Curriculum Vitae
Professor of Cognitive
Science & Philosophy & Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Address: Department of Linguistics & Cognitive
Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-6706
Fax: (302) 831-6896
E-Mail: fa@udel.edu
Webpage: http://udel.edu/~fa/
(Home) 712 Regency Hill Dr., Hockessin, DE 19707
Phone: (302) 234-1277
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Philosophy* 1982 University of Wisconsin-Madison
(*Ph.D. minor: Cognitive
Psychology)
M.A. Philosophy 1974
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
B.A. Anthropology 1972
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Chair, Department of Linguistics & Cognitive
Science, University of Delaware, 2006-
Director, Cognitive Science Program, University of Delaware, 2006-
Director, Delaware Interdisciplinary Ethics Program, UD, 2000-
Professor, Cognitive Science
& Philosophy, UD, 1997-
Chair, Department of
Philosophy, UD, 1997-2007
Chair, Department of Philosophy, Central Michigan
University, 1988-1997
Professor, Philosophy, Central Michigan University 1991-1997
Associate Professor,
Philosophy, CMU, 1988-91
Assistant Professor,
Philosophy, CMU, 1986-88
Assistant Professor,
Philosophy, Augustana College (IL) 1982-86
Lecturer, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 1982
Instructor, Philosophy, Lawrence University (WI) 1980-81
Instructor, SIU-Edwardsville,
Summer 1974
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Visiting Scholar,
Department of Philosophy and PNP Program, Washington University (St. Louis),
Fall Semester, 2008
Phi Sigma Tau National
Honor Society, U D, May 1998
University Teaching
Excellence Award, CMU, May, 1995
20th Fritz Marti
Lecturer, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, March 14th & 15th,
1995
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information
(CSLI), Fall Semester, 1992
NEH Fellow: Rutgers University, Seminar on Meaning Holism, Directed by Jerry Fodor
and Ernest LePore, summer 1992
Phi Kappa Phi National
Honor Society, CMU, March 1991
NEH Fellow: University of Nebraska, Institute on Human Action, Directed by Robert Audi,
summer 1984
NEH Fellow: University of Nebraska, Seminar on Epistemology, Directed by Robert Audi,
summer 1983
Dean’s Fellow: University
of Wisconsin, 1979-80
Fulbright Research Fellow:
University of Bristol, attending Philosophy of mind workshop with Andrew
Woodfield (director), Dan Dennett, and Stephen Stich (participants), Fall Semester,
1978
Graduate teaching
assistant, 1975-78, University of Wisconsin
Christian Ott Award for
Graduate Studies, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1974
GRANTS
NSF/EPSCoR Neuroethics
grant, $1,000 June 2008
Transformational Research
Grant, University of Delaware, $6,000 (Support for 6 undergraduate cognitive
science students working on literature search for background materials in
preparation for writing a book on Philosophy of Psychology) Spring Semester, 2008
UNIDEL Foundation Grant
"Faculty Start-Up Support in Linguistics and Cognitive Science", providing
support for Arild Hestvik’s ERP lab, $250,000, February 2008
*NSF/EPSCoR Research
Infrastructure Implementation Grant (9 million dollars) March 2005
(*A multiple-PI, three year
grant for science, biotechnology, and ethics awarded through the Delaware
Biotechnology Institute of the University of Delaware and the Delaware
Interdisciplinary Ethics Program)
American Philosophical
Association, Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research of the American
Philosophical Association, $10,000 for each of 2001, 2004, 2007 (total 30K) for
joint ethics conference at UD
Delaware Humanities Forum Grant for Morality in the 21st
Century Conference, June 28, 2001
University of Delaware, UTA Grant ($2,000 with Steve Beighley), Spring 2009
University of Delaware, UTA Grant ($2,000 with Annie Steadman), Spring 2004
University of Delaware, UTA Grant ($2,000 with Tom Pellathy), Spring 1998
GTE Foundation Grant, GTE
Lectureship Program, 1994-95
Council for Philosophical
Studies Grant (division of NEH), fall 1988
Faculty Teaching and
Professional Development Grant, CMU, March 1991
12 Faculty Research and
Creative Endeavor Grants, CMU, Grant #s, 48473 (12/01/93), 48118 (09/29/93),
48045 (09/04/91), 48008 (09/04/91), 42415 (12/05/90), 42209 (10/18/98), 42441
(02/01/89), 42390 (10/05/88), 4-22115 (12/01/87), 4-22052 (03/01/87), 4-22920
(02/01/87)
Development Grant, CMU,
1987
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
(5) Adams, F. & Aizawa,
K. 2008. The Bounds of Cognition. Oxford: Blackwell/Wiley.
(4) Adams, F. 2007: Ethical Issues in the Life Sciences. Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center Press.
