David Alexander Hunter
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Philosophy and Humanities
Buffalo State College, SUNY
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
(716) 878 5825
62 Lancaster Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
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facstaff.buffalostate.edu/hunterda
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EMPLOYMENT
History Chair, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Buffalo State College, SUNY. Buffalo, NY. Since fall 2005
Adjunct Instructor, University at Buffalo School of Management. Summer 2005
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Humanities. Buffalo
State College, SUNY Buffalo, NY. 2003-present
Visiting Fellow, University at Buffalo, Department of Philosophy, fall 2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Buffalo State College, SUNY Buffalo, NY. 1997-2003
One Year Sessional, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. 1996-1997
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1994-1996
Areas
Specialization Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Critical Thinking,
Epistemology, Free Will
Competence Personal Identity, Logic
CITIZENSHIP Canadian
EDUCATION Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1989-1994
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Honors B.A., Philosophy, University Scholar, 1984-1988
THESIS Expression, Analysis, and Understanding: three essays in the philosophy of language. Defended spring 1994. Supervisors: Robert Stalnaker, James Higginbotham, and Richard Cartwright
RESEARCH
Publications
Journal ‘Soames and Widescopism’, forthcoming in Philosophical Studies
Articles ‘Is Thinking an Action?’, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003, 133-148
‘On Representing Content’, Protosociology, Vol. 17, 2002
‘Knowledge and Understanding’, Mind and Language, Vol. 16,
No. 5, November 2001, 542-546
‘Mind-Brain Identity and the Nature of States’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 79, No. 3, September 2001, 366-376
‘Understanding and Belief’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LVIII, No. 3, September 1998, 559-579
‘Understanding, Justification and the A Priori’, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 87, No.2, 1997, 119-141
‘Definition in Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 2, June 1996, 88-107
Book Chapters ‘Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity’, forthcoming in
Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values, edited by
R. Stainton and C. Viger. Springer-Verlag.
Article Length ‘Critical Notice of Gabriel Segal’s A Slim Book about Narrow
Critical Notices Content, (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2000)’, Noûs, December 2003, Vol. 37, Issue 4, 724-745
‘Consciousness and Conceivability: a Critical Notice of John Perry’s Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness (MIT Press 2001)’, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Number 2, June 2003, 285-304
Encyclopedia ‘Communication, understanding, and interpretation: philosophical Entry aspects’, forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Language
and Linguistics, 2nd. Ed., Elsevier
Dictionary Biographical entries on Robert Stalnaker and George Boolos,
Entries forthcoming in The Dictionary of Modern American
Philosophers, edited by Ernie Lepore, Thoemmes Press
Book Review ‘Review of Gary Ebbs’ Rule-Following and Realism.
(Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press 1997),
Philosophical Review, Vol. 108, No. 3, July 1999, 425-27
Presentations
Society Conference ‘Qualia, Multiple Realizability, and the Identity Thesis’, Annual Meeting
Peer-Reviewed Talks of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Barcelona, Spain, June 2002
‘Soames and Widescopism’, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 2002
‘Soames and Widescopism’, Ontario Philosophical Society Annual
Meeting, Toronto, February 2002
‘Descriptive Reference Fixing and Singular Propositions’ Canadian
Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Quebec City, May 2001
‘Descriptive Reference Fixing and De Re Beliefs’, American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, March 2001
‘Do Functional States Need Realizers?’ Ontario Philosophical Society
Annual Meeting, University of Guelph, Ontario, October 1999
‘Mind-Brain Identity and the Nature of States’ Poster presentation,
Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, Stanford
University, June 1999
‘Analyticity and Implication’, Canadian Philosophical Association,
Annual Meeting, Montreal, June 1995
Society Conference ‘Belief and Subjectivity’, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the
Symposia American Philosophical Association, March 2006. The symposium
members are Ruth Millikan, Jose Bermudez, and Eric Schwitzgebel and will be chaired by Robin Jeshion.
