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Areas of Specialization Philosophy of Mind and Language Philosophy of Art Areas of Competence Logic and Critical Thinking Applied Ethics History of Philosophy Education • Ph.D. (Philosophy), Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1994 Dissertation: Narrow Content: Motivations and Problems Supervisor: Stephen Schiffer • M.A. (Philosophy), Dalhousie University, 1985 • B.A. (Honors) (Philosophy), University of Western Ontario, 1984 Publications in Peer-Review Journals • “Objectivity in Photography,” The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 45, Number 3 (2005) • “Kim’s Causal Efficacy,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 39, Number 3 (2001) Books • Editor, Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature, an anthology of essays by philosophers on photography, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 Presentations and Other Publications • Invited Speaker, “Kendall Walton and the Aesthetics of Photography and Film: A Two-Day Symposium,” University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, November 30 - December 1, 2007 • Review of Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency, and Explanation, by Scott Sehon; Metapsychology Online, March 2006 • Entries on Photographic Theory and Ethics and Photography in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, Routledge, New York, 2005 • “Objectivity in Photography,” American Society for Aesthetics (Eastern Division) Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2004 • Commentator, Invited Symposium: Pictures and Epistemology, American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) Meeting, Pasadena, 2004 • “Objectivity in Photography,” delivered at the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) Meeting, Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts Group Session, San Francisco, March 2003 • “Causal-Explanatory Realism and Causal Relevance,” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, St. John’s, 1997 • Invited speaker for a workshop on Jerry Fodor's Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, St. Catherines, 1996 • Invited participant for a workshop on Jerry Fodor's The Elm and the Expert, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Montreal, 1995 • “Twin Earth and the Explanatory Status of the Propositional Attitudes,” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Calgary, 1994 Awards and Honors • Visiting Scholar, New York University, 2004-08 • Visiting Scholar, New York University, 1994-96 • Distinguished Scholars Dissertation Fellowship, City University of New York Graduate School, 1991 • Honors passes on mind/language/epistemology and ethics/social and political/aesthetics comprehensive examinations • Certificat D'Ecole, French Immersion, Ecole d'Ete de Trois-Pistoles, Trois Pistoles, Quebec, 1990 • University Fellowships, Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1988-90 • Graduate Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 1984 Professional Activities and Teaching Experience • Dowling College, Fall 2005: Introduction to Philosophy, Applied Ethics • Drew University, Spring 2005: Philosophy of Mind • New York University, 1990-04: Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics and Society, Introduction to Formal Logic, History of Ancient Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics • Coördinator of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Light Symposium, a conference on photography, 2002 • Coördinator of the New York University Mental Representation Group, 1994-96 • Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, 2000-01: independent studies led: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Contemporary Theories of Art, Conceptual Art From 1965-75, A Biographical History of Photography • Rutgers University, fall 1996: Introduction to Formal Logic • Memorial University of Newfoundland, summers 1988-91: Introduction to the Philosophy of Education |