Gillian K. Russell

Department of Philosophy (cell) (858) 205–2834 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gillian [email protected] Caldwell Hall, CB 3125 http://www.gillianrussell.net 240 East Cameron Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125 Education and Employment History Professor of Philosophy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2015– Associate Professor in Philosophy Washington University in St Louis 2011–2015 Assistant Professor in Philosophy Washington University in St Louis 2004–2011 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow University of Alberta 2005 Ph.D. in Philosophy Princeton University 2004 M.A. in Philosophy Princeton University 2002 M.A. in German and Philosophy University of St Andrews, Scotland 1999

Areas of Specialisation

Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology

Areas of Competence

Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science and Mathematics

Books

Monographs – Truth in Virtue of Meaning: a defence of the analytic/synthetic distinction (Oxford, 2008) – I am currently writing a book on barriers to entailment.

Edited Collections – The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, with Delia Graff Fara (eds.) (Routledge, 2011) – New Waves in Philosophical Logic, with Greg Restall (eds.) (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)

Accepted and Published Papers

– “Hybrid Identities and Just Being Yourself,” in Inquiry, Volume 57, Issue 4, 2014. – “The Justification of the Basic Laws of Logic,” in the Journal of Philosophical Logic, pages 1–11, March 2015. – “Metaphysical Analyticity and the Epistemology of Logic,” forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. – “Quine on Analyticity” in A Companion to W. V. O. Quine (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy), Gilbert Harman and Ernie Lepore (eds.) (Blackwell, 2013) – “Logical Pluralism” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ed Zalta (ed.) (CLSI, 2013) – “Practicing Evil” forthcoming in The Philosophy of the Martial Arts, G. Priest and D. Young (eds.) (Routledge) – “Lessons from the Logic of Demonstratives” in New Waves in Philosophical Logic Greg Restall and Gillian Russell (eds.) (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012) – “Necessity and Meaning” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, Gillian Russell and Delia Graff Fara (eds.) (Routeldge, 2012) – “Indexicals, Context-Sensitivity and the Failure of Implication,” Synthese, Vol. 183:2 (2011) – “In Defence of Hume’s Law” in Hume, ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’: New Essays, Charles Pigden (ed.), (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010) – “Language, Locations and Presupposition” Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, v9, 2010. – “Barriers to Implication” (with Greg Restall) in Hume, ‘Is’ and ‘Ought’: New Essays, Charles Pigden (ed.), (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010) – “A New Problem for the Linguistic Doctrine of Necessary Truth” in New Waves in Truth, Cory D. Wright and Nikolaj Pederson (eds.) (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010) – “Epistemic Viciousness in the Martial Arts” in Martial Arts and Philosophy, Graham Priest and Damon Young (eds.), (Open Court, 2010) – “Analyticity in Externalist Languages” in New Waves in the Philosophy of Language, edited by Sarah Sawyer (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) – “One True Logic?” in the Journal of Philosophical Logic, April 2008, vol. 37. – “Knowledge by Indifference” (with John Doris) in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 86, issue 3, September 2008. – “The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction” in Blackwell’s Philosophy Compass, vol. 2, issue 5, September 2007.

Book Reviews & Other Publications

– “The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction” in Oxford Bibliographies Online (OUP, 2012) – Timothy Williamson’s The Philosophy of Philosophy, in Philosophical Books, vol. 51:1, 2010. – Warren Goldfarb’s Deductive Logic in The Australasian Journal of Logic, Vol. 3, 2005.

Honours and Appointments

– Visiting Scholar at Arch´eat the University of St Andrews, Scotland, June 2013. – Visiting Fellowship at Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, The Netherlands, Fall 2009. – Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, Spring 2009. – Visiting Scholar, University of Melbourne, Australia, July & August, 2000–06, 2008. – Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellow, Princeton University, 2003–2004. – Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Prize for Logic, University of St Andrews, 1996.

Selected Talks

– Keynote at the Society for Exact Philosophy, McMaster University, May 2015 – “Could there be no logic?”, 4th California Metaphysics Conference at USC – “Analyticity and the Epistemology of Logic”, LANCOG, Portugal, September 2014 – “Hume’s Law and other Barriers to Entailment”, Kripke Center/SWIP-Analytic CUNY, March 2014. – The Jowett Society, Oxford University, February 2014 – “Hume’s Law and other Barriers to Entailment,” Chapel Hill Colloquium, November 2013 – “The Epistemology of Logic”, Colloquium at the University of Genova, June 2013 – “Analyticity and the Epistemology of Logic”, Workshop on Necessity, Analyticity and the A priori, University of Oslo, Norway, June 2013 – “Barriers to Implication”, Arch´eat the University of St Andrews, Scotland, June 2013 – “Metaphysical Analyticity and the Epistemology of Logic”, NYU, April 2012 – “Indexicals and Barriers to Implication”, University of Miami Colloquium, March, 2012. – Author Meets Critics Session on Truth in Virtue of Meaning, Chicago APA, February 2012. – “Epistemology of Logic, Made Easy,” A Priori Workshop, UBC, Vancouver, November 2011 – “Logic & Meaning,” Northern Institute of Philosophy, Aberdeen, Scotland, November 2011 – “Can there be true contradictions?” public lecture at Northwestern University, October 2011 – “Indexical Barriers and the Metaphysics of Propositions” at SPAWN, August 2011 – “Indexical Barriers and the Metaphysics of Propositions” at the Pacific APA, San Diego, April 2011. – “One True Logic?”, University of St Andrews, Scotland, September 2010 – “The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction”, Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, The Netherlands, November 2009 – “Could knows that be inconsistent?” University of Brussels, Belgium, October 2009 – “Indexicals & Barriers to Implication” ILLC, Amsterdam, September 2009 – “Could knows that be inconsistent?” University of Southern California, August 2009 – “Analytic Truth and Necessary Truth” University of Chicago Semantics Workshop, May 2009 – “Indexicals, Context Sensitivity, and Barriers to Implication” UC Berkeley, May 2009 – “Indexicals, Context Sensitivity, and Barriers to Implication” Stanford University, April 2009

Selected Courses Taught PHIL 403 Mathematical Logic PHIL 301 Symbolic Logic PHIL 100 Introduction to Logic PHIL 4051 Philosophy of Logic PHIL 306 Philosophy of Language PHIL 4065 Advanced Philosophy of Language PHIL 503 Graduate Proseminar: History of Analytic Philosophy PHIL 327 Philosophy of Religion PHIL 521 Seminar: Language and Knowledge PHIL 307 Metaphysics and Epistemology PHIL 500 Time and Time Travel PHIL 3481 Introduction to Metaphysics

Service

— Director of Graduate Studies, WashU, 2012–1015. Associated duties included both placement and graduate admissions. — Convenor of the Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee, WashU, 2013–2015 — Member of the Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee, WashU, 2011–2015 — Referee for Blackwell, Routledge, Mind, the AJP, CJP, Synthese, Phil Quarterly, Phil Studies, Philosophy Compass and the Journal of Philosophical Logic. — Departmental committee positions including Graduate Admissions, Undergraduate Program Review Committee, and Hiring Committees at WashU. — Founder and Coordinator of the department’s Women in Philosophy group, 2011-2012. — UG major advisor, 2006–2014. — faculty liaison to the undergraduate philosophy society, Philosophia, 2004-2013. — chapter advisor for for Phi Sigma Tau, WashU 2004-2013. — I also taught an undergraduate martial arts club twice a week on campus at WashU, 2006–2015.