B.A. Awarded
With High Honors in Philosophy - Oberlin College, 1975
Phi Beta Kappa - Oberlin College, 1974-75
University Fellowship - Brown University, Philosophy,
1978-1979
Exxon Educational Fellowship - Brown University, Philosophy,
1981
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar
- Hector-Neri Castañeda, 'Human Action: Self, Thinking, and Reality',
Indiana University, Bloomington, 1984
Research Initiation Grant - 'Philosophical Problems of
Artificial Intelligence' - The Pennsylvania State University, 1987-1988
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies - Faculty Research
Fellowship - 'Agent Causation and the Concept of Person' - The
Pennsylvania State University, 1988-1989
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellowship -
'Intentionality and the Philosophy of Mind: Philosophical Limitations
of Extensional Semantics in Mechanical Models of Intentional Psychological
Phenomena', Philosophisches Seminar der Universität Mannheim, Mannheim,
Germany, 1989-1990
Melvin and Rosalind Jacobs University Endowed Faculty Research
Fellowship in the Humanities - The Pennsylvania State University,
1993
J. William Fulbright Distinguished Lecture Chair in Contemporary
Philosophy of Language - University of Venice, Italy, 1996
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies - Faculty Research
Fellowship - 'A Philosophical Study of the Religion, Art, and
Aesthetics of Albrecht Dürer' - The Pennsylvania State University,
1997
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies - Term Fellowship
- The Pennsylvania State University, 1997-1999
Center for Philosophy of Science - Associate, University
of Pittsburgh, 1999-present
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellowship -
'Ontologie, Realismus und Reismus in den späteren Metaphysik von
Franz Brentano', Franz Brentano Forschung, Bayerische-Julius-Maximilians-Universität-Würzburg,
Germany, 2000-2001
Program
Director
- The Pennsylvania State University, Study Abroad Program, Athens, Greece.
Spring 2004, 2008, 2013
Netherlands
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS),
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Research Fellowship-in-Residence
- 'An Inherence Analysis of the Concept of Mathematical Entity',
Wassenaar, The Netherlands, 2005-2006