(3) Adams, F. 2005: Ethical Issues for the 21st Century. Charlottesville: Philosophy Documentation Center Press.
(2) Adams, F. &
McHenry, L. 1993: Reflections on Philosophy, New York: St.
Martin’s Press.
(1) Adams, F. 1982:
Goal-Directed Systems. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International.
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
(80) Adams, F. & Aizawa,
K.forthcoming: “Embodied Cognition and the Extended Mind,” in Calvo, P. &
Symons, J. (eds.) Routledge Companion to
the Philosophy of Psychology, New York: Routledge.
(79) Adams, F. &
Aizawa, K. forthcoming: Defending the Bounds of Cognition, in R. Menary (ed.) The Extended Mind, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
(78) Adams, F. forthcoming:
Actions: Back to Basics, in Auxier & Hahn (eds.) The Philosophy of Arthur Danto, Library of Living Philosophers.
(77) Adams, F & Aizawa, K.
forthcoming: Causal Theories of Mental Content, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
(76) Adams, F. &
Aizawa, K., 2008: Why the Mind is Still in the Head: Challenges to Active
Externalism, in Robbins, P.& Aydede, M. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 78-95.
(75) Adams,
F. & Clarke, M. 2007: Defending the Tracking Theories of Knowledge, in Epistemology,
Volume 6, Proceedings of the
Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy.
Ionnna Kucuardi (General Editor).
Dermont Moran & Stephen Voss, Editors of Epistemology, Ankara:
Philosophical Society of Turkey.
(74) Adams, F. &
Steadman, A. 2007: Folk Concepts, Surveys, and Intentional Action, in Lumer, C.
& Nannini, S. (eds.) Intentionality,
Deliberation, and Autonomy: The Action-Theoretic Basis of Practical Philosophy,
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, pp. 17-33. https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?isbn=0%207546%206058%203
(73) Adams, F, 2007: “Trying
with the Hope.” In Timmons, M., Greco, J. & Mele, A. (eds.), Rationality and the Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 143-162.
(72) Adams, F. & Fuller,
G., 2007: “Empty Names & Pragmatic
Implicatures” Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, 37, 449-462. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_philosophy/v037/37.3adams.pdf
(71) Adams, F., 2006: Intentions Confer
Intentionality upon Actions: A Reply to Knobe and Burra, Journal of Cognition &
Culture, 6, pp. 255-268.
(70)Adams, F., 2005: “Tracking Theories of Knowledge,” Veritas, 50, pp. 11-35. (A special issue
entitled Perspectives in Contemporary Epistemology,
edited by Claudio de Almeida). http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/veritas/article/viewFile/1813/1343
(69) Aizawa, K. & Adams,
F., 2005: Defending Non-Derived Content, Philosophical
Psychology, 18, 661-669.
(68) Adams,
F. & Clarke, M. 2005: Resurrecting the Tracking Theories, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83,
207-221.
(67) Adams, F. & Steadman, A. 2004a:
Intentional Action in Ordinary Language: Core Concept or Pragmatic Understanding?
Analysis, 64, 173-181.
(66) Adams, F. & Steadman, A. 2004b:
Intentional Action and Moral Considerations: Still Pragmatic, Analysis, 64,268-276.
(65) Adams,
F. & Dietrich, L .2004a: Swampman’s Revenge: Squabbles Among the
Representationalists, Philosophical
Psychology, 17, 323-340.
(64) Adams, F. &
Dietrich, L. 2004b: What’s in a(n empty) name?
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly,
85, 125-148.
(63) Adams, F. 2004: Knowledge. In Floridi, L.
(ed.), The Blackwell Guide to the
Philosophy of Information and Computing, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 228-236.
(62) Adams, F. 2003: Semantic
Paralysis, Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
26, 666-667.
(61) Adams,
F. & Clarke, M. 2003: Towards Saving Nozick From Kripke, in Loffler, W.
& Weingartner, P. (eds.), Papers of
the 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium, vol. XI,
Kirchberg: Austria, 18-20.
(60) Adams, F. 2003: The
Informational Turn in Philosophy, Minds
and Machines, 13, 471-501.
