Adrian Bardon, Ph.D.

 

Education:
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1999.
M.A. in Philosophy, University of Washington, 1993.
B.A. in Philosophy, Reed College, 1992.

Publications:

  • "Kant and the Conventionality of Simultaneity," British Journal for the History of Philosophy (forthcoming).
  • “Time-Awareness and Projection in Mellor and Kant,” Kant-Studien (forthcoming).
  • “Empiricism, Time-Awareness, and Hume's Manners of Disposition,” Journal of Scottish Philosophy 5 (2007).
  • “Reliabilism, Proper Function, and Serendipitous Malfunction,” Philosophical Investigations 30 (2007).
  • Synthese 152 (2006). [Editor, special issue on Hume’s naturalism]
  • “The Aristotelian Prescription: Skepticism, Retortion, and Transcendental Arguments,” International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (2006).
  • “Transcendental Arguments,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006).
  • “Performative Transcendental Arguments,” Philosophia 33 (2005).
  • “The Philosophy of Humor,” in Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide, ed. by Maurice Charney (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005).
  • “Kant’s Empiricism in his Refutation of Idealism,” Kantian Review 8 (2004), pp. 62-88.
  • “Ethics Education and Value Prioritization among Members of U.S. Hospital Ethics Committees,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14 (2004).
  • “Temporal Passage and Kant’s Second Analogy,” Ratio 15 (2002), pp. 134-53.
  • “Leibniz and the Epistemic Status of the Mysteries,” Philosophy and Theology 13 (2001), pp. 143-58.
  • “A Conceptual Framework for Teaching Internet Ethics,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Technology and Society (2001), pp. 67-70.
  • “From Nozick to Welfare Rights: Self-Ownership, Property, and Moral Desert,” Critical Review 14 (2000), pp. 481-501.
  • “Two Problems for the Proper Functionalist Analysis of Epistemic Warrant,” Southwest Philosophy Review 15 (1999), pp. 97-107.
  • “Abortion, Property Rights, and the Welfare State,” Public Affairs Quarterly 12 (1998), pp. 369-381.
  • “Descartes, Unknown Faculties, and Incurable Doubt,” Idealistic Studies 28 (1998), pp. 83-100.

Presentations and Conference Participation:

  • “Kant and the Conventionality of Simultaneity,” Philosophy of Time Society Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Baltimore, MD, December, 2007.
  • “A Role for the Representation of Temporal Passage in Kant’s Theory of Knowledge,” North Carolina Philosophical Society, High Point, NC, February, 2007.
  • “Time-Awareness and Projection in Mellor and Kant,” Philosophy of Time Society Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December, 2006.
  • Chair, Hume Society Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December, 2006.
  • “Time-Awareness and Projection in Mellor and Kant,” Davidson College, November, 2006.
  • “Empiricism, Time-Awareness, and Hume’s Manners of Disposition,” 33rd Hume Society Meeting, Koblenz, Germany, August, 2006.
  • “Empiricism, Time-Awareness, and Hume’s Manners of Disposition,” Philosophy of Time Society Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association Central Division, Chicago, IL, April, 2005.
  • Organizer, Hester Seminar on Hume’s Naturalism, Wake Forest University, April, 2005.
  • Chair, Philosophy of Time Colloquium, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, March, 2005.
  • “Empiricism, Time-Awareness, and Hume’s Manners of Disposition,” Atlantic Canada Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, Halifax, Canada, July, 2004.
  • “Performative Transcendental Arguments,” North Carolina Philosophical Society, North Carolina State University, January, 2004.
  • “Temporal Passage and Kant’s Second Analogy,” Wake Forest University, March, 2002.
  • “A Conceptual Framework for Teaching Internet Ethics,” International Symposium on Technology and Society, University of Connecticut-Stamford, July, 2001.
  • “The Representation of Temporal Passage: A Kantian Approach,” Marquette University, February, 2000.
  • “Desert, Justice, and the Obligation to Assist,” University of Massachusetts-Amherst, May, 1999.
  • “Abortion, Property Rights, and the Welfare State,” 1998 Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February, 1998.
  • “Kant, the Chicken, and the Egg,” University of Massachusetts-Amherst, May, 1997.
  • “A Reply to Palmer’s ‘Descartes’ Demon’,” 1997 Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February, 1997.
  • “Descartes, Unknown Faculties, and Incurable Doubt,” 1997 Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, February, 1997.

Professional Association Memberships and Official Positions:

  • Philosophy of Time Society (member and former vice-president)
  • American Philosophical Association (member)
  • Hume Society (member)
  • North American Kant Society (member)