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CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr José Luis Bermúdez Professor of Philosophy Texas A&M University

Work address Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843-4223 Email [email protected] Citizenship British and Colombian Place of Birth Bogotá, Colombia US Residency Status Permanent resident

* * * Areas of Specialisation Philosophy of Mind and Language; Cognitive Science; Decision Theory and Theory of Rationality Areas of Competence: History of Philosophy; Mathematical Logic Education 1980 - 1984: St. Paul’s School, London (scholar) 1985 - 1988: B.A./M.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy, Cambridge University (King’s College). 1988 -1992: PhD The Unanswerability of the Sceptical Challenge, Cambridge University (King’s

College) Previous Appointments • Associate Provost, Texas A&M University (2014 – 2015) • Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University (2010 – 2014) • Director, Center for Programs, Washington University in St Louis (2006 – 2010) • Director, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University in St Louis (2003 – 2010) • Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis (2003 – 2010) • Interim Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Stirling (2003) • Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (2002 – 2003) • Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (2000 – 2003) • Reader (equivalent: Associate Professor, promotion awarded for distinction in research), Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (1999 – 2000) • Lecturer, (equivalent: Assistant Professor) Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling (1996 – 1999) • British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge (1993 – 1996) • Member, Interdisciplinary Research Project on Spatial Representation at King’s College, Cambridge (1992 – 1993) Visiting Appointments • Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Croatia (May, 2017). Delivered a 5-session graduate class on my book Understanding “I” by video link, due to scheduling conflicts. • Visiting Conférencier, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (April 2016). Delivered 3 public lectures on my in-progress book The Power of Frames: New Tools for Rational Thought • Visiting Professor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile (July 2008). Delivered two graduate short classes in the Philosophy MA program. • Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (Spring semester 2002). Taught a graduate class and an undergraduate class.


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• Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Bogotá, Colombia (August 2000). Delivered lectures in the PhD program • Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Barcelona (April 2000). Delivered a short graduate class in the PhD program. • Chargé de Recherche, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (October 1998 to June1999). Delivered a graduate class in the DEA en Science Cognitives (masters level). • Visiting Professor, Centro de Neurobiología, UNAM, Querétaro, Mexico (November-December 1998). Delivered lectures in the interdisciplinary neuroscience program. Citations • According to Google Scholar I am the 90th most cited philosopher with over 4,250 citations and an h-index of 26. My books The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT, 1998) and Thinking without Words (Oxford, 2003) have been cited 811 and 622 times respectively Editorships • Editor, New Problems in Philosophy book series, published by Routledge • Editor, International Library of Philosophy book series, published by Routledge (2000-2003) • Scientific Editor, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (1999-2001) • Member of Advisory Board, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences • Member of Advisory Board, Philosophical Compass • Member of Advisory Board, Philosophical Inquiries • Member of Advisory Board, Ideas y Valores Competitive awards and fellowships • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2018-2019). • Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK) Research Leave Award, 2001 to support a semester free from teaching and service obligations • Chargé de Recherche, CNRS, France. One year fully funded visiting research appointment that I took at the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (CREA), at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. • Visiting European Research Fellowship (Royal Society of Edinburgh), 1998 used to support a visit to CREA at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. • British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Outstanding Early Career Scholars, 1992-1995 (3 years of no-strings-attached funding awarded competitively across all humanities and some social sciences disciplines in the UK. I held mine at the University of Cambridge. Grants • $37,750 for ‘Rationality and self-control’ from Philosophy and Psychology of Self-Control project at Florida State University, directed by Al Mele (2016) • $23,100 from National Science Foundation to support an interdisciplinary collaborative workshop at the Center for Psychology and Cognitive Science at Tsinghua University, China, 2006 • ~$25,000 Senior Grant from McDonnell Project for Philosophy and the Neurosciences (2000 – 2005) • Royal Society of Edinburgh European Visiting Research Fellowship (~$6,500, 1998) • Carnegie Trust Major Research Grant (~$8,000, 1997) Honors and boards • Honorary member, Sociedad Colombiana de Filosofía (elected 2003) • Honorary member, Scots Philosophical Club (elected 2006) • Senior Member, McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences, SFU, Canada (2000 – 2005)


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• Member, High-Level Expert Group advising European Union Directorate of Research on What it means to be human (January – June 2005) • Member, NINDS Special Emphasis Panel, Specialized Neuroscience Research (March 2013) • Executive Committee and Board of Directors, Institute for Nautical Archeology (2010 – 2014) • Board of Directors, Private Enterprise Research Center (2010 – 2014) • Board of Directors, Center for Study of First Americans (2010 – 2014) Languages French (fluent), Spanish (conversational), Ancient Greek (reading)

PUBLICATIONS Authored Books J. L. Bermúdez, The Power of Frames: New Tools for Rational Thought. In preparation for Cambridge

University Press (Delivery date December, 2017) J. L. Bermúdez, The Bodily Self: Selected Essays. In production, MIT Press (publication in Spring

2018) J. L. Bermúdez, Understanding “I”: Language and Thought (Oxford UP, January 2017) J. L. Bermúdez, Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Cambridge UP, June

2010). Second edition published in February 2014. Third edition in preparation. J. L. Bermúdez, Decision Theory and Rationality (Oxford UP, 2009. Paperback 2011) J. L. Bermúdez, Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2005. Hardback

and Paperback) J. L. Bermúdez, Thinking without Words (Oxford UP. 2003. Paperback 2007) J. L. Bermúdez, The Paradox of Self-Consciousness (MIT Press 1998. Representation and Mind series.

