Curriculum
Vitae
Abraham Sesshu Roth
Employment:
The Ohio
State University - Associate Professor 2006 -
University of
Illinois at Chicago - Associate Professor 2005 - 2006
University of
Illinois at Chicago - Assistant Professor 2002 - 2005
UCLA - Assistant
Professor 1998-2002
Bryn Mawr
College - Visiting Assistant Professor Fall 1998
Haverford
College and Bryn Mawr College - Visiting Assistant Professor/Lecturer 1997-8
Brandeis
University - Visiting Assistant Professor, Lecturer 1995-7
Education:
Princeton
University:
Ph.D. in
philosophy 1996
Dissertation:
Where the Action Is
M.A.
in philosophy 1991
London School
of Economics
M.Sc. in Philosophy, Logic and
Scientific Method, 1986.
Brandeis
University
B.A. magna cum laude, philosophy and mathematics,
1985.
Areas
of specialization:
Philosophy of mind and action
Other
areas of research interest:
Epistemology
of testimony, Hume
Publications:
"Indispensability, the Discursive Dilemma, and Groups
with Minds of Their Own", a chapter forthcoming
in From
Individual to Collective Intentionality, to be published by Oxford
University Press.
"Team Reasoning and Shared Intention", forthcoming in a collection of selected papers
from the Collective Intentionality VII conference, to be published by Springer.
"The
Necessity of "Necessity":
HumeÕs Psychology of Sophisticated Causal Inference", Canadian Journal
of Philosophy 41 (2011), 263-287.
"Shared
Agency," entry in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
URL =
<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2010/entries/shared-agency/>.
German translation of ÒReasons Explanation of
ActionÉ" (below), in GrŸnde und Zwecke: Texte zur aktuellen
Handlungstheorie, edited and translated by C. Horn & G. Lšhrer (Suhrkamp Verlag
Berlin) 2010
Entry in 5 Questions - Philosophy of Action, J. Aguilar & A. Buckareff, eds., 2009
"Causation,"
in the Blackwell
Guide to Hume's Treatise, S. Traiger, ed., (Blackwell) 2006, 96-113.
"The
Mysteries of Desire: A Discussion," Philosophical
Studies, 123(3), April 2005, 273-293.
"Shared
Agency and Contralateral Commitments," Philosophical Review 113, no. 3, July 2004,
359-410. Download pdf version here.
"Practical
Intersubjectivity," in Socializing Metaphysics: the Nature of Social Reality, Fred
Schmitt, ed., (Rowman & Littlefield) 2003, 65-91.
"What
was Hume's Problem with Personal Identity?", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
Vol. LXI, No. 1, July 2000, 91-114.
"The
Self-Referentiality of Intentions," Philosophical Studies, 97(1), January 2000, 11-52.
"Reasons
Explanation of Actions: Causal,
Singular, and Situational," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol.
LIX, No. 4, December 1999, 839-874.
"Hume's
Psychology of Identity Ascriptions," Hume Studies 22:2, November 1996, 273-298.
Awards:
Spencer
Foundation Research Grant, for research leave 2007-8
College of
Humanities, The Ohio State University, External Grant or Fellowship Subsidy,
for research leave 2007-8.
NEH Summer
Stipend, 2005
Faculty
Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, for
the academic year 2003-4. (This
fellowship provides a full year's leave from teaching duties.)
UCLA Faculty
Career Development Award 2001, for a sabbatical leave supplement of one quarter
during the 2001/2002 academic year.
UCLA Academic Senate Council on
Research - Faculty Grants Program
1999-2000
2000-2001
Sachar Fellowship awarded by Brandeis
University partially funding study at LSE 1985-6
Work
in progress:
"Can
Shared Activity Simply be Willed?", under review.
"Testimonial
Warrant: Reasons at Hand and
Second Hand"
"Bootstrapping,
Rational Requirements, and Commitment"
"Power
and Desire: Hume on the Source of our
Idea of Necessary Connection"
Conference
and invited papers:
Presentation and discussion session leader at a
workshop on BratmanÕs Shared Agency at Yale Law School, October 2011.
"Reasons at hand and second hand", delivered to Groupe
de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur la NormativitŽ, UniversitŽ de MontrŽal,
April 2011
"Intention, Shared Activity, and Team Reasoning", delivered at Collective Intentionality VII
conference, UniversitŠt Basel, Switzerland, and the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress,
University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2010.
"Shared Intention, Prediction, and Team Reasoning", colloquium at Department of Philosophy, Auburn
University, October 2009.
"Can
Shared Cooperative Activity be Willed?", delivered at the Ethical Theory
and Political Philosophy conference at the Department of Philosophy,
Northwestern University, April 2009.
"Can
Shared Cooperative Activity be Willed?", in a symposium on collective
intentionality, Central Division meeting of the APA, February, 2009.
"Can
Shared Cooperative Activity be Willed?", delivered at the Kline Workshop
on Collective Intentionality, October, 2008, Department of Philosophy,
University of Missouri, Columbia.
"Rational
Requirements, Bootstrapping, and Commitment", delivered June 2008 at the
OSU/Maribor/Rijeka Conference in Dubrovnik.
"Constructivism
and Constitutivism in the theory of Shared Intention" - comments on papers
by Michael Bratman and Margaret Gilbert in a symposium on shared intention,
delivered at the Pacific Division meeting of the APA, March 2008.
"Who or
What is the Company Man?" in a symposium on group intentions, delivered at
the Central Division meeting of the APA, April 2007
"Hume on
Reasoning: Simple vs.
Sophisticated", delivered at the Hume Society meeting at the Pacific
Division meeting of the APA, April 2007
"Testimonial
Warrant: Heard and
Overheard", delivered to the Philosophy Departments at Ohio State
University (November 2005) and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (May 2006).
"Agency
and Self-Knowledge in the First Person Plural", delivered to the
Philosophy Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, January
2005.
"Agency
and Self-Knowledge in the First Person Plural", delivered to the
Philosophy Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October
2004.
"Causal
Inference in Hume", delivered at the History of the Philosophy of Science
(HOPOS) conference, June 2004.
"Shared
Agency and Contralateral Commitments", delivered to the Social Ethics and
Normative Theory workshop at the Philosophy Department at Stanford University,
March 2004.
"Shared
Agency", delivered as part of the Fellows' lecture series at the
Humanities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago, December
2003.
"The
Necessity of Necessity: the Significance
for Hume of the Idea of Necessary Connection" delivered at the 30th
Hume Society Conference, July 2003
"Practical
Intersubjectivity", symposium paper delivered at the Pacific Division
meeting of the APA, May 2003, and at the Conference on Personal Identity and
Practical Reason at UIC, June 2003.
"Who Are
You to Tell Me What to Do?", delivered to the Philosophy Department at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, December 2001.
"Sharing
Intentions", delivered at:
Department of
Philosophy, UIC, March 1999
1999 Pacific
Division Meeting of the APA
Department of
Philosophy, UCLA, February 1998
"What
Was Hume's Problem with Personal Identity?", delivered at the 1997 Hume
Society Conference.
"Cognitivism
and Noncognitivism in Ethics: Are
Moral Obligations Like Beliefs or Like Desires?" delivered May 1996 to the
Department of Philosophy, Haverford College.
"Teleological
and Causal Reasons Explanations," delivered October 1995 to the Department
of Philosophy, Brandeis University.
"Teleology
and Intentional Action," delivered at the 1993 Pacific Division Meeting of
the American Philosophical Association.
"Hornsby's
Volitionism," delivered at the 1992 Discipuli Conference at the University
of Southern California.