‘Dispositionalism about Belief and Frege’s Problem’, Canadian
Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, London Ontario,
May 2005. The symposium included Eric Schwitzgebel and Charles Travis. I organized and chaired the symposium.
‘Externalism and Conceivability’, International Society for Value Inquiry,
in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association
Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 2004. Henry Jackman also participated.
Invited Keynote ‘Critical Thinking Assessment’, Keynote address at the First Annual
Western New York Community College CORE conference,
Buffalo, October 2006
Professional ‘Critical Thinking: the power of effective decision making’, annual
Presentations meeting of the American Society for Training and Development, Houston, June 2006
‘Critical Thinking Rubrics’, at a conference entitled Program-Level
Assessment, at the SUNY Training Center at the University at Buffalo, November 2005
‘Critical Thinking and Evidence-Based Decision Making’, HealthCare Executives Forum, Buffalo, September 2005
Conference Comments on James Pryor’s paper ‘Acquaintance and De Re Belief’,
Comments at a conference entitled De Re Belief, at Queen’s University,
Kingston, Ontario, September 2004
Comments on Maite Ezcurdia’s paper ‘Occurrences Revisited’ at a conference entitled Contexts, at the Institute for Philosophical Investigations, UNAM, Mexico City, October 2001
Comments on Noa Latham’s ‘Can Psychophysical Identity Save Mental
Causation?’, American Philosophical Association, Central
Division Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 2001
Comments on Anandi Hattiangadi’s ‘Dispositions and Correctness’,
Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Quebec City,
May 2001
Comments on Michel Desy’s ‘Is Anti-Individualism a Form of
Collectivism?’, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual
Meeting, Sherbrooke, June 1999
Comments on Paul Raymont’s ‘Are Mental Properties Causally
Relevant?’, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting,
Sherbrooke, June 1999
Comments on Bernard Linsky’s ‘Placing Intentional Objects in
Naturalism’, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 1998
Other Conference Chair of a session for the Association for Informal Logic and Critical
Participation Thinking at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the
American Philosophical Association, Portland, March 2006
Organizer of a symposium ‘Dispositionalism about Belief’ at the
Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, May 2005
Chair of a session at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the
American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2005
Chair of a session at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the
American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2003
Chair of a session at a conference entitled Recent Thoughts about the Liar,
University at Buffalo, October 2002
Invited participant at a conference entitled Assessing the Age of Analysis,
at the University at Buffalo, November 2001
Chair of a session at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Minneapolis, June 1998
‘Knowledge of Truth-conditions’, talk presented at the Harvard-MIT
Graduate Student Colloquium, November 1992
Invited ‘What is a Singular Proposition?’, Department of Philosophy, University
Talks at Buffalo, SUNY, March 2002
‘Possible Worlds and Singular Propositions’, Philosophy Department,
Queens’ University, Kingston Ontario, November 2001
‘The Stipulation Method and the Contingent A Priori’, Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Rochester, February 2001
‘States and Identity’, Cognitive Science Colloquium, University at Buffalo
SUNY, October 1998
‘Definition in Frege’s Foundations of Arithmetic’, Department of
Philosophy, University at Buffalo, SUNY, February 1998
‘Can Ontology be A Priori?’, McGill University, Montreal, March 1997
‘Understanding and Necessity’, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada,
March 1995
Work in Progress
Book Projects Belief and Possibility
Critical Thinking: the power of effective decision-making
Articles in ‘Belief and Subjectivity’
Preparation ‘A Model of Deep Disagreement’
‘Dispositionalism about Belief and Frege’s Problem’
Journal ‘Beliefs, Propositions and Dispositions’, currently under review.
Submission
Research ‘The Nature and Development of a Personal Epistemology in College
Project Students’, an empirical investigation into the psychological bases of critical thinking competence. With Catherine Cooke-Cottone, Ph.D., University at Buffalo.
