Justin C. Donhauser Curriculum Vitae - August 2012 V V ERIE-IGERT Fellow / PhD Candidate Lecturer Department of Philosophy Philosophy & Humanities Department University at Buffalo - 155 Park Hall Buffalo State College - 37 Bishop Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 Buffalo, NY 14222 Work: +1 716 645 0165 Email: [email protected] V V AOS Philosophy of Science; Metaphysics; Environmental Philosophy AOC Applied Ontology; Ethics (history and environmental); Late Modern; Meaning of Life V V EDUCATION V ABD PhD in Philosophy: State University of New York (SUNY) at University at Buffalo Dissertation: “Models, Emergence, and Explanation: a Scientific Realism with Applications to Environmental Science for Policy”; Committee: Kenneth E. Shockley (co-chair), Neil E. Williams (co-chair), and Alan Rabideau May 2008 MA in Philosophy: University at Buffalo Masters Project (two essays): “Temporal and Atemporal-Presentism” and “Unraveling McTaggart’s Paradox”; Supervisor: Neil E. Williams May 2006 BA Summa Cum Laude in Philosophy: SUNY at Buffalo State College Honors Project (two essays): “Avoiding Nonsensical Propositions: A New Reading of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty”; Supervisor: David A. Hunter.; “Fade to Black: Absurdity, Suicide, and the Downward Spiral”; Supervisor: Kimberly A. Blessing 2002 – 2003 Major in Philosophy: SUNY at Oneonta Dec. 2001 AS Summa Cum Laude in Liberal Arts and Sciences: SUNY at Mohawk Valley TEACHING V FULL RESPONSIBILITY Fall 2012 PHI102: Introduction to Ethics (2 sections): Buffalo State College (enrolled to capacity) Fall 2012 PHI110: Meaning of Life: Buffalo State College (enrolled to capacity) Summer 2012 PHI101: Introduction to Philosophy: Buffalo State College Spring 2012 PHI101: Introduction to Philosophy: Buffalo State College Fall 2011 PHI101: Introduction to Philosophy: Buffalo State College Spring 2011 PHI4490: Contemporary Debates in Environmental Philosophy & Restoration Ecology [co-taught with Robert Earle]: Buffalo State College * A series of eight invited lectures both taken for undergraduate credit and open to the public Summer 2009 PHI101: Introduction to Philosophy: Buffalo State College JUSTIN C. DONHAUSER ii of viii Spring 2009 PHI105: Introduction to Philosophy (2 sections): Niagara University Fall 2008 PHI206: Ethics (2 sections): Niagara University ASSISTANT Spring 2012 Assistant Instructor: World Civilizations II : University at Buffalo Professor: William H. Baumer Responsibilities: grading, office hours, weekly recitations (2 sections) Fall 2011 Assistant Instructor: World Civilizations I: University at Buffalo Professor: William H. Baumer Responsibilities: grading, office hours, weekly recitations (3 sections) Summer 2008 Tutor: Philosophy/Composition: University at Buffalo Center for Academic Development Services (CADS); Coordinator: Linda B. Zilgme Summer 2008 Teaching Assistant: English Composition: University at Buffalo Center for Academic Development Services (CADS): Professor: Stephanie Costner Responsibilities: grading, daily tutoring, daily recitations Fall 2005 & Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Philosophy: Buffalo State College Spring 2006 Professor: Kimberly A. Blessing Responsibilities: grading, office hours, proctoring, exam review sessions (double sections) PUBLICATIONS V 4. (forthcoming) Grey Matters: Personal Identity in the Fringe Universe(s) [with Adam Taylor] The Philosophy of J. J. Abrams, P. Brace and R. Arp (eds.). Kentucky University Press 3. (2012) If Walter White is breaking bad, maybe we are too ‘Breaking Bad’ and Philosophy, D. Koepsell and R. Arp (eds.). Open Court: 113-123 2. (2012) Implications of implication [with John Corcoran] Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 18: 147-148 1. (2007) Fade to Black: Absurdity, Suicide, and the Downward Spiral [with Kim Blessing] Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery, W. Irwin (ed.). Blackwell: 148-159 PRESENTATIONS († indicates paper refereed / ‡ indicates abstract refereed) V 17. June 2012 Getting Real about Ecosystem Restoration‡ [with Robert J. Earle] Workshop on History and Values in Ecological Restoration: Military-to-Wildlife Refuges Initiative at Colorado College 16. June 2012 Connecting the Abstract and the Actual: Lessons Learned from Double Helices and Endangered Owls‡ The Wise Scientist: Graduate Conference: Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science (IHPST): University of Toronto 15. Dec. 2011 An Uninteresting Theory of ‘Emergence’ with Bad Examples from Chem. 101 Philosophy Department Faculty and Graduate Student Lunchtime Talks: University at Buffalo 14. Nov. 2011 ‘Emergence’ is Innocent: Groundwork for an Uninteresting Unifying Theory Department of Philosophy & Humanities Faculty Colloquia: Buffalo State College 13. Sept. 2011 Evolution of the Machias Gravel