Robin Jeshion Curriculum Vitae 11.02.18 USC School of Philosophy Mudd Hall of Philosophy 3709 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451 [email protected]213-740-0083 (office) 213-740-5174 (fax) 650-575-6289 (cell) Academic Positions University of Southern California Professor, School of Philosophy, July 2010-present University of California, Riverside Professor, Department of Philosophy, July 2005-June 2010 Yale University Professor, Department of Philosophy, July 2002-July 2005 University of Arizona Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, August 2001-May 2002 University of Southern California Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, July 2001-June 2002 University of Southern California Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy, September 1994-June 2001 Education University of Chicago Ph.D, Department of Philosophy, May 1995 Dissertation: Knowledge by Intellection: Essays on A priori Knowledge Supervisors: Leonard Linsky and Josef Stern Rutgers University, Douglass College B.A. with highest honors, Philosophy, Mathematics minor, May 1986 Areas of Research Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics Publications 1. (1998) “Proof Checking and Knowledge by Intellection,” Philosophical Studies 92: 85-112. 2. (1999) “Implicit Belief? A priori Knowledge?” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Spindel Supplement, 38: 211-216. 3. (2000a) “On the Obvious,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60: 333-355.
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Robin Jeshion Curriculum Vitae
11.02.18
USC School of Philosophy Mudd Hall of Philosophy 3709 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089-0451
Academic Positions University of Southern California
Professor, School of Philosophy, July 2010-present University of California, Riverside
Professor, Department of Philosophy, July 2005-June 2010 Yale University
Professor, Department of Philosophy, July 2002-July 2005 University of Arizona
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, August 2001-May 2002 University of Southern California
Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, July 2001-June 2002 University of Southern California
Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy, September 1994-June 2001 Education
University of Chicago Ph.D, Department of Philosophy, May 1995 Dissertation: Knowledge by Intellection: Essays on A priori Knowledge Supervisors: Leonard Linsky and Josef Stern
Rutgers University, Douglass College B.A. with highest honors, Philosophy, Mathematics minor, May 1986 Areas of Research
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics
Publications
1. (1998) “Proof Checking and Knowledge by Intellection,” Philosophical Studies 92: 85-112.
2. (1999) “Implicit Belief? A priori Knowledge?” Southern Journal of Philosophy, Spindel Supplement, 38: 211-216.
3. (2000a) “On the Obvious,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60: 333-355.
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4. (2000b) “Ways of Taking a Meter,” Philosophical Studies, 99: 297-318.
5. (2001a) “Donnellan on Neptune,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 63: 111-135.
6. (2001b) “Frege's Notions of Self-Evidence,” Mind, 110: 937-976. Reprinted in Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, volume II, Michael Beaney and Erich Reck (eds.) Routledge, 2005.
7. (2002a) “The Fallibility of Rational Insight,” Journal of Philosophical Research, 27: 301-310.
8. (2002b) “Acquaintanceless De Re Belief,” in Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics, Joseph Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and David Shier (eds.) Seven Bridges Press, 53-78.
9. (2002c) “The Epistemological Argument Against Descriptivism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 64: 325-345.
10. (2003a) “Philosophy of Language,” section introduction and editing, for Philosophy For the Twenty First Century, Steven Cahn (general editor) Oxford, Oxford University Press.
11. (2003b) Critical study of Alan Berger’s Terms and Truth, Notre Dame Online Journal, July.
12. (2004a) “Frege: Evidence for Self-evidence,” Mind, 113: 131-138. Reprinted in Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, volume II, Michael Beaney and Erich Reck (eds.) Routledge, 2005.
13. (2004b) “Descriptive Descriptive Names,” in Descriptions and Beyond, Marga Reimer and Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.) Oxford, Oxford University Press, 591-613.
14. (2006a) “Reference and Intentionality,” Philosophical Books, 47(1): 25-33.
15. (2006b) “The Identity of Indiscernibles and the Co-location Problem,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 87: 163-176.
16. (2006c) “Soames on Descriptive Reference-Fixing,” Philosophical Issues, Nous
Supplement, 16: 120-140.
17. (2007) “Seeing What is There,” in John Searle’s Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning, and Thought, Savas Tsohatzidis (ed.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 79-101.
18. (2008) “Thoughts and Ideas,” Philosophical Studies, 137: 409-415.
19. (2009a) “Experience as a Natural Kind,” What Place for the A Priori?, Michael
Shaffer and Michael Veber (eds.) Open Court Press, 93-109.
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20. (2009b) “The Significance of Names,” Mind and Language 24: 372-405.
