Curriculum Vitae
Adam J. LeiteDepartment of Philosophy |
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Areas of Current Interest
Epistemology, Wittgenstein & Ordinary Language Philosophy, Philosophy of Action, Moral Psychology and related topics in the Philosophy of Mind, Psychoanalysis
Employment History
Visiting Scholar, Psychoanalysis Unit, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, 2011-12
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington: July, 2006 - present
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington: 2000 – 2006
Education
Harvard University, Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2000
University of California, Berkeley, B.A. (summa cum laude) in Philosophy, 1992
Publications
1) "Changing One's Mind," forthcoming, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research*
2) “Experiential Self-Understanding”, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 97(2), April 2016, 305-32 (co-authored with David Bell)*
3) “Projective Identification, Clinical Context, and Philosophical Elucidation,” forthcoming, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (special issue on psychoanalysis; approx. 4800 words)*
4) "Some Thoughts on Varieties of Skepticism" (invited critical review), Nordic Wittgenstein Review, vo. 4 no. 2, Dec. 2015, 146-52.
5) “Why Don’t I Know I’m Not a Brain-in-a-Vat?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 90:11, 2015, 205–213 (invited symposium on Krista Lawlor’s Assurance)
6) “Self-Hatred, Self-Love, and Value,” in Love and its Objects, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014, pp. 75-90. (co-authored with Kate Abramson)*
7) "Standing Beliefs, Skepticism, and Some Questions about Zalabardo’s Probabilistic Approach", Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy (special issue on Jose Zalabardo’s Skepticism and Reliable Belief), XXXIIII/3 (October 2014), 159-70.
8) ‘“That’s not evidence; it’s not even true!”’, Philosophical Quarterly, 63:250, 2013, 81-104 (published online December 17, 2012)*
9) “Love as a Reactive Emotion,” Philosophical Quarterly, 61: 245, 2011, 673-699; published online 2 August 2011 IDOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.716.x (Co-authored with Kate Abramson. Winner of the 2010 Philosophical Quarterly essay prize.)*
10) “Austin on Dreams and Scepticism,” in M. Gustafsson and R. Sorli, eds., The Philosophy of J. L. Austin, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 78 - 113.*
11) “Immediate Warrant, Epistemic Responsibility, and Moorean Dogmatism,” in Reasons for Belief, A. Reisner and A. Steglich-Petersen (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 158-79.*
12) “How to Take Skepticism Seriously,” Philosophical Studies, 148 (1), 2010, 39-60.* (Selected by the Program Committee to appear in a volume of Philosophical Studies devoted to the best papers delivered at the 2009 Pacific Division American Philosophical Association meeting.)
13) “Fallibilism,” The Blackwell’s Companion to Epistemology, 2nd ed., E. Sosa and M. Steup, editors, Blackwell-Wiley, 2010, 370-5.
14) “Believing One’s Reasons are Good,” Synthese (special volume on epistemic responsibility), 161(3), 2008, 419-441.*
15) “How to Link Assertion and Knowledge Without Going Contextualist: A reply to DeRose’s 'Assertion, Knowledge, and Context',” Philosophical Studies, 134 (2), 2007, pp. 111-129.*
16) “Epistemic Instrumentalism and Reasons for Belief: a reply to Tom Kelly,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (2), 2007, 456–464.*
17) “Epistemic Gradualism and Ordinary Epistemic Practice,” Philosophia, 34:3, 2006, 311- 324 (a reply to Stephen Hetherington’s critical discussion in Philosophia of my #23 below).*
18) Critical Review of Duncan Pritchard’s Epistemic Luck, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (April, 2006) (invited review, 20 ms. pages).
19) “Epistemological Externalism and the Project of Traditional Epistemology,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. LXX no. 3, May 2005, 505 - 533.*
20) “A Localist Solution to the Regress of Epistemic Justification,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy vol. 83 no. 3, Sept., 2005, pp. 395 - 421.*
21) “On Williamson’s Arguments that Knowledge is a Mental State,” Ratio (new series), vol. XVIII no. 2, June 2005, pp. 165 - 75.*
22) “Some Worries for Would-be WAMmers,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, special issue on contextualism, vol. 69, 2005, pp. 101 - 25.
23) “Skepticism, Closure, and Sensitivity (or Why the Closure Principle is Irrelevant to Skepticism),” The Croatian Journal of Philosophy, special issue on Robert Nozick, vol. IV no. 12, 2004, pp. 335 - 350.*
24) “On Justifying and Being Justified,” Philosophical Issues (a supplement to Nous), vol. 14, Epistemology, 2004, pp. 219 – 253.*
25) “Is Fallibility an Epistemological Shortcoming?” The Philosophical Quarterly, 54: 215, April 2004, pp. 232 – 251.*
26) “Socrates' Critique of Cognitivism,” Philosophy 66, 1991, pp. 145 - 167 (with Wallace I. Matson; reprinted in Matson, Uncorrected Papers, 2006).*
* Refereed publications.