Mine Phytoremediation Barrier Plan [with C. Bronner, S. Macintosh, and D. Stewart]: ERIE-IGERT Colloquium: University at Buffalo JUSTIN C. DONHAUSER iii of viii 12. April 2011 Whales are(n’t) Fish† University of Waterloo Graduate Student Association 18th Annual Conference in Philosophy 11. April 2011 Reduction Failure and the Demands of Dispositional Explanation Philosophy Department Faculty and Graduate Student Lunchtime Talks: University at Buffalo 10. March 2011 What are ‘ecosystems’? Why don’t ecologists know? in conjunction with Contemporary Debates in Environmental Philosophy & Ecosystem Restoration: Buffalo State College 9. Aug. 2010 Are all ecosystems reducible? Annual ERIE-IGERT Symposium: University at Buffalo 8. April 2010 Constraining Too Promiscuous Realism‡ Instruments: Mental and Material: 6th Annual Graduate Student Association Conference Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (HAPSAT): University of Toronto 7. March 2010 Spacetime Dimensionality and Real Presentism† University of Waterloo Graduate Student Association 17th Annual Conference in Philosophy 6. March 2010 From Mind/Body Dualism to Mind/Body Triism† Mind, World, and the Space in Between: 3rd Annual University of South Florida Graduate Student Conference 5. Feb. 2010 Promiscuous Realism and Adaptive Ecosystems Management: on Taxonomic Pluralism and the Dimensions of Integration; ERIE-IGERT Colloquium: University at Buffalo 4. Aug. 2009 A Metaphysic for Analyzing Ecosystemic Problems Annual ERIE-IGERT Symposium: University at Buffalo 3. April 2009 Dimensional and Adimensional-presentism† The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: Themes from the work of Lynne Rudder Baker: University at Buffalo Graduate Conference April 2009 Adimensional-presentism† 2009 Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference: University of Florida *Paper accepted—unable to attend due to unexpected funding limitations 2. April 2009 My Own Worst Enemy: Locke’s Memory Criterion and the Lethal Plot Hole‡ 2009 National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference: New Orleans, LA 1. Sept. 2005 Fade to Black: Absurdity, Suicide, and the Downward Spiral Buffalo State College Philosophy and Humanities Colloquia EDITING V Spring 2009 Acknowledged editing: Andreas Daum (2009) “Varieties of Popular Science and the Transformations of Public Knowledge: Some Historical Reflections,” Isis June. Spring 2006 Technical Editor/Design: Elm Leaves: A Magazine of the Arts and Humanities, Buffalo State College Aug. 2004 - Editor in Chief/President: Elm Leaves: A Magazine of the Arts and Humanities, Buffalo Jan. 2006 State College [Responsible for resurrecting publication, started in 1948 and defunct since 1998] JUSTIN C. DONHAUSER iv of viii Fall 2004 Acknowledged editing: (2005) Movies and the Meaning of Life: Philosophers Take on Hollywood, K. Blessing and P. Tudico (eds.), Open Court. PAPERS UNDER REVIEW (titles removed to maintain anonymity during review process) V 3. in general philosophy of science – about the nature and existential import of naturalistic analytic models 2. in metaphysics and epistemology of science – a scientific realist defense of taxonomic pluralism 1. in history and philosophy of science – about an epistemology of science shared by Mill and Broad WORKS IN PROGRESS V * All journal length papers Downward Causation Debunked Emergence and Individuation: a Boring Metaphysic in which to Ground the Pictures from Science One Way to use Ecosystem Theories for Environmental Policy: a Meta-method Species Don’t Do Anything Emergent Dispositions or Explanatory Idle?: Dioxins and the Indecisive Science Advisory Board Holism ain’t just for Hippies Getting Real about Restoring Nature’s Course [with Kenneth Shockley and Robert Earle] FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS V Aug. 2011 - Humanities Institute Special Fellow’s Fellowship stipend May 2012 $4K for 1 year of research – College of Arts and Sciences: University at Buffalo Fall 2011 & Tuition Scholarship – Department of Philosophy: University at Buffalo Spring 2012 Dec. 2010 Patrick Romanell Award for Best Dissertation Research in the Area Philosophical Naturalism $1K for research in dissertation year(s) Aug. 2009 - Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange-Integrative Aug. 2011 Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (ERIE-IGERT) $60K for 2 years of research (+$2K for materials): National Science Foundation (NSF) endowed Fall 2009 - Tuition Scholarship – ERIE-IGERT/Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Fall 2011 Engineering: University at Buffalo April 2009 Michael Schoenecke Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Travel Grant Spring 2008 - Tuition Scholarship – Provost’s Office: University at Buffalo Spring 2009 May 2006 Dean’s Medal for Excellence in Philosophy