WILLIAM J. TALBOTT

 

 

OFFICE:  Department of Philosophy

Box 353350

University of Washington

Seattle, WA  98195-3350

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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

I.  EDUCATION

 

            A.B., Philosophy, Princeton University, 1970.

            Ph.D., Philosophy, Harvard University, 1976.

 

 

II.  DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

 

            Title:  The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism:  A Mechanist Account of Empirical Justification (March 1976).  Advisers:  Robert Nozick and Israel Scheffler.

 

 

III.  AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

 

            Epistemology, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, the Philosophy of Human Rights, Rational Choice Theory, and the Philosophy of Law.

 

 

IV.  TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

1989-90  Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington.

 

1990-96  Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington.

 

1996-2005  Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington.

 

2005-          Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington.

V.  PUBLICATIONS

 

            A. Books

 

1.  The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism:  A Mechanist Account of Empirical Justification (New York: Garland Publishing; 1990).

 

2.  Which Rights Should Be Universal? (Oxford University Press, 2005).

 

3.  Human Rights and Human Well-Being (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

 

            B. Articles

 

1.  "Standard and Non-Standard Newcomb Problems", Synthese, Vol. 70 (1987), pp. 415-458.

 

2.  "Cost Spreading and Benefit Spreading in Tort Law", Research in Law and Economics, Vol. 11 (1988), pp. 25-51.

 

3.  "Two Principles of Bayesian Epistemology", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 62 (1991), pp. 135-150.

 

4.  "Intentional Self-Deception in a Single, Coherent Self", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 55 (1995), pp. 27-74.

 

5.  Alvin I. Goldman, co-author, "Games Lawyers Play:  Legal Discovery and Social Epistemology", Legal Theory, Vol. 4 (1998), pp. 93-163. 

 

6.  "Why We Need A Moral Equilibrium Theory", Peter A. Danielson, ed., Modeling Rationality, Morality, and Evolution (Oxford:  Oxford University Press; 1998), pp. 302-339.

 

7.  "Bayesian Epistemology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2001 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2001/entries/epistemology-bayesian/.

 

8.  "The Illusion of Defeat", in James Beilby, ed., Naturalism Defeated? (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press; 2002), pp. 153-164.

 

 

            C. Reviews and Commentaries

 

1.  Review of Robert Nozick, The Nature of Rationality, in The Philosophical Review, Vol. 104 (April 1995), pp. 324-329.

 

2.  Review of Richard E. Nisbett, ed., Rules for Reasoning, in Philosophy & Psychology, Vol. 8 (December 1995), pp. 390-396.

 

3.  Commentary on A.R. Mele, "Real Self-Deception", in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 20 (1997), p. 127.

 

4.  Review of Frederic Schick, Making Choices:  A Recasting of Decision Theory, in Mind, Vol. 110 (2001), pp. 827-833.

 

5.  "The Case for a More Truly Social Epistemology", review of Alvin Goldman, Knowledge in a Social World, in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 64 (Jan. 2002), pp. 199-206. 

 

6.  Review of A.R. Lacey, Robert Nozick, and David Schmidtz, ed., Robert Nozick, in Philosophical Books 44:4 (Oct. 2003), pp. 355-358.

 

7.  Review of David Christensen, David, Putting Logic in its Place, Formal Constraints on Rational Belief, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (10/4/2005) URL: = http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4181.

 

8.  Review of Hilary Kornblith, Knowledge and its Place in Nature, forthcoming in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research. 

 

 

VI.  GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

 

1.  Danforth Fellow, 1970.

 

2.  Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1970.

 

3.  "Benefit Spreading Agreements and Justice" was co-winner of the 1985 Rockefeller Prize for Best Work in Philosophy by a Non- Academically Affiliated Philosopher awarded by the A.P.A. Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research.

 

4.  University of Washington Graduate School Fund Research Grant for the Summer of 1992.

 

5.  University of Washington, Arts and Sciences Scholarly Exchange Program, to fund a series of outside speakers on the topic:  "Risk Assessment in the Evaluation of New Medical Treatments" (co-author), Spring 1994.

 

6.  University of Washington, Arts & Sciences Mentoring Grant, Summer 1994.

 

7.  National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers for 1996-97.

 

8.  University of Washington, Human Rights Education and Research Network, Course Development Grant, Summer 1999.

 

9.  University of Washington, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities Research Fellow, 2000-2001.

 

10.  "Games Lawyers Play", co-authored with Alvin Goldman, 2001 Berger Prize from the American Philosophical Association for the best essay in philosophy and law.

 

11.  Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honour Society (one of two U.W. faculty members recognized for outstanding teaching), 2003-2004.

 

12.  U.W. Faculty Grant for Writing-Integrated Course Design, 2005-2006.