Gordon P. Barnes
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
SUNY College at Brockport
101B Hartwell Hall
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, NY 14420
Telephone # 585-395-2492
gbarnes@brockport.edu

Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin (2000)
Dissertation: Modal Inquiry: An Epistemological Study
Examination Committee: Alan Sidelle, Berent Enc, Dennis Stampe
M.A., Yale Divinity School, cum laude (1994)
B.A. University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, with Honors in Philosophy (1992)

Employment
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY College at Brockport, 2004-Present
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, 2000-2004
Instructor, University of Wisconsin, 1995-2000

Publications
"Conceivability, Explanation, and Defeat" Philosophical Studies, April 2002
"Resolving the Responsibilist Dilemma" the Monist, July 2002
"Belief, Control, and Conclusive Reasons" Southern Journal of Philosophy, Fall 2002
"Hale's Necessity: It's Indispensable, but Is It Real?" Disputatio, May 2002
"Critical Notice of Resurrecting Old-Fashioned Foundationalism" Philosophical Books, January 2003
"The Paradoxes of Hylomorphism" Review of Metaphysics, March 2003
"Necessity and A Priority", forthcoming in Philosophical Studies

Presentations
"In Defense of Conceptual Analysis" APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2001
"Cartesian Conceivability Undefeated" APA Central Division Meeting, April 2001
"Comments on Wade Savage, 'Carnap, Quine, and Logical Truth' " Minnesota Philosophical Association, October 2001
"Comments on Thomas Kieffer, 'Kripke on the Meaning of Identity Statements'" Central States Philosophical Association, October 2002
"Comments on James Taylor's 'Conceptual Analysis Without Paradox'" APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2003
"Against Phenomenal Direct Reference" APA Central Division Meeting, April 2003
"The Sins of Christian Orthodoxy" Conference in Honor of Keith Yandell, University of Wisconsin, September 2005

Work in Progress
"The Finitude Problem for Semantic Naturalism" (under review)
"The Problem of Basic Deductive Inference" (under review)
"Toward a Causal Theory of A Priori Knowledge" (under review)
"A Priori Knowledge and Implicit Definition" (in progress)

Courses Taught
Introduction to Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Logic
Political Philosophy
Contemporary Moral Problems
Philosophy of the Human Person
Ethics

Awards
Cecil Mildram Prize in Philosophy, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, 1992
Outstanding Senior in Philosophy, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, 1992
Graduated cum laude from Yale Divinity School, 1994
Teaching Assistantship, University of Wisconsin, 1995-1998
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Fall 1998

Professional Affiliations
American Philosophical Association