Resume This resume is made with CVwizard . com . Basic information Name Joshua Rust Email address jrust @ stetson . edu Address 421 N Woodland Blvd #104 , 32723 DeLand , FL Scholarship Focus AOS : social ontology , experimental philosophy , cognitive science , John Searle AOC : philosophy of biology , philosophy of social science , ancient philosophy , ethics , philosophy of law , philosophy of mind Academic Employment Aug 2007 - Present Professor Stetson University Aug 2006 - May 2007 Visiting Assistant Professor Metropolitan State College , Denver 2004 - 2005 Instructor University of California , Riverside 2004 - 2006 Adjunct Professor San Bernardino Community College 2003 - 2003 Adjunct Professor Riverside Community College Education 2005 University of California , Riverside Ph . D . , Philosophy Dissertation : Searle's Ideal Type : Rethinking the Construction of Social Reality Committee members : Eric Schwitzgebel ( Chair ) , Gary Watson , Larry Wright 2006 London School of Economics MS . c . , Philosophy of Social Science 2001 University of California , Riverside M . A . , Philosophy 1997 University of California , Berkeley B . A . , Philosophy
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . 1995 Irvine Valley Community College , CA A . A . , Philosophy Publications Monographs Joshua Rust . 2009. John Searle . London ; New York : Continuum . Joshua Rust . 2006. John Searle and The Construction of Social Reality . Continuum Studies in American Philosophy . London ; New York : Continuum . Articles Joshua Rust . 2023 " Enactivist social ontology . " Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences . https : //link . springer . com/article/10.1007/s11097 - 023 - 09952 - 9 Joshua Rust . 2023 " Institutional genidentity . " Journal of the American Philosophical Association . https : //doi . org/10.1017/apa .2023.23 Steven Smallpage , Robert Askew , Eric Kurlander and Joshua Rust . 2023. " Conspiracy thinking and the long historical shadow of Romanticism on authoritarian politics . " Frontiers in Psychology . 10.3389/fpsyg .2023.1185699 Joshua Rust . 2023 ( 2021 ) . " Humanities , Democracy , and Polytheism . " Philosophy News : Official Journal of the European Society for Moral Philosophy . 23. https : //www . academia . edu/99262765/Humanities_Democracy_and_Polytheism Joshua Rust . 2022. " Precedent as a path laid down in walking : Grounding intrinsic normativity in a history of response . " Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences . https : //doi . org/10.1007/s11097 - 022 - 09865 - z Joshua Rust , 2022. " Phenotype - first hypotheses , spandrels and early metazoan evolution . " History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences . 33 : 38. https : //doi . org/10.1007/s40656 - 022 - 00531 - w Joshua Rust , 2022. " The University and Globalisation as a New Mediaevalism . " Discourses of Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms , Globalisation , Comparative Education and Policy Research 27. J . Zajda , W . J . Jacob ( eds . ) . 51 - 69. Joshua Rust . 2021. " Von Baer , the intensification of uniqueness , and historical explanation . " History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43. 1 - 25. https : //doi . org/10.1007/s40656 - 021 - 00473 - 9 Joshua Rust . 2021 " Max Weber and Social Ontology . " Philosophy of the Social Sciences . 51 ( 3 ) 312–342. Joshua Rust and Steven Smallpage . 2020 " Clarity , Value Conflict , and Academic Politics : Weber's 'Science as a Vocation' a Hundred Years Later . " Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective . 9 ( 6 ) : 66 - 76. Joshua Rust . 2019. " Institutional Identity . " Journal of Social Ontology . aop . https : //doi . org/10.1515/jso - 2018 - 0032 Joshua Rust . 2018. " Traditional Action and Traditional Authority " . Max Weber Studies . 18 ( 2 ) : 159–85. https : //doi . org/doi . org/10.15543/MWS/2018/2/3. Joshua Rust . 2017. " On the Relation between Institutional Statuses and Technical Artifacts : A Proposed Taxonomy of Social Kinds " . International Journal of Philosophical Studies . DOI : 10.1080/09672559.2017.1381139 Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust . 2016. " The Behavior of Ethicists " . Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy , edited by Wesley Buckwalter and Justin Sytsma . New York , NY : Wiley - Blackwell . Joshua Rust . 2014. Indulgent Sympathy and the Impartial Spectator . In Propriety and Prosperity : New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith , edited by David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh . Houndmills , Basingstoke , Hampshire ; New York , NY : Palgrave Macmillan . Joshua Rust and Eric Schwitzgebel . 2014. The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Power of Reason . In Advances in Experimental Moral Psychology , edited by Hagop Sarkissian and Jennifer Wright , 91–109. Bloomsbury Academic . Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust . 2014. The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors : Relationships Among Self - Reported Behavior , Expressed Normative Attitude , and Directly Observed Behavior . Philosophical Psychology 27 ( 3 ) : 293 - 327. Joshua Rust and Eric Schwitzgebel . 2013. Ethicists and Nonethicists Responsiveness to Student E - Mails : Relationships Among Expressed Normative Attitude , Self - Described Behavior , and Empirically Observed Behavior . Metaphilosophy 44 ( 3 ) : 350–71. Eric Schwitzgebel , Joshua Rust , L . T . L . Huang , A . T . Moore , and J . Coates . 2012. Ethicists Courtesy at Philosophy Conferences . Philosophical Psychology 25 ( 3 ) . Joshua Rust . 2011. Aesthetic Norms and Institutional Reality . Symposium on John Searle s Making the Social World : The Structure of Human Civilization . Analysis 71 ( 4 ) : 719 - 33. Joshua Rust . 2011. " Hayek , Connectionism , and Scientific Naturalism . " In Hayek in Mind : Hayek's Philosophical
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . Psychology , Advances in Austrian Economics 15 : 29 - 50. Emerald Group Publishing Limited . Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust . 2010. Do Ethicists and Political Philosophers Vote More Often Than other Professors ? Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1 ( 2 ) : 189 - 99. Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust . 2009. The Moral Behaviour of Ethicists : Peer Opinion . Mind 118 ( 472 ) : 1043 - 59. Marijana Weiner and Joshua Rust . 2005. Introduction to Fritz Heider's Violence and Ecology . Peace and Conflict 11 ( 1 ) : 9–15. Encyclopedia Articles Joshua Rust . 2017. " John Searle . " Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online , edited by Paul Livingston and Tim Crane . https : //www . rep . routledge . com/articles/biographical/searle - john - 1932/v - 2 Book Reviews Joshua Rust . 2012. Empirical Social Choice : Questionnaire - Experimental Studies on Distributive Justice , Gaertner and Schokkaert . Cambridge University Press , 2012 , 228 Pages . Economics and Philosophy 28 ( 03 ) : 443–50. Anthony J . Abbott and Joshua Rust . 2012. William Ophuls : Plato s Revenge . Human Ecology 40 ( 3 ) : 479–81. Joshua Rust . 2011. John R . Searle : Thinking about the Real World . Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews . https : //ndpr . nd . edu/news/24715 - john - r - searle - thinking - about - the - real - world/ Popular Philosophy Articles Susan Peppers - Bates and Joshua Rust . 2012. House - Elves , Hogwarts , and Friendship : Casting Away the Institutions Which Made Voldemort s Rise Possible . Reason Papers 34 ( 1 ) : 109–24 Susan Peppers - Bates and Joshua Rust . 2010. A Vampire s Heart Has Reasons That Scientific Naturalism Can t Understand . In True Blood and Philosophy : We Wanna Think Bad Things with You , edited by William Irwin , George A . Dunn , and Rebecca Housel , Hoboken , N . J : Wiley . Presentations 2023 Aug . ( with Anna Strasser ) " Group Survival Factors . " Social Ontology 2023 Conference . Stockholm , Sweden . 2023 Aug . " The grounds and anchors of Max Weber s notion of Herrschaft . " Authority , Power , and Accountability workshop , Stockholm , Sweden . 2023 May . " Minimal Institutional Agency . " Humans and Smart Machines as Partners in Thought ? at U . C . Riverside 2023 March . " An Enactivist Rejoinder to Structural Functionalism . " Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable . 