CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Ron Mallon

 

Philosophy Department, University of Utah                                                                                                                            

417 CTIHB, 215 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

 

Research and Teaching Areas:

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

 

Grants, Awards and Support:

2009-2010     American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

2009-2010     Faculty Fellowship, University Research Council, University of Utah.

2009-2010     International Travel Grant, University of Utah

2008-2009     Co-Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Experimental Philosophy, Summer 2009, Salt Lake City, UT

2006-2007       Sexuality and Gender Studies Research Award for Faculty, University of Utah

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

2005-2006         Virgil C. Aldrich Fellowship in the Humanities (Declined)

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

1991-1993         University Scholar, University of Kansas

1989-1993         Summerfield Scholar, University of Kansas

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

 

Publications:

 

Mallon, R. and S. Nichols.  (forthcoming).  Dual Processes and Moral Rules.  Emotions Review.

 

Mallon, R. (forthcoming).  Sources of Racialism.  Journal of Social Philosophy.

 

Machery, Edouard, Max Deutsch, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, Justin Sytsma, and Stephen Stich. (forthcoming). "Semantic Intuitions: Reply to Lam." Cognition.

 

Mallon, R. and S. Nichols.  (forthcoming).  Experimental Philosophy.  In Ed. Edward Craig.  Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

 

Alexander, Joshua, Ron Mallon, et al. (2010). "Accentuate the Negative." Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1(2): 297-314.

 

Kelly, Dan, Edouard Machery, et al. (2010). Race and Racial Cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. J. M. Doris and T. M. P. R. Group. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 433-471.

 

Machery, Edouard and Ron Mallon (2010). The Evolution of Morality. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. J. M. Doris and T. M. P. R. Group. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 3-46.

 

Mallon, Ron and Shaun Nichols (2010). Rules. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. J. Doris and T. M. P. R. Group. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 297-320.

 

Mallon, R., E. Machery, S. Nichols and S. Stich (2009). "Against Arguments from Reference." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 79, Number 2, September 2009 , pp. 332-356.

 

Mallon, R. (2008). Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

 

Mallon, R. (2008). "Knobe vs. Machery: Testing the Trade-Off Hypothesis." Mind and Language 23(2): 247-255.

                       

Sinnott-Armstrong, W., R. Mallon, et al. (2008). "Intention, Temporal Order, and Moral Judgments." Mind and Language 23(1): 90-106.

                       

                       

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

                       

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

                       

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

                       

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

                       

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

                       

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

                       

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.

                       

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

                       

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

                       

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

                       

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.

                       

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

                       

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

                       

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

                       

Edited Books:

 

Allhoff, F., Mallon, R. and Nichols, S. (under contract): An Introduction to Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings.  Oxford University Press.

 

 

Comments, Book Reviews, Misc:

 

Alexander, J., Mallon, R., and J. Weinberg.  (forthcoming).  Competence: Whats In? Whats Out? Who Knows? Commentary on Joshua Knobes Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

 

Mallon, R. 2009.  Commentary on Mark Stonekings Does Culture Prevent or Drive Human Evolution?.  Dec. 27, 2009. http://onthehuman.org/2009/12/does-culture-prevent-or-drive-human-evolution/comment-page-1/

 

Mallon, R.  2009.  Commentary on Joshua Glasgows A Theory of Race. Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy Volume 5, number 2. Fall 2009, at http://web.mit.edu/sgrp.

 

Weinberg, J. and R. Mallon (2008). "Living with Innateness (and Environmental Dependence Too)." Philosophical Psychology 21(3): 415-424.  Comment on Paul Griffiths and Edouard Machery "Biologicizing the Mind."

 

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.

                       

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.

                       

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.

                       

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.  Mallon, R.  (Under Review) "Social Construction, Performance, and Locating Ones Reasons"

 

Works in Preparation:

  1. Mallon, R. (ms). "Explaining Yourself and Autonomy"
  2. Mallon, R. (ms). "Race and The Conceptual Break Hypothesis: Toward a Comprehensive Synthesis of Evolutionary Cognitive and Social Constructionist Accounts of Folk Racialism"
  3. Making Race out of Nothing At All (with Dan Kelly) for Oxford Handbook of the Social Sciences
  4. Book Project: Making Up Your Mind: The Social Construction and Human Kinds
  5. "Do Dual-Process Distinctions Pick out a Pair of Complementary Natural Kinds?"

