CV: Jennifer Nagel

 

Department of Philosophy; 170 St. George Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, Canada M5R 2M8; phone (416) 946-8366

Also: Room 285, North Building, University of Toronto at Mississauga; phone (905) 828-3755

E-mail: jennifer.nagel@utoronto.ca

 

EDUCATION

§  Ph.D. in Philosophy (2000) University of Pittsburgh

Title: The Role of Necessity in Empirical Knowledge; Supervisor: John McDowell

§  M.A. in Philosophy (1994) University of Pittsburgh

§  B.A. in Philosophy (1990) University of Toronto

 

EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor, University of Toronto (2007-present)

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto (2000-2007)

Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico (1999-2000)

Visiting Lecturer, University of New Mexico (1998-99)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Epistemology, metacognition, Early Modern philosophy

 

PUBLICATIONS AND FORTHCOMING WORK  

Articles

1.    The Psychological Basis of the Harman-Vogel Paradox, forthcoming in Philosophers’ Imprint.

2.    Sensitive Knowledge: Locke on Skepticism and Sensation, to appear in the Blackwell Companion to Locke, ed. Matthew Stuart.

3.    Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Thinking about Error, forthcoming in the Philosophical Quarterly.

4.    Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Changing Stakes  Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008), 279-294.

5.    Broadly Kantian Epistemology and the Problem of Mind-Independence,  Proceedings of the X International Kant Congress (Berlin: Walter DeGruyter 2008, 699-709)  Longer version here.

6.    Epistemic intuitions Philosophy Compass 2/6 (2007): 792–819.

7.    Empiricism, encyclopedia entry for The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, Sarkar and Pfeifer, eds. (Routledge, 2006), 235-243.

8.    Contemporary Skepticism and the Cartesian God, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (September 2005), 465-497.

9.    The Empiricist Conception of Experience, Philosophy 75 (July 2000), 345-376.

 

Reviews

1.    Review of Albert Casullo, A Priori Justification, The Philosophical Review 115:2 (April 2006), 251-255.

2.    Review of Joel Pust, Intuitions as Evidence, Philosophy in Review (August 2001), 282-285.

3.    Review of Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality, ed. Sarah Hutton. Philosophy in Review (February 1998), 19-21.

 

 

PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS

 

1.    “Gettier Intuitions: Performance and Competence”, Arché Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland; October 2009

2.    “A dual-systems account of the Harman-Vogel Paradox”, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, May 2009

3.    “Automatic and Controlled Intuitions”, Toronto Workshop on Thought Experiments, May 2009

4.    “Empirical and Philosophical Approaches to Paradoxical Patterns of Intuition”, Arché Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland; April 2009

5.    “Knowledge Ascription and Epistemic Egocentrism”, Pacific Division APA, Vancouver, April 2009

6.    “Evidentials and the Development of Social Reason”, Self and Other: a conference on social reason at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, December, 2008.

7.    “Knowledge Ascriptions, Thoughts of Error, and Cognitive Bias”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association meetings, Edmonton, October 2008.

8.    “Ascribing Knowledge and Thinking About Error: A Two-Systems Account”, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Vancouver, June 2008

9.    “Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Thinking About Error”, American Philosophical Association Meetings, April 2008

10.         “Memory for trivia and access to justifiers”, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Saskatoon, May 2007

11.         “Practical interests and need for closure in belief formation”, American Philosophical Association Meetings, Chicago, April 2007

12.         “A Narrowly Kantian Objection to Broadly Kantian Epistemology”, International Kant Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2005

13.         “Epistemic Compatibilism in Normal Worlds”, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, London, Ontario, June 2005

14.         “Broadly Kantian Epistemology and the Limits of Mind-Independence”,  American Philosophical Association Meetings, Chicago, April 2005

15.         “Epistemic Compatibilism”, American Philosophical Association Meetings, San Francisco, March 2005

16.         “Flexibility, Fallibility, and the Neo-Kantian A Priori”  Conference on the A Priori in Contemporary Epistemology, Sherbrooke, PQ October 2004

17.         “Coherence, mind-independence and objectivity”, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Halifax, NS, May 2003

18.         “Reichenbach’s Relation to Naturalism”, American Philosophical Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, March 2003.

