Tim Black
Department of Philosophy
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8253
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Philosophy, May, 2001
Dissertation: “Contextualism and Skepticism about the External World”
Committee: Albert Casullo (director), Robert Audi, Philip Hugly, Joseph Mendola
B.A. Auburn University, Philosophy and English, May, 1994, magna cum laude
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Hume’s Epistemology
Areas of Competence
History of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics
Wittgenstein
Experience
California State University, Northridge, Department of Philosophy
Associate Professor (tenured), August 2009-present
Associate Professor (non-tenured), August 2008-August 2009
Assistant Professor, August 2003-August 2008
University of Utah, Department of Philosophy
Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2002-July 2003
California State University, Fresno, Department of Philosophy
Lecturer August 2001-July 2002
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Philosophy
Lecturer, June 2001-July 2001
Teaching assistant, August 1995-May 2001
Publications
REFEREED
At California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge
2001
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8253
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Philosophy, May, 2001
Dissertation: “Contextualism and Skepticism about the External World”
Committee: Albert Casullo (director), Robert Audi, Philip Hugly, Joseph Mendola
B.A. Auburn University, Philosophy and English, May, 1994, magna cum laude
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Hume’s Epistemology
Areas of Competence
History of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics
Wittgenstein
Experience
California State University, Northridge, Department of Philosophy
Associate Professor (tenured), August 2009-present
Associate Professor (non-tenured), August 2008-August 2009
Assistant Professor, August 2003-August 2008
University of Utah, Department of Philosophy
Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2002-July 2003
California State University, Fresno, Department of Philosophy
Lecturer August 2001-July 2002
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Philosophy
Lecturer, June 2001-July 2001
Teaching assistant, August 1995-May 2001
Publications
- “Modal and Anti-Luck Epistemology,” commissioned for the Routledge Companion to Epistemology, edited by Duncan Pritchard and Sven Bernecker (Routledge).
- “What We Can Learn from the Skeptical Puzzle,” Iris: European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 1 (2009): 439-447.
- “A Warranted-Assertability Defense of A Moorean Response to Skepticism,” Acta Analytica 23 (2008): 187-205.
- “Solving the Problem of Easy Knowledge,” The Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008): 597-617.
- “Defending a Sensitive Neo-Moorean Invariantism,” in New Waves in Epistemology, Vincent F. Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008): 8-27.
- “In Defense of Sensitivity” (written with Peter Murphy), Synthese 154 (2007): 53-71.
- “The Distinction Between Coherence and Constancy in Hume’s Treatise I.iv.2,” The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2007): 1-25.
- “Avoiding the Dogmatic Commitments of Contextualism” (written with Peter Murphy), Grazer Philosophische Studien 69 (2005): 165-182.
- “Classic Invariantism, Relevance, and Warranted Assertability Manœuvers,” The Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2005): 328-336.
- “Contextualism in Epistemology,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., James Fieser. [Posted December 5, 2003 at http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/contextu.htm.]
- “The Relevant Alternatives Theory and Missed Clues,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (2003): 96-106.
- “Relevant Alternatives and the Shifting Standards for Knowledge,” Southwest Philosophy Review 18 (2002): 23-32.
- “A Moorean Response to Brain-in-a-Vat Scepticism,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2002): 148-163.
- Review of O.K. Bouwsma, Bouwsma’s Notes on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, 1965-1975, in Reason Papers 24 (1999): 131-137.
