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Susanna Rinard ________________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: Department of Philosophy Emerson Hall 209B Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138

E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 617 495 3970 Office: Emerson Hall 320

Areas of Specialization and Competence ________________________________________________________________________ AOS: Epistemology, Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science AOC: Philosophy of Religion, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Ethics Employment ________________________________________________________________________ Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University (Fall 2014 – present) Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri at Kansas City (Fall 2011 – Spring 2014) Education ________________________________________________________________________ Ph.D. in Philosophy, MIT 2006 – 2011 Dissertation: Reasoning one’s Way out of Skepticism Committee: Roger White (chair), Alex Byrne, Robert Stalnaker B.A. in Philosophy with honors, Stanford University 2002 – 2006 Honors and Awards _______________________________________________________________ Research Fellowship, University of Missouri Research Board

2013-14

Bersoff Fellowship, NYU (offer declined)

2011

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2007-11

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Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (offer declined in favor of NSF)

2007

Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Humanities, Stanford University 2006 Publications ________________________________________________________________________ “Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation” Forthcoming in a volume on explanationist themes in epistemology, edited by Ted Poston and Kevin Ray McCain “No Exception for Belief” Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research “Against the New Evidentialists” Forthcoming in Philosophical Issues, supplement to Nous “A Decision Theory for Imprecise Probabilities” In Philosophers’ Imprint 15(7): 1-16 (2015) “The Principle of Indifference and Imprecise Probability” In Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 3(2):110-114 (2014) “A New Bayesian Solution to the Paradox of the Ravens” In Philosophy of Science 81(1):81-100 (2014) “Against Radical Credal Imprecision” In Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 2(1):157-165 (2013) “Why Philosophy Can Overturn Common Sense” In Oxford Studies in Epistemology, volume 4 (2013) Reprinted in Epistemology (Critical Concepts in Philosophy) ed. Ram Neta Presentations ________________________________________________________________________ TBD Conference on Formal and Traditional Epistemology, St. Louis, MO (04/16) TBD Brown Philosophy Department Colloquium (02/05/16) TBD NYU Philosophy Department Colloquium (11/20/15) “Skepticism and Doxastic Adventures” Australian National University, Thursday Seminar, Philosophy (07/15/15)

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“Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation” Orange Beach Epistemology Workshop (05/17/15) “Is It Always Wrong to Believe on Insufficient Evidence?” Tuesday Night Lecture Series, Boston University Graduate School for Visual Arts (03/31/15) “Reasoning one’s Way out of Skepticism” The Jowett Society, Oxford Philosophy (03/13/15) “Reasoning one’s Way out of Skepticism” Metaphysics Workshop, White Stallion Ranch, Tucson, AZ (01/15) “Imprecise Probability and Higher Order Vagueness” Philosophy of Science Conference, Chicago, IL (11/14) “No Exception for Belief” Midwest Epistemology Workshop, University of Michigan Philosophy (09/14) “Imprecise Probability and Higher Order Vagueness” UC-Irvine Department of Logic and the Philosophy of Science Colloquium (05/02/14) “Reasoning one’s Way out of Skepticism” University of Missouri at Columbia Philosophy Department Colloquium (03/21/14) “Against Radical Credal Imprecision” APA Central Division Meeting (02/28/14) “Imprecise Probability and Higher Order Vagueness” Harvard University Philosophy Department, Invited Talk (01/17/14) “Against Radical Credal Imprecision” Missouri Philosophy of Science Conference, MU-Columbia (10/12/13) “How Should a Bayesian Respond to the Ravens Paradox?” MITing of the Minds Conference, MIT Philosophy (01/27/07) Commentary on Dan Steel’s “Must a Bayesian Accept the Likelihood Principle?” Formal Epistemology Workshop, University of Texas, Austin (05/29/05) “Interaction and Altruism” PhilSoc Seminar Series, Australian National University RSSS (11/22/04)

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Courses Taught ________________________________________________________________________ Philosophy of Probability M&E Dissertation Workshop Skepticism The Ethics of Belief

Spring 2015, Harvard Spring 2015, Harvard Fall 2014, Harvard Fall 2014, Harvard Graduate Seminar

Philosophy of Probability Logic I: Foundations of Logic Logic II: First-Order Logic Logic III: Metatheory Epistemology Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Religion Asian Philosophy

Fall 2012, UMKC Fall 2011, Spring 2012, UMKC Spring 2012, Fall 2012, UMKC Fall 2013, UMKC Fall 2013, UMKC Spring 2012, UMKC Fall 2011, UMKC Fall 2012, UMKC

Service to the Profession ________________________________________________________________________ Referee: Synthese (2015), Philosophical Studies (2014), Nous (2014), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2012), University of Missouri Research Board (2011), Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference (2010), Journal of Philosophical Research (2007) Departmental and University Service ________________________________________________________________________ Merit/Term-time Graduate Fellowship Committee, Harvard (2014 – 2015) Director and Organizer, UMKC Philosophy Speaker Series (2011 – 2013) UMKC Philosophy Scholarship Subcommittee (2011 – 2013) UMKC Philosophy Adjunct Subcommittee (2012 – 2013) Designer of new UMKC Philosophy Website (2012) Presenter, Information Session: Graduate School in Philosophy, UMKC (2011, 2012) Speaker (Topic: Higher Order Vagueness), UMKC Philosophy Squares (Fall 2013) Speaker (Topic: Skepticism), UMKC Philosophy Squares (Fall 2012) Speaker (Topic: The Ravens Paradox), UMKC Philosophy Squares (Spring 2012) Outreach: Radio ________________________________________________________________________ Is the Mind a Physical Thing? (with Agustin Rayo) Central Standard, KCUR 89.3 FM (Kansas City Public Radio)

01/23/14

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Listen here: http://kcur.org/post/philosophy-mind The Problem of Evil Central Standard, KCUR 89.3 FM (Kansas City Public Radio) Listen here: http://kcur.org/post/problem-evil

06/11/13

Philosophy of Doubt Central Standard, KCUR 89.3 FM (Kansas City Public Radio) Listen here: http://kcur.org/post/philosophy-doubt

03/14/13

Outreach: Video ________________________________________________________________________ Intelligence and the Good Life Interview on Boston Neighborhood Network, Spring 2015 Guest Speaker in Paradox and Infinity (EdX course taught by Agustin Rayo) Outreach: Text ________________________________________________________________________ TBD Forthcoming in Think: Philosophy for Everyone “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) on Reddit with Agustin Rayo (06/10/15)

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