ContacT
Department
of Philosophy
106
Coates Hall
Louisiana
State University
Baton Rouge LA 70803
Email:
jroland@lsu.edu
Web: www.lsu.edu/faculty/jroland/
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
Louisiana
State University, Assistant
Professor, Fall 2004 to Present
Cornell
University, Visiting Scholar, July
2007
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
in Philosophy, Cornell University (2005)
M.A.
in Philosophy, Cornell University (2000)
B.A.
in Philosophy and Mathematics (Magna Cum Laude),
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1996)
AREAS
OF SPECIALIZATION
Philosophy
and Foundations of Mathematics,
Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science (especially scientific explanation), Logic
AREAS
OF COMPETENCE
Metaphysics,
Philosophy of Language,
Philosophy of Logic, History of Analytic Philosophy
PAPERS PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING
''Maddy
and Mathematics: Naturalism or Not,'' The
British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2007) 58: 423-450
''Kitcher
and the Obsessive Unifier,'' Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research (2008) 77: 493-506
''Kitcher, Mathematics, and Naturalism,'' Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2008) 86: 481-497
''On Naturalizing the Epistemology of Mathematics,'' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2009) 90: 63-97
''A Euthyphronic Problem for Kitcher's Epistemology of Science,'' Southern Journal of Philosophy (2009) 47: 205-223
''Concept Grounding and Knowledge of Set Theory,'' forthcoming in Philosophia
''Nominalism and Causal Theories of Reference,'' forthcoming in Sats-Nordic Journal of Philosophy
PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
''On a Dogma (or Two) of Quinean Naturalism''
''Strong, Therefore Sensitive: Misgivings about a Proposed Marriage between Contextualist and
Anti-Luck Epistemologies'' (research paper, with Jon Cogburn)
PAPERS UNDER REVISION
WORK
IN
PROGRESS
''The
Heterogeneity of Quinean Naturalism'' (research paper)
''A
Framework for Unification Theories of Explanation'' (research paper)
''Remarks
on Governing Maxims of Set Theory''
(research
paper)
Varieties
of Naturalism (edited
volume on philosophical naturalism in
various subfields of philosophy)
INVITED
BOOK REVIEW
Review
of Rationality and
Logic, Robert Hanna. The Review
of Metaphysics (2008) 61: 632-634.
PRESENTATIONS
''Anti-Luck Epistemologies and Necessary Truths'' (with Jon Cogburn), Annual
Meeting of the
Alabama Philosophical Society, 2009 (refereed)
''Concept Grounding and Knowledge of Set Theory--On Jenkins's 'Knowledge of Arithmetic','' Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, 2009 (presented by A. D. Irvine in my absence, refereed)
''Concept Grounding and Knowledge of Set Theory,'' Department of Philosophy, College of William and Mary, Spring 2009
''Does Epistemology Constrain Metaphysics?,'' Philosophy Club Colloquium, College of William and Mary, Spring 2009
''Quine, Colyvan, and Naturalizing the Epistemology of Mathematics,'' Annual Meeting of the Central States Philosophy Association, 2008 (refereed)
''Remarks
on Governing Maxims of Set Theory,'' Annual Meeting of the Association
for
Symbolic Logic, Spring 2008 (refereed)
''Foundations
of Epistemological Naturalism,'' Department of Philosophy and Religious
Studies,
Iowa State University, Spring 2008
''Foundations
of Epistemological Naturalism,'' Department of Philosophy, Texas
A&M
University, Spring 2008
''Quine,
Colyvan, and the Coherence of Naturalizing Mathematics,'' Annual
Meeting of the
Alabama Philosophical Society, 2007 (refereed)
''Kitcher
and the Obsessive Unifier,'' Central Division meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, 2006 (refereed)
''Kitcher
and the Obsessive Unifier,'' Department of Philosophy, Louisiana State
University, Spring 2006
''Quine
on
Maddy on Naturalizing Mathematics,'' Department of Philosophy,
Louisiana State
University, Spring 2004
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE (LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY)
Symbolic
Logic II* (Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Fall 2009)
Non-Classical
Logics* (Spring 2007)
Advanced
Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism* (Fall 2006)
Contemporary
Nominalism* (Fall 2005)
Philosophy
of Mathematics* (Spring 2005)
Introduction to Epistemology (Fall 2004, Spring 2009)
Introduction
to Logic (Fall 2004, Spring/Fall 2005, Spring/Fall 2006, Spring/Fall
2007,
Spring 2008, Spring 2009)
Symbolic
Logic I (Summer 2006, Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Fall 2009)
Proseminar:
Theories of Reference (co-taught with Jon Cogburn, Spring 2005)
*carries
graduate credit
Cornell
teaching record available upon request
AWARDS
Faculty Travel Grant, Louisiana State University, Spring 2009 (declined)
Junior Faculty Travel Grant, Louisiana State University, Fall 2008
Pre-Tenure Teaching Sabbatical, Louisiana State University, Fall 2008
Faculty
Travel Grant, Louisiana State University, Spring 2008
Tiger Athletic Foundation Teaching Award, Louisiana State University, nominated
for
2007 award
Junior
Faculty Travel Grant, Louisiana State University, Fall 2007
Council
on
Research Summer Stipend, Louisiana State University, Summer 2007
Faculty
Travel Grant, Louisiana State University, Spring 2006
Graduate
Student Travel Awards, Association for Symbolic Logic, 1999 and 2000
Sage
School Fellowships, Philosophy, Cornell University, 1996 and 1999
SELECTED
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Article
referee, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy (thrice) and Journal
of Philosophical Research
Textbook manuscript reviewer for Pearson-Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill (twice), and W. W. Norton
UNIVERSITY
SERVICE
Member,
Faculty Senate of the College of Arts and Sciences, Fall 2005 to
present
Member,
Faculty Welfare and Policy Committee (Senate sub-committee), Fall 2005
to
present
SELECTED
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Tech
for
Philosophy website, Spring 2007 to Spring 2008
Member,
Undergraduate Committee, Louisiana State University, Fall 2005 to
present
Member,
Faculty Interviewing Committee, Louisiana State University, December
2005
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
American
Philosophical Association
Association
for Symbolic Logic
Philosophy
of Science Association
REFERENCES
Richard
Boyd, Cornell University (rnb1@cornell.edu)
Harold
Hodes,
Cornell University (hth3@cornell.edu)
Penelope
Maddy,
University of California-Irvine (pjmaddy@uci.edu)
Richard A. Shore, Cornell University (shore@math.cornell.edu)
Mary Sirridge,
Louisiana State University (pisirr@lsu.edu)
Zoltan Gendler Szabo, Yale University (zoltan.szabo@yale.edu)