THEODORE
J. EVERETT
Department of Philosophy 113
Lima Road
SUNY College at Geneseo Geneseo,
NY 14454
Geneseo, NY 14454 (585) 243-3433 (home)
(585) 245-5198 (585) 245-3178 (cell)
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in
Philosophy, 1996
Cornell University, graduate study in
Philosophy, 1980-1983
University of Iowa, M.A. in Philosophy,
1979
Indiana University, A.B. in Mathematics,
1974
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor:
SUNY-Geneseo, Fall 2007 – present
Associate Professor:
SUNY-Geneseo, Fall 2002 – Spring 2007
Assistant
Professor:
SUNY-Geneseo,
Fall 1996 – Spring 2002
Lecturer:
University
of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 1994 – Spring 1995
Teaching
Assistant:
Harvard University, Spring 1989
Cornell University, Fall 1981 – Spring 1983
University of Iowa, Fall 1976 – Spring 1977
GRANTS AND
AWARDS
External:
National Endowment for the
Humanities:
Research
Fellowship, "The Epistemology of Trust", academic year 2002-2003
Internal:
SUNY-Geneseo:
Geneseo
Foundation Summer Faculty Fellowship, "A Model for Theories of
Distributive Justice", Summer 2014
Sabbatical
leave, "Disagreement and Belief", Fall 2011
Sabbatical leave, "Three Dimensions
of Belief", academic year 2004-2005
NEH
Fellowship support and leave, "The Epistemology of Trust", academic
year 2002-2003
Curriculum
Development Grant, College Planning Council, "The History of Science",
(with Janice Lovett and William Gohlman), Summer 2001
Presidential
Summer Fellowship, "The Rationality of Science and the Rationality of
Faith", Summer 2000
Youngs and Linfoot Faculty
Incentive Award, Spring 2000
Curriculum Development Grant, College
Planning Council, "Disagreement and Diversity", Summer 1998
Geneseo Foundation/Dean
Johnston Student Research Assistantships:
Marc Johnson,
"Partial Personal Identity", Fall 2010
Marianne Upham and
Luke Ortner, "Three Dimensions of Belief", Fall
2004
University of
Wisconsin, Madison:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-1996
W.
Donald Oliver Essay Prize, 1993
Cornell University:
Continuing Humanities Fellowship, 1981-82
Susan
Linn Sage Graduate Fellowship, 1980-81
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed:
"Justice
and Gini Coefficients" (with Bruce M. Everett), Politics, Philosophy, and Economics 14(2), 2015:187-208
"Peer Disagreement and Two
Principles of Rational Belief", Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 93(2), 2015: 273-286
"Observation
and Induction", Logos and Episteme 1
(2), 2010: 303-324
"Antiskeptical
Conditionals", Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research 73 (2), 2006: 505-536
"Analyticity
Without Synonymy in Simple Comparative Logic", Synthese 130 (2), 2002: 303-315
"The
Rationality of Science and the Rationality of Faith", Journal of Philosophy 98 (1), 2001: 19-42
"Other
Voices, Other Minds", Australasian
Journal of Philosophy 78 (2), 2000: 213-222
"A
Simple Logic for Comparisons and Vagueness", Synthese 123 (2), 2000: 263-278
Invited:
"Vague Disagreements and
Sorites", Logic, Epistemology, and
the Unity of Science 33: On the Sorites Paradox New York: Springer
(forthcoming)
"Other
Minds and the Origins of Consciousness", Anthropology and Philosophy 11, 2014/15: 77-94
"Are
there Non-existent Entities?", The
Philosophy of Panayot Butchvarov: a collegial evaluation (Larry Blackman,
ed.), Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellon Press, 2005: 3-19
WORKS IN
PROGRESS
Monographs:
Disagreement and Belief
A Theory of Vagueness
Textbooks:
Critical and Self-Critical Thinking
Symbolic Logic: A concise introduction
Articles:
"Vague
Existence and Identity in Simple Comparative Logic"
"A Model for Theories of
Distributive Justice"
