CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Ron Mallon

 

Philosophy Department, University of Utah                                                                                                                          

341 OSH, 260 S. Central Campus Drive                                                                                                                                     

Salt Lake City, UT  84112         

801-585-5810              

rmallon@philosophy.utah.edu                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Employment History:

 

2006-Present                                                      Associate Professor                                 University of Utah

2005-2006                                                             Laurence S. Rockefeller                Center for Human Values

                                                                                                     Visiting Fellowship                         Princeton University

2001-2006                                                             Assistant Professor                                   University of Utah

2001-2003                                                             Research Assistant Professor Hong Kong University

2000-2001                                                             Visiting Assistant Professor       University of Utah

 

Education:

1994-2000:                       Ph.D.                 Philosophy                                                            Rutgers University

1989-1993:                       B.A.                    Philosophy, English                               University of Kansas

 

Teaching Areas:

Mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science and Social Science, Social and Political Theory, Metaphysics, Ethics

 

Grants, Awards and Support:

2005-2006    Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, Center for Human Values,   Princeton University

1999-2000    Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation

1998-1999         University Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University

1996                            Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science Summer Internship

1994-1996         University Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University

1994                            Kate Stevens Graduate Study Award, University of Kansas

1991-1993         University Scholar, University of Kansas

1989-1993         Summerfield Scholar, University of Kansas

1989-1993         Dane G. Hansen Leader of Tomorrow Scholar, Dane G. Hansen

                                            Foundation

 

Publications:

  1. Mallon, R., E. Machery, S. Nichols and S. Stich (under review). "Against Arguments from Reference."

                       

  1. Sinnott-Armstrong, W., R. Mallon, T. McCoy and J. G. Hull (forthcoming). "Intention, Temporal Order, and Moral Judgments." Mind and Language.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. and S. Nichols (forthcoming). Moral Reasoning, Moral Rules, and Moral Dilemmas. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. J. Doris, S. Nichols and S. Stich. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

                       

  1. Kelly, D., E. Machery and R. Mallon (forthcoming). Racial Cognition and Normative Racial Theory. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. J. Doris, S. Nichols and S. Stich. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2007). "Human Categories Beyond Non-Essentialism." Journal of Political Philosophy 15(2): 146-168.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2007). "Arguments from Reference and the Worry About Dependence." Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXXI: 160-183.

                       

  1. Nichols, S. and R. Mallon (2006). "Moral Rules and Moral Dilemmas." Cognition 100: 530-542.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. and J. Weinberg (2006). "Innateness as Closed Process Invariance." Philosophy of Science 73: 323-344.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2006). "A Field Guide to Social Construction." Philosophy Compass 2(1): 93-108.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2006). "'Race': Normative, Not Metaphysical or Semantic." Ethics 116(3): 525-551.

                       

  1. Leslie, A. M., R. Mallon and J. A. DiCorcia (2006). "Transgressors, victims, and cry babies:  Is basic moral judgment spared in autism?" Social Neuroscience 1(3-4): 270-283.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2004). "Passing, Traveling, and Reality: Social Construction and the Metaphysics of Race." Nožs 38(4): 644-673.

                       

  1. Machery, E., R. Mallon, S. Nichols and S. Stich (2004). "Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style." Cognition 92: B1-B12.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2003). Social Construction, Social Roles and Stability. Socializing Metaphysics. F. Schmitt. Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield: 327-353.

                       

  1. Faucher, L., R. Mallon, D. Nazer, S. Nichols, A. Ruby, S. Stich and J. Weinberg (2002). The Baby in the Lab-Coat: Why Child Development is Not an Adequate Model for Understanding the Development of Science. The Cognitive Basis of Science. P. Carruthers and S. P. Stich. New York, Cambridge University Press: 335-362.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. and S. P. Stich (2000). "The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology." Philosophy of Science 67: 133-154.

                       

  1. Faucher, L. and R. Mallon (2000). L'autre en lui-mme: psychologie zombie et schizophrenie. Perspectives sur le fossŽ explicatif. P. Poirer and D. Fisette. Paris, L'Harmattan.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (1999). "Political Liberalism, Cultural Membership, and the Family." Social Theory and Practice 25: 271-297.

                       

 

Comments, Book Reviews, Misc:

 

  1. Mallon, R. (2007). Reviving Rawls Inside and Out. Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. W. Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 2: 145-155.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2007). Ought We to Abandon a Domain-General Treatment of 'Ought'? Moral Psychology, Volume 1: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness. W. Sinnott-Armstrong. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 1: 121-130.

                       

  1. Kelly, D., E. Machery, R. Mallon, K. Mason and S. P. Stich (2006). "The Role of Psychology in the Study of Culture." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29(4): 355.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2006). Social Roles. World Book Encyclopedia.

                       

  1. Mallon, R. (2005). "The Cognitive Science of Social Science: Still Waiting for the Revolution." The Journal of Economic Methodology 12(1): 156-163.