Research Group University of Western Ontario Semantics Workshop on Ellipsis,
Participation May 2006
University of Western Ontario Workshop on Assessing Critical Thinking, September 2004
Semantics Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May
2004
Carleton Semantics Workshop, Carleton University, Ottawa Canada,
October 2003
Rutgers Semantics Workshop, organized by Ernie Lepore. I was invited twice annually from May 2000 to May 2002
Ontario Area Roundtable in the Philosophy of Language. It has met twice
annually since March 2000. (I am also a co-founder)
University at Buffalo Cognitive Science Center. Associate Member, since
1998
Awards and Sabbatical Leave, fall 2004
Fellowships SUNY Merit Salary Increase, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
SUNY Individual Development Award, 2001, 2002, 2005
SUNY Professional Development and Quality of Working Life Grant, spring 1998
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1994
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1990
MIT Graduate Fellowship, 1989
Commonwealth Scholarship. Tenable at University College, Oxford, 1989
SERVICE
Professional American Philosophical Association Committee on the Teaching of
Committee Philosophy, July 2004-July 2007
Membership
Professional American Philosophical Association
Association Canadian Philosophical Association
Membership Society for Exact Philosophy
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
International Society for the Study of Argumentation
Referee Work
Journals Mind and Language, Dialogue, Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Conferences The Canadian Philosophical Association, the Ontario Philosophical
Society, Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Presses McGill-Queen’s University Press, Oxford University Press
External Examiner Chienchih Chi, The Problem of Intentionality, submitted at the University On Ph.D. Theses at Buffalo, spring 2004
Richard Main’s Negative Facts and the Correspondence Theory of Truth,
submitted at the University at Buffalo, September 2001 Jaime Ramos Arenas’ A Critical Study of the Language of Thought
Hypothesis, submitted at the University at Buffalo, June 2000
Ivonne Victoria Pallares Vega’s On Mathematical Abstraction, submitted
to the University at Buffalo, December 1999
SUNY SUNY General Education Discipline Panel on Critical Thinking, 2005.
Service I chaired the committee. We designed a rubric to be used across all SUNY campuses for the assessment of critical thinking learning outcomes.
College Honorary Degree Committee, Chair, spring 2006
Service Senate Intellectual Foundations Oversight Committee, spring 2005-present
Critical Thinking Assessment Committee, spring 2004-present
BSC101 Development Committee, winter 2005-present
Senate Instruction and Research Committee, fall 2003-present
Senate Special Committee on General Education, summer 2003
Selection Committee for the President’s Award for Excellence in
Research, Scholarship and Creativity, spring 2003
Humanities Program Task Force, fall 2002-spring 2003
Senate Select General Education Committee, 2001-2003
Arts and Humanities Curriculum Committee, 1997-2002
Senate Academic Planning Committee, 1997-2002
Departmental Chair, Department Curriculum Committee, fall 1997-spring 1999
Service ‘Free Will and the Possibility of a Social Science’, panel discussion with Allen Shelton and Howard Reid, February 2006. I organized and will participate in the panel discussion.
‘Running, Philosophy and the Meaning of Life’, talk to the department
of Philosophy and Humanities, October 2005
‘War in Iraq’, organized and moderated a panel discussion with Jim
Grunebaum and Abdul Raoof, February 2003
‘Human Cloning: Promise or Threat’, organized and moderated a panel
discussion with Lansing Pollock and Greg Wadsworth, March
2003
‘Descartes, Morpheus and the Benefits of a College Education’,
contributed to the Department newsletter Philosophikos, Vol. 2,
No. 1 December 2002
‘Who am I?’, a talk given to the Philosophy Department, April 2002
‘Just War, Holy War, War of Revenge’, co-organized and moderated a
panel discussion entitled, featuring Dr. James Grunebaum, Dr.
Lansing Pollock and Dr. Abdul Raoof. October 2001
‘Philosophy and The Matrix’, a talk given to the Philosophy Club.
April 2001
‘The Nature of Mathematical Proof’, a talk given to the Math Club.
February 1999
‘Russell’s Philosophy’, a talk given to the Philosophy Club, fall 1997
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