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2010

 

August: That's "Dr. Sytsma" now. Justin has successfully defended his dissertation, "Phenomenal Consciousness as Scientific Phenomenon? A Critical Investigation of the New Science of Consciousness."

August: Justin's article "The Proper Province of Philosophy: Conceptual Analysis and Empirical Investigation" has appeared in Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2010, 1: 427-445).

July: Justin's article "Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness" has appeared in Philosophy Compass (2010, 5/8: 700-711).

June: With the publication of "Philosophical Temperment," Justin now has an Erdös number of 5 (Erdös --> Taylor --> Cox --> Robins --> Scheines).

June: "Philosophy Temperment" by Jonathan Livengood, Justin Sytsma, Adam Feltz, Richard Scheines, and Edourd Machery has appeared in Philosophical Psychology.

May: Justin will be presenting "Two Types of Typicality" at the MERG / NYU Experimental Philosophy Colloquium this month.

May: Justin will be teaching "Science and the Modern World" and "Philosophy of Mind" at ETSU in the Fall.

April: Justin has accepted a job to be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at East Tennessee State University, starting August 2010.

April: Justin will be presenting "Searching for Evidence of Phenomenal Consciousness in NCC Research" at the Toward a Science of Consciousness 2010 Conference on April 16th.

April: Two papers by Justin, Jonathan Livengood, and David Rose have been accepted for poster presentations at the 2010 SPP: "Two Types of Typicality: Rethinking the Role of Statistical Typicality in Folk Causal Attributions" (Justin Sytsma, Jonathan Livengood, and David Rose) and "Folk Intuitions and Theories of Actual Causation: A Hitch in Hitchcock's Account" by Jonathan Livengood, Justin Sytsma, and David Rose.

March: "Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness" is forthcoming in Philosophy Compass. Preprint is available here.

February: Justin and Edouard Machery are presenting a commentary on Brian Talbot's "The irrelevance of Folk Intuitions to the ‘Hard Problem’ of Consciousness" at this year's Consciousness Online conference, running February 19 to March 5. Talbot's paper raises a novel objection to their article, "Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience" (preprint here).

February: "Phenomenological Obviousness and the New Science of Consciousness" (Philosophy of Science, 2009, 76(5): 958-969) is available online, here.

February: "Dennett's Theory of the Folk Theory of Consciousness" is forthcoming in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Preprint is available here.

January: "A New Perspective concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions" by Justin Sytsma and Jonathan Livengood is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Preprint is available here.

 
2009

 

December: "A New Perspective concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions" by Justin Sytsma and Jonathan Livengood has been accepted for publication in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, conditional on final revisions. Preprint is available here.

November: "Philosophy and the Brain Sciences" by Peter Machamer and Justin Sytsma has appeared in Iris (2009, 1(2): 353-374); this is a revised English-language reprint of their "Neuroscienze e natura della filosofia" (Iride, 2005).

October: "Philosophical Temperament" by Jonathan Livengood, Justin Sytsma, Adam Feltz, Richard Scheines, and Edouard Machery has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Psychology. Preprint is available here.

September: "Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience" by Justin Sytsma and Edouard Machery has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies. Preprint is available here.

September: Justin will be giving a presentation on experimental philosophy of consciousness at Rutgers University in September as part of a series of lectures being organized by the Metro Experimental Research Group.

September: After four years as Archive Manager for the PhilSci Archive, Justin has begun a three-year term on the Executive Committee; Bryan Roberts takes over as Archive Manager.

August: Justin's article "The Proper Province of Philosophy: Conceptual Analysis and Empirical Investigation" will be coming out in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Preprint is available here.

July: Justin has agreed to a contract with Broadview Press for a volume on experimental philosophy (Experimental Philosophy: An Introduction and Guide, Justin Sytsma and Jonathan Livengood).

July: Justin will be giving a talk on "The Proper Province of Philosophy: Conceptual Analysis and Empirical Investigation" at the APA Eastern Division meeting in December.

June: Justin and Jonathan Livengood have been awarded the William James Prize at the 2009 Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference; this prize is awarded for the best contributed paper by a graduate student.

May: Justin was featured in the University of Pittsburgh Chronicle. The article is available here.

May: Justin created the website for the newly created, Experimental Philosophy Society (XPS). Join today!

April: Justin was featured in a press release from the University of Pittsburgh for winning the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

April: Justin will be presenting a poster on the question of, "Does heterophenomenology concede too much?" at the SPP in June. He will also be giving a talk there with Jonathan Livengood on "A New Perspective concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions."

March: Justin has received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. The fellowships are awarded through a national competition across the humanities.

March: Justin's article with Edouard Machery—"How to study folk intuitions about phenomenal consciousness"—is available in the current issue of Philosophical Psychology.

February: Justin's contribution to the Consciousness Online conference is available here. His multimedia presentation is on "Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness."

February: Justin and Jonathan Livengood will be giving a talk at the Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Conference in March on their paper "A New Perspective concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions."

January: Justin has launched a new website: PhilosophicalPersonality.com

January: Justin will be giving a multi-media talk on "Folk Psychology & Phenomenal Consciousness"as part of Consciousness Online: The First Cyber Consciousness Conference in February.

 
2008

 

December: Justin was featured in the fourth issue of the University of Pittsburgh School of Arts & Sciences newsletter, Snapshot. The article, "Asking the Big Questions," can be found here.

December: Justin will be chairing a symposium on "Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness" at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 101st annual meeting (April, 2009); his contribution to the symposium is on "Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness ."

November: Spring semester, 2009, Justin will be teaching an upper division course on "Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy of Science"; over the summer he will be teaching "Problem Solving: How Science Works."

October: Justin will speak at the 2009 meeting of the APA Pacific Division on the topic of, "The Case of the Divergent Descriptions: An Experimental Investigation of Semantics, Cross-cultural Style."

September: Justin will give a featured presentation on "The Proper Province of Philosophy" at the 1st Annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Philosophical Issues conference in September; will discuss "The Case of the Divergent Descriptions" at the 24th Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science in October; and will ask, "Is phenomenal consciousness a problem for the brain sciences?" at the 2008 PSA biennial meeting in November.

August: Justin was featured in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's "newsmaker" section for his work in experimental philosophy and his winning of the William James Prize: (here)

July: Justin has been awarded the William James Prize at the 2008 Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference.

June: "How to study Folk Intuitions about Phenomenal Consciousness" by J. Sytsma & E. Machery has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Psychology.

June: Peter Machamer and Justin Sytsma have been invited to discuss "Philosophy and the Brain Sciences" for the premier issue of the new philosophy of science journal, Iris.

May: Justin has been selected as the teaching mentor for TAs and TFs in the HPS department for a second year.

April: Justin will present on "Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience" at Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008 in Tucson.

April: Justin has decided to start noting news and events; in doing so he will refer to himself in the third-person.


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