Ed Nettel ——————————————————————————————————

University College Dublin • email: [email protected] • homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/ednettel/

AoS: Philosophy of Language, Epistemology AoC: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action; Metaphysics, History of Philosophy (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein; Locke, Hume, Descartes). Current Position: 2016-. Teaching Fellow and Project Researcher with IRC funded research project, ‘When Experts Disagree’ (WEXD), University College Dublin. Education: 2010-2015. PhD in Philosophy, Understanding Testimony, University College London. Passed without corrections. Supervisors: Dr. Rory Madden, Prof. Mark Kalderon; Examiners: Prof. Mark Textor, Dr. Guy Longworth 2008-2010. MPhil Stud., Philosophy, The Oughts of Use: Contextualist Considerations for Normativists, University College London. Supervisor: Prof. Jose Zalabardo 2005-2008. BA., Philosophy (1st class), University of Leeds. Thesis: The main focus of my doctoral dissertation is on the role that linguistic understanding plays in enabling the transmission of knowledge. I claim that a speaker can make available testimonial knowledge when that knowledge features appropriately in a causal explanation of why they spoke. That explanation comes in the form of a rational reconstruction of the speaker’s reasons for speaking. I articulate what form this takes, and show that it explains how speakers can transmit others’ knowledge, as well as their own. I go on to endorse an account of the nature of understanding given by Ian Rumfitt: understanding an utterance is to possess certain capacities to make inferences specific to certain kinds of act that the speaker (means to) perform on the occasion of that utterance—act-kinds that fall under J. L. Austin’s category of the ‘rhetic’ things done. I argue that such a view both accounts for how knowledge transmits and possesses explanatory resources that its rivals do not. Scholarships and awards: 2014. UCL Philosophy Department Conference Fund (£250) 2014. UCL Graduate School Conference Fund (£243) 2014. Toronto University Philosophy Graduate Fund (£524) 2010-2012. AHRC Doctoral Award (approx. £33,000) 2009-2010. Dawes Hicks Postgraduate Scholarship in Philosophy (UCL) (£5000) 2008-2009. A. J. Ayer Scholarship in Philosophy (UCL) (£ 3,500)

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Selected Presentations and Commentaries: Talks • “Giving Voice to Knowledge” o Cork-Dublin Summer Philosophy Conference, Cork (August 2016) • “Objects, Content, Communication” o DPRN Workshop on the Philosophy of Language, Dublin (May 2016) • “Discriminability and Knowledge Transmission” o ECMN Research Forum, Glasgow (May 2016) • “Transmitting Knowledge” o The Open Sessions of the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Cambridge (July 2014) • “Testifying” o Toronto University Graduate Conference, Toronto (May 2014) • “How Linguistic Understanding Enables Reasonable Beliefs” o MindGrad, University of Warwick (March 2012) • “Interpretation and Indeterminacy” o UCL Graduate Conference, London (September 2010) Commentaries • Comments on Alex Cross, “Are Correctness Conditions Normative?”; UCL Graduate Conference (September 2013) • Comments on Uwe Peters, “On Self-Knowledge and Phenomenology of Propositional Attitudes”; London-Warwick Mind Forum (March 2012) • Comments on Ziqian Zhou, “Some Considerations Towards an Ontology of Processes”; UCL Graduate Conference (September 2012) • Comments on Sam Lebens, “Russell on Judgement”; University of London Summer Conference, Cumberland Lodge (June 2008) Undergraduate Teaching: 2016–. Teaching Fellow; Lecturer in the Philosophy of Language (3rd Year), Early Analytic Philosophy (2nd Year), Epistemology (2nd Year). 2015–2016. Teaching Fellow; Lecturer in the Philosophy of Language (3rd Year) and undergraduate dissertation supervisor (topics: Epistemic Injustice; Ineffability of Translation). University College Dublin. 2011–2015. Departmental Tutor (topics include: sense & reference, the a priori, modality, mathematical truth, personal identity, philosophical scepticism, aspects of metaethics, methodology) University College London, 1st Year. 2012–2015. Teaching Assistant; Knowledge and Reality. University College London, 1st Year. 2014-2015. Teaching Assistant; History of Philosophy II (Descartes, Hume, Locke, Berkley, Spinoza, Leibniz). University College London, 1st Year. Service: 2016. Assistant to the Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies (IPJS). 2016. Project Researcher with WEXD (incl. inter-disciplinary conference organisation; co authoring funding proposals; outreach work in social media and blog-posting). 2015–present. Referee for KRITERION—Journal of Philosophy 2015–present. Referee for Opticon1826 (UCL Open Access Journal)

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2012-2014. 2011-2014. 2011-2014. 2009-2010. 2009.

PhD representative to the UCL Philosophy Departmental Teaching Committee Founder and Co-organiser of the UCL Language and Thought Research Group PhD representative, UCL Philosophy Student Staff Consultative Committee MPhil Stud representative, UCL Philosophy Student Staff Consultative Committee Co-organiser of UCL Graduate Conference

Referees:
 Current Employer: Prof. Maria Baghramian, Professor of Philosophy; Address: School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4; Email: [email protected]; Phone: +353 1 7168125 Prof. Mark Eli Kalderon, Professor of Philosophy; Address: Department of Philosophy, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT; Email: [email protected]; Phone: 020 7679 3577 Dr. Rory Madden, Senior Lecturer Address: Department of Philosophy, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT; Email: [email protected]; Phone: 020 7679 4451 Prof. Mark Textor, Professor of Philosophy Address: Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS; Email: [email protected]; Phone: 020 7848 2655 Dr. Guy Longworth, Associate Professor Address: Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL; Email: [email protected]; Phone: 024 765 24543

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