Curriculum Vitae
Michael George Bruno
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Box 210027
Tucson, AZ 85721
USA
Department Office: (520) 621-3120
Fax: (520) 621-9599
Email: mbruno@u.arizona.edu
Website: www.u.arizona.edu/~mbruno
Education:
University of Arizona
Ph.D. in Philosophy, expected May 2008.
Visiting Scholar, 2006-2007
The Australia National University
Visiting Scholar, June - August, 2005
Visiting Scholar, July - August, 2006
New York University
B.A. magna cum laude, with Honors in Philosophy (advisor: Cian Dorr), 2003.
Minors: History and Economics
Areas of Specialization:
Philosophy of Mind
Cognitive Science
Areas of Competence:
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Philosophy of Language
Metaethics (Moral Psychology)
Early Modern Philosophy (British Empiricism)
Awards and Fellowships:
Cognitive Science Summer Stipend (Summer 2006)
Reisen Graduate Award (Spring 2006)
University of Arizona Graduate Fellowship (Fall 2003 and Spring 2006)
Phi Beta Kappa (Spring 2002)
"Divorcing Content and Attitude: New Directions in Moral Psychology" with Uriah Kriegel
“Review
of Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology, Rocco J. Gennaro (ed.)”
Pysche 11 (6), October 2005.
Presentations:
"Phenomenal Externalism, Brains-in-Vats, and the Constitution / Causation Distinction" at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference. Canberra, ACT, July 2006.
"Offloading the Mind" (poster) at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) Conference at Washington University. St. Louis, MI, June 2006.
"Monitoring Theories of Consciousness and Introspective Richness" (poster) at the Towards the Science of Consciousness Conference (“Tucson VII”). Tucson, AZ, April 2006.
“Offloading the Mind” at the University of Memphis Graduate Conference on Philosophy and Technology. Memphis, TN, February 2006.
“Monitoring Theories of Consciousness and Introspective Richness” at the University of Arizona Consciousness Forum Series. Tucson, AZ, December 2005.
“Divorcing Content and Attitude: New Directions in Moral Psychology” as part of the ANU’s Philsoc seminar series. Canberra, ACT, August 2005.
“Divorcing Content and Attitude: New Directions in Moral Psychology” at Sydney University. Sydney, NSW, August 2005.
“Monitoring Theories of Consciousness and Introspective Richness” at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference. Sydney, NSW, July 2005.
“Monitoring Theories of Consciousness and Introspective Richness” at the CUNY Cognitive Science Summer Symposium. New York, NY, June 2005.
“Nonconceptual Content and Reasons for Action” at the University of Western Ontario’s Annual Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Cognitive Science. London, ON, April 2005.
Commentary on Jeffrey Green at the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. San Francisco, CA, March 2005.
“Nonconceptual Content and Reasons for Action” at the CUNY Graduate Conference in Philosophy. New York, NY, February 2005.
“Referential Uses of Descriptions and Generalized Conversational Implicatures” at the Arizona Summer Worship in Philosophy. Tucson, AZ, July 2004.
“Dancing Qualia and A Priori Knowledge” (poster) at the Towards the Science of Consciousness Conference (“Tucson VI”). Tucson, AZ, April 2004.
Teaching Experience :
Courses independently taught:
PHIL 262: History of Early Modern Philosophy (Summer 2004)
PHIL 110: Logic and Critical Thinking (Spring 2005)
PHIL 346: Minds, Brains, and Computers (Summer 2005)
PHIL 376: Introduction to Philosophy of Language (Fall 2005)
PHIL 305: Introduction to Philosophy of Science (Summer 2006)
PHIL 101: Introduction to Main Problems in Philosophy (Fall 2006)
Courses assisted as teaching assistant:
TRAD 104: Science and Inquiry (Fall 2003)
INDV 101: Individual and Society: Reflections on Language (Spring 2004)
Course assisted as lab instructor:
PSYCH 297a: Research Methods in
Psychology (Fall 2004)
Course assisted as grader:
PHIL 376: Introduction to Philosophy of Language (Fall 2004)
Professional Service:
Referee for Psyche.
Coordinator for the University of Arizona Consciousness Discussion Forum Series (Spring 2006).
Co-Coordinator for the Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness Conference (Spring 2005).
References:
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy, Australia National University
Email: chalmers@anu.edu.au
Terence Horgan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona
Email: thorgan@email.arizona.edu
Uriah Kriegel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona and Sydney University
Email: theuriah@gmail.com
Graduate Courses Taken:
Personal Identity (Derek Parfit, Fall 2002)
Advanced Logic (Rohit Parikh,
Spring 2003)
*Metaethics (Sharon Street, Spring 2003)
*NYU Research Seminar on Mind and Language: Factually Questionable Discourse (Hartry Field and Stephen Schiffer, Spring 2003)
*Metaphysics (John Hawthorne, Spring 2003)
Proseminar in Philosophy (Marga Reimer, Fall 2003)
Experimental Pragmatics (Merrill Garrett and Robert Harnish, Fall 2003)
Philosophy and Cognitive
Science (John Pollock, Fall 2003)
*Compositional Semantics (Massimo Piattelli-Palmerini and Heidi Harley, Spring 2004)
Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (John Pollock, Spring 2004)
Perceptual Experience (David Chalmers, Spring 2004)
Epistemology (Keith Lehrer, Spring 2004)
Truth and Realism (Joseph Tolliver, Fall 2004)
*Metaphysics (Jenann Ismael, Fall 2004)
Metaethics (Mark Timmons, Fall 2004)
The Purpose of Moral Theory (David Schmidtz, Fall 2004)
A Priori Naturalized Epistemology (Terence Horgan, Spring 2005)
Seminar on Hume (David Owen, Spring 2005)
*Philosophy of Mind (Uriah Kriegel, Spring 2005)
The Situated Self (Jenann Ismael, Spring 2005)
*Computational Intelligence (John Pollock, Charles Higgins, Kobus Barnard, and Sandiway Fong, Spring 2005)
Masters Seminar in Cognitive Science (Massimo Piatelli-Palmerini, Fall 2005)
*Metaphysics of Mind (Laurie Paul, Fall 2005)
Modal Logic (Shaughan Lavine, Fall 2005)
Rationalism and Empiricism (David Owen, Spring 2006)
Philosophy of Science (Shaughan Lavine, Spring 2006)
* Indicates course was audited