Dr. Joseph Long CV

JOSEPH LONG
Curriculum Vitae
October 1, 2021
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Philosophy 585.395.2492 (office)

SUNY Brockport [email protected]
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, NY 14420
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, SUNY Brockport, Fall 2020 – present

Assistant Professor, The College at Brockport, SUNY, Fall 2014 – Summer 2020
Visiting Assistant Professor, The College at Brockport, SUNY, Fall 2011 – Summer 2014
Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida State University, Fall 2010 – Summer 2011
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, Florida State University, December 2009
Dissertation: Kinds and their Terms: On the Language and Ontology of the Normative and
the Empirical. Committee: Piers Rawling (chair), David McNaughton, and Phil Bowers
M.A., Philosophy, Texas Tech University, August 2004

M.A., Theology, Southwestern Theological Seminary, December 2002
B.A., Psychology, University of New Mexico, December 1996
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Science, Ethical Theory (esp. metaethics)
Areas of Competence: Metaphysics (esp. material composition and persistence), Logic,

Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion
Teaching Competence: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Applied Ethics, History of

Analytic Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
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AWARDS AND HONORS
Nominated for the 2021 Presidential Teaching Excellence Award, The College at Brockport,
SUNY, Spring 2021.
Nominated for the 2019 Presidential Teaching Excellence Award, The College at Brockport,
SUNY, Spring 2019.
Discretionary Salary Award for Service, The College at Brockport, SUNY, Fall 2018
Nominated (by three students) for the 2018 Presidential Teaching Excellence Award, The
College at Brockport, SUNY, Spring 2018.
Discretionary Salary Award for Service, The College at Brockport, SUNY, Fall 2014
Selected to Teach Philosophy of Science as an Honors Seminar, The College at Brockport,

SUNY, Spring 2013, Spring 2014
Selected to Teach Applied Ethics for Florida State University’s prestigious Bryan Hall Learning
Community, Spring 2011
Provost’s 90 Percent List, Florida State University, Summer 2010
The 90 Percent List recognizes instructors 90 percent of whose students in one class gave the
instructor a rating of “Excellent” on the “Overall assessment of the instructor” prompt on the
State University System Student Assessment of Instruction (SUSSAI).
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
2019. “Mystery of the Trinity: A Reply to Einar Bøhn.” Sophia 58: 301-7.
2019. “One’s an Illusion: Organisms, Persistence, and Non-eliminative Nihilism.” Philosophia

47: 459-75.
2016. “Non-cognitivism and the Problem of Moral-based Epistemic Reasons: A Sympathetic

Reply to Cian Dorr.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 10: 1-7.
2015. “Rightness = Right-maker: Reduction or Reductio?” Disputatio 7: 193-206.
2014. “In Defense of Cornell Realism: A Reply to Elizabeth Tropman.” Theoria 80: 174-83.
2012. “Right-making and Reference.” American Philosophical Quarterly 49: 277-80.

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PRESENTATIONS AND COMMENTS
Presentations
“Simple Somatic Dualism and the Unity of Visual Experience.” Illinois Philosophical
Association, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, November 2019
“Mystery of the Trinity: A Reply to Einar Bøhn.” North Texas Philosophical Association,
University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, March 2019
“Mysterious Mereology: The Obscurantism of Proper Composition as Identity.” Illinois

Philosophical Association, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, November 2018
“Parfitians and Persistence.” Scholar’s Day. The College at Brockport, SUNY, Brockport, NY,
April 2018
“Strong Composition as Identity and Proper Composition.” North Texas Philosophical

Association, Dallas, TX, March 2018
“Reference and Composition as Identity.” Scholar’s Day. The College at Brockport, SUNY,
Brockport, NY, April 2017
“Reference and Strong Composition as Identity.” North Texas Philosophical Association, Dallas,
TX, March 2017
“Does Non-cognitivism Entail Wishful Thinking?” Florida Philosophical Association,

Melbourne, FL, November 2016
“Inquiries at the Intersection of Metaethics and the Philosophy of Science.” Liberal Arts Building
Lecture Series. The College at Brockport, SUNY, Brockport, NY, March 12, 2015.
“What Good is the Argument from Evil?” Scholars Day. The College at Brockport, SUNY,
“A Reference Wrinkle in Kornblith’s Realism.” North Texas Philosophical Association, Denton,

TX, April 2013
“Reference and Scientific Realism.” Scholar’s Day. The College at Brockport, SUNY,
“The Organizational Account of Biological Norms and Goals.” Illinois Philosophical

Association, Urbana-Champaign, IL, November 2012
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Invited: “A Tale of Two Models: Making Ethical Decisions in Matters of Business.” MBA
Association’s MBA Ethics Roundtable, College of Business, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL, March 2011
Invited: “Biological Function: A Natural Dilemma.” Ellen C. Wagner Lecture, University of

North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, October 2010
“Why not Non-naturalism?”

