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Curriculum Vitae

Lawrence A. Shapiro

https://lshapiro911.wixsite.com/mysite

 

Birth: September 11, 1962                                                  

New York, New York

 

Academic Address:                                                                     

Department of Philosophy                                                            

University of Wisconsin – Madison                                      

5185 Helen C. White Hall                                                             

Madison, WI 53706                                                                                                                          

(608) 263-3700

fax: (608) 265-3701

email: lshapiro@wisc.edu

 

Education:

Dickinson College                                     B.A., philosophy, with honors

                                                                     summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa        1984

University of Pennsylvania                        M.A., philosophy                                        1988

                                                                    Ph.D., philosophy                                       1992

 

Academic Employment:

Full Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison                        Fall 2003-

Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin          2002-2006

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison              1999-2003

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison               1993-1999

Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania                                               Spring, 1993

Part-time lecturer, University of Pennsylvania                               1987-1989, 1992

           

Honors and Awards:

WARF Named Professorship, Spring 2021

Keynote address to the Western Michigan University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference (Kalamazoo, November 2020).

Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2017-2021

Visiting Scholar, La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), January 2017.

President, Phi Beta Kappa, UW Alpha Chapter 2011-2014

The American Philosophical Association’s Joseph P. Gittler Award for an outstanding contribution in the field of the philosophy of the social sciences for Embodied Cognition, 2013

Honored Instructor Award, Fall 2008, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2014

Kellett Mid-Career Award, Spring 2012

Resident Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Spring 2012

Keynote address to the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity,   Waikiki, May 2012.

Vice President, Phi Beta Kappa, UW Alpha Chapter, 2010-2011

Fellow, Centre for the Foundations of Science, Sydney University, Spring 2008

Vilas Associate Award, 2005-2007

Teaching Academy Fellow, starting 2000

IN TIME (Instructor Network for Teaching in a Multimedia Environment) Fellow, 1998-1999

Lilly Teaching Fellow, 1997-1998

Philosophy of Science Association Young Scholar Prize, 1996

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1989-1990

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Summer Grant, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012

 

Books:

8. When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves,

      with Steven Nadler (Princeton University Press: 2021).

7. The Miracle Myth: Why Belief in the Resurrection and the Supernatural Is Unjustified (Columbia University Press: 2016).

6. The Multiple Realization Book, with Thomas Polger (Oxford University Press: 2016).

5. The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition (ed., Routledge Press: 2014).

4. Embodied Cognition (Routledge Press: 2011).

         *Second Edition, 2019.

3. Arguing about the Mind (ed., with Brie Gertler. Routledge Press: 2007).

2. The Mind Incarnate (MIT Press: 2004).

 

Nonacademic Books:

1. Zen and the Art of Running (Adams Media: 2009).

 

Articles:

52. "Foreword," forthcoming in S. Macrine and J. Fugate (eds.), Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning (Cambridge: MIT Press).

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51. "Rethinking the Unity of Science Hypothesis: Levels, Mechanisms, and Realization," forthcoming in O. Shenker (ed.), Levels of Reality (Switzerland: Springer).

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50. "Embodied Cognition", with Shannon Spaulding, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2021(https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/).

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49. "Structural and Indicator Representations: A Difference in Degree, Not Kind," with Greg Nirshberg, Synthese 198: 7647-7664, 2021.

 

48. “Foundations of Philosophical Functionalism,” forthcoming in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-17, 2020).

 

47. “Theories of Multiple Realization,” American Philosophical Quarterly 57: 17-30, 2020.

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46. “A Tale of Two Explanatory Styles in Cognitive Science,” Theory and Psychology 29: 719-735, 2019.

 

45. “Embodied Cognition and its Significance for Education,” Theory and Research in Education 17: 19-39, 2019.

 

44. “Matters of the Flesh: The Role(s) of the Body in Cognition,” in M. Colombo, E. Irvine, and M. Stapleton (eds.), Andy Clark and His Critics (New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 69-80, 2019).

 

43. “Embodied Cognition and Sport,” with Shannon Spaulding, in Cappuccio, M. (ed.), Handbook Of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology (Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 3-21, 2019).

 

42. “Flesh Matters: The Body in Cognition,” Mind and Language 34: 3-20, 2019.

 

41. “In Defense of Interventionist Solutions to Exclusion,” with Thomas Polger and Reuben Stern, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 68: 51-57, 2018.

