Curriculum Vitae
 
SAMUEL C. RICKLESS   Philosophy Department, 0119 University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0119       Employment                                                   2003-        :      Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego             2001-2003:      Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego 1996-2001:      Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Florida State University             1995-1996:      Visiting Lecturer, Philosophy, Florida State University               Education                                 Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996                         Dissertation: Sinn Without Guilt: A Theory of Content for Singular Terms                         Advisor: David Kaplan             B.Phil., Philosophy, Oxford University, 1988             B.A., Philosophy, Harvard University, 1986     Areas of Research         History of Ancient Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Constitutional Law     Publications (Refereed)                       1. “Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (1997): 297-319.   2. “The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing,” Philosophical Review 106 (1997): 555-575.   3. “Socrates’ Moral Intellectualism,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (1998): 355-367.   4. “The Semantic Function of Chained Pronouns,” Analysis 58 (1998): 297-304.   5. “How Parmenides Saved the Theory of Forms,” Philosophical Review 107 (1998): 501-554.   6. “Locke on the Freedom to Will,” The Locke Newsletter 31 (2000): 43-67.   7. “Miranda, Dickerson, and the Problem of Actual Innocence,” Criminal Justice Ethics 19 (2000): 2, 53-55.  [invited]   8. “How to Solve Blum’s Paradox” (with Dana K. Nelkin), Analysis 61 (2001): 91-94.   9. “Religious Arguments and the Duty of Civility,” Public Affairs Quarterly 15 (2001): 133-154.   10. “Gideon Yaffe’s Liberty Worth the Name: Locke on Free Agency,” Locke Studies 1 (2001): 235-255.  [invited]   11. “Warfield’s New Argument for Incompatibilism” (with Dana K. Nelkin), Analysis 62 (2002): 104-107.   12. “From the Good Will to the Formula of Universal Law,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2004): 554-577.               13. “The Cartesian Fallacy Fallacy,” Noûs 39 (2005): 309-336.   14. “Locke’s Polemic Against Nativism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Locke’s Essay, edited by Lex Newman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 33-66.   [invited]   15. “The Coherence of Orthodox Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence,” George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 15 (2005): 261-296.               16. “A Synthetic Approach to Legal Adjudication,” San Diego Law Review 42 (2005): 519-532.   17. “Polygamy and Same-Sex Marriage: A Response to Calhoun,” San Diego Law Review 42 (2005): 1043-1048. 18. “Binding Arguments and Hidden Variables” (with Jonathan Cohen), Analysis 67 (2007): 65-71. 19. “Is Locke’s Theory of Knowledge Inconsistent?,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (2008): 83-104.   20. Plato’s Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides, monograph, Cambridge University Press (December 2006). 21. “Plato’s Parmenides,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (August 2007). 22. “The Right to Privacy Unveiled,” San Diego Law Review 44 (2007): 773-799.     Work in Progress   “Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism,” research article. “The Relation Between Anti-Abstractionism and Idealism in Berkeley’s Metaphysics,” research article. “Berkeley’s Master Argument,” research article. Berkeley’s Argument for Idealism, monograph. “The Failure of Pragmatic Descriptivism,” research article. “The Moral Status of Enabling Harm,” research article. Work in Preparation “Qualities.” (To appear in The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy, edited by Dan Kaufman.) An overview of prominent seventeenth century views about the nature of qualities of substances, with special emphasis on the distinction between primary and secondary qualities. Philosophers to be discussed include Galileo, Descartes, Locke, and Boyle. “Will and Motivation.” (To appear in The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, edited by Peter Anstey.) An overview of prominent seventeenth century British philosophers’ views on the nature of voluntary action and freedom of action. Philosophers to be discussed include Bramhall, Hobbes, Cudworth, and Locke. Locke. (Monograph, under contract with Blackwell Publishers, part of the Great Minds Series, edited by Steven Nadler.)    