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Jonathan Ichikawa: Curriculum Vitae

Email

jonathan@jollyutter.net

Address:

Jonathan Ichikawa
Department of Philosophy
Rutgers University
26 Nichol Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1411

Website:

http://philosophy.jollyutter.net

Education:

• Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2008 (Philosophy)
• M.A., Brown University, 2005 (Philosophy)
• B.A., Rice University, 2003 (Major in Philosophy and Cognitive Science)

Dissertation:

My dissertation was on the role of imagination in epistemology. My principal advisor was Ernest Sosa. The other members of my committee were Alvin Goldman, Brian Weatherson, Jason Stanley, and Tamar Szabó Gendler.

Publications:

• "Dreaming and Imagination", forthcoming in Mind & Language.
• "Skepticism and the Imagination Model of Dreaming", Philosophical Quarterly, 2008.
• "Thought-Experiment Intuitions and Truth in Fiction", with Benjamin Jarvis, forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
• "Dreaming", with Ernest Sosa, forthcoming entry in the Oxford Companion to Consciousness

Teaching Experience:

• Instructor of Record:
  • Philosophy 913: Ethics: Right and Wrong, Summer @ Brown (Three-week intensive summer course for high school students), Summer 2006
  • Philosophy 101: Reasoning and Value, Bridgewater State College (Visiting Lecturer), Spring 2006
  • Philosophy 11: The Nature of Fiction, Brown University (Teaching Fellowship), Fall 2005
• Teaching Assistant:
  • Philosophy 50: Moral Philosophy, Brown University, for Professor Nomy Arpaly, Spring 2005
  • Philosophy 164: The Nature of Morality, Brown University, for Professor James Dreier, Fall 2004

Conference Presentations (Professional):

• Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting: Comments on Jonathan Weinberg & Aaron Meskin, "The Cognitive Architecture of Imaginative Reisistance", June 2006
• American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Division: "Authorial Authority and Truth in Fiction", April 2006
• Midsouth Philosophy Conference: "Fire and the Cogito: Dreams and Imaginings", February 2005

Conference Presentations (Graduate Conferences):

• Florida State University: "Dreaming and Imagination" ( draft ), September 2007
• Brown: Comments on Dilip Ninan, "Imagination, Inside and Out", October 2006
• University of Toronto ("Freedom & Law): "Counterfactual Knowledge and Knowledge of Counterfactuals" ( draft ), May 2006
• Harvard/MIT: "Thought-Experiment Intuitions and Truth in Fiction" ( draft ), March 2006
• Brown: Comments on Peter Langland-Hassan, "Imagery, Evidence, and the Mind-Body Problem", October 2005
• University of Toronto ("Values & Inquiry): "Imaginary Values and the Cult of the Untrue", ( draft ), May 2005
• University of Texas ("Possible Worlds): "Truth, Truth in Fiction", April 2005
• Princeton/Rutgers: "Imaginary Values and the Cult of the Untrue", February 2005
• Virginia Tech: "Fire and the Cogito: Dreams and Imaginings", November 2004

Selected Online Papers:

Here.

Other:

• Editorial Assistant: Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2005-2008.
• Journal Referee: Nous, Synthese.
• Reading Groups Led: T. Williamson's The Philosophy of Philosophy, Rutgers 2007; T. Gendler and J. Hawthorne, eds., Conceivability and Possibility, Brown 2005.
• Conferences Organized: Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2008; Brown Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2004.
• Websites Maintained: Brown University Department of Philosophy, 2004-2006; Online Papers in Philosophy, 2006-present.

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