21. (2010a) “Singular Thought: Acquaintance, Semantic Instrumentalism, and Cognitivism,” in New Essays on Singular Thought, Robin Jeshion (ed.) Oxford, Oxford University Press.
22. (2010b) “Singular Thought: An Overview”, introduction to New Essays on Singular
Thought, Robin Jeshion (ed.) Oxford, Oxford University Press.
23. (2010c) New Essays on Singular Thought, editor. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
24. (2012) “Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location”, in William Kabasenche, Michael O’Rourke and Matthew Slater (eds.) Reference and Referring, Cambridge, MIT Press.
25. (2013a) “Slurs and Stereotypes”, Analytic Philosophy Special Volume on Slurring
Words, 54: 314-325.
26. (2013b) “Embracing Corruption: A Response to Hom and May”, Analytic Philosophy Special Volume on Slurring Words, 54: 325-329.
27. (2013c) “Expressivism and the Offensiveness of Slurs”, Philosophical Perspectives,
27: 232-259.
28. (2014a) “Two Dogmas of Russellianism”, in Manual Garcia-Carpintero and Genoveva Marti (eds.) Empty Representations: Reference and Non-existence, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
29. (2014b) “Intuiting the Infinite”, Philosophical Studies, 1-23.
30. (2015a) “Referentialism and Predicativism about Proper Names”, Erkenntnis
Special Volume on Proper Names, Dolf Rami (ed.), 80: 363-404.
31. (2015b) “Names Not Predicates”, On Reference, Andrea Bianchi (ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 225-250.
32. (2015c) “A Rejoinder to Fara’s ‘’Literal’ Uses of Proper Names”, On Reference,
Andrea Bianchi (ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 280-294.
33. (2016) “Slur Creation, Bigotry Formation: The Power of Expressivism” Phenomenology and Mind, 11: 130-139.
34. (2017a) “‘The’ Problem for The-Predicativism”, Philosophical Review, 126, 2: 219-240.
35. (2017b) “Loaded Words, Expressive Words: Assessing Two Semantic
Frameworks for Slurs”, Croatian Journal of Philosophy Special Issue on Slurs and Pejoratives, 50: 111-130.
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36. (2018a) “Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt”, in Bad Words,
David Sosa (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
37. (2018b) “Katherine and the Katherine: On the Syntactic Distribution of Names and Nouns”, forthcoming in Theoria, special volume of papers in memory of Delia Graff Fara, with papers by Timothy Williamson and Robert Stalnaker.
38. (2018c) “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Appropriation of Slurs”, forthcoming in
Cepollaro and Zeman, eds., Grazer Philosophische Studien, Special Issue: Non-Derogatory Uses of Slurs
Work in Progress “The Truth about Slurs” “The Social Dimension of Slurs” “What’s Wrong With Slurs?” “What Good is Self-Evidence?” “Pejoratives”, for Routledge Handbook for Social and Political Philosophy of Language, Justin
Khoo and Rachel Sterkin, eds. “How Vocatives Illuminate Slurs” “Sluts and Sissies: On Gendered Slurs”, for Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy, and
Psychology, Springer volume, Alessandro Capone, ed. “Polysemous Expressives and the Problem of Appropriation”, for Meaning, Content,
Reference, Studia Semiotyczne. Dehumanizing Slurs
Presentations of Papers 1. “Proof Checking and Knowledge by Intellection”, University of Virginia,
colloquium, January 1994
2. “Proof Checking and Knowledge by Intellection”, Kansas State University, colloquium, January 1994
3. “Proof Checking and Knowledge by Intellection”, Indiana University,
Bloomington, colloquium, February 1994
4. “Proof Checking and Knowledge by Intellection”, Rutgers University, colloquium, February 1994
5. “The Roots of Contemporary Empiricism” Bowdoin College, colloquium,
February 1994
6. “On the Obvious”, University of Southern California, colloquium, February 1994
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7. “On the Obvious”, University of Illinois, Urbana, colloquium, February 1994
8. “On the Obvious”, University of California, Santa Barbara, colloquium, May 1995
9. “Anti-Individualism and Intellectual Norms”, University of Southern California, colloquium, March 1995
10. “On the Obvious”, Discipuli Conference, University of Southern California,
March 1996
11. “On the Obvious”, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Berkeley, March 1997
12. “Ways of Taking a Meter”, University of California at Riverside, colloquium, May
1998
13. “Ways of Taking a Meter”, University of California at Irvine, colloquium, December 1998
14. “The Fallibility of Rational Insight”, Biola University, colloquium, March 1999
15. “Ways of Taking a Meter”, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division
Meeting, Berkeley, April 1999
16. “Donnellan on Neptune”, Central States Philosophical Association Meeting, delivered in abstentia, October 1999
17. “Scepticism: In (and Out of) Context”, Occidental College, colloquium,