2023 Feb . " Teaching Philosophy with Moby Dick " Florida Philosophical Association conference . Keynote address . 2022 Aug . " Enactivist Social Ontology " Social Ontology 2022 Conference . Vienna , Austria . 2021 Aug . " The Conferralist Account , Traditional Anchors , and the Social Ontology of the University . " Social Ontology 2021 Conference . 2021 July . " Translating the Philosophy of Joint Action in Shared Governance at Stetson University . " AAUP Shared Governance Conference . 2020 July . " Institutions , Generic Agency , and the Agent - Exclusion Problem " Social Ontology 2020 Conference . 2019 Aug . " Max Weber and Social Ontology . " European Network of Social Ontology at Tampere , Finnland . 2018 Oct . " Max Weber and Social Ontology . " Critical Social Ontology Workshop at St . Louis University , St Louis , MO . 2018 Aug . " Institutional Identity . " Social Ontology 2018 Conference at Tufts University , Boston MA . 2018 July . " Patrimonialism and a Literary Education : Exemplars in the Non - Rational Modes of Authority . " XIX International Sociology Association World Congress of Sociology . Toronto , CA . July 15 - 21 , 2018. 2018 Jan . Chair and Organizer of the Florida Philosophical Association group session at the Eastern American Philosophical Association conference . Savannah , Georgia . 2017 Nov . " What Kind of Institutional Fact is Money ? " Conference of the Florida Philosophical Association . Ocala . 2017 Aug . " Money and Deontic Power . " Fifth Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology . Lund , Sweden . 2017 June . Real Social Kinds and the Continuity Between Institutional Statuses and Technical Artifacts . Critical Social Ontology Workshop - 1 st Annual Meeting . June 16th - 17th , 2017. Saint Louis University , MO 2016 Aug . " Status Functions , Constitution , and Metaphsyical Vagueness " Presented at Collective Intentionality X , den Haag . 2016 Oct . Stetson Faculty Spotlight lecture series : " Weber on Traditionalism . " 2015 Oct . The Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory ( FEAST ) , with Susan Peppers - Bates . " Desegregation and the Goals of Democracy . " 2015 May . NCORE , with Beth Paul ( Stetson University Provost ) , Kimberly Flint - Hamilton , and Resche Hines . "
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . Transformation From Within : A Model for Weaving Inclusive Excellence into the Fabric of a Unviersity . " 2014 Nov . Florida Philosophical Association . " Trusting in and Trusting with : an Account of the Charismatic Relationship . " 2014 March . " Democracy in America : Participation and Social Justice Conference " hosted by Stetson University , with Susan Peppers - Bates . " Deracing Place : Care respect , Desegregation and Implicit Bias and the aims of Democratic Governance . " 2014 Feb . Race and Place : Cultural Landscapes of Black Life in America , sponsored by the University of South Florida Institute on Black Life , with Susan Peppers - Bates . Deracing Place : Care Respect , Desegregation an Implicit Bias in American Society . 2013 Dec . American Philosophical Association , Eastern Division . John Searle and the Analyzability of Institutional Reality : Charisma , Deontology and Exemplarization . 2013 Oct . 2nd Annual Dr Todd Bates Lecture at Bethune - Cookman University . The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Power of Reason . 2012 Nov . Work Group on Human Rights , Social Justice , and Democracy at Stetson University . The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Rationalist Delusion . 2012 Nov . Florida Philosophical Association . The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Rationalist Delusion . 2012 March . University of South Florida . What Austin Said : On Misunderstanding How to do Things with Words . 2011 Oct . The Power to Imagine Better : The Philosopher of Harry Potter conference , with Susan Peppers - Bates at Marymount Manhattan College . Friendship , Identity Politics and Harry Potter . 2010 Nov . Florida Philosophical Association . " What Austin Said : a Reinterpretation of How to do Things with Words . " 2010 Aug . UCLA Summer New Media Institute : Young Community Leaders Program . What s in a Game ? Heidegger and Computer Gaming . 