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| University of Richmond |
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, February 1996
Intentional Identity and Reporting the Beliefs of Others,
Director: Edmund Gettier
B.A. Philosophy and History, Hamilton College, Clinton NY, May 1990
EMPLOYMENT
University of Richmond:
Professor of Philosophy: 2012 – present
Richmond Professorship in Philosophy: 2017-present
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2004 - 2012
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2000 - 2004
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy 1996 - 2000
University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
Instructor, 1993 - 1995
Teaching Assistant, 1991 - 1995
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles:
“A Simple Theory of Argument Schemes”, Informal Logic 41 (2021): 539-578.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v41i4.6671
“Changing, Annulling and Otherwising the Past”, philosophies 6, 71 (2021):
https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6030071
“Why We Still Do Not Know What a “Real” Argument Is”, Informal Logic 34 (2014): 62-76.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v34i1.3899
“Exemplification and Argument”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42 (2012): 235-254.
https://doi.org/10.1353/cjp.2012.0011
“Is ‘Argument’ Subject to the Process/Product Ambiguity?” Informal Logic 31 (2011): 75-88.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v31i2.3098 [A modified version of the 2010 AILACT Essay
Prize paper]
“Avoiding or Changing the Past?” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 92 (March 2011): 11-17.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0114.2010.01383.x
“What is a “Real” Argument?’ Informal Logic 29 (2009): 1-14.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v29i1.682 [A modified version of the 2007 AILACT Essay
Prize paper]
“Banana Peels and Time Travel”, dialectica 61 (2007): 559-572.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-8361.2007.01126.x
“Walton on Argument Structure”, Informal Logic 27 (Winter 2007): 5-25.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v27i1.462
"More on Blameworthiness and Alternative Possibilities", Journal of Moral
Philosophy 3 (April, 2006): 71-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/1740468106063837
"Cogency and the Validation of Induction", Argumentation 18 (February, 2004): 25-41.
https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ARGU.0000014869.24575.5b
"Against the 'Ordinary Summing' Test for Convergence", Informal Logic 23 (2003):
215- 236. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v23i3.2172
"Time Travel and Changing the Past", Ratio 16 (March, 2003): 16-32.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9329.00203
"The 'Most Important and Fundamental' Distinction in Logic?" Informal Logic 22
(Spring, 2002): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v22i1.2570
"What Exactly Is Logical Pluralism?" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (June,
2002): 218-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajp/80.2.218
"A Useful Time Machine", Philosophy 77 (April, 2002): 281-282.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819102000281 [Reprinted in: Time Machine Tales, Paul J.
Nahin, (Amsterdam: Springer 2017): xxxix-xl.]
"Is Anomalous Monism Inconsistent After All?" Philosophia 27 (November, 1999): 509-
519. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02383193
"Reasonable Doubt: A Note on Arguments and 'Neutral' Illatives", Argumentation 13
(August, 1999): 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007814530099
Book Chapters:
“Logic and Critical Thinking” in Studies in Critical Thinking, J. Anthony Blair, ed.
(Windsor: University of Windsor, 2019): 375-403.
“Towards a Foundation for Argumentation Theory” in Reflections on Theoretical Issues in
Argumentation Theory, Frans van Eemeren and Bart Garrsen, eds. (Amsterdam: Springer,
2015): 43-51.
“Will you survive a trip to Rekall, Inc.?” in Philip K. Dick and Philosophy, Dylan Wittkower,
ed, (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2011): 65-75.
"Against Making the Linked-Convergent Distinction", in Pondering on Problems of
Argumentation. Twenty Essays on Theoretical Issues, Frans van Eemeren and Bart
Garrsen, eds. (Amsterdam: Springer, 2009): 181-189.
Proceedings:
“Arguments as Propositions that are a Kind of Act?” in Proceedings of the Tenth Conference
of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, forthcoming.
