Curriculum Vitae Esther Rosario Department of Philosophy Email: [email protected] University of Alberta 2-40 Assiniboia Hall Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E7 Areas of Specialization Philosophy of Biology, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Science (esp. Science and Values and Cognitive Science) Areas of Competence Ethics, Bioethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Race Education 09/2013 – PhD Philosophy (in progress), University of Alberta Dissertation: “Sex as a Biosocial Kind: A Case of Strategic Conceptual Engineering” Dissertation Committee: Ingo Brigandt (University of Alberta, Philosophy, advisor), Cressida Heyes (University of Alberta, Political Science), Kathrin Koslicki (University of Neuchâtel, Philosophy) 11/2013 MA English, University of Alberta MA Project: “Cavendish’s Theory of Bodies: A Book Review Essay of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind” 05/2012 MA Philosophy, Purdue University 12/2008 BA (cum laude) with Honors in Philosophy, English and American Literature, University of Texas at El Paso Publications “Strategic Conceptual Engineering and Social Aims” with Ingo Brigandt. (2020) Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, Alexis Burgess, Herman Cappelen, and David Plunkett (Eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. “Feminism” (2015) Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada. Web. https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/encyclopedia/52336b0a5c2ec50000000049 Papers in Preparation “Sex and Gender” (In preparation and to be peer-reviewed) Routledge Handbook of Essence, Kathrin Koslicki and Michael J. Raven (Eds.) Abingdon: Routledge. “New Work for a New Sex Concept” (In preparation). 1 “Gender-Based Brain Studies and Their Malcontents” (In preparation). Honors, Scholarships, and Awards 04/2019 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Alberta Institutional 09/2014 Calgary Summit for Philosophers of Science, Travel Award Institutional: $500 CAD 2013-2014 Doctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta Institutional: $35,000 CAD 2012-2013 Provost Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, University of Alberta Institutional: $15,000 CAD 2009-2010 Ross Fellowship, Purdue University Institutional: $44,073.50 USD 12/2008 Outstanding Philosophy Major, The University of Texas at El Paso Institutional 07/2008 Institute for Recruitment of Teachers Summer Internship National: $1,000 USD 12/2007 Outstanding Philosophy Paper “On Mill and the Mereological Account of Emergence” Institutional: $100 USD Teaching Experience At Athabasca University Individualized Study Tutor 200 Level: Critical Thinking 300 Level: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy 300 Level: Ethics At the University of Alberta Principal Instructor 200 Level: Feminism and Food, Principal Instructor (five times) 200 Level: Philosophy of Science, Principal Instructor 300 Level: Health Care Ethics, Principal Instructor (two times) 200 Level: Gender and Science, Principal Instructor 200 Level: Feminist Philosophy, Principal Instructor Teaching Assistant 100 Level: Introduction to Philosophy: Values and Society, Administrative Teaching Assistant 100 Level: Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality, Teaching Assistant 100 Level: Introduction to Philosophy: Values and Society, Teaching Assistant Guest Lectures 10/2019 100 Level: Knowledge and Reality (topic: Personal Identity) 11/2018 200 Level: Critical Issues in Women’s and Gender Studies Critical Animal Studies (topics: Primatology, Animals and Science) 09/2016 400 Level: Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies Feminist Methodologies (topic: Epistemologies of Ignorance) 2 At the University of Calgary Guest Lectures 2/2020 600 Level: Conceptual Engineering (topic: Strategic Conceptual Engineering for Epistemic and Social Aims) At Purdue University Principal Instructor 01-05/2012 100 Level: Introduction to Philosophy, Principal Instructor 06-07/2011 100 Level: Ethics, Principal Instructor Teaching Assistant 01-05/2011 200 Level: Biomedical Ethics, Teaching Assistant 08-12/2010 100 Level: Critical Thinking, Teaching Assistant Guest Lectures 09/2010 100 Level: Critical Thinking (topic: Deductive and Inductive Arguments) Research Assistantships and Other Academic Employment 01/2019 – Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism Project, Research Assistant, University of Alberta (Supervisor: Kathrin Koslicki) 01/2019 – PhilPapers, Essence and Essentialism, Assistant Editor 01-04/2018 Departmental Media Coordinator, Research Assistant, University of Alberta 01-04/2017 Hume Studies, Research Assistant, University of Alberta 01-04/2016 Science, Technology, and Society Program, Research Assistant, University of Alberta 05-08/2017 Symposium, Research Assistant, University of Alberta 