 

40. “Reduction Redux,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 68: 10-19, 2018

 

39. “Response to Critics: A Symposium on The Multiple Realization Book,” Philosophical Psychology 31: 446-457, 2018.

 

38. “Mechanism or Bust? Explanation in Psychology,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68: 1037-1059, 2017.

 

37. “Miracles and Justification,” in Reason and Responsibility, J. Feinberg and R. Shafer-Landau (eds.). (Boston: Wadsworth, 2016).

 

36. “The Irrationality of Belief in Miracles,” Slate Magazine, 2015 (http://www.slate.com/bigideas/are-miracles-possible/essays-and-opinions/larry-shapiro-opinion)

 

35. “When is Cognition Embodied?,” in Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind, U. Kriegel (ed.) (New York: Routledge, pp. 73-90, 2014).

 

34. “Don’t Believe in Miracles,” Aeon Magazine, 2013 (http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/dont-believe-in-miracles/).

 

33. “Embodied Cognition: Lessons from Linguistic Determinism,” Philosophical Topics 39: 121-140, 2013.

 

32. “Dynamics and Cognition,” Minds and Machines 23: 353-375, 2013.

 

31. “What’s New about Embodied Cognition?,” Filosofia Unisinos 13 (2-supplement): 214-224, 2012.

 

30. “Identity, Variability, and Multiple Realization in the Special Sciences,” with Thomas Polger, in New Perspectives on Type Identity, Christopher Hill and Simone Gozzano (eds). (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 264-287, 2012).

 

29. “Against Proportionality,” with Elliott Sober, Analysis 72: 89-93, 2012.

 

28. “Embodied Cognition,” in the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science, E. Margolis, R. Samuels, and S. Stich (eds.) (New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 118-147, 2012).

 

27. “Mental Manipulations and the Problem of Causal Exclusion,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90: 507-524, 2012. Translated into Portuguese in Controvérsia, a journal of UNISINOS.

 

26. “Lessons from Causal Exclusion,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 81: 594-604, 2010.

 

25. “James Bond and the Barking Dog: Evolution and Extended Cognition” Philosophy of Science 77: 400-418, 2010.

 

24. “Making Sense of Mirror Neurons,” Synthese 167: 439-456, 2008.

 

23. “How to Test for Multiple Realization,” Philosophy of Science 75: 514-525, 2008.

 

22. “Understanding the Dimensions of Realization,” with Thomas Polger, The Journal of Philosophy 105: 213-222, 2008. 

 

21. “Evolutionary Psychology,” in the online Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

 

20. “Functionalism and Mental Boundaries,” Cognitive Systems Research 9: 5-14, 2008.

 

19. “Symbolism, Embodied Cognition, and the Broader Debate,” in M. de Vega, A. Glenberg & A. Graesser (eds) Symbols and Embodiment: Debates on Meaning and Cognition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 57-74, 2008).

 

18. “The Embodied Cognition Research Programme,” Philosophy Compass 2: 338-346, 2008.

 

17. “Epiphenomenalism – The Dos and Don'ts,” with Elliott Sober, in G. Wolters and P. Machamer (eds.), Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 253-264, 2007).

 

16. “Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology,” in H. Looren de Jong & M. Schouten (eds.), The Matter of the Mind (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 101-120, 2006).

 

15. “Can Psychology Be a Unified Science?” Philosophy of Science 72: 953-963, 2005.

 

14. “Adapted Minds,” in J. McIntosh (ed.), Naturalism, Evolution, and Intentionality: Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary vol. 27 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2001: 85-101).

 

13. “Mind the Adaptation,” in D. Walsh (ed.), Naturalism, Evolution, and Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001: 23-41).

 

12. “Multiple Realizations,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 97, no. 12, pp. 635-654, 2000.

 

11. “Presence of Mind,” in V. Hardcastle (ed.), Biology Meets Psychology: Constraints, Connections, Conjectures (Cambridge: MIT Press: 83-98, 1999).

 

10. “Evolutionary Theory Meets Cognitive Psychology: A More Selective Perspective,” with William Epstein, Mind and Language vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 171-194, 1998.

 

9. “Do’s and Don’ts for Darwinizing Psychology,” in C. Allen and D. Cummins (eds.), The Evolution of Mind (New York: Oxford University Press: 243-259, 1998).