“The Argument’s the Thing…” in Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on
Argumentation, forthcoming.
“Justifying Questions” in Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation,
Volume 1, J.A. Larr, et. al., eds. (London: College Publications, 2020): 225-244.
“A simple theory of argument schemes” in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Bart J Garssen, et al., (eds.),
(Amsterdam: SicSat, 2019): 421-428.
“Against the Intentional Definition of Argument” in Argumentation and Inference:
Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation, Vol II, S. Oswald, ed.
(London: College Publications, 2018): 337-346.
“What (the Hell) is Virtue Argumentation?” in Argumentation and Reasoned Action:
Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Vol II, D. Mohammed &
M. Lewinski, eds. (London: College Publications, 2016): 439-448.
“On ‘Willingness to trust as a virtue in argumentative discussions’ in Argumentation and
Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Vol I,
D. Mohammed & M. Lewinski, eds. (London: College Publications, 2016): 109-112.
“Towards a Foundation for Argumentation Theory” in Proceedings of the Eighth
Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Bart J Garssen, et
al., (eds.), CD-ROM, Amsterdam: SicSat, 2015.
“Why I Still Do Not Know What a ‘Real’ Argument Is”, in Virtues of Argumentation, D.
Mohammed and M. Lewinski (eds.), CD-ROM, Windsor ON: OSSA, 2014.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/56/
“On ‘Are Arguments Abstract Objects’” ”, in Virtues of Argumentation, D.
Mohammed and M. Lewinski (eds.), CD-ROM, Windsor ON: OSSA, 2014.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/131/
“How Many Premises Can An Argument Have?” in Argumentation: Cognition & Community,
F. Zenker (ed.), CD-ROM, Windsor, ON: OSSA, 2012.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA9/papersandcommentaries/46/
“On ‘Arguments as Abstract Objects’” in Argumentation: Cognition & Community,
F. Zenker (ed.), CD-ROM, Windsor, ON: OSSA, 2012.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA9/keynoteblairprize/4/
“Is ‘Argument’ subject to the process/product ambiguity?” in Proceedings of the Seventh
Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Frans. H
van Eemeren, et al., (eds.), CD-ROM, Amsterdam: SicSat, 2011. [An updated version of
this paper won the 2010 AILACT Essay Prize.]
“Refining Hitchcock’s Definition of ‘Argument’”, in Argument Cultures, Juho Ritola (ed.),
CD-ROM, Windsor, ON; OSSA, 2009.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA8/papersandcommentaries/55/
“On ‘Winning and Losing for Arguers’”, in Argument Cultures, Juho Ritola (ed.), CD-ROM,
Windsor, ON; OSSA, 2009.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA8/papersandcommentaries/95/
“What is a ‘Real’ Argument?”, in Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground, Hans
V. Hansen, et al. (eds.), CD-ROM, Windsor, ON: OSSA, 2007. [An updated version of this
paper won the 2007 AILACT Essay Prize.]
