User:KSchutte

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Kevin M. I. Schutte
University of California
Department of Philosophy
South Hall 5432W
Santa Barbara, California 93106

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[edit] Curriculum Vitae

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, 2003, California State University, Sacramento
-Concentration in Logic and Philosophy of Science
-Concentration in Applied Ethics and Philosophy of Law

Student member of:

• American Philosophical Association
• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
• The Cognitive Science Society
• The Jean Piaget Society
• Philosophy of Science Association
• Society for Philosophy and Psychology

[edit] Areas of Specialization (in progress)

• Philosophy of Science/Neuroscience
• Inductive Logic/Philosophical Logic

[edit] My Research

• I am a naturalist with respect to all philosophical issues, and view philosophy as a meta-science. I believe that any entities that cannot be accounted for by the scientific method are objects about which we cannot speak meaningfully. I believe the abstract objects posited in the "pure sciences" of logic and mathematics are psychological tools for improving our understanding of the world, but not Platonic objects or universals, even transcendental or abstract ones. I believe the facts posited in the "normative sciences" of ethics and epistemology are ultimately psychological in nature. I hope to use these positions to clarify descriptions and analyses in the philosophy of science of the mind.
• My views roughly coincide with the following:

• METAPHYSICS: associationism, atheism, compatibilism, connectionism, Darwinism, determinism, functionalism, Haeckel's naturalistic hylozoism, mental/methodological individualism, naturalism, ontological relativism, panpsychism, projectivism, "process philosophism", "substance nihilism".

• EPISTEMOLOGY/PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: agnosticism, coherentism, empiricism, fallibilism, holism, instrumentalism, neopragmatism, Comte's positivism, pragmatism, quasi-realism, reliabilism, subjectivism, "phenomenologism", "virtue-theorism".

• LOGIC/MATHEMATICS: conceptualism, conventionalism, constructivism, intuitionism, psychologism, quasi-realism, "deflationism".

• POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: capitalism, constitutionalism, individualism, (American) liberalism.

• ETHICS: existentialism, feminism, humanism, masculism, moral particularism, prescriptivism, quasi-realism, subjectivism, "virtue-theorism", "abilitarianism".

[edit] Current Projects

• I'm working on a meta-analysis of epistemology/ethics/mathematics. I intend to produce a system that yields induction and a pedagogical fallacy. (Basically, the idea is that good teaching is logically analogous to true speaking.) This project is influenced by the work of John Locke, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.L. Mackie, Hartry Field and Crispin Wright, primarily the last.
• I'm exploring the phenomena of developmental disorders (especially autism) and their relation to consciousness, focusing specifically on the issue of how and when consciousness arises in the child.
• I'm researching the consequences of the Kornhuber-Libet experiments; I aim to show that the consequences (though correctly implying no executive action) aren't threatening to free will or moral psychology.
• I'm reviewing the literature on left hemispherectomy patients in consideration of the extent and limit of the plasticity of the brain/mind.
• I'm conducting a thorough analysis of the Theory of Mind literature in developmental psychology, and giving an explanation as to why its fundamental assumptions are flawed beyond repair. I provide an alternate (non-cognitive, psychophysical) intuitive explanation for the phenomena that doesn't depend on these assumptions.

[edit] My To-Read List

• L. E. J. Brouwer
• Michael Dummett
• Hartry Field
• Gottlob Frege
• John Locke
• J. L. Mackie
• J. H. Muirhead
• Martha Nussbaum
• Charles Peirce
• Wilfrid Sellars
• J. J. C. Smart
• Hans Vaihinger
• Bas van Fraassen
• Gregory Vlastos
• Bernard Williams
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Crispin Wright

[edit] Minor Philosophical Interests

The hand with a wheel on the palm symbolizes the Jain Vow of Ahimsa, meaning non-injury and non-violence. The word in the middle of the wheel reads "ahimsa." This logo represents halting the cycle of reincarnation through relentless pursuit of truth.