(59) Adams, F. 2003:
Thoughts and their Contents: Naturalized Semantics. In Warfield, T. & Stich, S. (eds.) The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind,
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 143-171.
(58) Adams, F. & Dietrich, L. 2003. Empty Names, Natural Kind Terms, and Radical
Externalism, Proceedings of the 2003 Hawaii
International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
(57) Adams, F. 2003: Epistemology. In McHenry, L. & Yagisawa, T. (eds.) Reflections on Philosophy, 2nd
Edition, New York: Longman Press, 81-101. (Revised and expanded version of Adams 1993g)
(56) Adams, F. 2002: Names that name nothing.
In Kanzian, C., Quitterer, J., & Runggaldier, E. (eds.), Papers of the 25th International
Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg: Austria, 8-10.
(55) Adams, F. 2001:
Empathy, Neural Imaging, and the Theory versus Simulation Debate, Mind & Language, 16, 368-392.
(54) Adams, F. &
Aizawa, K. 2001: The Bounds of Cognition, Philosophical
Psychology, 14, 43-64.
(53) Adams, F. 2000: Asymmetrical Dependence,
In Nani, M. & Marrafa, M. (eds.), A
Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind --on line at http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/
(30 pages with annotated bibliography).
(52) Adams, F. &
Campbell, K. 1999: Modality and abstract concepts, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 610, with replies by Lawrence
Barsalou, 636-660.
(51) Adams, F., Stecker, R.
& Fuller, G. 1999: Object Dependent Thoughts, Perspectival Thoughts, and
Psychological Generalizations, Dialectica,
53, 47-59.
(50) Enc, B. & Adams, F.
1998: Functions and Goal-Directedness, In Allen, C., Bekoff, M., & Lauder,
G., (eds.) Nature’s Purposes. Cambridge, MA: MIT/Bradford, pp. 371-394. (Reprint of Enc &
Adams, 1992.)
(49) Adams, F. 1997: A
Goal-State Theory of Function Attribution, (Portions of Adams 1979b reprinted
in L. Nissen, Teleological Language in
the Life Sciences. Rowman &
Littlefield, 1997)
(48) Adams, F. & Aizawa, K. 1997: Fodor’s
Asymmetric Causal Dependency Theory and Proximal Projections, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 35,
433-437.
(47) Adams, F., Fuller, G.
& Stecker, R. 1997: The Semantics of Fictional Names, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 78, 128-148.
(46) Adams, F. 1997: Cognitive Trying, In G.
Holmstrom-Hintikka & R. Tuomela (eds.) Contemporary
Action Theory, Vol. I, 287-314, Dordrecht: Kluwer.
(45) Adams, F., & Aizawa,
K. 1997: Rock Beats Scissors: Historicalism Fights Back, Analysis, 57, 273-281.
(44) Adams, F. 1995:
Trying: You’ve Got to Believe, Philosophical
Research, 20, 149-161. (Republication in English of Adams
1993a.)
(43) Adams, F. 1994a: Simon
Says, Stanford Humanities Review
Supplement, 4, 28-30. On the web at http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-1/text/adams.commentary.html
(42) Adams, F. 1994b:
Trying, Desire, and Desiring to Try, Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, 24, 613- 626.
(41) Adams, F. 1994c: Of
Epicycles and Elegance, Canadian Journal
of Philosophy, 24, 627-636.
(40) Adams, F. &
Stecker, R. 1994: Vacuous Singular Terms, Mind
& Language, 9, 387-401.
(39) Adams, F. & Aizawa,
K. 1994a: Fodorian Semantics, In Stich, S. & Warfield, T. (eds.), Mental Representations, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 223-242.
(38) Adams, F. &
Aizawa, K. 1994b: ‘X’ Means X:
Fodor/Warfield Semantics, Minds and
Machines, 4, 215-231.
(37) Adams, F. 1993a: Tentare: Bisogna
Crederci, Discipline Filosofiche, 2,
191-211.
(36) Adams, F. 1993b: A Cognitive Theory of
Trying, In Casati, R. & White, G. (eds.), Papers of the 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium,
Kirchberg: Austria, 1-4.
(35) Adams, F. 1993c: Fodor’s
Modal Argument, Philosophical Psychology,
6, 41-56.
(34) Adams, F. 1993d: Reply
to Russow, Philosophical Psychology,
6, 63-65.
(33) Adams, F. 1993e:
Machine Persons, The Personalist Forum,
Supplementary Volume, 47-55.
