Donovan Wishon
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Mississippi
Current Institution | University of Mississippi |
Department | Philosophy |
Disciplines | |
Current and Past Advisor(s) | John Perry, Krista Lawlor |
Address | Department of Philosophy and Religion Oxford Mississippi 38677 United States Phone: |
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Stanford University
Ph.D.,
Philosophy
(Aug 2006 - Mar 2012)
UC Berkeley
Graduate Exchange Student,
Philosophy
(2009 - 2010)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
BA in Philosophy, BA in English (minor in German),
Philosophy
(2002 - 2005)
Bakersfield College
AA English,
Philosophy
(2000 - 2002)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Mississippi
(Aug 2012 - Present)
Lecturer in Philosophy
Stanford University
(Apr 2012 - Jul 2012)
Instructor of Philosophy
Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth Summer Institutes
(2011 - 2012)
Graduate Student Workshop Coordinator
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consciousness" Gabelle Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center
(Aug 2011 - Mar 2012)
Research Assistant
Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, CSLI, Stanford University
(2007 - Jul 2012)
- Graduate Fellowship (Aug 2006 - Mar 2012)
- Bertrand Russell Society Conference Grant (Nov 2012 - Present)
- Mississippi Humanities Council/NEH Grant for Russell Conference (Nov 2012 - Present)
- College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Mississippi (Jun 2013 - Aug 2013)
Publication Summary
PAPERS
Forthcoming. "Russellian Acquaintance and Frege's Puzzle" in Mind
2015. "Russell on Russellian Monism" in Consciousness in the Physical World, eds. Alter and Nagasawa, Oxford University Press
2015. Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic: New Essays on Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy, co-edited volume with Bernard Linsky, CSLI Publications
2015. "The Place of The Problems of Philosophy in Philosophy" (with Bernard Linsky) in Wishon and Linsky
2012. “Perceptual Acquaintance and Informational Content” in Consciousness and Subjectivity, eds. Preyer and Miguens, Ontos
IN PROGRESS:
Conscious Thought and Thought about Consciousness, co-edited volume with John Perry
"Phenomenal Concepts and the Epistemic Role of Experience"
"Phenomenal Continua, Conceivability, and Kripke's Modal Argument"
"Russell on Introspection and Self-Knowledge" (for Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell)
"Russell’s Neutral Monism and Panpsychism" (for Routledge Handbook on Panpsychism)
"Panpsychism, Panprotopsychism, and Neutral Monism" (for Macmillan Interdisciplinary
Handbook: Philosophy of Mind)
REVIEWS
“Review of Prosser and Recanati Immunity to Error through Misidentification” (April 15, 2013) online in Notre Dame Philosophical Review
PRESENTATIONS
"Phenomenal Continua, Conceivability, and Kripke's Modal Argument" Invited Talk, Mississippi State University, Spring 2015
"Phenomenal Continua, Conceivability, and Kripke's Modal Argument" Philosophy Forum Talk, University of Mississippi, March 2015
"Presidential Address" Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Philosophical Association, Millsaps College, March 2015
"Comments on Galen Strawson" Conscious Thought and Thought about Consciousness conference, University of Mississippi, April 2014
"Comments on Ian Proops" Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy: The Centenary Conference, University of Mississippi, November 2012
“Russellian Acquaintance and the Phenomenal Concepts Strategy" Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consciousness, Stanford University, January 2012
"Russellian Acquaintance without Discriminating Knowledge" Bertrand Russell Society Annual Meeting, Drew University, May 2011
"Perry on Phenomenal Concepts" Perry Fest, Stanford University, February 2011
"Russellian Acquaintance without Discriminating Knowledge" Fourth-Year Talk, Stanford University, May 2010
“Talking About Continuants” Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Conference, UC Berkeley, April 2010
“A Stretch Semantics for Four-Dimensionalism" SSP Panel, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, BC, April 2009
Comments on Johnathan E. Dorsey’s “Against the No Fundamental Mentality Constraint” Berkeley-Stanford-Davis Graduate Conference, UC Davis, April 2008
Books
Other Publications
Russell on Russellian Monism
Between Dualism and Materialism, (eds.) Torin Alter and Yujin Nagasawa,
Forthcoming,