CHAUNCEY MAHER
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Dickinson College, Philosophy Department, 2014-present
Assistant Professor, Dickinson College, Philosophy Department, 2010-2014
Visiting Assistant Prof., Dickinson College, Philosophy Department, 2008-10
Education
Ph.D.
Georgetown University, Philosophy, 2008
M.A.
University of Chicago, Social Science, 2002
B.A.
University of Maryland, Philosophy and Politics, 2001
Thesis Title: Counting What We Do: A Normative Functionalist Approach to Action Individuation
Thesis Title: ‘What Must Be Accepted’: Wittgenstein’s Concept of a Form of Life
Summa cum laude
Honors in both Philosophy and Politics
Publications
Peer-Reviewed
1. “Strange but True: On the Counter-Intuitiveness of the Extended Mind Hypothesis” (with
Zed Adams; equal contributors), Journal of Consciousness Studies 20.9-10 (2013): 65-76.
2. The Pittsburgh School. New York: Routledge (2012).
Reviews: [1] Universa: Recensioni di Filosofia 2.2 (2013), L. Corti; [2] European Journal of
Philosophy 21 (2013), P. Redding. [3] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (23 January 2013), J.
Wanderer and S. Levine; http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/37094-the-pittsburgh-school-ofphilosophy-sellars-mcdowell-brandom/. [4] Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
1.9: 20-27 (August 2012), P. Reider; http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-qb.
3. “Cognitive Spread” (with Zed Adams; equal contributors), European Journal of Philosophy, 20.4
(2012).
4. “Action Individuation: A Normative Functionalist Approach,” Philosophical Explorations, 14.1
(2011): 99-116.
5. “On Being and Holding Responsible,” Philosophical Explorations 13.2 (2010): 129-140.
6. “Trying,” Southwest Philosophy Review 24.2 (2008): 55-69.
Invited
7. “Normative Functionalism,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 2.1 (2012): 13-15.
8. “Normative Functionalism about Intentional Action,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply
Collective 2.1 (2012): 100-108.
9. “Reply to Reider,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 1.11 (2012): 16-23.
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Book Reviews
10. “Review of Groeschner, Koopman, and Sandbothe (eds.), Richard Rorty: From Pragmatist
Philosophy to Cultural Politics,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. November 14, 2013.
11. “Review of Uriah Kriegel’s The Sources of Intentionality,” The Review of Metaphysics, 66.1 (2012):
153-4.
12. “Review of Michael Barber’s The Intentional Spectrum,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
January 19, 2012.
13. “Review of Cristina Bicchieri’s The Grammar of Society,” Ethics 118 (2007): 140-3.
Presentations
1. “Varieties of Minds,” Washington & Lee University, November 2013 (invited)
2. “The Meaning of the Deed,” External Determinations of Meaning, University of Pittsburgh,
April 2013 (invited)
3. “The Given in Action,” Sellars Centenary Workshop, University College Dublin, June 2012
(peer-reviewed)
4. “Does Thought Depend on Language?” Wittgenstein Workshop, The New School for Social
Research, March 2012 (invited)
5. “The Temporal Vagueness of Actions,” Time and Agency conference, George Washington
University, November 2011 (peer-reviewed)
6. “Artificial Intentionality: Why Giving a Damn Still Matters,” (with Zed Adams) conference
on the Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence, Anatolia College, October 2011
(peer-reviewed)
7. “Original Responsibility,” 3rd International Colloquium of the Chilean Society for Analytic
Philosophy, May 2011 (peer-reviewed)
8. “Action Individuation: A Normative Functionalist Approach,” The New School for Social
Research, March 2011 (invited)
9. “Action Individuation: A Normative Functionalist Approach,” Loyola University (New
Orleans), February 2010 (invited)
10. “Action Individuation: A Normative Functionalist Approach,” San Francisco State
University, January 2009 (invited)
11. “Comments on J. Sytsma’s ‘The Proper Province of Philosophy,’” APA Experimental
Philosophy Group, December 2009 (invited)
12. “Trying,” Dickinson College, March 2008 (invited)
13. “Trying,” The Georgetown University Graduate Student Colloquium, November 2005
(invited)
14. “Gauthier’s Solution to the Bargaining Problem,” 9th Annual Schapiro Graduate Conference
in Philosophy, Brown University, October 2004 (peer-reviewed)
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Service to the Profession
Referee for Journal of Philosophical Research; Journal of Moral Philosophy; Phenomenology and Cognitive
Science; Erkenntnis; Pickering and Chatto; History of Philosophy of Quarterly; Oxford University Press
Service to the College
Academic Standards Committee, spring 2012-present
Faculty Advisor for Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, spring 2012-present
Faculty Advisor for Keystones, fall 2013-present
Faculty Advisor for Student Senate, spring 2014-present
Search Committee, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, AY2011-12
Search Committee, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, spring 2012
Search Committee, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, spring 2013
Search Committee, Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Philosophy, AY2012-13
Search Committee, Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Philosophy, AY2013-14
Teaching Experience
Introduction to Philosophy (fall ’08, spring ’09, fall ’09, spring ’10, fall ’13)
Critical Reasoning (spring ’09, spring ’10, spring ’11, spring ’12)
Logic (fall ’12, spring ‘14)
Introduction to Ethics (fall ’10)
First-Year Seminar (“Freedom”) (fall ’11)
Ancient Philosophy (fall ’11, fall ’13)
Freedom and Agency (fall ’09)
Justice and Authority (fall ’10, spring ’12)
Philosophy of Language (spring ’09, spring ’11, spring ‘14)
Philosophy of Mind (spring ’13)
Philosophy of Science (spring ’13, spring ‘14)
Personal Identity and Self-Knowledge (fall ’08)
Theory of Knowledge (spring ’10)
History of Analytic Philosophy (spring ’11)
The Pittsburgh School (spring ’12)
Metaphysics: Being Human (fall ’12)
Independent Study: Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity (spring ’10)
Independent Study: Distributive Justice (AY2010-2011)
Independent Study: Multiculturalism (AY2010-2011)
Independent Study: Michael Williams’s Unnatural Doubts (AY2012-2013)
Independent Study: Reliabilism (AY2012-2013)
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