(32) Adams, F. 1993f:
Epistemic Engineering Audi-Style, In Heil, J. (ed.), Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest: Essays Honoring Mark Carl
Overvold. Totowa,
NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 49-58.
(31) Adams,
F. 1993g: Epistemology, In McHenry, L. & Adams, F. (eds.), Reflections on Philosophy. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 53-68.
(30) Adams, F. &
Aizawa, K. 1993: Fodorian Semantics, Pathologies, and Block’s Problem, Minds and Machines, 3, 97-104.
(29) Adams, F., Stecker,
R., & Fuller, G. 1993a: Schiffer on Modes of Presentation, Analysis, 53, 30-34.
(28) Adams, F., Stecker, R., & Fuller, G.
1993b: The Floyd-Puzzle: Reply to Yagisawa, Analysis,
53, 36-40.
(27) Adams, F., Fuller, G.,
& Stecker, R. 1993c: Thoughts without Objects, Mind & Language, 8, 90-104.
(26) Adams, F., Stecker,
R., & Fuller, G. 1992: The Semantics of Thoughts, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 73, 375-389.
(25) Adams, F. &
Aizawa, K. 1992: ‘X’ Means X: Semantics
Fodor-Style, Minds and Machines, 2,
175-183.
(24) Enc, B. & Adams,
F. 1992: Functions and Goal-Directedness, Philosophy
of Science, 59, 635-654.
(23) Adams, F. &
Fuller, G. 1992: Names, Contents, and Causes, Mind & Language, 7, 205-221.
(22) Adams, F. & Mele,
A. 1992: The Intention/Volition Debate, Canadian
Journal of Philosophy 22, 323-338.
(21) Adams, F., Aizawa, K.,
& Fuller, G. 1992: Rules in Programming Languages and Networks, In Dinsmore,
J. (ed.), The Symbolic and Connectionist
Paradigms: Closing the Gap. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum, 49-67.
(20) Adams, F. 1991a:
Causal Contents, In McLaughlin, B. (ed.), Dretske
and His Critics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 131-156.
(19) Adams, F. 1991b: He
Doesn’t Really Want to Try, Analysis,
51, 109-112.
(18) Adams, F. 1991c: Audi
on Structural Justification, Journal of
Philosophical Research, 16, 493-498.
(17) Adams, F., Aizawa, K.,
& Fuller, G. 1991a: Rules in Computationalism and Connectionism, Proceedings of the 24th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, 3, 359-367.
(16) Adams, F., Aizawa, K.,
& Fuller, G. 1991b: Rules in Computationalism and Connectionism, In Gamble,
R. & Ball, W. (eds.), Proceedings of
the Third Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Society,
6-10.
(15) Adams, F.,
Drebushenko, D., Fuller, G., & Stecker, R. 1990: Narrow Content: Fodor’s
Folly, Mind & Language, 5,
213-229.
(14) Adams, F. 1989:
Tertiary Waywardness Tamed, Critica,
21, 117-125.
(13) Adams, F. & Mele,
A. 1988: The Role of Intention in Intentional Action, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 19, 511-532.
(12) Adams, F. & Enc,
B. 1988: Not Quite By Accident, Dialogue,
27, 287-297.
(11) Adams, F. &
Kimbrough, S. 1988: Why Non-Monotonic Logic?
Decision Support Systems, 4,
111-127.
(10) Adams, F. &
Kimbrough, S. 1987: Why Non-Monotonic Logic? Proceedings of the 20th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, 3, 435-444.
(9) Adams, F. & Kline,
D. 1987: Nomic Reliabilism: Weak Reliability is Not Enough, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 25,
433-443.
(8) Adams, F. 1986a:
Intention and Intentional Action: The Simple View, Mind & Language, 1, 281-301.
(7) Adams, F. 1986b:
Feedback About Feedback: Reply to Ehring, Southern
Journal of Philosophy, 24, 123-131.
(6) Adams, F. 1986c: The
Function of Epistemic Justification, Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, 16, 465-492.
(5) Adams, F. &
Kimbrough, S. 1986: Alternatives to Non-Monotonic Logics, Proceedings of the 19th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, 1A, 589-594.
(4) Adams, F. 1985:
Comparison Shopping in the Philosophy of Mind, Critica, 17, 45-71.
(3) Adams, F. 1979a:
Properties, Functionalism and the Identity Theory, Eidos, 1, 153-180.
(2) Adams, F. 1979b: A
Goal-State Theory of Function Attribution, Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, 9, 493-518.
