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Current Position

• Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, King's College London ​

​Education
PhD in Philosophy  [2016] 
Supervisor: Imogen Dickie 
Thesis: Getting Properties in Mind 
University of Toronto 

Honours Bachelor of Arts (with High Distinction) [2009] 
Philosophy, English, and Mathematics
University of Toronto 

Articles 

1. Alford-Duguid, D. (forthcoming) Thought about Properties: Why the Perceptual Case is Basic. Philosophical Quarterly. [Penultimate Draft]
2. Alford-Duguid, D. & Arsenault, A. (2017) On the Explanatory Power of Hallucination. Synthese 194: 1765-1785. 

Awards and Scholarships 

• David Savan Dissertation Prize, University of Toronto, 2017
• SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2016-2018
• George Paxton Young Memorial Award in Philosophy, University of Toronto, 2015
• Doctoral Completion Grant, University of Toronto, 2014-2015
• SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, 2012
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2012-2013                                             
• Martha Lile Love Essay Award, University of Toronto, 2010      
• SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral Award), 2009-2012

Presentations 

1. ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure’ London Workshop on Knowledge First Philosophy of Mind (June 2017)
2. ‘Thinking Through Illusion’ King's College London (November 2016)
3. ‘Thinking Through Illusion’ Society for Exact Philosophy (May 2016)
4. ‘Assertion and Gaps’ Semantics and Philosophy Colloquium, University of Cambridge (September 2015)
5. ‘Thinking Through Illusion’ PLM Conference, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Oslo (September 2015)
6. ‘The Structure of Predicative Thought’ Society for Exact Philosophy (May 2015)
7. ‘Attention to Properties and Reference to Objects’ APA - Pacific, San Diego (April 2014)
8. ‘Attention to Properties and Reference to Objects’ MindGrad, University of Warwick (December 2013)
9. ‘Articulate Acquaintance: Russell and Nonsense’ Russell and Wittgenstein at the Crossroads 1911-1921, McMaster University (November 2013)
10. ‘Do Predicates Refer?’ Society for Exact Philosophy (May 2013)
11. ‘Varieties of Attention’ Pitt/CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference (April 2013)
12. ‘Varieties of Attention’ UT-Austin Graduate Philosophy Conference (April 2013)
13. ‘Russell vs. Wittgenstein on Nonsense’ APA - Pacific, San Francisco  (March 2013)
14. ‘Looking to Think About Properties’ Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (March 2013)

Commentaries  

1. Annalisa Coliva's 'Disagreeing With Oneself' Montreal Conference on Disagreement: Faces of Disagreement (May 2016)
2. Nathan Howard's 'Do Practical Judgments Require the First Person Point of View?' 15th Annual University of Toronto Philosophy Graduate Conference (May 2015)
3. Anandi Hattiangadi's 'Expressivism and the Problem of Intentionality' 14th Annual University of Toronto Philosophy Graduate Conference (with Jonathan Payton, May 2014)
4. Ed Nettel's 'Testifying' 14th Annual University of Toronto Philosophy Graduate Conference (with Matthew Siebert, May 2014)
5. Karl Schafer's 'Moral Disagreement and Moral Relativism' UTM Speaker Series (April 2014)
6. Timothy Williamson’s ‘Possible Beings’ 12th Annual University of Toronto Philosophy Graduate Conference, University of Toronto (with James Davies, March 2012)
7. Arthur Sullivan’s ‘What do Deviant Logicians show about the Epistemology of Logic?’ Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Concordia University (May 2010)