(This is intended to be a maximally extensive list.)
Feminism and Gender Studies
History of Natural Philosophy
Metaphilosophy
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Education

[edit] My Major Wikipedia Contributions

• Deaths of philosophers
• List of philosophers - (I originally added the references to the list, and I also later split the list chronologically)
• List of philosophical topics (A-C)
• List of philosophical topics (D-H)
• List of philosophical topics (I-Q)
• List of philosophical topics (R-Z)
• List of women philosophers
• Material conditional
• Timeline of Eastern philosophers
• Purely for entertainment value and to answer the question "What can you do with a degree in philosophy?", I created list of famous people with a philosophy degree.
• I am working on a draft for the article Philosophy. That draft can be found here.

[edit] Future Contributions

Over the next year, I'd like to work on the following articles:

• List of living philosophers and academics of philosophy

Notes: finish updating institutions for the names already on the list, then add beginning from the top university on this list, noting the Emeritus/Emerita status of these people, if not already indicated. When finished, make a subpage to watch "what links here".

• Philosophy on the radio

Notes: Links below.

• Philosophical underworld

Notes: Ayn Rand, quantum consciousness garbage, Integral theory on wikipedia, and genuine underground philosophy like embodied mind stuff.

• Philosophy on the internet

Notes: Phil review and any other notable PR journals online. Link link link! Organization is crucial.

• List of calls for papers in philosophy

Notes: Organization and comprehensiveness crucial. 5 broad categories, and then further divide: Undergrad, grad, interdisc, continental, analytic.

• List of conferences in philosophy by location
• List of conferences in philosophy by topic

Check my conference-spam account, update anything I find, categorize well. After doing my best e-mail Leiter's crew about the three above and try and get them to blog these.

• Philosophical fiction

Notes: Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Goethe, Voltaire, Iris Murdoch, Umberto Eco, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Luis Borges, Ayn Rand, Franz Kafka, Robert Pirsig, Milan Kundera, Jostein Gaarder, philosophical dialogue, Utopia

• Teaching philosophy

Notes:

• Journals of philosophy

Notes: Describe tiers of journals, link those we have articles for.

• thought experiments

Notes:

• philosophy and humor

Notes: Ricky Gervais, Matt Groening, Lewis Carroll, Voltaire

• popular philosophy

Notes: Describe the popular notion of philosophy. Explain how it is different from the analytic, academic conception.

• list of paradoxes

Notes: organize

• list of fallacies

Notes: organize

• List of philosophy anniversaries

Notes: Update from my private database

• Graduate school in philosophy

Notes: It's tough.  :P

• Writing philosophy

Notes: Link Jim Pryor.

[edit] Recommended Links

• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
• The London Philosophy Study Guide

[edit] Philosophy on the Radio

• http://audiostoa.blogspot.com
• http://thesciphishow.blogspot.com/
• http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/philosopher/
• http://www.guerrillaradioshow.com/
• http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/ltppc/web/radio.html
• http://www.philosophytalk.org/
• http://www.thoughtaudio.com
• http://www.wrestlethatshark.com/

[edit] Other

• If you have a mouse with a scrolling-wheel on it, you can hold down the ctrl key on your keyboard while spinning that wheel to make web text smaller (for printing) or larger (for reading). I discovered this extremely useful information by chance and have since wondered why no one told me, so now I am telling you.
• I'm tickled by the fact that at present there are no articles in Category:Unsolved problems in philosophy.

• Catholic Probabilism: Pretty nearly straight from the old Catholic Encyclopedia
• Counterfactuals: Needs fuller and more accurate summary of main theories, as well as indication of philosophical importance in other topics, notably causation and inference.
• Human agency: Expand, correct, and reference. Any support for altering the name?
• Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology Sartre's magnum opus, barely more than a stub
• Übermensch: desperately needs knowledgable attention
• Kant's Groundwork: re-write, expand