STINA BÄCKSTRÖM CURRENT POSITION Post Doctoral Researcher, Åbo Akademi University, 2013-2017 (parental leave during 2014) ACADEMIC EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2013. Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 2012. Graduate studies, University of Uppsala, 2004-2007. Bachelor of Arts, Uppsala University, 2004. Main subject: Logic and Metaphysics. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Expression and First-Personal Awareness, forthcoming in Philosophical Topics. A Dilemma for Neo-Expressivism And How to Resolve it, Acta Analytica, 30/3, 2015: 1 15. Seeing People and Knowing You: Perception, Shared Knowledge, and Acknowledgment, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 5/4, Winter 2013. Special Issue on the Second Person Perspective. Our Relation to Our Own Expressions: Comment on Bar-On, Green, and Finkelstein, Analytic Philosophy, 4/54, 2013. Hur hamnade Sanaz på festen? Hornsbys och Stewards kritik av Davidsons handlingsmetafysik, Filosofisk tidskrift, 4/34, 2013. 1
The Mind's Movement: An Essay on Expression. Ph.D. Thesis, available online via ProQuest, University of Chicago, 2013. The Skeptic's Dilemma and What it Reveals, in Acknowledging Stanley Cavell, eds. Forsberg and Jansson, Uppsala Philosophical Studies 56, 2009. Wittgenstein and Skepticism about Expression, in Language and World: Proceedings from the 32 Annual Wittgenstein Symposium, eds. Munz, Puhl and Wang, 2009. Lever vi skeptisisme i forhold til andre? Agora: Journal for Metafysisk Spekulasjon, nr. 1-2, 2008. Varför gjorde inte Wittgenstein moralfilosofi? in Tankar: Tillägnade Sören Stenlund, eds. Forsberg, Rider, and Segerdahl, Uppsala Philosophical Studies, 2008. POPULAR PUBLICATIONS På filosofisk jakt efter autismens kärna, Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet, 2015. Varför är vi så intresserade av mat?, Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet, 2009. Känn dig själv, Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet, 2008. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Skill, Drill and Intelligent Performance: Ryle s Anti-intellectualism (with Martin Gustafsson). Under review. What is it to Depsychologize Psychology? Under review. SELECTED TALKS 2
What is it to Depsychologize Psychology?, the University of Auburn Philosophical Association and the University of Chicago Wittgenstein Workshop, October 2015. Skill, Drill, and Intelligent Performance: Ryle s Anti-intellectualism, with Martin Gustafsson, Ryle: Intelligence, Practice, Skill, Åbo Akademi University, June 2015. A Dilemma for Neo-Expressivism, Expression and Transparency, University of Murcia, March 2014. Expression: Perception and Shared Knowledge, The Second Person Perspective in Science and the Humanities, University of Oxford, July 2013. A Dilemma for Neo-Expressivism, University of Potsdam, June 2013. Beyond the Intentional, Contemporary Workshop, University of Chicago, November 2012. Expression and Intentional Action, Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago, April 2011. The Capacity for Expression as Bound up With Self-Awareness, Self and Other in the Wittgensteinian Tradition, University of Southampton, April 2010. Wittgenstein and Skepticism about Expression, Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2009. Self-knowledge and Perception, Wittgenstein Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2009 Men börjar det inte med förnimmelsen, som jag beskriver? Några anmärkningar om den privata upplevelsens problem, Phalén Picnic, Uppsala University, May 2006. The Idea Which Plays Hell With Us: Wittgenstein on the Privacy of Experience, Contemporary Philosophy Workshop, University of Chicago, January 2006. Some Remarks on the Privacy of Experience, The Other and I, Uppsala University, September 2005. Analogiargumentet och dikotomin mellan det inre och det yttre, Filosofidagarna, Uppsala University, June 2005. The Skeptic s Dilemma and What it Reveals, International Symposium: Acknowledging Stanley Cavell, Uppsala University, September 2003. 3
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Supervision Master thesis supervision, Åbo Akademi University, 2013-14. Instructor Passionately Minded: Emotions, Rationality, and Objectivity, undergraduate course, University of Chicago, Winter 2012. Classics of Feminist Philosophy: Simone de Beauvoir s The Second Sex, undergraduate course, University of Uppsala, Summer 2006 and Summer 2008. An Introduction to the Later Wittgenstein, C/Master level course, University of Uppsala, Spring 2006. Teaching Assistant Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence, Professor John Haugeland, Spring 2010. From Sellars to McDowell, Professor David Finkelstein, Autumn 2010. Problems around Foucault, Professor Arnold Davidson, Winter 2011. Philosophical Perspectives I, five courses in 2008-2011. Philosophical Perspectives II, two courses in 2009-2010. Philosophical Perspectives III, two courses in 2009-2010. 20 th Century Philosophy, undergraduate course, University of Uppsala, Autumn 2003 and Autumn 2004. PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING The Didactics of Philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2004. Writing Tutor Training, The University of Chicago, 2008. 4
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Co-ordinator of the conference Ryle: Intelligence, Practice, Skill, Åbo Akademi University June 2015. Graduate Student Association Representative, University of Chicago, 2009-2010. Co-ordinator of the international conferences The Other and I, Uppsala University, September 2005, and Conversations on Language, Experience and Scepticism, Uppsala University, December 2006. Graduate Student Association Representative, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, 2004-2005. Gender Equality Ombudsman, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, 2004-2006. SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Kone Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2013-15. Helge Ax:son Johnson s Foundation, 2012. Johan and Jakob Söderberg s Foundation, 2012. Mellon Fellow University of Chicago Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2012-2013. Lee Essay Prize for best graduate essay in theoretical philosophy, University of Chicago, 2012 Doolittle Harrison Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2009. Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2007-2012. Sweden-America Foundation, 2005. LANGUAGE SKILLS Swedish: Native language. English: Fluent. French: Intermediate. 5