Presentations (Refereed)   “The Semantic Function of Chained Pronouns,” Florida Philosophical Association, November 1995.   “Is Kripke’s Puzzle About Belief Self-Defeating?,” Colloquium, Pacific APA, March 1998.   “How to Avoid the Third Man,” Colloquium, Eastern APA, December 1998; Florida Philosophical Association, November 1998.   “Locke on the Freedom to Will,” Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Duke University, November 1999.   “Are Propositional Attitude Reports Context-Sensitive?,” Colloquium, Central APA, April 2000.      “Is Locke’s Theory of Knowledge Inconsistent?,” Colloquium, Pacific APA, March 2005. “The Relation between Anti-Abstractionism and Idealism in Berkeley’s Metaphysics,” Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, UCSD, February 2007; meeting of the International Berkeley Society, Eastern APA, December 2007.     Presentations (Invited)   “Sinn Without Guilt,” Colloquium, University of Florida, November 1995.   “Kant’s Contradiction-in-Conception Test,” Colloquium, Florida State University, September 1996.   “Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities,” Colloquium, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, February 1997.   “How Parmenides Saved the Theory of Forms,” Colloquium, Florida State University, October 1997.   “Religious Arguments and the Duty of Civility,” Faculty Seminar, Florida State University School of Law, March 2000.   “Why There is No Cartesian Circle,” Colloquium, University of Virginia, January 2001.   “The Cartesian Fallacy Fallacy,” Colloquium, UCSD, November 2001.   “Ethical Considerations in the Medical Care of Convicts,” Public Lecture, UCSD Center for the Humanities: Dialogues in Medicine Series, May 2002.               Comments on Gideon Yaffe’s Liberty Worth the Name: Locke on Free Agency, Author Meets Critics session, Southern California Philosophy Conference, UC Irvine, October 2002.   Comments on Benjamin Hill, “Locke’s Ideational Definition of Knowledge and Knowing Idea-Independent Reality,” Colloquium, Pacific APA, March 2004.               “Is Locke’s Theory of Knowledge Inconsistent?,” Colloquium, UC Riverside, October 2004.   Comments on Paul Hoffman, “Locke on the Locked Room,” Colloquium, Southern California Philosophy Conference, UC Irvine, October 2004. “Berkeley's Argument for Idealism," Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, May 2006; Third Biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson Conference, UCSD, June 2006. “Descartes on Atomism,” Public Lecture for undergraduate honors program, University of Utah, January 2007. “The Right to Privacy Unveiled,” Colloquium, University of Utah, January 2007; University of San Diego Institute for Law and Philosophy Roundtable, April 2007. “Berkeley’s Master Argument,” Conference, International Berkeley Society, Newport, Rhode Island, June 2008.   Conferences               The Philosophical Foundations of Freedom of Expression, USD Institute for Law and Philosophy, October 2001.               What is Legal Interpretation? USD Institute for Law and Philosophy, April 2004. The Meaning of Marriage, USD Institute for Law and Philosophy, January 2005. Analytical Jurisprudence, USD Institute for Law and Philosophy, September 2005. The Duty to Rescue, USD Institute for Law and Philosophy, October 2006. Informational Privacy, USD Institute for Law and Philosophy, April 2007. Just War and Terrorism, USD Institute for Law and Philosophy, September 2007. Fellowships and Scholarships                                    Marshall Scholarship; 1986-88                       Humanities Fellowship, UCLA; 1991-92             Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA; 1994-95             Chancellors Summer Faculty Fellowship, UCSD; 2001             Hellman Fellowship, UCSD; 2002-03 Research Grant, UC Academic Senate, San Diego Division; Summer 2002, Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Summer 2008 UCSD Center for the Humanities, Humanities Faculty Fellowship; Fall 2004     Awards               University Teaching Award, Florida State University; 1999-2000   Outstanding Faculty Award, Thurgood Marshall College, UCSD, June 2008   Languages               French (fluent), German (reading knowledge)     Courses Taught (at UCLA, FSU, UCSD)       Graduate Level Berkeley’s Metaphysics, Plato’s Parmenides, Locke’s Essay, Kant’s