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA7/papersandcommentaries/49/
“On ‘Common Ground and Modal Disagreement’”, in Dissensus and the Search for
Common Ground, Hans V. Hansen, et al. (eds.), CD-ROM, Windsor, ON: OSSA,
2007.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA7/papersandcommentaries/74/
"Against Making the Linked-Convergent Distinction", in Proceedings of the Sixth
Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Frans. H
van Eemeren, et al., (eds.), (Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2007): 465-469
“Epistemic Contextualism and the Context of An Argument”, in The Uses of
Argument: Proceedings of a conference at McMaster University 18-21 May 2005,
David Hitchcock, (ed.), (Hamilton, ON: OSSA, 2005): 148-155.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA6/papers/21/
"The Context of An Argument", in Informal Logic at 25: Proceedings of the Windsor
Conference, J. Anthony Blair, et al. (eds.), CD-ROM, Windsor, ON: OSSA, 2003.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA5/papersandcommentaries/28/
"On 'Linked and Convergent Reasons--Again'", in Informal Logic at 25: Proceedings of the
Windsor Conference, J. Anthony Blair, et al. (eds.), CD-ROM, Windsor, ON: OSSA,
2003.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA5/papersandcommentaries/102/
"Context and Argument Evaluation", in Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Frans. H van Eemeren, et al.,
(eds.), (Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2003): 377-381
Book Reviews:
“Hitchcock’s On Reasoning and Argument” Informal Logic 38 (2018): 133-150.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v38i1.5070
“Meyer’s The Nature of Time” Analysis 75 (2015): 167-169. 10.1093/analys/anu110
“Weinstein’s Logic, Truth, and Inquiry”, Informal Logic 33 (2013): 462-469.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v33i3.4021
“Vorobej’s A Theory of Argument” Informal Logic 27 (Fall 2007): 293-299.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v27i3.486
“Woods and Gabbay’s The Reach of Abduction: Insight and Trial”, Informal Logic 25
(Fall 2005): 270-276. https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v25i3.1139
"Alec Fisher's Critical Thinking", Informal Logic 22 (Summer, 2002): 181-186.
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v22i2.2583
Under Review:
"Time Travelers (and Everyone Else) Cannot Do Otherwise"
In Process:
“Time Travel and What We Can Do”
“Arguments, Propositions, and Acts”
“Stages, Worms, and Wishbones”
“A Defense of the Possibility of Actual Infinities”
The Metaphysics of Arguments
PRESENTATIONS
Refereed:
“On the Very Concept of an Enthymeme” Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias Conference,
May 2016.
“Are there any argumentation specific virtues?” European Conference on Argumentation,
Lisbon, June 2015
“Towards a Foundation for Argumentation Theory” 8th ISSA Conference, Amsterdam, June
2014
“Why I Still Do Not Know What a ‘Real’ Argument Is” Virtues of Argumentation
Conference, May 2013
“Changing the Past: A Unified Account” Virginia Philosophical Association, October 2011
“How Many Premises Can An Argument Have?” Argumentation: Cognition and Community
Conference, May 2011.
“Is ‘Argument’ subject to the process/product ambiguity?” 7th ISSA Conference,
Amsterdam, June 2010.
“Refining Hitchcock’s Definition of ‘Argument’”, Argument Cultures Conference, June 2009
“What is a ‘Real’ Argument?”, Dissensus and Common Ground Conference, 2007
“Against Making the Linked-Convergent Distinction”, Sixth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2006
“Epistemic Contextualism and the Context of an Argument”, The Uses of Argument
Conference, 2005.
"More on Blameworthiness and Alternative Possibilities", APA, Pacific Division,
2004
"The Context of an Argument", Informal Logic@25 Conference, 2003
"Context and Argument Evaluation", Fifth Conference of the International Society for
he Study of Argumentation, 2002
"Incorporating Writing into Symbolic Logic Courses", Reasoning Center Conference,
2002
"On The 'Most Important and Fundamental' Distinction in Logic", Virginia
Philosophical Association, 2000