Work in Progress
“Why Moore Matters” (complete and accepted for publication, but the volume was withdrawn by the editors; resubmitted elsewhere. 16,000 words)
“Second-Personal Desire” (submitted for publication; 14,000 words)
“Love and Reasons” (with Katy Abramson; under contract and submitted, Oxford Handbook of Love, Oxford University Press)
“Self-Love and Self-Acceptance” (submitted for publication)
"What is Psychic Integration, and Why Might it Matter?" (Under contract, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis)
"Borderline Personality Disorder and Self-Knowledge" (invited contribution, special issue of The Journal of Personality Disorder)
“Integrating Unconscious Belief”
“Rational Agency and the First-Person Stance”
“Desire and Refusal”
Book manuscript on external world skepticism
Grants and Fellowships
Indiana University, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, course development grant $8000 (shared with Kirk Ludwig)
Indiana University, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, SOTL research grant for study of games and motivation (2013-16), $5000
Indiana University, College Arts and Humanities Institute, semester fellowship, Spring 2014
Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship (awarded spring 2010; $297,000 for the period 2010-14; renewed through June 2016)
Indiana University, Teaching Writing Grant, Summer 2009
Indiana University, College Arts and Humanities Institute, workshop grant (2007-08)
Indiana University, College Arts and Humanities Institute, semester fellowship, Fall 2004
Indiana University, College of Arts and Sciences, summer research grant, Summer 2001
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Dissertation Fellowship, 1997
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1992
Honors and Awards
2010 Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize (shared with Kate Abramson)
Trustees’ Teaching Award, Indiana University, Department of Philosophy, 2010
Trustees’ Teaching Award, Indiana University, Department of Philosophy, 2007
Bechtel Prize in Philosophy, Harvard University, 2000
University Medalist, University of California, Berkeley, 1992 (awarded to "the most distinguished graduate of the year")
K. K. Pritchett Prize in Ancient Greek, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
Phi Beta Kappa, 1991
Presentations and Invited Talks
(35) “Self-Understanding and Psychic Change,” International Psychoanalytic Association annual meeting, July 2015
(34) “Experiential Self-Understanding,” Meaning and Mindedness Series, Tavistock Clinic, London, June 2015
(33) “Self-Hatred, Self-Acceptance, and Self-Love,” Affections and Ethics Network, Oxford University, June 2015
(32) “Psychoanalysis and Self-Knowledge: Some Lessons from the Clinical Context,” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, April 2015
(31) “Comments on Byrne and Gertler on Transparency,” American Philosophical Association Central Division, February 2015
(30) “Moore’s paradox, working through, and the first-person perspective,” Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Conference, University of London, October 2014
(29) “Changing My Mind,” American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (invited paper), December 2013
(28) “Reflections on the Experience of Self-Understanding” (with David Bell), The London Psychoanalysis and Philosophy Group (a study group of the London Institute of Psychoanalysis), December 2013
(27) “Self-Hatred, Self-Acceptance, and Self-Love” (with Kate Abramson), Conference Love and Its Objects, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, July 2013
(26) “Rational Agency and the First-Person Standpoint”, Conference Theoretical Agency: Issues at the Intersections of Freedom and Belief, Auburn University, March 2013
(25) “Desire and Refusal”, Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis, St John’s Research Centre, St John’s College, Oxford University, December 2012
(24) “Desire and Refusal”, The London Psychoanalysis and Philosophy Group (a study group of the London Institute of Psychoanalysis), June 2012
(23) “On Bilgrami’s ‘What is Enchantment?’”, The London Psychoanalysis and Philosophy Group (a study group of the London Institute of Psychoanalysis), May 2012
(22) “Hayez’s ‘Susanna at Her Bath’ and Second-Personal Desire”, seminar on “Desire, Action, and Ethics,” La Sapienza University of Rome, Research Unit of the National Research Group for the Study of the British Enlightenment, April 2012
(21) ‘“That’s not evidence; it’s not even true!”’ University of East Anglia, March 2012
(20) ‘“That’s not evidence; it’s not even true!”’ Heythrop College, University of London, November 2011
(19) “Love as a Reactive Emotion,” Conference on Reasons of Love, Leuven, Belgium, May 2011 (refereed paper)
(18) ‘“That’s not evidence; it’s not even true!”’ University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 2010.
