Department of Philosophy

              University of Akron

               Akron, OH 44325

Department Phone – (330) 972-7094

    Personal Phone - (805) 794-5519

               cb72@uakron.edu

Employment:

        Current Position – Lecturer, University of Akron

        2006-2008 – Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Redlands

Areas of Specialization:

Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Personal Identity

Areas of Competency:

Bioethics, Logic, History of Philosophy (Modern)

Education:

B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara (with Honors) 1996

M.A./ C. Phil University of California, Santa Barbara 2003

PhD. University of California, Santa Barbara Fall 2006

Refereed Publications:

“DeRose and the Comparative Account of Epistemic Closure” Facta Philosophica,

Vol. 2, 2005.

“The Psychological Approach to Personal Identity: Non-Branching and the

Individuation of Person Stages” (with Anthony Brueckner), Dialogue: Canadian

Philosophical Review, March 2008.

“Advancing an Advance Directive Debate”, Bioethics, October 2008.

“Memory, Quasi-Memory, and Pseudo-Quasi-Memory”, Australasian Journal of

Philosophy, vol. 3, 2009.

“Contextualism, SSI, and the Factivity Problem” (with Anthony Brueckner),

Analysis, vol. 3, 2009.

“Bootstrapping and Knowledge of Reliability” (with Anthony Brueckner),

forthcoming Philosophical Studies (published online May 2008).

“Contextualism, Closure, and the Knowledge Account of Assertion”, forthcoming

Journal of Philosophical Research.

“Thinking Animals and Epistemology” (with Anthony Brueckner), forthcoming

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.”

“Baker on the Psychological Account of Personal Identity”, forthcoming Acta

Analytica.

Other Publications:

“Animalism and What Matters” in Personhood, University of Jyvaskyla Press,

2004.

“Neuroscience and Metaphysics” (with Fritz Alhoff), American Journal of

Bioethics, March 2005.

“Neuroscience and Metaphysics (Redux)” (with Fritz Alhoff), American Journal of

Bioethics, January 2007.

Papers Under Review:

“Explaining the Transplant Intuition?”

Works in Progress:

“More Defense of Closure”

“Beginning to Exist, Conception, and the Identity Thesis”

Paper Presentations:

“Animalism and What Matters”, Dimensions of Personhood Conference,

University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, Summer 2004.

“Why There Still are People- A Response to Stone”, Persons, Souls, and Selves

Conference, University of San Diego, February 2006.

“Advancing an Advance Directive Debate”, University of Redlands, April 2008.

“Advancing an Advance Directive Debate”, Western Michigan University, Center

for the Study of Ethics in Society, October 2008.

“Memory, Quasi-Memory, and Pseudo-Quasi-Memory”, Western Michigan

University, October 2008.

“Beginning to Exist, Conception, and the Identity Thesis”, University of Akron

Undergraduate Philosophy Club, March 2009.

Professional Service:

Referee for Neuroethics; Erkenntnis.

Awards, Grants, and Honors:

Outstanding Instructor Award, Resident Hall Association, UCSB 2004

Siff Award, Philosophy Department Annual Award for Best Paper 2003, “Personal Identity and Egoistic Concern”

Teaching Experience:

    Course Instructor, University of Akron

        - Introduction to Ethics

        - Introduction to Logic

        - Biomedical Ethics (Fall 2009)

        - Seminar: Personal Identity (Fall 2009)

    Course Instructor, University of Redlands

        - Introduction to Philosophy

        - Reasoning and Logic

        - Epistemology

        - Personal Identity

        - Death: Ethical and Metaphysical Issues

    Course Instructor, Department of Philosophy, UCSB.

Responsibilities included providing course syllabus and lectures, creating tests and essay assignments, holding office hours, and supervising teaching assistants.

- Medieval/Early Modern philosophy

- Introduction to Logic

- Introduction to Philosophy