                       

 

Submitted Work:

  1. "Knobe vs. Machery Deathmatch: Testing the Trade-off Hypothesis." Under Review.

 

Works in Preparation:

  1. Book Project: Making Up Your Mind: The Social Construction of Human Kinds and Its Implications
  2. "Do Dual-Process Distinctions Pick out a Pair of Complementary Natural Kinds?"
  3. "Making Up Your Mind and Explaining Yourself"

 

 

 

Presentations:

 

(April, 28, 2008):  "Anti-Racialism Beyond the Standard Objection."  Invited Paper,

                                                            Analytic Philosophy of Race Conference, San Francisco University.

(Nov. 29, 2007):       Work-in-Progress Lecture, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah.

(Oct. 12, 2007):        "Making Up Your Mind and Explaining Yourself." Invited Paper.  Arizona Colloquium series.

(Sept, 20, 2007)       "Anti-Racialism Beyond the Standard Objection."  Invited Paper,    Edmonton, Alberta.

April 20, 2007             "Moral Rules and Moral Dilemmas."  Invited Colloquium

                                                Presentation, Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago.

April 4, 2007                 "Making Up Your Mind and Explaining Yourself," Invited Colloquium Presentation, Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco.

March 31, 2007  "Racial Cognition and Normative Racial Theory."  Moral Psychology Research Group, Washington University, St, Louis.

Dec. 28, 2006               "Comments on Glasgow."  Eastern meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C.

October 1, 2006  "Context and Culture: Explaining the Social Construction of Covert Social Roles" Developmental and Clinical-Child Family Psychology Program Lectures, University of Utah

June 2, 2006:                 "Comments on Cushman," Society for Philosophy and Psychology, St. Louis, MO.

April 5, 2006:               "What Metaphysics Can Learn from the Philosophy of Race," Rutgers-Newark.

Feb. 21, 2006:              "The Continued Importance of Moral Rules." Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science.

Dec. 14, 2005:             "The Continued Importance of Moral Rules."  Workshop on Moral Judgment and Moral Psychology. Practical Reason and Moral Motivation

                                                            Helsinki Research Project in Theoretical Ethics.  Helsinki, Finland.

Nov. 18, 2005:       "Explaining  Transient Mental illness: Understanding Disclaimed Actions."  Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable.  University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Nov. 9, 2005:          "Making Up Your Mind and Explaining Yourself."  University Center for Human Values Fellows Luncheon.  Princeton University.

October 14, 2005:  "Moral Reasoning, Moral Rules, and Moral Dilemmas" (with Shaun Nichols).  Moral Psychology Research Group.  Dartmouth College.

June 10, 2005:             "Innateness Beyond Invariantism & Primitivism." Society for Philosophy and Psychology.  In absentia. (Joint work presented by Jonathan Weinberg.)

June 1-3, 2005:        Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style, 4th Barcelona Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Reference,  Barcelona, Spain.  In absentia.  (Joint work presented by Edouard Machery.)

 

April 16, 2005:           Race and Cognition.  Presentation for the Moral Psychology Research Group. Rutgers University.  (with Dan Kelly and Edouard Machery).        

March 24, 2005:       "Is Anti-Essentialism a Substantial constraint on Theories of Human Kinds?"  Invited Presentation, Society for the Philosophy of History, Pacific Meeting, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco

March 13, 2005:       "Is Anti-Essentialism a Substantial Constraint on Theories of Human Kinds?" Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Barnard College, Columbia University.

Oct. 9-10, 2004:       Moral Rules.  Moral Psychology Research Group. Rutgers University.  (with Shaun Nichols).

Jan. 27, 2004:               Invited colloquia presentation, "Passing, Traveling and Reality: In Search of A Constructionist Theory of Race," Centenary College, Shreveport, LA.

Jan. 16-18, 2004:   Invited Paper, "Cross Cultural Semantics and the Methodology of Metaphysics" Conference on Folk Concepts: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives –Florida State University, Tallahassee (Presented with Shaun Nichols)

Jan. 16-18, 2004:   Commentary on Lynne Rudder BakerŐs  "Everyday Concepts as a Guide to Reality," Conference on Folk Concepts: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives –Florida State University, Tallahassee

April 28, 2003:           "Social Roles and Race."  Invited Presentation, Graduate Seminar on Culture and Biology.  Stephen Stich.  Rutgers University.

April 16, 2003:           And "Getting Beyond Anti-essentialism: Towards a New View of Social Categories." Pace University, New York.  Pleasantville Campus.

April 15, 2003:           "Passing and Traveling: Social Construction and the Rules of Race."  Pace University, New York.  Manhattan Campus.

March, 2003:                 "Why being a white man is not like being a licensed dog owner: against institutional readings of social constructionism."  Philosophy of Social Science Round Table.  St. Louis, MO.

