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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Peter Bradley
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director of the First Year Seminar
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
McDaniel College
Westminster, MD 21157
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Personal Details:
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy (2002)
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Dissertation Title: The Nature and Novelty of Color
BA Philosophy (1996)
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
Academic Specialty
Areas of specialty: philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind, metaphysics.
Areas of competence: philosophy of science (especially psychology, cognitive
science and psychophysics), logic, British Empiricism, political philosophy, and
aesthetics.
Current Positions
Director of the First Year Seminar (2012-present)
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department,
McDaniel College (2004-present, promoted to Associate 2010)
Coordinator, Cognitive Science Minor, McDaniel College (2006-present)
Research
Publications
Awards and Recognition
Sept 2010, Facutly Grant Award, McDaniel College
May 2007, Ira G Zepp Teaching Enhancement Grant for Reacting Conference:
With Gretchen McKay, Robert Kachur, Ralene Mitchner, Lauren Dundes and
Pam Regis.
th th
and 19 century German philosophy, Temple May 2000, Atwell prize in 18
University.
April 1999, Distinguished teaching award, Temple University.
Papers / Projects In Progress:
Defining the Mind: The APA in the 1970 s Reacting to the Past game
highlighting the intellectual conflict between psychoanalysis, behaviorism and
cognitivism, through the historical conflict over the DSM-III and the
demedicalization of homosexuality in the early 1970s.
Pedagogical Resources Developed
July 2007 Turing Machines: Online, The Mind Project, Turing Machines:
Online, The Mind Project,
http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/modOverview.phpmodGUI=240
July 2007 Artificial Neural Net, Online, The Mind Project, Artificial Neural
Net, Online, The Mind Project,
http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/modOverview.phpmodGUI=239
Ongoing The Inquiry Project: The Inquiry Project
http://inquiry.ucsd.edu/ http://inquiry.mcdaniel.edu/inquiry/
Book Reviews
Bradley, P. (2003) Review of A.D. Smith, The Problem of Perception, Harvard
2002 In Philosophical Psychology, 16(3).
Faculty Development
Jan, 2012 Participant, THATCamp Games, University of Maryland
Oct, 2011 Participant, THATCamp Pedagogy, Vassar College
Feb, 2011 Participant, API Workshop: Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities, University of Maryland
July, 2007 Participant: Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested
Concept, Transylvania University. July 24-27, 2008
Conference Presentations and Panels
Oct, 2011 Honors, Practice and Core Texts short paper included in Honors and
Core Text Education: Spreading the Word, panel co-sponsored by
National Collegiate Honors Council and Association for Core Texts and
th
Courses. 46 Annual conference of NCHC
Apr, 2011 'Why be educated' Addressing the 'why' of the core texts directly
th
Association for Core Texts and Courses, 17 annual meeting, New
Haven, CT
Aug, 2010 Social Technology and Teaching Philosophy, American Association o f
Philosophy Teachers biennial International Workshop Conference on
Teaching Philosophy
Feb, 2010 Textbooks on Facebook: Social networking and information, APA
Committee on Teaching: APA Teaching Central Division Annual
Meeting
Dec, 2009 Philosophy s contribution to the critical thinking component of general
education, American Association of Philosophy Teachers: APA Eastern
Division Annual Meeting, New York, NY
Apr, 2009 Panel member, Why are you here Panel discussion with faculty on
nature of liberal education, organized by students in my PHI 2291:
Directed Readings course.
Apr, 2009 Response to Franklin Scott s Representation and Whorfian Category
Effects, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah,
GA
Apr 2009 Chair, Representing Causality: Directed Graphs versus Force Vectors in
Human Causal Judgment, Southern Society for Philosophy and
Psychology, Savannah, GA
Feb, 2009 Descartes' argument from language, Alan Turing, and the
computational theory of mind, Centre College, KY
Aug, 2008 Teaching Modeling in Critical Thinking, American Association of
Philosophy Teachers American Association of Philosophy Teachers
biennial International Workshop Conference on Teaching Philosophy.
July, 2008 Consortium on Cognitive Science Instruction, first meeting with David
Anderson (ISU) Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting.
Aug, 2007 Workshop on Teaching Cognitive Science with interactive materials,
Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, with David Anderson (ISU).
July, 2007 Inquiry v2.0: An open-source modular interactive web-based
Textbook, North American Chapter, Computing and Philosophy.
Aug, 2006 Inquiry v2.0: An open-source modular interactive web-based
Textbook, American Association of Philosophy Teachers.
July, 2006 Are there any good arguments for the categorical explanation of color
constancy Poster, Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting.
Nov, 2005 Intelligent Design: Intelligent Arguments Why Intelligent Design is
not Science... and what that means for
Education, Public forum,
McDaniel College.
Feb, 2004 Color Constancy: Categorical or Phenomenal Cognitive Science
Program, University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
Jan, 2004 Color Constancy: Categorical or Phenomenal Washington University
in St. Louis, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program Works in
Progress Series.
Nov, 2003 Inquiry: A Modular, Interdisciplinary Course on Investigative Strategies
in the Cognitive Sciences, Poster Presentation, FIPSE Director's
Conference, Denver.
July 31, 2003 Inquiry: A Modular, Interdisciplinary Course on Investigative Strategies
in the Cognitive Sciences, Tutorial, CogSci 2003, Boston, MA.
June 18, 2003 Special Panel Discussion: Teaching
SPP:
Philosophy, Psychology and
Pedagogy, Workshop Panel, Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Pasadena. CA.
November 23, Inquiry: A Modular, Interdisciplinary Course on Investigative Strategies
2002 in the Cognitive Sciences, Poster Presentation, FIPSE Director's
Conference, Washington, D.C.