1998. Paperback 2000. Portuguese translation 2001)

Edited Books J. L. Bermúdez (ed.), Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality. In press at Cambridge University

Press. J. L. Bermúdez and B. N. Towl (ed.), Philosophy of Psychology: Critical Concepts (4 Vols. Routledge,

2013) J. L. Bermúdez (ed.), Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings (Routledge, 2006) J. L. Bermúdez (ed.), Thought, Language, and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth

Evans (Oxford UP, 2005) J. L. Bermúdez and A. Millar (eds.), Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality (Oxford

UP, 2002) J. L. Bermúdez and S. Gardner (eds.), Art and Morality (Routledge, 2002. Paperback 2006) J. L. Bermudez, A. J. Marcel and N. Eilan (eds.) The Body and the Self (MIT Press, 1995. Paperback

1998) Published reviews of my books Reviews of Understanding “I” • H. Cappelen and J. Dever, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (11/21/2017), online Reviews of Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind • A. F. Beavers, Philosophical Psychology 26 (2013), 625-626 • J. Walsmley, Teorema: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 30 (2011), 186-191 Reviews of Decision Theory and Rationality • M. Kotzen, Philosophical Books 51 (2010), 53-62 • L. Buchak, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (9/13/2009), online • A-M. A. Eder, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (2010, 326-329)


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• P. Weirich, Ethics 119 (2009), 757-760 • G. Pitz, PsychCRITIQUES 54 (2009), online • I. Douven, Economics and Philosophy 27 (2011), 59-63 • K. Steele, Metascience 19 (2010), 449-451 Reviews of Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction • K. Lawlor, Philosophical Books 48 (2007), 180-182 • J. Luo, Mind and Machines 18 (2008), 141-144 • R. de Blaiquiere-Thomson, Metapsychology 10, online Reviews of Thought, Reference, and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans • M. De Gaynesford, Mind 117 (2008), 462-468 • D. Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (5/13/2006), online Reviews of Reason and Nature • E. J. Olsson, Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2005), 128-131 • S. Crawford, Philosophical Books 45 (2004), 362-364 • T. Stewart, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2003), online Reviews of Thinking without Words • J. Fodor, London Review of Books (9th October, 2003) • S. Butterfill, Mind, 113 (2004), 733–736 • P. Lyyra, Psyche 11 (2005), online journal • E. Rozik, The European Legacy (2004), 727-730. • A. Miller, Philosophical Books 46 (2005), 278-280 • R. Meeks, Philosophical Psychology 18 (2005), 804-808 • D. Perler, Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 59 (2005), 306-310. • P. Carruthers, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (2005), 807-810 Reviews of Art and Morality • A. Giovanelli, Mind 114 (2005), 119-124 • B. Cooke, Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2006), 154-156 • D. Knight, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (2005), 386-388 • R. Berrios, Journal of Value Inquiry 38 (2004), 419-423 • E. Benitez, Literature and Aesthetics 14 (2004), 104-107 • K. Thomson, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (2004), 544-547 • D. Carr, Philosophical Books 47 (2006, 93-95 • A. Mullin, Notre Dame Philosophical Review (9-03-03), online • E. W. Maine, Essays in Philosophy 6 (2005), 1-2 Reviews of Paradox of Self-Consciousness • P. Carruthers, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (1999), 483-486. • T. Kenyon, Psyche 6 (2000), online • S. Gallagher, Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (2000), 45-50 • K. Bach, Philosophical Psychology 12 (1999), 357-359 • G. Butterworth, Human Development 42 (1999), 217-219 • R. Kirk, Philosophical Quarterly 50 (1999), 277-280 • N. Manson, Mind 109 (2000), 135-138 • P. C. Vitz, Review of Metaphysics 54 (2000, 419-420. • A. Morton, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (2001), 727-730. • M. Slors, European Journal of Philosophy 9 (2001), 126-139. • T. Crane, Philosophical Review 109 (2000), 624-626. • J. Levine, Mind and Language 16 (2001), 108-119


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• S. Ashford, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (2001), 298-299 • D. Meyer-Dingrafe, European Legacy 6 (2001), 411 • R. D. Ellis, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 31 (2000), 112-115 • I. Brinck, Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy 66 (2000), 299-306 • N. P. Power, Minds and Machines 11 (2001), 133-137 • A. Brook, Metapsychology 4 (2000), online Reviews of The Body and the Self • M. De Gaynesford, Ratio 10 (1997), 91-96 • A. Hamilton, Philosophical Books 38 (1997), 203-205 • M. L. Johnson, Philosophical Psychology 9 (1996), 408-410 • S. Ashford, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (1997), 249-250 • L. Yardley, British Journal of Psychology 88 (1997), 709-713 • R. Arnheim, Leonardo 30 (1997), 70-71 Journal Guest Editorships (by invitation) J. L. Bermúdez (guest editor), Self-Consciousness. Special issue of The Monist (April 2004) J. L. Bermudez and M. E. Elton (guest editors), Personal and Subpersonal: Essays on Psychological

Explanation. Special issue of Philosophical Explorations (Jan. 2000) Academic Journal Articles (refereed) ‘Bodily ownership, psychological ownership, and psychopathology’, forthcoming in a special issue

of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology on Disorders of Self-Awareness. ‘Yes, essential indexicals really are essential’, Analysis 77 (2017), 690-694. ‘Self-deception and selectivity: Reply to Jurjako’, Croatian Journal of Philosophy 49 (2017), 91-95. ‘Strategic vs. parametric choice in Newcomb’s problem and the prisoner’s dilemma: Reply to

