Curriculum Vitae
I. EDUCATION & DEGREES
—Undergraduate Philosophy—
University of California, Berkeley, California, 1973-74: left without degree
University of California, Los Angeles, California: 1974-76 and 1978-9: B.A. 1979
—Graduate Philosophy—
Princeton University, 1979-1980: left without degree
University of California, Santa Barbara: M.A. 1983: “Form Before Matter in Kant”
University of California, Santa Barbara: Ph.D. 1987: “Kant’s Model of the Mind”
II. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Lecturer, National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Fall 2008-Spring 2010
Visiting Lecturer, University of Auckland, Fall semester 2009
Adjunct, New York University, Fall 2005
Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University, 2004-5
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996-2001
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of Ill., Chicago, Spring 1995
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, Fall 1994
Lecturer, Yale University, Fall 1994
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York,
1987-94
III. AREA OF SPECIALIZATION
Early modern philosophy through Kant
IV. AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Post-Kantian German idealism, Wittgenstein
V. PUBLICATIONS
—Books—
1. Kant’s Model of the Mind. A New Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1991.
2. Hume’s Theory of Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994
(paperback 2003).
3. Kant and the Empiricists. Understanding Understanding, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005.
4. Kant’s Anatomy of the Intelligent Mind. The Psychologization of Space, Time, and
Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
—Articles—
I. Peer reviewed
1. “Hume’s Quandary Concerning Personal Identity,” 233-254, Hume Studies, Nov.
1992.
2. “Impressions and Ideas: Vivacity as Verisimilitude,” 75-88, Hume Studies,Apr. 1993.
3. “What Are Kant’s Analogies About?,” 63-114, Review of Metaphysics, Sept. 1993.
4. “Kant on the Possibility of Thought,” 809-59, Review of Metaphysics, June, 1995.
5. “The Psychologistic Foundations of Hume’s Critique of Mathematics,” 123-69, Hume
Studies, April, 1996.
6. “Perception,” Encyclopedia of Empiricism, 1997.
7. “David Hume,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, MacMillan & Co., 1997.
8. “The point of Hume’s skepticism with regard to reason: the primacy of facility in
Hume’s theory of the understanding,” Hume Studies, 1999.
9. “Kant’s Psychologism, Pt. I,” Kantian Review,1999.
10. “Kant’s Psychologism., Pt. II,” Kantian Review,2000.
11. “Kant’s Refutation of Berkeleyan Idealism,” in Idealismus als Theorie der
Repräsentation?,Paderborn: mentis Verlag GmbH, 2000.
12. “Hume on space and time,” in The Blackwell Companion to Hume, ed. Elizabeth
Radcliffe, 2008.
13. “Kant’s Debt to the Empiricists,” in The Blackwell Companion to Kant, ed. by
Graham Bird, 2006.
14. “Hume”, 20k-word entry, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Borchert, Donald, ed.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006.
15. “Kant’s Humean Solution to Hume’s Problem,” in Kant and The Early Moderns,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
16. “Peut-on échapper de façon kantienne au dilemme humien de l’identité personnelle?”,
proceedings of the Grenoble Hume conference, March 2008, forthcoming.
17. “Is There a Kantian Way Out of Hume’s Quandary concerning Personal Identity?”,
Hume Readings, ed. by Lorenzo Greco and Alesio Vaccari, Rome: Edizioni di Storia
e Letteratura.
18. “David Hume,” in Histoire de la philosophie, Editions du Seuil, forthcoming.
19. “Hume’s Theory of Ideas,” Oxford Handbook of David Hume, forthcoming.
II. Not peer reviewed
1. “Time and Change in Kant and MacTaggart,” 179-188, Graduate Faculty Journal,
Spr. 1993.
2. “Kant and the Imposition of Time and Space,” Graduate Faculty Journal, Spr. 1996.
—Reviews—
1. “Paul Guyer’s Kant and the Claims of Knowledge.” Graduate Faculty Journal, 13:1,
1988.
2. “The Cambridge Companion to Locke, ed. by Vere Chappell, and Locke’s Philosophy, ed. by G.A.J. Rogers,” in Philosophical Quarterly, 1995.
3. “Marcia Baron’s Kant’s Ethics Almost Without Apologies,” Times Literary
Supplement Spr. 1997.
4. “ Andrew Brook’s Kant and the Mind,” Kantian Review, 1999.
5. “ Eric Watkins’ Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality,” Times Literary Supplement,
Fall 2005.
6. “Henry Allison, Custom and Reason in Hume. A Kantian Reading of the First Book of
the Treatise,” in Mind, Spring 2011.
—Translations—
1. French: “Actuality in Hegel’s Logic,” by Béatrice Longuenesse. Graduate Faculty
Journal 13:1, 1988.
2. German: “Sensitivity for Nature,” by Manfred Riedel. Address in Critique of
Judgment conference, New School for Social Research, 1990.
