MICHAEL J RAVEN
University of Victoria P.O. BOX 1700 STN CSC | Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 | CANADA
[email protected] • mikeraven.net USA citizen AUSTRIA citizen CANADA permanent resident DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY |
RESEARCH INTERESTS metaphysics
• ground;
fundamentality; essence; social items; artifacts; time; change
language/mind
• representation;
epistemology
• explanation; epistemic
de re thought; mental states; aesthetic judgment relativism
ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Victoria University of Washington New York University
• Associate
Professor (tenure) • Assistant Professor
2013— 2009-2013
• Affiliate
Associate Professor • Visiting Scholar
2018— 2016-2017, 2012-2013
• Instructor
2008-2009
EDUCATION PHD philosophy, New York University • “Ontology, from a fundamentalist point of view”
2009
Advisers: Kit Fine (chair), Ted Sider, Crispin Wright
MA philosophy, New York University • “Madmen, martians, and mixed theories”
2007
Adviser: Ned Block
BA philosophy, Reed College • “A study on vagueness”
2002
Adviser: Mark Hinchliff
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 2018-2022
Insight Grant, Social Science & Humanities Research Council • $152,589 [co-applicants: Kathrin Koslicki (principal investigator), Margaret Cameron]
2018
Connection Grant, Social Science & Humanities Research Council • $15,965
2016, 2010-2014
Internal Research Grants, University of Victoria • $23,195 [multiple awards]
2014
Conference Grant, Canadian Journal of Philosophy • $2000 [declined]
2011-2016
Scholarly Travel Grants, University of Victoria • $7800 [multiple awards] Learning & Teaching Development Grant, University of Victoria • $7500
2010
Standard Research Grant, Social Science & Humanities Research Council
2011
• $52,039
[principal investigator: James Young]
Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University • tuition/stipend
2003-2008
Dean’s Supplementary Fellowship, New York University • $1000
2003
Humanistic Studies Fellowship, Mellon Foundation • $17,500
2003
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HONORS & AWARDS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (New York University)
2009
Graduate Forum Fellow (New York University)
2007-2008
Phi Beta Kappa Society
2002
Edwin N. Garlan Memorial Prize in Philosophy (Reed College)
2002
Commendation for Academic Excellence (Reed College)
1998-2002
Chase Youth Award for Entrepreneurship Xerox Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences Spokane Scholars Award: 1st Excellence in Social Sciences
1998
Phi Delta Kappa Grant for Prospective Educators Elks National Foundation “Most Valuable Student” Award
1998
Washington State Honors Award Washington State Principal’s Scholars Award National Merit Scholarship Finalist
1998
1998 1998
1998
1998 1998
SCHOLARLY IMPACT • philpeople.org: 77th pctl publication volume; 93rd pctl citations [top 1% in past 5 years] • Google Scholar: citations = 374, h-index = 8, i10-index = 7 • Erdös number = 3
(P. Erdös→C. Pomerance→R. Crandall→M. Raven)
EDITED BOOK 30• The
Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Ground, New York: Routledge.
forthcoming
ARTICLES 29• “Explaining Essences”, 28•
Philosophical Studies.
forthcoming
“Hylomorphism without Forms? A Critical Notice of Simon Evnine’s Making Objects and Events”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
forthcoming
27• “(Re)discovering Ground”, Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945
2019
“New Work for a Theory of Ground”, Inquiry 60 (6): 625-655.
2017
to 2015. Eds. K. Becker & I. D. Thomson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26•
25• “Against the Semantic Orientation towards Aesthetic Judgements”, Semantics
2017
of Aesthetic Judgement. Ed. J. Young. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 24•
“Fundamentality without Foundations”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 93 (3): 607-626.
23• “Ground”, Philosophy
2015
Compass 10 (5): 322-333.
22• “Is
Ground a Strict Partial Order?”, American Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2): 191-199.
21• “Subjectivism 20• “Is 19• “In
is Pointless”, Logos & Episteme 4 (1): 733-748.
Lewis’s Mixed Theory Mixed Up?”, Theoria 79 (1): 57-75. Defence of Ground”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (4): 687-701.
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2013
2013 2013 2012
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Aristotelian Future”, Philosophia 39 (4): 751-757.
2011
Time Pass at the Rate of 1 Second per Second?”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (3): 459-465.
2011
18• “Attesting the 17• “Can
16• “There
2011
is a Problem of Change”, Philosophical Studies 155 (1): 23-35.
15• “Cryptographic
Hash Functions Based on Artificial Life” (with Mark A. Bedau & Richard Crandall). PSIPRESS.
2010
14• “Problems
for Testimonial Acquaintance”, NOÛS 42 (4): 727-745.