 

8. “The Nature of Nature: Rethinking Naturalistic Theories of Intentionality,” Philosophical Psychology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 309-322, 1997.

 

7. “Junk Representations,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 345-361, 1997.

 

6. “A Clearer Vision,” Philosophy of Science, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 131-153, 1997.

 

5. “Representation from Bottom and Top,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 523-542, 1996.

 

4. “What is Psychophysics?,” in D. Hull, M. Forbes, and R. M. Burian (eds.), PSA 1994, vol. 2 (East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association:  47-57). 

 

3. “Behavior, ISO Functionalism, and Psychology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 191-209, 1994.

 

2. “Content, Kinds, and Individualism in Marr’s Theory of Vision,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 102, no. 4, pp. 489-513, 1993.

 

1. “Darwin and Disjunction: Foraging Theory and Univocal Assignments of Content,” in D. Hull, M. Forbes and K. Okruhlik (eds.), PSA 1992, vol. 1 (East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association: 469-480).

 

Reviews and Comments:

15. Hutto, D. and Myin, E. Radical Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012), Mind 123: 213-220, 2014.

 

14.  Hatfield, G. Perception and Cognition: Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Mind 119: 789-794, 2010.

 

13. Pylyshyn, Z. Things and Places: How the Mind Connects with the World (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), Mind 118: 1168-1174, 2009.

 

12. Richardson, R. Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), in Metascience 18: 319-323, 2009.

 

11. (With Shannon Spaulding) Clark, A. Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009.

 

10. Adams, F. and Aizawa, K. The Bounds of Cognition (Malden: Blackwell, 2008), Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 8: 267-273, 2009.

 

9. Heidelberger, M.  Nature From Within: Gustav Theodor Fechner and His Psychophysical Worldview (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004), in Mind 114: 739-743, 2005.

 

8. Wilson, R.  Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Cognition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2005.

 

7. “On Having One's Data Shared,” with Postle, B. and Biesanz, J., in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14:6, pp. 838-840, 2002.

 

6. Fodor, J.  The Mind Doesn't Work That Way (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), in The Quarterly Review of Biology 3: 2001, p. 76.

 

5. “Prediction and Accommodation in Evolutionary Psychology,” with Malcolm Forster, Psychological Inquiry 11:1, pp. 31-33, p. 2000.

 

4. Dawson, M. Understanding Cognitive Science (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999), in Minds and Machines 10: 440-444, 2000.

 

3. Allen, C. and Bekoff, M.  Species of Mind: The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997), in Minds and Machines 10: 149-152, 2000.

 

2. “Saving the Phenomenal,” Commentary on Peter Carruther’s article “Natural Theories of Consciousness,” Psyche 5, 1999.

 

1. Rollins, M.  Mental Imagery: On the Limits of Cognitive Science and Michael Tye The Imagery Debate, Minds and Machines 5: 288-297, 1995.

 

Meetings, Colloquia, Debates:

108. “What is it Like to Feel Like a Self?,” Florida State University (Tallahassee, October 2019).

 

107. “What is it Like to Feel Like a Self?,” La Trobe University (Melbourne, June 2019).

 

106. “Towards and Embodied Education,” to Keynote Address to The Body, Embodiment, and Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach conference, La Trobe University (Melbourne, June 2019).

 

105. “The Unity of Science, Levels, and Realization,” to the Multi-Level Structure of Reality conference, The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem, May 2019).

 

104. “Symbol Grounding and Embodied Concepts,” to the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Cincinnati, March 2019).

 

103. “Structural and Indicator Representations: A Difference in Degree, Not Kind,” to the Australian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Sydney, November 2018).

 

102. “The Great Debate: Does God Exist?,” debate with Pastor Isaac Fleming, Living Water Church (Sun Prairie, October  2018).

 

101. “Matters of the Flesh: The Role(s) of the Body in Cognition,” to the Society for the Metaphysics of Science (Milan, August 2018).

 

100. “Why You Shouldn’t Believe in Miracles,” Middleton Public Library (Middleton, WI, July 2018).

 

99. “What is it Like to Feel Like a Self?,” Morris Colloquium, University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, June 2018).

 

98. “Is Belief in the Resurrection Justified?,” Debate with Michael Licona, University of Findlay (Findlay, OH, February 2018).

 

97. “What is the Metaphysics of Science?,” University of California, Davis (Davis, November 2017).

