Department of Philosophy and Humanities
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0527
(817) 272-3207 / FAX: (817) 272-5807
bradshaw@uta.edu
Education
| Institution | Dates | Area | Degree | Date |
| Mankato State University (Minnesota) |
1978-1982 | psychology | B.A. (Summa cum laude) |
May, 1982 |
| The University of Iowa | 1982-1983 | psychology | -- | -- |
| The University of Iowa | 1983-1988 | philosophy | Ph.D. | August, 1988 |
Awards and Fellowships
Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship, 1982-1983
Teaching-Research Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1982-83
Graduate College Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1983-84
Research Enhancement Program Grant, University of Texas at Arlington, Summer, 1996
Travel/Professional Development Award, College of Liberal Arts, 2004-2005, 2005-2006
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics, philosophy of language and mind, history of 20th Century analytic philosophy
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, history of modern philosophy, philosophy of science, logic
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
"Berkeley and Hume on Abstraction and Generalization," History of Philosophy Quarterly, 5 (1) (January, 1988): 11-22.
"On the Need for a Metaphysics of Justification," Metaphilosophy, 23 (1 & 2) (January/April, 1992): 90-106.
"The Nature of Concepts," Philosophical Papers, 21 (1) (April, 1992): 1-20.
"The Non-Logical Basis of Metaphysics," Idealistic Studies, 26 (1) (Winter/Spring, 1996): 1-16.
"Meaning, Cognition, and the Philosophy of Thought: Vindicating traditional ontology," Journal of Philosophical Research, 23 (1998): 51-80.
"Patterns and Descriptions," Philosophical Papers, 27 (3) (October, 1998): 181-202.
"Dispositions and Ontology," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 41 (2) (Summer, 2003): 169-182.
"The Clever and the Profound: An argument for ontological-model pluralism" (work in progress).
"Identification and Elimination Regarding Dispositions" (under revision).
"Compositionality and Dispositionalism: Mental models and syntactic structure" (work in progress).
Book Chapters
"Connectionism and the Specter of Representationalism," in T. Horgan and J. Tienson (eds.), Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1991): 417-436.
"Butchvarov's World: Philosophy in the first person," in L. Blackman (ed.), The Philosophy of Panayot Butchvarov: A collegial evaluation (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005): 281-302.
Books
The Problem of Content (work in progress).
Invited Dictionary/Encyclopedia Entries
"Language I: Propositions and truth," in H. Burkhardt and B. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology (Munich: Philosophia Verlag GmbH, 1991): 437-439.
"Panayot Butchvarov," in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 2005): 400-401.
Book Reviews
Invited Review of José A. Benardete's Metaphysics: The logical approach, Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie, 10 (12) (December, 1990): 481-483.
Invited Review of Jorge J. E. Gracia's Individuality: An essay on the foundations of metaphysics, International Studies in Philosophy, 24 (1) (1992): 100-101.
Review of John McDowell's Mind and World, International Philosophical Quarterly, 36 (1) (March, 1996): 112-114.
Participation in Conferences and Lecture Series
Refereed Conference Papers
"An Ontology of Concepts," at the Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Lawrence, Kansas, 16 September 1988.
"Concepts and Foundations," at the Central Division Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, 27 April 1991.
"Butchvarov's World: Philosophy in the first person," at the conference, Exploring the Thought of Panayot Butchvarov, Geneseo, New York, 4 April 2004.
Lectures/Presentations
"The Categorial Irreducibility of Potentiality," for the Memphis State University Philosophy Lecture Series, Memphis, Tennessee, 7 December 1988.
"Connectionism: Problems and prospects in the philosophy of mind," at a meeting of the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (M.I.N.D.), Arlington, Texas, 9 April 1994.
"Connectionism and the Cognition of Generality," for the Dallas Philosopher's Forum, Dallas, Texas, 12 November 1996.
"Concepts and Compositionality," for the Dallas Philosopher's Forum, Dallas, Texas, 12 February 2002.
"David Lewis and the Humean Supervenience Thesis," a Phi Sigma Tau Faculty Colloquium, Texas Mu Chapter, Arlington, Texas, 4 October 2004.
Invited Comments
Commented on a paper by William Bechtel ("Modeling the Knowledge Involved in Perception") at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 23 March 1989.
Commented on a paper by Michael McKinsey ("The Internal Basis of Meaning") at the Central Division Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 26 April 1990.
Commented on a paper by Stuart Rachels ("Are Qualia Intrinsic Properties of Brain States?") at the Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, 2 March 1991.
Commented on a paper by Mitchell Green ("Dennett's 'Mild and Intermediate' Intentional Realism") at the Central Division Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, 28 April 1995.
