KARSTEN R. STUEBER
Curriculum Vitae

Department of Philosophy
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610
Tel.: (508)793-3395
e-mail: kstueber@holycross.edu

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross 2008-
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, September 1996-2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, September 1990-1996
Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University , Fall 1992

 AWARDS

Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the State of Baden-Württemberg, University of Tübingen, 1988-1990
Tübingen - Stony Brook Exchange Fellowship, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1984-85
Hewlett-Mellon Presidential Discretionary Fund Grant, College of the Holy Cross, 1993
Faculty Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross, Fall 1998
National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, "The Idea of a Social Science-40 Years Later," University of Missouri-St. Louis, Directors: Paul Roth & James Bohman, Summer 1998
Ford Batchelor Summer Fellowship, 2001

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Rediscovering Empathy:Agency, Folk-Psychology and the Human Sciences (MIT Press, 2006)

Donald Davidsons Theorie sprachlichen Verstehens (Frankfurt: Anton Hain, 1993)

Anthologies

Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, co-edited with Robert Schnepf and Gregor Damschen (Berlin/New York: DeGruyter Publishers, forthcoming at the end of 2008)

Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Human Sciences , co-edited with Han Herbert Kögler ( Boulder : Westview Press, 2000 )

Philosophie der Skepsis , co-edited with Thomas Grundmann (Paderborn: UTB, Ferdinand Schöningh, 1996), with an introduction co-authored by the editors, 8-57.

Articles

"Practice, Indeterminacy, and Private Language: Wittgenstein's Dissolution of Scepticism," in Philosophical Investigations 17 (1994): 14-36

"Donald Davidson: Die transzendentale Verortung der Gewißheit des Selbstbewußtseins" (Donald Davidson: The Transcendental Status of the Certainty of Self-Consciousness), in Analytische Theorien des Selbstbewußtseins, edited by Manfred Frank, (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1994): 623-634

"Understanding Truth and Objectivity: A Dialogue between Donald Davidson and Hans Georg Gadamer," in Hermeneutics and Truth edited by Brice Wachterhauser, (Evanston, Ill.:Northwestern University Press, 1994): 172-189

"Indeterminacy and the First Person Perspective," in Verdad: logica, rerpresentacion y mundo,
ed. by C. Martinez Vidal, (Universidade de Santiago De Compostela, 1996): 333-341

"Holism and Radical Interpretation: The Limitations of a Formal Theory of Language," in Analyomen 2, edited by Georg Meggle, ( DeGruyter: Berlin and New York, 1997): 290-298

"Psychologische Erklärungen im Spannungsfeld des Interpretationismus und Reduktionismus," (Psychological Explanations in the Context of Interpretationism and Reductionism) in Die Philosophische Rundschau 44 (1997), 304-328

"Understanding Other Minds and the Problem of Rationality" in Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Social Sciences, ed. by H. Kögler and K. Stueber( Boulder : Westview Press, 2000): 144-162.

"Introduction: Empathy, Simulation and Interpretation in the Social Sciences" co-authored with Hans Herber Kögler, in Empathy and Agency: The Problem of Understanding in the Social Sciences, ed. by H. Kögler and K. Stueber( Boulder : Westview Press, 2000), 1-61.

"Skepticism and the Scope of the Externalist Response" (in German), in Erkenntnistheorie: Positionen zwischen Tradition und Gegenwart, ed. by Thomas Grundmann (Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 2001), 210-224.

“The Psychological Basis of Historical Explanation: Reenactment, Simulation, and the Fusion of Horizons,” in History and Theory 21 (2002), 25-42.

“The Problem of Self-Knowledge,” in Erkenntnis 56 (2002), 269-296.

“Intentional Explanation, Psychological Laws, and the Irreducibility of the First Person Perspective, “ in Monism , ed. byAndreas Bächli & Klaus Petrus, Frankfurt a. M.: Ontos Verlag, 2003, 255-279.

“Agency and the Objectivity of Historical Narratives,” in The Philosophy of History: A Reexamination, edited by William Sweet, Aldershot , UK :Ashgate Press 2004, 197-222.

"Mental Causation and the Paradox of Explanation," in Philosophical Studies 122 (2005), 243-277.

“How to Think about Rules and Rule-Following,” in  Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (2005): 307-323.

“How to Structure a Social Theory? A Critical Response to Anthony King’s The Structure of Social Theory,” in Philosophy of the Social Sciences  36 (2006): 95-104. (A response by Anthony King “How Not to Structure a Social Theory” appeared in the same journal 36 (2006): 464-479.)

“Reasons, Generalizations, Empathy, and Narratives: The Epistemic Structure of Action Explanation,” in History and Theory 47 (2008): 31-43.

"Empathy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2008/entries/empathy/>.

“Theories Explain and so do Historical Narratives: But there are Differences,” in Journal of the Philosophy of History 2 (2008), 237-243.

