Stefanie Rocknak: Philosophy CV click here to see Sculpture CV

Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy: "The Construction of Relations in Hume and Quine;" directed by Jaakko Hintikka.
Boston University, October, 1998

B.A. in American Studies and Art History with a concentration in Painting
Colby College, May, 1988. Distinction in all majors; Magna cum Laude

Current Position
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

Papers
(Forthcoming, April, 2008) The Vulgar Conception of Objects in 'Of Skepticism with regard to the Senses,'Hume Studies

(Forthcoming, 2008) “Understanding Quine in terms of Aufbauian reductionismBeyond Description: Normativity in Naturalised Philosophy, ed. M. Milkowski and K. Talmont-Kaminski, College Publications, London

(Forthcoming; 2008) “Pam and Jim on the Make; The Epistemology of Self-Deception” The Office and Philosophy, The Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture Series

Reply to Georges Dicker, Proceedings of the 153 Creighton Club Meeting, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, 2007

“Facing Death: The Desperate at its Most Beautiful.” Phenomenological Inquiry, A Review of Philosophical Ideas and Trends, Vol. 29 (2005; pp. 71-101)

“Hume’s Reality: A Lesson in Causality.” Proceedings Metaphysics 2003, Second World Conference, Rome, July 2-5 2003, ed. David G. Murray. Fondazione Idente di Studi e di Ricerca, Vol. 1 (2006; pp. 399-404)

“Husserl’s Phenomenologization of Hume; Reflections on Husserl’s Method of Epoché.” Philosophy Today (SPEP Supplement). Vol. 45, No. 5 (2002; pp. 28-36)

“A Tradition Ignored: A Review Essay of John Symon’s On Dennett.” Brain and Mind: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy. Kluwer Academic Publishers; Vol. 2, No. 3 (2002; pp. 343-358)

Review of John Symon’s On Dennett. Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Spring, 2001

Review of Pierre Kerszberg’s Critique and Totality. Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, New School for Social Research, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2000; pp. 343-347)

“The Synthetic Relation in Hume.” The Dialectic of the Universal and the Particular, ed. by Jonathan Hanen, IWM Junior Fellows Conferences, Vol. 4 (1999; pp. 121 -165)

Translation from German to English: “Robinson in the Heart of Europe; Jan Patocka Twenty Years Later” by Ludger Hagedorn. IWM Bi-Monthly Newsletter, 57 (March-June, 1997)


Interviews (about art)
Sculptural Pursuit. (cover story); Vol. 2 #4; pp. 17-20

International Art Contest, 2004, 1st Prize Interview

International Art Contest, 2001, 1st Prize Interview

Papers in Review
“Constancy and Coherence in 1.4.2 of Hume’s Treatise; The Root of Indirect Causation,”

This is not my Opinion”

“Naturalistic, 'Pre-Theoretical' Belief in Book I of Hume's Treatise”

Publications in Progress
Books:
Imagined Causes: The Origin of Objects in Book I of Hume’s Treatise

Papers:

“Quine” (for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Selected Papers/Responses Given
(
Forthcoming) Reply to Arthur Morton's “Hume's Realism: A Fragmented View,” 35th Hume Society Conference, Iceland, 2008

Reply to Georges Dicker's "Hume on the Intermittent Existence of the Objects of the Senses," The Creighton Club: New York State Philosophical Association , November 3, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

“Hume’s Instrumentalism” Faculty Lecture Series, May 4, 2007, Hartwick College

“Constancy and Coherence in 1.4.2 of Hume’s Treatise; The Root of Indirect Causation,” New Philosophical Perspectives on Hume, Friday, February 16th, 2007, University of San Francisco

“An Explanation of Constancy and Coherence in 1.4.2 of Hume’s Treatise,” NY/NJ Consortium in the History of Modern Philosophy, November 20th, NY, NY

“Understanding Quine in terms of Aufbauian reductionism," Kazimierz Naturalised Epistemology Workshop, September 4, 2006, Kazimierz, Poland