Commented on a paper by William Ferraiolo ("Black's 'Twin Globe' Counterexample") at the North Texas Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Richardson, Texas, 13 April 1996.
Commented on a paper by Barbara Montero ("The Body Problem") at the North Texas Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 13 March 1999.
Commented on a paper by Jonathan Sutton ("Are T-Theories Too Modest?") at the North Texas Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 29 April 2000.
Session Chair
Chaired a session at the conference, IDEAS: Sensory Experience, Thought, Knowledge, and Their Objects in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy, Iowa City, Iowa, 7 April 1989.
Chaired a session on epistemology at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, 12 April 1990.
Chaired a session on the philosophy of mind at the Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Norman, Oklahoma, 29 October 1999.
Chaired a session on ontology at the Central States Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Lincoln, Nebraska, 6 October 2000.
Chaired a session at the University of Memphis 2002 Spindel Conference, The Legacy of G. E. Moore: 100 Years of Metaethics, Memphis, Tennessee, 5 October 2002.
Professional Experience
Memphis State University
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Fall, 1988-Spring, 1991
University of Kentucky
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Fall, 1991-Spring, 1992
University of Texas at Arlington
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Fall, 1992-Spring, 1998
University of Texas at Arlington
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Fall, 1998-Spring, 1999
University of Texas at Arlington
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND CHAIR
Fall, 1999-present
University and Professional Service
Departmental Service
Faculty Mentor in Peer-Mentor Program, Memphis State University, 1990-1991
Library Representative (Philosophy), University of Texas at Arlington, 1992-2005
Member, Advisory Committee on Tenure and Promotion, University of Texas at Arlington, 1993-1996
Faculty Senator, University of Texas at Arlington, 1993-1999
__Chair, Senate Nominations Committee, 1994-1995
__Chair, Senate Academic Liaison Committee, 1995-1996, 1997-1998
Faculty Advisor, Philosophy Club, University of Texas at Arlington, 1994-1995, 1999-2007
Chair, Departmental Planning Committee, 1997-2007
Member, Departmental Self-Study Committee, 1998-1999
Faculty Advisor, Phi Sigma Tau, 2001-2007
Chair, Departmental Self-Study Committee, 2003-2004
Member, Cooperative Philosophy Ph.D. Program Admissions Committee, 2005-2007
Member, Cooperative Philosophy Ph.D. Program Graduate Studies Committee, 2005-2007
College Service
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1997-2007
"Outside" Member, Advisory Committee on Tenure and Promotion, Department of Exercise, Sport, and Health Studies, 1998-1999
Member, Council of Chairs, College of Liberal Arts, 1999-2007
Member, Dean's Search Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2002-2003
Member, Committee to Select CoLA Distinguished Alumni, College of Liberal Arts, 2002-2003
Member, "Freshman Interest Group" Advisory Board, College of Liberal Arts, 2003-2006
Chair, CoLA Scholarship Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2004-2006
Member, NEH Challenge Grant Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2004-2007
University Service
Member, Math Substitution Committee, 1998-1999
Member, Ad Hoc Committee for the University-Wide Core Curriculum, 2000-2002
Member, University Program Review Committee, 2001-2002
Member, Dean's Five-Year Review Committee, School of Education, Summer, 2002
Member, Graduate School Inquiry Panel, Fall, 2002
Chair, University Program Review Committee, 2002-2003
Member, Program Review Revision Committee, 2002-2004
Member, University Academic Standards Committee, 2003-2005
Member, Committee on Research Integrity, 2003-2006
Chair, Office of Research Investigation Panel, 2004-2005
Member, SACS "Reaffirmation" Quality Enhancement Program Steering Committee, 2006-2007
__Chair, Process Working Group, 2006-2007
Chair, Committee on Research Integrity, 2006-2007
Member, Phi Kappa Phi Steering Committee, 2006-2007
__Chair, Bylaws Subcommittee, 2006-2007
External Consulting
External Program Reviewer, Philosophy Program, Saint Cloud State University, Minnesota, 2006
Editorial Consulting
Editorial Assistant, Auslegung, 1986-1987
Assistant Editor, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1988-1991
Sometime manuscript reviewer, Routledge
Sometime unpaid referee, Journal of Philosophical Research
Sometime unpaid referee, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Sometime unpaid referee, Southern Journal of Philosophy
Sometime unpaid referee, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Sometime unpaid referee, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
Professional Memberships
American Association of University Professors
Texas Faculty Association
American Philosophical Association
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Central States Philosophical Association
North Texas Philosophical Association
Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (M.I.N.D.)
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