Terence Sullivan

5185 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park Street Madison, WI 53706

Tel. (608) 256 1995 tsullivan@studnets.wisc.edu

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin - Madison (September 2001 - To the present time).

Ph.D. (in progress), Philosophy. Supervisor: Elliott Sober.

University of Utah (September 1997 - May 2001).

Philosophy (ABD November 1999.)

University of Westminster, England (September 1992 - October 1993).

MSc, Cognitive Science and Intelligent Computing.

Thesis: Towards a Unified Theory of Human Rationality, Social and Psychological Perspectives.

University of East Anglia, England (October 1988 - June 1991).

BA with Honors, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

Awards

Project Assistantship 2001-2, Department of Philosophy (University of Wisconsin - Madison).

Steffensen-Cannon Scholarship, 1999-2001, College of Humanities (University of Utah).

Graduate Recruitment Award 1997-8 and 1998-9, University of Utah.

Teaching Assistantship 1997-8 and 1998-9, Department of Philosophy (University of Utah).

Department of Education and Science scholarship 1992-3, (United Kingdom).

Publication

Review of David Kaplan (2000): The Limits and Lies of Human Genetic Research. Forthcoming in Radical Philosophy.

Presentations

• “Evolution - The Truth about Cinderella?” presented at the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) biennial meeting (Hamden, Connecticut: July 2001).
• “Mosaic Evolution, Mosaic Mind?” presented at the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) annual meeting (York, England: July 2001).
• “Why the Mind is Not Like a Swiss Army Knife: Evolutionary Psychology and the Architecture of the Mind” (poster), presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) annual meeting (Cincinnati, Ohio: June 2001).
• “Reductionism - The Truth about Cinderella?” presented at Mephistos (a graduate student conference for the history, philosophy, and sociology of science) annual meeting (South Bend, Indiana: April 2001).
• “Modularity, Massivity, and Adaptationism”, presented to the Work in Progress Group of the Darwin Center at the London School of Economics, England, January 2000.

Membership of Learned organisations

I am a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Philosophy of Science Association, and the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB). For 2001-3 I am the student representative on the ISHPSSB council.

COURSES TAUGHT (Teaching Assistant)

Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, and Deductive Logic (twice).

Additional information

During the first half of 1999 I studied at the University of California, Davis under the aegis of an exchange program which the Department of Philosophy occasionally runs. At Davis I was part of a research group led by Robert Cummins which was investigating the role of functional explanation within biology.