 

96. “Flesh Matters: The Body in Cognition, The Thatcher Endowed Lecture, George Washington University (Washington, DC, October 2017).

 

95. “Is There Truth Beyond Science: A Discussion with John Lennox,” A Veritas Forum (Madison, October 2017).

 

94. Author Meets Critics for The Multiple Realization Book, with Ronald Endicott, Eric Funkouser, and Jacqueline Sullivan, Pacific Division Meeting of the APA (Seattle, April 2017).

 

93. Author Meets Critics for The Multiple Realization Book, with Trey Boone, Mazvitta Chirimuuta, and Daniel Weiskopf, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Savannah, March 2017).

 

92. “Resurrected or Reimagined? Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?” CRU Debate with Professor Michael Licona, The Ohio State University (Columbus, February 2017).

 

91. “Embodiment and Awareness,” A Taft Lecture, University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, February 2017).

 

90. “The Miracle Myth,” Australian Catholic University (Melbourne, January 2017).

 

89. “Body Relativism and Linguistic Relativism,” La Trobe University (Melbourne, January 2017).

 

88. “Multiple Realization and the Autonomy of the Special Sciences,” to the Durham Emergence Project Concluding Conference (Durham, UK, April 2016).

 

87. “Things to Think About When You’re Thinking About Multiple Realization,” to the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology (Louisville, March 2016).

 

86. “Theories of Multiple Realization,” to the Fordham-Rutgers Metaphysics of Mind Conference (New York City, February 2016).

 

85. “What’s Embodied About our Psychology?,” to the Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University (Evanston, January 2016).

 

84. “Matters of the Flesh: The Role(s) of Body in Cognition,” to the Explanations of Cognition Workshop (Stirling, July 2015).

 

83. “Mechanism or Bust? Explanation in Psychology,” to The Aims of Brain Research: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives, The 28th Annual International Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science (Jerusalem, December 2014).

 

82. “Mechanistic Explanation and Mental Causation,” to the Mental Causation Workshop (Leuven, November 2014).

 

81. “Mechanism or Bust? Explanation in Psychology,” to the Philosophy of Science Association Meeting (Chicago, November 2014).

 

80. “Mechanism or Bust? Explanation in Psychology,” to the Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri (Columbia, November 2014)

 

79. “Reduction Redux,” to the Department of Philosophy, Mississippi State University (Starkville, October 2014).

 

78. “Reduction Redux,” Keynote Lecture, to the Mind and Body conference (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 2014).

 

77. “Reduction Redux,” to the Realizability and the Levels of Reality Workshop (IHPST, Paris, June 2014).

 

76. “The Miracle Myth: Why Belief in Miracles is Unjustified,” Philosophers Tackle Contemporary Issues (Madison, March 2014).

 

75. “Embodied Cognition: Lessons from Linguistic Determinism,” to the Department of Philosophy, College of Lewis and Clark (Portland, March 2014)

 

74. “Explanation in Psychology and Neuroscience, Mechanism or Bust?” to the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology (Charleston, February 2014).

 

73. “Embodied Cognition,” Author meets Critic, Eastern Division of the APA (Baltimore, December 2013).

 

72. “Explanation in Psychology and Neuroscience, Mechanism or Bust?” to the Mind and Mechanism Workshop (Cologne, September 2013).

 

71. “The Body in Mind, But Whence the Mind?,” to the Department of Kinesiology (Madison, April 2013).

 

70. “Embodied Cognition: Lessons from Linguistic Determinism,” to the Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut (Storrs, March 2013).

 

69. “What’s New about Embodied Cognition?,” to the Holtz Center for Science and Technology (Madison, March 2013).

 

68. “Wonder of Wonders: A Philosopher’s Guide to Thinking about Miracles,” the Inaugural Phi Beta Kappa Presidential Address (Madison, March 2013).

 

67. “In Defense of Interventionist Solutions to Exclusion,” (with Tom Polger) to the Central American Philosophical Association Meeting (New Orleans, February 2013).

 

66. “To Find a Mark of the Mental, Trust Your Gut,” to the Kayden Symposium on Robert Rupert’s Cognitive Systems and The Extended Mind (Boulder, October 2012).

 

65. “Embodiment and Neural Reuse,” to The Metaphysics of Mind and Brain: Realization, Mechanisms, and Embodiment (Humboldt University, Berlin, July 2012).

