Academic Appointments

Since September 2009: Newton Trust Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Since September 2008: College Lecturer, Trinity College and Churchill College (joint appointment)

 

Education

Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Brown University, 2009
Dissertation: The World in Mind | Committee:  Jaegwon Kim (chair), Ernest Sosa, Chris Hill

BA Honours, Queen's University, Canada, 1998. First class degree in philosophy.

 

Research Publications

The Measure of Knowledge
forthcoming in Noûs

The Cogito and the Metaphysics of Mind
Philosophical Studies, 130:2 August 2006, pp. 247-271

 

Talks and Conferencees

Aiming for Truth
- Metaphysical Society, Trinity College Dublin, January 2012
- University of Edinburgh, November 2011
- University of Durham, February 2012

The Measure of Knowledge
- Epistemology Workshop, University of Edinburgh, June 2011
- Cambridge Faculty Colloquium, May 2011
- UK Mind Network, Cambridge, November 2010
- University of Geneva, October 2010
- Tenth Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2009
   Commentators: Don Fallis, Joshue Orozco
- Serious Metaphysics Group, Cambridge University, Nov. 2008
- Young Philosophers Lecture Series and Podcast, August 2008, hosted by SUNY Fredonia
- Trent University, March 2008
- The Value of Knowledge Conference, Amsterdam, August 2007

Weights and Measures
- Qualia: Thinking the Senses, University of Durham, March 2008

The World in Mind
- University of Warwick, March 2007

Experience in Time
- University of Manitoba, January 2007
- Queen's University at Kingston, October 2006
- Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, Leeds University, May 2006
- Arché Research Centre, University of St. Andrews, April 2006

Two Ways to Beg the Question
- University of Toronto Political Theory Workshop, May 2005
- Princeton/Rutgers Graduate Student Conference, April 2003

Ignorance and Inquiry
- University of Toronto Graduate Student Conference, May 2004
- NYU-Columbia Graduate Student Conference, March 2004
- Contemporary Theories of Knowledge Conference, Amsterdam, Feb. 2004

Another Kind of Skepticism: Skepticism in Contemporary Epistemology Conference
- University of Sherbrooke, Oct. 2003

 

Comments

Commenter for Cambridge Philosophy Faculty Colloquium, Nov. 2009
Presenter: Arif Ahmed on Wittgenstein, Triangulation, and the Private Language Argument

Commenter for the APA Colloquium “Monism and Intrinsicality” APA Central, April 2007 Speaker: Kelly Trogdon

Commenter for the APA Symposium “Emergence: A Response to Kim” APA Pacific, March 2006 Speaker: Brannon McDaniel.

 

Teaching Experience

University of Cambridge

Undergraduate Lectures: Part 1A - theories of mind; free will. Part 1B - mental properties; theories of mind; metaphysics of modality; theories of epistemic justification. Part II - concepts; mental causation and physicalism; self-knowledge; particulars and universals; skepticism

Undergraduate Supervisions/Tutorials: philosophy of mind; epistemology; metaphysics; philosophy of science; philosophical logic; philosophy of language; history of modern philosophy; aesthetics

Undergraduate Dissertations: Moorean responses to skepticism; the ontology of music; the causal closure principle; the unity of consciousness; Davidson and mental partitioning; the explanatory gap; emotional responses to fiction; rule-following; Wittgenstein on religious belief; fMRI and the mind/body problem

Postgraduate Supervisions/Tutorials: personal identity; representationalism and externalism

Undergraduate Examining: Part 1A - metaphysics & philosophy of mind; logic; essay paper. Part 1B - philosophy of mind & metaphysics; philosophy of science; essay paper. Part II - essay paper

Postgraduate Examining: “Can an Intentionalist about Perceptual Experience also be an Externalist?” (MPhil thesis)

 

Other Teaching (while postgraduate student)

Full Course Responsibility: Brown University - philosophy of mind. University of Toronto - philosophy of mind; epistemic normativity (seminar); philosophy of science; introduction to early modern philosophy; introduction to ancient philosophy; metaphysics. Trent University - philosophy of language; metaphysics; logical atomism and ontological reduction (seminar); philosophy of art; philosophy of religion

As Teaching Assistant: Brown University - contemporary moral issues; 19th-century philosophy; themes from existentialism; modern science and human values; early modern philosophy

 

Funding Awards (post-PhD)

Autumn 2010: Early Career Fellowship, Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities at the University of Cambridge (one term remission of teaching, awarded to pursue work on Ignorance and Inquiry)

Summer 2010: £650 grant for administrative assistance with Ignorance and Inquiry

 

Professional Service

Frequent referee for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Canadian Philosophical Association

External Reviewer, Philosophy of Mind online course, University of Oxford Department for
Continuing Education 2010

Session Chair on Intrinsic Properties, APA Central 2008

Organizing Committee, 2006 Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, Trent University

 

Faculty and College Service

Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge: Member of Faculty Board, Degree Committee, and Caucus for Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics and Epistemology; participation in student recruitment and in preparing postgraduates for academic job market

Churchill College: member of College Council and Governing Body; undergraduate tutor (pastoral); Junior Research Fellowship selection committee; SCR committee; outreach speaker at sixth form colleges (have visited schools or participated in widening participation events in Northern Ireland, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Kent)