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John Kulvicki
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2001.
Advisor: Murat Aydede
Areas of Sepcialization
Philosophy of Perception, Aesthetics
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, British Empiricists, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics
Employment
2004- Present. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
2003-2004. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
2001-2003. Postdoctoral Fellow, PNP Program, Washington University in St. Louis
Major Research Publications
On Images: Their Structure and Content. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
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The Nature of Noise. Philosophers' Imprint, Forthcoming.
Introspective Availability. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Forthcoming.
Artifact Expression. New Waves in Aesthetics K. Stock and K. Thompson-Jones, eds. Palgrave Macmillian, 2008: 84-104.
Perceptual Content is Vertically Articulate. American Philosophical Quarterly 44(4) 2007: 357-369.
What is what it's like? Introducing Perceptual Modes of Presentation. Synthese 156(2) 2007: 205-229.
Pictorial Realism as Verity. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64(3) 2006: 343-54.
Perceptual Content, Information, and the Primary/Secondary Quality Distinction. Philosophical Studies 122(2) 2005: 103-132.
Isomorphism in Information-Carrying Systems. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85(4) 2004: 380-95.
Image Structure. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61(4) 2003: 323-40.
Note: See the Research tab for links to and overviews of these papers.
Other Publications
Review of Dominic Lopes’ Sight and Sensibility. Dialogue 46(2) 2007: 412-414.
Pictorial Representation. Philosophy Compass 1(6) 2006: 535-46.
Naturalism. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. K. Brown, ed. Oxford: Elsevier 2006: Vol. 8 553-555.
Review of Keith Stenning’s Seeing Reason: Language and image in learning to think. Mind 114 2005: 461-465.
Hue Magnitudes and Revelation. Comment on Byrne and Hilbert: Color Realism and Color Science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26(1) 2003: 36-37.
Review of Michael Thau’s Consciousness and Cognition. Philosophical Psychology 16(1) 2003: 176-179.
Courses Taught at Dartmouth
Taught (semi) regularly:
Phil01: Introduction to Philosophy
Phil03: Reason and Argument
Phil14: British Empiricism
Phil23: Philosophy of Art
Phil30: Theory of Knowledge
Phil35: Philosophy of Mind
Special topics courses:
Spring 2007. Phil80, Advanced Seminar: Perception.
Spring 2005. Phil50, Special Topics in Philosophy: Introspection.
Fall 2004. Phil07, First Year Seminar: Consciousness.
Invited Talks
April 2008. Goodman on Pictorial Representation. Guest lecture, Phil27 – Issues in Aesthetics, Amherst College.
March 2008. The Nature of Noise. Philosophy Colloquium, Carleton University.
February 2008. The Nature of Noise. Philosophy Colloquium, Dartmouth College.
May 2007. On Images: Their Structure and Content. Hood Museum of Art Public Lecture Series, Dartmouth College.
May 2007. Pictorial Content and Object Recognition. Conference on Depiction. University of Manchester.
May 2007. Artifact Expression. London Aesthetics Forum, University College London.
April 2007. Pictorial Content and Object Recognition. American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL.
March 2007. Introspective Availability. Philosophy/Cognitive Science Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
November 2006. Artifact Expression. UNC Workshop on Expression, UNC - Chapel Hill.
August 2006. Introspective Availability. Dartmouth/UVM Conference, Dartmouth College.
June 2006. Instructor, Images Scientifique: CNRS Summer School on the Cognitive Bases of Scientific Images. Roscoff, Brittany.
March 2006. Knowing With Images: Medium and Message. Mini Conference on Scientific Images held in conjunction with the Pacific APA, Portland, OR.
July 2005. Perceptual Availability and Consciousness. Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network: Consciousness, Syracuse University.
June 2005. The Viewpoint-Independence of Pictorial Content. Interdiciplines Workshop: Pictures in Cognition and Science. Online .
May 2005. Heavenly Sight and Seeing the Light. Aesthetics Anarchy, Indiana University.
October 2004. Pictorial Realism as Verity. Philosophy Colloquium, Dartmouth College.
September 2004. Pictorial Realism as Verity. Philosophy Colloquium, Carleton University.
July 2004. Representational Kinds and Epistemic Advantages. Scientific Images Research Group, Paris.
March 2004. Seeing-in, Skeletal Content, and Transparency. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, CA.
October 2003. What is what it’s like? Philosophy Colloquium, Carleton University.
August 2003. Seeing-in, Diaphanousness, and Transparency. Knowing Art. University of British Columbia.
April 2003 What is What It’s Like? PNP Works in Progress Meeting, Washington University in St. Louis.
April 2002. Making Information Perceptually Available. Philosophy Colloquium, WashU, St. Louis.
Refereed Conference Talks
June 2008. The Nature of Noise. Canadian Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
March 2008. Pictorial Diversity. American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, Asilomar, CA.
June 2006. Knowing With Images: Medium and Message. Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism, London School of Economics.
August 2005. Perceptual Modes of Presentation. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Lund, Sweden.
July 2005. Perceptual Modes of Presentation. 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.
March 2005. Pictorial Realism as Verity. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA.
December 2003. What is What It’s Like? American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, DC.
June 2003. What is What It’s Like? (Poster) Society for Philosophy and Psychology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
March 2002. The Content of Images. American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, Asilomar, CA.
October 2001. Information and Isomorphism. Central States Philosophical Association, Washington University in St. Louis.
May 2001. Information, Isomorphism, and Perceptual Availability. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke University.
May 2001. Structural Features of Pictorial Representations. American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Minneapolis, MN.
March 2001. Information and Isomorphism. American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA.
June 2000. Secondary Qualities, Perceptual Representations, and Quale Inversions. (Poster) Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Barnard College.
April 2000. Mimesis in Pictures. American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL.
April 2000. Quale Inversion and Perceptual Representations. Tucson 2000: Toward a Science of Consciousness. University of Arizona.
April 2000. What’s So Special About Linear Perspective? American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Albuquerque, NM.
June 1999. Pictorial Representation and Mental Imagery. (Poster) Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Comments
December 2006. Henry Pratt: Respect and the Value of Art Thesis. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, DC.
April 2003. Bence Nanay: Compositionality without Conceptuality? Evans's Generality Constraint Reconsidered, Central APA, Cleveland, OH.
June 2002. Kent Johnson: Impossible Words. Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Edmonton, Alberta.
Awards and Fellowships
Winter 2008. Junior Faculty Fellowship, Dartmouth College.
Spring 2006. Faculty Fellow, Leslie Center for the Humanities Institute on Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences.
2005-2006. Research Grant, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College. Project: The Art of Science (with Adina Roskies).
Spring 2001. Graduate Student Travel Stipend, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Minneapolis, MN.
2000-2001. Dissertation Year Fellowship, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago.
1995-2000. Century Fellowship, University of Chicago. Funding for graduate study.
Summer 1999. Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst grant to study German in Dresden, Germany.
Spring 1995. J. Martin Warbeke, 1903 Prize for best Senior Thesis in Metaphysics and Epistemology, Princeton University.
Spring 1995. Alexander Guthrie McCosh Prize for best Philosophy Department Senior Thesis, Princeton University. (Co-winner)