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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 Oxford Mississippi United States Phone: |
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Education
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)
Work Experience
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Mississippi
(Aug 2012 - Present)
Research Assistant
Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, CSLI, Stanford University
(2007 - Jul 2012)
Graduate Student Workshop Coordinator
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consciousness" Gabelle Workshop, Stanford Humanities Center
(Aug 2011 - Mar 2012)
Lecturer in Philosophy
(Apr 2012 - Jul 2012)
Instructor of Philosophy
Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth Summer Institutes
(2011 - 2012)
Achievements
- 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)
General
Publication Summary
PAPERS
“Perceptual Acquaintance and Informational Content” (2012) in Consciousness and Subjectivity, eds. Preyer and Miguens, Ontos
IN PROGRESS:
Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic: New Essays on Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy, co-edited volume with Bernard Linsky, CSLI Publications (Under Contract)
“Russellian Acquaintance without Discriminating Knowledge” (Under Review)
"Russellian Acquaintance and the Phenomenal Concepts Strategy"
“The Stretch Theory of Persistence”
REVIEWS
“Review of Prosser and Recanati Immunity to Error through Misidentification” (April 15, 2013) online in Notre Dame Philosophical Review
PRESENTATIONS
“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
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