 Society of Christian Philosophers, Holland, MI, February 2011
 Florida Philosophical Association, Daytona Beach, FL, November 2010
 Alabama Philosophical Society, Pensacola, FL, September 2010
“Non-artificial Kinds”
 Florida Philosophical Association, Gainesville, FL, November 2009
 Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Colorado,
October 2009
“Mere-Cambridge Science”
 Florida Philosophical Association Conference, Cocoa Beach, FL, November 2005
Comments
Comments on Judith Crane’s “Mereological Composition and Kinds.” Illinois Philosophical

Association, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, November 2019
Comments on Kristin Seemuth Whaley’s “Material Problems or Immaterialism.” Illinois

Philosophical Association, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, November 2018
Comments on Corinne Bloch, “The Roles of Definitions in Scientific Concepts,” Inland

Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Idaho, March 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Honors Thesis Supervision
 Nathan McKay, “Berkeley’s Refutation of Indirect Realism,” Ongoing

 Lucas Hull, “Human Genetic Enhancement: Why it is not Cheating,” Completed Spring
2020
 Nichole Sands, “The Role of Utilitarianism in the United States Government,”
Completed Spring 2016
 Noah Reger, “Zarathustra’s Overman,” Completed Spring 2014
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Independent Study Supervision
 Andrew Gill, “Composition: Nihilism and Error Theory,” Spring 2017

 Devin Pescara, “Knowledge and Evolution,” Spring 2017
Courses Taught: Upper-division (300-400 level)
 Realism: From Science to Morality (as capstone senior seminar)

 Philosophy of Science (both as lecture course and as honors seminar)
 Philosophy and Evolution
 Ethical Theory (includes both normative ethics and metaethics)
Courses Taught: Lower-division (100-200 level)
 Modern Logic (sentential and predicate with identity)

 Introduction to Logic
 Critical Thinking
 Applied Ethics
 Introduction to Ethics
 Introduction to Philosophy
SERVICE
Service to the Profession
 Director of the Center for Philosophic Exchange, SUNY Brockport, Fall 2015 – present
 Editor-in-Chief of Philosophic Exchange, SUNY Brockport, Fall 2015 – present
 Referee for Theoria, Analysis, and Southern Journal of Philosophy
Service to the College and to the Department
 Department Chair, Summer 2021 – present

 Interim Department Chair, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
 Summer Department Chair, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018,
Summer 2019, Summer 2020
 Humanities General Education Assessment Faculty Team, Summer 2019 – present
 Member of Faculty and Professional Staff Policies Committee, Fall 2017 – present
 Department Library Liaison, Fall 2015 – Fall 2019
 Department Webmaster, Fall 2011 – present
 Senate Representative, Fall 2013 – Spring 2015, Fall 2017 – Spring 2018, Spring 2019
 Mid-Career Faculty Leaders Advisory Group, Fall 2016 – Spring 2017
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 Member of General Education & Curriculum Policies Committee, Fall 2013 – Spring
2015
REFERENCES
J. Piers Rawling, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1500, 850.644.1483
David McNaughton, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee,

FL 32306-1500, 850.644.1483
Alfred Mele, William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor, Department of Philosophy,

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1500, 850.644.1483

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JOSEPH LONG

Department of Philosophy 585.395.2492 (office)

Associate Professor, SUNY Brockport, Fall 2020 – present

Ph.D., Philosophy, Florida State University, December 2009

M.A., Philosophy, Texas Tech University, August 2004

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Science, Ethical Theory (esp. metaethics)

Areas of Competence: Metaphysics (esp. material composition and persistence), Logic,

Teaching Competence: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Applied Ethics, History of

AWARDS AND HONORS

Selected to Teach Philosophy of Science as an Honors Seminar, The College at Brockport,

Provost’s 90 Percent List, Florida State University, Summer 2010

2019. “One’s an Illusion: Organisms, Persistence, and Non-eliminative Nihilism.” Philosophia

2016. “Non-cognitivism and the Problem of Moral-based Epistemic Reasons: A Sympathetic

2015. “Rightness = Right-maker: Reduction or Reductio?” Disputatio 7: 193-206.

2012. “Right-making and Reference.” American Philosophical Quarterly 49: 277-80.

PRESENTATIONS AND COMMENTS

“Mysterious Mereology: The Obscurantism of Proper Composition as Identity.” Illinois

“Strong Composition as Identity and Proper Composition.” North Texas Philosophical

“Does Non-cognitivism Entail Wishful Thinking?” Florida Philosophical Association,

“A Reference Wrinkle in Kornblith’s Realism.” North Texas Philosophical Association, Denton,

“The Organizational Account of Biological Norms and Goals.” Illinois Philosophical

Invited: “Biological Function: A Natural Dilemma.” Ellen C. Wagner Lecture, University of

“Why not Non-naturalism?”

Comments on Judith Crane’s “Mereological Composition and Kinds.” Illinois Philosophical

Comments on Kristin Seemuth Whaley’s “Material Problems or Immaterialism.” Illinois

Comments on Corinne Bloch, “The Roles of Definitions in Scientific Concepts,” Inland

Honors Thesis Supervision

 Nathan McKay, “Berkeley’s Refutation of Indirect Realism,” Ongoing

Independent Study Supervision

 Andrew Gill, “Composition: Nihilism and Error Theory,” Spring 2017

Courses Taught: Upper-division (300-400 level)

 Realism: From Science to Morality (as capstone senior seminar)

Courses Taught: Lower-division (100-200 level)

 Modern Logic (sentential and predicate with identity)

Service to the Profession

Service to the College and to the Department

 Department Chair, Summer 2021 – present

David McNaughton, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee,

Alfred Mele, William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor, Department of Philosophy,

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