Jason Allen Newman
Department of Philosophy
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106
jnewman at umail dot ucsb dot edu
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara, expected June 2009.
M.A., C.Phil., Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara, March, 2007.
Thesis: "The Explanatory Role of Experience"
B.A., Philosophy, Georgia Southern University, December, 2001 (magna cum laude).
Areas of Specialization:
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Psychology
Philosophy of Language
Areas of Competence:
Ethical Theory (incl. Meta-ethics and Normative Ethics)
Biomedical Ethics
Epistemology
Medieval Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Experience
Instructor (full responsibility)
East Georgia College
PHIL2101: Introduction to Philosophy, Spring 2003.
University of California, Santa Barbara
PHIL1: Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2007.
Teaching Assistant - University of California, Santa Barbara
PHIL4: Introduction to Ethics (Winter 2004, Fall 2005).
PHIL1: Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2004, Fall 2006, Spring 2007).
PHIL100A: Advanced Ethics for Philosophy Majors (Fall 2004).
PHIL100B: Theory of Knowledge (Winter 2005).
PHIL20C: History of Modern Philosophy (Spring 2005).
PHIL20B: History of Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (Summer 2005, Winter 2007).
PHIL7: Biomedical Ethics (Winter 2006).
PHIL100D: Philosophy of Mind (Spring 2006).
PHIL100E: Metaphysics (Winter 2008).
Honors and Awards
Ralph W. Church Fellow, 2003-2004.
Professional Service
Referee, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
Papers in Progress
"The Possibility of Nonlinguistic Thought"
"The Explanatory Role of Experience"
"Frege Cases and Psychology"
"Mentalese, Computation and Representational Form"
Presentations
"Knowledge and Doubt," East Georgia College, 2003.