ALEXANDER GEDDES
The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, OX1 4AW
[email protected]
+44 7766 748 231
COMPETENCIES
AOS
AOC
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic & Language
EMPLOYMENT
2016 –
Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Queen’s College, University of Oxford
Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Logic
2015 –
EDUCATION
2010 – 2016 University College London
PhD in Philosophy (Pass, no corrections)
Thesis:
Animalism and the Human Perspective
Supervisors: Prof Lucy O’Brien, Dr Rory Madden, Prof Mike Martin,
Prof Paul Snowdon
Examiners: Prof Helen Steward, Dr Matthew Parrot
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2005 – 2009 Oriel College, University of Oxford
BPhil in Philosophy (Pass)
Thesis:
Persistence and Identity
Supervisor: Prof John Hawthorne
Papers:
Metaphysics & Epistemology, Mind & Action, Kant
2002 – 2005 King's College London
BA in Philosophy (1st Class)
PUBLICATIONS
forthcoming
2013
‘Judgments about Thought Experiments’
Mind
‘Conscious Experience: What’s in It for Me?’ (w/ Léa Salje)
The Sense of Mineness (OUP), García-Carpintero & Guillot (eds.)
‘Think Twice, It’s All Right: Animalism, Disunity and the Self ’
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
COLLECTIONS
Beings and Doings (w/ Alec Hinshelwood)
Edited volume in the Mind Association Occasional Series (OUP), subject to review
THESIS
Animalism and the Human Perspective
What are we? What can we survive? According to animalism, we are animals, and so can survive whatever the animals that we are can survive. I argue that animalism ought to be considered a default view, before turning a critical eye towards certain hypothetical cases that are
often taken to threaten it. The judgments about these cases that are thought to have anti-animalist import are then revealed to rest on certain widespread but unrecognised assumptions
concerning various aspects of the nature of mind, most notably mental realisation and psychological continuity. These assumptions are shown to be without motivation, and to be so even
when the central thoughts that motivate dissenting views concerning our nature are granted,
leaving us with no reason to abandon animalism.
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Studies interrupted September 2006 – October 2007 and January 2008 – October 2008.
TALKS
TBC
- Workshop on Memory and Mental Imagery, University of Antwerp, April 2017
‘Thought Experiments, Misjudgments and Sufficiency’
- London-Warwick Mind Forum, UCL, June 2015
- 12th Annual Berkeley-London Philosophy Conference, UC Berkeley, May 2015
‘Conscious Experience: What’s in It for Me?’ (w/ Léa Salje)
- LOGOS Conference on the Sense of Mineness, Barcelona, March 2015
‘Judgments about Thought Experiments’
- Graduate Conference on the Aims and Methods of Philosophy, CEU, April 2014
‘The I of the Beholder: Perceiving Oneself as Oneself ’
- Second PLM Conference, CEU, September 2013
- Graduate Conference, UCL, September 2013
‘What Is It Like to Have Disunified Consciousness?’
- Graduate Conference, UCL, September 2012
‘Think Twice, It’s All Right: Disunity and the Self ’
- Aristotelian Society/Mind Association Joint Session, Postgraduate Session, July 2012
- Summer University on Problems of the Self, CEU, June 2012
- Graduate Conference on Aspects of Self and Agency, CEU, March 2012
AWARDS
2016
2016
2015
2014
2013 – 2014
2012 – 2013
2012
2005 – 2008
2003
TEACHING
2016 – 2017 Introduction to Logic (1st year tutorials, Oxford)
2015 – 2016 Philosophy of Logic & Language (3rd year tutorials, Oxford)
Introduction to Logic (1st year tutorials, Oxford)
2014 – 2015 Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science (3rd year seminars, UCL)
Philosophy of Mind (2nd/3rd year seminars and stand-in lecture, UCL)
2013 – 2014 Intermediate Logic (2nd/3rd year seminars, UCL)
Epistemology (2nd year seminars, UCL)
2012 – 2013 Ethics, Metaphysics & Mind (1st year tutorials, UCL)
Summer School on Vision: Mind, Knowledge, Art and Politics (lecture
and seminars for year 12 students, UCL)
2011 – 2012 Metaphysics (2nd year seminars, UCL)
2009 – 2010 Epistemology (1st year tutorials, KCL)
History of Modern Philosophy (1st year tutorials, KCL)
WORKSHOPS
Sept. 2014
June 2012
Analysis Trust Conference Grant for Beings and Doings (£500)
Aristotelian Society Conference Grant for Beings and Doings (£365)
Mind Association Major Conference Grant for Beings and Doings (£2000)
RUB Scholarship to attend Memory and Mind workshop (c. £750)
Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Studentship (£8,000)
UCL Philosophy Department Follett Scholarship (£13,000)
CEU Scholarship to attend Problems of the Self workshop (£500)
AHRC Research Preparation Master’s Award (£26,000)
KCL Sambrooke Exhibition for best undergraduate performance (£250)
Memory and Mind: Perspectives from Philosophy and Neuroscience,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Two-week interdisciplinary workshop for graduates
Problems of the Self, Central European University
Two-week interdisciplinary workshop for graduates and post-docs
April 2012
10th BPPA Masterclass, Institute of Philosophy
Two-day masterclass with Timothy Williamson on modality/the a priori
SERVICE
Referee for Analysis, European Journal of Philosophy, OUP
Co-Organiser, Beings and Doings, UCL, 2016
International conference on the metaphysics of continuants, the metaphysics of action, and their interrelations. Speakers: Maria Alvarez, Matthew Boyle, Anton Ford,
Jennifer Hornsby, Rory Madden, Lucy O’Brien, Sebastian Rödl, and Helen Steward.
Event Assistant & Social Media Officer, Aristotelian Society, 2012 – 2014
Founding Co-Organiser, London–Warwick Mind Forum, 2012 – 2014
UCL Philosophy Department Staff–Student Consultative Committee, 2011 – 2015
REFEREES
Dr Rory Madden
University College London
Professor Mike Martin
University College London/UC Berkeley
Professor Bence Nanay
University of Antwerp/
University of Cambridge
Professor Lucy O’Brien
University College London
Professor Helen Steward
University of Leeds