Colin Koopman

Curriculum Vitae

Note: for a complete list of Awards, Publications, Presentations, Teaching, Service, and other Research experience please view my [cv in pdf]: what follows is selective in some instances.

Appointments

• University of Oregon; Eugene, OR
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2010-
  • Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professor, 2011-12
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2009-10
• University of California, Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz, CA
  • Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, School of Information, 2009 (summer)
  • Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, 2008-09
  • Research Associate, Center for Cultural Studies, 2008-09
  • Humanities Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, 2006-08

Education

• Ph.D. in Philosophy;
  McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; entered Sept. 2002, defended dissertation June 2006
  Thesis: "Requiem for the Politics of Certainty"; Supervisory Committee: Barry Allen, Gary Brent Madison, Allison Weir, John Stuhr (external)
• M.A. in Philosophy with honors;
  Leeds University, Leeds, UK; entered Sept. 1998, submitted thesis Aug. 1999
  Thesis: "Pragmatism and Truth"; Advisor: Steven French
• B.A. in Liberal Arts;
  The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA; entered Sept. 1995, completed requirements Dec. 1997

Current Research Areas

• Pragmatism (& American Philosophy)
• Genealogy (& Critical Theory)
• Political and Social Philosophy
• Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Note: for a complete list of Awards, Publications, Presentations, Teaching, Service, and other Research experience please view my [cv in pdf]: what follows is selective in some instances.

Awards - Fellowships and Grants

• Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship (plus Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship); 2011-12
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; 2006-07, 2007-08
• Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; 2004-05, 2005-06
• Graduate Scholarship, McMaster University School of Graduate Studies; 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2004-05 (award declined to accept SSHRC)
• Overseas Student Scholarship, Leeds University Department of Philosophy; 1998-99
• Seafirst Bank Undergraduate Scholarship, Seafirst Bank and The Evergreen State College; 1995-96

Awards - Internal University Fellowships and Teaching Grants

• Williams Instructional Proposal Grant for "The Internet, Society, & Philosophy", Williams Council, University of Oregon; 2011-12
• Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship (plus Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship) for "The Internet, Society, & Philosophy", Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon; 2011-12
• Rippey Innovative Teaching Award for "Justice Matters", University of Oregon College of Arts & Sciences (co-award with Prof. Dan Tichenor, Political Science, UO); 2011-13
• Junior Professorship Development Award, University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011-12
• Research Cluster and Conference Grant, "Foucault Across the Disciplines", University of California at Santa Cruz Center for Cultural Studies, 2007-09

Awards - Academic Prizes

• William James Prize for "Best Paper in American Philosophy", American Philosophical Association, Dec. 2008
• Blau Prize for "Best Paper in the History of American Philosophy", Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Mar. 2006
• Mellow Prize for "Best Paper Advancing American Philosophy", Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Mar. 2005
• Master's Degree conferred with honors, Leeds University Department of Philosophy, Aug. 1999

Publications - Books

• Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (Columbia University Press, Fall 2009)
  [publisher information] [view cover]
• Genealogy as Critique: Problems of Modernity in Foucault (Indiana University Press, forthcoming, 2012)

Publications - Articles in Peer-Review Journals (Please email me to see if I can send a free offprint of any of my published articles below.)

• "Pragmatist Resources for Experimental Philosophy: Inquiry in Place of Intuition" forthcoming in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2012
• "Genealogical Pragmatism: How History Matters for Foucault and Dewey" in Journal of the Philosophy of History v5n3, 2011: 533-561 [link]
• "Rorty's Linguistic Turn: Why (More Than) Language Matters to Philosophy" in Contemporary Pragmatism, v8n1, 2011: 61-84 [link]
• "Bernard Williams on Pluralism, Liberalism, and History" in Theoretical and Applied Ethics, v1n3, 2011: 11-21 [link] [pdf]
• "Bernard Williams on Philosophy's Need for History" in The Review of Metaphysics, v64n1, September 2010: 3-30 [pdf]
• "Historicism in Pragmatism: Lessons for Historiography and Political Philosophy" in Metaphilosophy, v41n4, October 2010: 690-713 [link]
• "Revising Foucault: The History and Critique of Modernity" in Philosophy & Social Criticism, v36n5, May 2010: 545-565
[link]
• "Historical Critique or Transcendental Critique in Foucault: Two Kantian Lineages" in Foucault Studies, n8, February 2010: 100-121 (with reply by Kevin Thompson and my response to reply in no. 8, and reply by Colin McQuillan and my response to reply forthcoming in no. 9) [link]
• "Morals and Markets: Liberal Democracy through Dewey and Hayek" in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v23n3, Fall 2009: 151-179 [link]
• "Foucault's Historiographical Expansion: Adding Genealogy to Archaeology" in Journal of the Philosophy of History, v2n3, Fall 2008: 338-362 [link]
• "Public and Private in Feminism and Pragmatism" in International Studies in Philosophy, v40n2, Spring 2008: 45-58 [link]
• "Rorty's Moral Philosophy for Liberal Democratic Culture" in Contemporary Pragmatism, v4n2, Fall 2007: 45-64 [link]
• "Language is a Form of Experience: Reconciling Classical Pragmatism and Neopragmatism" in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, v43n4, Fall 2007: 694-727 [link]
• "Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Hope: Emerson, James, Dewey, and Rorty" in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v20n2, Summer 2006: 106-116 [link]
• "William James's Politics of Personal Freedom" in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, v19n2, Summer 2005: 175-186 [link]

