Jillian
Scott McIntosh, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Philosophy,
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6
Phone: 778-782-7088 or (to leave a message) 778-782-3343
e-mail: jillmc at sfu.ca
Office: WMC5606
Office hours: T, 14.30-16.00; W,
14.30-15.30, or by appointment
Course pages for this
term (1124, Summer 2012):
Philosophy xx1: Critical
Thinking
Philosophy 110: Introduction
to Logic and Reasoning
Philosophy 333: Special
Topic—Philosophy of Biology
Other Information:
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Research
Interests:
AOS: philosophy of
mind, philosophy of science, and epistemology
AOC: metaphysics,
philosophy of biology, and philosophy of language
Research:
Invited
Presentations:
January 2010: “Ethics and the Limits of Science?,”
part of Geek Week, sponsored by the
SFU Faculty of Science and SFSS
January 2010: “Pascal’s Wager and Belief in God,” SFU Philosophers’ Café,
St Aidan’s Church, New Westminster, BC
October 2009: “Metaphor, Natural
Selection, and Explanation” comments on John Beatty and Cosima
Herter’s “Creativity in Evolutionary Biology” at the Western Canadian
Philosophical Association Conference, Regina
October 2008: “Fractious Fodor,” comments on
Taylor S. Murphy’s “Fodor’s ‘Against Darwinism’”
Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Edmonton.
October 2007: “Non-Vicious Realism?,” comments
on Mary Butterworth’s “Underdetermination Revisited: Salvaging Feminism from the Obscurity of
‘Vicious Relativism’” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference,
Saskatoon.
May 2006: “Why is Any Kind a Human Kind?,” comments on Serife Tekin’s “Why is Mental Illness a Human Kind?” Canadian Philosophical
Association Conference, Toronto.
October 2005:
“Jeff Speaks, Jill Listens… skeptically,” comments on Jeff Speaks’ “Arguments
for Nonconceptual Content” Western Canadian
Philosophical Association Conference, Winnipeg.
May 2004: “Where
Angels Fear to Tread,” Conference on Science and Ethics, sponsored by the
Center for Inquiry, Courtyard Marriott,
May 2003:
“Unnatural Feelings,” in a symposium on qualia and natural kinds, CPA, Halifax.
March 2003: “The
Problem of Consciousness,” Public Lecture at the Central London Public Library,
January 2003:
“Logical Puzzles in Philosophy of Science”, graduate seminar on Research
Methodology, Department of Anthropology, UWO.
May 2002:
“Natural Normativity: Comments on Glenn Parsons’ ‘Are There Malfunctions in
Nature?’”, CPA,
April 2002:
“Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation”, Simon Fraser University
Colloquium series.
March 2002:
“Emergence and Physicalism”,
February 2000:
“Problems in the Philosophy of Science”, graduate seminar on Research
Methodology, Department of Anthropology, UWO.
April 1999:
“Complexity and Evolution” a BiPED (Biology,
Philosophy, and Evolution Discussion Group) Seminar, UWO.
April 1999:
“Millikan’s Island: Psychology Marooned”,
January 1999:
“Problems in the Philosophy of Science”, graduate seminar on Research
Methodology, Department of Anthropology, UWO.
December 1998:
“Millikan’s Island: Psychology Marooned”, Carleton University Colloquium
series,
November 1998:
“The Dependence of the Artefactual on the Mental”,
comments on Tim Schroeder’s “The Nature and Methodology of Representationalism”,
Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference, Vancouver.
February 1998:
“Function and Normativity,” A Media in Context Lecture, The Department
of Computing Science, The
November 1997:
“What Does Selection Explain?” a BiPED (Biology, Philosophy,
and Evolution Discussion Group) Seminar, The
October 1997:
“The Search for the Grand Unified Theory of Laughter; Titillation, Vervet Monkeys, and Despair”, comments on Karl Pfeifer’s “Laughter,
Freshness, and Titillation”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association
Conference,
May 1996:
“Grasping at Fodor’s Concept of Concepts”. Canadian
Philosophical Association Conference, St. Catharines,
Ontario. An invited paper in a philosophy of mind symposium focusing on
Fodor’s upcoming Locke Lectures on concepts.
November 1993:
“Teleological Functions”, UBC Graduate Student Colloquium Series.
November 1992:
“Functions”,
October 2003:
“Objectifying the Subjective: Consciousness Studies, First-Person Authority,
and Autonomy”, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference,
May 2003:
“Functional, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation”, Inland Northwest
Philosophy Conference,
May 2002:
“Non-Supervening Emergence?” co-written with Christian Lacroix,
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Meetings, Toronto. (presented by Lacroix)
March 2002:
“Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation”, The American
Philosophical Association Meetings, Pacific Division,
October 2001:
“Non-Supervening Emergence?” co-written with Christian Lacroix,
Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference,
May 2001:
“Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation”, Canadian Philosophical
Association Conference,
April 2000: “Is
Consciousness Epiphenomenal?” poster presentation, Toward a Science of
Consciousness Conference,
October 1999: “Is
Consciousness Epiphenomenal?”, Western Canadian
Philosophical Association,
October 1999:
“Evolution, Complexity, and Stability: Why Are We Here?” Canadian
Society for Women in Philosophy, Hamilton, Ontario.