Walker’, Philosophia 43 (2015), 787-794. ‘Mental causation and exclusion: Why the difference-making account of causation is no help’ (with

Arnon Cahen), Humana Mente 21 (2015), 47-68. ‘Selves, bodies, and reference, Journal of Consciousness Studies 22 (2015), 20-42. ‘Risk, uncertainty, and “super-risk’ (with Michael Pardo), Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and

Public Policy 29 (2015), 471-496. ‘Bodily ownership, bodily awareness, and knowledge without observation’, Analysis 75 (January

2015), 37-45. ‘Prisoner’s dilemma and Newcomb’s problem: Why Lewis’s argument fails’, Analysis (2013), 423-

429 ‘Immunity to error through misidentification and past-tense memory judgments’, Analysis (2013),

211-220. ‘Memory judgments and immunity to error through misidentification’, Grazer Philosophische

Studien (2012), 135-154. ‘The force-field puzzle and mindreading in nonhuman primates’, Review of Philosophy and

Psychology (2011), 397-410. ‘Action and awareness of agency: Comments on Chris Frith’, Pragmatics and Cognition (September

2010), 576-588. ‘Pitfalls for realistic decision theory: An illustration from sequential choice’, Synthese (2010), 23-40 ‘Two arguments for the language dependence of conceptual thought’, Grazer Philosophische Studien

(2010), 37-54. ‘Music, isomorphism, and metaphor’, The Modern Schoolman 86 (March/May 2009), 261-265 ‘What is at stake in the debate on nonconceptual content?’, Philosophical Perspectives 21 (2007),

55-72 (special issue on Philosophy of Mind edited by John Hawthorne) ‘The object properties model of object perception’, Journal of Consciousness Studies 9-10,

September 2007, 43-65. ‘Indistinguishable elements and mathematical structuralism’ Analysis 67 (April 2007), 112-116.


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‘Thinking without words: An overview for animal ethics’, Journal of Ethics 11 (September 2007), 319-335.

‘Knowledge, naturalism, and cognitive ethology’, Philosophical Studies 127 (January 2006), 299-316. 'Properties, first-order representationalism, and reinforcement: Reply to Carruthers, Anthropology

and Philosophy 6 (January 2005), 84-88. ‘Vagueness, phenomenal concepts, and mind-brain identity’ Analysis 64 (January 2004), 134-139. ‘Ascribing thoughts to non-linguistic creatures’ Facta Philosophica 5 (July 2003: special issue on

Belief Ascription edited by Marina Sbisa and Chris Gauker), 313-335. ‘”I”-thoughts and explanation: Reply to Garrett’, Philosophical Quarterly 53 (July 2003), 432-436. ‘Sources of self-consciousness’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (January 2002), 87-107. ‘Nonconceptual self-consciousness and cognitive science’, Synthese 129 (October 2001), 129-149. ‘Normativity and rationality in delusional psychiatric disorders’, Mind and Language 16 (November 2001), 457-493. ‘Bodily self-awareness and the will: Reply to Power’ Minds and Machines 11 (February 2001), 139-142. ‘Frege on thoughts and their structure’ Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse 4 (January 2001), 87-105. ‘Rationality, logic and fast and frugal heuristics’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (October 2000),

744-745. ‘Self-deception, intentions and contradictory beliefs’, Analysis 60 (October 2000), 309-319. ‘Naturalized Sense Data, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (October 2000), 353-374. ‘The Originality of Cartesian Scepticism’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 17 (October 2000), 333-360. ‘Consciousness, higher-order thought and stimulus-reinforcement learning: Comments on Rolls’s The Brain and Emotion’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (April 2000), 194-195. ‘Personal and Subpersonal: A Difference without a Distinction’, Philosophical Explorations 2 (January 2000), 63-82. ‘Psychologism and Psychology’, Inquiry 42 (October 1999), 487-504. ‘Rationality and the backwards induction argument’, Analysis 59 (October 1999), 243-248. ‘Cognitive impenetrability, phenomenology and nonconceptual content’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, 367-368. ‘Naturalism and Conceptual Norms’, Philosophical Quarterly 49 (January 1999), 77-85. ‘Levels of Scepticism in the First Meditation’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (September 1998), 237-245. ‘Philosophical Psychopathology’, Mind and Language 13.2 (June 1998), 287-307. ‘Scepticism and Science in Descartes’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (December 1997), 743-772. ‘Reduction and the Self’, Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (October 1997), 458-466. Reprinted in J. Shear and S. Gallagher (eds.), Models of the Self (Thorverton, Imprint Academic 1999). ‘Nietzsche and the Tradition’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (September 1997), 402-414 ‘Practical Understanding vs Reflective Understanding’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (September 1997), 635-641. ‘Defending Intentionalist Accounts of Self-Deception’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (March 1997), 107-108. ‘Locke, Property Dualism and Metaphysical Dualism’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (September 1996), 223-245. ‘The Moral Significance of Birth’, Ethics 106 (January 1996), 378-403. ‘Nonconceptual Content: From Perceptual Experience to Subpersonal Computational States’ in Mind and Language 10 (December 1995), 333-369. Reprinted in Y. Gunther (Ed.), Theories of Nonconceptual Content, MIT Press, 2003. ‘Transcendental Arguments and Psychology’, Metaphilosophy 26 (October 1995), 379-401. ‘Aspects of the Self (John Campbell’s Past, Space and Self)’ Inquiry 38 (September 1995), 1-15.


