David James Barnett Department of Philosophy • 807 Union Street • Schenectady, NY 12308 917 657 5326 • [email protected] • www.davidjamesbar.net

AREAS OF , Philosophy of Mind SPECIALIZATION

AREAS OF Early Modern Philosophy, , Philosophy of Science COMPETENCE

ACADEMIC Union College. 2012-present, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department APPOINTMENTS Union College. 2012-present, Affiliated Professor, Neuroscience Program University of Edinburgh. Summer 2013, Visiting Fellow, Eidyn research center

EDUCATION . 2003-2012, PhD New College of Florida. 1998-2003, BA (Honors) in Philosophy and Cognitive Science

DISSERTATION Title: Self-Knowledge and the Boundaries of the Mind SUMMARY Summary: My dissertation examines the epistemic interaction between internal and external perspectives on one’s own beliefs. For example, if you believe that it will rain, then from your internal perspective it appears to be a fact about the world that it will rain. If on the other hand you merely know of another person’s that it will rain, then from your external perspective this appears merely to be a fact about a particular person’s state of mind, which might support that it will rain only against a background of further evidence concerning that person’s track record, reliability, and so forth. There two perspectives can interact because just as you can learn ‘external’ evidence about the reliability of another person’s beliefs, you can learn the same kind of evidence about your own beliefs. I think that the interaction between these perspectives plays a central role in a number of debates in epistemology, and my dissertation examines a few of these in particular: introspective self-knowledge, the epistemology of memory and testimony, and epistemic circularity both in a contemporary and a historical context. Committee: Paul Boghossian (chair), Don Garrett, James Pryor

PUBLICATIONS “Is Memory Merely Testimony from One’s Former Self?”, forthcoming ! Philosophical Review ! “Inferential Justification and the Transparency of Belief ”, forthcoming ! Noûs ! “What’s the Matter With Epistemic Circularity?”, 2014 Philosophical Studies 171(2): 177-205.

WORKS IN “A Puzzle about Perceptual Justification” PROGRESS ! !“Cartesian Dualism and the Cartesian Circle” !“Belief, Inner Assertion, and Moore’s Paradox” !“A Note on Egan’s Counterexamples to Causal Decision Theory” !“The Agony of Higher-Order Defeat” “Higher-Order Evidence is the Wrong Kind of Reason” David James Barnett curriculum vitae, page !2 of 4 PRESENTATIONS “A Puzzle about Perceptual Justification” AND University of Texas at Austin (ERGo reading group) March 2015 COMMENTARIES Mount Holyoke College (Roger Holmes Colloquium Series) November 2014 ! New York State Philosophical Association (“Creighton Club”) September 2014 “What’s the Matter With Epistemic Circularity?” University of Texas at Austin (Seminar on Applications of March 2015 ! Bayesianism to Traditional Epistemology) Comments on Anna-Sara Malmgren’s “Availability, Goodness, and Argument Structure” ! Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy October 2014 “Inferential Justification and the Transparency of Belief ” ! Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN) August 2013 ! Northwestern University (Epistemology Brownbag Lunch) November 2013 “Belief, Inner Assertion, and Moore’s Paradox” ! Northern New England Philosophical Association August 2013 “Is Memory Merely Testimony from One’s Former Self?” ! Northern Institute of Philosophy (Super Special Seminar) July 2013 Union College February 2012 ! Duke University January 2012 Comments on Thomas Mcclelland’s “Receptivity and Phenomenal Self-Knowledge” ! Northern Institute of Philosophy Early Career Conference June 2013 Comments on Theodore Everett’s “Peer Disagreement and Two Principles of Rationality” ! New York State Philosophical Association (“Creighton Club”) November 2012 Comments on Thomas Kelly’s “Disagreement, Dogmatism, and the Burdens of Judgment” ! Disagreement Project, New York Institute of Philosophy March 2010 Comments on James Dreier’s “Relativism (and Expressivism) and the Problem of Disagreement” ! Disagreement Project, New York Institute of Philosophy March 2009 “Knowledge, Luck, and the Cartesian Circle” ! NYU Spinoza reading group July 2008 “Disagreement and Undermining” ! NYU Washington Square Circle November 2007 Comments on Martin Godwyn’s “Cognitive Bloat” NYU-Columbia Graduate Conference April 2005