November 8, What is it to be a Color Washington University in St. Louis,
2002 Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program Works in Progress
Series.
September 12, The Unity of Color: A Quasi-Functionalist Approach, Visual
2002 Representation and Interpretation 2, Liverpool, UK.
June 20, 2002 Poster Presentation, On Being a Color. Society for Philosophy and
Psychology. Edmonton, Alberta.
March 28, Commentary on True Colors: A Problem for Tye s Color Realism
2002 Thomas Polger. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Nashville, TN.
October 2000 Contrari-Weiss: A reply on generalizing brains in vats, Temple
University Philosophy Department Works in Progress Series.
April 2000 Innovative Teaching Practices:
Take a break from traditional teaching techniques. Learn some
alternative, interactive, innovative teaching methods that you can try in
your classroom to make learning more exciting and effective, Temple
University Teaching Matters Conference.
Professional Experience
McDaniel College:
Director of the First Year Seminar (2012-present
)
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department (2010-
present
)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department (2004-
2010
)
Program Coordinator, Cognitive Science Minor (2006-present
)
Acting Chair,
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Fall 2010
)
Interim Director of Honors Program (11/16/2009-8/15/2010
)
Courses taught:
4000-level:
Thesis in Philosophy (supervised 19 in 4.5 years)
3000-level:
Philosophy of Science
Minds and Language*
Anarchy, Autonomy and Authority*
2000-level:
Minds and Machines*
Philosophy of Art*
Elementary Logic
Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: British Empiricism *
Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: Theories of Mind before 1880*
Special Topics: On What Is*
Great Works 1 & 2 ( Why be Educated * as GW1)
1000-Level:
Critical Thinking
Contemporary Issues in Ethics
Critical Thinking First Year Seminar
Identifying and Avoiding BS (First Year Seminar)*
Jan Term (3-week intensive 2-credit course)
Enlightenment Philosophy, Science and Literature (Travel Tour: London)*
Robots, Cyborgs and Humans: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology*
* introduced to McDaniel Curriculum
Washington University in St Louis:
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy and PNP program.
Director, PNP Robot Lab. (2003 2004)
Developed and assisted in the instruction of a web-based, modular interdisciplinary
course for research methods in cognitive science. (2002 2004)
Service to the Profession
Boards / Editing AAPT Co-Webmaster, 8/2007-present:. Maintain member blog:
http://pbradley.philosophyteachers.org/
Refereeing National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions
grant competition 2010.
Referee for AAPT Biennial Conference 2008, 2010
Referee for Cog Sci Annual Conference 2005-2008
Referee for Publisher: Longman (esp. Nils. Rauhat s Ultimate
Questions: Thinking About Philosophy, to which I contributed
some active-learning exercises.)
Referee for Journals: Philosophical Psychology, Dialogue,
Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies
Service at McDaniel 2011 present: Middle States Accreditation committee, Section 5
College (Administration)
2011 present: Curriculum Committee
Academic Year 2008-2009: Chair, General Education
Assessment Subcommittee: Critical Thinking
2007 2010: Academic Assessment Committee, Chair, 2010
2005 2008: Faculty Technology Committee, Chair, 2006-2007
2007: Interim coordinator SIS
2006 07: ad hoc committee on teaching effectiveness
2005 06: Faculty Council: 1 year Sabbatical replacement
2006: Ad hoc committee on committee reform, Ad hoc committee
on Technology committee reform
2005-07: Quantitative Sub-Committee, Curriculum
implementation
Clubs Faculty Sponsor of:
Philosophy Club
McDaniel Freethinkers Union
Cycling Club
Service at Temple 2001 02 Graduate Student Representative Represented the
University interests of graduate students at faculty meetings, organized
colloquia receptions.
200001Assistant Graduate Student Representative
Organized the 00-01 Works in Progress Series.
19992001 Founder, Teaching Circle for Graduate Instructors in
the Philosophy Department
Service at
AntiochWinter 1995Student Representative
College Faculty Policy Review CommitteeFall 1994Student Representative
Academic Policy Review Committee
Non-Academic Publications
July 20-27, 2003 'Purple-Throated Carib Hummingbird (f)', Photo of the Week, Birder's
World.
Professional Experience outside Philosophy
20062007IT Consultant,
Maryland TESOL.
20012003Outside Item Writer, Reasoning Group, Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, NJ.
20002002Volunteer Computer Consultant, The Parent-Infant Center,
Philadelphia, PA.
19971998UNIX System Administration Consultant, LSI Logic, Gresham, OR.
1997UNIX System Administration Consultant, Maxtex, Beaverton, OR.
1997UNIX System Administration Consultant, Inherent.com, Portland, OR.
19951997Senior UNIX System Administrator, Vivo-Media Inc., Portland, OR.
1995UNIX System Administrator / Web Master, Digitech Inc., Lake
Oswego, OR.
Professional Memberships
Consortium on Cognitive Science Instruction (2008 present)
American Philosophical Association (1999 present)
American Association of Philosophy Teachers (2000 present)
Society for Philosophy and Psychology (2001 present)
References
William Bechtel
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy-0119
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
LaJolla, CA 92093
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Dr. Thomas M. Falkner
Provost and Dean of the Faculty
McDaniel College
2 College Hill
Westminster, MD 21157
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Dr. Stephanie Madsen
Director of the Honors Program
Associate Professor of Psychology
McDaniel College
2 College Hill
Westminster, MD 21157
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Dr. Gregory Alles
Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
McDaniel College
2 College Hill
Westminster, MD 21157
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