Groundwork, Singular Terms, Propositional Attitude Reports, Non-Consequentialism, Material Constitution, Introduction to Philosophical Methods (for First Year Students), Preliminary Examination Preparation (Epistemology), Preliminary Examination Preparation (Ethics)   Upper Division Socrates and Plato, The Empiricists, Philosophy of Mind, Knowledge and Scepticism, Symbolic Logic, Limits of Beneficence (Seminar for Philosophy Majors)   Lower Division Ethics and Society, Dimensions of Culture 2: Justice, Descartes’s Meditations (Freshman Honors Seminar),  Life’s Dominion (Freshman Seminar), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Biomedical Ethics, Reasoning and Critical Thinking     Graduate Advising                           Gary Hartenburg: Philosophy, UC Irvine, Ph.D. committee, 2006-present Kristen Irwin: Philosophy, Ph.D. committee, 2005-present Dale Dorsey: Philosophy, Ph.D. committee, 2005-2007 Luke Robinson: Philosophy, Ph.D. committee, 2001-2006                         Peter Edwards: Music, Ph.D. committee, 2004-2005 Matthew Brown: Phil 290, Independent Study (Plato and Protagoras on Relativism), Fall 2004 Nellie Wieland: Phil 290, Independent Study (Insensitive Semantics), Winter 2006 Erin Frykholm: Phil 290, Independent Study (Moral Sentimentalism and Rationalism before Hume), Fall 2006     Undergraduate Advising   Andre Niemeyer: Honors Thesis (Reference Determination and Reference Change), Fall 2005-Winter 2006 Shawn Burns: Honors Thesis (Leibniz v. Locke on Innate Ideas), Fall 2004- Winter 2005                         Annie Pan: Phil 199, Independent Study (Plato’s Parmenides), Fall 2003                           Departmental Activities               Florida State University             Faculty Advisory Committee, 1999-2000             Werkmeister Conference Committee, 1996-97, 1998-99             Graduate Program Committee, 1996-97             Graduate Admissions Committee, 1996, 1998             Library Liaison, 1996-2000             Chair, Epistemology Preliminary Examination Committee, 1997-2001             Member, Ethics Preliminary Examination Committee, 1998-2001             Faculty Recruitment Committee, 1997-98, 1998-99               UCSD Colloquium Committee, 2006-2007.             Search Committee, 2002-03; 2003-04; 2005-06             Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003-04             History of Philosophy Roundtable, co-organizer, 2003-04             Lounge Journals Czar, 2003-present Participant, Symposium on the Death of Socrates (with Peter Atterton), Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 2003             Reviewer, Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, April 2004; April 2005       University Activities                             Florida State University             Faculty Senator, 1996-2001               UCSD Search Committee, Katzin Chair in Jewish Civilization, 2006-2007             Academic Dishonesty Hearing Board, Alternate Member, 2005-present CEP Subcommittee on Subject A Appeals, Member, 2003-2006 CEP Subcommittee on Subject A Appeals, Chair, 2006-present             Faculty Advisor, Program in Law and Society, 2003-present           Faculty Affiliate, Research Ethics Program, 2004-present     External Activities               Affiliated Scholar, University of San Diego Institute for Law and Philosophy, 2003- present     Refereeing                    Ancient Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Dialogue, Ethics, Inland Northwest Topics in Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Social Philosophy, The Monist, Nous, Philosophia, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Social Theory and Practice (member of Editorial Board, 1996-2001; member of Advisory Board, 2001-present), Blackwell Philosophy Compass (Section Editor: History of Modern Philosophy, 2005-present)     Service               Guest Lecture, Kearny Mesa High School, “Terrorism and Civil Liberties,” March 2005 Opinion Piece, “In Guantanamo Cases, A Question of Tyranny,” Newsday, May 2, 2004   Guest Appearance, Amnesty International UCSD, Human Rights Awareness Week, Discussion of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, May 2008   Professional Memberships                               American Philosophical Association 1994-present             American Association of University Professors 1996-present             Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy 1998-present             International Berkeley Society 2005-present