SELECT RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"The use of heuristics in psychological explanation" (with Iris van Rooij & Todd Wareham). Synthèse (forthcoming).

"Is pluralism about truth inherently unstable?" Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).

Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates (ed., with Nikolaj Pedersen). Oxford University Press, 2011.

"Truth, Ramsification, and the pluralist’s revenge.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 88 (2010): 265–283.

New Waves in Truth (ed., with Nikolaj Pedersen). Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

"Truth, pluralism, monism, correspondence” (with Nikolaj Pedersen). In Cory D. Wright & Nikolaj Pedersen (eds.), New Waves in Truth (2010: 205–217). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

"What is psychological explanation?” (with William Bechtel). In Paco Calvo & John Symons (eds.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology (2009: 113–130). New York: Routledge.

"Embodied cognition: grounded until further notice?” British Journal of Psychology, 99 (2008): 157–164.

"Autonomy, allostasic mechanisms, and AI: a biomimetic perspective.” (with Ioan Muntean). Pragmatics and Cognition, 15 (2007): 489–513.

"Review of Hubert Cuyckens, René Dirven, & John R. Taylor’s (eds.) Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics.” Cognitive Linguistics, 18 (2007): 570–579.

"Truth as a normative modality of cognitive acts” (with Gila Sher). In Dirk Greimann & Geo Siegwart (eds.), Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language (2007: 525–574). New York: Routledge.

"Is psychological explanation going extinct?” In Maurice Schouten & Huib Looren de Jong (eds.), The Matter of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience, and Reduction (2007: 249–274). Oxford: Blackwell.

"Mechanisms and psychological explanation” (with William Bechtel). In Paul Thagard (ed.), Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science (2007: 31–79). New York: Elsevier.

TALKS, ETC.

"Functionalism about truth and the modified Ramsey-Lewis sentence.” Department of Philosophy Colloquium, University of Nevada Los Vegas (Las Vegas, NV), 15 October 2010.

"The role of abstraction in generalizations about mechanistic phenomena.” 84th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (San Francisco, CA), 1–4 April 2010.

"Is pluralism about truth inherently unstable?” 38th annual meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy (Kansas City, MO), 20 March 2010.

"Pluralism: a progress report." 12th annual Southern California Philosophy Conference. (Claremont, CA), 7 November 2009.

Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates (org., with Michael P. Lynch, Marcus Rossburg, & Nikolaj Pedersen) (Storrs, CT), 15–17 May 2009.

"The role of laws in mechanistic explanations of psychological phenomena.” 101st Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Savannah, GA), 10 April 2009.

"Truth, meaning, and the lexical semantics of alethic terms." International Conference on Language, Communication, and Cognition (Brighton, UK), 4 August 2008 [withdrew].

"Psychological explanation and folk theories of truth." European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Utrecht, NL) 28 June 2008.

"Why the best ontic conception of scientific explanation is an epistemic one.” TiLPS  Research Seminar, Universiteit van Tilburg (Tilburg, NL), 22 May 2008.

"Explanation: some emendations for the New Mechanists.” Philosophy Neuroscience Psychology Colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO), 10 April 2008.

"On Mark Couch's 'Multiple realization in comparative perspective'." American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Conference (Pasadena, CA), 19 March 2008.

Perception, Language, Space (org., with David M. Kaplan). Philosophy Neuroscience Psychology Conference (St. Louis, MO), 1–2 March 2008.

"On Fritz McDonald's 'Can deflationism provide an adequate account of the value of truth?'." 32nd Annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference (Memphis, TN) 23 February 2008.

APPOINTMENTS, SELECT AWARDS, HONORS, ETC.

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State University Long Beach, 2008–current.

Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities [declined], Johns Hopkins University, 2008–2010.

James S. McDonnell Post-doctoral Fellowship [declined], Philosophy Neuroscience Psychology Program, Washington University St. Louis, 2008–2009.

Visiting Research Fellow, Tilburg Center for Logic & Philosophy of Science, Universiteit van Tilburg, 2008.

James S. McDonnell Post-doctoral Fellow, Philosophy Neuroscience Psychology Program, Washington University in St. Louis, 2007–2008.

J. William Fulbright Fellowship, U. S. Department of Education, 2004–2005.

TEACHING

Department of Philosophy, California State University Long Beach

Graduate Seminar in Epistemology: Theories of Truth, (SP09)

Graduate Seminar in Philosophy of Science: Scientific Realism, (SP11)

Philosophical Psychology, (SP10)

Philosophy of Science, (FA08, FA09, FA10)

Early Analytic Philosophy, (FA11)

Introduction to Philosophy, (SU10, FA10, SU11, FA11)

Special Topics in 20th Century: Propositions, (WI10 [canceled])

Critical Reasoning, (FA08, SP09, FA09)

Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University St. Louis

Current Controversies in Cognitive Science: Cognitive Grammar, (SP08)

Introduction to the Cognitive Sciences, (FA07)