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% Curriculum Vitae % David Sanson
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Department of Philosophy (4540)
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois 61790
http://davidsanson.com
[email protected]
309-438-2466 % July 17, 2012

Employment

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Illinois State University, 2012-present.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2005--2012.

Education

  • Ph.D., Philosophy, UCLA, 2005.

    • Dissertation: Being and Time: The Metaphysics of Past and Future in a Dynamic World
    • Committee: Calvin Normore (chair), David Kaplan, Terry Parsons, Philippe Schlenker

  • M.A., Philosophy, UCLA, 2003.

  • B.A., Philosophy, Reed College, 1996.

    • Thesis: "Intending to Act"
    • Supervisor: Mark Hinchliff

Area of Specialization

  • Metaphysics

Areas of Competence

  • Philosophy of Language, Medieval Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Religion

Publications

  • "Presentism and Truthmaking," with Ben Caplan, Philosophy Compass (6:3) 2011: 196–208.
  • "The Way Things Were," with Ben Caplan, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (81.1) 2010: 24–39.
  • "The Early Arabic Liar," with Ahmed Alwishah, Vivarium (47:1) 2009: 97-127.

Work in Progress

  • "Once Present, Now Past" (under revision)
  • "Maximal Possibilities" (under revision)
  • "Worlds Enough for Junk" (under revision)
  • "Nonserious Nonfictionalism" (in progress)

Presentations

  • "Worlds Enough for Junk"

    • Illinois State University, February 2012
    • Kenyon College, November 2011

  • "Locality and Necessity" (with Ben Caplan)

    • Pacific APA, Pasadena, CA, March 2008 (refereed)

  • "The Essentially Unreal Past"

    • Central APA, Chicago, IL, April 2007

  • "The Way Things Were" (with Ben Caplan)

    • Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, University of Western Ontario, May 2005 (refereed)
    • Central APA, Chicago, IL, April 2005 (refereed)
    • Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Idaho and Washington State University, April 2005 (refereed)

  • "The Once Present and the Now Past"

    • University of Rochester, February 2005
    • University of Manitoba, January 2005
    • Ohio State University, January 2005

Comments

  • David Liebesman, "Necessarily, Sherlock Holmes is not a Person"

    • Illinois Philosophical Association, Champaign-Urbana, November 2012

  • Ned Markosian, "A New Answer to the Special Composition Question"

    • Pacific APA, Seattle, WA, April 2012

  • Amy Seymour, "The Advantages of Falsism"

    • Central APA, Chicago, IL, February 2012

  • Dana Goswick, "Counterfactual Analysis & Causal Overdetermination"

    • Pacific APA, Portland, OR, March 2006

  • Marie Pannier, "Presentism and Singular Propositions"

    • Western Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting, University of Manitoba, October 2005

  • Kelly Trogdon, "Dualism, Mental Causation, and Counterfactuals"

    • Pacific APA, San Francisco, March 2003.

Teaching

Graduate Seminars (at OSU)

  • Metaphysics of Modality (Spring 2012)
  • Tense and Passage (Winter 2010)
  • Nonexistent Objects (Fall 2007)
  • Time and Change (Spring 2006)
  • First Year Proseminar, with William Taschek (Fall 2011)
  • First Year Proseminar, with Ben Caplan (Fall 2008)
  • Dissertation Seminar (Spring 2011)

Undergraduate Courses

  • Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Religion: Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Eternity (Fall 2010)
  • Advanced Metaphysics: Modality and Time (Winter 2009)
  • Introduction to Metaphysics (Winter 2010, Winter 2007)
  • Topics in Early Modern Philosophy: Place and Nature in Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz (Summer 2003)
  • Medieval Philosophy (Spring 2012, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Winter 2006)
  • Ancient Philosophy (Winter 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Winter 2009, Winter 2008, Winter 2007)
  • Visions of the Self (Philosophy of Mind and Personal Identity) (Fall 2012)
  • Symbolic Logic (Fall 2012, Spring 2011, Winter 2008, Summer 2001)
  • Informal Logic (Winter 2006)
  • Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2009 (Honors), Spring 2007, Spring 2006 (Honors))

Teaching Presentations

  • "Nonstandard Tense Realism," OSU Undergraduate Philosophy Club, March 2009
  • "Fatalism and Future Contingents," OSU Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 2005

Graduate and Undergraduate Advising

Dissertation Committee Member (at OSU)

  • Cathy Muller, Harry Potter and the Rescue from Realism: A Novel Defense of Anti-Realism about Fictional Objects, 2012
  • Eric Carter, Objectivity and Communication, 2011
  • Vassilis Tsompanidis, Tensed Belief (UC Santa Barbara), 2010
  • Wesley Cray, Modal Inconstancy: How Our Interests Influence How Things Could Be, 2012
  • Scott Brown, on essence, modality, and the limits of contingency, in progress

Graduate Qualifying Exam Committee Member (at OSU)

  • David Blanks, on the metaphysics of dispositions, 2012
  • Scott Brown, on the limits of contingency, 2011
  • James McGlothlin, on logical truth and god, 2011
  • Wesley Cray, on modality de re, 2009
  • Patrick Reeder, on infinitesimals and contact, 2009
  • Cathy Muller, on the ontology of fictional characters, 2008

Graduate Candidacy Exam Committee Member (at OSU)

  • Raleigh Miller, on perspectival facts, 2012
  • David Blanks, on the metaphysics of dispositions, 2011
  • Ben Horne, on well-being and the non-identity problem, 2011
  • Scott Brown, on universals, 2010
  • Daniel Pearlberg, on mental causation and over-determination, 2009
  • Conrad Robinson, on Kant and mathematics, 2009
  • Wesley Cray, on modality, 2008
  • Andrew Choi, on Kantian ethics and virtue ethics, 2007
  • Thomas Evans, on content and vehicle externalism, 2007
  • Cathy Muller, on fiction and pretense, 2007

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee Member (at OSU)

  • Gabbrielle Johnson (Philosophy), "Reference Magnetism and Macro-Naturalism," 2011
  • Dan Giglio (Philosophy), "Quantum Individuality" 2011
  • Ben Flowers (Philosophy), "Rule A and Responsibility: A Defense of the Compatibility of Moral Responsibility and Causal Determinism," 2009
  • Matthew Grover (Psychology), "Using Attitude Formation Towards Novel Stimuli to Predict Changes in Depressive Symptoms," 2009

Undergraduate Honors Thesis External Examiner (at Oberlin)

  • Rachel Randall (Philosophy), "The Ethics of Creation of Persons," 2007
  • Michael Siniscalchi (Philosophy), "Can Representationalism Bridge Levine's Gap?" 2007

Awards and Grants

  • UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2004-2005
  • UCLA Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, 2004
  • Robert M. Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA Philosophy Department, 2000
  • UCLA Department of Philosophy Fellowship, 1996-97

Refereeing

American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Religious Studies, Southern Journal of Philosophy

Departmental Service

At ISU

History of Philosophy Search Committee, 2012-13

At OSU

Colloquium Committee, 2005-2012; Salary Committee, 2009-10; Hiring Committee, 2008-09; Undergraduate Committee, 2005-06, 2008-09; Bingham Committee, 2008-09; Research Committee, 2007-08; Executive Committee, 2006-07; Curriculum Committee, 2005-06; Fink Committee, 2005-06, 2011-2012

Other Service

Session Chair: Central APA, 2010; Central APA, 2009; Pacific APA, 2006.