ContacT
Department
of
Philosophy
102
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
''Strong, Therefore Sensitive: Misgivings about DeRose's Contextualism'' (with Jon Cogburn), forthcoming in Grazer
Philosophische Studien
''Anti-Luck Epistemologies and Necessary Truths'' (with Jon Cogburn), Philosophia (2011) 39: 547-561.
''Concept Grounding and Knowledge of Set Theory,'' Philosophia (2010) 38: 179-193
''Nominalism and Causal Theories of Reference,'' Sats-Nordic Journal of Philosophy (2010) 10: 51-68
''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
''Kitcher, Mathematics, and Naturalism,'' Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2008) 86: 481-497
''Maddy and Mathematics: Naturalism or Not,'' The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2007) 58: 423-450
PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
''Safety and the True-True Objection'' (with Jon Cogburn)
PAPERS UNDER REVISION
''On a Dogma (or Two) of HPC Naturalism''
''MAXIMIZE and the Axiom of Choice''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)
The Philosophy of Richard Boyd* (Fall 2011)
Symbolic
Logic
II* (Spring
2006,
Spring
2008,
Fall 2009)
Non-Classical
Logics*
(Spring 2007, Spring 2010)
Advanced
Epistemology:
Internalism and Externalism* (Fall 2006)
Contemporary
Nominalism*
(Fall 2005)
Philosophy
of
Mathematics* (Spring 2005)
Introduction to Epistemology (Fall 2004, Spring 2009, Spring 2011)
Knowledge
and Reality (Fall 2010)
Symbolic
Logic
I (Summer 2006, Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Spring
2010,
Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011)
Introduction
to
Logic (Fall 2004, Spring/Fall 2005, Spring/Fall 2006,
Spring/Fall
2007,
Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring/Fall 2011)
Proseminar:
Theories
of Reference (co-taught with Jon Cogburn, Spring 2005)
*carries
graduate
credit
Cornell
teaching
record available upon request
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
Assistant Professor Summer Research Grant, Louisiana State University, Summer 2011
IES/NCER Grant, U.S. Department of Education, Spring 2010: Co-PI on proposal to fund development and testing of new curriculum for middle/high school Algebra 1 courses (project title: Structural Understanding of Algebra)
Robert
Udick
Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, College
of Arts and Sciences, Louisiana
State
University, received 2010 (This award is given to one
non-tenured faculty member of the College each year.)
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
Selmer Birkelo Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 1995
Ella Thorpe Scholarship, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 1995
Woodbridge Scholarship, Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1995
Waller Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 1993 and 1994
SELECTED
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Article
referee,
Australasian
Journal of Philosophy (thrice),
Philosophia, 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
Spring
2008
Member,
Faculty
Welfare and Policy Committee (Senate sub-committee), Fall
2005
to Spring 2008
SELECTED DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Director
of Undergraduate Studies, Louisiana
State University,
Director
of Undergraduate Recruitment, Louisiana
State University,
Fall 2010 to Fall 2011
Tech
for
Philosophy
website, Spring 2007 to Spring 2008 and Spring 2010 to
present
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)
Hilary
Kornblith, University
of Massachussetts (kornblith@philos.umass.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)
Jessica Wilson, University of Toronto (jessica.m.wilson@utoronto.ca)