Robert Sinclair

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Philosophy, Simon Fraser University 2001

M.A., Philosophy, University of Ottawa 1996

B.A., Philosophy, Concordia University 1994


AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

20th century analytic philosophy
Epistemology
American Pragmatism and Naturalism

PUBLICATIONS:

ARTICLES:

“Philosophy, conceptions of,” (Forthcoming in the Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy, Edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, 2007, New York: Routledge Press)

“Nielsen’s Conception of Philosophy: Its Essential Tension and Deweyan Solution,” (Forthcoming in Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, Edited by Matthias Fritsch and Michel Seymour, 2006, New York: Humanity Books)

“A Less Radical Interpretation of Davidson and Quine (Critical Notice of Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality by Hans-Johann Glock),” Dialogue 45 (2006): 107-124.

“The Philosophical Significance of Triangulation: Locating Davidson’s Non-Reductive Naturalism,” Metaphilosophy 36 (2005): 708-728.

“When Naturalized Epistemology Turns Normative: Kim on the Failures of Quinean Epistemology,” Southwest Philosophy Review 20 (2004): 53-67.

“Stimulus Meaning Reconsidered,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (2002): 395-409.

“What is Radical Interpretation? Davidson, Fodor and the Naturalization of Philosophy,” Inquiry 45 (2002): 161-184.

BOOK REVIEWS:

“Review of The Cambridge Companion to Quine edited by Roger Gibson,” (Forthcoming in Dialogue)

“Review of Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist by Thomas C. Dalton,” Dialogue 44 (2005): 176-178.

“Review of Donald Davidson edited by Kirk Ludwig,” Philosophiques 32 (2005): 271-273. (In French)

“Review of Naturalism and Religion by Kai Nielsen,” Philosophical Investigations 27 (2004): 189-193.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

“The Third Dogma of Empiricism and Naturalized Epistemology: Davidson and Quine on Evidence, Meaning and Naturalism”

“Dewey, Quine and the Challenges of American Naturalism”

“Biography as Philosophy: American Pragmatism and the Social Context of Ideas”

“Conceptual Pragmatism and Naturalized Epistemology: Lewis and Quine on the A Priori and the Structure of Empirical Knowledge”

PRESENTATIONS:

“Half-Hearted or Broken-Backed? The Dewey-Santayana Dispute and the Problem of Naturalism in the 1920s”
Sixth Congress of HOPOS, Panel Session on ‘Enriching the Context: Naturalism, Empiricism, and Realism in American Philosophy and Psychology, 1870-1930’ École Normal Supériere, Paris, France, June 2006.

“Dewey, Quine and the Challenges of American Naturalism”
Research Presentation, Brooklyn College, December 2005.

“Biography as Philosophy: American Pragmatism and the Social Context of Ideas”
The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 32nd Annual Conference, California State University, Bakersfield, California, March 2005.

“Conceptual Pragmatism and Naturalized Epistemology: Lewis and Quine on the A Priori and the Structure of Empirical Knowledge”
Philosophy Department Colloquium, Ohio University, January 2005.
International Symposium on A Priori Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Canadian Society for Epistemology, University of Sherbrooke, October 2004.

“The Challenges of American Naturalism: Quine and the Columbia Naturalists”
Research Presentation, Atkinson College, York University, February 2005.
Fifth Congress of HOPOS, University of San Francisco, California, June 2004.

“Reflecting on the Nature of Philosophy Itself: Some Metaphilosophical Implications of Friedman’s Dynamics of Reason”
CPA Meetings, Panel Session on ‘The Implications of Logical Empiricist Metaphilosophy’ University of Manitoba, May 2004

“Nielsen’s Conception of Philosophy: Its Essential Tension and Naturalist Resolution” Conference in Honour of Kai Nielsen, Panel session on ‘Metaphilosophy: Naturalism, Pragmatism and Reflective Equilibrium’, Concordia University, October 2003.

“When Naturalized Epistemology Turns Normative: Quine’s Fragmentation of Epistemic Normativity”
Society for Exact Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, May 2003.

“Friedman’s Metaphilosophy: The Constitutive A Priori and Philosophical Naturalism”
CPA Meetings, Panel session on ‘Issues in the Philosophy of Science’, Dalhousie University, May 2003.
WCPA Meetings, University of Calgary, October 2002.

“Stimulus Meaning Reconsidered”
CPA Meetings, University of Toronto, May 2002.

“Triangulation and Davidson’s Naturalism”
Two Day Workshop on Davidson and Triangulation. University of Oslo, March 2001.

“Quine’s Naturalization of Philosophy”
Mistakes of Reason Conference, University of Lethbridge, April 2002.
WCPA Meetings, University of Alberta, October 2000.

“A Tale of Two Naturalists: Davidson and Quine on the Naturalization of Philosophy”
Philosophy Department Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, December 1999.

“The Philosophical Significance of Triangulation”
WCPA Meetings, University of Saskatchewan, October 1999.
CPA Meetings, University of Sherbrooke, June 1999.
B.C. Philosophy Conference, Capilano College, April 1999.

“What is Radical Interpretation?”
CPA Meetings, Brock University, June 1996.

Department of Philosophy

Brooklyn College, City University of New York