Curriculum Vitae

T. Bradley Richards
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AOS: Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Science (especially Cognitive Science, Psychology,
Biology)
AOC: Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics (especially Film and Representation), Applied Ethics
Citizenship: Canadian, U.S. spousal Green Card application in progress
*Currently teaching in the U.S. with a TN Visa

Education
PhD University of Guelph, June 2012
Visiting Student Australian National University, RSSS/Centre for Consciousness Studies
2007 and 2008
MA History and Philosophy of Science, IHPST, University of Toronto, November 2005
MA Philosophy, University of Toronto November 2004
BA Honours, Philosophy, University of Toronto, June 2003
Languages
English (first language), French (good reading and speaking knowledge), German (basic
reading knowledge), Mandarin (one university level course)
Individual Studies and Tutelage
2010 with Ned Block, ASSC 14 mentorship program
2008/09 with Frank Jackson, as a visitor to Princeton
2005 with Brain Baigrie, Representation in Science
2004 with William Seager, Perception
2004 with Robert Tully, Philosophical Logic
2003 with Ronald DeSousa, Naturalistic Theories of Mind
2002 with Ian Hacking, Rationality

Scholarships and Awards

University of Guelph Travel Scholarship, 2008
University of Guelph Scholarships/Full Graduate Funding, 200509
University of Toronto Full Graduate Funding, 200405
SSHRC CGS Masters, 200304
University of Toronto Full Graduate Funding, 200304
Regents Scholar Award, 2001 and 2002 (academic excellence)
Friends of Victoria University Library Award, 2001 (academic excellence)
Hoeniger Book Collection Prize, 2002 (for a unique book collection and essay)
Deans List Scholar, 20002002
Canada Millennium Scholarship 20002002
UTAPS (University of Toronto Bursary)
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Published Work
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Attention and Seeing Objects: The Identity-Crowding Debate. Forthcoming
in Philosophical Psychology.
2015 Advancing the Overflow Debate. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 22(7-8),
124144.
2015 Cognitive Phenomenology and Indirect Sense.Metaphysica. 16(1),
3752
2015 Sexual Desire and the Phenomenology of Attraction. Dialogue: Canadian
Philosophical Review/Revue Canadienne de Philosophie, 54(02), 263283.
2014 Horgan and Tienson on Phenomenology and Intentionality.
Philosophical Studies, 167(2), 313-326. (with Andrew Bailey)
2013 Identity-Crowding and Object-Seeing: A Reply to Block. Thought, 1(4), 919.
2013 Ned Block's reply to the above article: Seeing and Windows
of Integration. Thought 1 (4):29-39.
Articles in Edited Volumes
2012 Living in the Dreamworld: On the Existence of an Objective Dreamworld in Neil
Gaiman's The Sandman. In Neil Gaiman and Philosophy. Open Court: Chicago.
Other Written Contributions
2013 Category Summary, Attention and Consciousness in Psychology, PhilPapers
Category Summary, Change/Inattentional Blindness, PhilPapers

Work Currently Under Review

The Metamere Strategy under review
Against Unconscious Attention (but for Unconscious Selection) under review
Cognitive Penetrability, Context, and the Gallery of Indiscernibles under review

Work in Progress
An object tracking experiment with Lana Trick
Indeterminacy, Peripheral Experience, and a Problem for Representationalism
Section Introductions for an Anthology on Contemporary Cognitive Science (eds. Don
Dedrick and Bradley Richards)
Why There Could Be Zombies: A Response to Kirk
Something for Nothing
Phenomenology and Compositionality
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Being Mysterious
Material Knowledge and Realism

Presentations and Conference Activities

Talks and Conference Presentations
2011 Consciousness and Attention: Could you repeat the question?, accepted to The
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 15, Kyoto (talk)
2010 Consciousness, Awareness, and Accessibility: A Reply to Block, delivered at
The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (poster)
2010 Consciousness, Awareness, and Accessibility: A Reply to Block, delivered at
Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona (poster)
2008 Radical Indeterminacy in Visual Perceptual Experience, delivered at RSSS
Philosophy Department, Australian National University
2008 Why There Could be Zombies, delivered at Australasian Association of Philosophy
(AAP) Annual Conference, Melbourne
2007 Phenomenology and Intentionality, delivered at the Association for the Scientific
Study of Consciousness Conference, by co-author Andrew Bailey
2007 Phenomenology and Intentionality, delivered at Centre for Consciousness Studies
Australian National University
2007 Being Mysterious, delivered at Australian National University Graduate Workshop,
Kioloa
2007 Phenomenology and Compositionality, delivered at AAP Annual Conference,
Armidale
Commentaries
2014 invited to comment on Transparency, Representation, and Error, CPA annual
general meeting, Brock University
2013 invited to comment on Objections to Representationalism from Degraded
Experience, CPA annual general meeting, University of Victoria
2006 Commented on Aristotle and Brentano in Graduate Workshop, McMaster
University
Conferences Attended
2008 Images and Intentionality, University of Sydney
2008 Consciousness and Introspection, RSSS/Centre for Consciousness Studies,
Workshop
2008 The Relational and Representational Character of Perceptual Experience,
RSSS/Centre for Consciousness Studies
2008 Cognitive Science Conference, Toronto: mind embodied, embedded, extended and
expanding
2007 Epistemology of Experience Workshop, Australian National University
2007 Phenomenology and Intentionality Workshop, Australian National University
2007 Norms and Analysis, University of Sydney
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2006 Cognitive Science Conference, University of Toronto
2006 Canadian Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting
2003 Workshop in Rationality and the Emotions, University of Toronto
2002 Hegel Conference, University of Guelph
2002 Philosophy and Neuroscience at Carlton University

