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Westminster, MD
Posted:
September 29, 2012

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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

410-***-****

********@********.*** / @pbradl42 (twitter)

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/pbradley

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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.

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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

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Courses. 46 Annual conference of NCHC

Apr, 2011 'Why be educated' Addressing the 'why' of the core texts directly

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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

****@*********.****.***

Dr. Thomas M. Falkner

Provost and Dean of the Faculty

McDaniel College

2 College Hill

Westminster, MD 21157

********@********.***

410-***-****

Dr. Stephanie Madsen

Director of the Honors Program

Associate Professor of Psychology

McDaniel College

2 College Hill

Westminster, MD 21157

*******@********.***

410-***-****

Dr. Gregory Alles

Professor of Religious Studies

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

McDaniel College

2 College Hill

Westminster, MD 21157

******@********.***

410-***-****



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