Shamik Dasgupta, curriculum vitae Contact Information Specialization Competence Employment Mailing Address: Cell: 1-917-216-8681 Department of Philosophy Email: shamik@shamik.net Webpage: www.shamik.net 1879 Hall Princeton, NJ 08544-1006 Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science Epistemology, Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Physics Associate Professor (with tenure) 2015- Assistant Professor 2009-15 Education 2003-9 PhD, Philosophy Dissertation: Symmetry as a Guide to Reality. Advisor: Kit Fine. King s College London 2001-3 MPhil, Philosophy; distinction University College London 1996-9 BSc, Biology; first class honors Honors and Awards Publications National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowhip 2016-17 1 year fellowship awarded for the project Empirical Rationalism William G. Bowen Presidential University Preceptor 2014-17 Preceptorships are endowed positions at Princeton awarded to outstanding assistant professors for the furtherance of their teaching and scholarship. Winner of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholar Prize 2011 Awarded annually Dean s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities 2010 Awarded annually to one NYU doctoral dissertation in the humanities James Arthur Fellowship 2008-9 Awarded annually to one final-year graduate student at Honorary Fellow 2008-9 The Humanities Initiative, Awarded annually to three humanities graduate students at AHRB Postgraduate Scholarship 2002 3 Arts and Humanities Research Board, United Kingdom Essentialism and the Nonidentity Problem, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Metaphysical Rationalism, forthcoming in Noûs. (Currently published online at Early View.) Symmetry as an Epistemic Notion (Twice Over), forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. (Currently published online at Advance Access.) Page 1 of 6
Quality and Structure, and (with J. Turner) Postscript, forthcoming in Current Controversies in Metaphysics, edited by E. Barnes (Routledge). Inexpressible Ignorance, The Philosophical Review 124.4 (2015): 441-480. Substantivalism vs Relationalism About Space in Classical Physics, Philosophy Compass 10.9 (2015): 601-624. The Possibility of Physicalism, The Journal of Philosophy, 111.9 (2014): 557-592. On the Plurality of Grounds, Philosophers Imprint 14.14 (2014): 1 28. Absolutism vs. Comparativism about Quantities, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 8 (2013). (Winner of the 2011 Younger Scholar Prize.) The Bare Necessities, Philosophical Perspectives 25 (2011): 115 159. Individuals: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, Philosophical Studies 145.1 (2009): 35 67. Range Occupancy and Endangerment: A Test With a Butterfly Community (with D. Goehring, G. Daily, and P. Ehrlich), The American Midland Naturalist 157 (2006): 106 120. Ecosystem Services (with G. Daily), in The Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (2001): 353 62. Edited Book Invited Presentations Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science (co-edited with Brad Weslake), under contract with Routledge as part of their Current Controversies in Philosophy series. Comments on John Roberts Comparativism and Absolutism About Quantities: Two Unsuccessful Arguments April 2016 APA Pacific Division Meeting How to be a Relationalist March 2016 Colloquia, National Autonomous University of Mexico Comments on Elizabeth Miller s Local Qualities January 2016 Ranch Metaphysics Workshop How to be a Relationalist November 2015 Physics as Metaphysics Workshop, Brown University How to be a Relationalist November 2015 Logic and Metaphysics Workshop, CUNY How to be a Relationalist November 2015 Metro Area Philosophers of Science (MAPS) Essentialism and the Nonidentity Problem September 2015 ELLMM series, Yale University Essentialism and the Nonidentity Problem May 2015 Colloquia, UCLA Comments on Skow s Levels of Reasons and Causal Explanation April 2015 Pacific APA Structuralism and the Limits of Possibility March 2015 Keynote lecture, third annual Irvine-Pittsburgh-Princeton conference on the mathematical and conceptual foundations of physics Shamik Dasgupta, curriculum vitae, page 2 of 6
Inexpressible Ignorance February 2015 Workshop on Robert Pasnau s Metaphysical Themes: 1274-1671 Essentialism and the Nonidentity Problem November 2014 Colloquia, Cornell University Essentialism and the Nonidentity Problem October 2014 Colloquia, CUNY Structuralism and Necessity September 2014 Rochester University, second of three workshops on Metaphysics and Philosophy of Physics Structuralism and Necessity June 2014 Workshop on the Logic of Ground, Oslo Inexpressible Ignorance May 2014 Jowett Society, Oxford Empirical Rationalism May /2014 Metaphysical Mayhem, Rutgers Inexpressible Ignorance April 2014 Conference on Metaphysics at Columbia University Inexpressible Ignorance March 2014 Metaphysics on the Mountain (conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, organized by Boise State University) Knowledge and Explanation