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‘Syntax, Semantics and Levels of Explanation’, Philosophical Quarterly 45 (July 1995), 361-367. ‘Scepticism and Subjectivity: Two Critiques of Traditional Epistemology Reconsidered’ International Philosophical Quarterly 35 (June 1995), 141-158. ‘Scepticism and the Justification of Transcendental Idealism’ in Ratio 8 (June 1995), 1-23. ‘Is the Postmodern World a Nietzschean World?’ in International Studies in Philosophy 27 (April 1995), 1-14. ‘The Unity of Apperception in the Critique of Pure Reason’ in European Journal of Philosophy 2, (December 1994), 213-240. ‘Peacocke’s Argument against the Autonomy of Nonconceptual Content’ in Mind and Language 9 (December 1994), 203-218. Reprinted in Y. Gunther (Ed.), Theories of Nonconceptual Content, MIT Press, 2003. ‘The Adequacy of Simple Ideas in Locke - A Rehabilitation of Berkeley’s Criticisms’ in The Locke

Newsletter 23 (1992), 25-58. Contributions to Edited Works (refereed) ‘Newcomb’s problem in real life’. Forthcoming in A. Ahmed (Ed.), Newcomb’s Problem (Cambridge

University Press) ‘Framing and self-control’. Forthcoming in A. Mele (Ed.), Essays in the Philosophy and Psychology of

Self-Control (Oxford University Press) ‘Mental causation and counterfactuals: A new argument for the type-identity theory’. Forthcoming

in M. P. Guta (Ed.), Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties (Routledge) ‘Self-control, framing, and rationality’. Forthcoming in J. L. Bermúdez, Self-Control, Decision Theory,

and Rationality (Cambridge University Press) ‘Evolution, Massive modularity, and fast and frugal heuristics’. Forthcoming in B. Kaldis (Ed.), Mind

and Society: Cognitive Science meets the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Springer) ‘Inner speech, determinacy, and consciousness’. Forthcoming in P.Langland-Hassan and A. Vicente

(Eds.) Inner Speech: Nature, Functions, and Pathology (Oxford University Press) ‘Introduction: Understanding the bodily self’. In J. L. Bermúdez (Ed.), The Bodily Self: Selected Essays

on Self-Consciousness (MIT Press, 2018), 1-27. ‘Afterword: Looking ahead’. In J. L. Bermúdez (Ed.), The Bodily Self: Selected Essays on Self-

Consciousness (MIT Press, 2018), 289-296. ‘Memory and self-consciousness’. In S. Bernecker and K. Michaelian (Eds.), Routledge Companion to

the Philosophy of Memory (Routledge, 2017), 180-191 ‘Ownership and the space of the body. In F. de Vignemont and A. Almsith (Eds.), The Body and the

Self Revisited (MIT Press, 2017), 117-143. ‘Can nonlinguistic animals think about thinking?’. In K. Andrews and J. Beck (Eds.), Routledge

Handbook to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (Routledge, 2017), 119-130. ‘The prisoner’s dilemma and Newcomb’s problem’. In The Prisoner’s Dilemma, edited by M. Petersen

(Cambridge University Press, 2015), 115-132. ‘Mindreading and moral significance in nonhuman animals’. In Oxford Handbook to Animal Ethics,

edited by T. L. Beauchamp and R. G. Frey (Oxford University Press, 2011), 407-440 ‘Bodily awareness and self-consciousness’. In Oxford Handbook of the Self, edited by Shaun

Gallagher (Oxford University Press, 2011), 157-179. ‘Self-knowledge and the sense of “I”’. In Self-Knowledge, edited by Anthony Hatzimoisis (Oxford

University Press, 2011), 226-246. ‘Truth, indefinite extensibility, and Fitch’s paradox’. In New Essays on the Knowability Paradox,

edited by J. Salerno (Oxford University Press, 2009) ‘Mindreading in the animal kingdom?’. In Animal Minds, edited by Robert Lurz (Cambridge

University Press, 2009), 145-164. ‘The distinction between conceptual and nonconceptual content’. In Oxford Handbook to Philosophy

of Mind, edited by B. McLaughlin (Oxford UP, 2009), 457-473. ‘Jerry Fodor: Philosophy of mind and cognitive science’. In C. Belshaw and G. Kemp (Eds.), Twelve

Analytical Philosophers (Blackwell, 2009), 115-133.


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‘Cartesian scepticism: Arguments and antecedents’. In Oxford Handbook to Skepticism, edited by J. Greco (Oxford University Press, 2008), 57-80.

‘The phenomenology of bodily awareness’. In Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, edited by A. L. Thomasson and D. W. Smith (Oxford University Press, 2006), 295-317. ‘Animal reasoning and proto-logic’. In Rational Animals, edited by S. L. Hurley and M. Nudds (Oxford

University Press, 2006), 127-139 ‘General Introduction’ in Thought, Reference and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth

Evans, edited by J. L. Bermúdez (Oxford University Press, 2005), 1-42 ‘Evans and the sense of “I” in Thought, Reference and Experience: Themes from the Philosophy of Gareth Evans, edited by J. L. Bermúdez (Oxford University Press, 2005), 164-195 ‘Arguing for eliminativism' in Paul Churchland: Contemporary Philosophy in Focus, edited by B.