(1) Glenberg, A. &
Adams, F. 1978: Type I Rehearsal and Recognition, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 17, 455-463.
CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY
OF PHILOSOPHY
(2) Adams, F. 1999: Invited
contribution on ‘Fred Dretske’. In Audi,
R. (ed.) 2nd Editions of The Cambridge Dictionary
of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (p. 244).
(1) Adams, F. 1995: Invited
Contributions on: ‘cybernetics’ including ‘feedback’, ‘feed forward’,
‘goal-directed system’ (pp. 173-174), and on ‘algorithm’ (pp. 19-20), ‘bit’
(p.76), ‘mathematical function’ including ‘argument’, ‘partial function’ (pp.
467-468), ‘information theory’ (pp. 376-378), and ‘non-monotonic logic’,
including ‘monotonic’ (pp. 537-538). In
Audi, R. (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary
of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reviews of books (all invited)
(11) Adams, F. 2007: Review
of Akins, K. & Brook, A. (eds). Cognition
and the Brain: Philosophy and the Neuroscience Movement. Notre
Dame Philosophical Review 02/22/2007. On line at: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8903
(10) Adams, F. 2006: Review
of Derek Melser, The Act of Thinking,
Mind, 115, 447-450.
(9) Adams, F. 2001: Review
of Alicia Juarrero, Dynamics in Action:
Intentional Behavior as a Complex System, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 52, 635-640.
(8) Adams, F. 2002: Review
of Robert Shope, The Nature of
Meaningfulness: Representing, Powers, and Meaning, Philosophy &
Phenomenological Research, 65, 484 -488.
(7) Adams, F. 2001: Review
of Keith Lehrer, Self-Trust: A Study of
Reason, Knowledge, and Autonomy, Ethics,
427-429.
(6) Adams, F. 1999: Review
of Jaegon Kim, Philosophy of Mind, Mind, 108, 398-401.
(5) Adams, F. 1992: Review
of Greenwood, J. (ed.), The
Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive Science, in Teaching
Philosophy, 15, 385-388.
(4) Adams, F. 1991: Review
of Cynthia Macdonald, Mind-Body Identity
Theories, in Teaching Philosophy,
14, 433-436.
(3) Adams, F. 1989: Review
of J.C. Nyiri, & B. Smith, (eds.), Practical
Knowledge, in Canadian Philosophical
Reviews/Revue Canadienne De Comptes Rendus En Philosophie, 19, 283-285.
(2) Adams, F. 1989: Review
of Michael Bratman, Intentions, Plans,
and Practical Reasons, in Ethics,
100, 198-199.
(1) Adams, F. 1987: Review
of Myles Brand, Intending and Acting,
in Ethics, 97, 883-884.
PAPERS PRESENTED
(108) Adams, F. &
Beighley, S. “The mark of the mental”
PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil October, 2008
(107) Adams,
F. “Embodied Cognition” PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil October 2008
(106) Adams, F, Figurelli, J.
Barker, J. “Toward Closure on Closure“ Washington University, St. Louis, October, 2008
(105) Adams, F., Figurelli,
J. & Barker, J. “Towards Closure on Closure” University of
Missouri-Columbia, September 2008
(104) Adams, F. “What’s in
the blender?“ Invited commentary on Adam
Kovach “The Emotion Blending Hypothesis” Southern Society for Philosophy &
Psychology, New
Orleans, LA, March, 2008.
(103) Adams,
F. “Don’t PANIC!” Invited commentary on Jason Hedderman’s “A Problem for Tye’s
PANIC Theory and a Methodological Concern about the Representational Approach
to Phenomenal Consciousness” Eastern APA, Baltimore, December, 2007
(102) Adams, F. “Embodied Cognition: What do the data prove?”