REFEREED
- “Hume’s Epistemic Naturalism in the Treatise”; 36th International Hume Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, August 2-6, 2009
- “Explanation, Epistemic Closure and Belief-Forming Methods” (written with Peter Murphy); Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April 30-May 2, 2004
- “Hume’s Epistemological Compatibilism”; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, March, 2003
- "Skepticism and Warranted Assertion”; American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, April, 2003; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting of the Society for Skeptical Studies, March, 2003; Central States Philosophical Association, October, 2002; Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, October, 2002
- “Relevant Alternatives and the Shifting Standards for Knowledge”; American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, April, 2002; Southwestern Philosophical Society, November, 2001
- “A Moorean Response to Skepticism”; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, March, 2002
- “Relevant Alternatives and the Skeptical Puzzle”; Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February, 2000
- “How to do epistemology”; 12th Southern California Philosophy Conference, November 7, 2009
- “The Value of Reliably-Produced True Belief”; Summer School in Philosophy 2009, University of Cologne (Germany), August 24-28, 2009 [was not able to attend]
- “Hume’s Epistemic Naturalism in the Treatise”; University of California, Irvine Scientia Workshop in the History of Philosophy, December 5, 2008
- “Reflective Epistemic Luck and a New Epistemic Compatibilism”; 3rd Southern California Epistemology Workshop, UCLA, May 17, 2008
- “Searching for Reason’s Foundation: Hume’s Arguments in Of scepticism with regard to reason”; Claremont Graduate University Philosophy Colloquium, April 19, 2007
- “Defending a Sensitive Neo-Moorean Invariantism”; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting of the Society for Skeptical Studies, March, 2006
- “Contextualism, Closure, and Contingent A Priori Knowledge”; Philosophy Symposium, California State University, San Bernardino, November, 2003
- “Is There Room for Epistemic Closure in a Counterfactualist Theory of Knowledge?” (written with Peter Murphy); Eighth Annual Southern California Philosophy Conference, October, 2003
- “Skepticism and Warranted Assertability Maneuvers”; Philosophy Colloquium, University of Utah, December, 2002
- “A Refuge for Knowledge, or How the Relevant Alternatives Theory Can Shelter Us From Skepticism”; Department of Philosophy Colloquium, California State University, Fresno, April, 2002
- Comments on Eric Thompson's "Pragmatic Invariantism and External World Skepticism"; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, April, 2010
- Comments on Daniel M. Johnson’s “Can Moore’s Proof Rationally Persuade Without Transmitting Warrant?”; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, April, 2008
- Comments on D. Blake Roeber’s “Contextualism and Virtue Perspectivism: How to Preserve Our Intuitions About Knowledge and ‘Knows’”; American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meetings, December, 2007
- Comments on Juan Comesaña’s “Knowledge and Subjunctive Conditionals” (with Peter Murphy); On-Line Philosophy Conference 2, May 14-20, 2007 (The conference is online at the following address: http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/2nd_annual_online_philoso/
- Comments on Kent Bach’s “The Emperor’s New ‘Knows’”; Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April 30-May 2, 2004
- Comments on Jessica Brown’s “Adapt or die: the death of invariantism?”; University of Stirling’s Epistemological Contextualism conference, March 20-21, 2004
- Comments on Jean-Pierre Schachter’s “Hume’s Principles of World-Construction”; 30th International Hume Conference, July 29-August 2, 2003
- Comments on Matt Cooper’s “Skepticism and Contextual Semantics”; Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, October, 2002
- Comments on Erik Schmidt’s “Self-Deception and Ambivalent Belief”; Mid-South Philosophy Conference, February, 2000
At California State University, Northridge
- Philosophy 100: General Logic
- Philosophy 150: Introduction to Philosophical Thought
- Philosophy 200: Critical Reasoning
- Philosophy 202: Modern Philosophy
- Philosophy 230: Introduction to Formal Logic
- Philosophy 350: Epistemology and Metaphysics
- Philosophy 355: Mind and Reality
- Philosophy 402: Advanced Modern Philosophy (Berkeley’s Principles and Dialogues; Hume’s Treatise, Book 1, Parts 1 and 2)
- Philosophy 403: Contemporary Philosophy (Duncan Pritchard’s Epistemic Luck)
- Philosophy 450: Advanced Epistemology and Metaphysics (J
ohn Hawthorne’s Knowledge and Lotteries) - Philosophy 497: Senior Seminar
- Linguistics 430: A Linguistic Introduction to Cognitive Science
- Liberal Studies 250: Reason, Belief, and Education
- Liberal Studies 396GW: Liberal Studies Gateway
- Philosophy 1250: Reasoning and Rational Decision Making
- Philosophy 1250: Reasoning and Rational Decision Making (Online WebCT course)
- Philosophy 3200: Deductive Logic
- Philosophy 3300: Theory of Knowledge
- Philosophy 3910: Individual Research (John McDowell’s Mind and World)
- Philosophy 5300/6300: Epistemology
- Philosophy 1: Introduction to Philosophy
- Philosophy 20: Moral Issues
- Philosophy 28: Critical Thinking in the Classroom
- Philosophy 120: Contemporary Conflicts of Morals
