Dave Beisecker's Web Page

Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 455028
Las Vegas, NV 89154
E-Mail: beiseckd@unlv.nevada.edu

Courses I Teach:

• PHI 102-Reasoning and Critical Thinking; spring 2002, 2003, 2004
• PHI 101-Introduction to Philosophy; fall 2001, 2002, 2003
• PHI 437-Philosophy of Language ; fall 1999, 2001
• PHI 441-Metaphysics ; fall 1998, 2000
• PHI 330-Computers and Culture; spring 1999, 2001, 2003
• PHI 352- Special Topics (Philosophy of Mind); fall 2004 (Syllabus to be posted later)
• PHI 433- Philosophical Psychology; spring 2000, fall 2002
• PHI 405-Contemporary Philosophy; spring 2002, fall 2003
• PHI 404- 19th Century Philosophy; spring 2004
• PHI 499- Directed Study (Dennett); summer 2004

Selected Papers*

• "Phenomenal Consciousness, Sense Impressions, and the Logic of "What it's Like," forthcoming, Consciousness and Emotion, earlier versions presented at the 2003 Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, the XXIst World Congress of Philosophy (Istanbul, Turkey), and Towards a Science of Consciousness V, Tucson, AZ. (Abstract)
• "On the Origin of Conventional Meaning: A Pragmatist Alternative to Grice," forthcoming, Mind & Language
• "Functionalization and Folk-Psychology: How the mental earns its keep", forthcoming, Southwest Philosophical Studies, Volume 26 (2004).
• "Interpretation and First-Person Authority: Davidson on Self Knowledge," Southwest Philosophy Review, 16:1 (January 2003), pp. 89-96.
• Review of Andrew Brook and Don Ross (eds.), Daniel Dennett (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November 2002, available at http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/11/beisecker=brook-ross.html.
• "Some More Thought About Thought and Talk", Philosophy, 77 (2002): 115-124.
• "Dennett and the Quest for Real Meaning: In defense of a 'Myth'", Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol. 9:1 (Spring-Summer 2002), pp. 11-18.
• "The Importance of Being Erroneous: Prospects for Animal Intentionality", Philosophical Topics, Vol. 27:1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 281-308.
• "There's Something About Mary: Phenomenal Consciousness and its Attributions", Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 16:2 (July 2000). Presented April 2000 at the pacific division meeting of the American Philosophical Association and at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson 2000 (abstract).
• "The Meaning of Life and More", presented at the June 2000 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (New York, NY).
• "Communication Without Intent: Toward a Non-Gricean Account of Conventional Meaning", Proceedings of the Association for Global Business and the International Academy of Linguistics, Behavior, and Social Science (Robert Keating, ed), Volume 13 (Fall 2002) pp. 8-14.
• Dissertation: "Recipes for the Simple-Minded: A constructive account of original Intentionality," University of Pittsburgh, 1999. Click here for Abstract

*The papers posted here are mostly quick and dirty html conversions of my own files. In many cases, footnotes and other formatting have been lost. Please do not cite without checking the original sources!

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