November 1998:
“Millikan’s Island: Psychology Marooned”, Western Canadian Philosophical
Association Conference,
June 1997:
“Counterfeit Causality”, Canadian Philosophical Association Conference,
May 1997:
“Function and Normativity”,
November 1996:
“Counterfeit Causality”, Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference,
April 1996:
“Naturalism, Physicalism, Supervenience,
and Reductionism: Or, Why Strong Supervenience Isn’t
So Strong”, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical
Association,
October 1995: “Physicalism, Supervenience, and
Reductionism: Or, Why Strong Supervenience Isn’t So
Strong”, WCPA,
June 1995: “What
Isn’t Wrong with Teleological Functionalism”, CPA, Montréal.
April 1995: “What
Isn’t Wrong with Teleological Functionalism”, Inaugural Graduate Student
Conference,
October 1994:
“Systems, Goals, and Teleological Functions”, WCPA,
Publications:
Forthcoming (for September
2012): Writing Philosophy: A Guide for
Canadian Students, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. (see below)
May 2009: Writing Philosophy: A Guide for Canadian
Students. Second author (first author is Lewis Vaughn) Oxford University
Press.
April 2004: Book review of Physicalism and Its Discontents, Carl Gillett
and Barry Loewer (eds) in Philosophy
in Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, pp. 110-12.
November 2002:
Editor: Naturalism, Evolution, and Intentionality. Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, Supplementary Vol. 27 (2001 in the series)
November 2002:
“Introduction: Investigating the Mind,” introductory chapter to the book listed
immediately above.
January 2002:
Abstract of “Function, Malfunction, and Intentional Explanation,” Proceedings
and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 75, Issue 3.
November 2000:
Book review of The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will,
Benjamin Libet, Anthony Freeman, and Keith Sutherland
(eds) in Metapsychology. http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0907845118
April 2000:
Abstract of “Is Consciousness Epiphenomenal?,” Tucson
2000: Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference Abstracts.
March 2000: Book
review of Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Complexity and the Function of Mind in
Nature, in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol.
14, No. 1, pp. 95-9.
January 1996:
Abstract of “Naturalism, Physicalism, Supervenience, and Reductionism: Or, Why Strong Supervenience Isn’t So Strong,” Proceedings and
Addresses of the American Philosophical Association.
Organizer: 43rd Annual Conference of
the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, 13 - 15 October,
2006.
Faculty Liaison:
“Emergence and Consciousness: A Conference in Philosophy of Mind for Graduate
Students”, 20 - 22 April, 2001.
Committee Member:
“Consciousness & Self: Neural, Cognitive, & Philosophical Issues”
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 4 - 7 June
1999.
Chief Organizer:
“Naturalism, Evolution and Intentionality: An Interdisciplinary Conference in
the Philosophy of Mind”, 17 - 19 April 1998.
Teaching Experience:
University
Teaching Experience
Senior
Lecturer:
Visiting Assistant
Professor: Simon Fraser University,
September 2001–August 2002.
Assistant
Professor: The
Half-time
Instructor:
Sessional
Instructor:
Sessional
Instructor:
Teaching
Assistant:
Sessional
Instructor: SFU, Summer
1990.
Teaching
Assistant: SFU, Fall
1988–Fall 1989.
Undergraduate
Courses:
Lower-Division:
-Reasoning and
Critical Thinking (UWO, SFU, Kwantlen)
-Introduction to
Metaphysics and Epistemology (SFU)
-Introduction to
Formal Logic (SFU)
-Introduction to
Ethics (Kwantlen)
-Introduction to
Philosophy of Science (UWO, SFU)
-Epistemology
(SFU)
Upper-Division:
-Philosophy of
Social Science (UWO)
-Reduction,
Explanation, and Ontology (UWO)
-Philosophy of
Mind (UWO)
-Epistemology
(UWO, SFU)
-Non-Reductionism
(SFU)
-Introspection
(UWO)
-Philosophy of
Biology (SFU)
-Philosophy of
Science (SFU)
Graduate
Courses (all at UWO, unless otherwise noted):
-Teleological
Functionalism
-Reductionism,
Explanation, and Ontology
-Reading Course:
“Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”
-Prospectus
Course: Identity Theory and the Metaphysics of Consciousness
-Reading Course:
Naturalistic Accounts of Intentionality
-Emergence and
the Mental
-Reading Course:
Explanation in Evolutionary Psychology
-Introspection
-Non-Reductionism
(SFU)
-Logical Puzzles
in Philosophy of Science (one class only per term, for a total of four, in a
graduate course on Research Methodology, in the Department of Anthropology)
Rethinking
Teaching: A Course Design Workshop for Faculty April - May 2012
(4-day event) SFU, Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)
Workshop on using LON-CAPA: May, 2008, SFU
Using WebCT for marks
management: November, 2004, SFU, LIDC
Teaching Large Classes: October, 2004, SFU, LIDC
New Faculty Orientation: September, 2004, SFU, LIDC
Meetings on Teaching W-courses: August/September 2004, SFU, CWIL
Fall
Perspectives on Teaching: August
2002, U.W.O., E.D.O.
Fall
Perspectives on Teaching: September
2000, U.W.O., E.D.O.
Spring
Perspectives on Teaching: May 1999,
U.W.O., E.D.O.
Teaching at
the University Level: 17-20 August
1998, U.W.O., E.D.O.
Fall
Perspectives on Teaching: September
1997, U.W.O., E.D.O.
Panel
Discussion on “Reflections on Teaching: Voices from Faculty across the Years”, May 2000, for U.W.O., E.D.O.
Panel
Discussion by “Veteran New Faculty”:
September 1999, for U.W.O, E.D.O.
Background:
Ph.D.,
Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1997.
B.A.,
(First class Honours in Philosophy, major in
Psychology), Simon Fraser University, 1990.
Canadian
Philosophical Association
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Last updated: 2012/05/22