 

64. “The Body in Mind, But Whence the Mind?” Keynote address to the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (Waikiki, May 2012).

 

63. “Wonder of Wonders: A Philosopher’s Guide to Thinking about Miracles,” to the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, April 2012).

 

62. “What’s New about Embodied Cognition?”  to UNAM Institute for Philosophy (Mexico City, March 2012).

 

61. “Dynamics and Cognition,” to UNAM Institute for Philosophy (Mexico City, March 2012).

 

60. “Dynamics and Cognition,” to HAMLET, University of Wisconsin (Madison, December 2011).

 

59. “Dynamics and Cognition,” to the conference in honor of Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, November 2011).

 

58. “Mental Manipulation and the Problem of Causal Exclusion,” to the Unisinos Department of Philosophy (Brazil, October 2011).

 

57. “Embodied Cognition,” to the Embodied Cognition Workshop, Unisinos (Brazil, October 2011).

 

56. “Dynamics and Cognition,” to the Metaphysics of Science Workshop, University of Delaware (Newark, September 2011).

 

55. “Realization Of and By,” to the Philosophy and the Brain: Computation, Realization, Representation Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (May 2011).

 

54. “Embodied Cognition: Lessons from Linguistic Determinism,” to the Embodiment and Adaptation Workshop, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, March 2011).

 

53. “Mental Manipulation and the Failure of Exclusion,” to University of San Diego Department of Philosophy (San Diego, November 2010).

 

52. “Mental Manipulation and the Failure of Exclusion,” to the Metaphysics of Science Workshop (Birmingham, AL, February 2010).

 

51. “Embodied Cognition: Lessons from Linguistic Determinism,” to the conference The

Extended Mind Thesis in Theory and Applications (Bielefeld, November 2009).

 

50. “James Bond and the Barking Dog: Evolution and Extended Cognition,” to the European

Philosophy of Science Association (Amsterdam, October 2009).

 

49. “James Bond and the Barking Dog: Evolution and Extended Minds,” to the Metaphysics of Science Workshop (Cincinnati, November 2008).

 

48. “Making Sense of Mirror Neurons,” to the University of Wollongong Department of Philosophy (Wollongong, June 2008).

 

47. “Embodied Cognition,” to the Embodied in the Gong Workshop, University of Wollongong (Wollongong, June 2008).

 

46. “Embodied Cognition,” to the Current Projects Seminar at the Sydney University Department of Philosophy (Sydney, May 2008).

 

45. “The Science Behind Multiple Realization,” to the Cognitive Science Conference, Macquarie University (Sydney, April 2008).

 

44. “The Science Behind Multiple Realization,” to the Sydney University Department of Philosophy (Sydney, March 2008).

 

44. “The Science Behind Multiple Realization,” to The Australian National University Department of Philosophy (Canberra, January 2008).

 

43. “The Science Behind Multiple Realization,” to the Washington University Department of Philosophy (St. Louis, December 2007)

 

42. “Understanding the Dimensions of Realization,” (with Tom Polger) to the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, November 2007). 

 

41. “Making Sense of Mirror Neurons,” to the University of Cincinnati Department of Philosophy (November 2007).

 

40. “Functionalism and Mental Boundaries,” to the Perception, Action, and Cognition Group at the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, November 2007).

 

39. “Functionalism and Mental Boundaries,” to the Cognitive Development Brown Bag (Madison, October 2007).

 

38. “Functionalism and Mental Boundaries,” to the University of Illinois Department of Philosophy (Chicago, October 2007).

 

37. “On Sensing,” to the Metaphysics of Science Workshop (Shreveport, October 2007).

 

36. “Representation and Philosophy of Science,” to the Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference (Kalymnos, GR, June 2007).

 

35. “How to Test for Multiple Realization,” to the Ohio State-Croatia Epistemology and Metaphysics meeting (Dubrovnik, May 2007)

 

34. “How to Test for Multiple Realization,” to the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (Vancouver, BC, November 2006)

 

33. “Multiple Realizability, Seriously,” to the Mind, Body, and Realization Conference (Lafayette College, October, 2006).

 

32. “Flat and Happy,” to the Metaphysics of Science Workshop (Madison, August 2006).

 

31. Author Meets Critics session on The Mind Incarnate (Chicago, April 2006).

 

30. “Lessons from Causal Exclusion,” to the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Chicago, April 2006).

