Charles Lassiter 1817 West 8th Ave, Apt. 1 Spokane, WA 99204 +1 (201) 988 1914 lassiter@gonzaga.edu gonzaga.academia.edu/charleslassiter Education Fordham University Ph.D., Dissertation: 2013 "Signs, Signs, Everywhere are Signs": Extended Encultured Cognition and Implicature Calculation Fordham University M.A. 2006 Saint Peter s University Jersey City, NJ B.A. 2003 AOS and AOC Areas of specialization: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of language Areas of competence: History of philosophy, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of cognitive science Publications Published and forthcoming................................................................................ 1. Review of Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity, and Human Artifice, Stephen Cowley and Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau (Eds.) Philosophical Psychology (forthcoming, accepted April 2014) 2. "When Words Do Things: Perlocutions and Affordances for Social Action," in Austin on Language, Brian Garvey (ed.), Palgrave Macmillan (2014): 32-49. 3. (with Aaron Kagan) "Much Ado About Nothing: the Coupling-Constitution Fallacy" Pragmatics and Cognition, 21 (2013): 178 192. 4. "Implicating without Intending on a Gricean Account of Implicature" Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 4 (2012): 199-215 5. "Externalizing Communicative Intentions" SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy, 12 (2011): 123 144. Under review.................................................................................................... 1. "Luck and Conversational Implicature" (submitted to Journal of Pragmatics) In preparation................................................................................................... 2. "Mind Your Language: Thick and Thin Psychological Concepts" 1/5
3. "Think Global, Act Local: a Reply to Gendler," with Nathan Ballantyne 4. "Cutting the Costs by Spreading the Wealth: Implicit Bias and Distributed Cognition" Selected Presentations 1. "Neo-Aristotelian Foundations for Distributed Language," Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use, Storrs, CT, June 2014 2. "The Abrahamic Tradition and the Social Nature of Linguistic Agents," American Catholic Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, CA, Novemeber 2012 3. "Are You Talkin to Me? Between Linguistic and Nonatural Meaning," European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, London, UK, August 2012 4. "Psychology, Culture, and Bias," 3 rd Biennial Midwinter Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Austin, TX, March 2012 5. "Perlocutions as Affordances," J.L. Austin Centenary Conference, Lancaster University, Lancashire, UK, April 2011 6. "Grice s Private Language Problem," European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Rühr Universität, Bochum, Germany, August 2010 (also accepted to the 3rd European Communications Conference, Hamburg, Germany) 7. "Speaker Meaning and Unmeant Conversational Implicature," Long Island Philosophical Society, St. John s University, Queens, NY, October 2009 8. "What a Difference a Difference Can Make: Uses and Abuses of the Pragmatic Maxim," New York Pragmatist Forum, January 2007 9. "Kripke Models for Peircean Alpha Graphs," New York Pragmatist Forum,, September 2005 Awards Research support grant: Fordham University, 2010 Senior teaching fellowship: Fordham University, 2008 2009 Employment Gonzaga University........................................................................................... Spokane, WA Assistant Professor August 2014 Present 1. Philosophical Ethics two 2. Philosophy of Language one 2/5
Gonzaga University........................................................................................... Spokane, WA Visiting Lecturer August 2013 August 2014 1. Philosophical Ethics eight 2. Symbolic Logic (graduate and undergraduate) two 3. Philosophy of Mind one 4. Critical Thinking one Fordham University........................................................................................... Teaching Associate January 2006 August 2013 1. Philosophy of Human Nature thirteen 2. Philosophical Ethics twelve 3. Introduction to Critical Thinking four 4. Logic/Critical Thinking two 5. War and Peace: Just War Theory one 6. Philosophy of Cognitive Science one Georgian Court University................................................................................. Lakewood, NJ Adjunct Faculty January 2010 August 2013 1. Philosophical Inquiry ten 2. Philosophical Ethics three Rutgers University............................................................................................. Newark, NJ Part-time Lecturer August 2008 May 2012 1. Theory of Knowledge three 2. Greek Philosophy two 3. Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind one Professional Memberships 1. American Philosophical Association 2. American Catholic Philosophical Association 3/5
3. International Society for the Study of Interactivity, Language and Cognition 4. Society for Philosophy and Psychology 5. International Society for Ecological Psychology 6. Philosophy and Implicit Bias International Research Network 7. Cognitive Science Society Departmental Service 1. Grader for comprehensive exams in terminal MA program at Gonzaga University 2. Administrator for logic requirement in terminal MA program Gonzaga University Graduate Coursework Historical.......................................................................................................... Rationalism Aquinas: Being and Essence Kant I: Critique of Pure Reason Hellenistic Moral Philosophy Social and Political Thought of Marx Analytic Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind..................................................... Mind-Body Problem: Historical Context Vagueness and Material Composition Personal Identity Mind-Body Problem Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics.................................................................. First Order Modal Logic Set Theory Philosophy of Mathematics American Philosophy and Pragmatism................................................................. American Pragmatism William James Whitehead Moral Philosophy.............................................................................................. Modern Ethical Theory References 1. William Jaworski, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, Email: jaworski@fordham.edu 2. Nathan Ballantyne, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, Email: nballantyne@fordham.edu 3. Richard Menary, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Email: richard.menary@mq.edu.au 4. Stephen Cowley, Professor of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Email: cowley@sdu.dk 4/5
5. Ellen Maccarone, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA Email: maccarone@gonzaga.edu Dissertation Summary My dissertation explores how hearers figure out what a speaker means but does not literally say. The account I develop claims that language use is primarily a form of communal interaction. We navigate social environments by responding to externally located social cues. On my view, understanding what speakers mean requires the use of embodied abilities that are sensitive to social information. By contrast, the standard, internalist picture holds that we figure out what is meant but unsaid through a private, brain-based process. Internalism privatizes a public process. I argue that this view is counterintuitive, and that my externalist account better satisfies our intuitive understanding of communication as a variety of social interaction. 5/5