November 2013 Workshop on metaphysics, University of Syracuse Inexpressible Ignorance November 2013 Colloquia, University of Syracuse Metaphysical Rationalism June 2013 Conference on Explanation in Metaphysics, University of Neuchatel Comments on L.A. Paul s The Dynamic Ontology of Phenomenal Character January 2013 Back at the Ranch The Possibility of Physicalism January 2013 Conference on The Philosophy of Kit Fine, NYU The Possibility of Physicalism January 2013 Colloquia, Dartmouth University Metaphysical Rationalism November 2012 Colloquia, MIT Metaphysical Rationalism November 2012 Colloquia, University of Rochester Symmetry as an Epistemic Notion (Twice Over) September 2012 Conference on Structuralism, Bristol University Metaphysical Rationalism June 2012 Carolina Metaphysics Workshop Comments on Katia Vavova s Confidence, Evidence, and Disagreement April 2012 Pacific APA Shamik Dasgupta, curriculum vitae, page 3 of 6
The Status of Ground April 2011 Pacific APA, Invited Symposium on Fundamentality Structuralism as a Grounding Thesis February 2011 Ontological Dependence Workshop, Bristol University Absolutism vs Comparativism about Quantities Janurary 2011 Jowett Society, Oxford University Absolutism vs Comparativism about Quantities January 2011 Leeds University On the Plurality of Grounds December 2010 Albritton Society, UCLA Absolutism vs Comparativism about Quantities November 2010 California State University, Los Angeles On the Plurality of Grounds September 2010 Because II conference, Berlin Comments on Ted Sider s Against Parthood August 2010 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference Comments on Anthony Eagle s Location and Multiple Location July 2010 Carolina Metaphysics Workshop Comments on James Ladyman s Structuralism and the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics April 2010 Conference on Philosophical Issues in Cosmology, Quantum Theory, and Time, Rutgers University Individuals: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics October 2009 Rutgers University Philosophy of Science Reading Group University of Pittsburgh University of Iowa Yale University Barnard College, Columbia University of Texas, Austin Symmetry and the Undetectable January 2009 University of Southern California Symmetry and the Undetectable January 2009 Claremont College Symmetry and the Undetectable January 2009 Simon Fraser University Comments on Dustin Locke s A Defense of Ramseyan Humility March 2007 and Columbia Graduate Conference Could the Laws Have Differed? October 2004 Brown University Philosophy Graduate Conference Shamik Dasgupta, curriculum vitae, page 4 of 6
Teaching Graduate Teaching PHI 540 Metaphysics Fall 2015, co-taught with Boris Kment PHI 599 Dissertation Seminar Fall 2014 PHI 531 Philosophy of Science: Symmetry, Structure, and Spacetime Spring 2014 PHI 540 Metaphysics: Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Work on Substance Spring 2013, co-taught with John Morrison (Barnard College, Columbia) PHI 540 Metaphysics: Hyperintensional Metaphysics Spring 2011, co-taught with Boris Kment PHI 540 Metaphysics: The Structure of the Physical World Fall 2009 A Modern Deductive Logic Each Spring 2007-9 The New School For Social Research Undergraduate Teaching PHI 321 Philosophy of Science Spring 2016 FRS 187 Philosophical Analysis Using Argument Maps Fall 2014, co-taught with Simon Cullen PHI 203 Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology Spring 2014 PHI 318 Metaphysics Fall 2013 PHI 201 Introductory Logic Fall 2012 PHI 321 Philosophy of Science Spring 2012 PHI 203 Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology Fall 2011 PHI 201 Introductory Logic Spring 2011 PHI 203 Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology Fall 2009, co-taught with Gideon Rosen Ethics Summer 2007 Metaphysics Summer 2006 Logic Summer 2005 Shamik Dasgupta, curriculum vitae, page 5 of 6
Philosophy of Language Summer 2004 Service to the Department Director of Placement 2015-16 Placement Committee 2013-14 Department Website 2012-ongoing Climate Committee 2011-13 CRNAP Steering Committee The Cooperative Research Network in Analytic Philosophy (CRNAP) fosters joint projects between the philosophy departments at ANU, Princeton, Oxford, and the Institute Jean-Nicod. 2011-ongoing Colloquia Committee 2010-11 Service to the Profession Article Referee Australasian Journal of Philosophy British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Canadian Journal of Philosophy European Journal of Analytic Philosophy Inquiry International Studies in the Philosophy of Science Mind Nous Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Philosophers Imprint Philosophical Quarterly Philosophical Review Philosophical Studies Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Philosophy Compass Philosophy of Science Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Synthese Book Referee Oxford University Press Corridor Discussion Group Steering committee 2010-ongoing Last updated: December 2015 Shamik Dasgupta, curriculum vitae, page 6 of 6