Abridged CV
Employment
From 2021: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
2018-2021: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
2016-2018: 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
Awards and Grants
Presentations
From 2021: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
2018-2021: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
2016-2018: 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
- Alford-Duguid, D. & Amijee, F. (forthcoming) Russell on Propositions. Routledge Handbook of Propositions. C. Tillman and A. Murray (Eds.)
- Alford-Duguid, D. (2020) Thinking Through Illusion. European Journal of Philosophy. 28 (3): 617-638.
- Alford-Duguid, D. (2018) Thought about Properties: Why the Perceptual Case is Basic. Philosophical Quarterly 68 (271): 221-242. [Pen. Draft]
- Alford-Duguid, D. & Arsenault, M. (2017) On the Explanatory Power of Hallucination. Synthese 194: 1765-1785. [Published Version]
Awards and Grants
- Early Career Researcher Award, John Fell Fund, 2019-2021
- Early Career Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust, 2018-2021
- 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
- ‘Whence Come Properties Before the Mind?’ Brandeis University (January 2022)
- ‘Austere Modal Empiricism’ University of British Columbia (January 2022)
- ‘Learning From Presupposition’ Western Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting, University of Victoria (November 2021)
- ‘Austere Modal Empiricism’ Hampton Court Workshop (June 2021)
- ‘Whence Come Properties Before the Mind?’ New Waves in Relationalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison (May 2021)
- ‘Whence Come Properties Before the Mind?’ Workshop on Property Perception, University of Oxford (April 2021)
- ‘Whence Come Properties Before the Mind?’ Philosophy of Mind WIP Seminar, University of Oxford (November 2020)
- ‘Learning From Presupposition’ LOGOS, University of Barcelona (February 2020)
- ‘Thinking Through Illusion’ National University of Singapore (February 2020)
- ‘Privacy at the Limits of Control’ Legal Theory Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh Law School (November 2019)
- ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure’ APA - Pacific, Vancouver (April 2019)
- ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure’ Philosophy of Mind WIP Seminar, University of Oxford (February 2019)
- ‘Perception-Based Thought About Properties Tolerates Perceptual Error’ Simon Fraser University (December 2018)
- ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure’ Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, U. of Oxford (July 2018)
- ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure’ Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Montreal (June 2018)
- ‘Perception-Based Thought About Properties Tolerates Perceptual Error’ Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Montreal (June 2018)
- ‘Perception-Based Thought About Properties Tolerates Perceptual Error’ Complutense University of Madrid (February 2018)
- ‘Thinking Through Illusion’ University of Manitoba (February 2018)
- ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure’ University of Cambridge (January 2018)
- ‘General Jurisprudence as Descriptive Metaphysics’ Workshop on Philosophy of Law and Metaethics, University of Surrey School of Law (Dec. 2017)
- ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure’ Cognitive Science Research Group, New College of the Humanities (November 2017)
- ‘General Jurisprudence as Descriptive Metaphysics’ Legal Theory Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh Law School (October 2017)
- ‘On the Epistemic Significance of Perceptual Structure’ London Workshop on Knowledge First Philosophy of Mind (June 2017)
- ‘Thinking Through Illusion’ King's College London (November 2016)
- ‘Thinking Through Illusion’ Society for Exact Philosophy (May 2016)
- ‘Assertion and Gaps’ Semantics and Philosophy Colloquium, University of Cambridge (September 2015)
- ‘Thinking Through Illusion’ PLM Conference, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Oslo (September 2015)
- ‘The Structure of Predicative Thought’ Society for Exact Philosophy (May 2015)
- ‘Attention to Properties and Reference to Objects’ APA - Pacific, San Diego (April 2014)
- ‘Attention to Properties and Reference to Objects’ MindGrad, University of Warwick (December 2013)
- ‘Articulate Acquaintance: Russell and Nonsense’ Russell and Wittgenstein at the Crossroads 1911-1921, McMaster University (November 2013)
- ‘Do Predicates Refer?’ Society for Exact Philosophy (May 2013)
- ‘Varieties of Attention’ Pitt/CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference (April 2013)
- ‘Varieties of Attention’ UT-Austin Graduate Philosophy Conference (April 2013)
- ‘Russell vs. Wittgenstein on Nonsense’ APA - Pacific, San Francisco (March 2013)
- ‘Looking to Think About Properties’ Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (March 2013)