Publications - Articles in Edited Collections

• "Pragmatist Interpretations of Obama: On Two Ways of Being a Pragmatist" forthcoming in Contemporary Pragmatism, 2012
• "The Formation and Self-Transformation of the Subject in Foucaut’s Ethics", forthcoming in Chris Falzon, Timothy O'Leary, and Jana Sawicki (eds.), A Companion to Foucault (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
• "Problematization", forthcoming in Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (eds.), The Foucault Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• "The Direction of Contemporary Critical Theory: A Response to Amy Allen’s The Politics of Our Selves" in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, v29, 2011: 91-103 [link]
• "Foucault Across the Disciplines: Introductory Notes on Contingency in Critical Inquiry" in Colin Koopman (ed.), History of the Human Sciences special issue on "Foucault Across the Disciplines", v24n4, Oct. 2011: 1-12 [link]
• "Foucault and Pragmatism: Introductory Notes on Metaphilosophical Methodology" in Colin Koopman (ed.), Foucault Studies special issue on "Foucault and Pragmatism", n11, Apr., 2011: 3-10 [link]
• "The History and Critique of Modernity: Dewey with Foucault against Weber" in Paul Fairfield (ed.), John Dewey and Continental Philosophy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010): 194-218 [book info]
• "Two Uses of Genealogy: Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams" in Carlos Prado (ed.), Foucault's Legacy (Continuum Books, 2009): 90-108 [book info]

Publications - Articles in General Audience Periodicals

• "The Future of the Public-Private Distinction" in Free Inquiry, v27n6, August/September 2007: 32-34 [link]

Publications - Editorial

• Richard Rorty: Pragmatism and Cultural Politics, co-editor with Mike Sandbothe and Alexander Groeschner, (contributors include Robert Brandom, Richard Shusterman, Saskia Sassen and others tba), [currently under review]
• "Symposium on Obama and Pragmatism", guest co-editor (with Mark Sanders), Contemporary Pragmatism, forthcoming 2012
• "Foucault Across the Disciplines", editor, special issue of History of the Human Sciences (contributors include Ian Hacking, Arnold Davidson, Amy Allen, Hans Sluga, and others tba), forthcoming 2011
• "Foucault and Pragmatism", guest editor, special issue of Foucault Studies (contributors include Paul Rabinow, Vincent Colapietro, Todd May, and others), n11, April 2011

Publications - Book Reviews and Review Essays

• see complete [cv in pdf]

Publications - Articles in Peer-Review Graduate Journals

• see complete [cv in pdf]

Current Research Projects and Publications Under Review

• "The Internet, The Public, and the Private: Problems and Prospects in Liberal Democracy"
• "A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Theories of Privacy" (co-authored with Deirdre Mulligan, UC Berkeley, Boalt Law School and School of Information)
• "Challenging Philosophy: Locating a Positive Conception of Philosophy in Rorty"
• "Pluralism and Monism about Global Justice"
• "Putting Foucault to Work: Analytic and Concept in Foucaultian Inquiry" (co-authored with Tomas Matza, Anthropology, Duke University)

Presentations

• see complete [cv in pdf]

Teaching

• see complete [cv in pdf]

Service

• see complete [cv in pdf]

Additional Research Experience

• see complete [cv in pdf]

Professional Affiliations

• see complete [cv in pdf]

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