 

29. “Special Special Science Laws,” to the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology (Charleston, April 2006).

 

28. “Symbolism, Embodied Cognition, and What's Really at Stake,” to the Garachico Workshop on Symbols, Embodiment, and Meaning (Tenerife, December 2005).

 

27. “Epiphenomenalism – The Do's and Don'ts,” (with Elliott Sober), to the joint meeting of University of Pittsburgh and University of Konstanz (Konstanz, May 2005).

 

26. “Is Content Essential to Computational States?,” a response to Gualtiero Piccinini at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Boston, December 2004).

 

25. “Special Special Science Laws,” University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (Milwaukee, December 2004).

 

24. “Can Psychology Be A Unified Science,” to the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (Austin, November 2004).

 

23. “Special Special Science Laws,” to the Fortieth Annual University of Cincinnati Philosophy Colloquium Nature, Normativity and the Autonomy of the Mind (Cincinnati, May 2004).

 

22. “The Metaphysics of Multiple Realizability: It's Like Apples and Oranges,” Keynote Address to the Marquette Graduate Student Philosophy Conference (Milwaukee, March 2002).

 

21. “Behavior as an Emergent Phenomenon,” Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar, University of Wisconsin – Madison (Madison, September 2002).

 

20. “Neural Plasticity and Multiple Realizability,” to the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Edmonton, June 2002).

 

19. “Mind-Body Reduction With Embodiment in Mind,” Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, October 2001).

 

18. “Multiple Realizations,” University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (Stevens Point, April 2000).

 

17. “Mind the Adaptation,” to the Royal Institute for Philosophy conference Naturalism, Evolution, and Mind (Edinburgh, July 1999).

 

16. “Mind the Adaptation,” to the History and Philosophy of Science Group, Northwestern University (Evanston, April 1999).

 

15. “Avoiding Harms' Way” a response to William Harms at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Washington D. C., December 1998).

 

14. “Can Knowledge of Evolutionary History Help the Psychologist?” to Symposium: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Evolutionary Reasoning, CogSci98 (Madison, August 1998).

 

13. “Adapted Minds” to the conference Naturalism, Evolution, and Intentionality (Western Ontario, April 1998).

 

12. “Change of Mind” to the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, November 1997).

 

11. “Presence of Mind” to the biennial meeting of the International Society for the History,

Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (Seattle, July 1997).

 

10. Response to Irene Pepperberg at the Animal Minds meeting (Boulder, April 1996).

 

9. “What is Psychophysics?” to the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (New Orleans, October 1994).

 

8. “Indication, Cognitive Science, and Lego Naturalism,” to the conference Complex Representations: The Place of Indicator Semantics in Cognitive Science (Blacksburg, March 1994).

 

7. “Discrimination in Perceptual Psychology,” to the Proseminar in Experimental Psychology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (Madison, October 1993).

 

6. “Taking it from the Top: A Criticism of Dretske's Bottom Up Strategy for Naturalizing

Representational Content,” to the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Vancouver, June 1993).

 

5. “Naturalizing Representation,” to Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, May 1993). 

 

4. Revised version of the above to the University of Pennsylvania Ecology and Evolution Group (Philadelphia, March 1993).

 

3. “Darwin and Disjunction: Foraging Theory and Univocal Assignments of Content,” to the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (Montreal, June 1992).

 

2. Revised version of the above to the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (Chicago, October 1992).

 

1. “Darwin, Disjunction, and Univocal Assignments of Intentional Content,” to the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Portland, March 1992).

 

Interviews/blog posts/podcasts:

10. Carrie Lynn Evans, New Books in Secularism podcast, 2018: https://newbooksnetwork.com/larry-shapiro-the-miracle-myth-why-belief-in-the-resurrection-and-the-supernatural-is-unjustified-columbia-up-2016/ 

9. The Open Table Blog, “Why I Can’t Believe in the Resurrection,” 2018: https://www.theopentableblog.com/single-post/2018/04/08/Why-I-Cant-Believe-in-the-Resurrection

8. Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaynor, FreeThought Matters, 2018

7. Jonathan Zarov, WORT, Campus Carry, 2016

6. Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaynor, FreeThought Radio, Miracles, 2016.

