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Curriculum Vitae

MILES RIND

Department of Philosophy 
Bentley College
175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452-4705
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EDUCATION • Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Chicago, March 1998.  Dissertation:  “Kant and the Problem of Judgments of Taste.”  Committee:  Ted Cohen, Michael Forster, Robert Pippin
• A.B., Philosophy with Honors in Humanities, with Distinction, Stanford University, June 1982
• Graduate study in philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, autumn 1985
• German language study at University of Freiburg, summer 1981, and University of Bonn, summer 1989
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION
• Philosophy of Kant
• Aesthetics
• Early modern philosophy
AREAS OF
TEACHING
COMPETENCE
• Ethics and value theory
• Analytic philosophy
• Philosophy and literature
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
HELD
• Visiting Scholar, Brandeis University, 2003–2005
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bentley College, autumn 2004
• Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Suffolk University, spring 2004
• Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University, autumn 2003
• Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University, 2001–2003
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, 2000–2001
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech, 1999–2000
• Lecturer, Harold Washington College and University of Chicago Hospital Academy, 1998
• Instructor, College of the University of Chicago, 1994
• Instructor, Continuing Education, University of Chicago, 1991
• Grader and Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago, 1988–1991
PRINCIPAL
PUBLICATIONS
“Addison, Joseph and “Longinus, Pseudo- in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed., ed. by Donald Borchert (Macmillan, forthcoming)
• “Kant’s Beautiful Roses: A Response to Cohen’s ‘Second Problem’,” British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (2003): 65–74
• “Can Kant’s Deduction of Judgments of Taste Be Saved?”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 84 (2002):  20–45
• “The Concept of Disinterestedness in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2002):  67–87
• “The Trouble with Kant’s Deduction of Judgments of Taste,” in Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Ralph Schumacher, eds., Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Neunten Internationalen Kant Kongresses (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001), 3: 462–67
• “What Is Claimed in a Kantian Judgment of Taste?”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (2000):  63–85
BOOK REVIEWS • Immanuel Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment, translated by Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2001):  594–96
• Richard Eldridge, On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (1991):  169–70
PAPERS
PRESENTED
“German Enlightenment Aesthetics,” at American Society for Aesthetics meeting, Houston, October 2004
• “Kant’s Concept of Practical Interest,” at North American Kant Society Midwest Study Group, Chicago, November 2002
• “The Concept of Disinterestedness in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics,” Brandeis University Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry, October 2002
• “Kant on ‘Interested’ Sensory Pleasures,” at American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2002
• “Observations on Kant’s Critique of Taste,” at Brandeis University, June 2001
• “The Priority Problem in Kant’s Theory of Taste, Or Who’s on First?”, at the University of Cincinnati, November 2000
• “‘Disinterestedness’ and the Definition of Aesthetics,” at Oberlin College, June 2000; at Hamilton College, February 2000; at Virginia Tech, February 2000
• “The Trouble with Kant’s Deduction of Taste,” at Ninth International Kant Congress, Berlin, March 2000
• “Can Kant’s Deduction of Judgments of Taste Be Saved?”, symposium paper at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting, Berkeley, April 1999
• “Kant’s Problem about Judgments of Taste,” at Southwest Missouri State University, March 1999
HONORS,
GRANTS, AND
FELLOWSHIPS
• National Endowment for the Humanities stipend for participation in Summer Institute on Art, Mind, and Cognitive Science at University of Maryland, summer 2002
• Virginia Tech Foundation International Travel Supplemental Grant and Virginia Tech College of Arts and Sciences Grant for travel to Berlin for International Kant Congress, March 2000
• Departmental Honors for Ph.D. dissertation and defense, University of Chicago, December 1997
• University graduate scholarship, University of Chicago, 1986–89
• University graduate fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1985–86
• A.B. with Honors in Humanities, with Distinction, Stanford University, 1982
ACADEMIC
SERVICE
• Colloquium Officer, Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 2002–2003
• Founder and administrator, The Boston-Area Philosophy Mailing List (2002–present)
• Founder and administrator, The Boston-Area Philosophy Calendar (2002–present)
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association
American Society for Aesthetics
British Society of Aesthetics
North American Kant Society
LANGUAGES • German (advanced reading and speaking knowledge)
• French (advanced reading knowledge; speaking competence)
• Italian (reading and speaking competence)
• Latin (basic grammatical knowledge)
REFERENCES • Ted Cohen, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago (web page)
• Martha Nussbaum, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, University of Chicago (web page)
• Paul Guyer, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania (web page)
• Robert Pippin, Department of Philosophy and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago (web page)
• Michael Forster, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago (web page)
• Daniel Garber, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University (web page)
• Andreas Teuber, Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University (web page)

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