Shieva Kleinschmidt

Curriculum Vitae

 

Department of Philosophy, New York University

Phone:  (646) 701-2047

5 Washington Place

Email:  shievak at hotmail dot com

New York, NY 10003

Website:  http://homepages.nyu.edu/~sjk362/index.htm

 

Areas of Interest:

Metaphysics, Linguistics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Religion, Moral Psychology, Ancient Philosophy

 

Education:

2007 - Present:  New York University

2005 - 2007:  Rutgers University

2002 - 2005:  Western Washington University, BA in Philosophy

2001 - 2002:  University of Alaska Southeast, Ketchikan

 

Publications:

2007: “Some Things About Stuff”,Philosophical Studies Vol. 135 No. 3, pp. 407-423

Forthcoming: Mereology and Location, edited volume, Oxford University Press

 

Papers Presented:

“At It Again:  Time Travel and Motion”

        Western Washington University, May 2009

        Rutgers University, March 2007

        The Central Division Meeting of the APA, April 2007

“Many-One Identity and the Trinity”

        The Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, April 2007  

        The Midwest Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, April 2006

“Multilocation and Gunk”

        The Western Washington University Mereology Workshop, January 2006

“Three Puzzles for Desire Fulfilment”

        To the Undergraduate Philosophy Club at Rutgers University, November 2005

“Conditional Desires”:

        The Pacific Division Meeting of the APA, March 2006

        Rutgers University, March 2006

        The 57th Northwest Philosophy Conference, October 2005

        The 7th Rocky Mountain Student Conference, March 2005

        Western Washington University, March 2005 and July 2005

“Some Things About Stuff”:

        The 2nd Arché Graduate Conference, February 2005

        The 101st Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, December 2004

        Western Washington University, November 2004

        The 56th Northwest Philosophy Conference, October 2004

        The 8th Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, April 2004

 

Comments Presented:

Comments on Derek Jones' “Digging for Gold:  A Defense of Scientific Essentialism” at the 3rd Northwest Student Philosophy Conference, May 2005

Comments on Neal Tognazzini's “Planning Around Perfect Knowledge: A Dilemma,” at the 1st Northwest Student Philosophy Conference, May 2003

 

Presentations for the General Public:

“An Introduction to Hyperspace":

        Nerd Nite NYC, August 2007

  

Teaching

History of Ancient Philosophy: New York University, Summer 2009

Introduction to Philosophy Through Film: Rutgers University, Winter 2006

 

TAing

History of Modern Philosophy: New York Universit, Spring 2010 (Instructor: Elliot Paul)

Ethics: New York University, Fall 2009 (Instructor: David Velleman)

Intermediate Logic: Western Washington University, Fall 2004 (Instructor: Thomas Downing)

 

Affiliations

Philosophy of Time Society:  2005-Present

Society of Christian Philosophers:  2005-Present

American Philosophical Association:  2003-Present

 

Departmental and Professional Service

Conferences I've Organised:

        Philosophy of Mathematics Conference at New York University, Spring 2009  

        Student Philosophy of Religion Conference at Rutgers University, January 2007   

        Mereology, Topology and Location Conference at Rutgers University, October 2006

        The 3rd Northwest Student Philosophy Conference at Western Washington University, May 2005

        The 2nd Northwest Student Philosophy Conference at Western Washington University, May 2004

Conferences I've Assisted In Organising:

        The NYU History of Modern Philosophy Conference on Modality, November 2010

        The 7th Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2006

        Metaphysical Mayhem at Rutgers University,  June 2006

        The 6th Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2005

        The 5th Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2004

        The 4th Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August2003

Metaphysics teacher in the NYU High-School Outreach program, Fall 2009

Member of the NYU Colloquium Committee (08-09) and NYU Fun Committee

Organiser of an online discussion board for the WWU Philosophy Department, 2003-2005

 

Awards/Honours:

Outstanding Graduate in Philosophy, Western Washington University:  June 2005

Departmental Fellowship, Western Washington University:  2004-2005.

Departmental Fellowship, Western Washington University:  2003-2004.

 

Graduate Courses I've Taken

Metaphysics:

 

Logic / Linguistics:

 

Metaphysics (John Hawthorne)

 

Semantics 1 (Roger Schwarzschild, Rutgers Linguistics)

 
Metaphysics of Material Objects (Kit Fine) Semantics 2 (Maria Bittner, Rutgers Linguistics)

 

Formal Ontology (Achille Varzi)

Non-Classical Logics (Achille Varzi)

 

The Philosophy of Spacetime (David Albert)

Other:
 Independent Study – Metaphysics (Kit Fine)

Epistemology (Jim Pryor)
 
Ethics:
  
 		Decision Theory (Frank Arntzenius)
 
Advanced Topics in Ethics (Derek Parfit)
 		 Pro-Seminar - NYU Semester 2 (Don Garrett, John Richardson)
Kantian Ethics (Patricia Kitcher)
 		 Pro-Seminar - NYU Semester 1 (Kit Fine, Jim Pryor)
 
Independent Study - Moral Psychology (Thomas Nagel)
 		 Pro-Seminar - Rutgers (Colin McGinn and Stephen Neale)
 

 

Undergraduate Philosophy Courses Taken:

102 – Introduction to Logic (Ned Markosian)

112 – Introduction to Moral Issues (Ben Bradley)

113 – Introduction to Philosophy of Religion (Hud Hudson)

114 – Introduction to Knowledge and Reality (Hud Hudson)

202 – Intermediate Logic (Thomas Downing)

310 – Theory of Knowledge 1 (Thomas Downing)

320 – Ethical Theory 1 (Frances Howard-Snyder)

330 – Metaphysics 1 (Ned Markosian)

335 – Philosophy of Religion (Dan Howard-Snyder)

355 – Aesthetics (Frances Howard-Snyder)

360 – Society, Law and Morality (Phil Montague)

364 – History of Philosophy: the Ancients (Robert Epperson)

366 – History of Philosophy: the Rationalists (Ned Markosian)

367 – History of Philosophy: the Empiricists (Hud Hudson)

368 – History of Philosophy: Kant (Hud Hudson)

369 – Contemporary Philosophy: Analytic Tradition (Ben Bradley)

400 – Ethics:  Nagel’s The Possibility of Altruism (Frances Howard-Snyder)

400 – Metalogic (Thomas Downing)

400 – Topics in the Philosophy of Language (Thomas Downing)

400 – Philosophical Theology:  Metaphysics of the Trinity (Dan Howard-Snyder)

400 – The Metaphysics of Hyperspace (Hud Hudson)

400 – The Metaphysics of Things and Stuff (Ned Markosian)

403 – Philosophy of Language (Thomas Downing)

410 – Theory of Knowledge 2 (Dan Howard-Snyder)

417 – Seminar on Paradoxes (Hud Hudson)

420 – Ethical Theory 2 (Phil Montague)

425 – Philosophy of Mind (Dan Howard-Snyder)

430 – Metaphysics 2 (Robert Epperson)

580 – Seminar on Parfit's Reasons and Persons (at UCB)

 

    Note: The six Philosophy 400 courses are independent studies.

 

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