Dr. Brandon Beasley
Positions
Sessional Instructor
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Background
Educational Background
PhD Philosophy, University of Calgary, 2024
MA Philosophy, Dalhousie University, 2010
BA (Honours, First Class) Philosophy, University of Calgary, 2009
Biography
I work on pragmatist approaches to intentionality, meaning, and normativity, animated by the question of the place of mind and agency in the natural world. My dissertation argues that such a pragmatist view must avoid a problem which is, roughly, a naturalistic and pragmatist analogue of Descartes' interaction problem, except between 'meaning' and 'habit' instead of between mind-stuff and body-stuff. I also work on Kant and Hegel, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and, in general, the intersections between German Idealism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy.
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
Course number | Course title | Semester |
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PHIL 399.23 | Topics in Philosophy: Artificial Intelligence | Spring 2024 |
PHIL 314-02 | IT Ethics | Winter 2024 |
Awards
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC. 2015
- Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, SSHRC. 2017
- Graduate Student Essay Award, UCalgary Department of Philosophy. 2020
Publications
- (contracted) Pragmatism and the Problem of Reason in Nature: Meaning, Naturalism, and the Threat of Semantic Nihilism. Routledge. (2024)
- (forthcoming) Intentionality and Representation. In The Sellarsian Mind, ed. Jeremy Koons (Routledge). (2024)
- (forthcoming) "Sellars in Light of Dewey: Pragmatism and the Place of Mind in Nature". In Carl Sachs, ed., Interpreting Sellars: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press). (2024)
- Naturalism without a subject: Huw Price's pragmatism. Inquiry. (2023)
- What should the idealist critique of naturalism be? . Inquiry. (2023)
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