The International Conference on Cognition:
Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, Extended, University of Central Florida, Orlando,
October 2007 (Invited Plenary Speaker)
(101) Adams, F. “Belief
Constraints on Intending” University of Sussex,
U.K., October, 2007 (Invited address to the Philosophy
Society)
(100) Adams, F. “Fred &
Keith Do Brazil” Invited commentary on Fred Dretske’s “Lehrer on Knowledge” at
a conference on The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil,
June, 2007
(99) Adams, F. &
Fugurelli, J. “Knowledge & Closure” Second International Conference on
Philosophy, Athens Institute for
Education and Research (ATINER), International Conference on Philosophy,
Athens, Greece, June 2007
(98) Adams, F. &
Figurelli, J., “Towards Closure on Closure,” First Annual John Broyer
Philosophy Symposium, (Commentator: Skip Larkin of SIUE) Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL March 2007
(97) Adams, F. “On Hochstein,
on Clark & Chalmers” Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Vancouver, October 2006
(96) Adams, F. “Why there
still has to be a mark of the mental/cognitive?” Philosophy of Mind Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2006
(95) Adams,
F. “Why there still has to be a mark of the mental/cognitive” Invited Address
to The Extended Mind II Conference, University of Hertforshire, England, July 2006
(94) Adams, F. “Why there
still has to be a mark of the mental/cognitive” Invited address to the Fifth
Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference in Cognitive Science (ASIC),
Andalsnes, Norway, July 2006
(93) Adams, F. & Fuller,
G. “Empty Names & Pragmatic Implicatures”
Fifth Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference in Cognitive Science
(ASIC), Andalsnes, Norway, July 2006
(92) Adams, F. & Fuller,
G. “Empty Names & Pragmatic Implicatures” 1st International
Conference on Philosophy, Athens Institute For Education and Research (ATINER),
International Conference on Philosophy, Athens, Greece, June 2006
(91) Invited critic in Author Meets Critics session of APA
Central (Larry Shapiro’s Mind Incarnate),
Chicago, IL, April 2006
(90) Adams, F. “Intentions
Confer Intentionality upon Actions: A Reply to Knobe and Burra” Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI January, 2006
(89) “Seeing & Doing.”
Invited critic in Author Meets Citics
session of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Winnipeg Candada,
October, 2005 (Mohan Matthen’s Seeing,
Doing, Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception. (Other critic Rob Wilson. Replies by Mohan Matthen)
(88) “The
Coupling/Constitution Fallacy” The Joint Kentucky/Ohio Philosophical Association,
Cincinnati, OH, April 2005
(87) “Intentional action
meets neuroscience” Invited commentary on “Intention and Desire in the
Cognitive Neuroscience of Action” (Anthony Landreth, University of Cincinnati), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham,
NC, March 2005
(86) “Acting Knowingly vs. Intentionally” Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Durham,
NC, March 2005
(85) “Trying With the Hope”
Invited address to Symposium on
Rationality and the Good a conference in honor of Robert Audi, University
of Notre Dame, South
Bend, IN, April 2005
(84) “Folk Concepts,
Surveys, and Intentional Action”, Invited address to the International
Conference Intentionality, Deliberation
and Autonomy—The Action Theoretic Basis of Practical Philosophy, Siena Italy, March 2005 http://www.unisi.it/eventi/practical_philosophy/program.htm
.
(83) “The
Coupling/Constitution Fallacy” Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual
Volition and Social Context. University of Alabama at Birmingham, March, 2005
(82) “Intentionality,
Artifacts, and Moral Agency” Invited presentation to New Directions in Understanding Ethics and Technology University of Virginia, Charlottesville, October 2004
(81) “The Coupling /Constitution
Fallacy” Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Kent
at Canterbury, England, July 2004
(80) “Intentional Action
and Moral Considerations: Still Pragmatic” Joint Session of the Aristotelian
Society and the Mind Association, University of Kent
at Canterbury, England, July 2004
(79) “What’s In a(n empty)
name?” Invited address to Semantics/Pragmatics
Workshop, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, May 2004
(78) Invited commentary “Fumerton
on Epistemic Probability”: Sofia
conference on Closure, Circularity and Externalism, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 2004
(77) Invited commentary: “Klein & Coffman on Closure” APA Central,
Chicago, April 2004
(76) Invited commentary on
Sam Scott “Empty Terms and Non-Referring Concepts” Southern Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA, April, 2004
(75) Invited commentary on
Jonathan Adler’s “Beliefs own ethics” at Florida State University, conference on Folk
Concepts: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, Tallahassee, Fl, January 2004, http://www.fsu.edu/~philo/werk_conf/2004/participants.htm .
(74) “Intentional Action in Ordinary Language:
Core Concept or Pragmatic Understanding?” Second Hawaii International Conferences on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 2004
(73) “Objections to Tye’s
view on Swampman” Central States Philosophical Association, October 2003, Chicago, IL (Commentary by, Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University)
(72) “Towards Saving Nozick
From Kripke” 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am
Wechsel, Austria, August 2003
(71) “Resurrecting the
Tracking Theories” 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2003
(70) “Resurrecting the
Tracking Theories” Canadian Philosophical Association, Halifax, June 2003
(Commentary by Philip Hanson, Simon Fraser)
(69) “Consciousness on the
rocks” Invited commentary on “The H.O.T. Theory of Consciousness: Between a
Rock and a Hard
Place?”
