AMY KIND

 

Department of Philosophy

Claremont McKenna College

Claremont, CA 91711

 

(909) 607-3782

amy.kind@claremontmckenna.edu

http://phil-rlst.claremontmckenna.edu/akind/

 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College (2003-  )

Associate Dean of the Faculty, Claremont McKenna College (2005-2008 )

Director, Teaching Resource Center, Claremont McKenna College (2005-2008)

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College (1997-2003)

           

EDUCATION

            University of California, Los Angeles

                        Ph.D., Philosophy, 1997

                                    Dissertation: The Workings of the Imagination

                        C.Phil., Philosophy, 1995

                        M.A., Philosophy, 1993

            Amherst College

                        A.B., summa cum laude, Philosophy, 1990

 

PUBLICATIONS

      Articles in refereed journals

            “Restrictions on Representationalism,” Philosophical Studies 134: 405-427 (2007)

            “The Irreducibility of Consciousness,” Disputatio 19: 233-250 (2005)

            “The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our Special Concern for the Future,” Metaphilosophy 35: 536-553 (2004)

“What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,” Philosophical Studies 115: 225-244 (2003)

“Shoemaker, Self-Blindness and Moore’s Paradox,” The Philosophical Quarterly 53: 39-48 (2003)

            “Qualia Realism,” Philosophical Studies 104: 143-162 (2001)

            “Putting the Image Back in Imagination,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62: 85-109 (2001)

     

      Book chapters and other articles

“How to Believe in Qualia,” in E.O. Wright, ed., The Case for Qualia, pp. 285-298. MIT Press, 2008.

“Panexperientialism, Cognition, and the Nature of Experience” Psyche 12, http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/symposia/rosenberg/Kind.pdf (2006)

     

      Encyclopedia articles

 “Philosophical Accounts of Imagery,” forthcoming (2008) in Oxford Companion to Consciousness, ed. Timothy Bayne et al.  Oxford University Press.

“Introspection,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., James Fieser, http://www.iep.utm.edu/ (2005)

“Imagery and Imagination,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., James Fieser, http://www.iep.utm.edu/ (2005)

Entry on “The Intentional Stance,” in Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind, ed., Chris Eliasmith, http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/ (2001)

            “Jerry Fodor,” in World Philosophers and their Works, ed. John K. Roth, Salem Press, 2000

“Patricia Smith Churchland,” in World Philosophers and their Works, ed. John K. Roth, Salem Press, 2000

 

      Reviews

            Review of Furnishing the Mind by Jesse Prinz, Psyche 9 (2003) at http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/book_reviews/prinz/index.html

            Review of Knowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introduction by Andrew Brook and Robert J. Stainton, Teaching Philosophy 25: 98-101 (2002)

            Review of Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory by Peter Carruthers, The Review of Metaphysics 55: 125-127 (2001)

Review of Consciousness, Color and Content by Michael Tye, Disputatio 11: 52-57 (2001)

            Review of The Construction of Social Reality by John Searle, Social Theory and Practice 27: 345-351 (2001)

     

      Philosophy and Popular Culture

            “A Pensieve for Your Thoughts?  Harry Potter and the Magic of Memory,” forthcoming (2009) in Gregory Bassham and David Baggett, eds., Harry Potter and Philosophy, Blackwell Press.

            “Time – The Final Frontier,” in Jason T. Eberl and Kevin Decker, eds., Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant, pp. 203-216.  Open Court, 2008.

            “Is Ignorance Bliss?  Star Trek: Nemesis, Cloning, and the Right to an Open Future,” in Sandra Shapshay, ed., Bioethics at the Movies, pp. 147-163.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

“Am I a Cylon?  Self-Knowledge at the Crossroads,” in Josef Steiff and Tristan Tamplin, eds., Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?, pp. 49-60.  Open Court, 2008.

            “You Can’t Rape a Machine,” in Josef Steiff and Tristan Tamplin, eds., Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?, pp. 117-128.  Open Court, 2008.