2009 April . American Philosophical Association , Pacific division . Informative Rejections of Requests for Explanation . 2008 Nov . Florida Philosophical Association . John Searle s Relational Definition of Mind . 2008 , June . Poster . SPP Workshop on Experimental Philosophy , with Eric Schwitzgebel . Do Ethicists vote more often than other professors ? Do political scientists ? 2008 April . University of Central Florida : Austin , Searle and the Distinction between Locutionary and Illocutionary Acts 2007 Nov . Florida Philosophical Association . Are Ethicists Ethical ? Empirical Support for Aristotle s Moral Particularism . 2007 April . University of Colorado at Denver . Some Criticisms of John Searle s Methodological Strategies 2007 March . Metropolitan State College , Denver . Searle s Biological Naturalism as an answer to the mind - body problem : a critique Awards 2023 - 24 Appointed Kathleen A . Johnson Chair of Humanities at Stetson University . 2020 April . Sabbatical awarded by Stetson University . 2017 April . Summer Grant awarded by Stetson University . 2016 April . Summer Grant awarded by Stetson University . 2014 Fall . Nominated for the 2016 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching by Karen Ryan , the Dean of Stetson University's College of Arts and Sciences . 2014 Spring . Sabbatical awarded by Stetson University . 2013 August . Tenure and promotion to Associate Professor awarded by Stetson University . 2013 April . Summer Grant awarded by Stetson University . 2012 Sept . Award winner of Emerald s Outstanding Author Contribution award for " Hayek , Connectionism and Scientific Naturalism " in Advances in Austrian Economics ( v 15 ) . 2012 April . First Year Student Advocate Award . Presented by Stetson University . 1999 - 2005. Fellowship awarded at U . C . Riverside . 2002 - 2003. Teaching Assistant of the Year . U . C . Riverside . Awarded by the Graduate Division of U . C . Riverside .
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . Academic Service Professional Service Secretary/Treasurer for the Florida Philosophical Association ( 2009 - 2020 ) . Duties include yearly conference organization . Referee work for Hypatia , The Journal of Moral Education , International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion , Experimental Philosophy , Philosophy of Social Science , Philosophy of Science , and Grazer Philosophische Studien , Florida Philosophical Review , and Philosophical Psychology . I've also refereed book proposals for Palgrave Macmillan and Bloomsbury . University Service Faculty Senate , Chair ( 2023 - present ) Philosophy Department Chair ( 2016 - 2019 ) Curriculum Committee ( sabbatical leave replacement ) : Chair of Policy Sub - Committee ( Fall 2017 - Spring 2018 ) Tenure , Grievance , and Academic Freedom Committee : member ( 2015 - present ) Three Tenure and Promotion ad hoc committees : Chair of Melinda Hall's Tenure and Promotion committee and member of the other committees . Academic Degree Completion program committee member ( 2018 - present ) CAS committee for teaching mock classes : member ( 2016 - present ) Humanities Division Secretary ( 2011 - 2012 , 2016 - present ) Pre - law Advisory Committee : member ( 2007 - present ) Stetson Social Justice Lecture Series committee : co - chair and member ( 2013 - 2018 ) Sustainability Working Group : member ( 2016 - 2017 ) Degree Completion Program taskforce : member ( 2016 - 2017 ) Values in the Curriculum Coordinator ( 2014 - 2017 ) Stetson Values committee : Co - chair of Global Citizenship ( 2012 - 2015 ) Task Force on the Academic Environment : member ( 2014 - 2015 ) Stetson University General Education Leadership Committee : member ( 2013 - 2014 ) Stetson Philosophy Club : faculty advisor ( 2007 - 2014 ) Faculty Senate : member ( 2012 - 2013 ) Stetson University Diversity Council : member ( 2010 - 2012 ) Courses Taught Social Science Theories and Methods ( Special Topics ) Buddhist Philosophy ( Special Topics ) Research in Philosophy ( PHIL 399 ) Social Ontology ( PHIL 390 , Special Topics in Philosophy ) Philosophy of Law ( PHIL 300 ) Epistemology ( PHIL 