(Rocco Genarro), American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Cleveland, OH, April, 2003
(68) “Empty Names, Natural
Kind Terms, and Radical Externalism” Hawaii International Conferences on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 2003
(67) “Truth and nothing but
the truth: Foley’s new theory of knowledge” Central States Philosophical
Association, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO October 2002 (commentary by David Henderson, University of Memphis)
(66) “Names that name
nothing” 25th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 2002
(65) “Informational
Indeterminacy” Invited Commentary on “A Deeper Problem for Dretske’s Theory of
Information Content” (Andrea Scarantino, University of Pittsburgh), Society for
Philosophy & Psychology, Edmonton, Alberta, June 2002
(64) “What’s in a(n Empty)
Name?” Southern Society for Philosophy
& Psychology, Nashville, TN, March, 2002
(63) “Minimal Content &
the First-Person Perspective” Invited Commentary on “Intentionality,
Representation, and the First-Person Perspective” (Nick Georgalis, East Carolina University), Southern Society for Philosophy & Psychology, Nashville, TN, March, 2002
(62) “What’s in a(n Empty)
Name?” Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, November, 2001
(61) “Of Information and
Isomorphism” Invited commentary on “Information and Isomorphism” (John
Kulvicki, Washington University) Central States Philosophical Association, St. Louis, MO, October, 2001
(60) Invited Discussant and
Roundtable Participant (Along with Michael DePaul, David Galloway, William
Lycan, Christoper Peacocke, James Pryor, and Matthias Steup), Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2001, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2001
(59) “Folk Psychology,
Simulation, and Neural Imaging” Invited presentation to the Department of
Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, October 2000
(58) Invited Commentary on
“Defining Empathy” (Nancy Snow, Marquette University) Central States Philosophical Association, Norman,
OK, October 1999
(57) “Empathy, Neural
Imaging, and the Theory of Mind/Simulation Debate” Third European Congress of
Analytic Philosophy, Maribor, Slovenia, July 1999
(56) “Rain on Goldman’s
Parade of Problems for Internalism” (Invited commentary on Goldman’s “Internalism
Exposed,” with response by Goldman) Oberlin
Colloquium: Skepticism and Contemporary Theory of Knowledge, Oberlin College, OH, April 1999
(55) Invited Commentary on
“A Not So Simple View of Intentional Action” (David Chang, National University of Singapore), American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, May 1998
(54) “Naturalizing the
Mind” Invited address to faculty and students at Washington College, Chestertown, MD, March 30 1998
(53) Invited Commentary on
“Indicator Semantics and Attitudes” (Alan Belasco, Texas A&M), Central Division, American Philosophical
Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1997
(52) Invited Commentary on
“Resurrection for Materialists” (Dean Zimmerman, University of Notre
Dame), Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, Seattle, WA, April 1996
(51) “Fictive Names”, Invited
presentation to the Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University, February 1996
(50) “Much Ado About Nothing: The Semantics of Fictive Names”
Presidential Address, Central States Philosophical Association, CMU, October
1995
(49) Invited Commentary on
“On Representing Uninstantiated Properties” (Charles Wallis, University of Rochester), Central Division, American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, April 1995
(48) Invited Commentary on
“Wittgenstein’s Investigations by Way of Examples” (Benjamin Pryor, Pennsylvania State University), Mid-South Philosophy Association, Memphis, TN, February 1995
(47) “Trying: Exploring the Limits of Human Endeavor” Invited
Address: The 20th Fritz Marti Lectures, Southern Illinois University
at Edwardsville, IL, March 14 & 15 1995
(46) Invited Commentary on
“Genuine Representers” (Nicholas Georgalis, East Carolina University), Central States/Tennessee Philosophical Association,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, October 1994
(45) “Thoughts in Action” Invited
Lecture to the Department of Philosophy, Hope College, Hope, MI October 1994
(44) Invited Commentary on
“Functions in Context” (Kevin Lattery, University of Minnesota), Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, CA, March 1994
(43) “Vacuous Singular
Terms” Invited Lecture to the Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI, October 1993
(42) “The Semantics of
Thoughts” Central States Philosophical Association, Rolla,
MO, October 1993 (Commentator: Brian Beakley, Eastern Illinois University)
(41) “A Cognitive Theory of
Trying” 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 1993
(40) “Thoughts Without
Objects” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Memphis, TN, April 1992
(39) The above paper was
also presented to the Department of Philosophy, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, March 1992
(38) Invited Commentary on
“Reasons And Explanation” (Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida), Central Division, American Philosophical Association, Louisville, KY, April 1992