Keeley (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 32-66 ‘A plausible eliminativism?’ in Experience and Analysis. Papers of the 27th International Wittgenstein

Symposium Vol. 12 (Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2005), 189-205 ‘The elusiveness thesis, immunity to error through misidentification, and privileged access’, in Self-Knowledge and Privileged Access, edited by B. Gertler (Ashgate Epistemology and Mind series, 2003), 213-233 ‘The scope of folk psychology’, in Mind and Persons, edited by A. O’Hear (Cambridge University

Press, 2003), 25-49 ‘Rationality without language’, in Bermúdez and Millar (eds.) Reason and Nature (OUP, 2002), 233-

264. ‘Introduction’ (with A. Millar), in Bermúdez and Millar (eds.) Reason and Nature (OUP, 2002), 1-15 ‘Ethics and aesthetics: An introduction’ (with S. Gardner) in Bermúdez and Gardner (eds.) Art and

Morality (Routledge), 111-131 ‘The concept of decadence’ in Bermúdez and Gardner (eds.) Art and Morality (Routledge, 2003),

111-131 ‘Categorising colour experience: Some problems’ in Proceedings of SimCat 1997. Technical Report of

the Edinburgh University Artificial Intelligence department, 9-13 ‘The body and the self: Interdisciplinary issues’ (co-author) in Bermúdez, Marcel and Eilan (eds.)

The Body and the Self, 1-28 ‘Ecological self-perception and the notion of a nonconceptual point of view’ in Bermúdez, Marcel

and Eilan (eds.) The Body and the Self, 153-174 Encyclopedia Articles (refereed) ‘Self-awareness’ in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology (online reference module) ‘Self-Consciousness’. Revised version for second edition of the Blackwell Companion to

Consciousness, edited by S. L. Schneider and M. Velmans (Blackwell, forthcoming) ‘Self: Body awareness and self awareness’. In Elsevier Encyclopedia of Consciousness (8000 words) ‘Self-consciousness’. In the Oxford Companion to Consciousness, edited by M. Cleersmans (4000

words: Oxford University Press) ‘Self-consciousness’. In the Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, edited by S. L. Schneider and M.

Velmans (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 456-467. ‘Mental content, nonconceptual’, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (revised entry co-

authored with Arnon Cahen) ‘Nonconceptual content’. In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (2003: 4000 word essay) ‘Self-consciousness’, In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (2003: 4000 word essay) Various entries in Oxford Companion to Philosophy Book Reviews M. Smith, Between Probability and Certainty, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (2017), 82-85. A. Hamilton, The Self in Question, Mind 125 (October 2016), 903-906 C. Peacocke, The Mirror of the World, Philosophical Quarterly 66 (July 2016), 631-634 P. Carruthers, The Opacity of Mind, Mind 122 (September 2013), 263-266


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P. Parikh, Equilibrium and Language, The Philosophical Review 121 (April 2012), 294-298 C. Peacocke, Truly Understood, Mind 120 (October 2011), 1276-1280 R. Jeshion, New Essays in Singular Thought, Philosophical Quarterly 61 (September, 2011), 865-869, K. Binmore, Rational Decision, Economics and Philosophy, March 2010, 95-101 De Gaynesford, I, The Philosophical Review, September 2008, 634-637 R. Kirk, Zombies and Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly, April 2007, 306-308 D. Papineau, Thinking about Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly, April 2004, 333-335 J. Campbell, Reference and Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly, January 2004, 191-194 A. Clarke, Sentience, Mind 111 (July 2002), 653-657 P. Carruthers, Phenomenal Consciousness, Philosophical Quarterly 52 (April 2002), 265-268 J. Fodor, The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way, Philosophical Quarterly 51 (October 2001), 549-552 C. Peacocke, Being Known, Philosophical Psychology 14 (June 2001), 250-256 Gottlob Frege, Idéographie (French translation of Begriffsschrift), Dialectica 55 (January 2001), 67-

72 R. Tallis, Philosophical Explorations, Times Literary Supplement (30 June 2000) S. Hurley, Consciousness in Action, European Journal of Philosophy 7 (April 2000), 106-110 E. J. Lowe, Subjects of Experience, Philosophical Quarterly (May 1999), 272-275 P. Carruthers and P. K. Smith (Eds.), Theories of Theory of Mind, Philosophical Quarterly 45 (January

1999), 115-119 N. Nelkin, Consciousness and the Origins of Thought, Philosophical Books 39 (December 1998), 258-

260 M. Tiles and J. Tiles, Introduction to Historical Epistemology, Philosophical Books 37 (April 1996),

124-125 A. W. Price, Mental Conflict, Mind 10 (April 1996), 357-362. J. Kim, Supervenience and Mind, International Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (September 1995),

403-406. Electronic publications (refereed) Précis and critical commentary on J. Sebo, ‘Agency and moral status’, PEA Soup Blog (September 2017) Review (2013) of G. Preyer (Ed.), Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Review (2011) of S. Stich, Collected Papers Vol. 1 in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Review (2009) of D. Murphy, M. Bishop (Eds.), Stich and his Critics in Notre Dame Philosophical

Reviews Electronic symposium (2007) on Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction

(http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/mind/swifpmr/0520063.pdf). The symposium contains replies to commentaries by George Botterill, E. J. Lowe, Karen Shanton, and E. J. Lowe.

