AMY KIND
Department of Philosophy
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 607-3782
amy.kind@claremontmckenna.edu
http://phil-rlst.claremontmckenna.edu/akind/
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
Interim Director, Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont McKenna College (2011-12)
Chair, Department of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College (2009- )
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College (2003- )
Associate Dean of the Faculty, Claremont McKenna College (2005-2008)
Director, Teaching Resource Center, Claremont McKenna College (2005-2008)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College (1997-2003)
EDUCATION
Ph.D in Philosophy,
Dissertation: The Workings of the Imagination
M.A. in
Philosophy, University of
A.B. in Philosophy, summa cum laude, Amherst College, 1990
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
1. “Is there such a thing as the imagination?” forthcoming in Erkenntnis
2. “The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire,” forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy (published online first, August 2010, DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2010.503763)
3. “Transparency and Representationalist Theories of Consciousness,” Philosophy Compass 5: 902-913 (2010)
4. “Restrictions on Representationalism,” Philosophical Studies 134: 405-427 (2007)
5. “Panexperientialism, Cognition, and the Nature of Experience” Psyche 12, http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/symposia/rosenberg/Kind.pdf (2006)
6. “The Irreducibility of Consciousness,” Disputatio 19: 233-250 (2005)
7. “The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our Special Concern for the Future,” Metaphilosophy 35: 536-553 (2004)
8. “What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,” Philosophical Studies 115: 225-244 (2003)
To be reprinted in Torin Alter and Robert J. Howell, eds., Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem: Essential Readings. Oxford University Press (forthcoming in 2012)
9. “Shoemaker, Self-Blindness and Moore’s Paradox,” The Philosophical Quarterly 53: 39-48 (2003)
10. “Qualia Realism,” Philosophical Studies 104: 143-162 (2001)
11. “Putting the Image Back in Imagination,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62: 85-109 (2001)
Book
chapters
1. “The Transparency of Conscious Experience,” in Stephan A. Jansen, Eckhard Schröter, and Nico Stehr, eds., Transparenz, pp. 200-214. Verlag, 2010.
2. “How to Believe in Qualia,” in E.O. Wright, ed., The Case for Qualia, pp. 285-298. MIT Press, 2008.
Encyclopedia articles
1. “Nagel’s Bat Argument,” forthcoming in Just the Arguments, ed. Steven Barbone and Michael Bruce. Wiley-Blackwell.
2. “Chalmers’ Zombie Argument,” forthcoming in Just the Arguments, ed. Steven Barbone and Michael Bruce. Wiley-Blackwell.
3. “Imagery, Philosophical Perspectives,” Oxford Companion to Consciousness, ed. Timothy Bayne et al. Oxford University Press, 2009.
4. “Qualia,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., James Fieser, http://www.iep.utm.edu/ (2008) [peer-reviewed]
5. “Introspection,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., James Fieser, http://www.iep.utm.edu/ (2005) [peer-reviewed]
6. “Imagery and Imagination,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., James Fieser, http://www.iep.utm.edu/ (2005) [peer-reviewed]
7. Entry on “The Intentional Stance,” in Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind, ed., Chris Eliasmith, http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/ (2001) [peer-reviewed]
8. “Jerry Fodor,” in World Philosophers and their Works, ed. John K. Roth, Salem Press, 2000
9. “Patricia Smith Churchland,” in World Philosophers and their Works, ed. John K. Roth, Salem Press, 2000
Reviews and Commentaries
1. Invited commentary on “Quining Diet Qualia” by Keith Frankish, Consciousness and Cognition (forthcoming)
2. Review of “Seeing Reasons” by Jennifer Church, Philosopher’s Digest (2010) at http://www.philosophersdigest.com
3. Review of “Imagination and Other Scripts” by Eric Funkhouser and Shannon Spaulding, Philosopher’s Digest (2009) at http://www.philosophersdigest.com
4. Review of Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction by David Shoemaker, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2009) at http://www.ndpr.nd.edu
5. Review of Furnishing the Mind by Jesse Prinz, Psyche 9 (2003) at http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/book_reviews/prinz/index.html
6. Review of Knowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introduction by Andrew Brook and Robert J. Stainton, Teaching Philosophy 25: 98-101 (2002)
7. Review of Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory by Peter Carruthers, The Review of Metaphysics 55: 125-127 (2001)
8. Review of Consciousness, Color and Content by Michael Tye, Disputatio 11: 52-57 (2001)
9. Review of The Construction of Social Reality by John Searle, Social Theory and Practice 27: 345-351 (2001)
Philosophy and Popular Culture
1. Review of Source Code, forthcoming (2011) in The Philosopher’s Magazine.
2. “How Marriage Changed Sherlock Holmes,” forthcoming (2011) in Josef Stieff, Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy, Open Court.