19.         “Quine and Foley on the Norms of Inquiry”, American Philosophical Association Meetings, Seattle, WA, March 2002.

20.         “The Reichenbach/Carnap Conception of the A Priori”, Assessing the Age of Analysis: 20th Century Philosophy in Retrospect, a conference on the history of analytic philosophy at SUNY Buffalo, November 2001.

 

 

INVITED LECTURES AND COMMENTS

 

1.    “Skepticism and the Hindsight Bias,” McMaster University Colloquium talk, February 2009

2.    “Knowledge Ascription and Epistemic Egocentrism”, University of Victoria Departmental Colloquium talk, November 21, 2008.

3.    Comments on Patrice Philie, “Entitlement as a Response to I-II-III Scepticism”, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Vancouver, June 2008

4.    Comments on Victor Kumar, “Knowing-How and Knowing-That”, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Saskatoon, May 2007

5.    “Intrusive thoughts, blind hunches, and belief-forming mechanisms”, University of Alberta, October 2005

6.    “Objectivity and the Constitutive A Priori”, Warwick University, UK, February 2005

7.    “Internalism and Externalism in the Good Case”,  Bowling Green State University, Ohio, October 2004

8.    “Some Aspects of the Relation between Internalism and Externalism” Toronto M&E Workshop, September 2004

9.    “Stroud’s Scepticism and the Cartesian God”, April 2003, Toronto Early Modern Philosophy Group

10.   “Descartes on the difference between knowledge and comprehension”, Colloquium Talk, Carleton University, November 2000.

11.   Comments on Daniel Flage’s “Hume’s Systematic Skepticism”, Conference: Reason and Rationality (Inland Pacific Northwest Philosophy Conference), April 1999

12.   “Detection, Projection, and Knowledge of Necessity”, University of Toronto February 1999, University of New Mexico, January 1999

13.   “Revising One’s Notion of Revision”, University of New Mexico, March 1998

14.   “Two Dogmas of Naturalism”, University of Pittsburgh February 1997, University of Alberta, March 1997

15.   “The Role of Knowledge of God in Descartes’ Epistemology”, Kansas State University, November 1995

 

                                                                                                             

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

At the University of New Mexico (1998-2000):

Undergraduate courses taught:

            Introduction to Philosophy

            Early Modern Philosophy

            Theory of Knowledge

            Seminar on Locke

            Independent Study on Epistemology

Graduate courses taught:

            Graduate Seminar on Epistemological Naturalism

            Independent Study on Plato’s Theaetetus

 

At the University of Toronto (2000-present):

Undergraduate courses taught:

            17th and 18th Century Philosophy

            Introduction to Philosophy

            Topics in Epistemology: The Rise and Fall of Logical Positivism

            Topics in Epistemology: a Survey of Major Issues and Positions

            Later Analytic Philosophy

            Senior Seminar: Scepticism

 

 

Graduate Courses taught:

            Seminar in Epistemology: A Priori Knowledge in Recent Epistemology

            Independent study course on the metaphysics and epistemology of necessity

            Seminar in Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism

Seminar in Epistemology: A Priori Knowledge and Objectivity

Seminar in Epistemology: Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Responsibility

Seminar in Epistemology: Basic Knowledge

Seminar in Philosophy of Language: Contextualism

 

REFEREE FOR Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Philosophical Association, Mind, Oxford University Press, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Society for Exact Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Studia Philosophica Estonica, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Synthèse.

 

 

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

“What we all think about knowing”.  An interdisciplinary workshop on cross-cultural uniformity and diversity in epistemic assessments, May 17, 2008.

 

 

 

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