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Shannon Spaulding, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

• BA in Philosophy, Texas Tech University
• MA in Philosophy, University of Arkansas
• Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitve Science
• Philosophy of Science 

AWARDS

• 2022 President’s Fellows Faculty Award
• 2019 OSU Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award
• 2016 OSU Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Award
• 2014 Robert M. Griffith Memorial Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• "Embodied Cognition" (with Lawrence Shapiro). 2021. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• “Beliefs and Biases” (forthcoming) Synthese.
• “What is Mindreading” WIREs Cognitive Science. 2019: 11(3).
• “Implicit Social Cognition” Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition, Robert Thompson (ed.), forthcoming in Routledge Press
• “How I Know What You Know” Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology, Jennifer Lackey and Aidan McGlynn (eds.) forthcoming in Oxford University Press.
• “The Nature of Empathy” (with Rita Svetlova and Hannah Read) Philosophy of Neuroscience, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Felipe de Brigard (eds.) forthcoming in MIT Press.
• "How We Understand Others: Philosophy and Social Cognition" Routledge Press. 2018.
• "Mindreading Beyond Belief: A More Comprehensive Account of How We Understand Others" (forthcoming) Philosophy Compass
• "Conceptual Centrality and Implicit Bias" with Guillermo del Pinal, Mind & Language. 2018: 33(1), 95-111.
• "Do You See What I See? How Social Differences Influence Mindreading" Synthese (forthcoming)
• "How We Think and Act Together" Philosophical Psychology (2017), 1-17.
• "Mind Misreading" Philosophical Issues. 2016: 26(1), 422-440.
• "Imagination, Desire, and Rationality" Journal of Philosophy. 2015: 112(9), 457-476.
• "On Direct Social Perception" Consciousness and Cognition. 2015: 36, 472-482.
• "Phenomenology of Social Cognition" Erkenntnis. 2015: 380(5), 1069-108
• "On Whether We Can See Intentions" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)
• "Imagination Through Knowledge" Knowledge Through Imagination, Amy Kind and Peter Kung (eds.). 2016: 207-226. Oxford University Press.
• "Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition" Mind & Language. 2013: 28(2), 233-257.
• "Mirror Neurons Are Not Evidence for the Simulation Theory" Synthese. 2012: 189(3), 515-534.
• "Embodied Cognition and Mindreading" Mind & Language. 2010: 25(1), 119-140.
• "Imagination and Other Scripts" (with Eric Funkhouser) Philosophical Studies. 2009: 143(3), 291-314.

RECENT AND UPCOMING TALKS

• Beliefs and Biases, City University of New York Graduate College, May 2020
• Beliefs and Biases, University of Miami, January 2020
• Beliefs and Biases, Iowa State University, November 2019
• Minds, Bodies, and Environments, Bryn Mawr College, October 2019
• Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy keynote address, March 2020
• How We Understand Others, University of Maryland at College Park, May 3, 2019
• How We Understand Others, Author Meets Critics session at SSPP, March 11, 2019
• How We Understand Others, Pitzer College, December 4, 2018

SPRING 2023 CLASS SCHEDULE

PHIL 1113.24330 Introduction to Philosophy TR 1:30-2:45 pm NCLB 101

PHIL 5310.32224 Empathy TR 9:00-10:15 am SSH 239