FELLOWSHIPS Faculty Travel Grant, Union College ($1,500) 2013, 2014, 2015 AND GRANTS Humanities Faculty Research Grant, Union College ($3,000) Summer 2013 Graduate Fellow, New York Institute of Philosophy’s Project on 2008-2010 the Nature, Limits, and Significance of Disagreement ! Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship (full tuition and stipend) 2003-2008 David James Barnett curriculum vitae, page !3 of 4 PROFESSIONAL Member, Judicial Board (Union College) 2014 - present SERVICE Department website administrator (Union College) 2012 - present Faculty talks czar (Union College) 2012 - present Editorial assistant, Philosophers’ Imprint February 2011 - October 2012 Research assistant, Paul Boghossian (for Fear of Knowledge) November 2005 Graduate assistant, Mind and Language Seminar (NYU) Spring 2005 Member, curriculum committee (NYU) 2004 - 2005 Coordinator, department picnic (NYU) Spring 2004 Social czar (NYU) 2003 - 2004 Referee Oxford University Press, Synthese (2), Episteme, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, and the NYU-Columbia Graduate Conference (5) GRADUATE Topics in Epistemology (James Pryor) COURSEWORK Seminar on Descartes’ Epistemology (Elliot Paul) (*FOR CREDIT) Topics in Epistemology (Crispin Wright) Advanced Introduction to Epistemology (James Pryor) Norms of Rationality (Hartry Field) Mind and Language Seminar: Epistemic Rationality (James Pryor and Hartry Field) *Associated Writing Course: Knowledge, Luck and the Cartesian Circle (Don Garrett) *Mind and Language Seminar: Consciousness (Ned Block and Thomas Nagel) *Advanced Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Roger White) *Advanced Introduction to Metaphysics (Peter Unger) *High-Level Explanation (Michael Strevens) *Advanced Introduction to Logic (Hartry Field) *Philosophy of Language: Reference (Stephen Schiffer and Stephen Neale) *Folk Psychology, Decision Theory, and Moral Philosophy (Adam Elga and Philip Pettit) *Associated Writing Course: Self-Locating Evidence and the Doomsday Argument (Roger White) *Advanced Introduction to Philosophy of Mind (Ned Block) *Pro-Seminar (Roger White and Gordon Belot)

TEACHING Assistant Professor, Union College EXPERIENCE Reason, Science, and Humanity Spring 2015 Spring 2015, Winter 2014, Symbolic Logic Winter 2013 Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking Spring 2015, Winter 2014 Minds and Machines Winter 2015 Riddles of Existence Winter 2015 Perception and Reality Spring 2014, Fall 2013 Belief, Truth, and Knowledge Fall 2013 Intellectual Autonomy and Dependence Spring 2013 Early Modern Philosophy Fall 2012 First-Year Philosophy Seminar Fall 2012 David James Barnett curriculum vitae, page !4 of 4 TEACHING Instructor, New York University EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED) Summer 2010, Fall 2009, History of Modern Philosophy Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Summer 2007 Logic Spring 2010, Summer 2009 Philosophy of Language Spring 2009 Belief, Truth, and Knowledge Summer 2006 Philosophy of Mind Summer 2005 Life and Death Summer 2004 Teaching Assistant, New York University ! Ancient Philosophy (Matthew Evans, Jacob Rosen) Fall 2010, Fall 2007 Central Problems of Philosophy (James Pryor) Spring 2008 History of Modern Philosophy (Timothy Rosenkoetter) Fall 2006 Consciousness (Ned Block) Fall 2004 Teaching Assistant, New College of Florida ! Symbolic Logic (Aron Edidin) Spring 2002 Grader, Barnard College ! Introduction to Philosophy (Elliot Paul) Fall 2011 !

REFERENCES Paul Boghossian Department of Philosophy Phone: (212) 998-8333 New York University E-mail: [email protected] 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 USA

Don Garrett Department of Philosophy Phone: (212) 995-4179 New York University E-mail: [email protected] 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 USA

James Pryor Department of Philosophy Phone: (212) 998-8864 New York University E-mail: [email protected] 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 USA