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Adam J. Arico
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
SBS 213
1145 E. South Campus Drive
Tucson AZ 85721-0027
email: arico@u.arizona.edu

Education

    University of Arizona       (2006-Present)
Ph.D     (expected 2012)
Dissertation: The New Folk Psychology
Director: Shaun Nichols
    University of Missouri-St. Louis       (2004-2006)
MA Student
MA Thesis: "Anti-Individualism and Rationality"
Committee: Gualtiero Piccinini (chair), Berit Brogaard, Robert Gordon
    University of Missouri-St. Louis       (2000-2003)
B.A., Philosophy
B.A., Psychology
Minor: Classical Studies

Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind

Areas of Competence
Philosophy of Psychiatry, Metaethics

Publications

- Adam J. Arico. 2010. Folk Psychology, Consciousness, & Context Effects. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1(3): 371-393.

- Adam Arico, Brian Fiala, Rob Goldberg, and Shaun Nichols (2011). The Folk Psychology of Consciousness, Mind & Language, 26(3):327-352.

- Brian Fiala, Adam Arico, and Shaun Nichols (2011). On the psychological origins of dualism: Dual-process cognition and the explanatory gap. in Mark Collard & Edward Slingerland (Eds.), Creating consilience:Integrating science and the humanities. Oxford University Press.


Works in Progress

- Perceiving Minds and Moral Beings (under review)
- Breaking Out of Moral Typecasting. (under review)
- Mark Phelan, Adam Arico, & Shaun Nichols (under review). Thinking Things and Feeling Things: On an (Alleged) Discontinuity in Folk Metaphysics of Mind..
- Adam Arico & Don Fallis (under review). Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: An Empirical Investigation of the Concept of Lying.


Presentations
"Perceiving Minds and Moral Beings"
      Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA, March 22-24, 2012

"Perceiving Minds and Moral Beings"
      University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, November 2011

"Thinking Things and Feeling Things"
      The Society of Philosophy and Psychology, Montreal, Quebec, July 6-8, 2011

"Group Minds and Mental States"
      Cognitio: Young Researchers Conference in Cognitive Science, Montreal, Quebec, July 3-5, 2011

"On the Psychological Origins of Dualism"
      Experimental Epistemology Research Group's All X-Phi Weekend, Buffalo, NY, October 2009

"Folk Dualism & Explanatory Gap Intuitions"
      101st Meeting of The Southern Society for Philosophy & Psychology, Savannah, GA, April 2009

"Folk Intuitions About Lying"
      Information Ethics Roundtable: Misinformation & Disinformation, Tucson, AZ, April 2009

"Folk Psychology, Consciousness, & Context Effects"
      1st Annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical Issues
      "At the Crossroads of Philosophy and Psychology", Mobile, AL, September 2008

"The Folk v. Acme Corp: Deregulating Corporate Consciousness"
      2nd Annual Tucson Roundtable in Experimental Philosophy, Tucson, AZ, May 2008

"Folk Psychology of Consciousness"
      Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, AZ, April 2008;
      Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson, AZ, February 2008

"Deregulating Corporate Consciousness: A Critique of Knobe and Prinz's 'Intuitions About Consciousness'."
      Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Toronto, Ontario, June 2007 (poster)

Awards and Honors
H.B. Earhart Fellowship, Fall 2008-Spring 2009
      Courtesy of the Earhart Foundation

Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Spring 2008
      Courtesy of the Department of Cognitive Science, University of Arizona

Teaching Positions
University of Arizona
      As Primary Instructor:
Existential Philosophy (PHIL 245), Spring 2011.
Philosophy and Psychiatry (PHIL/PSYC 345), Winter '10 (online), Summer '10 (online), Summer 2008.
Minds, Brains, & Computers (PHIL/PSYC 346), Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2009.
Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 111), Fall 2009.

      As Teaching Assistant:
Minds, Brains, & Computers (PHIL/PSYC 346), Spring 2012, Instructor: Shaun Nichols
Justice & Virtue (100-level), Spring 2010, Instructor: Houston Smit
Individuals and Societies (100-level), Fall 2007, Instructor: Shaun Nichols

      As Grader:
Philosophy of Mind (instructor: Joseph Tolliver), Fall 2008
Philosophy of Language (instructor: Marga Reimer), Fall 2008
Knowledge and Cognition (instructor: Joseph Tolliver), Spring 2008

University of Missouri - St. Louis
      As Primary Instructor:
Logic & Language, Summer 2006
Significant Figures in Philosophy (telecourse), Summer 2005
Cultural Traditions II - Critical Thinking, Spring 2005 and Spring 2006

      As Grader:
Major Questions in Philosophy (instructor: Andrew Black), Fall 2004, Fall 2005