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Associate Professor

Lead Departmental Advisor, Philosophy

Hall Auditorium Room 216
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-2442
hicksmr2@MiamiOH.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2009
• B.A. B.S. University of Pittsburgh

Teaching Interests

• Philosophy of Language and Mind
• Epistemology
• Logic
• History of Analytic Philosophy
• History of Skepticism
• Early Modern Philosophy
• Philosophy of Science

Courses Taught

• PHL 205 | Science and Culture
• PHL 273 | Formal Logic
• PHL 373 | Symbolic Logic
• PHL 420A | History of Analytic Philosophy
• PHL 420C | Philosophy of Language
• PHL 494A | Philosophy of Mind
• PHL 620D | History of Skepticism

Research Interests

• Philosophy of Language
• Philosophy of Mind
• Epistemology
• History of Analytic Philosophy; especially Wilfrid Sellars

Selected Publications

• "Pretense and Fiction-Directed Thought", forthcoming inPhilosophical Studies
  
• "Non-Evidential Reasons to Believe" (with Jonathan Adler),The Aim of Belief, ed. Timothy Chan (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2013: 140-166
• "A Note on Fiction and Co-Reference"Philosophical Studies, 149, July 2010: 395--400
• "Naturalism in Action",Inquiry, 52, December 2009:609--635