CONTACT INFO

Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
PO Box 210027
Tucson, AZ 85721-0027

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Philosophy (in progress)
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. August 2005—present

B.A. (with Honors) in Philosophy and English
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. September 2001—May 2005

PUBLICATIONS

Horgan, T. & John Pollock et. al. 2008. “An Objectivist Argument for Thirdism.” Analysis 68.2: 149-155.

Sanderman, Daniel R. 2004. “Why Socrates Mocks His Interlocutors.” Skepsis 15.3: 431-441

PRESENTATIONS

“Our Visual Experience of the World Cannot Be a Grand Illusion”
   Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
   Forest Grove, Oregon. April 2005.

Comment on Jennifer Roberts “On Calliclean Justice and Hedonism in Plato’s Gorgias
   Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
   Forest Grove, Oregon. April 2005.

“Why Socrates Mocks His Interlocutors”
   Lewis & Clark College Colloquia Series
   Portland, Oregon. March 2005.

“Pin the Tale on Chaucer: Academic Story-Hunting in The Cook’s Tale
   NUCL Undergraduate English Conference
   Portland, Oregon. April 2004.

“Meaning ‘Ain’t in the Head,’ But It Ain’t in the Water Either: A Wittgensteinian
Response to Putnam’s Externalism”
   Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
   Forest Grove, Oregon. April 2004.

Comment on Nathan Sherfinski’s “Might Makes War”
   Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
   Forest Grove, Oregon. April 2004.

“Why Socrates Mocks His Interlocutors”
   American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting
   Pasadena, California. March 2004.

“Why Socrates Mocks His Interlocutors”
   XIVth International Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture
   Pyrgos, Greece. July 2003.

Comment on “Whatever Did the God Mean”
   Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
   Forest Grove, Oregon. April 2003.

AWARDS

Troy Ridenour Award, Lewis & Clark College
2003-2004

Phi Beta Kappa (
φβκ), Gamma of Oregon at Lewis & Clark College
Inducted on April 14, 2005

Dean’s List, Lewis & Clark College
2002-2005

Dean’s Scholarship, Lewis & Clark College
2001-2005

SERVICE

Chaired Session on “Folk Intuitions About Lying”
   Presenter: Don Fallis & Adam Arico (University of Arizona)   Information Ethics Roundtable 2009
   Tucson, Arizona. April 2009.

Copyediting Work on Nature, Knowledge and Norms: An Introduction to Philosophy
   Editors: Mark Timmons, David Shoemaker
   November 2007.

Copyediting Work on Rationality and the Good: Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi
   Editors: Mark Timmons, John Greco, Alfred R. Mele
   May 2007.

Chaired Session on “Plato and Forgiveness as a Virtue”
   Presenter: Charles L. Griswold (Boston University)
   13th Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
   Tucson, Arizona. February 2007.

Copyediting Work on
Disputed Moral Issues: A Reader
   Editor: Mark Timmons
   September 2006.

Graduate Website Design Committee for the University of Arizona Department of Philosophy
   Fall 2006.

Chaired Session on “Thomson, 1st & 2nd Order Ways of Being Good”
   Presenter: Michael Beaty (Baylor University)
   American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting
   Portland, Oregon. March 2006.

MEMBERSHIP

American Philosophical Association (APA), 2003-present
Phi Beta Kappa (π
βκ), 2005-present

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Metaphysics & Epistemology
   Independent Study on Epistemology (with Keith Lehrer)

History of Philosophy
   PHIL 572A: Plato’s Metaphysics (with Rachana Kamtekar)
   PHIL 596P: Plato’s Psychology (with Rachana Kamtekar)
   PHIL 570:  The Presocratics (with Rachana Kamtekar)
   PHIL 570:  Ancient Ethics (with Julia Annas)
   PHIL 572B: Aristotle’s Non-Moral Philosophy (with Julia Annas)
   PHIL 596A: John Stuart Mill
   PHIL 596Q: Kant’s Critique (with Houston Smit)

Ethics & Value Theory
   PHIL 530A: Metaethics (with Mark Timmons)
   PHIL 596A: Virtue Ethics (with Julia Annas)
   PHIL 596A: Non-Eudaimonist Virtue Ethics (with Julia Annas)
   PHIL 596A: Moral Phenomenology (with Mark Timmons)

Logic, Language & Science
   PHIL 563: Philosophy of Language (with Shaughan Lavine)
   PHIL 596Z: Proseminar on Early Analytic Philosophy (with Shaughan Lavine)
   PHIL 696E: Master Seminar in Cognitive Science (with John Pollock)

TEACHING

Total Student Count: 4,449
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Daniel R. Sanderman

FALL 2010
   TRAD 104: Mind, Matter & God. A historical survey of philosophy.
   Co-Instructor & Developer of Online Course.
   Students: 470.

   TRAD 104: Mind, Matter & God.
   A historical survey of philosophy.
   Teaching Assistant for Christopher Maloney.
   Students: 550.

SUMMER 2010
   PHIL 302: Medical Ethics.
   Instructor.
   Students: 11.

SPRING 2010
   TRAD 104: Mind, Matter & God.
   A historical survey of philosophy.
   Teaching Assistant for Christopher Maloney.
   Students: 530.

FALL 2009
   TRAD 104: Mind, Matter & God.
   A historical survey of philosophy.
   Teaching Assistant for Christopher Maloney.
   Students: 547.

SPRING 2009
   TRAD 104: Mind, Matter & God.
   A historical survey of philosophy.
   Teaching Assistant for Christopher Maloney.
   Students: 552.

FALL 2008
   TRAD 104: Justice and Virtue.
   Survey of the history of moral philosophy, including Plato, Hobbes, Mill, Kant and Nietzsche.
   Teaching Assistant for Michael Gill.
   Students: 91.

   TRAD 104: Mind, Matter & God.
   A historical survey of philosophy.
   Teaching Assistant for Christopher Maloney.
   Students: 557.

SPRING 2008
   INDV 102: Personal Morality.
   Introduction to moral philosophy, focused by topics in applied ethics.
   Teaching Assistant for Michael Gill.
   Students: 93.

   TRAD 104: Mind, Matter & God.
   A historical survey of philosophy.
   Teaching Assistant for Christopher Maloney.
   Students: 563.

FALL 2007
   INDV 101: Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual.
   Topics focusing on the philosophy of mind, identity, freedom, religion & epistemology.
   Teaching Assistant for Shaun Nichols.
   Students: 91.

   PHIL 321: Medical Ethics.
   Topics in medical ethics.
   Teaching Assistant for Michael Gill.
   Students: 50.

SPRING 2007
   PHIL 260: Introduction to Ancient Philosophy.
   Introduction and survey of ancient philosophy.
   Teaching Assistant for Julia Annas.
   Students: 86.

FALL 2006
   TRAD 104: Justice and Virtue.
   Survey of the history of moral philosophy, including Plato, Aristotle, Mill & Kant.
   Teaching Assistant for Houston Smit.
   Students: 83.

SPRING 2006
   INDV 101: Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual.
   
Topics focusing on the philosophy of mind, identity, freedom, religion & epistemology.
   Teaching Assistant for Marga Reimer.
   Students: 82.

FALL 2005

   TRAD 104: Science & Inquiry.
   Introduction and survey of the philosophy of science.
   Teaching Assistant for Shaughan Lavine.
   Students: 86.