VI. INVITED LECTURES
1. “The Cartesian Nightmare Come True,” Hume Society Colloquium (Nantes, France), (1992)
2. “Kant on the Possibility of Thought,”
—Yale University philosophy colloquium (1994)
—University of Illinois, Urbana, philosophy colloquium (1995)
—University of Illinois, Chicago, philosophy colloquium (1995)
3. “Taking Vivacity for Real: Psychological Foundations of Hume’s Psychologism,”
—Stanford University, job interview (1994)
—Einstein Forum (Potsdam), speaker series (1995)
—University of Hamburg, speaker series (1996)
—Humboldt University (Berlin) (1996)
—University of Pittsburgh, philosophy colloquium (1998)
4. “The Point of Hume’s Skepticism with Regard to Reason: The Primacy of Affect,”
invited paper for the Hume Society, Pacific APA (1998)
5. “Comments on Lanier Anderson’s “Neo-Kantianism, Normativity and Psychology”
APA Pacific Division, 1999.
6. “A Kantian Refutation of Berkeley’s Idealism,” Colloquium Series, Metro College,
Denver, April, 2001; Central European University, Budapest Hungary, November
2001, CUNY Graduate Center 2005, Trinity College Dublin, 2008.
7. “Comments on Michael Ayers’s talk on perception,” Perception Conference, Humboldt
University, Berlin, October 2001.
8. “Perception and Experience: Locke’s Solution to the Molyneux Problem,” Collegium
Philosophicum, Humboldt University, Berlin, January 23, 2002. University of
Utrecht, Netherlands, March 14, 2007
9. “Kant’s Humean Solution to Hume’s Problem,” Conference of the Princeton Group in
the History of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University, May 7 – 9, 2004
10. “Hume’s Subjectivization of the Self: Personal Identity as Affective Continuity,” for
conference on personal identity, NYU, December 2004.
11. “La refutation kantienne de l’idealism de Berkeley,”March 17 2005 at Université
Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand.
12. “Apperception and the Individuality of Space and Time,” Seminar on Mind and
Language at NYU, April 11, 2006; New England Colloquium in Early Modern
Philosophy, Harvard University, April 2 – 4, 2006.
13. “Peut-on échapper de façon kantienne au dilemme humien de l’identité personnelle?”,
Hume conference at University of Grenoble, March, 2008
14. “Hume’s Quandary concerning Personal Identity,” Victory University November
2007, Waikato University July 2009
15. “Unknown Apperceptions: The Two Neglected Pre-categorial Roles of Kant’s Most
Fundamental Notion,” Victoria University February 2009, Auckland University
May 2009, Otago University August 2009
VII. HONORS
—DAAD fellow, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany, 1985-86
—Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung fellow, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, 1995-96, fall 1997; Humboldt-Universität, fall 2001.
—Member of PNEUMA group, 2010-
VIII. SERVICE
Asst Prof of Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (1987-94):
1. Colloquium director in charge of organizing guest talks: 1987 – 1992
2. Conceived and organized a conference on the Critique of Judgment commemorating the 200th anniversary of its publication
3. Involved in two faculty hires
4. Member of sever MA thesis committees (the PhD was only restored in 1990 and no one had reached the point of constituting a committee before my departure in 1994)
5. Member of a university tenure grievance committee that met regularly for more than six months
6. Member of the university committee charged to find a new dean
Asst Prof of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder (1996-2000):
1. De facto director of the only PhD thesis on modern philosophy during my years with the department (de facto only because the official thesis director had to be tenured)
2. Member of a search committee; led interviews of candidates at the Eastern APA
3. Member of the graduate admissions committee
4. Member of the university planning committee
5. Conducted reading groups on Kant and Wittgenstein
6. Directed several UG independent studies
IX. COURSES TAUGHT
—Undergraduate—
Introduction to Philosophy (2009)
Medieval and Rationalist Philosophy (lower division), 1987
Appearance and Reality (freshman sem.): Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume; 1987
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, 1988, 1997
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, 1989
British Empiricism, 1990
Analytic Philosophy of Language, 1992
Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, 1994, 2009
Introduction to Modern Philosophy for non-majors, 1996
Introduction to Modern Philosophy for majors, 1995, 1996, 1998-2000, 2005
Kant, 1997, 1999, 2004
Introduction to Philosophy 2010
Philosophical Anthropology 2008, 2009
Kant and Hegel 2009
Epistemology 2010
—Graduate—
Hume, Theory of Understanding, 1987,1990,1993, 1998
Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature 2010
Leibniz, metaphysical writings (except New Essays), 1987, 1993
Frege, writings prior to Basic Laws of Arithmetic, 1988
Freedom and the Supersensible in Kant’s Critical Philosophy, 1988
The Ethics of Spinoza, 1988, 1996
Analytic Philosophy of Time: recent journal articles, 1988
Wittgenstein, early writings through Tractatus, 1989, 1994
Consciousness in early modern philosophy, 1989
Descartes, 1989, 1991, 1996
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Remarks, 1989
The Essays of Locke and Leibniz, 1990
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1989, 2000
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Analytic) 1991, 1993, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2009
Wittgenstein, post-1945 writings on psychological concepts
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Dialectic), 1991, 1994, 1998
Philosophy of Fichte, 1992
Philosophy of Locke, 1992, 2000
Topics in Analytic Philosophy: Responses to Kripkenstein, 1993
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