Academic Appointments Since September 2009: Newton Trust Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Education Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, Brown University, 2009 BA Honours, Queen's University, Canada, 1998. First class degree in philosophy.
Research Publications The Measure of Knowledge The Cogito and the Metaphysics of Mind
Talks and Conferencees Aiming for Truth The Measure of Knowledge The World in Mind Experience in Time Two Ways to Beg the Question Ignorance and Inquiry Another Kind of Skepticism: Skepticism in Contemporary Epistemology Conference
Comments Commenter for Cambridge Philosophy Faculty Colloquium, Nov. 2009 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 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)
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