351 ) The Law as Memory : Legality , Morality , and Poetry ( PHIL 390 , Special Topics in Philosophy ) Metaphysics ( PHIL 352 ) The Philosophy of John Searle ( PHIL 390 , Special Topics in Philosophy ) Scientific Naturalism and the Modern Worldview ( PHIL 400 , Department Seminar ) Ethical Reflection and Action : Kant and Rawls ( PHIL 390 , Special Topics in Philosophy ) Philosophical Methods : Free Will ( PHIL 475 ) Inquiry and Explanation ( Phil 390 , Special Topics in Philosophy ) History of Ancient Philosophy ( PHIL 250H ) Introduction to Philosophy ( PHIL 101B ) Introduction to Logic ( PHIL 104Q ) Honors first year seminar : Enduring Questions—Sustainability , Utopian Thought , and the Museum ( HON101 ) Honors seminar : Justice and Ethics from a Global Perspective ( HON 2 )
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . Honors Tutorial ( HON 202 ) Graduate Classes Taken UC Riverside ( M . A . , PhD in Philosophy ) 1998 Fall Phil - 255A First Year Graduate Proseminar : Descartes' Passions of the Soul ( Paul Hoffman ) Phil - 280 Seminary in Contemporary Philosophy : Philosophy of Psychology ( Eric Schwitzgebel ) Phil - 131 20th Century Analytic Philosophy ( Dominik Sklenar ) 1999 Winter Phil - 255B First Year Graduate Proseminar : Reference and Indexicality in the Philosophy of Language ( Howard Wettstein ) Phil - 280 Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy : Reasoning and Argument ( Larry Wright ) Phil - 124 Formal Logic ( Dominik Sklenar ) 1999 Spring Phil - 255C First Year Graduate Proseminar : Gadamer ( Georgia Wankel ) Phil - 270 Seminar in Individual Philosophers : Kant's Critique of Practical Reason ( Andrews Reath ) Phil - 125 Intermediate Logic ( Erich Rech ) 1999 Fall Phil - 270 Seminar in Individual Philosophers : Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations Part I ( Larry Wright ) Phil - 290 Directed Studies 2000 Winter Phil - 270 Seminar in Individual Philosophers : Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations Part II ( Larry Wright ) Phil - 270 Seminar in Individual Philosophers : Kant's Critique of Pure Reason ( Andrews Reath ) 2000 Spring Phil - 280 Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy : Evil - a Topic in Moral Psychology ( Eric Schwitzgebel ) Phil - 185 Marxist Critique ( Georgia Warnke ) 2001 Winter Master's Thesis : Ideological Intractability : Contributing to Completeness ( Adviser : Georgia Warnke ) Phil - 280 Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy : Race , Gender , Sex , and Identity ( Georgia Warnke ) 2001 Spring Phil - 270 Seminar in Individual Philosophers : Epictetus ( David Glidden ) Courses taken only for credit : Phil - 280 Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy : Recent Works in the Philosophy of Mind - Know - how and Vehicle Externalism ( Eric Schwitzgebel ) Phil - 270 Seminar in Individual Philosophers : Kant's Ethics ( Pierre Keller ) Phil - 283 Seminary in Contemporary Philosophy : Rule Following ( Larry Wright ) Phil - 282 Kant ( Pierre Keller ) Phil - 282 Wittgenstein ( Larry Wright ) Phil - 283 Seminary in Contemporary Philosophy : Scientific Explanation ( Larry Wright ) London School of Economics ( MSc in the Philosophy of Social Sciences , 2005 - 2006 ) PH413 Philosophy of Economics I ( Nancy Cartwright ) PH413 Philosophy of Economics II ( Richard Bardley ) PH405 Philosophy of Social Science ( Jason McKenzie Alexander ) PH400 Special Topics I : Theories , Models and Scientific Representation ( Roman Frigg ) PH400 Special Topics II : Determinism , Predictability , and Chaos ( Stephan Hartmann ) References Eric Schwitzgebel ( experimental philosophy ) Professor of Philosophy of Philosophy UC Riverside
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . eschwitz - at - ucr . edu ( 951 ) 827 - 4288 Asa Burman ( social ontology ) Assistant Professor of Practical Philosophy Stockholm University asa . burman - at - philosophy . su . se Michael Rosenberg ( Max Weber scholar ) Retired Professor , Sociology at Dawson College , CA Presently part - time Instructor , Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University , CA michael . rosenberg - at - concordia . ca 514 - 332 - 5703 ( home phone )