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Sara J. Bernstein
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Philosophy
Department |
Phone: (520) 621-5045
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Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, History of Early
Modern Philosophy, History of Nineteenth Century Philosophy
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Ph.D Philosophy |
University
of Arizona |
2004- |
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Visiting Student |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
2009-2010 |
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Visiting Student |
Australian National University (RSSS) |
June-July 2008 |
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A.B. (Honors) Philosophy |
University of Chicago |
2000-2004 |
"The Problems of Overdetermination"
"Understanding Overdetermination"
"Moral Overdetermination"
"A New Strain of Nonreductive Physicalism"
"The Metaphysics of Moral Luck"
August 2008. Comments on David Shoemaker's "What's Identity Got to Do With It?" at Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO.
August 2008. "Moral Overdetermination" (poster) at Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, Boulder, CO.
July 2008. "Overdetermination Problems" at Philsoc Series, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
July 2008. "Moral Overdetermination" at Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, Australia.
April 2008. "Understanding Overdetermination" at Powers, Dispositions, and Singular Causation, Buffalo, New York.
March 2008. Comments on Achille Varzi's "Boundaries, Conventions, and Reality" at Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference: Carving Nature at its Joints, Pullman, Washington.
February 2008. "Understanding Overdetermination" at UCLA/ USC Graduate Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
October 2007. Comments on Alexander Skiles' "Ordinary Objects and Overdetermination" at Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland, OR.
October 2007. "Understanding Overdetermination" at Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland, OR.
September 2007. "Understanding Overdetermination" at Florida State Graduate Conference, Tallahassee, FL.
August 2007. Comments on Jason Turner's "Ontological Pluralism" at Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, WA.
January 2008. Invited Participant, Pittsburgh Causation Workshop, Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, PA.
December 2007. Invited Participant, Syracuse Mental Causation Workshop, Syracuse, NY.
Arizona Department of Philosophy Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student, 2007-2008.
Arizona Department of Philosophy Feinberg Dissertation Fellowship (merit-based), 2008.
Arizona Graduate Student Fellowship (merit-based), 2004-2005
Teaching
As Independent Instructor:
Philosophy 264: Twentieth Century Philosophy (Spring 2008)
Philosophy 263: Nineteenth Century Philosophy (Fall 2007)
Philosophy 238: Philosophy in Literature (Spring 2007)
Philosophy 346: Minds, Brains, and Computers (Summer 2006)
As Teaching Assistant:
Traditions and Cultures 104: Science and Inquiry (Instructor: Shaughan Lavine)
Philosophy 340: Early Modern Philosophy (Instructor: David Owen)
As Grader:
Philosophy 471B: The British Empiricists (Instructor: David Owen)
Research
Fall 2006. Cognitive Science Research Assistant
2004-2005. Member, OSCAR Artificial Intelligence Lab (Director: John Pollock)
To the Arizona Philosophy Department:
2008-2009. Conference organizer (with L.A. Paul), 2009 Arizona Ontology Conference
2007-2008. Conference organizer (with L.A. Paul), 2008 Arizona Ontology Conference
2006-2007. Graduate representative to the faculty
2006-2007. Committee on Graduate Placement
To the profession:
Referee:
Routledge Press
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference
Philosophia
August 2008. Session Chair, "Lucky to be Rational" at Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Bellingham, Washington.
April 2008. Session Chair, "Materialism/ Dualism" at Toward a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, AZ.
March 2008. Session Chair, Colloquium on "On the Supposed Advantage of Individualism about Overdetermination", Pacific APA, Pasadena, CA.
March 2007. Session Chair, Colloquium on "Perceptual Experience and Error", Pacific APA, San Francisco, CA.
Metaphysics and Epistemology:
Independent Study: Causal
Overdetermination (L.A. Paul)
Seminar: Truth (Joseph Tolliver)
Seminar: A Priori Knowledge (Terry Horgan)
Seminar: Metaphysics of Mind (L.A. Paul)
Seminar: Causation (L.A. Paul) (audit)
Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Richard Healey)
Metaphysics of Experience (Houston Smit)
Philosophy of Mind:
Seminar: Representational Theories of
Mind (Jenann Ismael and
John
Pollock)
Seminar: Computational Intelligence (Kobus Barnard, Sandiway Fong, Charles Higgins, John Pollock) (audit)
Seminar: Cognitive Science (Massimo Palmieri-Palmerini)
Philosophy and Psychology (Shaun Nichols)
History of Philosophy:
Seminar: Hume's Treatise
on Human
Nature (David
Owen)
The Empiricists (David Owen)
Value Theory:
Seminar: Moral Theorizing (David
Schmidtz)
Seminar: Aesthetics (Keith Lehrer)
Seminar:
Moral Phenomenology (Mark Timmons)
Misc:
Proseminar: History of Analytic
Philosophy (Marga Reimer)
Philosophy of Language (Shaughan Lavine)
Seminar: Research and Professionalization for Dissertation (Terry
Horgan and Thomas Christiano)