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Curriculum Vitae Dr. Jonathan Mitchell
[email protected] http://www.jonathanmitchell.co.uk https://manchester.academia.edu/JonathanMitchell https://twitter.com/emotionvalueJM +44 (0)7909620014 Employment University of Manchester (Department of Philosophy), British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, September 2018 – September 2021 University of Johannesburg (Department of Philosophy), Global Excellent Stature Postdoctoral Research Fellow, January 2018 – August 2018 Warwick University (Department of Philosophy), Associate Tutor, March 2016 – December 2017 Education Warwick University, Sept 2012 – February 2016, Ph.D. in Philosophy • Dissertation Title: ‘Exemplars as Evaluative Ideals in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Value’ • Committee: Peter Poellner (Supervisor), Professor Aaron Ridley (University of Southampton) and Professor Beatrice Han-Pile (University of Essex) Sheffield University, Sept 2008 – 2009, MA in Philosophy (Distinction) Sheffield University, Sept 2005 – 2008, BA in Philosophy (1st Class Honours) Areas of Specialization Philosophy of Mind, Emotion, Value Theory, 19th Century European Philosophy Areas of Competence Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, 20th Century European Philosophy Peer Reviewed Journal Articles 1. ‘Pre-Emotional Value Awareness and the Content-Priority View’, in Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming, 2019 2. ‘Emotional Intentionality and the Attitude-Content Distinction’, in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12270, 2019 3. ‘Can Evaluativism about Unpleasant Pains meet the Normative Condition?’ in Inquiry https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2018.1562377, 2019 4. ‘The Irreducibility of Emotional Phenomenology’ in Erkenntnis (ca. 12000), online early view, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0075-8, 2018 5. ‘The Intentionality and Intelligibility of Moods’ in European Journal of Philosophy, 2018, online early view, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12385 , 2018 6. On the Non-Conceptual Content of Affective-Evaluative Experience’ in Synthese, 2018, online early view, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1872-y, 2018 7. ‘The Epistemology of Emotional Experience’ in dialectica 71(1), 57-84, 2017 1
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8. ‘A Nietzschean Critique of Metaphysical Philosophy’ in Journal of Nietzsche Studies 48(3), 347-74 2017 9. ‘Nietzsche on Taste: Epistemic Privilege and Anti-Realism’ in Inquiry 60(1-2), 31-65, 2017 10. ‘Nietzschean Self-Overcoming’, in Journal of Nietzsche Studies 47(3), 323-50, 2016 Chapters in Edited Volumes 11. ‘The Varieties of Mood Intentionality’, forthcoming in Mood – Aesthetics, Psychology, Philosophy, Warwick Series in the Humanities: Routledge, 2019. Book Reviews 12. Review of Paul Katsafanas, The Nietzschean Self: Moral Psychology, Agency, and the Unconscious, Ethics 127(3), 777-82 2017. 13. Review of Ken Gemes and John Richardson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche, Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46(2), 492-97, 2016. 14. Review of Maudemarie Clark, Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics, Journal of Nietzsche Studies 47(3), 492-96, 2016 (ca. 2500) 15. Review of Manuel Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind, De Gruyter, forthcoming Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Honours and Awards British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (approx. value £300,000). University of Johannesburg Global Excellent Stature Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (competition across humanities faculty) 2018 – present. (approx. value per annum £25,000). Warwick University Chancellor’s Award, 2012 – 2015. Post Graduate Research Scholarship for full time Ph.D. (£52,470) University of Sheffield Fee Scholarship for MA in Philosophy, 2008-2009 (£5750) Selected Conference Presentations and Invited Talks 1. ‘Transparency and Emotions”, University of Liege, Introspection Conference, 2019 2. ‘Emotional Experience and Propositional Content’, Rudolf Carnap Lectures, Bochum Germany 2019 3. ‘The ‘Attitudinal Opacity of Emotional Experience’, University of Manchester, 2019. 