December: Exceptional undergraduates
Dustin Phillips and Courtney Oglesby have received a Student-Faculty
Collaborative Grant to work with Justin on a project on the
possibility of "Pain Hallucinations."
December: Spring semester Justin
will be teaching a seminar on "History of Modern Philosophy."
November: Jonathan Livengood and
Justin Sytsma presented on "Folk Intuitions and Theories
of Actual Causation: A Hitch in Hitchcock's Account"
at the PSA.
October: "Two Conceptions of
Subjective Experience" by Justin Sytsma and Edouard Machery
appeared in Philosophical Studies, 151(2): 299-327.
October: Justin gave a talk on "Folk
Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness" as part of the
ETSU Department of Psychology Speaker Series.
October: "Semantic Intuitions:
Reply to Lam" by Machery, Deutsch, Mallon, Nichols, Sytsma,
and Stich appeared in Cognition, 117(3): 361-366.
September: "Semantic Intuitions:
Reply to Lam" by Edouard Machery, Max Deutsch, Ron Mallon,
Shaun Nichols, Justin Sytsma, and Stephen Stich has been accepted
for publication in Cognition.
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).
July: During the Fall semester,
Justin will be teaching a seminar on "Philosophy of Mind."
June: With the publication of "Philosophical
Temperament," Justin now has an Erdös number of
5 (Erdös --> Taylor --> Cox --> Robins -->
Scheines).
June: "Philosophy Temperament"
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. |