‘Primitive self-consciousness: Reply to Evans on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000) ‘Circularity, “I”-thoughts and the linguistic requirement for concept possession: Reply to Fuller and

Slater on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000) ‘The cognitive neuroscience of primitive self-consciousness: Reply to Gallese on Bermúdez’,

Psycoloquy 11 ‘Direct self-consciousness: Reply to Myin on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000) ‘Concepts and the priority principle: Reply to Robbins on Bermúdez’, Psycoloquy 11 (2000) See also the electronic symposium on The Paradox of Self-Consciousness

(http://www.uniroma3.it/kant/field/bermudezsymp.htm). The symposium contains replies to commentaries by Andrew Brook, José Luis Díaz, Vittorio Gallese, Gianfranco Soldati

‘Nonconceptual content and the nature of perceptual experience’ (with Fiona Macpherson), Electronic Journal of Analytical Philosophy 6 (1998)

Foreign Language Publications Arabic and Farsi translations in preparation of Cognitive Science

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‘Dos argumentos a favor de la dependencia del pensamiento conceptual respect del lenguaje’ in Conceptos, Lenguaje, y Cognición, edited by M. Aguilera, L. Danon, and C. Scotto (Córdoba, Argentina, University of Córdoba Press)

Fenomenologia cielesnej percepcji. 2011. Translation: Przemyslaw Nowakowski. Avant, The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard, vol. II, T/2011, pp. 25-36

‘La Conciencia’ in Gran Enciclopedia Larousse 4th Edition (Aleph, Barcelona) Portuguese translation of The Paradox of Self-Consciousness, February 2001 ‘Nichtbegriffliche Selbstfahrung und das Paradox des selbstbewusstseins’ in Selbst und Gehirn, hg.

von A. Newen und K. Vogeley (2000 Paderborn, Mentis-Verlag) ‘Tres niveles de racionalidad animal’, Revista Mexicana de Psicología 16 (December 1999), 189-194. ‘Autoconciencia no conceptual’, Ciencia 50 (September 1999), 16-28 ‘Autoinganno, intenzioni e credenze contraddittorie. Un commento a Mele’, Sistemi Intelligenti 3,

521-531 Other Regular CD and DVD reviews for the classical music website Classical.net, with a particular focus on

the music of Wagner, Bruckner, and Mahler

INVITED PAPERS AND CONFERENCES

Invited conference papers Content and Computation (London, October 1997); Animal Minds (Oxford, May 1998); European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Lisbon, September 1998); Cognitive Science and Consciousness (Brussels, May 1999); Self-Awareness and Consciousness (Bonn, June 1999); European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Warwick, July 1999); Object Perception (Paris, June 2000); Phenomenological and Experimental Approaches to Cognition (Paris, June 2000); Self-Consciousness (Fribourg, November 2000); Belief Ascription (San Marino, December 2000); Abstraction (Gif-sur-Yvette, September 2001) Mind and Persons (Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, London October 2001), Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (Barcelona, June 2002), German Congress of Philosophy (Bonn, October 2002), Being Rational (Parma, March 2003), Self-Representation (Bremen, April 2003), Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (Pasadena, March 2004), Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (Chicago, April 2004), 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg, Austria, August 2004), Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (April, 2005), Conference on Thought and Language (Bogotá, Colombia, August 2005), Graduate Conference on Perception (Glasgow, October 2005), Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Society (Portland OR, March, 2006), International conference on Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, Objectivity (Copenhagen, September 2006), Pacific Division of American Philosophical Association (San Fransisco, April 2007), Danish Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Copenhagen, May 2007), Conference on Realistic Decision Theory (Columbia, MO, April 2008), Conference on Perception (Saint Louis University, May 2008), Biannual Symposium of the Science of Behavior (Guadalajara, Mexico, February 2010), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Atlanta, April 2010), Naturalism and Mind (Zurich, November 2014) Invited workshop papers CREA-Tucson Joint Workshop (Villard-de-Lans, June 1998); Paris-London Workshop on Perception (Paris, April 1999); McDonnell Workshop in Philosophy and the Neurosciences (British Columbia, June 2000); UBC Spring Colloquium (Vancouver, March 2002), Syracuse Philosophy Workshop on Consciousness (July, 2005); Workshop on Concepts and Language (Zurich, March 2007), US-China Interdisciplinary workshop on Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Beijing, July 2007), Workshop on Neurophilosophy (Munich, February 2008), Workshop on Defining Thoughts (Bochum, Germany, June 2008), Workshop on Memory and Self-Understanding (June 2009), Workshop on Self-Consciousness (Berlin, 2010), Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science