4. Emotions and Propositional Content’, University of Bern, November 2018 5. ‘Emotional Intentionality and the Attitude-Content Distinction’, invited talk, University of Geneva, November 2018 6. ‘The Phenomenal Structure of Pain Experience’, invited talk, University of Witwatersrand Philosophy Research Seminar, August 2018 7. ‘The Psychosemantics of Emotional Experience’, The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society, University of Oxford, July 2018. 8. ‘A New Theory of Affective Representation’, invited talk, University of Johannesburg, Department Colloquium, March 2018 9. ‘Affective Representation and Phenomenal Consciousness’, invited talk at the Open University, December 2017 10. ‘Understanding Meta-Emotions: Prospects for a Perceptualist Account’, University of Madrid, Giving an account of Emotions Conference, September 2017
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11. ‘Nietzschean Emotional Authenticity as Openness to Value’, University of Sheffield, Understanding Value VI, July 2017 12. ‘Affective-Evaluative Content’, University of Bath, The Power of Passion: Human Reason and its Emotional Foundations Symposia, April 2017 (6000-word paper selected by blind review) 13. ‘First Exposure Emotional Experiences’, University of Liege (Belgium), Phenomenology of Emotions Conference, April 2017 14. ‘On Non-Conceptual Content of Affective-Evaluative Experience’, University of Warwick, Future Minds Conference, March 2017 (6000-word paper selected by blind review) 15. ‘The Epistemology of Moods’, Cambridge University, Early Career Philosophy of Mind Forum, August 2016 16. ‘The Non-Conceptual Content and Emotion’, University of Sheffield, Understanding Value V, July 2016 17. ‘Nietzsche on Taste’, University of Bonn, International Society for Nietzsche Studies (Inaugural Workshop) June 2016 18. ‘Nietzsche on Practical Reason and its Grounds’, Normativity and German Idealism, Contemporary Perspectives Conference, University of Sussex. May 2015 Teaching and Supervision University of Manchester Ph.D.co-supervisor: Emile Chan, Benedetta Margo (2018-) Undergraduate Dissertation Supervision (2018-) Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology – Upper level undergraduate module (2019-2020) Emotion and Mind – Master level module (2020-2021), University of Johannesburg Introductory Lecture Series on ‘Themes in Philosophy of Emotion’ (2018) University of Warwick Principal Instructor – Writing Centre in Philosophy (2017-8) Guest presentation – A. Kenny ‘Spontaneity, Indifference and Ability’ for Warwick Mind and Action Research Seminar, November 2017 Guest Lecture – ‘Mackie’s Error Theory’ (Ethics 2015) Graduate Teaching Assistant Philosophy of Religion (2017) History of Modern Philosophy I, Locke, Berkeley, Hume (2017) Introduction to Symbolic Logic (2017) Elements of Scientific Method (2016) History of Modern Philosophy II, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (2016) Ethics (2015 Sartre and Existentialism (2014) Professional Qualifications and Affiliations Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy 2018 Invited member of the International Society for Nietzsche Studies Invited Member of the Society for Philosophy of Emotion 3
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Member of the Early Career Mind Network Professional Service Editor for Journal of Philosophy of Emotion (2016-2019) Referee, Philosophers’ Imprint, Inquiry, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Journal of Philosophy of Emotion, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Emotion Review, Dialectica. Principal Organiser of New Directions in Philosophy of Emotion, 2-day Workshop at University of Manchester 2019. Organizing committee for Inaugural Conference Society for the Philosophy of Emotion (Washington DC) Organizing committee for Future Minds Conference at University of Warwick, March 2017 (funded by the British Academy) Referee for papers submitted to Future Minds Conference at University of Warwick (Intentionality category), March 2017 Lead organizer of Nietzsche Reading Group for 3 years at University of Warwick, 20122015 Comments on Ph.D. proposals, University of Pretoria, May 2018 Outreach and Public Philosophy Talk on “The Nature of Emotions” at Manchester, Waterstones Book Store 2019 References Professor Peter Poellner (University of Warwick) – email:
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