"Meiland's Two-Dimensional Model of Time and Changing the Past", Virginia
Philosophical Association, 1998
"Is Davidson Inconsistent After All?", APA, Central Division, 1996
Invited Papers:
“Time Travel and What We Can Do” University of Nevada at Las Vegas, February 2018; Virginia Commonwealth University, January 2014; Colby College, October 2013
“What Time Travellers Might Want and How to Give it to Them (Mostly)” A Time Travel
Event Conference, April 2011
“Science Fiction and Personal Identity” John Tyler Community College, 2007
“Fission and Personal Identity”, University of Richmond, 2005
“Worms, Stages, and Wishbones: More on Survival and Identity” James Madison
University, 2004
"Banana Peels and Time Travel", Longwood College, 2002
"What is the Difference Between Induction and Deduction?" University of Richmond,
2000
Invited Commentaries:
“On ‘Pushing the Bounds of Rationality’” Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias Conference,
May 2016
“On ‘Willingness to trust as a virtue in argumentative discussions’” European Conference on
Argumentation, June 2015
“On ‘Are Arguments Abstract Objects’” Virtues of Argumentation Conference, May 2013 “On ‘Arguments as Abstract Objects’” Argumentation: Cognition and Community
Conference, May 2011
“On ‘Winning and Losing for Arguers’”, Argument Cultures Conference, June 2009
“On ‘Common Ground and Modal Disagreement’”, Dissensus and Common Ground
Conference, 2007
“On ‘The Overall Evaluation of Arguments”, The Uses of Argument Conference,
2005
"On 'A Dilemma About Necessity'", APA, Central Division, 2004
"On 'Composition and Vagueness'" Virginia Philosophical Association, 2003
"On 'Glutty Borders'", Seventh Biennial UMass Philosophy Homecoming Conference,
2003
"On 'Non-Distributive Predication'", Seventh Biennial UMass Philosophy
Homecoming Conference, 2003
"On 'Scalar Implicature As Explanation', Seventh Biennial UMass Philosophy
Homecoming Conference, 2003
"On 'Linked and Convergent Reasons--Again'" Informal Logic@25 Conference, 2003
"On 'The Paradox of Analysis'" Virginia Philosophical Association, 2002
"On 'A Defense of Presentism'", Fifth Biennial UMass Philosophy Homecoming
Conference,1999
"On 'Aquinas' Not-So-Simple God'", Virginia Philosophical Association, 1999
Pedagogy Presentations:
"Teaching Reasoning" University of Richmond, 2002
"Teaching at the University of Massachusetts", University of Massachusetts
Graduate Student Orientation Conference, 1994
Podcasts:
“How to Figure S**t Out, Including Time Travel”, AMP #399, February 2023.
https://www.aubreymarcus.com/blogs/aubrey-marcus-podcast/how-to-figure-sh-t-out-including-time-travel-w-dr-geoff-goddu-amp-399
Student Organized:
Life Raft Debate, University of Richmond, 2019.
ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2023, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2021, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2019, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2019, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2018, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2017, University of Richmond
FYS in the Humanities, Spring 2016-Spring 2017, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2016, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2015, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2015, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2014, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2013, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Spring 2013, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2011, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2011, University of Richmond
Faculty Member of the Year, Richmond College Student Government Association, 2010-11,
University of Richmond
Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Annual Essay Prize Winner 2010: “Is
‘Argument’ Subject to the Process/Product Ambiguity?”
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2010, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2009, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2009, University of Richmond
Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking, Annual Essay Prize Winner 2007: “What is a
‘Real’ Argument?”
