WILLIAM J. TALBOTT
OFFICE:
Department of Philosophy
(206)543-5095
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Email:
wtalbott@u.washington.edu
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CURRICULUM
VITAE
I. EDUCATION
A.B., Philosophy,
Ph.D., Philosophy,
II. DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Title: The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism: A Mechanist Account of Empirical
Justification (March 1976).
Advisers: Robert Nozick and
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,
1990-96 Assistant Professor, Department of
Philosophy,
1996-2005 Associate Professor, Department of
Philosophy,
2005-
Professor, Department of Philosophy,
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? (
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? (
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
5.
6.
7.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers
for 1996-97.
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9.
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.