05-12/2014 Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada, Research Assistant, University of Alberta 05-06/2013 English Studies in Canada, Research Assistant, University of Alberta 2012-2013 The Orlando Project, Research Assistant, University of Alberta 08-12/2011 Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Research Assistant, Purdue University 08-12/2011 Coordinator for Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science 02/2008-01/2009 Synthese Journal and Library, Language (Copy) Editor, Springer Publishing Graduate Coursework Comprehensive Examinations: Philosophy of Science Feminist Philosophy Metaphysics At the University of Texas at El Paso: Philosophy Philosophical Methods, Metaphysics: Emergence (Instructor: John Symons); Epistemology (Instructor: Peter Robinson) At Purdue University: Philosophy 20th Century Analytic Philosophy I, Philosophy of Language (Instructor: Rod Bertolet); Studies in Philosophy of Mind, Minds and Morals, Moral Psychology (Instructor: Daniel Kelly); Philosophy of Natural Science (Instructors: Martin Curd and Daniel Kelly); British Empiricism: Locke, British Empiricism: Hume (Instructor: 3 Michael Jacovides); Symbolic Logic (Instructor: Ted Ulrich); Recent American Philosophy: Jane Addams (Instructor: Charlene Seigfried); Belief and Control, Studies in Theory of Knowledge (Instructor: Matthias Steup), Existentialism (Instructor: William McBride) At the University of Alberta: English Early Modern Texts: Shakespeare and the Commons (Instructor: Carolyn Sale); 20th Century Texts: The Golden Notebook (Instructor: JoAnne Wallace); 17th Century Texts: Dissenting Women Writing (Instructor: Sylvia Brown); Literary Genres: Autobiographical Fiction and Fictional Autobiography (Instructor: Nora Stovel), Theory: Modernism and Modernity (Instructor: Brad Bucknell) Philosophy Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science: Science and Values (Instructor: Ingo Brigandt); Epistemology: Virtue Epistemology (Instructor: Christopher Lepock); Topics in 20th Century Philosophy: Eugenics (Instructor: Rob A. Wilson); Problems in Philosophy: Novel Issues in Environment (Instructor: Jennifer Welchman); Problems in Philosophy: French Feminisms, 20th Century Philosophy: Judith Butler (Instructor: Chloë Taylor); Metaphysics: Grounding, Metaphysics: Current Research (Instructor: Kathrin Koslicki); Modern Philosophy: Passions and Affects: Emotions (Instructor: Amy Schmitter) Political Science Contemporary Political Theory (audited) (Instructors: Cressida Heyes, David Kahane, Catherine Kellogg) Refereed Presentations 05/2017 “Three Concepts of Gender for Different Social Aims” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Ryerson University 10/2016 “Sexed Kinds and Sex Concepts,” Sex, Art, and Essentialism: New Perspectives on HPC Kinds, Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Alberta 05/2016 “Feminism, the Life Sciences, and the Making of Liveable Lives: A Butlerian Critique of Gendered Brain Studies” Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes, University of Calgary 05/2016 “Sexed Kinds and Sex Concepts,” Sex, Art, and Essentialism: New Perspectives on HPC Kinds, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Calgary 07/2015 “Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality: Combining Feminist Values and New Empirical Perspectives” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Université du Québec à Montréal 09/2014 “Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality: Combining Feminist Values and New Empirical Perspectives,” Calgary Summit for Philosophers of Science, University of Calgary 04/2011 “Sex, Gender, and Implicit Attitudes,” New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society, University of Texas at El Paso 04/2008 “On Mill and the Mereological Account of Emergence,” New Mexico-West Texas Philosophical Society, University of Texas at El Paso Keynote Addresses 04/2013 “Sex, Gender, and Implicit Attitudes” II Encuentro Regional de Filosofía, Norte de México, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua 4 Invited Presentations 02/2021 “Gender-Based Brain Studies and Their Malcontents” Inaugural Mediating Science and Technology (MST) Graduate Student Café 01/2021 “Logic and Practical Aims Help Fulfill the Project of Science,” World Logic Day, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua 10/2020 “Gender-Based Brain Studies and Their Malcontents,” University of California, Santa Cruz 05/2018 “Scrutinizing Gender-Based Brain Studies and Epigenetic Approaches to Psychiatric Conditions” with Ingo Brigandt, Biology of Behavior Workshop, Université du Québec à Montréal 03/2017 “Are Feminist Obligated to be Vegetarians? A Contextualist Response,” Gender and Social Justice Conference, University of Alberta 02/2017 “Are Feminists Obligated to be Vegetarians? A Contextualist