NICHOLAS TOURVILLE tourville.nicholas@gmail.com (952) 594-4337 ntourville.com Department of Philosophy 106 Somerset Street, 5 th Floor New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Curriculum Vitae 10/30/2018 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF COMPETENCE EDUCATION Metaphysics, Logic Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science Ph.D. in Philosophy, in progress (ABD) Fall 2011 Spring 2019 (expected) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities B.A. in Philosophy B.A. in Mathematics Minor in Economics Fall 2007 Spring 2011 DISSERTATION ABSTRACT Flat Advisor: Jonathan Schaffer Committee: Ted Sider, Dean Zimmerman, Terry Horgan Metaphysicians try to describe the world. When metaphysicians disagree, sometimes they disagree about what the world is like, but sometimes they merely seem to disagree about how the world should be described, given that it is the way it is. Flat defends a framework for thinking about metaphysics that maintains the substantivity of the first kind of disagreement, but suggests that the world is neutral between a wide range of descriptions, and hence that many disagreements of the second kind are non-substantive. I argue that many metaphysical theories that appear to conflict have the same picture of reality, and that the world doesn't settle any issues beyond this picture of reality. Still, only certain kinds of descriptions can pick out this picture of reality. Most metaphysicians regard these kinds of descriptions as the "fundamental" ones, but I argue that we
should reject the fundamental/non-fundamental distinction. Instead, I carve out a class of descriptions that are strictly truth-apt. I characterize strict truth in a way that ensures that these descriptions are suitable for picking out pictures of reality, and also for the application of tools like classical logic and Ockham's razor. PUBLICATIONS Embracing the Technicalities: Expressive Completeness and Revenge Review of Symbolic Logic 2016, with Roy Cook Embracing Intensionality: Paradoxicality and Semi-truth Operators in Fixed Point Models Forthcoming in the Logic Journal of the IGPL Special Edition "Recovery Operators and Logics of Formal Consistency & Inconsistencies", with Roy Cook PRESENTATIONS Comments prepared for Should an Ontological Pluralist be a Quantificational Pluralist? (by Byron Simmons) Pacific APA Colloquium Session Vancouver, Candada Scheduled for April 2019 Embracing Revenge and Logical Consequence (with Roy Cook) Semantic Paradox and Revenge Conference University of Salzburg, Austria June 2018 Comments prepared for Grounding Truth and Making True (by Hao Hong) Eastern APA Colloquium Session Savannah, Georgia January 2017 Embracing the Technicalities: Expressive Completeness and Revenge (with Roy Cook) Truth, Paradoxes, and Expressibility Conference Part of the Buenos Aires Oxford Research Project: Truth, Open-endedness, and Inexpressibility University of Buenos Aires, Argentina April 2013
TEACHING Introduction to Ethics (Online) Fall 2018 Introduction to Logic Spring 2017 Intro to Philosophy (Writing Intensive) Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant for Justin Kalef Introduction to Philosophy (Online) Spring 2016 Metaphysics Fall 2015 Grader for Jonathan Schaffer Introduction to Logic Fall 2015 Introduction to Philosophy of Science Spring 2015 Introduction to Logic Fall 2014 Introduction to Philosophy Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant for Jonathan Schaffer Ethics of Food Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant for Andy Egan SERVICE Co-organizer: Metaphysical Mayhem workshop Scheduled for 5/21/2018 5/25/2018 Co-organizer: Metaphysical Mayhem workshop 8/8/2016 8/12/2016 Co-founder: Workshop on Teaching Philosophy 3/28/2015 Research Assistant to Brian McLaughlin (paid) Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
Referee: Rutgers-Princeton Graduate Conference February 2014 Residency Adviser Fall 2013 - Spring 2015 Co-organizer: Rutgers Graduate Student Talk Series Spring 2012 GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSEWORK (GPA 4.0/4.0) ETHICS Jeff McMahan & Derek Parfit, Spring 2013 Larry Temkin, Fall 2012 Holly Smith, Spring 2012 Princeton Seminar: Reasons & Rationality Michael Smith, Spring 2012 NYU Seminar: Metaethics (Audited) Sharon Street, Fall 2011 Seminar: Aristotle Matthew Walker, Fall 2011 UMN Seminar: Moral Philosophy Valerie Tiberius, Fall 2010 UMN Advanced Topics: Bioethics Leili Fatehi, Fall 2010 PHILOSOPHY OF Seminar: Philosophy of Language LANGUAGE Jason Stanley, Spring 2012 PHILOSOPHY OF Advanced Topics: Philosophy of Mind MIND Frances Egan, Spring 2013 Seminar: Philosophy of Mind Howard Robinson, Fall 2012
PHILOSOPHY OF Advanced Topics: Philosophy of Physics (Audited) SCIENCE Jill North & Ted Sider, Fall 2016 Advanced Topics: Philosophy of Physics Barry Loewer & David Albert, Spring 2013 Princeton Seminar: Logical Philosophy of Science Hans Halvorson, Fall 2012 METAPHYSICS Advanced Topics: Metaphysics Jonathan Schaffer, Spring 2012 Advanced Topics: Metaphysics Alvin Goldman, Fall 2011 Seminar: 18th Century Philosophy Martin Lin, Fall 2013 LOGIC UMN Course: Philosphy of Logic William Hanson, Spring 2010 UMN Seminar: Logical Theory Roy Cook, Fall 2009 UMN Course: Philosophy of Mathematics Geoffrey Hellman, Spring 2009 UMN Course: Mathematical Logic II Wayne Richter, Spring 2009 UMN Course: Symbolic Logic II Roy Cook, Spring 2009 UMN Course: Mathematical Logic I Wayne Richter, Fall 2008 UMN Course: Symbolic Logic I William Hanson, Fall 2008 PROSEMINAR Proseminar (Epistemology, Mind, Language) Ernest Sosa & Brian McLaughlin, Fall 2011