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sevnine AT miami DOT edu
Employment Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, 2008-
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, 2002-8
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, 2001-2
Associate Professor Department of Philosophy, California Polytechnic State University, 2002-3 (on leave)
Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy, California Polytechnic State University, 1996-2001
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, UCLA, 1996 M.Phil, Philosophy, University College London, 1988 M.A., Philosophy, Bedford College London, 1983 B.Mus., Music, Kings College London, 1981
Dissertation
The Relations between Logic and Thought (UCLA, 1996) Committee: Tyler Burge (Chair), Robert Adams (non-reading member), Kit Fine
Awards
Orovitz Summer Fellowship, University of Miami, 2004
State Faculty Support Grant, Cal Poly, 2001
State Faculty Support Grant, Cal Poly, 1999
John Stuart Mill and Dawes Hicks bursaries, University College London, 1984-1987
Publications
Books
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Donald Davidson (Stanford: Stanford University Press and Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991)
Translation into Japanese, with new foreword (Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1995)
Papers
"Modal Epistemology: Our Knowledge of Necessity and Possibility," Philosophy Compass (forthcoming)
"Is There Anything It Is Like to Be Something?," Metaphilosophy (April, 2008)
"Personhood and Future Belief: Two Arguments for Something Like Reflection," Erkenntnis 67 (2007): 91-110
“Containing Multitudes: Reflection, Expertise, and Persons as Groups,” Episteme 2 (2005):57-64
“Reply to Lynne Baker,” Proceedings of Mind and Action III (Lisbon: Colibri, 2005)
“Frege on Truth, Beauty and Goodness,” Manuscrito 26 (2003): 315-30
“Epistemic Unities,” Erkenntnis 59 (2003): 365-88
“Closure and Rational Belief,” in Paul Weingartner et al. (eds.), Knowledge and Belief (Kirchberg am Wechsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2003)
“An Epistemic Component to Personal Identity: the Case of Religious Conversion,” in Christian Kanzian et al. (eds.), Persons. An Interdisciplinary Approach: Papers of the 25th International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg am Weschsel: Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2002)
“The Universality of Logic: On the Connection between Rationality and Logical Ability,” Mind 110 (2001): 335-67
“Learning from One’s Mistakes: Epistemic Modesty and the Nature of Belief,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 82 (2001): 157-77
“Believing Conjunctions,” Synthese 118 (1999): 201-227
“On the Way to Language,” in Lewis Hahn (ed.), The Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Library of Living Philosophers Series) (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1999)
Translation into Portuguese Cadernos de Filosofia (Lisbon), 6 (1999)
Entry on Davidson for Robert Arrington (ed.), Companion to the Philosophers (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998)
“Hume, Conjectural History, and the Uniformity of Human Nature,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993): 589-606
“Understanding Madness?” Ratio (new series) 2 (1989): 1-18
“Freud’s Ambiguous Concepts,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 3 (1989): 86-99
“Innate Principles and Radical Interpretation,” The Locke Newsletter 18 (1987): 33-44
Reviews
Hans-Joachim Glock, Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality, for The Times Literary Supplement (June 11, 2004): 22
Peter Forrest, God without the Supernatural, for Faith and Philosophy 16 (1999): 573-77
Jennifer Hornsby, Simple Mindedness. In Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind, for Manuscrito 21 (1998): 151-61
Graham Priest, Beyond the Limits of Thought, for Manuscrito 20 (1997): 103-10
W. Child, Causality, Interpretation and the Mind, for The Times Literary Supplement (September 9, 1994): 24
J.E. Malpas, Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning, for The Times Literary Supplement (March 11, 1994): 30
Lectures and Conference Presentations
Reply to Justin Fisher at Pacific APA, March 2006
Reply to Jonathan Adler, AILACT session at Eastern APA, December 2005
“Is There Something That It Is Like?” at Eastern APA, December 2005
“Persons, Groups and Expertise,” at 2nd Annual Episteme conference, June 2005
“The Shape of a Life: Epistemic Constraints on Personal Identity,” at the INPC 8th annual conference on Time and Identity, March 2005
“Is There Something That It Is Like?,” at the Florida Philosophical Association annual conference, Nov 2004
“Reflection, Personal Identity and Epistemic Change,” colloquium at University of Illinois Chicago, April 2004
“Taking One’s Current Beliefs as Evidence,” Student Philosophy Club, University of Chicago, April 2004
Reply to J.R. Schrader, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, Pasadena, March 200
“Closure and Rational Belief,” at the 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Aug 2003
“Problems in the Evolution of Thought,” at The Evolution and Devlopment of Cognition and Emotion, conference at the University of Miami, March 2003
“Closure, Consistency and Rational Belief: Some New and Concrete Proposals,” at the Florida Philosophical Association annual conference, Nov 2002
“An Epistemic Component to Personal Identity: the Case of Religious Conversion,” at the 25th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Aug 2002
“Epistemic Unities,” at the conference on Action and Social Ontology, University of Miami, Jan 2002
“Self-Knowledge and Reflection,” at the Florida Philosophical Association annual conference, Nov 2001
“Belief and Toleration,” at Cal Poly Annual Philosophy Colloquium, May 2001
Invited Reply to a paper by Lynne Baker, at Mind and Action III, Lisbon, May 2001
“Logical Obviousness,” at Central Valley Philosophical Association Conference, October 2000
“The Universality of Logic,” an invited guest lecture at the Institute for Philosophy of Language at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 2000
“Learning from One’s Mistakes: Epistemic Modesty and the Nature of Belief,” Cal Poly Annual Philosophy Colloquium, May 2000
“Learning from One’s Mistakes: Epistemic Modesty and the Rationality of Conjunctive Belief” at the APA Pacific Division conference, Spring 2000
Reply to David Braun's "Russellianism and Psychological Generalizations" at the APA Pacific Division conference, Spring 1999
“On the Way to Language,” invited guest lecture at the Institute for Philosophy of Language at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 1998
Professional Service
Reviewer of articles for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Florida Philosophical Review, Manuscrito, Metaphilosophy, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Reviewer of
philosophy book manuscripts for Routledge, Cambridge University Press
and
Consultant for a CD-ROM on various contemporary philosophers, produced by the Institute for the Philosophy of Language, New University of Lisbon, Portugal |
