• PATRICK RYSIEW 
  • Department of Philosophy
  • University of British Columbia
  • Vancouver BC V6T-1Z1 Canada
  • Phone: 604-822-3292
  • Fax: 604-822-8782
  • rysiew@interchange.ubc.ca
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    Background

    • Assistant Professor at UBC, 2000-present
    • PhD, University of Arizona, 2000
    • MA, Dalhousie University, 1993

    Research Interests

    Epistemology (social and evolutionary epistemology, rationality, naturalism, scepticism, contextualism); Early Modern (especially Reid and the empiricists); Philosophy of Language (especially communication theory)

    Publications

    • "Motivating the Relevant Alternatives Approach", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming
    • "Reidian Evidence", Journal of Scottish Philosophy, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Autumn 2005): 107-121
    • "Contesting Contextualism", Grazer Philosophische Studien - special issue on contextualism, Volume 69 (July 2005): 51-70
    • "Introduction", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2005): 163-168
    • "Analyzing Knowledge Management Systems: A Veritistic Approach" (with Palash Bera, UBC), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (Cologne; April-May 2004)
    • "Goldman's Knowledge in a Social World: Correspondence Truth and the Place of Justification in a Veritistic Social Epistemology", Protosociology, Vol. 18-19 (2003): 409-422
    • "'Encouragement in Darwin'?", Facta Philosophica, Vol. 4., Issue 2 (Fall 2002): 271-286
    • "Reid and Epistemic Naturalism", The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 209 (October 2002): 437-456.Winner of The Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize, 2001
      • Reprinted in The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays, edited by John Haldane and Stephen Read (Blackwell, 2003)
    • "The Context-Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions", Noûs, Vol. 35, No. 4 (December 2001): 477-514 
    • "Testimony, Simulation, and the Limits of Inductivism", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 78, No. 2 (June 2000): 269-274 
    • "Conventional Wisdom", Analysis, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2000): 78-83 
    • "Reid's (Mis)Characterization of Judgment", Reid Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn 1999): 63-68
    • "Hume and Reid on Common Sense", Eidos, Vol. 10, No. 2 (December 1992): 123-142

    Books Reviewed

    • Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, by William P. Alston (Cornell, 2000): The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 212 (July 2003): 465-468
    • Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others, by Richard Foley (Cambridge, 2002): Philosophy in Review, Vol. 23, No. 3 (June 2003): 178-180
    • Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology, by Nicholas Wolterstorff (Cambridge, 2001): Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 40, No. 2 (April 2002): 260-261 
    • Implicature, by Wayne A. Davis (Cambridge, 1998): Mind, Vol. 109, No. 435 (July 2000): 573-579

    Presentations & Comments

    • "Attributing Knowledge, Attributing Error: Contextualism, the Disappearance Effect, and 'Semantic Self-Knowledge'"; CPA Annual Congress (London, Ontario; May 2005)
    • "Sensing Color, Perceiving Figure" (Comments on Grandi's, "Colour and Visible Figure: Dugald Stewart's Criticism of Reid"); Western Canadian Philosophical Association (Victoria; October 2004)
    • "Beyond Knowledge Itself: The Place of Reason(s) in a Naturalistic Epistemology"; Canadian Society for Epistemology, Summer Workshop on Recent Epistemology - The Program of Naturalism (Sherbrooke; May 2004)
    • "Epistemic Commitments, Invariantist WAMs, and the Knowledge Account of Assertion" (Comments on Pritchard's "Contextualism, Skepticism and 'Warranted Assertability Maneuvres'"); Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (Moscow-Pullman; April-May 2004)
    • "Analyzing Knowledge Management Systems: A Veritistic Approach" (coauthor: Palash Bera, UBC); First International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (Cologne; March-April 2004)
    • "Adaptive Cognition"; APA Pacific (Pasadena; March 2004)
    • "Evidence, Evidentness, and Self-Evidence in Reid"; Reid Society, APA Pacific (Pasadena; March 2004)
    • "The Banality of the Relevant Alternatives Approach"; Western Canadian Philosophical Association (Lethbridge; October 2003)
    • "Mysterianism, and Other Immodest Views of the Mind" (Comments on Copenhaver's, "Is Reid a Mysterian?"); Northwest Philosophy Conference (Portland; October 2003)
    • "Goldman's Veritistic Social Epistemology: Truth, Knowledge, and (Other) Epistemic Goods"; CPA Annual Congress (Halifax; May-June 2003)
    • "Epistemic Discourse"; Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria (November 2002)
    • "'Encouragement in Darwin'?"; Western Canadian Philosophical Association (Calgary; October 2002)
    • "Speaking of Knowing"; Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University (March 2002) 
    • "'Encouragement in Darwin'?"; BC Philosophy Conference, hosted by UBC (May 2002) 
    • "Coordination and Two Notions of What Is Said" (coauthor: Rob Stainton, University of Western Ontario). Invited paper at the Conference on Context, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, Mexico City (October 31, 2001)
    • "'Competing' Conceptions of What is Said"; Department of Linguistics, UBC (November 2001) 
    • "Peter Graham's ‘Locke and Hume on Testimony and the Grounds of Belief': Two Questions"; 28th Hume Society Conference (Victoria BC; July 2001) 
    • "Comments on Vinci's ‘The Argument Structure of Quine's "Epistemology Naturalized"'"; CPA Annual Congress (Quebec City; May 2001) 
    • "Reid and Epistemic Naturalism"; APA Pacific (San Francisco; March 2001) 
    • "Reid and Epistemic Naturalism"; UBC Philosophy Colloquium (March 2001)
    • "Testimony, Simulation and the Limits of Inductivism"; APA Central (New Orleans; May 1999) 
    • "Conventional Wisdom"; APA Eastern (Washington, DC; Dec 1998) 
    • "On Some Aspects of Reid's Theory of Natural Signs"; CPA Annual Congress (Ottawa; May 1998)

    Courses Taught at UBC

    • Philosophy 240: Knowledge and Reality I - Fall 2005
    • Philosophy 315: 18th Century Philosophy
    • Philosophy 390/490: Honors Tutorial - Scepticism
    • Philosophy 414: The Philosophy of Thomas Reid
    • Philosophy 440: Epistemology - Contemporary Issues and Theories - Fall 2005
    • Seminar: Dretske's Theories of Mind and Knowledge
    • Seminar: Social Epistemology
    • Seminar: The Rationality Wars
    • Seminar: Testimony - Fall 2005
    • Cognitive Systems 200 (multi-disciplinary, team-taught course)
    • Cognitive Systems 300 (multi-disciplinary, team-taught course)

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