2008
General Framework for Evolutionary Activity Statistics” (with Mark A. Bedau). Advances in Artificial Life – ECAL 2003. Eds. W. Banzhaf, et al. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
2003
12•
“Collective Intelligence of the Artificial Life Community on its Own Successes, Failures, and the Future” (with Steen Rasmussen, Gordon N. Keating & Mark A. Bedau). Artificial Life 9: 207-235.
2003
11•
“Visualizing Adaptive Evolutionary Activity of Allele Types and of Phenotypic Equivalence Classes of Alleles” (Mark A. Bedau). ALife VIII Workshops. Eds. E. Bilotta, et al. Univ. of New South Wales.
2002
13• “A
REVIEWS Sattig, The Double Lives of Objects, Philosophical Review 127 (1): 140-144.
2018
Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality. Eds. F.
2013
10• Thomas
9• Metaphysical
Correia & B. Schnieder. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 8•
Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Eds. D.
2010
Chalmers, D. Manley & R. Wasserman. Philosophy in Review 30 (3). OTHER (ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, LAB REPORTS) 7• “Kit 6•
5• 4• 3•
Fine”, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
forthcoming
“Metaphysical Grounding”, Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, ed. D. Pritchard. New York: Oxford University Press. “Ontology” “Substance”
American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia. Eds. J. Lachs & R. Talisse. New York: Routledge.
2007
“Consensus-building Tools for Post-wildfire Geographical Information System (GIS) Design” (Gordon N. Keating & Steen Rasmussen). LANL License No. LA-13894-MS.
2002
2• “Use
1•
2019
of Web-based Consensus Building and Conflict Clarification Process for the Navajo Nation Governmental Efficiency Evaluation” (with Gordon N. Keating, Steen Rasmussen, E. Tso, J. Cocq & P. Dotson). Appendix to ETD Environmental Consulting, Report of the Navajo Nation Council Evaluation, LANL Report LA-UR-01-6207.
2001
“Web-based Consensus Building and Conflict Clarification Tool for EES Division’s Strategic Planning Process” (Gordon N. Keating & Steen Rasmussen). LANL License No. LA-UR-02-3830.
2001
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PRESENTATIONS 30• comments: Justin
Clarke-Doane’s Mathematics and Morality
Canadian Philosophical Association Conference
JUN 2019
29• “A
Puzzle for Social Essences” AUG 2018 Social Ontology 2018 28• “A Problem for Immanent Universals in States of Affairs” AUG 2018 Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)Possible VI 27• comments: Moritz Baron’s “Can Williamson’s Counterfactual-based Epistemology of Modality Explain our Knowledge of Mathematical Necessity?” AUG 2018 Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)Possible VI 26• comments: Martin Glazier’s “The Standpoint Challenge to the PSR” APR 2018 Principle of Sufficient Reason: Then and Now (Simon Fraser University) 25• “Hylomorphism without Forms? On Simon Evnine’s Making Objects and Events” JAN 2018 Eastern Division APA Conference (author meets critic symposium) 24• comments: Justin Zylstra’s “Essence and Grounding Connections” OCT 2017 Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference 23• comments: Bob Beddor’s & Simon Goldstein’s “Believing Epistemic Contradictions” MAY 2017 Formal Epistemology Workshop 22• comments: Dana Goswick’s “Hylomorphism Without Primitive Modality” MAY 2017 Hylomorphism: Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative 1st Annual Conference 21• comments: Jessica Wilson’s “Grounding-based Formulations of Physicalism” JAN 2017 21st Sociedad Filosófica Ibero Americana (SOFIA) Conference 20• “Deriving Ought from Is” OCT 2016 University of Washington PhilLunch Series
19• “Challenges
of Teaching Metaphysics”
Situating Core Analytic Philosophy within the Liberal Arts Curriculum Workshop
AUG 2016
18• comments: Nina
Emery’s “Against Radical Quantum Ontologies” AUG 2016 Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference 17• comments: David Mark Kovacs’s “Priority Monism and the Notion of Dependence” MAR 2016 Central Division APA Conference 16• “Taking to be
as Making to be” JUN 2015
LOGOS, University of Barcelona Artifacts and Metaphysical Explanation 15• “Expressing the
MAY 2015
Truth, Describing the World”
Truth and Grounds Conference (eidos – Centre of Metaphysics) Simon Fraser University University of Alberta 14• “Fundamentality without
FEB 2015 SEP 2014
Foundations”
Institut Jean Nicod Northwest Philosophy Conference Reed College eidos Workshop in Metaphysics and Mathematics Australian National University University of Melbourne University of Sydney Raven - curriculum vitae
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13• comments: Tom
Donaldson’s “The Grounding of Arithmetic” APR 2015 Pacific Division APA Conference 12• comments: Sean Crawford’s “Propositions and the Multiple Relation Theory of Belief: Wittgenstein and Russell Reconciled” OCT 2014 Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference 11• “Vindicating