Teaching and Academic Work

Previous Appointments (Winter/Spring 2015)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Beloit College
Courses Taught
Fall 2015 Philosophy of Love and Sex, Ryerson University
Summer 2015 Philosophy of Love and Sex (x3), Ryerson University
Winter 2015 Introduction to Cognitive Science, Beloit College
Cognitive Robotics, Beloit College
Consciousness and Attention, Beloit College
Fall 2014 Philosophy of Love and Sex, Ryerson University
Summer 2014 Philosophy of Love and Sex, Ryerson University
Spring 2014 Philosophy of Love and Sex, Ryerson University
Freedom, Equality and Authority, Ryerson University
Philosophy of Film, Ryerson University
Winter 2014 Ethical Issues in the Media, University of Guelph Humber
Fall 2013 Philosophy of Film, Ryerson University
Philosophy of Love and Sex, Ryerson University
Spring 2013 Philosophy of Love and Sex, Ryerson University
Freedom, Equality and Authority, Ryerson University
Winter 2013 Ethical Issues in the Media, University of Guelph Humber
Spring 2012 Freedom, Equality and Authority, Ryerson University
Winter 2012 Philosophy of Film, Ryerson University
Ethical Issues in the Media, University of Guelph Humber
Fall 2011 Critical Thinking, Ryerson University
Health Care Ethics, Ryerson University
Summer 2011 Critical Thinking, Ryerson University
Health Care Ethics, Ryerson University
Winter 2011 Philosophy of Mind (PHL 611), Ryerson University
Ethical Issues in the Media, University of Guelph Humber
Substitute, 2010 Critical Thinking, Ryerson
Winter 2010 Ethical Issues in the Media, University of Guelph Humber
Fall 2009 Theory of Knowledge (PHIL 3190), University of Guelph
Teaching Assistantships
Duties: Marking, and tutorial leading*
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2009/10 University of Guelph, Medical Ethics
2008/09 University of Guelph, Critical Thinking*
2007/08 University of Toronto, Freedom, Responsibility, and Human Action*
University of Guelph, Chinese Philosophy
2006/07 University of Guelph, Major Philosophical Texts*
University of Guelph, Critical Thinking (x2)*
2005/06 University of Guelph, Basic Problems of Philosophy *
University of Guelph, Critical Thinking*
2004/05 University of Toronto, IHPST, Scientific Revolutions, History of Science*
2003/04 University of Toronto, Philosophy of Mind
University of Toronto, Philosophy of Action
Research Assistantships
Duties: Reading, Summarizing, Compiling Bibliographies
2008/09 Summer RA for Don Dedrick, Organizing/Annotating a Cognitive Science
Anthology
2007/08, Spring/Summer RA for Andrew Bailey, Philosophy of Mind
2006/07, Summer RA for Andrew Bailey, Philosophy of Mind
2005/06, Fall RA for Andrew Bailey, Embodied Theories of Mind
2005/06, Spring RA for Andrew Bailey, Philosophy of Perception
Other Academic Work
2001- Tutored university students with learning disabilities in Philosophy,
Psychology, and the History of Science. Employer: Accessibility Services,
University of Toronto
2000-2002 Organized library and aided students with research at the CASA (Cognitive
Science and Artificial Intelligence Students Association) office

Professional Activities
Referee
2015- present Acted as a referee for Australasian Journal of Philosophy
2014- present Acted as a referee for Philosophical Psychology
2013- present Acted as a referee for the Canadian Philosophical Association
2004 Acted as a referee for the University of Toronto Philosophy Department Graduate
Conference on Perception
Editor
2011- present Category editor for PhilPapers (Attention and Consciousness in
Psychology, Change/Inattentional Blindness)

Committee
Andrew Bailey, Mark McCullagh, Neil Campbell, Melvyn Goodale (external)

References
Dr. Andrew Bailey
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Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Guelph
Email: abailey@uoguelph.ca Phone:519-824-4120 x56389
Dr. Christopher Mole, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of British Columbia
Email: cmole@mail.ubc.ca
Dr. William Seager, Professor, Philosophy, University of Toronto
Email: seager@utsc.utoronto.ca
Dr. Mark McCullagh, Associate Professor and Chair, University of Guelph
Email: mmcculla@uoguelph.ca

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