November 1999
18. “Acquaintanceless De Re Belief”, University of Michigan, colloquium, February 2000
19. “Acquaintanceless De Re Belief”, Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on
Truth and Meaning, Idaho, invited speaker, March 2000
20. “Donnellan on Neptune”, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque, symposium, April 2000
21. “Farewell Acquaintance”, University of Southern California, colloquium, October
2000
22. “Farewell Acquaintance”, Arizona State University, colloquium, December 2000
23. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, LOGOS Barcelona Conference on the Theory of Reference, invited speaker, June 2001
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24. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2001
25. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, University of Arizona, colloquium, September
2001
26. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, University of Maryland, colloquium, November 2001
27. “Obviousness and Self-evidence”, University of South Carolina, colloquium,
December 2001
28. “Intuiting the Infinite”, University of Texas, Austin, colloquium, January 2002
29. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, Brown University, colloquium, January 2002
30. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, University of California, Berkeley, colloquium, February 2002
31. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, University of Vermont, colloquium, February 2002
32. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, Yale University, colloquium, February 2002
33. “Descriptive Descriptive Names”, Syracuse University, colloquium, February 2002
34. “Singular Thought Without Acquaintance”, Princeton Semantics Workshop,
invited speaker, May 2003
35. “Singular Thought Without Acquaintance”, Arizona State University, colloquium, October 2003
36. “Singular Thought Without Acquaintance”, University of Toronto, colloquium,
January 2004
37. “Singular Thought Without Acquaintance”, University of California at Riverside, colloquium, January 2004
38. “Singular Thought Without Acquaintance”, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Philosophy Colloquium, February 2004
39. “Singular Thought and the Identity of Indiscernibles”, Union College, colloquium, March 2004
40. “Reference and Intentionality”, American Philosophical Association Pacific
Division Meeting, Pasadena, Howard Wettstein’s The Magic Prism Author Meets Critics session, March 2004
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41. “Singular Thought and the Identity of Indiscernibles”, Syracuse Workshop on the A priori, Invited Speaker, August 2004
42. “Singular Thought Without Acquaintance”, Bellingham Summer Philosophy
Conference, August 2004
43. “Singular Thought and the Identity of Indiscernibles”, Queens University De Re Workshop, Invited Speaker, September 2004
44. “Experience as a Natural Kind”, American Philosophical Association Pacific
Division Meeting, San Francisco, Al Casullo’s Apriori Justification Author Meets Critics session, March 2005
45. “Singular Thought and Descriptive Thought”, Fellows Seminar, Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science, Stanford, November 2005
46. “Conventionality and the Implicature Analysis of Word Acquisition”, MIND Group, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, February 2006
47. “Singular Thought and Cognitive Elasticity”, University of California, San Diego,
colloquium, March 2006
48. “Singular Thought, Acquaintance, and Semantic Instrumentalism”, MIND Group, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, May 2006
49. “Singular Thought and Semantic Instrumentalism”, Stanford University,
colloquium, June 2006
50. “Singular Thought”, first LOGOS Lecture (Logic, Language, and Cognition Research Group), University of Barcelona, International Guest Lecturer, six seminars, June 2006.
51. “Acquaintance Theories, Part 1”, second LOGOS Lecture (Logic, Language, and
Cognition Research Group), University of Barcelona, International Guest Lecturer, six seminars, June 2006.
52. “Acquaintance Theories, Part 2”, third LOGOS Lecture (Logic, Language, and
Cognition Research Group), University of Barcelona, International Guest Lecturer, six seminars, June 2006.
53. “Semantic Instrumentalism”, fourth LOGOS Lecture (Logic, Language, and
Cognition Research Group), University of Barcelona, International Guest Lecturer, six seminars, June 2006.
54. “Cognitivism”, fifth LOGOS Lecture (Logic, Language, and Cognition Research
Group), University of Barcelona, International Guest Lecturer, six seminars, June 2006.
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55. “Singular Thought and Vision”, sixth LOGOS Lecture (Logic, Language, and
Cognition Research Group), University of Barcelona, International Guest Lecturer, six seminars, June 2006.