            “’I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon’: The Identity of Cylons,” in Jason T. Eberl, ed., Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, pp. 64-74. Blackwell Press, 2008.

           

      Other Publications

Instructor’s Manual to Accompany A Guide to Good Reasoning.  McGraw Hill Publishing Co., 1999

 

PRESENTATIONS

Refereed talks

      “What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2003

      “Chalmers, Searle and the Irreducibility of Consciousness,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2000

“Qualia Realism,” Central States Philosophical Association, October 1999

 

Invited talks

“From Vulcan to Caprica: Philosophy Amidst the Worlds of Science Fiction,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2008.

“Panexperientialism,” Claremont Graduate University, November 2005

“Panexperientialism,” California State University, Northridge, November 2005

“Panexperientialism,” Southern California Philosophy Conference, October 2005

“Restrictions on Representationalism,” University of California, Santa Cruz, February 2003

“Restrictions on Representationalism,” California State University, San Bernardino, November 2002

“Restrictions on Representationalism,” Southern California Philosophy Conference, October 2002

“What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,” Pomona College, September 2002

“What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,” NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, June 2002

“Imagination and Possibility,” University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, October 2001

“Qualia Realism,” Pomona College, September 1999

“A Defense of Qualia Realism,” Society for Realism and Anti-Realism, APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 1999

“Imagery and Imagination,” University of California, Los Angeles, December 1996

 

Conference comments

Comments of Clayton Littlejohn’s, “On the Coherence of Inversion,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2008.

Comments on Martine Nida-Rumelin’s “Qualia and Transparency,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2008.

Comments on Tad Zawidzki’s “Mind-Reading or Mind-Shaping: The Function of Folk Psychology,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2007 [delivered by proxy]

Comments on Paul Katsafanas’ “Constitutivism and Self-Knowledge,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2007.

Comments on Paul Raymont’s “Some Experienced Qualities Belong to the Experience” and on Peter Mandik’s “Introspecting Brain States as Such,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2006

Comments on Philip Clayton’s “Emergence and Mind,” Claremont Graduate University Philosophy Colloquium Series, October 2004

Comments on Susanna Siegel’s “How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object Seeing?,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2004

Comments on J.R. Shrader’s “A Unity of Consciousness Argument Against Causal Emergentism,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 2003

Comments on Emmett Holman’s “Dualism, Secondary Quality Eliminativism and Recognitional Concepts: Putting a New Spin on the Knowledge Argument,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2003

Comments on John Kulvicki’s “The Contents of Images,” American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting, March 2002

Comments on Dana Nelkin’s “She Would Not Have Done Otherwise, Even If She Could Have,” Southern California Philosophy Conference, October 2001

Comments on Guy Rohrbaugh’s “Modal Flexibility and Ontology in the Arts,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 2000

Comments on Daniel Weiskopf’s “Mental Mirroring as the Origin of Attributions,” Central States Philosophical Association, October 2000

Comments on Sanford Goldberg’s “Basic Self-Knowledge is not Knowledge of Content,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 1998

 

Other presentations

“Imaginal Identity,” C-Realm Podcast, episode 81 (March 2008), at http://www.c-realm.com/podcasts.php

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

APA Pacific Division Program Committee, 2008 - present

Panelist, AskPhilosophers, http://askphilosophers.org, 2005 - present

Referee for Oxford University Press (2008, 2007, 2004), Philosophical Studies (2008, 2007, 2005), Erkenntnis (2008), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2007, 2006, 2005), Journal for Philosophical Research (2007), Nous (2007), Synthese (2007), Journal of Consciousness Studies (2007), Routledge (2007, 2006), McGraw Hill (2006), Cambridge University Press (2006), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2006), Inquiry (2006), Broadview Press (2004), University of Pittsburgh Press (2004), Philosophical Quarterly (2003, 2004), Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2003), Social Theory and Practice (2003), Dialogue (2002)

Conference participant, Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind, UC Santa Cruz, June 2007.

