Curriculum Vitae

Janice Dowell

August 2009

Department of Philosophy

1010 Oldfather Hall

P.O. Box 880321

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, NE

68588-0321

janicedowell@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh 

 Ph.D. in Philosophy 2002

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

 M.A. in Philosophy 1992

The Johns Hopkins University

 B.A. in Philosophy and International Studies 1989

 Departmental Honors in Philosophy

EMPLOYMENT

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Associate professor 2008-

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Assistant professor, 2007-2008

Bowling Green State University

Assistant professor, 2002-2007

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

 Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

 Philosophy of Language, Ethics

PUBLICATIONS

“Methodology for Metametaphysics” (co-authored with Sean Foran) (Philosophical Topics, forthcoming)

 “Empirical Metaphysics: The Role of Intuitions about Possible Cases in Philosophy” (Philosophical Studies, BSPC 2007 volume, July 2008, Volume 140, Issue 1, pp.19-46.)  

   “A Priori Entailment and Conceptual Analysis: Making Room for Type-C Physicalism” (Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2008, Volume 86, Issue 1, pp.93-111.)

“Serious Metaphysics and the Vindication of Reductions” (Philosophical Studies, May 2008, Volume 139, Issue 1, pp.91-110.)     

 “Formulating Physicalism” (Philosophical Studies, October 2006, Volume 131, Issue 1, pp.1-23.)     

“The Physical: Empirical, Not Metaphysical” (Philosophical Studies, October 2006, Volume 131, Issue 1, pp.25-60.)

“Making It Totally Explicit” (Philosophical Papers, July 2006, Volume 35, 

       Number 2, pp.137-170.)

 “From Metaphysical to Substantive Naturalism: A Case Study” (Synthese, January 2004, 

       Volume 138, No. 2, pp. 149-173.)

 VOLUMES EDITED

Formulating Physicalism, (Philosophical Studies, special volume, October 2006)

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Physical Realization by Sydney Shoemaker (International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.)

PRESENTATIONS

“A Flexible Contextualist Account of ‘Ought’”, Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, Philosophy Program,

“A Defense of Canonical Contextualism about Epistemic Modals”, University of Sydney, August 12, 2009.

“A Flexible Contextualist Account of ‘Ought’”, Evolution, Emotions, and Metaethics Philosophy Workshop, University of Sydney, August 6-7, 2009.

“Methodology for Metametaphysics”, Philosophical Methodology Seminar, Arche Research Centre, St. Andrews University, December 2008.

 “A Defense of Canonical Contextualism about Epistemic Modals” Contextualism and Relativism Workship II: Epistemic Modals, Arche Research Centre, St. Andrews University, November 2008. (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~arche/events/event?id=95).

“A Defense of Canonical Contextualism about Epistemic Modals”, University of Stirling, November 2008.

“A Defense of Canonical Contextualism about Epistemic Modals”, University of Edinburgh, November 2008.

“Empirical Metaphysics: The Role of Intuitions about Possible Cases in Philosophy,” Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference 2007, main program.

Commentator on “Ontological Anti-Realism”, David Chalmers, 10th Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, March 2007. 

“Empirical Metaphysics: The Role of Intuitions about Possible Cases in Philosophy”, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, February 2007.

“Meaning, Reason, and Modality”, colloquist, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, April 2006.

Commentator on "Mental Causation, Reduction, and Supervenience", Eric Hiddleston,

American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, March 2006.

“Serious Metaphysics and the Vindication of Explanatory Reductions”, University of

Cincinnati, department colloquium, March 2006.

Commentator on "Naturalism, Explanation, and Identity", Thomas Polger and Robert

Skipper, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 2005.

“A Formulation of the Thesis of Physicalism”, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, March 2005.

 “A Priori Entailment and Conceptual Analysis: Making Room for Type-C Physicalism”, 

Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, July 9-11, 2004 

“Is the Phenomenal A Priori Entailed by the Physical?” American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, April 2004. 

“Can a Non-reductive Theory of Content be Naturalist?” Australian National University, 

       June 2003.

“Making It Totally Explicit” Australian National University, May 2003.

“Can a Non-reductive Theory of Content be Naturalist?” Monash University, April, 2003.

“Can a Non-reductive Theory of Content be Naturalist?” University of Otago, February, 2003.

“Can a Non-reductive Theory of Content be Naturalist?” Georgia State University, November 2002.

“Can a Non-reductive Theory of Content be Naturalist?” University of Arizona, January 2002.

Commentator on Bryan Belknap’s “McDowell on Perceptual Experience”, American Philosophical Association Central Division, May 2001.

“Kripke, Brandom, and the Robust Explanation Requirement”, Bowling Green State University, April 2001.

“From Metaphysical to Substantive Naturalism: A Case Study”, University of Cincinnati, March 2001.

“From Metaphysical to Substantive Naturalism: A Case Study”, University of Pittsburgh,

faculty/student colloquia, February 2001.

“Is Bias Always Bad?  Longino’s Feminist Philosophy of Science”, Aquinas College, Women’s Studies Program, March 2000.

Chair and Commentator, Conference on Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, University of 

         Pittsburgh, Panel on Multiculturalism, November 1993.

WORK IN PROGRESS

“A Cannonical Contextualist Account of Epistemic Modals”

“A Flexible Contextualist Account of ‘Ought’”

 “Ethical Naturalism”

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

Epistemic Modals, Second Annual Chambers Philosophy Conference, (with John Gibbons), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, April 2010.

Participants:

Keith DeRose, Yale University

Kai von Fintel, MIT

Thony Gillies, University of Michican

Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

John MacFarlane, UC-Berkeley

Robert Stalnaker, MIT

Eric Swanson, University of Michgan

Physicalism, Bowling Green State University, April 1-3, 2005.

        Participants: 

         David Chalmers, Australian National University

         Janice Dowell, Bowling Green State University

         John Hawthorne, Rutgers University

         Frank Jackson, Australian National University

         Noa Latham, University of Calgary

         Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri-Columbia

         Jessica Wilson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

         Gene Witmer, University of Florida

         Sara Worley, Bowling Green State University

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 Journals refereed

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Synthese

Philosophical Papers

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

        Journal of Philosophical Research

Conferences refereed

Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

 Arts and Humanities Curriculum Committee, BGSU 2003-2006

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

Visiting Scholar, Arche Research Centre, University of St. Andrews, October-December 2008.

Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences-Philosophy Program, Australian National University, January-August 2003

American Dissertation Fellow, the American Association of University Women Educational  Foundation, 1999-2000

 Colloquist, National Endowment for the Humanities, summer seminar, “Moore and  

Wittgenstein On Certainty” with Avrum Stroll, summer 1998

 Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, 1992-1993

Teaching Assistant, University of Pittsburgh, 1993-1994, 1995-1996, Spring 1997,1998-2001

 Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989-1992

Departmental Honors in Philosophy, the Johns Hopkins University, 1989