3. “Inside The Hobbit: Bilbo Baggins and the Paradox of Fiction,” forthcoming (2011) in Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson, eds., The Hobbit and Philosophy, Blackwell Press.
4. “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” in Jane Dryden and Mark White, eds., Green Lantern and Philosophy, pp. 225-236. Blackwell Press, 2011.
5. “Creative Mothering: Lies and the Lying Mothers Who Tell Them,” in Sheila Lintott, ed., Motherhood: The Birth of Wisdom, pp. 29-40. Blackwell Press, 2011.
6. “A Pensieve for Your Thoughts? Harry Potter and the Magic of Memory,” in Gregory Bassham, ed., The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles, pp. 198-211. Blackwell Press, 2010.
7. “The Vampire with a Soul: Angel and the Quest for Identity,” in Tom Fahy, ed., The Philosophy of Horror, pp. 86-101. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
8. “Time – The Final Frontier,” in Jason T. Eberl and Kevin Decker, eds., Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant, pp. 203-216. Open Court, 2008.
9. “Is Ignorance Bliss? Star Trek: Nemesis, Cloning, and the Right to an Open Future,” in Sandra Shapshay, ed., Bioethics at the Movies, pp. 147-163. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
10. “Am I a Cylon? Self-Knowledge at the Crossroads,” in Josef Steiff and Tristan Tamplin, eds., Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?, pp. 49-60. Open Court, 2008.
11. “You Can’t Rape a Machine,” in Josef Steiff and Tristan Tamplin, eds., Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?, pp. 117-128. Open Court, 2008.
12. “’I’m Sharon, but I’m a Different Sharon’: The Identity of Cylons,” in Jason T. Eberl, ed., Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, pp. 64-74. Blackwell Press, 2008.
Other Publications
1. Contributions to Alexander George, ed., What Should I Do? Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling, Oxford University Press, 2011.
2. Contributions to Alexander George, ed., What Would Socrates Say? Philosophers Tackle Questions About Love, Nothingness, and Everything Else, Clarkson Potter, 2007.
3. Instructor’s Manual to Accompany A Guide to Good Reasoning. McGraw Hill Publishing Co., 1999
PRESENTATIONS
Refereed talks
1. “Imaginative Presence,” Conference on Phenomenal Presence, University of Fribourg, June 2010.
2. “Imagination and Simulation,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2010.
3. “The Problem of Conative Engagement,” American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting, April 2009
4. “What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2003
5. “Chalmers, Searle and the Irreducibility of Consciousness,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2000
6. “Qualia Realism,” Central States Philosophical Association, October 1999
Invited talks
1. “How Imagination Gives Rise to Knowledge”
a. Cal State University, Los Angeles, May 2011
b. Rice University, April 2011
c. Occidental College, March 2011.
2. “The Heterogeneity of Imagination,” Conference on Imagination and Imaginings, University of Tübingen, November 2010.
3. “Transparency and Representationalist Theories of Consciousness,” Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind Workshop, UC Riverside, October 2009.
4. “What Philosophy Can Learn From Science Fiction,” Keynote Address, Cal State Bakersfield Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy, April 2009.
5. “The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire,” Smartin Workshop on Imagination, Mind, and Morality, Yale University, March 2009.
6. “From Vulcan to Caprica: Philosophy Amidst the Worlds of Science Fiction,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2008.
7. “Panexperientialism”
a. Claremont Graduate University, November 2005
b. California State University, Northridge, November 2005
c. Southern California Philosophy Conference, October 2005
8. “Restrictions on Representationalism”
a. University of California, Santa Cruz, February 2003
b. California State University, San Bernardino, November 2002
c. Southern California Philosophy Conference, October 2002
9. “What’s So Transparent About Transparency?,”
a. Pomona College, September 2002
b. NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, June 2002
10. “Imagination and Possibility,” University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, October 2001
11. “Qualia Realism,” Pomona College, September 1999
12. “A Defense of Qualia Realism,” Society for Realism and Anti-Realism, APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 1999
13. “Imagery and Imagination,” University of California, Los Angeles, December 1996
Conference comments
1. Comments on Matt Nudds, “Hearing Things in Time,” Workshop on Time and the Unity of Consciousness, Harvard University, December 2010
2. Comments on Keith Frankish, “Qualia: The Real Thing,” Consciousness Online (http://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com), February 2010.
