AoS:
Philosophy of Mind / Cognitive Science
AoC:
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Social Science
Ethics (moral psychology)
Philosophy of Religion
Publications
Peer Reviewed:
Deery, O., Davis, T., & Carey, J. (2014). “The Free-Will Intuitions Scale and the Question of Natural Compatibilism.” Philosophical Psychology.
Deery, O., Davis, T., & Carey, J. (2014). “Defending the Free-Will Intuitions Scale: Reply to Stephen Morris." Philosophical Psychology.
Davis, T. & Margolis, E. (In press.) “The Priority of the Individual in Cultural Inheritance.” Comment on P. E. Smaldino, The Cultural Evolution of Emergent Group-Level Traits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Marsh, R. L., Hicks, J. L., & Davis, T. (2002). Source Monitoring Does Not Alleviate (and May Exacerbate) the Occurrence of Memory Conjunction Errors.” Journal of Memory and Language 47, 315-326.
Deery, O., Davis, T., & Carey, J. (2014). “Defending the Free-Will Intuitions Scale: Reply to Stephen Morris." Philosophical Psychology.
Davis, T. & Margolis, E. (In press.) “The Priority of the Individual in Cultural Inheritance.” Comment on P. E. Smaldino, The Cultural Evolution of Emergent Group-Level Traits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Marsh, R. L., Hicks, J. L., & Davis, T. (2002). Source Monitoring Does Not Alleviate (and May Exacerbate) the Occurrence of Memory Conjunction Errors.” Journal of Memory and Language 47, 315-326.
Book Review:
Fragaszy, D. M., Williams, C., Landau, K., Parthasarathy, V., Davis, T. Review of Origins of Intelligence, by S. Parker and M. McKinney. “An Architecture for Comparative Cognitive Development.” American Journal of Primatology 59 (2003), 133-137.
Presentations
- "Religion and the Scope of the Moral Domain," co-authored with Stephen Stich, Edouard Machery, Sydney Levine, and Joshua Rottman, Plenary Meeting of the Cultural Evolution of Religion Consortium, May 8-11, 2015, McGill University (invited)
- "The Free-Will Intuitions Scale and the Question of Natural Compatibilism," co-authored paper with Oisin Deery and Jasmine Carey, Philosophy Department Spring Colloquium on Agents and Persons, University of British Columbia, March 15 (invited)
- “Intuitions in a New Light: Expanding the Methods of Experimental Philosophy”, co-authored paper with Oisin Deery & Jasmine Carey, Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 21-24, 2012 the University of Colorado at Boulder (poster, refereed)
- Comment on Jason Simus, “Aesthetic and Other Theoretical Virtues in Science," Pacific Division Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Grove, California, April 11-13 (invited)
- “Out Standing in the Field: Intellectual Foraging for Truths that Matter,” 37th Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, July 7-9, 2011 (poster, refereed)
- “Genuinely Aesthetic Judgment of Theories,” Spring Aesthetics Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 16, 2010 (invited)
- “The Cognitive Science of Science: Hypothetical Reasoning and Inference to the Best Explanation,” 36th Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, June 10-11, 2010 (poster, refereed)
Workshop Participation
Experimental Philosophy of Free Will Boot Camp
August 12–13, 2011, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Instructors: S. Nichols, J. Knobe, D. Pereboom, F. Cushman
Participants were selected to present a research proposal for critique by the instructors and fellow participants. Instruction in experimental methods and in the philosophy of free will was also provided, along with funding for data collection.
AHRC Culture and the Mind Project Workshops (invited)
This project established a global network of field sites to support data collection on a large number of cross-cultural studies. In a series of workshops, participating researchers selected and developed the experiments that would make use of this network.
January 9-11, 2009, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
May 15-17, 2009, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
January 6-9, 2011, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
August 12–13, 2011, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Instructors: S. Nichols, J. Knobe, D. Pereboom, F. Cushman
Participants were selected to present a research proposal for critique by the instructors and fellow participants. Instruction in experimental methods and in the philosophy of free will was also provided, along with funding for data collection.
AHRC Culture and the Mind Project Workshops (invited)
This project established a global network of field sites to support data collection on a large number of cross-cultural studies. In a series of workshops, participating researchers selected and developed the experiments that would make use of this network.
January 9-11, 2009, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
May 15-17, 2009, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
January 6-9, 2011, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Teaching
- PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy - Summer 2013
Teaching Assistantships
At UBC:
- PHIL 101 - Introduction to Philosophy (one semester) - Fall 2011
- PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy (full year) - Fall 2010 & Spring 2011
- PHIL 230 - Introduction to Moral Theory - Fall 2009
- PHIL 311 - Philosophy of Aristotle, Spring 2009
- PHIL 186 - Phenomenology & Existentialism - Spring 2008
- PHIL 043 - Political Philosophy - Fall 2007
- PHIL 033 - Reasoning & Critical Thinking - Spring 2007