Micah Newman – Curriculum Vitae

Primary Areas of Interest

Secondary Areas of Interest

Education

University of Connecticut

• Enrolled in Graduate Program in Philosophy

University of Texas

• One semester in a PhD program in organic chemistry

Westmont College

• Bachelor of Science in Biology
• Graduated cum laude

Publications

• "Chemical Supervenience", Foundations of Chemistry 10 (2008), 49–62

Unpublished Papers/Works in Progress (comments welcome; please do not cite)

• "Intrinsicness, Duplicability, and the Identity of Indiscernibles"
• "Sentimentalism and Direction of Fittingness"
• "A Semantics for Conceivability and Possibility"
• "Phenomenal Intentionality and Inverted Spectra"
• "Fine Tuning Is Not Causal Ramification" (a response to Cory Juhl's "Fine Tuning Is Not Surprising")
• "Restricted Mereology and Wholes as Essential to Their Parts"
• "Mereology and Meta-ontology, or, Is Mereology Ontologically Interesting?"

Presentations

• "Sentimentalism and Deviant Sentiments," Grue Bag meeting of the UConn Philosophy Graduate Student Association, November 2009
• “Emergence, Supervenience, and Chemical Education,” at the Summer Symposium of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, August 2009
• Comments on Andreas Elpidorou, “The Epistemological Role of the Body: A Lesson from Neuropsychology,” Yale-UConn Graduate Philosophy Conference, April 2009
• “Wholes as Essential to Their Parts,” Grue Bag meeting of the UConn Philosophy Graduate Student Association, November 2008

Teaching

• Philosophy and Social Ethics, TA (Instructors: Paul Bloomfield, Richard Hine), Fall 2009–Spring 2010
• Problems of Philosophy, TA (Instructor: Michael Lynch), Fall 2008–Spring 2009
• Completed 1-unit Curriculum Laboratory seminar, Spring 2009

Philosophical Coursework (as of Spring 2010)

• Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Elder)
• Philosophy of Mind: Reasons and Actions (Bontly)
• Topics in Asian Philosophy (Kupperman)
• Moral Philosophy: Naturalizing Morality (Bloomfield)
• Metaphysics: Unity and Identity (Baxter)
• Essentialism, Ancient and Modern (Wheeler)
• Philosophy of Psychology: Consciousness and Neuroscience (Clark)
• Metaphysics: Ontology and Modality (Elder)
• Second-Order Logic and Plural Quantification (Rossberg)
• Modal and Many-Valued Logics (Beall)
• Seminar in Contemporary Philosophy (Troyer)

Professional Memberships

• American Philosophical Association
• American Catholic Philosophical Association
• International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry

Other Significant Work Experience

Holt, Rinehart & Winston

• Job titles: Associate Editor, Editor, Editor II
• Developmentally edited successful textbook-based programs in high school chemistry, 9th-grade physical science, and middle school physical science, including ancillary and electronic media components.
• Recruited, initiated contracts for, and managed work of freelance reviewers, writers, and answer checkers. Worked with a wide variety of people across different departments.