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Jennifer Nagel

University of Toronto

Department of Philosophy, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5R 2M8            (416) 978-3011

Also: Room 285A, North Building, University of Toronto at Mississauga                  

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 (2000-07)

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

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


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Main area of research: epistemology, metacognition

Other areas of research: 17th century philosophy


PUBLICATIONS

Articles and book chapters

  1. 1.“Knowledge and Reliability,” forthcoming in Alvin Goldman and his Critics, Hilary Kornblith and Brian McLaughlin, eds.

  2. 2.“Knowledge as a Mental State,” forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Epistemology.

  3. 3.“Intuitions and Experiments: A Defence of the Case Method in Epistemology,” forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

  4. 4.“Mindreading in Gettier and Skeptical Pressure Cases”, forthcoming in Knowledge Ascription: New Essays, Jessica Brown and Mikkel Gerken, eds. Oxford University Press.

  5. 5.“Sensitive Knowledge: Locke on Skepticism and Sensation”, forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Locke, Matthew Stuart, ed.

  6. 6.“The Psychological Basis of the Harman-Vogel Paradox”, Philosophers’ Imprint 11:5 (March 2011), 1-28.

  7. 7. “Epistemic Anxiety and Adaptive Invariantism,” Philosophical Perspectives 24 (2010), 407-435.

  8. 8.“Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Thinking about Error” Philosophical Quarterly 60:239 (2010), 286-306.

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

  10. 10.“Epistemic Intuitions”, Philosophy Compass 2:6 (November 2007), 792-819.

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

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


Conference proceedings, encyclopedia entries and reviews

  1. 1.“Gendler on Alief”, contribution to a book symposium on Tamar Gendler’s Intuition, Imagination and Philosophical Methodology, forthcoming in Analysis Reviews.

  2. 2.The Attitude of Knowledge”, contribution to book symposium on Keith DeRose’s The Case for Contextualism: Vol. I, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

  3. 3.“Broadly Kantian Epistemology and the Problem of Mind-Independence”, Proceedings of the X International Kant Congress (Berlin: Walter DeGruyter 2008, 699-709).

  4. 4.“Empiricism”, in the The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, Sarkar and Pfeifer, eds. (Routledge 2006), 235-243.

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

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

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


WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. •Intuitive Epistemology, book manuscript

  2. •Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction, book manuscript

  3. •Gettier Case Recognition – empirical project

  4. •Depth of Processing in Mental State Attribution Problems -- empirical project


PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS AND SYMPOSIA

  1. 1.“Metacognition and the problem of binary and graded belief”, Epistemic Feelings and Metacognition Workshop, Bochum University, Germany, October 29, 2011

  2. 2.“Intuitions and Experiments”, Rutgers Epistemology Conference, New Brunswick, NJ May 6, 2011.

  3. 3.“Armchair-friendly Xphi”, Pacific Division APA, April 2011.

  4. 4.“Gettier and skeptical pressure cases: common mechanism, different value”, Knowledge Ascription Workshop, Arché Institute, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, October 17, 2010

  5. 5.“Epistemic Anxiety”, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Epistemic Norms; Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, October 8, 2010

  6. 6.“Stakes and the Special Value of Epistemic Intuitions”, Pragmatic Encroachment Workshop, Orange Beach, Alabama, May 2010

  7. 7.“The Strange Value of Intuitions about Knowledge”, Intuitions and Methodology Workshop; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2010

  8. 8.“Gettier Intuitions: Performance and Competence”, Arché Institute, University of St. Andrews, October 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  16. 16.“Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Thinking about Error”, Central Division APA, Chicago, April 2008

  17. 17.“Knowledge Ascriptions and the Psychological Consequences of Changing Stakes”, Central Division APA, Chicago, April 2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  26. 26.“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. 1.“Can there be Progress in Philosophy?” Harvard Conference on Philosophical Progress, Cambridge, MA, September 16, 2011.

  2. 2. Comments on Lee Iacono, “Psychological Answers to Contextualist Cases”, Central APA, Minneapolis, March 31, 2011.