Session chair and conference participant, SPAWN conference on Consciousness, Syracuse University, July 2005

Session chair, SPP Annual Meeting, June 2003

Conference co-organizer, Bradshaw Seminar on “Imagining Minds,” February 2003

Session chair, APA Central Division Meeting, April 2002

Session chair, APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2002

Session chair, Society for Realism and Anti-Realism, APA Central Division Meeting, May 1999

Session chair, 5 College Conference on Neuroscience and Philosophy, April 1999

           

AWARDS AND GRANTS

            Roy P. Crocker Award for Merit, Claremont McKenna College, 2008

            Claremont McKenna College Summer Research Grants, 1998-2005, 2007

            Gould Center for Humanistic Studies Course Development Grant, 2004 (for Philosophy Through Science Fiction)

            Claremont McKenna College Diversity Course Development Grant, 2003

            NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, selected participant, 2002

            Gould Center for Humanistic Studies Summer Research Grant, 1998

            Collegium of University Teaching Fellows, UCLA, 1996-7

            Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1995

            UCLA Department of Philosophy Fellowship, 1992-3

            Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990-2

            George A. Plimpton Fellowship, Amherst College, 1990

            Gail Kennedy Prize in Philosophy, Amherst College, 1990

 

MEMBERSHIPS

            American Philosophical Association

            Society for Philosophy and Psychology

            Phi Beta Kappa

 

MAJOR COLLEGE SERVICE

Philosophy Program Coordinator, 2007-08

Curriculum Committee, chair, 2005 - 2008

President’s Advisory Committee on Diversity, chair, 2005 – 2008

Senior Staff, 2005 - 2008

Academic Affairs Committee, 2005 – 2008

Academic Standards Committee, 1998 – 2004, 2005 - 2008

Teaching Resources Committee, 2005 - 2008

Philosophy Program Coordinator, 2007 -2008

College Advancement Committee, 2004 - 2005

Campaign Planning Committee, 2004 - 2005

Athenaeum Advisory Committee, 2003 - 2004

            Student Recruitment Committee, 1998 - 2001

            Administration Committee, 1998 - 2001

 

SELECTED OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Social and Political Philosophy Search Committee, 2007-8

History of Modern Philosophy Search Committee, 2006-7

History of Ancient Philosophy Search Committee, 2005-6

PPE Search Committee, 2005-6

Role of Science Committee, chair, 2005-6

Gould Center Advisory Committee, 2000-2004

Ethics Search Committee, 2003-4

Social and Political Philosophy Search Committee, Scripps College, 2002-3

Working Group on Underperforming Students, 2000-1

Ethics Search Committee, chair, 2000-1

Committee on CMC Grievance Policies, 1999 - 2000

McKenna Weekend interviewer, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008

Committee on Teacher Training in G.E. Writing Instruction, UCLA, 1997

            Teaching Assistant Consultant, UCLA Philosophy Department, 1996-7

            Graduate Representative to the UCLA Philosophy Department Faculty, 1993-4

            Amherst College Class Secretary, 1990 - 1995

 

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE

Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy, Logic, Critical Reasoning

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

      Courses Taught

            at Claremont McKenna

            Introduction to Philosophy

            Honors Introduction to Philosophy

            Philosophical Problems

            Philosophy of Mind

            Skepticism

Language and Reality

20th Century Philosophy

            Fundamentals of Logic

            Metaphysics

            Philosophy Through Science Fiction

            Senior Seminar

 

            at Claremont Graduate University

            Seminar: Philosophy of Mind (on the problem of phenomenal consciousness)

 

            at UCLA

Philosophy of Mind

Critical Reasoning

Seminar: Imagery and Imagination

Teaching College Philosophy

 

      Courses Assisted

            at UCLA

Contemporary Moral Issues

Critical Reasoning

Ethical Theory

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Religion          

Skepticism and Rationality

 

 

 

updated: July 2008