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Education
Ph.D., Philosophy,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008
Dissertation:
The Synthesis of Concepts: Inferentialism and Semantic Theory
in Hume, Kant and Hegel
Committee: Jay
Rosenberg (Director), Jesse Prinz, Alan Nelson, William Lycan, Marc
Lange, Gerald Postema
M.A., Philosophy,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
Thesis: Absolute
Relativism
Committee: Gerald
Postema (Director), William Lycan, David Reeve
B.A., Philosophy,
Bard College, 2001
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Areas of Specialization
Kant, Modern Philosophy
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Areas of Competence
German Idealism,
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind
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Refereed Journal
Papers
“Hume’s
Impression/Idea Distinction” Hume Studies, 32, 1 (April
2006): 119-139
“A (Sellarsian)
Kantian Critique of Hume’s Theory of Concepts” Pacific
Philosophical Quarterly, 88, 4 (December 2007): 445-457
“Hegel’s
Account of Rule-Following” Inquiry, 51, 3 (October 2008):
169-192
“Sellars
on Hume and Kant on Representing Complexes” European Journal
of Philosophy, forthcoming
“Inferentialism
and the Transcendental Deduction” Kantian Review, forthcoming
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Invited Papers
"The Premise
That Even Hume Must Accept" Self, Language, and World: Essays
to celebrate the work of Jay F. Rosenberg. Eds.
Jim O'Shea and Eric Rubenstein
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Presentations
Conferences:
The Philosophy
of Jay Rosenberg, UNC Chapel Hill, September 2008
Meaning and Modern Empiricism, Virginia Tech, April 2008
Departmental Colloquia:
Scripps College,
January 2008
Illinois State University, February 2008
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Research Outline
My work centers
around the thesis that the history of Modern philosophy is at its core
a debate about the nature and content of mental representation, a debate
that is initiated as early as Descartes, and which crescendos with the
contrasting theories of Hume and Kant. Hume is a sophisticated relationalist
who believes that content is fixed by a relation between a mental entity
and that which it represents. Hume’s employs his famous Copy Principle
not only as a explanation of the causal origin of ideas, but also as
the principle that determines their representational content. Kant,
on the other hand, rejects relationalism on the grounds that it makes
impossible our representing as such a world of objects bearing lawful
relations to one another. Since he argues that this is necessary for
representing oneself as a single, unified subject of experience persisting
through time, he concludes that relationalism is untenable. Kant presents
inferentialism—the thesis that the content of a representation
is constituted by that representation’s role in a system of inference—as
a viable alternative to relationalism. Hegel accepts the Kantian picture,
emphasizes the normativity involved in the inferential articulation
of concepts, and argues that this is an essentially social affair. By
reading these figures in this way I am able to reveal the motivations
behind their semantic programs and uncover arguments that have been
underappreciated in scholarship on Modern philosophy and in contemporary
semantic theory.
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Editorial Work
Referee, Society
for Philosophy and Psychology, 2007
Editorial Assistant,
Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images. Jay Rosenberg. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2007
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Teaching Experience
Wake Forest University
Basic Problems
in Philosophy (three sections)
University of North
Carolina/Chapel Hill
Main Problems
in Philosophy (three times)
Great Works in Philosophy (twice)
Modern Philosophy (three times)
Existentialism
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Religion
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Graduate Courses
Taken (* indicates audit)
Hume, Don Garrett
Kant*, Jay Rosenberg
Kant, Andrew Janiak
Modern Philosophy*,
Alan Nelson
Hegel, Gerald
Postema Sellars*, Jay Rosenberg
Philosophy of
Language, Dorit Bar-On
Concepts, Jesse
Prinz Sellars, Quine, Wittgenstein, Marc Lange
Philosophy of
Mind, Richard Zaffron
Relativism*, Jesse
Prinz & Dorit Bar-On Epistemology*, Jay Rosenberg
Wittgenstein*,
Jay Rosenberg
Ontology, Thomas
Hofweber Skepticism and Virtue Epistemology, William Lycan
Philosophy of
Science, John Roberts
Causation, Marc
Lange Normative Concepts, Geoff Sayre-McCord
Aristotle, Edward
Galligan
Plato, David Reeve
Plato’s Republic*, David Reeve
Self-Knowledge,
Dorit Bar-On
Utilitarianism,
Susan Wolf Logic, Mike Resnik
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References
Don
Garrett, Professor of Philosophy, New York University. don.garrett@nyu.edu,
(212) 995-4179
Alan Nelson, Professor
Of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. anelson@unc.edu,
(919) 962-3030
Jesse Prinz, Professor
of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. jesse@subcortex.com,
(919) 962-3323
Jay Rosenberg,
Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. (deceased)
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