AMY KIND
Department of
Philosophy
(909) 607-3782
amy.kind@claremontmckenna.edu
http://phil-rlst.claremontmckenna.edu/akind/
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
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,
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, 1997
Dissertation: The Workings of the Imagination
C.Phil., Philosophy, 1995
M.A., Philosophy, 1993
A.B., summa cum laude, Philosophy, 1990
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in refereed journals
“The Puzzle of Imaginative Desire,”
forthcoming in Australasian Journal of
Philosophy
“Restrictions on Representationalism,”
Philosophical Studies 134: 405-427
(2007)
“The Irreducibility of Consciousness,” Disputatio 19:
233-250 (2005)
“The Metaphysics of Personal Identity and Our
Special Concern for the Future,” Metaphilosophy
35: 536-553 (2004)
“What’s So
Transparent About Transparency?,” Philosophical
Studies 115: 225-244 (2003)
“Shoemaker,
Self-Blindness and
“Qualia Realism,” Philosophical Studies
104: 143-162 (2001)
“Putting the Image
Back in Imagination,” Philosophy and
Phenomenological Research 62:
85-109 (2001)
Book chapters and other articles
“Transparency
and Representationalist Theories of Consciousness,”forthcoming in Philosophy Compass. [peer-reviewed]
“How
to Believe in Qualia,” in E.O. Wright, ed., The Case for Qualia, pp.
285-298. MIT Press, 2008.
“Panexperientialism,
Cognition, and the Nature of Experience” Psyche
12, http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/symposia/rosenberg/Kind.pdf (2006)
[invited, peer-reviewed]
Encyclopedia articles
“Imagery, Philosophical
Perspectives,” Oxford Companion to Consciousness, ed. Timothy Bayne et
al. Oxford
University Press, 2009.
“Qualia,” Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed.,
James Fieser, http://www.iep.utm.edu/ (2008)
[peer-reviewed]
“Introspection,” Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, ed., James Fieser, http://www.iep.utm.edu/ (2005) [peer-reviewed]
“Imagery and
Imagination,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., James Fieser, http://www.iep.utm.edu/
(2005) [peer-reviewed]
Entry on “The
Intentional Stance,” in Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind, ed., Chris Eliasmith, http://artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/ (2001)
[peer-reviewed]
“Jerry Fodor,” in World Philosophers and their Works, ed.
John K. Roth,
“Patricia Smith Churchland,” in World
Philosophers and their Works, ed. John K. Roth,
Reviews
Review
of “Imagination and Other Scripts” by Eric Funkhouser
and Shannon Spaulding, Philosopher’s
Digest (2009) at http://www.philosophersdigest.com
Review
of Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction by David Shoemaker, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2009)
at http://www.ndpr.nd.edu
Review of Furnishing the Mind
by Jesse Prinz, Psyche 9 (2003) at
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/book_reviews/prinz/index.html
Review
of Knowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introduction by Andrew Brook and
Robert J. Stainton, Teaching Philosophy 25:
98-101 (2002)
Review
of Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory by Peter Carruthers, The Review of Metaphysics 55: 125-127
(2001)
Review
of Consciousness, Color and Content by Michael Tye,
Disputatio 11: 52-57 (2001)
Review
of The Construction of Social Reality by
John Searle, Social Theory and Practice 27: 345-351 (2001)
Philosophy and Popular Culture
“Creative
Mothering: Lies and the Lying Mothers Who Tell Them,” forthcoming (2010) in
Sheila Lintott, ed., Motherhood and Philosophy, Blackwell Press.
“Inside
The Hobbit: Bilbo Baggins and the
Paradox of Fiction,” forthcoming (2010) in Gregory Bassham
and Eric Bronson, eds., The Hobbit and Philosophy, Blackwell Press.
“The
Vampire with a Soul: Angel and the Quest for Identity,” forthcoming (2010) in
Tom Fahy, ed., The Philosophy of Horror, University Press of Kentucky.
“A Pensieve for Your Thoughts? Harry Potter and the Magic
of Memory,” forthcoming (2010) in Gregory Bassham,
ed., The Ultimate Harry Potter and
Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles, Blackwell
Press.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“’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
Instructor’s Manual
to Accompany A Guide to Good Reasoning. McGraw Hill Publishing Co., 1999
PRESENTATIONS
Refereed
talks
“Imagination and
Simulation,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2010.
“The Problem of Conative Engagement,” American Society for Aesthetics
Pacific Division Meeting, April 2009
“What’s So Transparent
About Transparency?,” APA Central Division Meeting,
April 2003
“Chalmers, Searle and
the Irreducibility of Consciousness,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2000
“Qualia Realism,”
Central States Philosophical Association, October 1999
Invited
talks
“Imaginative
Presence,” Workshop on Phenomenal Presence, University of Fribourg, June 2010
[abstract-refereed]
“Transparency and Representationalist Theories of Consciousness,”
Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind Workshop, UC Riverside, October 2009.
“What Philosophy Can
Learn From Science Fiction,” Keynote Address, Cal State Bakersfield
Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy, April 2009.
“The Puzzle of
Imaginative Desire,” Conference on Imagination, Mind, and Morality, Yale
University, March 2009.
“From Vulcan to Caprica: Philosophy Amidst the
Worlds of Science Fiction,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2008.
“Panexperientialism,”
Claremont Graduate University, November 2005
“Panexperientialism,”
“Panexperientialism,”
“Restrictions on
Representationalism,”
“Restrictions on
Representationalism,”
“Restrictions on
Representationalism,”
“What’s So
Transparent About Transparency?,”
“What’s So
Transparent About Transparency?,” NEH Summer Institute
on Consciousness and Intentionality, June 2002
“Imagination and
Possibility,”
“Qualia Realism,”
“A Defense of Qualia
Realism,” Society for Realism and Anti-Realism, APA Pacific Division Meeting,
April 1999
“Imagery and
Imagination,”
Conference
comments
Comments
on Keith Frankish, “Qualia: The Real Thing,”
Consciousness Online (http://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com),
February 2010.