(17) ‘“That’s not evidence; it’s not even true!”’ Conference on Epistemic Justification, University of Geneva, Switzerland, March 2010 (invited keynote speaker).
(16) “An Empirical Reply to External World Skepticism” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (invited paper), April 2009. (Selected by the Program Committee as one of the best papers delivered at the 2009 Pacific APA.)
(15) “Immediate Warrant, Epistemic Responsibility, and Moorean Dogmatism,” Midwest Epistemology Workshop, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 2008.
(14) “In Defense of Inferential Internalism,” Conference on Inferential Internalism, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 2008.
(13) “Immediate Warrant, Epistemic Responsibility, and Moorean Dogmatism,” Conference on Inferential Internalism, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 2008.
(12) “Comment on Neo-Pyrrhonism, Contrastivism, and Normativity,” 2008 New York University Philosophy Conference at Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy, June 2008.
(11) Comment, “Knowledge and Decision,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April 2007
(10) Comment, “BonJour’s Arguments Against Skepticism About the A Priori,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2006
(9) Comment, “Knowledge and Certainty: A Speech-Act Contextualist Account,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 2005
(8) “A Reconsideration of Foundationalism’s ‘Basic Beliefs’,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2005 (refereed paper)
(7) “Does the Principle of Inferential Justification Generate Regresses?” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, seminar presentation, April 2005
(6) “An Externalist Response to the Project of Traditional Philosophy,” Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (“Knowledge and Skepticism”), April 2004 (refereed paper)
(5) “What the Basing Relation can Teach us about Epistemic Justification,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2004 (refereed paper)
(4) Comment, “Reliabilism and Deflationism,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 2004
(3) “Epistemological Externalism and the Project of Traditional Epistemology,” Indiana University, Department of Philosophy, December 2002; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Department of Philosophy, December 2002
(2) “On Justifying and Being Justified,” University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Philosophy, February 2000; Pomona College, Department of Philosophy, February 2000; Indiana University, Department of Philosophy, March 2000
(1) “The Dream Argument and External World Skepticism,” Oberlin College, Department of Philosophy, March 2000
Professional Service
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington (2015-present)
Tenure Referee: 3 philosophy departments
Fellowship/Grant Referee: MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grants” (2014), American Council of Learned Societies (2009-10, 2010-11), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2011-12)
Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (2012-14)
Referee: Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Polity Press, Palgrave/Macmillan, Philosophical Review, Mind, Nous, Philosopher’s Imprint, The Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Synthese, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, Philosophia (Israel), Erkenntnis, Analytic Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Philosophical Research, Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology
Co-Organizer, Midwest Epistemology Workshop VI (September 2012)
Teaching Experience
Indiana University
Philosophical Writing and Methods (advanced undergraduate, Sp 2016)
External World Skepticism (graduate: F 2013, Sp 2015)
Self-Knowledge and Moral Psychology (graduate: F 2012)
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Honors College: Sp 2011, Sp 2013, F 2015)
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (graduate: Sp 2010)
Self-Knowledge (graduate: Sp 2009)
Philosophy of Action (advanced undergraduate: Sp 2006, Sp 2010)
Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy (advanced undergraduate: Sp 2006, F 2008)
Practical and Epistemic Normativity (with Kevin Toh; graduate: F 2005)
Analytic Philosophy III: Sellars, Quine, and Davidson (graduate: Sp 2004)
Second-Hand Knowledge (graduate: Sp 2002, Sp2011)
Empirical Justification (graduate: Sp 2001, F 2006)
Topics in the Theory of Knowledge (advanced undergraduate: F 2001, F 2003, Sp 2007)
Skepticism about the External World (advanced undergraduate: F 2000)
Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge, Self, and Freedom (F 2001)
Introduction to Philosophy: Appearance and Reality (F 2000, Sp 2001, Sp 2002, Sp 2003, F 2003, Sp 2005, F 2005, F 2006, Sp 2007, Sp 2008, F 2008, Sp 2009, F 2009, F2010, F2012, Sp2013, F2013, Sp 2015, F 2015)
Indiana University Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, $5000, for multi-year study of the effects of pedagogical games on student motivation
Faculty Learning Community: Intrinsic Motivation and Play, Indiana University
A year-long bi-weekly faculty study group, organized through the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, focused on intrinsic motivation and play in the classroom.
Faculty Learning Project, Indiana University:
Invitation-only two-week interdisciplinary seminar/practicum for experienced teachers of introductory courses (Sp 2006)
Graduate Writing Fellow, Harvard University:
Semester-long practicum on the use and evaluation of student writing in undergraduate instruction (Fall 1994)