional Service Referee for: Philosophers’ Imprint (x1), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (x1), Ancient Philosophy (x1), History of Philosophy Quarterly (x1), Erkenntnis (x1), Ratio (x1), Inquiry (x1), Philosophia (x3), Journal of Value Inquiry (x1) Moderator for 2017 Regional High School Ethics Bowl, held at CU Boulder, organized by David Boonin Referee for submissions to the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference, CU Boulder

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Graduate Courses Taken Greek Philosophical Texts (Dr. Mitzi Lee, CU Boulder) Latin Philosophical Texts (Dr. Robert Pasnau, CU Boulder) Greek Philosophical Texts (Dr. Dominic Bailey) Seminar in Metaphysics (Dr. Raul Saucedo, CU Boulder) Seminar in the History of Philosophy: Aristotle’s Ethics (Dr. Mitzi Lee, CU Boulder) Seminar in the Metaphysics of Value (Dr. Graham Oddie, CU Boulder) Seminar in Environmental Philosophy (Dr. Michael Zimmerman, CU Boulder) Seminar in the History of Philosophy: Medieval Epistemology (Dr. Robert Pasnau, CU Boulder) Greek Philosophical Texts (Dr. Dominic Bailey, CU Boulder) M&E Proseminar (Dr. Graham Oddie, Dr. Michael Tooley, Dr. Graeme Forbes, CU Boulder) Seminar in the History of Philosophy: 17th Century Philosophy (Dr. Dan Kaufman, Dr. Mitzi Lee, CU Boulder) Ethics Proseminar (Professors Chris Heathwood, Eric Chwang, Alison Jaggar, Adam Hosein, and Alastair Norcross, University of Colorado at Boulder) Modal Logic (Dr. Graeme Forbes, University of Colorado at Boulder) Single Philosopher: Plato, (Dr. Mitzi Lee, CU Boulder) Seminar in the History of Philosophy, Aristotle’s M&E (Dr. Kathrin Koslicki, CU Boulder) Early Modern Philosophy (Dr. Brigitte Sassen, McMaster) Topics in Ancient Philosophy (Dr. David Hitchcock, McMaster) Topics in Metaphysics (Dr. Brian Garrett, McMaster) Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Dr. Richard T.W. Arthur, McMaster) Independent Study (Advisor: Dr. Brigitte Sassen, McMaster) Ancient Scepticism (Dr. David Hitchcock, McMaster) Topics in Social and Political Philosophy (Dr. Violetta Igneski, McMaster) Topics in Medieval Philosophy (Dr. Mark Johnstone, McMaster University) Topics in 19th Century European Philosophy (Dr. Sandra Lapointe, McMaster University) Topics in 20th Century British Analytic Philosophy (Dr. Nikolay Milkov, McMaster University)

Dissertation: Aristotle on self-motion in non-human animals

A general description of my dissertation: My dissertation focuses on an aspect of Aristotle’s account of agency: what Aristotle has to say about self-motion, especially how and why non-human animals are capable of moving themselves (αὐτὰ ἑαυτὰ κινοῦσιν). I bring out (a) new ways or new interpretations of ways in which, for Aristotle, animal self-motion is independent, autonomous or self-directed (αὐτοκίνητος), (b) new senses or new interpretations of senses in which Aristotle thinks that animal self-motion is dependent, that is, not under the control of the animal, and (c) new ways to understand the compatibilism between the independence and dependence of animal self-motion.

Reflecting on some of the distinctions in Aristotle’s account of self-motion can, in my view, help to shed light on important features of our notion of autonomy in areas such as morality and biology. In particular, we can get much clearer on uncontroversial but underexplored ways in which our notion of autonomous agency (sufficient for responsibility) is compatible with a large number of senses in which our actions are not up to us.

References

Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee (https://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/people/faculty/mitzi-lee) Email: [email protected] Phone: 303-735-0661 Position: Associate Professor Institutional affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Robert Pasnau (https://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/people/faculty/robert-pasnau) [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: 303-492-4837 Position: Professor Institutional affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder

Ursula Coope (https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/ursula-coope) Email: [email protected] Position: Professor Institutional affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Paula Gottlieb (https://gottlieb.philosophy.wisc.edu/) Email: [email protected] Phone: 608-263-0253 Position: Professor Institutional affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Robert Rupert (https://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/people/faculty/robert-rupert) Email: [email protected] Phone: 303-735-0988 Position: Professor Institutional affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder

Stefan Sciaraffa (https://philos.humanities.mcmaster.ca/people/faculty/sciaraffa-stefan/) Email: [email protected] Phone: 905-525-9140 x.23467 Position: Professor & Chair Institutional affiliation: Department of Philosophy, McMaster University

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