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D. S. Neil van Leeuwen
Recent PhD
Mailing:
The Center for Cultural Analysis
Rutgers University
8 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 650-450-2292
Email: neilvl@gmail.com
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Education History
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BA, University of Pennsylvania, Classics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Guest Student
M.St., Oxford, Classics
PhD, Stanford, Philosophy
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Areas of Interest
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Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Logic, Ancient Philosophy
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Selected Bibliography
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"The Spandrels of Self-Deception: Prospects for a Biological Theory of a
Mental Phenomenon," Philosophical Psychology Vol. 20, No. 3, June 2007, pp. 329-348
"Finite Rational Self-Deceivers" (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies)
"The Product of Self-Deception," Erkenntnis vol. 67, 2007, pp. 419-437
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Recent Courses
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Philosophy 50S: Introduction to Logic
Philosophy 20S: Introduction to Moral Philosophy
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Links and Online Papers
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Below are some papers I've written. In cases where the papers are
being published, what you have here is not the journal version, but
rather the last thing I sent off prior to the proofs stage. Please
feel free to send comments (neilvl@gmail.com)!
- 1. "Beliefs in Action" (under review) develops a theory about what
the role of belief is in practical life and uses the theory to solve
the problem Hume raises about distinguishing belief from imagining.
- 2. "Finite Rational Self-Deceivers" (forthcoming in Philosophical
Studies) argues that the human capacity for self-deception is a
byproduct of other features of mind that enable rational cognition in
finite creatures.
- 3. "The Product of Self-Deception" (2007, Erkenntnis vol. 67)
defends the view that the cognitive attitude self-deception gives rise
to is belief--not merely "avowal" or "avowed belief" as Audi and Rey
have argued.
- 4. "The Spandrels of Self-Deception" (2007, Philosophical
Psychology vol. 20, no. 3) argues that the capacity for self-deception
is an evolutionary spandrel/structural byproduct, not an adaptation.
- 5. _Belief and Other Cognitive Attitudes is at present in the
outline stages; I hope to have the book drafted by fall of 2009.
- 6. "Necessity, Probability, and Philosophical Pleasure in Aristotle's
_Poetics_" is the M.St. thesis I wrote as a classicist at Oxford.
Although it lacks some of the philosophical polish I acquired in the
course of doing my PhD--which is not to imply that I have a lot of
polish now either--it is my favorite piece of writing to date.
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