Cory D. Wright
Department of Philosophy
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1073
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130–4899 USA

Telephone: 314–935–9531
Fax: 314–935–7349
Email: cwright@wustl.edu


CV    |    RESEARCH    |   TEACHING

(Abbreviated Curriculum Vita)

APPOINTMENTS
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.
EDUCATION
PhD in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, 2007
Dissertation: Truth and Cognition
Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Universiteit Utrecht (Logic, Meaning, and Cognition program)
Universiteit van Tilburg (Rationality and Non-reductionism program), 2004–2005
AREAS of SPECIALIZATION
 Epistemology
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Cognitive Science

 AREAS of COMPETENCE
 History of Analytic Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Psychology
Philosophy of Neuroscience

SELECT RECENT PUBLICATIONS
  • “Truth: pluralist theories of" (with Nikolaj Pedersen). Invited entry in preparation for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • “What is psychological explanation?” (with William Bechtel). Forthcoming in Paco Calvo & John Symons (Eds.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology. 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, and 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 and 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 and Huib Looren de Jong (Eds.), The Matter of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience, and Reduction (2007: 249–274). Oxford: Blackwell.
  • “The incoherence of heuristically explaining coherence” (with Iris van Rooij). Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (2006): 2622.
  • “Mechanisms and psychological explanation” (with William Bechtel). In Paul Thagard (Ed.), Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science (2006: 31–79). New York: Elsevier.
  • “Remarks on the functionalization of pluralist approaches to truth.” Synthese, 145 (2005): 1–28.
  • Neil E. Paterson, Adrie W. Bruijnzeel, Paul J. Kenny, Cory D. Wright, Wolfgang Froestl, and Athina Markou. “Prolonged nicotine exposure does not alter GABAB receptor-mediated regulation of brain reward function.” Neuropharmacology, 49 (2005): 953–962.

SELECT RECENT CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
  • "Truth, meaning, and the lexical semantics of alethic terms." International Conference on Language, Communication, and Cognition. (Brighton, UK), 4 August 2008.
  • “Psychological explanation and folk theories of truth." European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. (Utrecht, NL) 28 June 2008.
  • “On Mark Couch's 'Multiple realization in comparative perspective'." American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Conference. (Pasadena, CA) 19 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.
  • “Autonomy, allostasic mechanisms, and AI: a biomimetic perspective.” (with Ioan Muntean). 7th International Computer Ethics Conference (San Diego, CA), 13 July 2007.
  • “On Glen Hoffman’s ‘Truth, superassertability, and conceivability’.” 81st Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division (San Francisco, CA), 3–8 April 2007.
  • “The incoherence of heuristically explaining coherence” (with Iris van Rooij). 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Vancouver, BC), 29 July 2006.

SELECT AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS
Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (declined), Johns Hopkins University, 2008–2010.
James S. McDonnell Post-doctoral Fellowship (declined), PNP, Washington University St. Louis, 2008–2009.
J. William Fulbright Fellowship, U. S. Department of Education, 2004–2005.


SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of Philosophy, California State University Long Beach
Philosophy of Science, Fall 2008
Critical Reasoning, Fall 2008
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University St. Louis
Current Controversies in Cognitive Science: Cognitive Grammar, Spring 2008
Introduction to Cognitive Science, Fall 2007
Department of Philosophy, University of California San Diego
Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Summer 2006
 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Book Review Editor, Psyche, 2007–current
Organizer, PNP WIPS colloquium, Washington University in St. Louis, 2007–2008
Book Review Editor, Philosophical Psychology, 2002–2007
Managing Editor, Philosophical Psychology, 2002–2004
Assessing Editor, Journal of Mind and Behavior, 2000–current
Ad hoc referee for:

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & MEMBERSHIPS
Society for the Metaphysics of Science, 2007–current
American Philosophical Association, 1998–1999, 2003, 2006–current
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2002–current
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, 2002–2004
Society for Neuroscience, 2001–2004
Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology, Wabash College, 1994–current