Carrie Figdor
Department of Philosophy
260 English-Philosophy Building
Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
Email: carrie-figdor@uiowa.edu
Phone: (319) 335-0093
Fax: (319) 353-2322
Education
Ph.D., 2005, City University of New York Graduate Center
Dissertation fellowship, 2002-2003; writing fellowship, 2000-2002
M.A., 1997, City University of New York Graduate Center
Teaching fellowship, 1997-2000
B.A., 1981, Swarthmore College, Political Science (Honors)
Professional History
2007- Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
2006 NEH Summer Seminar in Mind & Metaphysics, Washington University in St. Louis
2005-2007 Visiting Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College
2000-2005 Adjunct Lecturer, Rutgers University-Newark
1986-1997 Newswoman, The Associated Press (Caracas, Seattle, New York)
Publications
“Can Mental Representations Be Triggering Causes?”, Consciousness and Emotion
4:1 (2003), 43-61.
“Using Essay Exams to Teach and Not Merely to Assess”, in T. Kasachkoff, ed.,
Teaching Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 48-60.
Works In Progress
“Intrinsically/Extrinsically” (under review)
“Semantic Externalism and the Mechanics of Thought” (under review)
“Neuroscience and the Multiple Realizability of the Mental” (under review)
“Structural Metaphors in Philosophy of Mind” (draft)
“Is News Objectivity Possible?” (draft)
