Abbreviated CV
Academic Positions
Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 2018-present and Department Chair, 2019-present.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 2015 - 2018.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 2012-2015.
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 2012.
- Dissertation: “Meaningful Intuitions: The evidential role of intuitions in the study of language”
M.A. Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 2007.
B.A. Philosophy and History, Gettysburg College, 2005.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Critical Reasoning
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Science
Research
Books
- Maynes, Jeffrey and Steven Gimbel (2022). Personal Memories of Early Analytic Philosophy: Analytic Logic / Synthetic Lives. Palgrave Macmillan.
Publications (Peer Reviewed Articles)
Maynes, Jeffrey (2021). “The Method(s) of Cases,” Philosophical Psychology, 34(1), 102-124.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2017). “On the Stakes of Experimental Philosophy,” Teorema, XXXVI(3), 45-60.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2017). “Steering into the Skid: On the Norms of Critical Thinking.” Informal Logic, 37(2), 115-128.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2015). “Critical Thinking and Cognitive Bias,” Informal Logic, 35(2), 183-203.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2015). “Interpreting Intuition: Experimental Philosophy of Language.” Philosophical Psychology, 28(2), 260-278.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2013). “Thinking About Critical Thinking.” Teaching Philosophy, 36(4), 337-351.
Maynes, Jeffrey and Steven Gross (2013). “Linguistic Intuitions.” Philosophy Compass, 8(8), 714-730.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2012). “Linguistic Intuition and Calibration.” Linguistics and Philosophy, 35(5), 443-460.
Hansen, Jennifer and Jeffrey Maynes (2005) “Psychiatry, Philosophy and the Self.” Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 18(6), 649-652.
Publications (Invited, Editor Reviewed)
Maynes, Jeffrey (2023). “The Good, the Bad, and the Yucky: Valenced Linguistic Intuitions and Linguistic Methodology.” Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity: Theoretical, Epistemology, and Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling ed. David Romand and Michel Le Du. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gimbel, Steven and Jeffrey Maynes (2011). “Ordinary Language and the Unordinary Philosophy of Peter Achinstein.” Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein ed. Gregory Morgan. Oxford University Press.
Publications (Reviews)
- Maynes, Jeffrey (2016). “Review of Mercier and Sperber’s The Enigma of Reason.” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, 31(3), 33-44.
Papers Presented (Peer Reviewed Paper or Abstract)
“On the Stakes of Experimental Philosophy,” Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference, September 2016.
“Critical Thinking: Ecological and Ideal Rationality,” Lilly International Spring Conference, May, 2016.
“Objectivity Judgments of Ethical Claims Couched in Terms of Thick Concepts,” 11th Annual Workshop on Minds and Machines, Xiamen University, China, October, 2014 (co-authored paper presented by a co-author).
“Developing Metacognitive Skill to Teach Critical Reasoning,” Lilly International Spring Conference, May, 2014.
“Objectivity Judgments of Ethical Claims Couched in Terms of Thick Concepts,” New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association Conference, November 2012 (co-authored paper presented by a co-author).
Papers Presented (Invited)
“What Linguistics is About," SUNY Potsdam Philosophy Forum, March 2019.
“Critical Reasoning, Cognitive Bias, and Ecological Rationality,” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, February 2018.
“Experimental Philosophy (Not an Oxymoron!),” St. Lawrence University, Faculty Cafe, February 2017.
“On the Stakes of Experimental Philosophy,” SUNY Potsdam Philosophy Forum, March, 2016.
“What Do You Know When You Know a Language?” Clarkson University Science Cafe, October, 2014.
“Can Experiments Destroy Knowledge (about thick concepts)?” SUNY Potsdam Philosophy Forum, October 2012.
“Comments on Daniel Kwon’s ‘How dthat can model that,”’ Commentary on a Submitted Symposium, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 2010.
“Ethics and Moral Psychology,” Philosophy and the Academy, Johns Hopkins University, March 2010.
“Experimental Philosophy,” Meaning, Method and Motivation: Perspectives on the Nature and Scope of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, April 2009.
Teaching Experience
Courses Taught at St. Lawrence University
FRPG 1020: Sherlock Holmes and the Art and Science of Reasoning (Taught w/ Tina Tao)
FRPG 2024: Birth, Life and Death - The Philosophy of Your Life
FRPG 2156: The Good Place and the Good Life
PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 103: Philosophy East and West
PHIL 202: Reasoning
PHIL 203: Ethical Theory
PHIL 208: Modern Philosophy
PHIL 247A: What Should I Believe? (Applied Epistemology)
PHIL 301: Philosophy of Science
PHIL 310: Environmental Philosophy
PHIL 350: Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 359: Philosophy of Language
PHIL 400: Metaphilosophy
PHIL 4027: The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Other Teaching Experience
Reading Instructor, Institute for Reading Development, Grades K-12, 2006-2007
Academic Consultant, Johns Hopkins University, 2005-2007.
Pedagogy Workshops Led
“Teaching Critical Reading Skills,” St. Lawrence University, First Year Program Summer Retreat, May 2023.
“Scaffolding Research Projects,” St. Lawrence University, First Year Program Summer Retreat, May 2022.
“Social Annotation,” with Eloise Brezault and Jennifer Hansen. St. Lawrence University, July 2020.
“Teaching Critical Thinking,” SUNY Potsdam, WAYS Program, January, March 2020.
“Scaffolding Research Projects,” St. Lawrence University, First Year Program FYS Planning Meeting, November 2017.
“Problem Based Learning” St. Lawrence University, Sophomore Journeys Initiative, September 2017.
“Teaching to Teach Oneself,” St. Lawrence University Peer Mentors Training, November 2016.
“Know Thyself: Metacognition in Student Learning and Critical Thinking,” St. Lawrence University May College, May 2016.
“Problem Based Learning: Teach More by Lecturing Less” with Alison Del Rossi, Serge Onyper, and Melissane Schrems. St. Lawrence University May College, May 2016.
“Scaffolding Research Projects,” St. Lawrence University, First Year Program FYS Planning Meeting, November 2015.
Plenary Address on Metacognition, Associated Colleges Teaching Effectiveness Conference, November, 2014.
“Cultivating Intellectual Virtue," St. Lawrence University, First Year Program Summer Retreat, June 2014.
“Teaching Critical Reasoning Through Course Content," St. Lawrence University May College, May 2014.
“Teaching Critical Reasoning Through Course Content," St. Lawrence University Winter Institute, January 2014.
Professional Development
Council of Independent Colleges Summer Institute: New Currents in Teaching Philosophy, July 2020.
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, University of Delaware Problem Based Learning Workshop, January 2016.
“American Philosophical Association Summer Seminar on Teaching & Learning,” Coastal Carolina University, Summer 2010.
Teacher Training Program, Institute of Reading Development, Summer 2006.
Grants & Awards
Grants
- Implementation Grant, Council of Independent Colleges, 2021-2. $1000 awarded to develop a ‘Philosophy Tutorial’ program to support St. Lawrence students serving as teaching assistants and receiving an education in philosophical pedagogy.
Awards
Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Award, St. Lawrence University, 2017.
2014 Lenssen Prize, Honorable Mention, for best article in the teaching and learning of philosophy published in 2012-2013.
Fellowships
Digital Initiatives Faculty Fellowship, 2016-17.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2010.
Johns Hopkins University Fellowship, 2005–2007.