Hometown
Boston, Massachusetts
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics • Philosophy of Mind & Action
Areas of Competence
Early Analytic Philosophy • Philosophy of Religion
Appointments
University of Wyoming
Department of Philosophy
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
August 2008 - May 2009
Weber State University
Department of Political Science & Philosophy
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
August 2006 - May 2008
Methodist University
Department of Philosophy & Religion
Adjunct Instructor of Philosophy
May 2003 - July 2005 (Summers only)
Education
Ph.D., University of Utah
M.A., University of Mississippi
B.S., Methodist College
Publications
1. (co-authored w/ Shaun Nichols) Intuitions and individual differences: the Knobe effect revisited. Mind and Language (2007) 22.4: 346-365.
2. A conscientious resolution of the action paradox on Buridan’s Bridge. Southwest Philosophical Studies (2003) 25: 85-94.
3. (co-authored w/ Neal R. McCrillis) Circus maximus. in Joyce Duncan (ed.). Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture (1998).
Book Reviews
1. Rationality and logic by Robert Hanna (2006). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Polish Journal of Philosophy. (forthcoming).
2. The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell by Nicholas Griffin (ed.) (2004). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Disputatio: An International Journal of Philosophy (2005) 19: 282-286.
3. Paradoxes: Their Roots, Ranges, and Resolution by Nicholas Rescher (2001). Chicago: Open Court Press. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2004) 78.3: 514-517.
Invited Speaking Engagements
1. Action individuation in ordinary language. Philosophy Colloquium. Weber State University. March 2007.
2. What is experimental philosophy?
Philosophy Colloquium. Univ. of Mississippi. February 2007.
Nous Philosophy Club. Weber State University. April 2006.
3. Conceiving the inconceivable: On G.E.M. Anscombe’s ‘Contraception and Chastity’. Undergraduate Philosophy Club. University of Utah. March 2006.
4. The immorality of adultery. Department of Sociology. University of Utah. March 2006.
5. Zarathustra at the movies: a critique of film for everyone and no one. Invited student lecture. Methodist College. April 1998.
Peer-reviewed Speaking Engagements
1. Experimenting with Truth: on Tarski’s material adequacy condition. VIIIth Polish Philosophical Congress. Warsaw, Poland. September 2008.
2. Skeptical vertigo. Society for skeptical studies, APA - Pacific. March 2008.
3. Action under a description: what the folk say. Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2008.
4. (co-authored with Robert Barnard) Tarski and Naess: material adequacy meets experimental philosophy. Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2008.
5. Is the New Wittgensteinian conception of nonsense Wittgensteinian? Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2007.
6. Nonsense is plural: on the New Wittgensteinian misconception of nonsense. Delusion & Lucidity. Western Humanities Alliance Conference. October 2004. Winner of Western Humanities Alliance Travel Award
7. Multimodal practical reasoning. Ontology, Logic, and Aesthetics: the Golden Age of Polish Philosophy Conference. September 2004.
Winner of Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
8. Object theory renewed and epistemic intentional realism. Utah Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. April 2004.
9. Distinguishing judgments and weakness of will. Values, Rational Choice, and the Will: A Special Conference on Values. April 2004.
10. Buridan’s bridge and MacFarlane’s relative truth. Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2004.
11. From philology to philosophy: constructing Nietzsche’s perspectivism. Humanities Graduate Conference. April 2003.
12. Was early Wittgenstein, later Wittgenstein through ‘thick’ and ‘thin’? Rosenblatt Jr. Lecture Series. November 2002.
13. A conscientious resolution of the action paradox on Buridan’s bridge. West Texas / New Mexico Philosophical Society. April 2002.
14. Negotiating Buridan’s bridge. Joint meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society and the South Carolina Society for Philosophy. February 2002.
15. Beyond definition: a clarification of Philosophical Investigations section 43. Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2002.
Commentaries
1. Respondent to Jacob Held, “The Place of “Redemption” in Ethical Theory.” Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2008.
2. Respondent to Richard Liebendorfer, “Wittgenstein’s expressivism.” American Philosophical Association - Pacific Division Meeting. April 2007.
3. Respondent to James Downey, “Private language and cohabitation.” Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2007.
4. Respondent to Shoni Rancher, “Reconciling Hegel’s Antigone.” Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference. March 2006.
5. Respondent to Tracie Mahaffey, “The price of pornography: Posner on pornography and policy.” Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference. February 2005.
6. Respondent to Natika Newton, “Mental representation in action.” Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2004.
7. Respondent to Eric Dickson, “A reading of the major insertions in Hegel’s Phenomenology.” Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2002.
8. Respondent to Timothy Lord, “With R.G. Collingwood in Mind: the reception of his work, 1919-1945.” Mid-South Philosophy Conference. February 2001.
Honrs and Awards
Weber State University - Crystal Crest Teaching Award Nominee
University of Utah - University Teaching Fellowship
University of Utah - Department Teaching Assistantship
University of Utah - Rookie Teaching Assistant of the Year
University of Mississippi - Department Teaching Assistantship
Methodist College - Dr. Marie C. Fox Philosophy Award
Methodist College - George & Lillian Miller History Award
Professional Service
Referee for Mind and Language, Blackwell Publishers, and Routledge Press
Editorial Board Member of Polish Journal of Philosophy
Reader for Broadview Press
Creator and Coordinator, Intermountain West Student Philosophy Conference
Coordinator, Philosophy Department’s Teaching Assistant Training Program
Professional Organization Affiliations
American Philosophical Association
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Society for Skeptical Studies
History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Joseph Ulatowski
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
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Curriculum Vita (updated May ‘08)