February 18, 2003:  "Why being a white man is not like being a licensed dog owner: against institutional readings of social constructionism."  Language and Communication Interdisciplinary Research Series.  Hong Kong University.

November, 2002:    "Anti-Essentialism: Political, Not Metaphysical".  Colloquium Paper.  Hong Kong University.

Sept. 14, 2002:           "Philosophy of the Social Sciences."  Invited paper. City University of Hong Kong.

Jun 21, 2002:                 "The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology." Afternoon Plenary. HBES Conference.  In absentia.  (Joint work presented by Stephen P. Stich, Introduced by Robert Trivers.)

April 26, 2002:           "Ethical Issues in the Social Sciences."  Invited paper. City University of Hong Kong.

April 6, 2002:               "Comments on J.D. TroutŐs "Sciences of the Self."  Tanner Colloquium on Self Knowledge, University of Utah.

March 30, 2002:       "Does Race Travel?"  Colloquium Paper.  Pacific APA.  Seattle, WA.

Feb. 21, 2002:              "Passing and Traveling: Social Constructionism and Race."  Colloquium

                                                            paper, Hong Kong University.

October, 2001:            "Social Constructions, Social Roles and Stability."  Colloquium paper, Hong Kong University.

April 12, 2001:           "On The Instability of Looping Kinds."  Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.  New Orleans, LA.

March 4, 2001:           "Social Constructions, Social Roles, and Natural Kinds."  Invited paper.  University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Feb. 27, 2001:             "Social Constructions, Social Roles, and Natural Kinds."  Invited paper.  Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX.

Feb. 23, 2001:              "Making Up Your Mind: A Natural Approach to Social Construction."  Invited paper.  California State University,  Northridge.

Feb. 13, 2001:             "Social Constructions, Social Roles, and Natural Kinds."  Invited paper.  University of Utah.  Salt Lake City.

Feb. 9, 2001:                  "Making Up Your Mind: A Natural Approach to Social Construction."  Invited paper.  Mississippi State University. Starkville, MS.

Jan. 29, 2001:               "Social Constructions, Social Roles, and Natural Kinds."  Invited paper.  Washington University.  St. Louis.

Jan. 22, 2001:               "On ÔBeing Like a Wild PigŐ"  Invited paper.  East Tennessee State University.  Johnson City, TN.

Jan. 12, 2001:               "How to be a Social Constructionist About Race."  Invited paper.  Department of Philosophy, Concordia University.  Montreal.

Nov. 11, 2000:            "Race and Intentions."  Virgil Aldrich Colloquium, University of Utah.

Nov. 3, 2000:               "How to be a Social Constructionist About Race" Invited Paper. Department of Philosophy, University of Utah.

July 2000:                          Comments on Philip PettitŐs "The Discursive Dilemma and Social Ontology."  Erasmus University Summer School of Social Ontology.

July  2000:                        "The baby in the lab-coat: Why child development is an inadequate model for understanding the development of science.  Cognitive Basis of Science Conference, Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Science, Sheffield, England. (with Dan Nazer, Stephen Stich, and Jonathan Weinberg).

April 2000:                       "Race and Social Construction."  Invited Paper. Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University.

April 2000:                       "Is Race a Social Construction?"  Pacific Division APA. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Sept. 1999:                       "The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology."  Association for Politics and the Life Sciences.  Atlanta, GA.

July 1999:                         "Why Social Constructionism about Race is Too Much or Not Enough." International Conference for Social and Political Philosophy.  Villanova University.

June 1999:                        "The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology." Society for Philosophy and Psychology.  Poster session. Stanford University.

February 1998:           "An Argument for the Special Status of the Family" Mid-South Philosophy Conference.  Memphis, TN.

May 1996:                         "What's wrong with Block's 'Argument for Holism'" NJ Regional Philosophy Conference. Seton Hall.

March 1996:                   "There is No Private Language Argument" Harvard-MIT Graduate Student Conference.

March 1996:                  "Alone Within Myself: The 'Theory' Theory and Incommensurability." The Mid-South Philosophy Conference.  Memphis, TN.

 

Community Activities:

July 2004:

                        Interviewed in Deseret News regarding Axson-Flynn settlement (July 15, 2004).

                        Interviewed  on Utah Public Access regarding Axson-Flynn settlement (July 21,

                                                2004)

 

Professional Activities:

 

Member, Moral Psychology Research Group

Member of the American Philosophical Association

Member of the Philosophy of Science Association

Member Society of Philosophy and Psychology

Consulting Editor, Episteme: Epistemological Controversies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Reviewed manuscripts for: Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Inquiry, Philosophical Studies, Political Studies (Blackwell), Philosophy Compass, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Social Neuroscience, Social Philosophy, Synthese

 

External Service:                  (September 2005) External Member, Dissertation Committee, Department of Philosophy, Hong Kong University

                                                                           (May 2003) Dissertation Committee, Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

             (February 2003) External Member, Search Committee, Philosophy Department, National Taiwan University