Robert Sinclair
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Location: 3311 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1410
Fax: 718.951.4675
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Born and raised in Montreal, Robert Sinclair is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy.
Education:
Ph.D., Simon Fraser University - 2001 (Philosophy)
M.A., University of Ottawa - 1996 (Philosophy)
B.A. (with honors), Concordia University - 1994 (Philosophy)
Areas of Expertise:
Sinclair's research examines the interplay between analytic philosophy, pragmatism and naturalism within 20th-century American philosophy.
Books and Publications
"McGinn, Atheism and Religious Commitment." Theoretical and Applied Ethics 1: 21-26. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012
"Quine and Conceptual Pragmatism." Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
"Science and Technology." World Democracy Encyclopedia. Ed. James Ciment. M.E. Sharpe. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
Review of Naturalism Without Mirrors, by Huw Price. Philosophy in Review.32: 222-24. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2012
"Anthropocentric Naturalism." Pragmatism, Science and Naturalism. Eds. Jonathan Knowles and Henrik Rydenfelt. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang. 13-30. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Morton White's Moral Pragmatism." Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia. 12: 143-55. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Quine on Evidence." A Companion to Quine. Eds. Gilbert Harman and Ernest Lepore. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
"Quine on the Indeterminacy of Translation." Just the Arguments. Eds. Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. 362-66. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Quine's Naturalized Epistemology." Just the Arguments. Eds. Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. 183-87. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism." Just the Arguments. Eds. Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. 168-73. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Review of Naturalism and Normativity." Eds Mario De Caro and David Macarthur. Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society 47: 531-34. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2011
"Dewey, Religion and the New Atheism." Contemporary Pragmatism 7: 93-106. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
"Review of Understanding Naturalism, by Jack Ritchie." Philosophy in Review 30: 135-37. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010
"Quine's Philosophy of Science." 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: 257-59. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009
"Why Quine Is Not an Externalist." Journal of Philosophical Research 34: 279-304. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
"Philosophy, conceptions of." American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge Press. 586-90. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Quine in Historical Context (Critical Notice of Quine by Peter Hylton)." Philosophical Inquiry 30: 185-92. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Nielsen's Conception of Philosophy: Its Essential Tension and Deweyan Solution." Reason and Emancipation: Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen.. Eds. Matthias Fritsch and Michel Seymour. New York: Humanity Books. 165-76. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007
"Quine's Naturalized Epistemology and the Third Dogma of Empiricism." The Southern Journal of Philosophy 45: 455-72. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"Review of C.I. Lewis: The Last Great Pragmatist, by Murray Murphey." Metaphilosophy 38: 718-25. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 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: 107-24. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
"Review of The Cambridge Companion to Quine, edited by Roger Gibson." Dialogue 45: 602-04. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006
"Review of Becoming John Dewey: Dilemmas of a Philosopher and Naturalist, by Thomas C. Dalton." Dialogue 44: 176-78. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005
"Review of Donald Davidson, edited by Kirk Ludwig." Philosophiques 32: 271-73 (in French). (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2005
"The Philosophical Significance of Triangulation: Locating Davidson's Non-reductive Naturalism." Metaphilosophy 36: 708-28. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
"Review of Naturalism and Religion by Kai Nielsen." Philosophical Investigations 27: 189-93. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2004
"When Naturalized Epistemology Turns Normative: Kim on the Failures of Quinean Epistemology." Southwest Philosophy Review 20: 53-67. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
"Stimulus Meaning Reconsidered." The Southern Journal of Philosophy 40: 395-409. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002
"What Is Radical Interpretation? Davidson, Fodor and the Naturalization of Philosophy." Inquiry 45: 161-84. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Fellowship Leave, Brooklyn College, 2012-13. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Tow Faculty Travel Fellowship, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award, 2011-12. (Awards and Honors) 2011
Rodney G. Dennis Fellowship in the Study of Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
New Faculty Fund, Brooklyn College, spring. (Awards and Honors) 2010
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award, 2010-11. (Awards and Honors) 2010
New Faculty Fund, Brooklyn College, spring. (Awards and Honors) 2009
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award, 2009-10. (Awards and Honors) 2009
New Faculty Fund, Brooklyn College, spring. (Awards and Honors) 2008
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award, 2008-09. (Awards and Honors) 2008
New Faculty Fund, Brooklyn College, spring. (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. Research funded by the New Faculty Fund. 2007
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Dewey, Naturalism and Moral Inquiry." The Fourth Nordic Pragmatism Conference, Copenhagen. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Quine's Early Pragmatism." Phoenix Philosophy Colloquium. Mount Allison University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Sport, Knowledge and Trust." 39th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS). The College at Brockport, State University of New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Quine's Early Pragmatism." Helsinki Metaphysical Society. University of Helsinki, Finland, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"Anthropocentric Naturalism." Nordic Pragmatism Workshop: Pragmatism, Science and Naturalism. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, Norway, May. (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. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Canadian Idealism and the Emerging Profession of Philosophy in America." AAPT Panel Session on Using Canadian Philosophy in Teaching American Philosophy, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 35th Annual Conference. Michigan State University. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Dewey and the Problem of Religion." XXII World Congress of Philosophy. Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea, July-August. (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. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Quine and Conceptual Pragmatism." CPA Meetings. University of Saskatchewan. May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
"Half-Hearted or Broken-Backed? The Dewey-Santayana Dispute and the Problem of Naturalism in the 1920s." Enriching the Context: Naturalism, Empiricism, and Realism in American Philosophy and Psychology, 1870-1930 panel, Sixth Congress of HOPOS. École Normal Supériere. Paris, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006