 

Editing and Programming:

1.          Naturalistic Philosophy Section Editor, Philosophy Compass (2008-)

I solicit 8 manuscripts a year in naturalistic philosophy and shepherd them through the review process.

2.                           Co-Coordinator (with Shaun Nichols and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong) of an APA miniconference on experimental philosophy, Spring 2010.

3.          Co-Editor, Special Issue of The Monist on Race (with Robin Andreasen) April 2010.

4.          Program Chair, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Summer 2010 Meeting

Along with my psychologist co-chair, I invited keynotes, organized symposia, and oversee the refereeing process for this important meeting.

5.         Planner, Spring 2011 Joint Colloquia with the David Eccles School of

            Business Making People Moral.  (with Arthur Brief and Kristin Smith-

            Crowe)

6.                           Co-Director, NEH Institute on Experimental Philosophy, Summer 2009, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Presentations:

(Jan. 15th, 2011):   Recent Work in Experimental Philosophy Invited Workshop presentation, University of Arizona

(Sept. 17th, 2010): Social Construction, Self-Knowledge, and Agency: A Naturalist Model, Invited Paper, Dept. of Philosophy, UNLV

April 17, 2010:      Making Race Out of Nothing (with Dan Kelly),  The Philosophy and Methodology of the Philosophy of Social Sciences, Birmingham, AL

April 2nd, 2010:       Arguments from Reference, Intuitions, and Experimental Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Nov. 12th, 2009   Evolutionary cognitive and social constructionist accounts of racial cognition: towards an integrated account.  Evolution and the Human Sciences Conference.  University of Helsinki. Helsinki, Finland.

Nov. 10th, 2009. Sources of Racialism.  Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Science.  University of Sheffield.

Nov 9th, 2009:    Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics Workshop, Centre for

                                                            Aesthetics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK                

June 12, 2009:    Commentary on Sytsma and Livengood. Society for Philosophy and

                                                            Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

June 28th, 2008:  Commentary Summer School on Cognitive Science, UQAM, 

                                                            Montreal, CA

June 25, 2008:     Negative Thoughts about the Positive Program.Invited paper, Experimental Philosophy Workshop, Society for Philosophy of Psychology.  Philadelphia, PA.

April, 28, 2008:  "Sources of Racialism."  Invited Paper,  Analytic Philosophy of Race

                                                            Conference, San Francisco University.

January 20, 2008: "Natural Constraint."  Presentation at the AHRC Workshop on Culture and the Human Mind, at Rutgers 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.  University of Arizona, Dept. of Philosophy Colloquium.

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.

November 2006    "The Importance of Moral Rules"  Philosophy of Science Association Mtg.  Vancouver, BC.

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 Bakers  "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. Trouts "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 Being Like a Wild Pig"  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 Pettits "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.

Recent Service:

 

Department:

2006-2007                         Associate Chair and Fellowships Director, Graduate Committee,

                                                            Department of Philosophy

2007-2009                         Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of

                                                            Utah

 

University:

2004-2005                         Social and Behavioral Science Area Committee (sets curricular

                                                            requirements)

2006-2008                         Career Development Committee (oversees grants and sabbatical applications)

 

 

 

Professional Activities:

2008-Present    Member of the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research

2003-Present    Founding and Executive Committee Member, Moral Psychology Research Group

2010-Present   Executive Committee Member, Society for Philosophy and Psychology

 

Member of the American Philosophical Association, The Philosophy of Science Association, the Society of Philosophy and Psychology

 

Refereed manuscripts for, inter alia, Blackwell, Broadview Press, Cambridge University Press, MIT Press Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Inquiry, Mind, Mind and Language, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies, Political Studies, Philosophy Compass, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, Social Neuroscience, Social Philosophy, Synthese.