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Robert Sinclair
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Asst Professor Department: Philosophy Location: 3311 Boylan Hall Phone: 718-951-5000 x1410 Fax: 718-951-4675 Email:
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Born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Studied at Concordia University and the University of Ottawa before pursuing doctoral work at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
Education: Doctor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University - 2001 (Philosophy) Master of Arts, University of Ottawa - 1996 (Philosophy) Bachelor of Arts, Concordia University - 1994 (Honors Philosophy) Areas of Expertise: My research examines the intersection between analytic philosophy, pragmatism and naturalism within 20th century American philosophy. Books and Publications "Dewey, Religion, and the New Atheism," (Forthcoming in Contemporary Pragmatism) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 "Quine's Philosophy of Science," In The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://www.iep.utm.edu/quine-sc/ (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 "Review of Quine's Naturalism: Language, Theory and the Knowing Subject by Paul Gregory," Philosophy in Review 29 (2009): 29-31. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 "Philosophy, conceptions of," In American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, Edited by John Lachs and Robert Talisse, 2008, 586-590, New York: Routledge Press. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "Quine in Historical Context (Critical Notice of Quine by Peter Hylton)," Philosophical Inquiry 30 (2008): 185-192. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 "Why Quine is Not an Externalist," (Forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophical Research). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2008 "Nielsen's Conception of Philosophy: Its Essential Tension and Deweyan Solution," In Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen, Edited by Matthias Fritsch and Michel Seymour, 2007, 165-176, New York: Humanity Books. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007 "Quine's Naturalized Epistemology and the Third Dogma of Empiricism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 45 (2007): 455-472. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 "Review of C.I. Lewis: The Last Great Pragmatist by Murray Murphey," Metaphilosophy 38 (2007): 718-725 . (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007 "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. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 "Review of The Cambridge Companion to Quine edited by Roger Gibson," Dialogue 45 (2006): 602-604. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006 "Review of Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist by Thomas C. Dalton," Dialogue 44 (2005): 176-178. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Review of Donald Davidson edited by Kirk Ludwig," Philosophiques 32 (2005): 271-273. (In French) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "The Philosophical Significance of Triangulation: Locating Davidson's Non-Reductive Naturalism," Metaphilosophy 36 (2005): 708-728. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 "Review of Naturalism and Religion by Kai Nielsen," Philosophical Investigations 27 (2004): 189-193. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004 "When Naturalized Epistemology Turns Normative: Kim on the Failures of Quinean Epistemology," Southwest Philosophy Review 20 (2004): 53-67. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004 "Stimulus Meaning Reconsidered," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (2002): 395-409. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002 "What is Radical Interpretation? Davidson, Fodor and the Naturalization of Philosophy," Inquiry 45 (2002): 161-184. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002 Awards, Honors and Fellowships New Faculty Fund, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Spring 2009. (Awards and Honors) 2009 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award 2009-10. (Awards and Honors) 2009 New Faculty Fund, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Spring 2008. (Awards and Honors) 2008 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award 2008-09. (Awards and Honors) 2008 New Faculty Fund, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Spring 2007. (Awards and Honors) 2007 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award 2007-08. (Awards and Honors) 2007 Research Activities "Conceptual Pragmatism and Naturalized Epistemology: Lewis and Quine on the A Priori and the Structure of Empirical Knowledge" Archival research of W. V. Quine's unpublished papers at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Sping 2007. Research funded by the New Faculty Fund. 2007 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "Anthropocentric Naturalism" Nordic Pragmatism Workshop: Pragmatism, Science and Naturalism, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, May 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "Dewey, Nagel and the Challenges of American Naturalism" The Second Nordic Pragmatism Conference, Pragmatism in Society and Democracy, Reykjavík, Iceland, August 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "Canadian Idealism and the Emerging Profession of Philosophy in America." The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 35th Annual Conference, AAPT Panel Session on "Using Canadian Philosophy in Teaching American Philosophy", Michigan State University, March 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Dewey and the Problem of Religion." The XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, July-August 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "Why Quine is Not an Externalist," Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) Colloquium Series, University of Oslo, April 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Quine and Conceptual Pragmatism" CPA Meetings, University of Saskatchewan, May 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "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. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006 |
