Curriculum Vitae of Jeremy Fantl

Work Address

Department of Philosophy University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada (403) 220-5022

Home Address

428 12th Street NW Calgary, AB T2N 1Y8 Canada (403) 451-7449 jfantl@ucalgary.cahttp://www.phil.ucalgary.ca/people/fantl.html

AOS: Epistemology Metaphysics

AOC: Ethics Philosophy of Mind

Additional Teaching Experience: Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Law

Academic Positions:

Assistant Professor, University of Calgary Department of Philosophy, 2006-present. Visiting Assistant Professor, Haverford College Department of Philosophy, 2004-2006. Preceptor, Harvard University Expository Writing Program, 2000-2004. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Department of Philosophy, 1999-2000.

Education:

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Brown University, 2000. M.A. in Philosophy, Brown University, 1996. Ph.D. program in Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, 1992-1993. B.A. in Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1992.

Publications:

Books:

• Knowledge in an Uncertain World, with Matthew McGrath, co-author, Oxford University Press, under contract (scheduled release date, January 2009).

• Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edition, with Ernest Sosa, Jaegwon Kim, and Matthew McGrath, co-editors, Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

Publications, cont: Invited Articles:

• “Advice for Fallibilists: Put Knowledge to Work,” with Matthew McGrath, Philosophical Studies, in progress.

• “Subject-Sensitive Invariantism,” with Matthew McGrath, Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Sven Bernecker and Duncan Pritchard, eds., in progress.

• “Knowing-How and Knowing-That,” Philosophy Compass, forthcoming. • Critical Study of John Hawthorne, Knowledge and Lotteries and Jason Stanley,

Knowledge and Practical Interest, with Matthew McGrath, Nous, forthcoming.

Blind Refereed Articles:

• “On Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology,” with Matthew McGrath, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75:3, 2007.

• “Is Metaethics Morally Neutral?” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87:1, 2006. • “An Analysis of the A Priori and A Posteriori,” Acta Analytica 18:30/31, 2003. • “Modest Infinitism,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33:4, 2003. • “Sensations, Swatches, and Speckled Hens,” with Robert Howell, Pacific Philosophical

Quarterly 84:4, 2003. • “Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification,” with Matthew McGrath, The Philosophical

Review 111:1, 2002. • “How We Should Teach Plantinga’s Possible Persons,” Teaching Philosophy 23:4,

2000.

Reviews and Critical Notices:

• Jay F. Rosenberg, Thinking About Knowing, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76:1, 2008.

• Stephen Hetherington, ed., Aspects of Knowing: Epistemological Essays, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85:4, 2007.

• Arda Denkel, Object and Property, Philosophy in Review 17:3, 1997. • D. M. Armstrong, et al, Dispositions, Philosophy in Review 17:2, 1997.

Academic Honors and Fellowships:

• Killam Resident Fellowship, 2008. • Seven Harvard University Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, 2000-2004. • Dyer Fellowship, Brown University, 1998. • Brown University Teaching Fellowship, 1997. • Brown University Dissertation Fellowship, 1996. • Brown University Fellowship, 1993-1994.

Professional Academic Presentations: Talks:

• “The Importance of Knowledge,” with Matthew McGrath, International Conference on the Value of Knowledge (organized by the Knowledge, Belief, and Normativity project), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2007.

• “Conspiracy Theories, the Death Penalty, Magic Shows, and the Precautionary Principle: Why It’s Awful to be a Person,” The Apeiron Society, Calgary, 2007.

• “A Case for Pragmatic Encroachment (or for Semi-Skepticism),” with Matthew McGrath, APA Pacific Division, Symposium Session, 2007.

• “Reid’s Alternative to the British Empiricists,” Swarthmore College, 2006. • “Against Epistemological Purism,” University of Calgary, 2006. • “Observer-Dependence in Ethics and Epistemology,” APA Pacific Division, 2006. • “Metaethical Neutrality and Observer-Dependence,” Colgate University, 2005. • “What Structures of Reasons Should Be,” Union College, 2005. • “A Defense of Prudentialism,” Denison University, 2005. • “Conspiracy Theories and the Challenge of Belief,” The Universe Bar, Haverford,

2004. • “Refactualizing the A Priori,” The Syracuse Workshop on the A Priori, 2004. • “A Look at Two ‘Anti-Evidentialist’ Constraints on Knowledge,” with Matthew

McGrath, The First Kline Chair Workshop, University of Missouri, 2003. • “Must Philosophers Listen to Scientists?” Lafayette College, 2003. • “How to Analyze the A Priori,” University of Arizona, 2000.

Comments:

• on James Bednar, “Prudent Inquiry and Non-Evidential Considerations,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, 2008.

• on Leo Iacono, “Pragmatics and Epistemic Justification,” w/ Matthew McGrath, Central States Philosophical Association Meeting, 2003.

• on Thomas D. Bontly, “Yablo on Proportionality, Causation, and Exclusion,” APA Central Division Meeting, 2003.

References:

Ernest Sosa, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Al Casullo, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Nebraska. Jason Stanley, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Peter Klein, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Aryeh Kosman, Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy, Haverford College.

Pedagogy: Courses Taught:

• Directed Reading: The Epistemology of Scientific Testimony. • Directed Reading: Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology. • Early Modern British Philosophy. • Ethics and the Law. • Evidence. • Introduction to Ethics. • Introduction to Philosophy. • Issues in Epistemology. • Philosophy in Film. • Philosophy of Religion. • The Place of Persons. • The Role of Context in Contemporary Epistemology. • Senior Seminar. • Skepticism. • Testimony and Trust.

Advisory Roles:

• Supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis of Masashi Kasaki, University of Calgary, 2007-present. • Supervisor, Master’s Thesis of Elske Straver, University of Calgary, 2006-present. • First Reader, Senior Thesis of Benjamin Herman, Haverford College, 2005-2006. • Second Reader, Senior Theses of Matt Mullarkey, Michael Crawford, Perry Gorgen, and

Constantinos Vassiliou, Haverford College, 2005-2006. Professional and Academic Activities and Service:

• Mini-Conference Organizer, “The Epistemology of Disagreement,” speakers: Richard

Feldman, Jennifer Lackey, and Peter van Inwagen, University of Calgary, 2007. • Undergraduate Studies Committee, Curriculum & Academic Review, University of

Calgary, 2007-2008. • Speakers Committee, University of Calgary, 2007-2008. • PhD Preliminary Exam Committee, Metaphysics and Epistemology, University of

Calgary, 2007-2008. • Conference Referee: 2007 Canadian Philosophical Association Congress, 1998 World

Congress of Philosophy, 1998 Brown Graduate Student Philosophy Conference 1997 Brown Graduate Student Philosophy Conference.

• Journal Referee: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

• Graduate Student Teaching Liaison, the Brown University Sheridan Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, 1997-1998.

• Assistant to the Editor, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1996.