Arts and Sciences Dean's Grant, Summer 2007, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2007, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2006, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2006, University of Richmond
University Distinguished Educator Award, Fall 2004, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2003, University of Richmond
PETE Grant, Summer 2002, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Travel Grant, Summer 2002, University of Richmond
Arts and Sciences Dean's Grant, Summer 2002, University of Richmond
Faculty Research Committee Summer Fellowship Grant, Summer 2001, University of Richmond
PETE Grant, Summer 2001, University of Richmond
Graduate School Grant, Spring 1996, Graduate Dean's Office/Vice Chancellor for Research,
University of Massachusetts
APA Grant, Summer 1994, One of ten grants given to facilitate attending the Teaching Seminar for
Advanced Graduate Students at the AAPT's 10th International Workshop-Conference on
Teaching Philosophy held August 5-8, 1994
Research Fellow, Summer 1994, Philosophy Department, University of Massachusetts
Nominated for University of Massachusetts Distinguished Teaching Award, Spring 1994
Graduate School Fellow, 1993-1994, Graduate School Council, University of Massachusetts
Puryear Fellow, 1990-1994, Philosophy Department, University of Massachusetts
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Richmond:
FYS 100: Descartes Meditations: Spring 2011
FYS 100: Puzzles and Paradoxes: Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
PHIL 200: Philosophical Problems: Fall 1997, Fall 1996
PHIL 251: Elementary Symbolic Logic: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004,Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 2000, Fall 1999, Spring 1999, Fall 1998, Spring 1998, Fall 1997, Spring 1997, Fall 1996
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Board: Informal Logic
Article Reviews: Argumentation, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Cogency, Critica, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophy and Science Fiction, Informal Logic, Leadership Quarterly, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Philosophical Studies, Philosophies, Synthese, Topoi
Book Chapter/Proposal Reviews: Springer, McGraw Hill, Rowman & Littlefield, Bloomsbury, MIT
Book Manuscript Reviews: College Publications, Oxford University Press
Conference Paper Reviews: Virginia Philosophical Association, European Conference on Argumentation
Grant Proposal Reviews: National Science Foundation
Proof Checker Review: Cenage Learning, W.W. Norton
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association for Critical Thinking and Informal Logic, 2011-Present
Vice-President, 2013- 2016
Board of Directors, 2011- 2016
Essay Prize Jury, 2021-2023, 2015-2017,
Chair 2023, 2017
Newsletter Editor, 2012-2017
International Society for the Study of Argumentation, 1999 - Present
Virginia Philosophical Association, 1998 - Present
President, Fall 2004-Fall 2005
Vice-President, Fall 2003-Fall 2004
Secretary, Fall 2002-Fall 2003
American Philosophical Association, 1992 – Present
COMMITTEES AND SERVICE
University of Richmond:
Nominating Committee, 2023-Present
Symbolic Reasoning Inquiry Advisory Group, 2023-Present
Cognitive Science Advisory Board, 2022-Present
Support Consultant for Symbolic Reasoning Inquiry, Spring 2023.
Faculty Research Committee, Spring 2022, 2002-2005, 2011-2013
Faculty Affairs Committee, 2019-2022
Richmond Scholars Selection Committee, 2005- 2013, 2018-2021
Chair: Boatwright Scholars Selection Sub-committee, 2009- 2013
Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2014-2020
Richmond Scholars Steering Committee, 2018-2019
A&S Retreat, Team Leader, 2018
Dean’s Advisory Council, 2018
Graduation Student Speakers Selection Committee, 2010-2018
Committee on Shared Governance, 2016-2017
A&S Petitions Committee, 2014-2017
Campus Programming & Social Life Review Committee, 2014-2015
Planning and Priorities Committee, 2011- 2014
Dean’s Advisory Council, 2011- 2014
Truman Scholarship Mock Interview Committee, Spring 2013
CTLT Faculty Advisory Committee, 2009-2011
University Faculty Council, 2008-2011
Faculty Governance Sub-Committee, 2008-2011
Faculty Committee on Honors Programs, 2005-2006, 2007-2010
Chair, 2008-10
PPEL Advisory/Search Committee, 2008-2010
FSSR Learning Outcomes Working Group, 2008-2010
Interim Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2007-2008
Coordinator, Law and Liberal Arts Program, 2007-2008
Richmond College Student Affairs Committee, 2002-2005
University Scholars Committee, 2002-2005
General Education Petitions Committee, 2002-2005
Search Coordinator, Philosophy Department, 2004-2005.
Curriculum Committee, 2001-2004
Fullbright Mock Interview Committee, Fall 1998
University Scholars Selection Committee, Spring 1998
University of Massachusetts:
College Outstanding Teacher Award Evaluation Committee, University of Massachusetts, Spring 1995
Graduate Student Senate, University of Massachusetts, 1992 – 1993
Other:
Member of Central Virginia Soccer Referee Association Scholarship Committee, 2016-present
Departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Commenwealth University 2008-2009.
Departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Commenwealth University 2006-2007.