curriculum vitae

Ian Evans

Department of Philosophy

University of Arizona

ice at email dot arizona dot edu

education

2006—

• University of Arizona: Ph.D. Program

2002–2006

• Lewis & Clark College: B.A. with Honors, Philosophy

interests

I am primarily interested in epistemology, but I also like thinking about philosophical logic and defeasible reasoning. I like probability paradoxes and thinking about John Pollock’s theory of nomic probabilities. I try to keep on philosophy of language, because that stuff is always useful. I also Reid Hume.

publications

• “An Objectivist Argument for Thirdism,” Analysis, forthcoming. Coauthored with the oscar lab.

presentations

• “The Infinite Progress of Klein’s Epistemology,” Northwest Philosophy Conference, Fall 2007
• “Basic Knowledge is Easy (to Lose),” University of Miami Graduate Conference in Epistemology, Spring 2007
• “Knowing that One Knows Revisited,” 2006 Pacific Divisional Meeting, American Philosophical Association
• “Descartes, Externalism, and Skepticism,” Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Spring 2005
• Commentator on Kulic, Anthony, “Physicalism and the Avowal of the Propositional Attitudes,” Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Spring 2005
• Commentator on Frost, Jonathan, “A Further Argument Against Temporal Neutrality,” Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Spring 2004

organizing

• Co-organizer, ASWIP 2006, an annual informal conference of current work from University of Arizona graduate students, University of Arizona, Fall 2006
• Organizer of Philosophy Extravaganza, an annual interdisciplinary discussion, topic for this year is TBA, Lewis & Clark College, Spring 2006
• Organizer of Philosophy Extravaganza, an annual interdisciplinary discussion, topic for this year was “Perspectives on the Individual,” Lewis & Clark College, Spring 2005

awards

• Faculty/Student Research Grant, Awarded by Lewis & Clark College Academic Council (with student Ginger Clausen and Prof. Nicholas D. Smith), “Reliabilism, Defeasibility, and Meta-Knowledge,” summer 2005
• Dean’s Scholarship, 2002–2006

membership

• Student Member, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Member, Society for Skeptical Studies
• Co-Chair and Webmaster, Lewis & Clark College Philosophy Club, 2003–06

committees

• Evaluation Committee for Philosophy Department Opportunity Hire, Lewis & Clark College, fall 2005

teaching

spring 2008

• Primary instructor for PHIL 111: Introduction to Philosophy

fall 2007

• Teaching assistant for TRAD 104: Mind, Matter, & God, taught by J. Christopher Maloney

spring 2007

• Teaching assistant for TRAD 104: Mind, Matter, & God, taught by J. Christopher Maloney

fall 2006

• Teaching assistant for INDV 101: Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual, taught by Marga Reimer

coursework

spring 2008

• Seminar on Hume's moral psychology, taught by David Owen
• Seminar on ontology and semantics, taught by Terry Horgan
• Mathematical Logic, part B, taught by Shaughan Lavine

fall 2007

• Seminar on Kant and the a priori, taught by Houston Smit
• Seminar on Causation, taught by Laurie Paul
• Mathematical Logic, part A, taught by Shaughan Lavine

spring 2007

• Seminar on probability paradoxes, taught by John Pollock and Terry Horgan
• Independent study on first-order model theory, advised by Shaughan Lavine
• Epistemology, taught by Terry Horgan

fall 2006

• Phil 596A: Ethics, “Moral Phenomenology,” Mark Timmons
• Phil 596S: Philosophy of Mathematics, “Contextual Definition,” Shaughan Lavine
• Phil 596Z: Proseminar, “Philosophy of Art,” Keith Lehrer