- Spring 2005: California State University, Northridge Probationary Faculty Development Grant for “A Warranted-Assertability Defense of A Moorean Response to Skepticism”
- Fall 2005: California State University, Northridge College of Humanities Faculty Fellowship for“Hume’s Epistemological Compatibilism”
- Fall 2007: California State University, Northridge Competition for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity for “Implicature Cancellations and Epistemological Invariantism”
- Fall 2007: California State University, Northridge College of Humanities Faculty Fellowship for “Searching for Reason’s Foundation: Hume’s Arguments in Of scepticism with regard to reason”
- Spring 2008: California State University, Northridge College of Humanities Faculty Fellowship for “Nature and Cogitation in Hume’s Treatise 1.4.7”
- Spring 2009: California State University, Northridge Competition for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity for “Hume’s Epistemic Naturalism in A Treatise of Human Nature”
California State University, Northridge
- Academic Advisor, Philosophy Department, Fall 2008-present
- Academic Council, Philosophy Department’s Alternate Representative, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
- Appointments Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2003-present (Chair (Fall 2008-present))
- Assessment Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2004-present (Chair (Fall 2004-Spring 2008))
- Assessment Liaison Committee, Fall 2004-Spring 2008
- Associated Students Annual Budget Review Board, Faculty Representative, Spring 2005 Fall 2005, Fall 2006-Spring 2008
- Critical Reasoning Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2005-Spring 2007
- Curriculum Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2004-Spring 2009 (Chair (Fall 2004-Spring 2008))
- Educational Policies Committee, Spring 2009-present
- Faculty Hearing Panel, Philosophy Department Representative, Fall 2007-present
- Faculty Writing Workshop (conducted by Irene Clark), Participant, Spring 2008
- Integrated Teacher Education/Liberal Studies Interdisciplinary Program Committee, Fall 2006-present (Assessment Sub-committee, Fall 2007-present)
- Learning Centered University Symposium, Poster Session Presenter, October 8, 2004
- Lecture Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2009-present
- Literacies Certificate Planning Committee, Fall 2009-present
- Lower Division Transfer Pattern, Disciplinary Representative (Philosophy) for California State University, Northridge, Fall 2005
- Luckenbach Award Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2008-present
- Master’s in Humanities Faculty Planning Committee, Spring 2006-Spring 2008
- New Faculty Orientation Organizing Committee, Spring 2004-Fall 2005
- Organizer of the 11th Southern California Philosophy Conference (held at CSUN on October 27, 2007, and sponsored by the CSUN Philosophy Department), Summer 2007-Fall 2007
- Organizer of the 10th Annual Southern California Philosophy Conference (held at CSUN on October 29, 2005, and sponsored by the CSUN Philosophy Department), Summer 2005-Fall 2005
- Personnel Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2009-present
- The Scholarship of Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Connections that Work, Poster Presenter, September 29, 2006
- Strategic Planning Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2003–present
- Student Philosophy Society, Faculty Sponsor, Philosophy Department, Fall 2003-Spring 2007
- Summer Sessions Committee, Philosophy Department, Summer 2005-Summer 2008
2001
- Referee for Australasian Journal of Philosophy
- Referee for Australasian Journal of Philosophy
- Referee for the following journals: American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
- Program Committee for the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association
- Referee for the following journals: Erkenntnis, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese
- Referee for the following publishers: Routledge
- Program Committee for the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association
- Referee for the following journals: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese
- Referee for The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Program Committee for the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association
- Referee for the following journals: American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese
- Referee for the following publishers: McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Wadsworth/Thomson Higher Education
- Referee for the following journals: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, dialectica, Dialogue, The Journal of Philosophical Research, Philosophia, Synthese, Theoria
- Referee for the following publishers: McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Wadsworth/Thomson Higher Education, Wiley-Blackwell
- Referee for the following journals: Canadian Journal of Philosophy, dialectica, Mind, Noûs, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese
- Referee for the following journals: Acta Analytica, American Philosophical Quarterly, Erkenntnis, Metaphilosophy, Mind, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophia, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese
- Referee for the following journals: Journal of Philosophical Research, Mind, Synthese
- American Philosophical Association, 2000-present
- Central States Philosophical Association, 2002-2003
- Hume Society, 2006-present
- Society for Skeptical Studies, 2001-present
- Southwestern Philosophical Society, 2001-2002
