Curriculum Vitae
PAUL LIVINGSTON
Department of Philosophy
Villanova University
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085
(610) 519-4714
Paul.Livingston@villanova.edu
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Villanova University (current)
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of New Mexico (beginning January ’09)
EDUCATION
Harvard University
A.B. in Philosophy cum laude, June 1997
University of Cambridge
M.Phil. in Philosophy, July 1998
University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. in Philosophy, June 2002
Dissertation: “Experience and Structure: An Investigation in the History of Philosophy of Mind”
Committee Chair: David Woodruff Smith
Goethe-Institut, Germany
Intensive German Course, Winter 2007
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind and Language
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Epistemology & Metaphysics
Phenomenology
Philosophy of Science
Kant
Wittgenstein
Logic
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books (sole author):
Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness
Cambridge University Press, 2004
Philosophy and the Vision of Language
Routledge, 2008
Refereed Articles:
“Russellian and Wittgensteinian Atomism”
Philosophical Investigations 24:1 (2001), pp. 30-54
“Experience and Structure: Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness”
Journal of Consciousness Studies 9:3 (2002), pp. 15-34
“Husserl and Schlick on the Logical Form of Experience”
Synthese 132:2 (2002), pp. 239-72
“Thinking and Being: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Machination and Lived-Experience”
Inquiry 46:3 (2003), pp. 324-45
“‘Meaning Is Use’ in the Tractatus”
Philosophical Investigations 27:1 (2004), pp. 34-67
“Functionalism and Logical Analysis”
In David W. Smith and Amie Thomasson, ed., Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press, 2005.
“Rationalist Elements of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy”
In Alan Nelson. ed., A Companion to Rationalism. Blackwell, 2005.
“Wittgenstein, Kant, and the Critique of Totality”
Philosophy and Social Criticism 33:6 (2007), pp. 691-715
“Agamben, Badiou, and Russell”
Forthcoming in Continental Philosophy Review
Review Articles:
“Scott Soames: Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century” (Review Article)
Inquiry 49:3 (2006), pp. 290-311
“Alain Badiou: Being and Event” (Review Article)
Inquiry 51:2 (2008), pp. 217-238
Book Reviews:
“Karl Schuhmann: Selected Papers on Phenomenology”
Grazer Philosophische Studien 70 (2004)
“G. Kiel and U. Tietz (eds): Phänomenologie und Sprachanalyse”
Grazer Philosophische Studien 72 (2006)
“Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge”
Forthcoming in the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy
TEACHING AND ADVISING
Seminar Leader, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, summer 2006
Assistant Professor, Villanova University, 2003-2006 and 2007-08 (on sabbatical/leave 2006-07):
Faculty Sponsor, Undergraduate Philosophy Club and Phi Sigma Tau (Philosophical Honor Society), Villanova University, 2005-2006 and 2007-08
Courses Taught 2003-2008:
Philosophy 8750: Husserl (Graduate Seminar)
Philosophy 8150: History of Twentieth Century Philosophy (Graduate Seminar)
Philosophy 8120: Wittgenstein (Graduate Seminar)
Philosophy 8650: Philosophy of Language (Graduate Seminar)
Philosophy 5000: Language: The House of Being (Honors-Level Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar) (2 times)
Philosophy 4610: Philosophy of Mind (4 times)
Philosophy 2700/4050: Philosophy of Science (2 times)
Philosophy 2015: Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
Philosophy 1050: Introduction to Philosophy (3 times)
Humanities 1001: Modern Thought
Independent Study (graduate level): Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind
Faculty Fellow, UC Irvine, 2002-2003
Courses Taught:
Philosophy 151-216: Heidegger (Mixed Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar)
Philosophy 13: History of Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy 6: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Instructor, UC Irvine, Fall 2001
Course Taught:
Philosophy 151: Heidegger
Teaching Associate, UC Irvine, Fall 2000 – Spring 2001
Humanities Core Course
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
“Political Animals: Derrida on Animality and Sovereignty”
Paper read at Derrida Today conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, July, 2008
“The Breath of Sense: Language, Structure, and the Paradox of Origin”
Paper read at University of Oregon Spring Colloquium “Between Nature and Culture: After the Analytic-Continental Divide” (invited contribution), Eugene, Oregon, May, 2008
Chair, colloquium on “Continental Philosophy – Judgment and Infinity”
Eastern Division APA, December 2007
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Freiburg University, Germany
(Spring-Summer 2007)
Research Project: “Reading Language and Logos in Husserl and Heidegger”
“Silences and Voices in Heidegger’s Beiträge”
Paper read at Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, July 2005
“Husserl and Schlick on the Logical Analysis of Experience”
Paper read at BSHP/Oxford University Conference on Phenomenology and the History of Analysis, Oxford University, March 2005
“Philosophy of Science: A Role for Humanity?"
Faculty seminar/workshop. Villanova University, February 2005
“Toward an Interpretive Phenomenology”
Paper read at Conference on Phenomenology and the Theory of Mind,
University of Central Florida, January 2005
Commentator
“Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind”
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Conference, October 2004
Participant
Villanova University Professional Development Seminar on Catholic Social Thought, May 2004
“Toward an Interpretive Phenomenology”
Paper read at the Society for the Study of Husserl’s Phenomenology
Central Division APA, April 2004
“Ryle on Sensation and the Origin of the Identity Theory”
Colloquium, University of Toronto, February 2002
“On a Problem with the Structure of Experience"
Paper read at Tucson 2000: Toward a Science of Consciousness conference; University of Arizona, April 2000
Coordinator; Wittgenstein reading group; UC Irvine
Summer 2000
Commentator; “Underdetermination and the Problem of Identical Rivals” by P. D. Magnus
Southern California Philosophy Conference; University of California, Irvine, October 2001
Co-Author; “Causal Analysis”
Humanities Core Course Writer’s Guide, 2001-2002
Instructional material used in the instruction of over 1,000 students
Main Author and Researcher; “Can Consciousness be Explained?”
Argumentation Maps
On-line at: http://www.macrovu.com/cns.html
AWARDS
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Freiburg University, Germany, Spring-Summer 2007
Villanova University Faculty Summer Research Grant, Summer 2007
Villanova University Faculty Summer Research Grant, Summer 2004
UCI Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2002
UCI Humanities Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2001
Humanities Graduate Essay Prize; cash award for best essay in Philosophy, Spring 2001
“Husserl and Schlick on the Logical Form of Experience”
Justine Lambert Prize in the Foundations of Science; biennial cash award for best essay on the foundations of logic, mathematics, and the empirical sciences;
competition open to all graduate students at UCI, Fall 1999
“Philosophy of Mind and the Mach Principle in the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”
UCI Regents’ Fellowship, 1998.