56. “Singular Thought and Semantic Instrumentalism”, American Philosophical
Association Pacific Division Meeting, Invited Symposium, San Francisco, April 2007
57. “Seeing What is There”, Canadian Philosophical Association, Saskatchewan,
Invited Symposium, May 2007
58. “Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location”, Arizona Ontology Conference, Tucson, Invited Speaker, January 2008
59. “Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location”, University of
California, Riverside, Graduate Alumni Conference, Keynote Speaker, March 2008
60. “Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location”, University of California, Irvine, colloquium, April 2008
61. “The Significance of Names”, The Names Conference, Institute of Philosophy,
University of London, Invited Speaker, June 2008
62. “Three Theories of Singular Thought”, University of Warwick, colloquium, June 2008
63. “The Significance of Names”, Barcelona Workshop on Singular Thought,
LOGOS, University of Barcelona, Invited Speaker, January 2009
64. “The Significance of Names”, University of California, Riverside Language Workshop, March 2009
65. “The Significance of Names”, California State University at San Bernardino,
colloquium, March 2009
66. “Singular Thought: Names, Descriptions, and Discourse Representation Theory”, University of Chicago Semantics Workshop, Invited Speaker, October 2009
67. “Thinking of Things”, Northwestern University, colloquium, October 2009
68. “Thinking of Things”, University of Southern California, colloquium, November
2009
69. “Semantics and Spatial Thought”, Reed College, Philosophy Colloquium, November 2009
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70. “Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location”, Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference: Reference and Referring, Invited Speaker, April 2010
71. “Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location”, Harvard University
Space Perception Conference, Invited Speaker, October 2010
72. “The Truth about Slurs”, Harvard University, colloquium, October 2010
73. “The Truth about Slurs”, Southern California Philosophy Conference, Invited Speaker, November 2010
74. “Mental Files and Discourse Representation Theory”, Mental Files Conference,
Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris, Invited Speaker, November 2010
75. “The Truth about Slurs”, University of Southern California, Speaker for Open House, March 2011
76. “Two Dogmas of Russellianism”, Acquaintance Conference, University of Texas,
Austin, Invited Speaker, March 2011
77. “The Truth about Slurs”, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, Symposium, Invited Speaker, April 2011
78. “Dehumanizing Slurs”, Society for Exact Philosophy, Keynote Speaker, Manitoba,
May 2011
79. “Names Not Predicates”, Ordinary Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, Arché Workshop, St. Andrews, Invited Speaker, June 2011
80. “Camp on Slurs and Stereotypes”, SPAWN, Syracuse Workshop on Philosophy of
Language, Invited Speaker, August 2011
81. “Two Dogmas of Russellianism”, Workshop on Reference, Institute for Philosophical Research, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Invited Speaker, August 2011
82. “Names Not Predicates”, The Game of the Name Workshop, Gottingen, Invited
Speaker, September 2011
83. “Dehumanizing Slurs”, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Rhetoric Workshop, Donostia, Spain, November 2011
84. “Names Not Predicates”, UCLA Philosophy of Language Workshop, Invited
Speaker, February 2012
85. “Dehumanizing Slurs”, UCLA, Philosophy Colloquium, March 2012
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86. “Dehumanizing Slurs”, California State Long Beach Philosophy Symposium, Keynote Speaker, April 2012
87. “Descriptivism and the Representation of Spatial Location”, Centered Content and
Communication Workshop, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, Invited Speaker, May 2012
88. “Dehumanizing Slurs”, Barcelona Workshop on Pejoratives, LOGOS, University
of Barcelona, Invited Speaker, May 2012
89. “Names Not Predicates”, 2nd Annual Parma Workshop in Philosophy of Language, Parma, Italy, Invited Speaker, September 2012
90. “Dehumanizing Slurs”, Dubrovnik Conference on Philosophy of Language,
Dubrovnik, Croatia, Invited Speaker, September 2012
91. “Dehumanizing Slurs”, University of Minnesota, Philosophy Colloquium, September 2012
92. “Names Not Predicates”, Rutgers-Princeton Seminar, Harman-Lepore Graduate
Seminar on Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Language, Princeton, Invited Speaker, October 2012
93. “Names Not Predicates”, Society for Exact Philosophy, Keynote Speaker, Ohio
State University, October 2012
94. “The Uniformity Argument for Predicativism about Proper Names”, Reference Workshop, Ohio State University, March 2013
95. “The Uniformity Argument for Predicativism about Proper Names”, American
Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, symposium, March 2013
96. “Dehumanizing Slurs”, University of California, San Diego, Philosophy
Colloquium, May 2013
97. “The Uniformity Argument for Predicativism about Proper Names”, Reference and Frege’s Puzzles Workshop, Umea, Sweden, June 2013
98. “Intuiting the Infinite”, NYU La Pietra Workshop on the A priori, Florence, Italy,
June 2013
99. “Referentialism and Predicativism about Proper Names”, Leonard Linsky Memorial Conference: On Philosophy of Language and Early Analytic Philosophy, University of Chicago, October 2013