3. Comments on Gregory Currie, "Fictional Attitudes and Attitudes Toward Fiction," and Julia Driver, "Fictionalism and Imagining the Impossible," APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 2009.
4. Comments on Sara Bernstein’s “The Social Composition Question,” Southern California Philosophy Conference, November 2009.
5. Comments on Matthew Ivanowich’s “A Moderate Representationalism,” Consciousness Online (http://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com), February 2009.
6. Comments of Clayton Littlejohn’s, “On the Coherence of Inversion,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2008.
7. Comments on Martine Nida-Rumelin’s “Qualia and Transparency,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2008.
8. Comments on Tad Zawidzki’s “Mind-Reading or Mind-Shaping: The Function of Folk Psychology,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2007 [delivered by proxy]
9. Comments on Paul Katsafanas’ “Constitutivism and Self-Knowledge,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2007.
10. Comments on Paul Raymont’s “Some Experienced Qualities Belong to the Experience” and on Peter Mandik’s “Introspecting Brain States as Such,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2006
11. Comments on Philip Clayton’s “Emergence and Mind,” Claremont Graduate University Philosophy Colloquium Series, October 2004
12. Comments on Susanna Siegel’s “How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object Seeing?,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2004
13. Comments on J.R. Shrader’s “A Unity of Consciousness Argument Against Causal Emergentism,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 2003
14. Comments on Emmett Holman’s “Dualism, Secondary Quality Eliminativism and Recognitional Concepts: Putting a New Spin on the Knowledge Argument,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2003
15. Comments on John Kulvicki’s “The Contents of Images,” American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting, March 2002
16. Comments on Dana Nelkin’s “She Would Not Have Done Otherwise, Even If She Could Have,” Southern California Philosophy Conference, October 2001
17. Comments on Guy Rohrbaugh’s “Modal Flexibility and Ontology in the Arts,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 2000
18. Comments on Daniel Weiskopf’s “Mental Mirroring as the Origin of Attributions,” Central States Philosophical Association, October 2000
19. Comments on Sanford Goldberg’s “Basic Self-Knowledge is not Knowledge of Content,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 1998
Other presentations
1. “Imaginal Identity,” C-Realm Podcast, episode 81 (March 2008), at http://www.c-realm.com/podcasts.php
