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Curriculum Vitae
MILES RIND
| Department
of Philosophy Bentley College 175 Forest Street Waltham, MA 02452-4705 E-mail (link) |
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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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