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AOS: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.

AOC: Epistemology, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of language.

 Refereed Presentations

 Invited Presentations

 Publications

 Conferences Organised

October 2003: "Objectifying the Subjective: Consciousness Studies, First-Person Authority, and Autonomy", Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference, London, Ontario.

May 2003: "Functional, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation", Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, Moscow, Idaho/Pullman, Washington.

May 2002: "Non-Supervening Emergence?" co-written with Christian Lacroix, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Meetings, Toronto, Ontario. (presented by Lacroix)

March 2002: "Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation", The American Philosophical Association Meetings, Pacific Division, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

October 2001: "Non-Supervening Emergence?" co-written with Christian Lacroix, Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan. (presented by McIntosh)

May 2001: "Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation", Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Laval University, Quebec.

April 2000: "Is Consciousness Epiphenomenal?" poster presentation, Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

October 1999: "Is Consciousness Epiphenomenal?", Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

October 1999: "Evolution, Complexity, and Stability: Why Are We Here?" Canadian Society of Women in Philosophy, Hamilton, Ontario.

November 1998: "Millikan’s Island: Psychology Marooned", Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Vancouver, B.C.

June 1997: "Counterfeit Causality", Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

May 1997: "Function and Normativity", British Columbia Philosophy Conference, New Westminster, B.C.

November 1996: "Counterfeit Causality", Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Lethbridge, Alberta.

April 1996: "Naturalism, Physicalism, Supervenience, and Reductionism: Or, Why Strong Supervenience Isn’t So Strong", Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

October 1995: "Physicalism, Supervenience, and Reductionism: Or, Why Strong Supervenience Isn’t So Strong", WCPA, Calgary.

June 1995: "What Isn’t Wrong with Teleological Functionalism", CPA, Montréal.

April 1995: "What Isn’t Wrong with Teleological Functionalism", Inaugural Graduate Student Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

October 1994: "Systems, Goals, and Teleological Functions", WCPA, Regina.

May 2003: "Unnatural Feelings", in a symposium on qualia and natural kinds, CPA, Halifax.

March 2003: "The Problem of Consciousness", Public Lecture at the Central London Public Library, London, Ontario.

January 2003: "Logical Puzzles in Philosophy of Science", graduate seminar on Research Methodology, Department of Anthropology, UWO.

May 2002: "Natural Normativity: Comments on Glenn Parsons’ ‘Are There Malfunctions in Nature?’", Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Toronto, Ontario.

April 2002: "Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation", Simon Fraser University Colloquium series.

March 2002: "Emergence and Physicalism", University of British Columbia Colloquium series.

February 2000: "Problems in the Philosophy of Science", graduate seminar on Research Methodology, Department of Anthropology, UWO.

April 1999: "Complexity and Evolution" a BiPED (Biology, Philosophy, and Evolution Discussion Group) Seminar, The University of Western Ontario.

April 1999: "Millikan’s Island: Psychology Marooned", University of Guelph Colloquium series.

January 1999: "Problems in the Philosophy of Science", graduate seminar on Research Methodology, Department of Anthropology, UWO.

December 1998: "Millikan’s Island: Psychology Marooned", Carleton University Colloquium series, Ottawa.

November 1998: "The Dependence of the Artefactual on the Mental", comments on Tim Schroeder’s "The Nature and Methodology of Representationalism", Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Vancouver.

February 1998: "Function and Normativity", A Media in Context Lecture, The Department of Computing Science, The University of Western Ontario.

November 1997: "What Does Selection Explain?" a BiPED (Biology, Philosophy, and Evolution Discussion Group) Seminar, The University of Western Ontario.

October 1997: "The Search for the Grand Unified Theory of Laughter; Titillation, Vervet Monkeys, and Despair", comments on Karl Pfeifer’s "Laughter, Freshness, and Titillation", Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Winnipeg.

May 1996: "Grasping at Fodor’s Concept of Concepts". Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, St. Catharines, Ontario. An invited paper in a philosophy of mind symposium focussing on Fodor’s upcoming Locke Lectures on concepts.

November 1993: "Teleological Functions", UBC Graduate Student Colloquium Series.

November 1992: "Functions", Simon Fraser University Colloquium Series.

November 2002: Editor: Naturalism, Evolution, and Intentionality. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Vol. 27 (2001 in the series)

November 2002: "Introduction: Investigating the Mind", introductory chapter to the book listed immediately above.

January 2002: Abstract of "Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation", Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 75, Issue 3.

November 2000: Book review of The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will, Benjamin Libet, Anthony Freeman, and Keith Sutherland (eds) in Metapsychology. http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0907845118

April 2000: Abstract of "Is Consciousness Epiphenomenal?", Tucson 2000: Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference Abstracts.

March 2000: Book review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature, in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 95-9.

January 1996: Abstract of : "Naturalism, Physicalism, Supervenience, and Reductionism: Or, Why Strong Supervenience Isn’t So Strong", Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association.

Faculty Liaison: "Emergence and Consciousness: A Conference in Philosophy of Mind for Graduate Students", 20 - 22 April, 2001.

Committee Member: "Consciousness & Self: Neural, Cognitive, & Philosophical Issues" Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 4 - 7 June 1999.

Chief Organizer: "Naturalism, Evolution and Intentionality: An Interdisciplinary Conference in the Philosophy of Mind", 17 - 19 April 1998.

Assistant Professor: The University of Western Ontario, July 1997-present.

Visiting Assistant Professor: Simon Fraser University, September 2001–August 2002.

Half-time Instructor: Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C., Fall 1996–Spring 1997.

Sessional Instructor: Simon Fraser University, Summer 1996.

Sessional Instructor: Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C., Fall 1995.

Teaching Assistant: University of British Columbia, Winter 1990–1991.

Sessional Instructor: SFU, Summer 1990.

Teaching Assistant: SFU, Fall 1988–Fall 1989.

-Reasoning and Critical Thinking (UWO, SFU, Kwantlen)

-Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology (SFU)

-Introduction to Ethics (Kwantlen)

-Philosophy of Social Science (UWO)

-Reduction, Explanation, and Ontology (UWO)

-Philosophy of Mind (UWO)

-Epistemology (UWO, SFU)

-Non-Reductionism (SFU)

-Introspection (UWO)

-Teleological Functionalism

-Reductionism, Explanation, and Ontology

-Reading Course: "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"

-Prospectus Course: Identity Theory and the Metaphysics of Consciousness

-Reading Course: Naturalistic Accounts of Intentionality

-Emergence and the Mental

-Reading Course: Explanation in Evolutionary Psychology

-Introspection

-Logical Puzzles in Philosophy of Science (one class only per term, for a total of four, in a graduate course on Research Methodology, in the Department of Anthropology)

Fall Perspectives on Teaching: August 2002, U.W.O., E.D.O.

Fall Perspectives on Teaching: September 2000, U.W.O., E.D.O.

Spring Perspectives on Teaching: May 1999, U.W.O., E.D.O.

Teaching at the University Level: 17-20 August 1998, U.W.O., E.D.O.

Fall Perspectives on Teaching: September 1997, U.W.O., E.D.O.

Panel Discussion on "Reflections on Teaching: Voices from Faculty across the Years", May 2000, for U.W.O., E.D.O.

Panel Discussion by "Veteran New Faculty": September 1999, for U.W.O, E.D.O.

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1997.

B.A., (First class Honours in Philosophy, major in Psychology), Simon Fraser University, 1990.