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Andy Egan
 
   
 

Position

Professorial Fellow

Home Institution

Rutgers

Phone

1749

Office

17.2

Email

Personal webpage

http://www.andyegan.net

Degrees

PhD, Philosophy, MIT

Main Research Topic

Philosophy of Language

Other Research Interests

Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Metaethics

Recent Teaching

• Eating Right: The Ethics of Food Choices and Food Policy, Fall 2012
• Eating Right: The Ethics of Food Choices and Food Policy, Fall 2011
• The Metaphysics of Time Travel, Fall 2011
• Eating Right: The Ethics of Food Choices and Food Policy, Spring 2011
• Graduate Seminar: Metaethics, Spring 2011
• Eating Right: The Ethics of Food Choices and Food Policy, Spring 2010
• Proseminar (with Barry Loewer), Fall 2009
• Theory of Knowledge (introductory epistemology), Fall 2009

Recent Publications

Forthcoming:
“Relativist Dispositional Theories of Value”
• Special issue of Southern Journal of Philosophy on relativism about value, Max Kölbel and Dan Zeman, eds.
“There’s Something Funny about Comedy”
• Special issue of Erkenntnis on disagreements, Teresa Marques and Daniel Cohnitz, eds.

2012:
“Comments on Jonathan Cohen, The Red and the Real”
• Analytic Philosophy symposium on Jonathan Cohen, The Red and the Real
“How We Feel About Terrible, Non-Existent Mafiosi” (with Tyler Doggett)
• Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

2011:
“Comments on Gendler, ‘On the Epistemic Costs of Implicit Bias’”
• Philosophical Studies “Epistemic Modals and Epistemic Modality” (with Brian Weatherson)
• Epistemic Modality, Egan and Weatherson, eds., Oxford University Press.
“Relativism About Epistemic Modals”
• Blackwell Companion to Relativism, Steven Hales, ed., Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 219-241.

2010:
“Projectivism without Error”
• Forthcoming in a volume of papers from the 2008 SPAWN conference on perception, Bence Nanay, ed..

“How We Feel About Terrible, Non-Existent Mafiosi” (with Tyler Doggett)
• Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

“Disputing about Taste”
• Disagreement, R. Feldman and T. Warfield, eds., Oxford University Press.

2009:
“Imagination, Delusion, and Self-Deception”
• Delusions, Self-Deception, and Affective Influences on Belief-formation, T. Bayne and J. Fernandez, eds., Psychology Press.

“Billboards, Bombs and Shotgun Weddings”
• Synthese 166:2, B. Brogaard, ed., pp. 251-279.

2008:
“Pretense for the Complete Idiom”
• Noûs 42:3, pp. 381-409.

“Seeing and Believing: Perception, Belief Formation, and the Divided Mind”
• Philosophical Studies 140:1, pp. 47-63.

Recent Talks

“Three Grades of Self-Involvement: Self Locating Content in Thought and Language”
• University of North Carolina, October 2012

“Why Lewis Wins the Lewis/Perry Fight”
• Arché Workshop on the Philosophy of John Perry, University of St. Andrews, September 2012

“Billboards Revisited”
• Arché Workshop on Billboard, Indexicals, Context and Interpreters, University of St Andrews, September 2012

“Epistemic Modals Again”
• Keynote, PETAF Workshop on Modality, Stockholm, June 2012
• University of Edinburgh, June 2012
• Contextualism and Relativism Conference, Bonn, Germany, June 2011

“There’s Something Funny about Comedy: A Case Study in Faultless Disagreement”
• Northern Institute of Philosophy Relativism Workshop, Aberdeen, June 2012
• CUNY Cognitive Science, April 2011
• Narrative of Aesthetics Conference, University of Kentucky, March 2011

“What are We Doing When We’re Doing Semantics?”
• Arché Philosophical Research Centre, University of St. Andrews, May 2012

“Understanding Self-Locating Thought”
• Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science, October 2011

“Centering, Recentering, Multi-Centering”
• Arché Philosophical Research Centre, University of St. Andrews, July 2011

“Two Euthyphro Questions in Semantics”
• Epistemology of Philosophy Conference, Cologne, Germany, June 2011
• University of Leeds, May 2011
• Arché Propositions Workshop, Ardtornish, Scotland, May 2011

“What Kind of Relativism is Right for You?”
• Conference on Contextualism and Implicit Content, International Cultural Center of Cerisy-La-Salle, France, June 2011

“Relativism and Uptake-Based Semantics”
• Arché Propositions Workshop, Ardtornish, Scotland, May 2011

“Why Ethics is All About Me”
• CSMN Workshop on De Se content, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, March 2011

Nationality

USA