"A
Simple Theory of Knowledge"
"On
Dividuals and Individuals"
"Abortion and Partial
Identity"
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
Refereed:
"Peer
Disagreement and Two Principles of Rationality", The Creighton Club (New York
Philosophical Association), November 2012
"Conditional
Knowledge and Skepticism", The Creighton Club (New York Philosophical
Association), October 2001
"Two
Principles of Belief", Tri-State Philosophical Association, April 1999
"Observation
and the Problem of Induction", The Creighton Club (New York Philosophical Association),
March 1998
Invited:
"A
Model for Theories of Distributive Justice", RIT Hale Ethics Lecture
Series, March 2015
"Williamson
on Improbable Knowing", (Session Chair), Wisconsin Epistemology
Conference, May 2008
"Are
there Non-Existent Entities?", (Speaker) Exploring the Thought of Panayot
Butchvarov, SUNY-Geneseo, April 2004
"The
Reality of Race in Personal Identity", (Commentator), Tri-State
Philosophical Association, October 1999
COURSES TAUGHT
SUNY-Geneseo:
PHIL
100: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 108: Critical Thinking
PHIL
111: Introduction to Logic
PHIL
136: Medicine and Morality
PHIL
235: Philosophy of Biology
PHIL
240: Philosophy of Science
PHIL 317: Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 330: Ethical Theory
PHIL
340: Theory of Knowledge
PHIL
355: Metaphysics
PHIL
288/388: Experimental:
Philosophical Logic
Disagreement and Diversity
Ideas of the Sixties
PHIL
397: Seminar:
Disagreement and Belief
Personal and Social Identity
Testimony, Trust, and Authority
PHIL
399: Directed Study:
Utilitarianism
Liberty
and Society
Personal
Identity in Biomedical Ethics
Belief and Action
Analysis
of Consciousness
Biological
Existentialism
Philosophy
of Science (2 students)
The
Nature of Knowledge
Ethics
of Vegetarianism
Psychology
and Personal Identity
Morality and
Objectivity
Philosophy
of Language (3 students)
Personal
Identity and Death
Wittgenstein (4 students)
Genetics and Spirituality
Physician Assisted Suicide
Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness
HUMN
220: Western Humanities I
HUMN
221: Western Humanities II
HONR
111: The Nature of Inquiry
INTD
105: The Moral Animal
INTD 101: Foundations of
Capitalism
University
of Wisconsin-Madison:
PHIL
341: Contemporary Moral Issues (Lecturer)
Harvard
University:
PHILOSOPHY 3: Introduction to the
Problems of Philosophy (TA)
Cornell
University:
PHIL 4810: Philosophy of Science
(TA)
PHIL 3310: Deductive Logic (TA)
PHIL 2310: Introduction to Deductive
Logic (TA)
PHIL 1450: Contemporary Moral
Issues (TA)
University
of Iowa:
26:101 Introduction to Philosophy
(TA)
THESES DIRECTED
Neal Plofker,
"Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness"
Benjamin Lieberman,
"Depression, Despair, and Physician Assisted Suicide"
Kim Hall,
"Genetics and Spirituality"
Matthew Harris,
"Philosophy of Mind: the Chinese Room"
Marc Johnson, "Personal Identity and
Death"
Alan Losh,
"Personal Identity"
Kathryn Philips, "Morality and
Objectivity"
Emily Upham, "The Ethics of Medical
Privacy"
Luke Ortner,
"Personal Identity and Affirmative Action"
Rebecca Juice, "The Ethics of
Vegetarianism"
COLLEGE LECTURES
Geneseo
Philosophy Department colloquia:
"Vague
Disagreements", April 2015
"Against
'Sustainability'", May 2014
"A
Model for Theories of Distributive Justice", November 2013
"Against
'Sexual' 'Assault' 'Awareness'", April 2013
"An
Argument for Humean Creationism", February 2010
"In
Defense of Vague Existence and Identity", September 2008
"Enough,
Already: Bringing an End to Political Correctness", March 2008
"Three
Dimensions of Belief", April 2007
"The Moral
Origins of Wicked Institutions", October 2003
