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Kris McDaniel

Kris McDaniel, Curriculum Vitae

April 2006

email: krmcdani@syr.edu
Department of Philosophy
541 Hall of Languages
Syracuse University Syracuse NY 13244

Education

1994-1998: Western Washington University, BA in philosophy
1999- 2004: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Ph.D. in philosophy

Area of Specialization

Metaphysics

Areas of Competence

Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy (especially Kant and early 20th century), Philosophy of Language

Articles

  1. "Modal Realisms," Philosophical Perspectives (forthcoming).
  2. "Extended Simples", Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).
  3. "Brutal Simples", Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (forthcoming).
  4. "Gunky Objects in a Simple World", Philo (forthcoming, invited paper).
  5. "Discrete Space and Distance", Synthese (forthcoming).
  6. "Modal Realism with Overlap", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 82.1 (2003), pp. 137-152. (This is reprinted in Lewisian Themes, edited by Frank Jackson and Graham Priest, Oxford University Press, September 2004.)
  7. "No Paradox of Multi-Location", Analysis 63.4 (2003), pp. 309-311.
  8. "Against MaxCon Simples", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81.2 (2003), pp. 265-275.
  9. "Tropes and Ordinary Physical Objects",Philosophical Studies 104.3 (2001), pp. 269-290.

Reviews

  1. "Review of D.M. Armstrong’s Truth and Truthmaking", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 2005.
  2. "Review of Phil Dowe's Physical Causation", Erkenntnis 56.2 (2002), pp. 258-263.

Edited Collections

The Good, The Right, Life and Death, ed. Richard Feldman, Kris McDaniel, Jason Raibley, Michael Zimmerman, Ashgate Press (forthcoming).

Works in Progress

Presentations

  1. “Ontology and Rationalism”, Tufts University, April 2006.
  2. Comments on J.C. Beal: “True, False, and Other”, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, October 2005.
  3. “Extended Simples”, Creighton Club Meeting, October 2005, Cornell University.
  4. Comments on Cody Gilmore: “Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence”, Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2005.
  5. Comments on Josh Parsons: “Is Everything a World?”, Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, March 2005.
  6. “Kantian Ignorance”, University of Colorado-Boulder, February 2005.
  7. “Kantian Ignorance”, Western Washington University, February 2005.
  8. “Kantian Ignorance”, Arizona State University, January 2005.
  9. “Kantian Ignorance”, Cornell University, November 2004.
  10. Comments on Mathew McGrath: “No Objects, No Problem? Nihilism and the Puzzles of Material Constitution”, Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2004.
  11. "Brutal Simples", Davidson College, February 2004.
  12. "Brutal Simples", Syracuse University, January 2004.
  13. "Brutal Simples", University of Manitoba, January 2004.
  14. Comments on Andy Egan: "Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties", Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2003.
  15. Comments on Andrew Cortens: "Dividing the World into Things", Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2000.
  16. "Tropes and Ordinary Physical Objects", Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, April 2000.
  17. ""Tropes and Ordinary Physical Objects", Western Washington University, January 2000.
  18. "Persons and Temporal Gappiness" (with Shawn Larsen-Bright), Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association, April 1999.
  19. Comments on Andy Lloyd: "Spukhafte Fernwirkungen: the Relationship Between Science and Philosophy", Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April 1998.

Teaching Experience

At Syracuse University:

Philosophy 109: Honors Introduction to Philosophy Philosophy401: Truth and Truthmakers
Philosophy 500: Early 20th Century Philosophy
Philosophy 840: Properties

At the University of Massachusetts-Amherst:

Philosophy 332: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Philosophy 100: Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy 383: Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy 164: Medical Ethics
Philosophy 110: Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics

Teaching Awards

  • Nominee for University of Massachusetts Distinguished Teacher Award, 2002
  • Certificate of Appreciation for Excellence in Teaching, Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Summer 2002
  • Certificate of Appreciation for Excellence in Teaching, Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst,Winter 2002

Service

Referee for:

  • Rowman and Littlefield
  • Philosophical Quarterly
  • Erkenntnis
  • Philosophical Studies
  • Australasian Journal of Philosophy
  • Dialectica
  • Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  • Oxford Studies in Metaphysics

References

  • Phillip Bricker, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Cian Dorr, University of Pittsburgh
  • Fred Feldman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Lynne Rudder-Baker, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Jonathan Schaffer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Theodore Sider, Rutgers University
  • Brian Weatherson, Cornell University

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