100. “Referentialism and Predicativism about Proper Names”, Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy Conference, Tarrytown, October 2013
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101. “Derogatives”, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting,
symposium, Baltimore, December 2013
102. “Slurring Terms: Expressive and Descriptive”, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, colloquium, San Diego, April 2014
103. “Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt”, Dominating Speech Conference, University of Connecticut, November 2014
104. “Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt”, Gargnano Workshop on Names, Demonstratives, and Expressives, Gargnano Italy, September 2014
105. Dehumanizing Slurs, The Wedberg Lectures, Stockholm, Lecture 1: Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt, May 18, 2015
106. Dehumanizing Slurs, The Wedberg Lectures, Stockholm, Lecture 2: The Truth about Slurs, May 19, 2015
107. Dehumanizing Slurs, The Wedberg Lectures, Stockholm, Lecture 3: The Social Dimension of Slurs, May 21, 2015
108. “Katherine and the Katherine: On the Syntactic Distribution of Names and Nouns”, Keynote Speaker, Graduate Philosophy Conference, Stockholm, May 2015
109. “Frege’s Notions of Self-Evidence and Pre-established Harmony”, Frege Workshop, University of Stirling, June 2015
110. “Cognitivism and Mental Files: A Partial Defense”, Thinking the Same Workshop, Bogazici University, Istanbul, September 2015
111. “Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt”, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, invited speaker, December 2015
112. “The Truth about Slurs”, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, invited speaker, December 2015
113. “The Social Dimension of Slurs”, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, invited speaker, December 2015
114. “Katherine and the Katherine: On the Syntactic Distribution of Names and Nouns” LOGOS, University of Barcelona, invited speaker, December 2015
115. “Katherine and the Katherine: On the Syntactic Distribution of Names and Nouns”, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, symposium, Washington DC, January 2016
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116. “Slurs and Hate Speech”, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, symposium on hate speech, San Francisco, April 2016
117. “Slur Creation, Bigotry Formation, Part 1” San Raffaelle University Spring School, Emotions, Normativity, Social Life, Milan, June 2016
118. “Slur Creation, Bigotry Formation: Part 2”, University of Milan, June 2016
119. “Frege’s Notions of Self-Evidence and Pre-established Harmony”, Pavia, June 2016
120. “Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt” MIT Philosophy of Language Workshop, July 2016
121. “The Social Dimension of Slurs” Dubrovnik Workshop on Philosophy of Language, September 2016
122. “Slurs Creation, Bigotry Formation: The Power of Expressivism” University of British Columbia, October 2016
123. “Slur Creation, Bigotry Formation: The Power of Expressivism” celebrating 250 Years at Rutgers University, talks by distinguished alumni, November 2016
124. “The Social Dimension of Slurs” University of Chicago, Metaphor, Meaning, and Maimonides, Workshop in honor of Josef Stern, December 2016
125. “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Creation and Appropriation of Slurs”, Milan Workshop on Pejoratives, January 2017
126. “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Creation and Appropriation of Slurs”, University of Miami, March 2017
127. “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Creation and Appropriation of Slurs”, University of Oslo Meaning Innovation and Meaning Change Conference, March 2017
128. “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Creation and Appropriation of Slurs”, University of Notre Dame, April 2017
129. “What Good is Self-Evidence?”, keynote address, Society for the Study of the History of Analytic Philosophy, University of Calgary, May 2017
130. “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Creation and Appropriation of Slurs”, St. Andrews
Workshop on Slurring and Swearing, June 2017. 131. “Katherine and the Katherine: On the Syntactic Distribution of Names and
Nouns”, Institute Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, June 2017.
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132. “The Social Dimension of Slurs”, Institute Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, June 2017.
133. “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Creation and Appropriation of Slurs”, Institute Jean
Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, June 2017. 134. “What’s Wrong With Slurs?”, Institute Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure,
June 2017. 135. “Singular Thought and Perspectival Thought”, Acquaintance and Reference
Workshop, University of Liege, June 2017. 136. “Beyond Assertion: How Vocatives Illuminate Slurs”, Trieste Workshop on
Assertion, November 2017. 137. “Reflections on Singular Thought: A Measured Defense of Cognitivism”, Free
University of Brussels, November 2017. 138. “Katherine and the Katherine: On the Syntactic Distribution of Names and
Nouns” APA Memorial Session for Delia Graff Fara, Savannah, January 2018.
139. “Pride and Prejudiced: On the Appropriation of Slurs”, University of Indiana, Bloomington, colloquium, February 2018.