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(Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2010), Workshop on JL Bermúdez (Cordobá, Argentina, March 2012), Workshop on Law and Decision Theory (Alabama, April 2012), Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network – Consciousness: 10th Anniversary Workshop (Syracuse, July 2015), Workshop on the Body and the Self Revisited (Copenhagen, December 2015) Invited seminars and colloquia Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo (March 1996); Cognitive Science, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (March 1996); Psychology, Leeds (February 1997); Philosophy, Birmingham (February 1997); Philosophy, Glasgow (May 1997);Cognitive Science, Hong Kong (May 1997); Philosophy, Hong Kong (May 1997); Philosophy, Australian National University (April 1997); Philosophy, Hertforshire (November 1997); Philosophy, Aberdeen (November 1997); Cognitive Science, Sussex (January 1998), Philosophy, Sussex (January 1998); CREA, Paris (June 1998); Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon (November 1998); Neurobiology, Quéretaro, Mexico (December 1998); Philosophy, Aix-en-Provence (January 1999); Geneva (March 1999); Sheffield (December 1999), Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon (March 2000); Cognitive Science, Barcelona (April 2000); Philosophy (Bologna (May 2000); Neurophysiology, Parma (May 2000); Philosophy, UCSD (November 2000); Durham (November 2000); Philosophy, Vercelli (April 2001); Glasgow (June 2001); Philosophy, Simon Fraser University (March 2002); Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis (November 2002 and January 2003), Philosophy, Bielefeld (February 2003), Philosophy, Cincinnati (May 2004); Philosophy, University of Missouri, Columbia (January, 2006); Cognitive Science, University of Chile (August 2007); Philosophy, University of California at Santa Barbara (October 2007); Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (June 2008); Ruhr University, Bochum (November 2008); Distinguished Lecture, Berlin School of Mind and Brain (March 2010): Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich (November 2014): Danish Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Copenhagen (December 2015), Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Poland (December 2015), Department of Cognitive Science, University of Kraków, Poland (December 2015), Institut Jean Nicod (April 2016), Keynote Guest, Davidson College Philosophy Retreat (November 2017).

TEACHING

Undergraduate courses taught at Texas A&M Classical Philosophy (PHIL 410) Spring 2018 Fully online Introduction to Logic (PHIL 240) Seventeenth Century Philosophy (PHIL 412) Fall 2016 Introduction to Logic (PHIL 240) Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 Puzzles and Paradoxes (Freshman Critical Thinking Seminar) Fall 2011 and Fall 2013 Graduate courses Reasons and Rationality (PHIL 663), Spring 2017 Undergraduate & graduate Courses taught at Washington University Mathematical Logic 2 (Phil 402), Spring 2008, Spring 2010 Mathematical Logic 1 (Phil 401), Fall 2007, Fall 2009 Introduction to Cognitive Science (PNP 200). Spring 2009, Fall 2009 From Descartes to Hume (PHIL 349), Spring 2007 Philosophy of Psychology (PHIL 419), Fall 2003, Spring 2006 Philosophy of Mind Seminar: Self-Knowledge (PHIL 515), Spring 2004, Spring 2005 Advanced Metaphysics (PHIL 4142), Spring 2004 Proseminar (PHIL 502), Fall 2004 Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 315), Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007 Current Controversies in Cognitive Science (PHIL 418), Fall 2005 Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Language (PHIL 4601), Fall 2006


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Cognition and Computation (PNP 4332), Spring 2007 Regular courses taught at Stirling • Minds, Bodies and Behaviour (3rd semester core course: unit coordinator) • Rationalism and Empiricism (5th semester core course) • Honours Seminar (6th and 8th semester core course: unit co-cordinator) • Seventeenth Century Rationalism (5th and 7th semester advanced option: unit coordinator) • Metaphysics (6th and 8th semester advanced option; unit coordinator) • Aesthetics (5th and 7th semester advanced option) Graduate teaching on Stirling-St Andrews Joint Programme • Perception (taught option: unit coordinator) • MLitt dissertation supervision • PhD supervision Graduate student supervision Fiona Macpherson (Philosophy, Stirling, dissertation advisor – graduated 2003) Luca Malatesti (Philosophy Stirling, committee member – graduated 2006) Jeff Karpicke (Psychology WUSTL, committee member – graduated 2007) Brandon Towl (PNP, dissertation advisor – graduated 2009) Eddie Westbrook (Computer Science WUSTL, committee member – graduated, 2009) Arnon Cahen (PNP dissertation advisor – graduated 2010) Sarah Robins (PNP WUSTL, committee member – graduated 2011) Santiago Amaya (PNP WUSTL, co-advisor – graduated 2012) T. J. Kasperbauer (Philosophy TAMU, committee member – graduated 2014) Michael Istvan (Philosophy TAMU, committee member – graduated 2015) Dong An (Philosophy, TAMU, committee member) Visiting examining • MPhil in Philosophy of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex (1998-2001) • Member of PhD review committee, University of St Andrews • DPhil external examiner, University of Oxford (January 2000) • Phd external examiner, University of Durham (April 2001) Invited Teaching Abroad • Invited Conférencier, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (3 lectures, April 2016) • Invited Professor, European Summer School on Social Cognition. Alghero, Sardinia (September 2009) • Invited Professor (4 classes), First European Graduate School on Mind, Science, and Language, Bochum, Germany (November 2008) • 20-hour course in the Center for Cognitive Studies, University of Chile • Visiting professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada (Spring semester 2002): Philosophy of Psychology and Thinking without Words • Invited course at University of Bogotá (August 2000): El Lenguaje sin pesamiento • Invited course at University of Barcelona (April 2000): El Lenguaje sin pesamiento • 10 hour postgraduate course for DEA en Sciences Cognitives (jointly organised by École Polytechnique, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Paris VI), taught and examined in French (January - February 1999)