Reply to Eric Schliesser's "Causation, Newton, and the Significance of the Humean Distinction between Natural and Philosophical Relations," Upstate New York Early Modern Workshop, May 7, 2006, Syracuse University

Reply to Giancarlo Zanet's "Pragmatism, the a priori and Analyticity: Peirce, C.I. Lewis and Quine," History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society, APA, Central Meeting, 2006

“An Explanation of Constancy and Coherence in 1.4.2 of Hume’s Treatise,” Upstate New York Early Modern Workshop, December 4, 2005. Syracuse University

"The Vulgar Conception of Objects in "Of Skepticism with regard to the Senses," 32nd Hume Society Conference, Toronto, Canada. July 19-23, 2005

"The Vulgar Conception of Objects in Hume's 'Of Skepticism with regard to the senses,'" Hamilton College, April 2005

Understanding Quine in Terms of the Heavy Hand of Carnap, History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society, APA, Central Meeting, 2005

Reply to Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen's “Significs and Early Analytic Philosophy,” History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society, APA, Central Meeting, 2005

“The Vulgar Quest for Uninterruptedness” The Third International Reid Symposium: Scottish Philosophy, July 2004, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Scotland

“Hume’s Reality: A Lesson in Causality.” Metaphysics 2003: Second World Conference, 2003, Rome, Italy

“Facing Death: The Desperate at its Most Beautiful.” Hartwick College, 2003

“Facing Death: The Desperate at its Most Beautiful.” The 8th Annual Conference of the International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts: Beauty, Truth, Goodness: Aesthetics at the Crossroads. Harvard Divinity School, 2003

“Facing Death: The Desperate at its Most Beautiful.” The 31st Annual Conference on Value Inquiry: “The History of Value Inquiry.” University of North Dakota, 2003

“General Knowledge and the Generalization Problem.” Holy Cross, January, 2002

“Husserl’s Phenomenologization of Hume.” Presented at the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Goucher College, October, 2001

“Quine’s Attack on the Dogma of Reductionism.” Hartwick College, March, 2001

“Quine’s Attack on the Dogma of Reductionism.” Connecticut College, 2000

Reply given to Ward Jone’s “Does Skepticism Follow From Naturalism?” 27th Annual Hume Conference, William and Mary, July, 2000

“Did Hume Believe in Objects?” Connecticut College, 1999

“Did Hume Believe in Objects?” Rochester Institute of Technology, 2000

“Did Hume Believe in Objects?” California State University, Bakersfield, 2000

“The Synthetic Relation in Hume.” IWM, Vienna, Austria, June, 1997


Selected Awards and Distinctions
Hartwick College Faculty Research Grant, 2008

Wandersee Faculty Research Award (30% teaching load reduction for 2006-7 and 5K research/travel stipend),
Hartwick College, 2006

Nominated for Best Faculty Member of the Year Award by Hartwick Student Senate, 2005

Hartwick College Faculty Research Grant, 2005

Nominated to “Who’s Who Among American Teachers,” 2002

RF. Johnson Travel Grant, Connecticut College, 1999-2001

DAAD Research Fellowship: University of Osnabrück, Germany; October 1998 - July 1999. Project: A close examination of Heidegger’s thought, providing the basis for an interpretation of the productive imagination in Kant’s First Critique. Directed by Heribert Boeder

Research Fellowship: Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria; January - June 1997

Machette Prize, 1996. Awarded for best Boston University graduate paper in philosophy: "A Road Map of the Distinction between Mathematics and Philosophy in Kant’s First Critique"

Machette Prize, 1995. Awarded for best Boston University graduate paper in philosophy: "Hume’s Method in Book I of the Treatise; a Preview to Quine"

Phi Beta Kappa, Colby College, 1988


Academic Service
Chair of Session, Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN), "Reason Explanation in Folk Psychology" by Joshua Knobe, reply by G.F. Schueler, 2007

Chair of Session, 34th Hume Society Meeting, "Hume and the Limits of Associationism" by Mark Collier, reply by Karann Durland, 2007

Chair of Session, Bertrand Russell Society, APA, Central Meeting, 2006

Chair of Session, History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society, APA, Eastern Meeting, 2005