5. Esty Dinur, A Public Affair, WORT, Artificial Intelligence, May 2014.

4. Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaynor, FreeThought Radio, Miracles, 2013. (http://ffrf.org/news/radio/show-items/item/18236-freethought-radio-broadcast-%E2%80%94-july-27-2013)

3. Norman Gilliland and Emily Auerbach, University of the Air, Wonder of Wonders: A Philosopher’s Guide to Thinking about Miracles, 2013. (http://www.wpr.org/listen/293116)

2. Katrin Weigman, EMBO reports, “Does Intelligence Require a Body?,” 2012.

1. Ginger Campbell, Brain Science Podcast, 2011: http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/bsp/embodied-cognition-with-lawrence-shapiro-bsp-73.html

 

Professional Activities:

Referee for: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion Philosophical Psychology, Journal of Philosophical Research, Mind, Mind and Language, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy of Science, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Trends in Cognitive Science, WIREs Cognitive Science, TOPOI , Theory & Psychology, Philosophical Review

 

Reviewer for: Metaphysics of Science Society, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Southern Society for Philosophy of Psychology

 

Manuscript Consultant for: Blackwell Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Wadsworth Pub. Co., Routledge Press

 

Application Reviewer for the National Endowment of the Humanities (April 2016: Washington, DC)

 

Proposal Referee for National Science Foundation

 

Organizer for the symposium Philosophy of Psychology as Philosophy of Science held at the Philosophy of Science Association biennial meeting (New Orleans, October 1994).

 

Promotion Reviews for Washington University in St. Louis, University of Arkansas, University of Cincinnati, University of Pittsburgh, Georgia State University, Rutgers University – Newark, University of Iowa, Northern Illinois University, Youngstown State University, Lafayette College, Fordham University, Tulane University, Villanova University

 

Outreach:

“The Great Debate: Does God Exist?,” debate with Pastor Isaac Fleming, Living Water Church (Sun Prairie, October  2018).

“Why You Shouldn’t Believe in Miracles,” Middleton Public Library, Summer 2018

“Resurrected or Reimagined? Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?” CRU Debate with Professor Michael Licona, The Ohio State University (Columbus, February 2017). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq4UP4h8Vzs

Belleville High School National Honors Society Induction Speech, 2012

The Miracle Myth: Why Belief in Miracles is Unjustified, Philosophers Tackle Contemporary Issues series, March 2014 (http://wpt.org/University-Place/why-belief-miracles-unjustified)

Abortion Debate, sponsored by UW Christians Organization, April 2014

“The Campus Carry Curriculum,” Column for The Cap Times, Fall 2016

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Service:

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to review the undergraduate major in Religious Studies, 2018

Reviewer for Senior Resident Applications for the Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2018

Reviewer for Kingdon Fellowship Applications to the Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2018

Reviewer for Director Applications for the Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2018

Graduate Student Admissions Committee, 2017-2018

Placement Director, 2015-2017

President, Phi Beta Kappa, UW Alpha Chapter 2011-2014

Graduate Faculty Executive Committee, 2010, 2011

Member, Ad Hoc Committee to review Spanish and Portuguese, 2011

Member, Ad Hoc Committee to review Languages and Cultures of Asia, 2010

Divisional Committee, Spring 2007; 2012-2014

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to review the Department of Mathematics, 2006-2007

Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2002-2006

Chair, Graduate Student Admissions Committee, 2000-2001; 2001-2002; 2010-2011

Search Committee, 2000-2001; 2001-2002; 2006-2007, as Chair: 2009-2010; 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014

Budget Committee, 2000-2001; 2009-10; 2010-11, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2015-2016, 2018-2019

College of Letters and Science Undergraduate Advising, 1996-1997; 1997-1998; 1998-1999; 2001-2002

Undergraduate Planning Committee, 1998-1999

Undergraduate Student/Faculty Conference Committee, 1998-1999

Lectures and Colloquia, 1999 Sem I; 2000 Sem I

Oliver Prize Committee, 1995; 1997, 2012

TA Policies and Procedures Committee, 1994-1995; 1995-1996; 1996-1997

Teaching Assistant Review Committee, 1994-1995; 1995-1996; 1996-1997

Library Committee, 1994-1995

 

Doctorates Overseen:

Danielle Wylie

Michael Roche

Shannon Spaulding

Deborah Mower

Laura Sizer

Stephen Schmid

 

Current Doctoral Students:

Greg Nirshberg                       

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