“Empathy, Mental Dispositions, and the Physicalist Challenge,” in Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, edited by Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf, and Karsten Stueber. Berlin/New York: DeGruyter (Forthcoming)

Book Reviews

William Child and David Charles (eds.): Wittgensteinian Themes: Essays in Honour of David Pears, in Philosophical Investigations 27 (2004), 282-286.

Mark Risjord, Woodcutters and Witchcraft, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (2003), 230-233.

Beth Savicki, Wittgenstein's Art of Investigation, in Philosophical Investigations 23 (2000), 351-354.

Gary Ebbs, Rule-Following and Realism, in Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 53 (1999): 476-480

David Stern, Wittgenstein on Mind and Language, in Philosophical Investigations 20 (1997): 159- 164

Henry Harris(ed.), Identity:Essays based on Herbert Spencer Lectures Given in the University of Oxford , in: Ethics (June 1997)

Günter Abel, Interpretationswelten. Gegenwartsphilosophie jenseits von Essentialismus und Relativismus, in Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 49 (1995): 339-343

H. Putnam, Repräsentation und Realität, in Die Philosophische Rundschau 40 (1993): 148-153

Organization of Conferences

Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, Leucorea, Wittenberg, Germany, June 12-16, 2006. Co-organizer with Robert Schnepf and Gregor Damschen (University of Halle, Germany). The Conference has been funded by the DFG (German Science Foundation).

Understanding Other Minds and Moral Agency, April 19- 21, 2007,  Center for Ethics, Religion, and Culture, College of the Holy Cross.

Conferences and Talks

Invited Speaker, Empathy Conference at the Hansa Kolleg Delmenhorst, Germany, April 2009

“Circumscribing the Scope of Empathy: Puzzling over Cases of Imaginative Resistance”
Invited Speaker for interdisciplinary workshop on Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art, and Culture, October 10-12, 2008, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

“Empathy and Intentional Realism,” invited participant for a session organized by the Society for Philosophy of History, APA Pacific Division, March 18-23 2008.

Invited Speaker: “Reasons, Generalizations, Reenactment, and Narratives: Collingwoodian Considerations on the Nature of Action Explanation,” Collingwood Conference, University of Montreal, October 18-21, 2007.

Invited Speaker: “Self-Knowledge: Empirical Achievement or Conceptual Necessity?” Conference on First Person Authority, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, September 10-13, 2007.

“The Ethical Dimension of Folk Psychology,” April 2007, Conference on Understanding Other Minds and Moral Agency, ” College of the Holy Cross.

Invited Speaker:  “Empathy and Other Minds,” February 2007, Clark University, Worcester, MA.

“Dispositions and Rational Explanations” Conference on  Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind, June 2006, Wittenberg, Germany.

“Empathy and Reason Explanations” in Panel on The Nature of Historical Explanations and Historical Narratives, European  Social Science History Conference, March 2006, Amsterdam

Invited Participant for “Meet the Author Session” European  Social Science History Conference, March 2006, Amsterdam. Commentator on Aviezer Tucker’s Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Historiography and Martin Davies’s Historics: Why History Dominates Society

“Empathy and Folk Psychological Explanations”
Invited Participant for Conference on “Examining Folk Psychology,” Unversity of York, Canada September  2005

Invited Participant in Symposium on "Theories of Interpersonal Interpretation." University of Cincinnati , May 2005
Talk: "The Simulation Theory"

Invited Participant: Phenomenology, Intersubjectivity, and Theory of Mind: An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences and the Cognitive Sciences Program at the University of Central Florida, January 14-15, 2005. 

Northern New England Philosophical Association , Dartmouth College , November 2004
Paper presented: “Eliminativism and the Allure of the Detached Conception of Folk Psychology”

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis , October 2004:
Paper presented: “Empathy and Knowledge of Other Mind”

Invited Symposium on Agency for the Joint Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology: Barcelona , July 2004:
Paper presented: “Mindreading, Psychological Concepts, and Mirror Neurons”

European Social Science History Conference, Berlin , March 2004:
“The Central Arguments for Narrative Antirealism and their Shortcomings”

Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, St. Louis , March 2003
Paper Presented: “Rule-Following and the Epistemology of Normative Explanations.”

Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, April 2002
Paper presented: “Psychological Concepts, Simulation and the Question of the Explanatory Gap”

European Social Science History Conference , Den Haag, February/March 2002
Paper presented: “The Epistemology of Normative Explanations”

American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Minneapolis, May 2001
Paper presented: “The Importance of Simulation for Understanding Linguistic and Rational Agency”

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology , Salzburg , Sept.1-5, 2000
Paper presented: "Understanding Rational Thoughts: The Debate between Simulation Theory and Theory Theory"

Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Barnard College & Columbia University , June 15-18, 2000
Organizer of and Commentator for the Panel "The Simulating Mind"

University of Alberta , Edmonton , Conference on the Philosophy of History , May 25-26, 2000
Paper presented: "The Psychological Basis of Historical Explanation"

City College of the City University of New York , Department of Philosophy , April 1999
American Philosophical Association, Central Meeting, New Orleans , May 1999
Paper presented at the above places: "Mental Causation and the Paradoxes of Explanation"

University of North Florida , Department of Philosophy ,February 1999
Paper presented: "Understanding Other Minds and the Problem of Rationality"

Conference on Epistemology, University of Tübingen , Germany , January 1999
Invited Speaker, Paper presented:"Skepticism and the Scope of the Externalist Response"

Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology , New Orleans , April 1998
Paper presented: "Mental Causation and the Paradoxes of Explanation"

European Society for Philosophy and Psychology , Lisbon , Portugal , September 1998
American Philosophical Association ,Chicago, May 1998
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New York , June 1997
Paper presented at the above places: "Simulation or Interpretation: Is the Simulation Theory Philosophically Tenable?"

American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Pittsburgh , April 1997
Society for Realism and Antirealism: Organizer of a panel on Skepticism
Paper presented: "Externalism, Skepticism and Self-Knowledge"

European Society for Analytic Philosophy, Leeds , England , September 1996
Paper presented: "The Problem of Self-Knowledge"

American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Chicago, April 1996
Chair and Commentator: Society for Realism and Antirealism: Panel on Metaphysical Pluralism

Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology , Nashville , April 1996
Commentator on T. Schatzki's "Minding Practices"

Truth: Logic, Representation and the World , Conference celebrating the Vth Centenary of the University of Santiago de Compostela , Spain , January 1996
Paper presented: "Indeterminacy and the First Person Perspective"

Society for Philosophy and Psychology , Stony Brook, June 1995
Paper presented: "A Constitutive Account of Self-Knowledge"

American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Chicago, April 1995
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Virginia Beach , March 1995
College of the Holy Cross , Colloquia Series, November 1994
Paper presented at the above places: "Self-Knowledge and Intentionality"

Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Leipzig , Germany , September 1994
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology , Atlanta , March 1994
Clark University , November 1993
Paper presented at the above places: "Holism, Atomism and Radical Interpretation"

Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy , New Orleans , October 1993
Paper presented: "A Dialogue between Donald Davidson and Hans Georg Gadamer"

New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association , Stevens College , May 1993
Chair and Commentator: Panel on "Philosophy of Language"

American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), San Francisco , March 1993
Paper presented: "A Shopper's Choice: Holism, but Well-Defined"

American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), Portland , March 1992
Paper presented: "Practice, Indeterminacy, and Private Language: Wittgenstein's Dissolution of Scepticism"

College of the Holy Cross , Colloquia Series, October 1991
Paper presented: "On Understanding Truth and Objectivity"

New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association , Rutgers University , November 1989
Paper presented: "The Hermeneutic Dimension of Truth: The Shortcomings of the Antirealist Challenge to a Truth Conditional Theory of Meaning"

TEACHING

 Courses Taught

Introductory Level

Freedom of the Will
Fourdations of Moral Reasoning
Self and Society (FYP Fall 1999)
Understanding the World, Understanding Other Minds (FYP Spring 2000)
Introduction to Philosophy

Intermediate Level

Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Introduction to Logic
Logic and Language
Free Will

Seminars

Moral Psychology
Philosophy of the Human and Social Sciences
Philosophy of Psychology (Team Taught)
Wittgenstein
Truth
Consciousness and the Emotions (Honors Seminar Fall 2001)

Tutorials and Theses Supervision

Philosophy of Mind and Language (1994)
Mind and Meaning (Fall 2000)
Free Will (Fall 2001, 2006)
Davidson on Mind and Meaning (Fall 2005)

Honors Thesis on Metaphor, Spring 1994
Honors Thesis on Consciousness, Clark University , Spring 1994
Honors Thesis on Consciousness, Spring 2002
Senior Thesis on Intentionality, Spring 1995
Senior Thesis on Skepticism, Spring 1996
Senior Thesis on Feminist Epistemology, Spring 1996
Senior Thesis on Free Will, Spring 2002
Advisor for Fenwick scholar thesis “Depressed Minds, Disordered Brains,” 2000/ 2001
CISS Capstone  “Empathy and Gender Differences,” Spring 200

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1998-2001
Member of the Executive Board, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 2001-2004
Member of Consulting Board for Facta Philosophica
Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of the Philosophy of History

Refereed for

Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Dialectica
Erkenntnis
Facta Philosophica
Inquiry
Journal of Value Inquiry
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Swiss National Science Foundation
Mind
MIT Press
Oxford University Press
Philosophical Psychology
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Westview Press