Gerald H. Marsh

gerald_dot_marsh_at_asu_dot_edu

Areas of Specialization

Metaphysics, Epistemology, Metaontology

Areas of Competence

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language

Education

PhD 2011 Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Dissertation: Disputes and Defective Disputes
Chair: Peter French
Committee: Richard Creath, Thomas Blackson

M.A. 2006 Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
Thesis: The General and the Particular: The Ontology of Factual Atomism
Chair: Gregory Fitch
Committee: Stewart Cohen, Steven Reynolds, Bernard Kobes

B.A. 2003 Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

Employment

Fall 2011 - Present: Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of English and Philosophy
Arkansas State University

Fall 2011 - Present: Adjunct Faculty
Glendale Community College
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Fall 2004-Spring 2011: Faculty Associate Teaching Assistant
Arizona State University
School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies

Peer Reviewed Publications

"Is the Hirsch-Sider Dispute Merely Verbal?"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
88: 3, 459-469, September 2010.

"Trust, Testimony, and Prejudice in the Credibility Economy"
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
26: 2, 280-293, Spring 2011

Papers and Talks

"Fiction in Fiction"
2011 Conference Fiction on Fiction: Metafictions and Reflexive Representation: Philosophy, Film, Art
CRASSH The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Cambridge, England
(conference website)

Invited Response to Michael Gifford's "A Defense of Parsons' Meinongian Theory of Fictional Objects"
2011 Southwest Graduate Conference in Philosophy
Arizona State University

"Trust, Testimony, and Prejudice in the Credibility Economy"
2009 Hypatia 25th Aniversary Conference: Feminist Legacies, Feminist Futures
Simpson Center for the Humanities
University of Washington

"Is the Hirsch-Sider Dispute Merely Verbal?"
2008 Graduate Conference in Philosophy

"Convention and 'The Waste Land'"
2003 Richard A. Harrison Symposium in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Lawrence University

Academic Service

Review work: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2011

Honors and Awards

2003 Tichenor Prize in English
Honorable Mention for "Convention and 'The Waste Land'"

2003 Honors in Course
Lawrence University

Teaching

Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2010)
Glendale Community College
Glendale, AZ

Philosophy 103: Introduction to Logic (Fall 2010)
Glendale Community College (North Campus)
Glendale, AZ

Philosophy 103 Online: Introduction to Logic (Summer 2010)
Glendale Community College
Glendale, AZ

Philosophy 105: Introduction to Ethics (Winter 2009)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Philosophy 103: Introduction to Logic (Fall 2009)
Glendale Community College (North Campus)
Glendale, Arizona

As a teaching assistant at Arizona State University

Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy, Douglas Portmore (Fall 2010)
Philosophy 302: History of Modern Philosophy, Cheshire Calhoun (Spring 2010)
Philosophy 306: Applied Ethics, Ted Guleserian (Fall 2009)
Philosophy 306: Applied Ethics, Ted Guleserian (Spring 2009)
Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy, John Devlin (Fall 2008)
Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy, Robert Mabrito (Spring 2005)
Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy, John Devlin (Fall 2004)

As a teaching assistant at Lawrence University

Content Tutoring: Symbolic Logic (Spring Term 2003)

Moral Theory and Moral Controversy, Tom Ryckman (Summer 2002)