Comments on Gregory Currie,
"Fictional Attitudes and Attitudes Toward Fiction," and Julia Driver,
"Fictionalism and Imagining the
Impossible," APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 2009.
Comments on Sara Bernstein’s “The
Social Composition Question,” Southern California Philosophy Conference,
November 2009.
Comments on Matthew Ivanowich’s “A Moderate Representationalism,” Consciousness
Online (http://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com),
February 2009.
Comments of Clayton Littlejohn’s,
“On the Coherence of Inversion,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2008.
Comments on Martine Nida-Rumelin’s “Qualia and Transparency,” APA Pacific
Division Meeting, March 2008.
Comments
on Tad Zawidzki’s “Mind-Reading or Mind-Shaping: The
Function of Folk Psychology,” APA Central Division Meeting, April 2007
[delivered by proxy]
Comments
on Paul Katsafanas’ “Constitutivism and
Self-Knowledge,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2007.
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
Comments
on Philip Clayton’s “Emergence and Mind,” Claremont Graduate University
Philosophy Colloquium Series, October 2004
Comments
on Susanna Siegel’s “How Does Visual Phenomenology Constrain Object Seeing?,” APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2004
Comments
on J.R. Shrader’s “A Unity of Consciousness Argument Against Causal Emergentism,” APA
Eastern Division Meeting, December 2003
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
Comments on John Kulvicki’s “The Contents of Images,” American Society for
Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting, March 2002
Comments on Dana Nelkin’s “She Would Not Have Done Otherwise, Even If She
Could Have,” Southern California Philosophy Conference, October 2001
Comments on Guy Rohrbaugh’s “Modal Flexibility and Ontology in the Arts,”
APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 2000
Comments on Daniel Weiskopf’s “Mental Mirroring as the Origin of
Attributions,” Central States Philosophical Association, October 2000
Comments on Sanford
Goldberg’s “Basic Self-Knowledge is not Knowledge of Content,” APA Pacific
Division Meeting, March 1998
Other
presentations
“Imaginal
Identity,” C-Realm Podcast, episode 81 (March 2008), at http://www.c-realm.com/podcasts.php
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editor,
Imagination, PhilPapers, http://philpapers.org/browse/imagination,
2009 - present
APA
Pacific Division Program Committee, 2008 - present
Panelist,
AskPhilosophers, http://askphilosophers.org,
2005 - present
Session
chair, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, April
2010
Session
chair, APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2010
SoCal
Philosophy Conference, Program Committee, 2009
Member
of the External Review Team, Rhodes College Philosophy Department, September
2009
NEH
Fellowships panelist, July 2009
Referee
for Australasian Journal of Philosophy
(2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005), Philosophical
Studies (2010, 2008, 2007, 2005), the Southern Society for Philosophy and
Psychology (2009), Oxford University Press (2009, 2008, 2007, 2004), Broadview
Press (2009, 2004), Scholarpedia
(2009), Erkenntnis
(2008), 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)
Session
chair, APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2009
Conference
participant, Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind, UC Santa Cruz, June 2007.
Session
chair and conference participant, SPAWN conference on Consciousness,
Session
chair, SPP Annual Meeting, June 2003
Conference
co-organizer, Bradshaw Seminar on “Imagining Minds,” February 2003
Session
chair, APA Central Division Meeting, April 2002
Session
chair, APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2002
Session
chair, Society for Realism and Anti-Realism, APA Central Division Meeting, May
1999
Session chair, 5
College Conference on Neuroscience and Philosophy, April 1999
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Gould Center for Humanistic Studies
Summer Research Grant, 2010
Berger Institute for Work, Family,
and Children Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2009
ISSSC Curriculum Development Grant,
2008-09
Roy P. Crocker Award for Merit,
Claremont McKenna College, 2008
Claremont McKenna College Summer
Research Grants, 1998-2005, 2007, 2009, 2010
Gould Center for Humanistic Studies
Course Development Grant, 2004
NEH Summer Institute on
Consciousness and Intentionality, selected participant, 2002
Collegium
of University Teaching Fellows, UCLA, 1996-7
Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship,
1995
UCLA Department of Philosophy
Fellowship, 1992-3
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities,
1990-2
George A. Plimpton Fellowship,
Gail Kennedy Prize in Philosophy,
MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association
American Society for Aesthetics
Society for Philosophy and
Psychology
Phi Beta Kappa
MAJOR
COLLEGE SERVICE
Administration Committee, 1998 –
2001, 2009 - present
Curriculum Committee, 2009 -
present
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
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
McKenna Weekend interviewer,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008
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
AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE
Philosophy
of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy,
Logic, Critical Reasoning
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses
Taught
at
Introduction to Philosophy
Honors Introduction to Philosophy
Freshman Humanities Seminar: Life,
Death, and Meaning
Philosophical Problems
Philosophy of Mind
Skepticism
Language and Reality
20th Century Philosophy
Fundamentals of Logic
Metaphysics
Philosophy Through
Science Fiction
Senior Seminar
at
Seminar: Philosophy of Mind (on the
problem of phenomenal consciousness)
at
UCLA
Philosophy
of Mind
Critical
Reasoning
Seminar:
Imagery and Imagination
Courses
Assisted
at
UCLA
Contemporary
Moral Issues
Critical
Reasoning
Ethical
Theory
Philosophy
of Mind
Philosophy
of Religion
Skepticism
and Rationality
updated:
June 2010