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Committee Service
1. APA Pacific Division Program Committee Chair, 2011-2012.
2. APA Pacific Division Executive Committee, 2011-2012.
3. APA Committee for the Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers, 2011 – present
4. APA Pacific Division Program Committee, 2008 - 2011
5. NEH Fellowships Review Committee, July 2009
6. SoCal Philosophy Conference, Program Committee, 2009
7. Bradshaw Seminar on “Imagining Minds,” Program Committee, February 2003
External Reviews
1. External Reviewer, Mills College Philosophy Department, March 2011
2. External Review Team, Rhodes College Philosophy Department, September 2009
Editorial Work
1. Editor, Imagination, PhilPapers, http://philpapers.org/browse/imagination, 2009 - present
Conference Participation
1. Session chair, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, April 2010
2. Session chair, APA Pacific Division Meeting, 2010, 2009, 2002
3. Invited conference participant, Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind, UC Santa Cruz, June 2007.
4. Session chair and invited conference participant, SPAWN conference on Consciousness, Syracuse University, July 2005
5. Session chair, SPP Annual Meeting, June 2003
6. Session chair, APA Central Division Meeting, April 2002
7. Session chair, Society for Realism and Anti-Realism, APA Central Division Meeting, May 1999
8. Session chair, 5 College Conference on Neuroscience and Philosophy, April 1999
Other
1. Panelist, AskPhilosophers, http://askphilosophers.org, 2005 - present
2. Referee for Philosophical Studies (2010, 2008, 2007, 2005), Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005), Erkenntnis (2010, 2008), Philosophical Psychology (2010), Estetika (2010), Consciousness and Cognition (2010), Oxford University Press (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2004), the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2009), Broadview Press (2009, 2004), Scholarpedia (2009), Mind (2008), Journal for Philosophical Research (2007), Nous (2007), Synthese (2007), Journal of Consciousness Studies (2007), Routledge (2007, 2006), McGraw Hill (2006), Cambridge University Press (2006), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2006), Inquiry (2006), University of Pittsburgh Press (2004), Philosophical Quarterly (2003, 2004), Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2003), Social Theory and Practice (2003), Dialogue (2002)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1. Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2009, 2011
2. Claremont McKenna College Summer Research Grants, 1998-2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011
3. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies Summer Research Grant, 2010
4. ISSSC Curriculum Development Grant, 2008-09
5. Roy P. Crocker Award for Merit, Claremont McKenna College, 2008
6. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies Course Development Grant, 2004
7. Claremont McKenna College Diversity Course Development Grant, 2003
8. NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality, selected participant, 2002
9. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies Summer Research Grant, 1998
10. Collegium of University Teaching Fellows, UCLA, 1996-7
11. Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1995
12. UCLA Department of Philosophy Fellowship, 1992-3
13. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990-2
14. George A. Plimpton Fellowship, Amherst College, 1990
15. Gail Kennedy Prize in Philosophy, Amherst College, 1990
MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association
American Society for Aesthetics
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Phi Beta Kappa
MAJOR COLLEGE SERVICE
Buildings and Grounds Committee, 2010 - present
Administration Committee, 1998 – 2001, 2009 - present
Curriculum Committee, 2009 - present
Football Coach Search Committee, 2010-11
Philosophy Program Coordinator, 2007-08
Curriculum Committee, chair, 2005 - 2008
President’s Advisory Committee on Diversity, chair, 2005 – 2008
Senior Staff, 2005 - 2008
Academic Affairs Committee, 2005 – 2008
Academic Standards Committee, 1998 – 2004, 2005 - 2008
Teaching Resources Committee, 2005 - 2008
College Advancement Committee, 2004 - 2005
Campaign Planning Committee, 2004 - 2005
Athenaeum Advisory Committee, 2003 - 2004
Student Recruitment Committee, 1998 - 2001
SELECTED OTHER
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Social and Political Philosophy Search Committee, 2010-11
McKenna Weekend interviewer, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2011
Emcee, Senior Awards Banquet, 2010
Epistemology/Phil Science Search Committee, chair, 2008-09
Social and Political Philosophy Search Committee, 2007-08
History of Modern Philosophy Search Committee, 2006-07
History of Ancient Philosophy Search Committee, 2005-06
PPE Search Committee, 2005-06
Role of Science Committee, chair, 2005-06
Gould Center Advisory Committee, 2000 - 2004
Ethics Search Committee, 2003-04
Social and Political Philosophy Search Committee, Scripps College, 2002-03
Working Group on Underperforming Students, 2000-01
Ethics Search Committee, chair, 2000-01
Committee on CMC Grievance Policies, 1999 - 2000
Committee on Teacher Training in G.E. Writing Instruction, UCLA, 1997
Teaching Assistant Consultant, UCLA Philosophy Department, 1996-7
Graduate Representative to the UCLA Philosophy Department Faculty, 1993-4
Amherst College Class Secretary, 1990 - 1995
AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE
Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy, Logic, Critical Reasoning
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught at Claremont McKenna
1. Introduction to Philosophy
2. Honors Introduction to Philosophy
3. Freshman Humanities Seminar: Life, Death, and Meaning
4. Philosophical Problems
5. Philosophy of Mind
6. Skepticism
7. Language and Reality
8. 20th Century Philosophy
9. Fundamentals of Logic
10. Metaphysics
11. The Metaphysics of Persons
12. Philosophy Through Science Fiction
13. Senior Seminar
Courses taught at Claremont Graduate University
1. Seminar: Philosophy of Mind (on the problem of phenomenal consciousness)
Courses taught at UCLA
1. Philosophy of Mind
2. Critical Reasoning
3. Seminar: Imagery and Imagination
4. Teaching College Philosophy
Courses Assisted at UCLA
1. Contemporary Moral Issues
2. Critical Reasoning
3. Ethical Theory
4. Philosophy of Mind
5. Philosophy of Religion
6. Skepticism and Rationality
updated: May 2011