140. “Slurs and Other Toxic Speech”, guest (virtual) visitor at Lynne Tirrell’s graduate
seminar, University of Pittsburgh, March 2018. 141. “What’s Wrong With Slurs?” colloquium, LOGOS, University of Barcelona, May
2018. 142. “Polysemous Expressives and the Problem of Appropriation”, Context, Cognition,
and Communication Conference, University of Warsaw, June 2018. 143. “Sluts and Sissies: On Gendered Slurs”, Pragmasophia Conference, University of
Lisbon, September 2018. 144. “Katherine and the Katherine: On the Syntactic Distribution of Names and
Nouns”, Kline Workshop in Philosophy of Language, University of Missouri, October 2018.
Presentations of Comments
1. “Implicit Belief? A priori Knowledge?”, Spindel Conference on A priori Knowledge, Memphis, September 1999
2. Roundtable Discussant, Rutgers Epistemology Conference, April 2000
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3. Comments of Brian Weatherson’s “True, Truer, Truest”, Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2003
4. Comments on John Perry’s “The Confessions of Saint Howard”, Lens of
Language Conference, University of California, Riverside, December 2004
5. Comments on John Campbell’s “Wittgenstein on the Role of Experience in Linguistic Understanding”, Santa Cruz Conference on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mind, June 2007
6. Comments on Naomi Eilan’s “Locating the Perspective of Consciousness”, University of California, Riverside Conference on Self, Agency, and Self-Awareness, February 2008
7. Roundtable discussant on unarticulated constituents, University of California, Riverside, Conference on the Philosophy of John Perry, April 2009
8. Comments on Samuel Cumming and Gabriel Greenberg’s “On Conventions, Local and Natural”, Meta-Semantics Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, February 2014
9. Roundtable discussant, Anthony Bruekner Memorial Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2015
10. Comments on Cameron Kirk-Giannini’s “Slurs are Directives”, Pacific APA, San
Diego, March 2018.
11. Comments on Wendy Salkin’s “Democracy Within, Justice Without: The Duties of Informal Representation”, 2nd California Philosophy Workshop, Malibu, October 2018.
Guest Lectures and Panel Discussions
1. Panel Discussant, Sticks and Stones: The Power of Slurring Words, University of Southern California, Sponsored by Rainbow Coalition, October 2012
2. Panel Discussant, Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California, On Controversy in the Classroom, March 2014
3. Discussant, Proper Names Workshop, Budapest, May 2015 Fellowships, Awards, Named Lectureships
(2017) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)/Institute Jean Nicod Visiting Scholar
(2015) The Wedberg Lectures, Stockholm
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(2005-2006) Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
(CASBS), Palo Alto (2005) American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently
Tenured Scholars (11 awarded nationally across the humanities) (1992-1993) Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago (1986-1990) Century Fellowship, University of Chicago (1986) Sanford Doolittle Prize in Philosophy, Rutgers University (1985) W. J. Norton Prize in Philosophy, Rutgers University
Professional Activities
(2017-present) Editorial Board, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, philosophy of language section
(2017-present) Editorial Board, Semantics and Pragmatics
(2017-present) Editorial Board, Thought (2018-present) Advisory Board, Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives,
Roman and Littlefield. (2014-2017) Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Editorial Board and Philosophy of Language
(2015-present) Philosophy Compass, Editorial Board, Language and Logic Editor (2010-2016) Philosophy Compass, Editorial Board, Philosophy of Language and
Epistemology (2018-present) Faculty mentor to Alexis Wellwood, Assistant Professor, USC
Philosophy. (2018) External Examiner, dissertation of Laura Delgado, LOGOS University of
Barcelona, May 2018.
(2017) External Reader, dissertation of Bianca Cepollaro, Institute Jean Nicod and the University of Pisa, January 2017.
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(2016) Mentor, Athena in Action, program for women graduate students. Twenty-five paper evaluations, philosophical development, mentorship, support network.