"Epistemic
Commitment", October 2002
"Partial Personal Identity",
April 2001
"Suicide and Abortion",
September 1999
"Rationality, Complexity and
History: An Introduction to Epistemic Models", October 1997
"Affirmative
Action as Domestic, Foreign and Foundational Policy", April 1997
Other:
"Rational
Disagreement Among Peers", TLC Faculty Colloquium, November 2014
"Darwin, Evolution, and
Philosophy", SUNY-Geneseo Anthropology Department, March 2008
"The Metaphysics of
Abortion", SUNY-Geneseo Biology Department, October 1999
COLLEGE DEBATES
AND PANELS
"The 2012 Presidential Election",
SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy and Political
Science Clubs, October 2012
"Economic and Social Justice",
SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club, December 2011
"John Rawls and Justice",
SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club, April 2011
"Health Care Reform",
SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy and Sociology Clubs, November 2009
"The 2008 Presidential Election",
SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club and Residence Life, October 2008
"Should We Colonize Other Planets?",
SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club and "Heavens Above" (Milne Library),
November 2007
"Privacy Issues in the Post 9/11
World", American Democracy Project, September 2007
"The Global Warming Controversy",
SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club, April 2007
"The Death Penalty",
SUNY-Geneseo Sociology Club and Philosophy Club, April 2006
"Race, Class, and Poverty:
Reflections on Katrina", SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club, October 2005
"Competing Visions in Political
Philosophy", SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club, October 2004
"The War in Iraq", SUNY-Geneseo
Philosophy Club, February 2003
"How should the US respond to the
attacks of 9/11?", SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club, October 2001
"The Ethics of Cloning", Controversy with Kelly Clark, WGSU
radio, September 2000
"Does God Exist?", SUNY-Geneseo
Philosophy Club, April 2000
"Reason and Religion", SUNY-Geneseo
Philosophy Club, April 1999
"Impeachment and Presidential Ethics",
SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club, October 1998
"The
Values of the Sixties", SUNY-Geneseo Philosophy Club, November 1997
"Evolution and Creationism",
Steuben Residence Hall, March 1997
SERVICE
Profession:
Peer reviewer:
Logic, Epistemology, and
the Unity of Science 33: On the Sorites
Paradox
(New York: Springer, forthcoming), 2015
Eighth
European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (Epistemology), 2014
Journal referee:
Australasian Journal of Philosophy (x5)
Synthese
College:
College Research Council, 2005-2008,
2010-2013
Institutional
Animal Care and Use Committee, Fall 2010 to Spring 2015
Numeric
and Symbolic Reasoning Core Committee, 2006 to present
President’s
Task Force on Six Big Ideas: Rethinking the Course Load, Fall 2009
American
Democracy Project Committee, 2007 to 2009
Milne Library Hubble Exhibit
Committee, 2007
College Committee on Nominations,
2001-2002 (Chair, Spring 2002), 2012-2013
College
Senate, 1997-1999, 2003-2004
College Senate Faculty Affairs Committee,
1998-1999, 2003-2004
College Senate Policy Committee,
1997-1998
Philosophy
Department:
Chair, Fall 2014 to present
Executive
Committee, 2008 to 2014
Graduate Placement Advisor, 1996
to 2014
Personnel
Committee, 2004 to present
Acting Chair, Spring 2010
Program Review Committee,
2001-2002, 2006-2007
Speaker Coordinator, 1998-2000, 2009
Other:
Biology Department, Program
Review Committee, 2000
History
of Science Development Committee, 2000