Justin Donhauser Curriculum Vitae ‐ August 2015 V V ERIE‐IGERT Fellow Lecturer Department of Philosophy Philosophy & Humanities Department University at Buffalo ‐ 135 Park Hall Buffalo State College ‐ 243 Bishop Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 Buffalo, NY 14222 Email: [email protected] V V AOS Applied Environmental Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Metaphysics AOC Ethics; Epistemology; Early Modern; Meaning of Life EDUCATION V 2015 PhD in Philosophy: State University of New York (SUNY) at University at Buffalo Dissertation: “A Philosophy of Theoretical Ecology for Environmental Policy” Co‐advisors: Kenneth Shockley and Neil Williams 2008 MA in Philosophy: University at Buffalo MA Project (x2 papers): “Temporal and Atemporal‐Presentism” and “Unraveling McTaggart’s Paradox”; Advisor: Neil Williams 2006 BA (Summa Cum Laude) in Philosophy : SUNY at Buffalo State Honors Project (x2 papers): “Schopenhauer: Absurdity, Suicide, and the Downward Spiral” supervised by Kimberly Blessing and “A New Reading of Wittgenstein’s On Certainty” supervised by David Hunter 2002‐ 2003 Major in Philosophy: SUNY at Oneonta 2001 AS (Summa Cum Laude) in Liberal Arts & Sciences: SUNY at Mohawk Valley APPOINTMENTS X Feb. 2011 ‐ Present Lecturer: Philosophy & Humanities (Buffalo State College) Aug. 2009 ‐ Aug. 2015 Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange‐Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (ERIE‐IGERT) Fellow/Trainee: (University at Buffalo) Aug. 2011 ‐ June 2012 Assistant Instructor: Philosophy (University at Buffalo) June 2009 ‐ Aug. 2009 Lecturer: Philosophy & Humanities (Buffalo State College) Aug. 2008 ‐ May 2009 Lecturer: Philosophy (Niagara University) Jan. 2008 ‐ June 2009 Research Assistant: to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo) Summer 2008 Tutor: Philosophy/Composition: Center for Academic Development Services (University at Buffalo) JUSTIN DONHAUSER 2 of 9 APPOINTMENTS CONT. Summer 2008 Teaching Assistant (graduate): Center for Academic Development Services (University at Buffalo) Aug 2005 ‐ May 2006 Teaching Assistant (undergraduate): Philosophy & Religious Studies (Buffalo State College) SELECT FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS X May 2015 ‐ present Western New York Service‐Learning Coalition (WNYSLC) Faculty Fellow Aug. 2011 ‐ May 2012 Humanities Institute Special Fellow’s Fellowship stipend $4K for research: College of Arts and Sciences (University at Buffalo) Aug. 2009 ‐ Aug. 2011 Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange‐Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (ERIE‐IGERT) $62K for research/training: National Science Foundation (NSF) endowed (University at Buffalo) Dec. 2010 Romanell Award for Best Dissertation Research in Philosophical Naturalism $1K for research: Philosophy Department (University at Buffalo) TEACHING (in descending order by date taught) V FULL RESPONSIBILITY (total: 37 classes) Introduction to Philosophy Buffalo State College: Fall 2015 (2 sections); Fall 2014 (2 sections); Summer 2014; Spring 2014 (2 sections); Fall 2013 (2 sections); Summer 2013; Spring 2013 (2 sections); Summer 2012; Spring 2012; Fall 2011; Summer 2009 Niagara University: Spring 2009 (2 sections) Students for Sustainability (community engaged service learning) Buffalo State College: Fall 2015; Spring 2015; Fall 2014 Philosophy of Natural Science Buffalo State College: Fall 2015; Fall 2014 Introduction to Logic Buffalo State College: Summer 2015 (online); January‐term 2015 (online) Ethics: Survey Buffalo State College: Spring 2015 (2 sections); Fall 2013; Fall 2012 (2 sections) Niagara University: Fall 2008 (2 sections) Philosophy of Social Science Buffalo State College: Spring 2015; Spring 2014 JUSTIN DONHAUSER 3 of 9 TEACHING CONT. Meaning of Life Buffalo State College: Spring 2013; Fall 2012 Contemporary Debates in Ecological Restoration Buffalo State College: Spring 2011 (co‐taught w/ R. Earle) ASSISTANT TEACHING (total: 10 classes) Assistant Instructor: World Civilizations II University at Buffalo: Spring 2012 (2 sections) Assistant Instructor: World Civilizations I University at Buffalo: Fall 2011 (3 sections) Tutor: Philosophy/Composition University at Buffalo (Center for Academic Development Services): Summer 2008 TA: English Composition University at Buffalo (Center for Academic Development Services): Summer 2008 (2 sections) TA: Introduction to Philosophy Buffalo State College: Spring 2006 (double section); Fall 2005 (double section) THESIS SUPERVISION V Term(s) Student Major (Level) Project Summ. 2015 Kait Brzostowicz Arts & Letters (Undergrad.) Absurdism: Meaning of Life Spring 2015 Ashley Coleman Hospitality (Undergrad.) Promoting Sustainability Awareness Spring 2015 Anthony Maldonado Business /Philosophy (Undergrad.) “At Risk” Youth Outreach Spring 2015 Jessica Lauer Education (Undergrad.) Campus ‘Clean‐up’ Assess. Fall 2013 Sophie Herman Human Geography (Undergrad.) Refuge Relocation in EPA “impact zones” PUBLICATIONS V 5. (2014) How Theoretical Analyses in Ecology Can Enable Environmental Problem‐solving Ethics & the Environment, Vol. 19, Issue 2: 91‐116. 4. (2014) Grey Matters: Personal Identity in the Fringe Universe(s) with Adam Taylor in The Philosophy of J. J. Abrams, Brace and Arp (eds.). Kentucky University Press: 14‐42. 3. (2012) Implications of implication with John Corcoran Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 18: 147‐148. 2. (2012) If Walter White is breaking bad, maybe we are too in ‘Breaking Bad’ and Philosophy, D. Koepsell and R. Arp (eds.). Open Court: 113‐123. JUSTIN DONHAUSER 4 of 9 PUBLICATIONS CONT. 1. (2007) Fade to Black: Absurdity, Suicide, and the Downward Spiral with Kimberly Blessing Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery, W. Irwin (ed.). Blackwell: 148‐159. PRESENTATIONS († = refereed) V 23. Nov. 2014 Philosophical ‘Navigating,’ ‘Cartographing,’ and ‘Pathfinding’: Three ways of doing applied philosophy Philosophy & Humanities Faculty Colloquia: Buffalo State College 22. Feb. 2014 Defusing Popular Criticisms of Theoretical Ecology for Public Policy ERIE‐IGERT Colloquium: University at Buffalo 21. Dec. 2013 General Ecosystems Theory is Not Too General and Theoretical to Inform Decision Making for Public Policy and Natural Resource Management † American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting (Baltimore) Session: GI‐2. International Society for Environmental Ethics 20. Oct. 2013 How Aristotle’s Metaphysics Can Help Us Avoid Ecological Catastrophes Philosophy & Humanities Faculty Colloquia: Buffalo State College * Sept. 2013 Conference for Sustainability IGERTs 3 (C4SI3): Portland State University *Accepted with full funding—unable to attend for personal reasons 19. June 2013 One Way to Use an Ecosystem Theory for Decision Making for Environmental Policy † Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP) Fourth Biennial Conference: Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science (IHPST): University of Toronto 18. April 2013 Ecosystems Overlapping on the Landscape † Domesticating Reality: Representations of Space and Place in Antiquity. Graduate Conference: Department of Classics: University of Toronto 17. June 2012 Getting Real about Ecosystem Restoration † w/ Robert Earle & Kenneth Shockley Workshop on History and Values in Ecological Restoration: Military‐to‐Wildlife Refuges Initiative: Colorado College 16. June 2012 Connecting the Abstract and the Actual: Lessons Learned from Modeling 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 Faculty and Graduate Student Lunchtime Talks: University at Buffalo 14. Nov. 2011 ‘Emergence’ is Innocent: Groundwork for an Uninteresting Unifying Theory Philosophy & Humanities Faculty Colloquia at 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 12. April 2011 Whales are(n’t) Fish † University of Waterloo Graduate Student Association 18th Annual Conference in Philosophy JUSTIN DONHAUSER 5 of 9 PRESENTATIONS CONT. 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? Contemporary Debates in Environmental Philosophy & Ecosystem Restoration: public lecture series at 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 Conference at the 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 Metaphysics for Analyzing Ecosystemic Problems Annual ERIE‐IGERT Symposium: University at Buffalo 3. April 2009 Dimensional