  3. 3.“The intuitive appeal of the KK principle”, Stockholm University Colloquium,  February 24, 2011.

  4. 4.“Trustworthy and tricky intuitions about knowledge”, York University Colloquium, January 24, 2011.

  5. 5.“Gettier Case Recognition”, UC Berkeley Colloquium, February 25, 2010

  6. 6.“Comments on Jacob Caton, “Is ‘Justification’ an Ordinary Term?” Central APA, Chicago February 19, 2010

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

  8. 8.“Knowledge Ascription and Epistemic Egocentrism”, University of Victoria Colloquium, November 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




GRANTS AND AWARDS


•Connaught  New Staff Matching Grant 2000 Conditions of Objectivity: a study of the application of rationality to perception; $8,700

•SSHRC SIG 2002-04 Rationality and Revision: A New Account of A Priori Knowledge $2000

•SSHRC SIG 2004-07: Internalism, externalism and the locus of epistemic appraisal; $2,300

•SSHRC SIG 2005-08: Metacognition and Justification; $816.46

•SSHRC SIG 2005-08: Metacognition and Epistemic Assessment; $4,277.00

•SSHRC SIG 2008-2010: Knowledge and intuitive knowledge ascription, $3,000

•SSHRC SIG 2008-2010: Heuristic and systematic factors in knowledge ascription, February 2009-February 2011, $3,351.01

•SSHRC Standard Research Grant: Metacognition and epistemic assessment, April 2009 – March 2012,  $38,220

•Dean’s Merit Award, June 2010, June 2011


CONFERENCES ORGANIZED


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


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

Epistemology

Later Analytic Philosophy

Senior Seminar in Philosophy: Scepticism


Graduate Courses taught:

Seminar in Epistemology: Evidence and Justification

                Seminar in Philosophy of Language: Contextualism

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


Graduate Supervisions:

Postdoctoral supervisor: Chris Lepock, Metacognition and Epistemic Virtue (2008-2010)

Postdoctoral supervisor: Jane Friedman, Suspended Judgment (March 2011-present)

PhD supervisor: Kenneth Boyd, “The Structure of Epistemic Norms”

PhD supervisor: Eric Liu, “The Permissiveness of Rational Belief”

PhD Thesis Committee Member for Tom Rand (PhD awarded 2008); Michael Lachelt; Scott Howard; Charles Repp, Belinda Piercy.

PhD Oral Committee member for Francisco Gomez-Holtved (Russell on Logical Form); Jack Kwong (An Individualist Theory of Concepts); Shelley Weinberg (Consciousness in Locke’s Essay), Matt Fulkerson (The Sense of Touch)

Area Committee member for Jane Friedman, David DeDourek, Michael Lachelt, Karen Deuel, Kenneth Boyd, Paul Wlodarski, Matthew Siebert

At University of New Mexico:  Kevin Olbrys (MA) “The Problem of False Judgment in Plato’s Theaetetus” secondary supervisor; defended April 2001


ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS


Departmental colloquium co-coordinator (fall 2000-fall 2003; fall 2004-2005)

Undergraduate Steering and Curriculum (fall 2000-fall 2003)

UTM First Year’s Instructors’ Council Member (2000-2002)

Search Committee Member (Seven searches from 2001-present)

Teaching Excellence Awards Selection Committee, UTM (Spring 2003)

Member,  UTM Committee on Standing (2005-08)

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (2009)

Member, Graduate Executive Committee (2007-08; 2009-2010)

Member, UTM Resource Planning and Priorities Committee (2010-present)

Member, Planning and Policy Committee (2010-present)



COMMUNITY OUTREACH


Co-organizer of The Aristotle Canadian National High School Philosophy Essay Competition (2007-2010).



PROFESSIONAL


Referee for the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Philosophical Association, Dialogue, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Society for Exact Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Studia Philosophica Estonica, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Synthèse, Teorema, Oxford University Press.


Adjudicator, SSHRC Standard Research Grants panel, 2010.