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Andrew L. Smith Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information Department of Philosophy 105 Gregory Hall, MC-468 810 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801
alsmit10 at illinois dot edu www dot asmith dot be
Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D, Philosophy, in progress, August 2014 to present Texas Tech University M.A., Philosophy, May 2014 Thesis: "Leibniz on Personal Identity and Desire" Committee: Francesca di Poppa (chair), Jeremy Schwartz Texas Tech University Certificate in Ethics, May 2014 SUNY Geneseo B.A. summa cum laude, Philosophy, May 2011 Thesis: "Heidegger on Technology" Advisor: Walter Soffer Areas of Interest Ethics, Kant (esp. practical philosophy) Teaching Experience University of Illinois: As teaching assistant: Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2017) Intermediate Logic (Spring 2017) Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2016) Logic and Reasoning (Spring 2016) Biomedical Ethics (Fall 2015) Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2015) As grader: Logic and Reasoning (Half semester course, Spring 2016) Texas Tech University: As independent instructor: Logic (x6, Fall 2012 - Spring 2014) As teaching assistant: Logic (Summer 2012) Beginning Philosophy (Spring 2012) Beginning Philosophy (Fall 2011)
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Awards and Honors On "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students," Fall 2016, Spring 2017 Department Fellowship, Fall 2014 Edward W. Averill Scholarship, May 2012 SUNY Geneseo Philosophy Department Graduation Honors, May 2011 Phi Beta Kappa (NY-AΔ), May 2011 Presentations Conference Talks: "Why Must There Be an Ideal of Beauty?" TTU Philosophy Grad Student Conference, April 2017 "Kant on Despising Oneself in the 2nd Critique" TTU Philosophy Grad Student Conference, April 2012 Department Talks: "Thinking about Tables," UIUC, September 2017 "Why Must There Be an Ideal of Beauty?" UIUC, March 2017 "Strawson on Panpsychism," UIUC, September 2015 "Understanding the Refutation of Idealism," UIUC, June 2015 "Heidegger on Technology," SUNY Geneseo, April 2011 Paper Comments: Sungwoo Um, "What is a Relational Virtue?" UIUC Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 2017 Andrew Flynn, "On Correctly Understanding Anscombe’s Theory of Reasons for Action," UIUC Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 2016 Tymm Schmitke, "A Criticism of Dretske’s Representational Theory of Consciousness," TTU Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, April 2013 Service and Other Activities UIUC Graduate Philosophy Organization (GPO) President, 2017-2018 UIUC Graduate Philosophy Conference Organizing Committee member and paper referee, 2015 - 2018 Illinois Lyceum instructor (1 session on virtue ethics and loyalty), June 2015 UIUC GPO Secretary, 2015 - 2016 UIUC Graduate Student Representative, 2014 - 2017 Paper Referee, TTU Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, 2012 & 2013 Texas Tech "Philosophy Cafe" discussion group facilitator (x4), 2012 - 2014 Undergraduate Student Representative, SUNY Geneseo, 2010 - 2011 Coursework UIUC (* indicates audit): Kant on Sexuality and Gender* (Helga Vardon) Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason* (Alexandra Newton) Logic for Philosophy* (David Gilbert) Kant’s Ethical Philosophy (David Sussman) Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment (Alexandra Newton) Advanced Symbolic Logic (David Gilbert) Freedom, Determinism, and Agency in Early Modern Philosophy (Shelley Weinberg) Modest Objectivity in the Moral Philosophy of the 18th & 20th Centuries (Nir Ben-Moshe) Political Obligations & Legitimacy in Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, & Kant (Helga Varden) Kant’s Second Critique (Jochen Bojanowski) Philosophy of Action and Practical Reason (David Sussman) Value Theory (Justin Clark) Hegel and Kant (Alexandra Newton)
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Philosophy of Religion (Robert McKim) Formal Semantics I (Peter Lasersohn) Epistemology (Daniel Korman) Self-Consciousness (Alexandra Newton) Texas Tech: Attitudes and Their Objects (Alex Grzankowski) Interpretation in Law and Aesthetics (Daniel Nathan) Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Jeremy Schwartz) Independent Study: Stephen Engstrom’s The Form of Practical Knowledge (Jeremy Schwartz) Independent Study: Theories of Causation in Spinoza and Maimonides (Francesca di Poppa) Plato’s Republic and Homer’s Odyssey (Howard Curzer) Contextualism in the Philosophy of Language (Christoper Hom) Early Modern Philosophy (Francesca di Poppa) Philosophy of Religion (Mark Webb) Utilitarianism (Jeremy Schwartz) Consciousness (Jonathan Dorsey) Panpsychism (Jonathan Dorsey) Contemporary Virtue Ethics (Howard Curzer) Physicalism (Jonathan Dorsey) Advanced Logic (Dustin Tucker) Kant’s Practical Philosophy (Jeremy Schwartz) Seminar on Teaching Philosophy (Francesca di Poppa) Concept Learning and Acquisition (Jacob Beck) Languages English (native), German (intermediate reading)
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