Chair of Session: "Infallibility of Reflective Beliefs About the Contents of One's Own Sensory Experiences.” by Tomoji Shogenji, Commentator: Gerald Vision. APA, Central Meeting, 2005

Chair of Session; “Thomas Reid's Non Naïve Direct Realism.” APA, Pacific Meeting, 2002

Chair of Session: “Taking Liberty with Humean Necessity.” APA, Pacific Meeting, 2001


Committees and Memberships
Director, Cognitive Science Program, Hartwick College: 2008-present

Co-Director, Cognitive Science Program, Hartwick College: 2005-2008

Associated Faculty Member: Women’s Studies Program; Hartwick College: 2001-present

Associated Faculty Member: Cognitive Science Program; Hartwick College, 2002-present

Academic Tenure and Promotion Committee; Spring term only, 2007

Women’s Studies Program: Programming Committee, Hartwick College: 2001-present

Vision Committee (Hartwick's Future), Hartwick College: 2004-2005

Planning Committee, Hartwick College: 2001-2002

Gender Issues Committee, Hartwick College: 2002-present; Chair, 2003-present

Interview Committee, Hartwick College: 2002-present

Faculty Advisor, Phi Sigma Tau, Hartwick College: 2002-present

Philosophy Club Advisor, Hartwick College: 2001-present

Member, Hartwick College Honor Society (Faculty)

Associated Faculty Member: Gender and Women’s Studies Department; Connecticut College: 1999-2001

Member, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 2001-2002

Member, European Society for Analytic Philosophy, 2002-present

Member, American Philosophical Association, 1995-present

Member, Hume Society, 1998-2000

Member, The History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society, 2003-present

Vice President, The History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society, 2003-present

Arranged for the following speakers to come to Hartwick:

Haideh Moghissi (York University) 2002
Matt Ostrow (Skidmore College) 2003
Marina McCoy (Boston College) 2003
Daniel Dennett (Tufts University) 2004
John Symons (University of Texas at El Paso) 2004
Rosalind Carey (Lehman College, CUNY) 2005
Charles Griswold (Boston University) 2006
Michael Bishop (Florida State University); forthcoming, 2008

Organizer, 2003-4 Phi Sigma Tau and Philosophy Club/Department Lecture Series: “Mortality, Consciousness and Knowledge: Diverse Perspectives”, Hartwick College

Organizer, 2004-5 Phi Sigma Tau and Philosophy Club/Department Lecture Series: “Minds, Brains and Knowledge”, Hartwick College

Co-Organizer, 2005 Phi Sigma Tau and Pi Sigma Alpha 1st Annual Student Mini-Conference, Hartwick College

Referee, Synthese

Referee, Blackwell Publishers

Referee, Longman Books


Teaching Experience
Hartwick College (Assistant Professor)

Seminar: Philosophy of Art
Symbolic Logic
Classics of Philosophy (Plato's Republic)
Seminar: Modern Philosophy
Seminar: The Philosophy of Death
Introduction to Women’s Studies: 2003
Seminar: Epistemology: January Term 2003
Seminar: Body and Gender: 2002
Reading Philosophy (2 sections):2002
Seminar: Relativism: A Socratic Approach (Plato's Theaetetus): January Term 2002, 2005, 2006
Seminar: Philosophy Of Mind: 2002, 2006

Connecticut College (Visiting Assistant Professor

Seminar: Kant’s 1st Critique: 2002
Seminar: The Imagination: 2002
Symbolic Logic: 2002
Epistemology: 2001
Intro. to Philosophy (6 sections): 1999-2001
Modern Skepticism: 1999

UC San Diego Extension (Instructor)

Environmental Ethics: 1997

Boston University (Instructor)

Philosophical Inquiry: 1996 Summer
Environmental Ethics: 1996 Summer

Boston University (Teaching Assistant)

Political Philosophy: 1995
Logic: 1994
Great Philosophers: 1994
Logic: 1993

Japanese Government (Teaching Assistant)

English Language: 1988


Languages
German

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