Testimonial Acquaintance” JUN 2013
Annual Congress CPA Pacific Division APA Conference Northwest Philosophy Conference 10• “Is
APR 2013 NOV 2011
Ground a Strict Partial Order?” Pacific Division APA Conference
9• “Aesthetic
MAR 2013
Relativisms and Realities” APR 2012
Aesthetic Judgment Workshop 8• “Reintroducing Fundamental and Derivative”
MAR 2012
University of St. Andrews University of Edinburgh
MAR 2012
7• “Science
Cannot Disprove (or Prove) Free Will” Philosophy vs. Psychology Debate (University of Victoria) 6• comments: Kenneth Vernon’s “The Normativity of Truth” Northwest Philosophy Conference
5• “Avoiding Incoherence
FEB 2012
NOV 2011
in Ontology” JUN 2011
Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy Beijing Normal University
APR 2011
4• comments: Michael
Hick’s “Know-who and Testimony Mediated Acquaintance” APR 2011 Pacific Division APA Conference
3• “There
is a Problem of Change”
Western Canadian Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (keynote address) 2• “Ontology, from
a Fundamentalist Point of View” OCT 2009
Vancouver Island University University of Victoria New York University Graduate Forum 1• “Is
MAR 2010
JAN 2009 NOV 2008
Quantifier Variance Metaphysically Relevant?” Rhodes College Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference UC Davis Graduate Conference
FEB 2009 NOV 2008 SEP
2008
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GRADUATE COURSES
External Examiner
2017 James Norton (Sydney) 2016 Justin Zylstra (Alberta) 2013—2014 Supervisor Carolyn Garland 2013—2014 Andrew Park Non-supervising 2011-2013 Adrienne Canning Committee Member 2011-2013 Soroush Moghaddam Naïve Metaphysics; Modality & Essence; Metaphysical Explanation; Reference & Existence; Metametaphysics; Directed Study: Metaphysics; Meaning; Masters Pro-seminar; Time, Tense, Change & Persistence
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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
TEACHING ASSISTANCE
Introduction to Philosophy; Metaphysics, History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language; Logic; Philosophy of Language; Belief, Truth & Knowledge; Philosophy of Mind; History of Ancient Philosophy Central Problems of Philosophy [J. Pryor], History of Modern Philosophy [W. Waxman], Ethics [E. Harman], Metaphysics [P. Unger]
SERVICE ADMIN
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Metaphysics (journal)
2016—
Co-Section Editor (“Essence”), philpapers.org
2019—
Graduate Coordinator, University of Victoria
2018— 2011—2016
Committee on Committees, University of Victoria
2015—2016
Colloquium Committee, University of Victoria
2013—2016
Graduate Adviser, University of Victoria Curriculum Committee, University of Victoria
2010-2012
Admissions Committee, University of Victoria
2009-2011
Hiring Committee, University of Victoria EVENTS
SOCIETIES OUTREACH CONSULTING REFEREE
2014
2018, 2017, 2015, 2010
Co-organizer, Language and Essence (2nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative) Program Committee, Pacific Division APA
2015—2018
Metaphysics Coordinator, Canadian Philosophical Association
2012-2013
Co-organizer, Columbia/NYU Graduate Philosophy Conference
2003-2004
2018
Session Chair, Pacific Division APA (2019); Vancouver Summer Philosophy (2017); Inland Northwest Philosophy (2014); Eastern Division APA (2013); Bellingham Summer Philosophy (2010) Founding Member Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative Regular Member American Philosophical Association Contributor Wi-Phi: Open Access Philosophy Masters Capital Management, L.L.C. 2006-2007 Grants Israel Science Foundation; Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Books Emond Montgomery; Oxford University Press 4; Routledge 2; Wiley-Blackwell Journals Acta Analytica 2; American Philosophical Quarterly 2; Analysis 4; Australasian Journal of Philosophy 6; Canadian Journal of Philosophy 6; dialectica; Ergo; Erkenntnis 9; Frontiers of Philosophy in China; Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4; Journal of Philosophical Research 2; The Journal of Philosophy, Inquiry 2; Mind 9; NOÛS; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 2; Philosopher’s Imprint 4; Philosophical Papers; Philosophical Quarterly 6; Philosophical Studies 10; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 3; Ratio 2; Synthese 6 Conferences Canadian Philosophical Association 2; Conferences of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative 2; Vancouver Summer Philosophy Conference 2
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REFERENCES Kit Fine
New York University Kathrin Koslicki
University of Alberta Jonathan Schaffer
Rutgers University Theodore Sider
Rutgers University Margaret Cameron
University of Victoria
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