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Tulips at the Montreal Botanical Gardens 2005
SUSANNAH KATE DEVITT
EDUCATION
2002-present: Rutgers University. PhD Philosophy.
2002-2007: Rutgers University. MA in philosophy
2004-2007: Certificate in Cognitive Science.
1995-2000: University of Melbourne. BA (Hons) 1st Class.
Thesis: The Psychology of Simpson's Paradox.
Majors: Psychology and The History & Philosophy of Science.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Academic Skills Advisor, Queensland University of Technology
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION
Cognitive Science & Philosophy of Mind
AREA OF COMPETENCE
Philosophy of Science, Epistemology & Applied Ethics
PUBLISHED PAPERS
What is the Extension in the Extended Mind? Cognitive Systems Research
[Forthcoming]. Remembering Beliefs, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society, Washington D.C. USA, 2008. 'Imagination' in Encyclopedia of American Philosophy,eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. New York: Routledge, 2007.
What is Wrong with a Behaviorist Explanation of Early Group Pretense, Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, 2006.
The Nonconceptual Gateway to Early Word Learning Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. 2005.
TALKS AND POSTERS
Gaslighting: Cognitive Sabotage in the Extended Mind AAP 2008
Remembering Beliefs. Poster at SPP 2008
Remembering Beliefs Australian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference 2008
Memory Qualia RuCCS
Fall 2007
Defending Vivacity, Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquia, Rutgers
University, Fall 2007
Self-reported mental imagery fails to explain false memory susceptibility,
8th Australian Society for Cognitive Science, 2007
Memory Qualia, AAP 2007
Self-reported mental imagery fails to explain false memory susceptibility, RuCCS
2006
Self-reported mental imagery fails to explain false memory susceptibility, 4th International Conference on Memory, Sydney, Australia, 2006
What is Wrong with a Behaviorist Explanation of Early Group Pretense. Philosophy Society, Australian National University, 2006
The Nonconceptual Gateway to Early Word Learning. Annual meeting of Australasian Association of Philosophy 2006
What is Wrong with a Behaviorist Explanation of Early Group Pretense, University of Western Ontario’s Annual Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Cognitive Science, 2006
The Nonconceptual Gateway to Early Word Learning. Poster at 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa,
Italy. 2005
The Philosophy of Memory, Rutgers University Philosophy Club, 2005
Why Rationalism Fails to Explain Conflicting Intuitions. A Priori
Conference in Epistemology, University of Sherbrooke, 2004
Why Rationalism Fails to Explain Conflicting Intuitions. Graduate Student
Colloquia, Rutgers University, Fall 2004
The Psychology of Simpson’s Paradox, Melbourne University Graduate Student Conference, 2000.
Species Pluralism. Guest Lecture at Melbourne University, 2000
Species Pluralism, Talk at Australian National University, Philosophy
Society, Australian National University, 1999
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Tutor, Art of Communication, 2009 (University of Queensland)
Lecturer & Tutor Minds & Machines: Introduction to Cognitive Science,
2007-2009 (University of Queensland)
Tutor, The Philosophy of
Time Travel, 2008 (University of Queensland)
Tutor, Philosophy & Psychology, Emmanuel College 2007 (University of
Queensland)
Lecturer, Current Moral & Social Issues 2005-2006 (Rutgers University)
Tutor, Introduction to Philosophy, 2005 (Rutgers University)
Tutor,
Darwinism, 2000 (Melbourne University)
Tutor,
Science Philosophy & History, 2000 (Melbourne University)
HONORS AND AWARDS
Poster Prize for Remembering Beliefs, SPP 2008.
Travel Award, Rutgers University, Annual Meeting of the Society of Philosophy &
Psychology 2008.
Honorarium, The School of Philosophy and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI), The Centre for Time, and The Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, at The University of Sydney, for APPC 08
Travel Award, Rutgers University, for Annual Meeting of the Australasian Association for Philosophy 2007.
Travel Award, Rutgers University, Annual Meeting of the Australasian Association for Philosophy 2006 & 4th International Conference on Memory 2006.
Rutgers Ethics Initiative sponsorship for How to Teach Ethics round-table discussion at Rutgers University, 2005.
Travel Award, Rutgers University, 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy. 2005.
Travel Award, Rutgers University, A Priori Conference in Epistemology, University of Sherbrooke, 2004.
Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University 2002-2006
Cognitive Science Award, Rutgers University, 2002.
Summer Research Scholarship in Philosophy at Australian National University 1998-99
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS
American Philosophical Association (APA)
Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP)
The Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC)
PROFESSIONAL DUTIES
Social Epistemology,
referee 2009-present.
Philosophical Psychology,
reviewer 2008-present.
Cognition and Culture member.
Experimental Philosophy
contributor.
Journal of Mind and Behavior, assisting
editor 2008-present.
Princeton-Rutgers philosophy graduate philosophy conference, reviewer,
2003-present.
Tri-State Cogblog,
Contributor
Married Bachelors Blog, Administrator
SERVICE
Hosted UQ Women in Philosophy Dinner, 2009.
Co-creator and chair of The Rutgers Committee of Underrepresented Groups in Philosophy, 2005-2007.
Coordinator of 40 Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquia, Rutgers University 2002-2006.
Initiator and Coordinator of How to Teach Ethics round-table discussion at Rutgers University, 2005.
Initiator and Coordinator of Graduate Student Accommodation Sharing at 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, 2005.
Coordinator Rutgers Philosophy Department Prospective Students Dinner, 2005.
Hosted Prospective Students, Rutgers University 2002-2005.
Co-hosted Women in Philosophy Dinners at Rutgers University 2003-2004.
Secretary of Graduate Student Association, Rutgers University 2003-2004.
Assistant organizer of workshop on 'Innateness and the Mind', Hilton Newark Gateway Hotel, Newark NJ, November 2002
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