(37) “Naturalizing Meaning”
Invited presentation to the Wittenberg
Quine Conference, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, April 1992 (Commentator: W.V.O.Quine, Harvard)
(36) Invited Commentary on
“From Natural Function to Indeterminate Content” (Sonja Sullivan, Rice University), Pacific Division, American Philosophical
Association, Portland, OR, March 1992
(35) “The Component Theory
of Action: Round Two” The Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, March 1992
(34) “Names, Contents, and
Causes” Illinois Philosophical Association, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, November 1991
(33) “A Cure for
Disjunctivitis” Central States Philosophical Association, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, November 1991 (Commentator: Piers Rawling, Florida State University)
(32) “Machine Persons” Oxford University, Oxford England, September 1991
(31) “Fodor’s Asymmetrical
Causal Dependency Theory of Meaning” Canadian Society for the History and
Philosophy of Science, Kingston, Ontario, May 1991
(30) “How Thoughts Work” Invited
presentation to the Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Purdue
University, at Indianapolis, April 1991
(29) Invited Commentary on
“Designating Psychological Phenomena” (Irwin Goldstein, Davidson College), Central Division, American Philosophical
Association, Chicago, IL, April 1991
(28) “’X’ Means X” Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, GA, March 1991
(27) “Rules in
Computationalism and Connectionism” 24th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HI,
January 1991
(26) The above paper was
also presented at the Third Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
Science Society Conference, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL, April 1991
(25) “Fodor’s Modal
Argument” Joint Illinois Philosophical/Central States Philosophical
Association, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL, November 1990 (Commentator: Lilly-Marlene Russow, Purdue University)
(24) “On Structural
Justification” Invited Co-symposiast (with Robert Audi, University of
Nebraska), Mark Overvold Memorial Conference on Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, October 1990
(23) “Narrow vs. Broad
Mental Content” Invited presentation to the Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri at St.
Louis, April
1990
(22) Invited Commentary on
“The Social Aspects of Our Use of ‘Know’” (D.S. Clarke, Jr, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale), Illinois Philosophical Association, Loyola University of Chicago, IL, November 1989
(21) “Debunking the
Intention/Volition Debate” 14th International Wittgenstein
Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 1989
(20) Invited Commentary on
“Counterfactual Analyses of Knowledge and Relevant Alternatives” (David Cole,
University of Minnesota-Duluth), Central Division, American Philosophical
Association, Chicago, IL, April 1989
(19) “The Role of Intention
in Intentional Action” Illinois
Philosophical Association, Illinois Benedictine College, Chicago, IL, November 1988 (Commentator: Wright Neely, University of Illinois)
(18) “Tertiary Waywardness
Tamed” 18th World Congress of Philosophy, Brighton, England, August 1988
(17) Invited Commentary on
“The Disunity of Psychology as a Working Hypothesis” (James Hughes, Vassar College), Central Division, American Philosophical
Association, Cincinnati, OH, April 1988
(16) “Not Quite By
Accident” Illinois Philosophical Association, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, November 1987
(15) “Why Non-Monotonic
Logic?” 20th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, January 1987
(14) “Alternatives to
Non-Monotonic Logics” 19th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January
1986
(13) “Intention and
Intentional Action: The Simple View” Invited presentation to the Department of
Philosophy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, February 1986
(12) The above paper was
also presented at the Illinois Philosophical Association, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale, IL, November 1986
(11) “Comparison Shopping
in the Philosophy of Mind” Department of Philosophy, California State University at Long Beach, CA, March 1985
(10) “Is Intention a
Natural Kind?” Invited presentation to the Department of Philosophy, Indiana University at South Bend, IN, June 1984
(9) The above paper was
also presented at the NEH Institute on Action Theory, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, July 1984
(8) “Truth is Truth” Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, April 1984
(7) “The Epistemological
Function of Justification” NEH Seminar in Epistemology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, July 1983
(6) “Knowledge Is Not Up To
Us” NEH Seminar in Epistemology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, July 1983
(5) “The Nature of
Perception” Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, March 1981
(4) “How Professor Chaney
Can Want That Ice Cream Cone That Does Not Yet Exist” Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, February 1981
(3) “Understanding Kuhn” Lawrence University, Appleton, WI