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE


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Texas A&M University • Associate Provost for Strategic Planning (2014 – 2015) • Dean, College of Liberal Arts (2010 – 2014) • Chair, Leadership Steering Committee, PwC Comprehensive Administrative Review of Texas A&M University • Chair, Program Review of Texas A&M University Press (2011) • Chair, Search Committee for Dean, College of Education (2013 – 2014) • Chair, Liberal Arts Council, Texas A&M (2010 – 2014) • Chair, Executive Council, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M (2010 – 2014) • Lead Dean, Cross-college Initiative on Strengthening Democracy (2012 – 2014) • Lead Dean, Council of Participating Deans, TAMU Digital Humanities Initiative (2010 – 2014) • Member, Texas A&M at Qatar Joint Advisory Board (2013–2015) • Member, Council of Deans (2010 – 2014) • Member, Strategic Budgeting Council (2012 – 2013) • Member, Task Force reviewing Compliance across Texas A&M • Member, Task Force reviewing processes for Capital and Construction Projects • Member, Capital Campaign Priorities working group (2012 – 2013) • Member, Council for the Built Environment (2011 – 2014) • Member, Search committee for Dean of Faculties (2012) • Member, Search committee for Vice President for Research (2012 – 2013) • Member, Faculty Workstation Committee (2011 – 2014) • Member, Council of Participating Deans, TAMU Institute for Neuroscience (2010 – 2014) • Activity Leader, Rotating Administrator Program, ADVANCE grant (2011–15) • Member, Vision 2020 Working Group; Imperative 4 (2011) Washington University in St Louis • Director, Center for Programs (2007 – 2010, reappointed 2009) • Director, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program (2003 – 2010, reappointed 2008) • McDonnell International Scholar’s Academy Ambassador to the University of Chile (2008-2010) • Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan Working Group (2007 – 2008) • University Task Force on Responsible Conduct of Research (2007 – 2010) • Faculty Advisory Committee for McNair Grant (2007 – 2010) • University Travel Policy Advisory Committee (2007 – 2008) • Arts and Sciences Communication Committee (2006 – 2010) • Computer Science and Engineering Curriculum Transformation Advisory Committee (2006 – 2008) • Committee to review Environmental Studies curriculum (Chair] (2007 – 2009) • Ad hoc committee to consider promotion case of Chair of Philosophy department [Chair] (2005 – 2006) • Guidelines on relations between Departments and Interdisciplinary programs (2005) • Steering Committee for Center for Programs (2006 – 2010) • Steering committee for Luce Professorship (2008 – 2009) • Search Committee for PNP Open Rank Search (search successful) • Search Committee for PNP Postdoctoral Research Fellows, 2006-2007 (search successful) • Search Committee for Metaphysics and Epistemology, 2003 – 2004 (search successful) • Search Committee for PNP, 2003 – 2004 (search successful – 2 appointments made) • Search Committee for Early Modern Philosophy (search successful) • Search Committee for Kant 2004 – 2005 (search successful – 2 appointments made) • Search Committee for Linguistics 2004 – 2005 (search successful – 2 appointments made) Faculty and University Committees (Stirling) • Chair, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Humanities (search successful)


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• Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts and Humanities • Academic Council • University Research and Postgraduate Education Committee • University Ethics Committee • University Environmental Responsibility Committee • Arts Faculty Board • Arts Faculty Equipment Committee • Arts Faculty Research Committee (Chair for Autumn Semester, 2002) Department of Philosophy (Stirling) • Chair of Department (from August 2002) • Deputy Director, St Andrews-Stirling Graduate Programme in Philosophy • Coordinator, Stirling Philosophy Department RAE submission • Postgraduate Tutor • Admissions Tutor • Member, Department Research Committee • Member, Department Recruitment Working Group • Co-author of successful departmental proposal to Strategic Change Fund for funding for postdoctoral research fellows • Departmental Library Representative • Convener of visiting speaker programme • Adviser of Studies Research project administration (Stirling) • Director, Consciousness in the Natural World Project (1997 – 2002) • Organizer, Conference on Epistemology and Naturalism (Stirling, April 1997) • Organizer, Conference on Rationality and Naturalism (May 1998) • Organizer, Workshop on Colour Perception and Psychophysics (November 1999) • Organizer, Workshop on Self-Deception (February 2000)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Member, Special Emphasis Panel, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (Washington D.C. April 2013) • Invited participant, NSF Higher Education R & D workshop (June 2012) • Organizer, US-China Joint Workshop on Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives [NSF Funded] (Beijing, China: July 2007) • Member of Program Committee, Cognitive Science Society Conference, 2005 • Member of Steering Committee, Research Project on Abstraction (CNRS, France, 2000-2001) • Member of Program Committee, Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, Dundee, 2001, 2003, 2005 • Member of Program Committee, International Conference on Cognitive Science, Consciousness and Art, Brussels, May 1999 • Reviewing for the following journals:

Behavioral and Brain Sciences Consciousness and Cognition British Journal of Aesthetics Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind and Language Canadian Journal of Philosophy Philosophical Quarterly


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Journal of Consciousness Studies British Journal of Psychology Australasian Journal of Philosophy Mind Erkenntnis Journal of Philosophy European Journal of Philosophy Philosophical Studies Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Philosophia: The Philosophical Quarterly of Israel

• Manuscript reviewing for Erlbaum, Macmillan, Blackwell, Routledge, MIT, CUP and OUP • Evaluation of research proposals for

European Science Foundation Austrian Science Fund Canadian Social Science Research Council Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft European Research Foundation Swiss National Science Foundation Polish National Science Foundation German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Leverhulme Trust (UK)

• Tenure/promotion/salary scale evaluations for UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, University of Houston, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, University of Barcelona, University of Sussex, University of Nottingham, St John’s College (Cambridge), George Washington University, UC Berkeley, University of Cambridge, Ohio University

Documents

Updated March 15, 2018 1 - Philosophy · Updated March 15, 2018 4 • P. Weirich, Ethics 119 (2009), 757-760 • G. Pitz, PsychCRITIQUES 54 (2009), online • I. Douven, Economics