(2015-2016) Reviewer of fellowship applications for the American Council of Learned
Societies, evaluating approximately twenty applications each year. (2014) Reviewer of fellowship applications for the Center for Advanced Studies in the
Behavioral Sciences, evaluating approximately ten applications each year. (2011-2013) USC Appointments, Tenure and Promotions Committee to the Dean,
Mathematics and Sciences
(2010) Program Organizer, Philosophy of Language and Epistemology, Pacific Division APA, San Francisco, April 2010
(2009) Conference Co-Organizer: The Philosophy of John Perry, University of
California, Riverside, April 2009 (2009) Program Organizer, Philosophy of Language, Pacific Division APA,
Vancouver, April 2009 (2008) Program Organizer, Philosophy of Language and Epistemology, Pacific
Division APA, Pasadena, April 2008 (2003) Conference Co-organizer: New Themes in Philosophy of Language, Yale
University, November 2003 (1999) Guest Editor for Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Special Volume on the A priori,
November 1999 (1997) Conference Organizer: A priori Knowledge, University of Southern California,
April 1997 Appointments and Promotions Referee to Full Professor: (2018), (2017), (2016),
(2014), (2012), (2012) Tenure Referee: (2017), (2014), (2011), (2010), (2009), (2007) Book Manuscript Referee: Oxford University Press, Kluwer Academic Publishing,
Routledge Journal Referee: The Philosophical Review, Mind, Journal of Semantics, Linguistics and
Philosophy, Nous, Mind and Language, European Journal of Philosophy, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophers’ Imprint, Erkenntnis, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Inquiry, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Studies, Dialectica, Philosophy Compass, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Thought, Philosophia, Journal of Philosophical
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Research (most multiple times; approximately 8 reviews per year; 2015-2017 twenty-five in house screens per year for PPQ)
(2010) Referee for American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San
Francisco (2010) Referee for Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference: Reference and
Referring (2009) LOGOS Scientific Advisory Committee, Sixth Barcelona Conference on
Issues in the Theory of Reference: Empty Names (2009) Referee for American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting,
Vancouver (2008-2009) Reviewer of Grant Proposals for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada Referee for American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Pasadena
(2008) (2007-2009) Referee for the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
Graduate Supervision
Dissertation Committees: Eleanor Neufeld (USC), chair, Causal Models for Understanding Natural Kinds, Slurs, and
Generics, in progress. Rebecca Ehrhardt (USC English), external reader, Character Shadows: Referential Fictions
in British Literature 1798-1895, in progress. Huilin Fang, (USC linguistics), external reader. Laura Delgado (LOGOS University of Barcelona) David, Some Davids, and All Davids:
Reference, Category Change, and Bearerhood of Real-Life Names, Chair of Committee, President of Dissertation Defense, May 2018.
Keith Hall (USC) Instantial Terms, Donkey Anaphora, and Individual Concepts, October
2017. Renee Bollinger (USC) Mistaken Self-Defense and Normative Conventions, August 2017. Bianca Cepollaro (University of Pisa and Ecole Normale Superieure) The Semantics
and Pragmatics of Slurs and Thick Terms, January 2017.
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Matthew Babb (USC) Telling Each Other What To Do: On Imperative Language, chair, November 2016
Greg Ackerman (USC) Representation, Truth, and the Metaphysics of Propositions, March
2016 Indrek Rieland (USC) Meaningfulness, Rules, and Use-Conditional Semantics, May 2014
Antonella Vecchiato (USC) Direct and Indirect Causation, linguistics, external reader and
examiner, September 2011 Cecilia Stepp (USC) Metaphor
Dissertation Qualifying Committees:
Elli Neufeld, chair, November 2018 Rebecca Ehrhardt, English, external reader and examiner, February 2018 Huilin Fang, linguistics, external reader and examiner, April 2016 Renee Bollinger, October 2015 Matthew Babb, chair, May 2014 Keith Hall, May 2014 Greg Ackerman, February 2014 Indrek Rieland, May 2012 Cecilia Stepp, May 2012 Marina Folescu, May 2011
Area Examination Supervisor:
Jennifer Head, 2018 Junhyo Lee, 2018 Eleanor Neufeld, 2018 Renee Bollinger, 2014, supplementary Matthew Babb, 2012 Keith Hall, 2012 Greg Ackerman, 2012 John Kwak, 2011
Second Year Paper Supervisor: Jennifer Head, 2017-2018 Quyen Pham, 2017-2018 Eleanor Neufeld, 2016-2017 Junhyo Lee, 2016-2017
Teaching Mentor:
Rima Basu Nicholas Laskowski Nicola Kemp
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Visiting Graduate Students:
Zoe Johnson King, Ph.D candidate from University of Michigan, spring 2017 James Openshaw, Ph.D candidate from Oxford University, spring 2016
Independent Studies with Graduate Students:
Junhyo Lee, The Syntax of Proper Names, spring 2017 Keith Hall, Singular Thought and Perceptual Content, spring 2011 Rima Basu, Singular Thought, spring 2011
At University of California, Riverside: (2009-2013) John Ramsey, thesis supervision, How To Do Bad Things With Words: A
Multi-Level Model of Oppressive Speech (2009) John Ramsey, proposition, Unarticulated Constituents in Thought, June 2009 (2009) John Ramsey, MA paper, July 2009 (2009) Alan Moore, MA paper, reader, June 2009 (2009) Timothy Gann, candidacy oral, Department of Psychology, March 2009 (2009) Vanessa Miller, candidacy oral, Department of Psychology, January 2009 (2008) Vanessa Miller, candidacy oral, Department of Psychology, September 2008
At Yale University:
(2009) Geoff Pynn, Other Minds, dissertation supervision, completed June 2009 At University of Southern California:
(2002) Antonella Vecchiato, Direct and Indirect Causation, qualifying examination, external reader, June 2002
(2000) Gregg Ten Elshof Introspection, primary reader, dissertation completed June
2000 (1996) Gregory Jarrett Phenomenal Qualities, second reader, dissertation completed
May 1996 Courses Taught At University of Southern California:
Graduate Seminar, Themes in Feminist Philosophy, Autumn 2018 Graduate Seminar, Special Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics, Spring 2017 Graduate Seminar, Special Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics, Spring 2016
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Graduate Seminar, Special Topics in Philosophy of Language and Mind, Autumn 2014
Graduate Seminar, Special Topics in Philosophy of Language, Autumn 2012 GE Seminar: Language and Rationality, Autumn 2016 GE Seminar: Free Speech, Hate Speech Spring 2018 ARLT: Philosophical Themes on Mortality, Autumn 2010 ARLT: Language, Rationality, Culture, Spring 2015 Philosophy of Language, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013,
Spring 2015, Autumn 2018 Contemporary Moral and Social Issues, Spring 1011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014,
Autumn 2016 Research 790:
Spring 2018: Elli Neufeld Autumn 2018: Jennifer Head
Directed Research 590: Spring 2018: Jennifer Head, Quyen Pham Spring 2017: Junhyo Lee Autumn 2012: Matt Babb, Keith Hall, Jennifer Liderth, Spring 2013: Matt Babb Autumn 2011: Keith Hall
At University of California, Riverside:
Current Topics in Pragmatics (co-taught with John Perry), Spring 2010 First-Year Graduate Pro-Seminar on Classical Literature in Twentieth Century
Philosophy of Language and Mind, Winter 2010 Graduate Seminar on the Philosophy of John Perry: The Semantics and
Psychological Role of Indexicals, Demonstratives, and Unarticulated Constituents (co-taught with Howard Wettstein), Winter 2009
First-Year Graduate Pro-Seminar on Self-Reference and Self-Awareness, Autumn 2007
Graduate Seminar on Singular Thought and Demonstrative Reference, Winter 2007 Philosophy of Language, Spring 2009, Autumn 2006 Sophomore-Junior Tutorial: Themes on Mortality, Spring 2008, Autumn 2009 Mortal Questions: Personal Identity, Free Will, Love, Death, Spring 2007 Contemporary Moral Issues, Autumn 2008, Winter 2008, Spring 2007
At Yale University:
Graduate Seminar on Non-Conceptual Content, Spring 2005 Graduate Seminar on Singular Thought, Autumn 2004 Graduate Seminar on Frege (co-taught with Susanne Bobzien), Spring 2004 Graduate Seminar on The First Person, Autumn 2003 Graduate Seminar on Numbers and our Knowledge of Numbers, Spring 2003 Philosophy of Language, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004 Directed Studies – Team-taught Course in the History of Early Modern Philosophy,
Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 At University of Southern California:
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Pro-Seminar for New Graduate Students: Contemporary Philosophical Topics, Autumn 2000, Autumn 1999
Graduate Seminar on De Re Belief, Autumn 1998 Graduate Seminar on A priori Knowledge, Spring 1997 Graduate Seminar on Frege's Metaphysics of Number and Epistemology of
Mathematics, Spring 1996 Graduate Seminar on Skepticism, Transcendental Arguments, Externalism and Self-
Knowledge, Autumn 1996 Graduate Seminar on Rationality and Self-Knowledge, Autumn 1994 Philosophy of Language, Spring 2001, Spring 1998, Spring 1996, Autumn 1994 Epistemology, Spring 1999 Early Modern Philosophy (Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant), Spring 1995 Conceptions of Mind and Self, Autumn 2000, Autumn 1999, Spring 1998, Autumn
1998, Autumn 1995, Autumn 1996 Contemporary Moral and Social Issues, Spring 2001, Spring 1997, Autumn 1995 Arts and Letters Course on Language, Rationality, and Culture, Autumn 2000, Spring
1999 At University of Chicago:
Theories of Knowledge, Summer 1990 At Columbia College, Chicago:
