Todd R. Long      Visiting Associate Professor      Department of Philosophy      University of Rochester Box 270078      Rochester, NY 14627-0078      Office: 520 Lattimore Hall      Phone: (585) 275-5402      E-mail:  todd [dot] long [at] rochester [dot] edu      Associate Professor (sabbatical leave 2009-10)      Philosophy Department      California Polytechnic  State University      San Luis Obispo, CA 93407      E-mail:  tlong [at] calpoly [dot] edu      Web: www.calpoly.edu/~tlong

Education

• Ph.D., M.A., University of Rochester
• M.A., University of Wales
• M.A., B.A., University of Southern Mississippi

Former Positions

Current Research Areas

• Epistemology 
• Metaphysics (especially free will and responsibility)
• Philosophy of Religion (especially the epistemology of religious belief)

Publications

“A Proper De Jure Objection to the Epistemic Rationality of Religious Belief ”, Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion (forthcoming).

"Proper Function Justification and Epistemic Rationality", Southwest Philosophy Review (forthcoming).

“Is it True that 'Evolution is a Theory, Not a Fact'?”, International Journal of Applied Philosophy 21:1 (2007) 89-108.

“Moderate Reasons-Responsiveness, Moral Responsibility, and Manipulation”, in Freedom and Determinism, ed. Campbell, O'Rourke, and Shier (MIT Press) 2004, pp. 151-172.

“Belief or 'Belief': Rush Rhees on Religious Belief Language”, Philosophical Writings, 12 (Autumn 1999) 21-45.

“A Selective Defense of Tolstoy's What is Art?”, Philosophical Writings, 8 (Summer 1998) 15-25.

Critical Notice

John Martin Fischer, "Manipulation and Control:  A Reply to Long", in Action, Ethics, and Responsibility, ed. Campbell and O'Rourke (MIT Press), forthcoming.

Eddy Nahmias, review of my "Moderate Reasons-Responsiveness, Moral Responsibility, and Manipulation", in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (6.11.2005).

H.O. Mounce, Tolstoy on Aesthetics: What is Art? (Ashgate, 2001), references my "A  Selective Defense of Tolstoy's What is Art?".

Selected Presentations

For a complete list of presentations, see here.

“A Bone for Traditional Foundationalism”, American Philosophical Association, Central Division Program, Chicago, IL, February 20, 2009.

“Guidance Control and Manipulation: A Reply to Fischer”, Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark College, October 5, 2007.

“On Plantinga's De Jure Objection to Religious Belief: An Evidentialist Reply”, Baylor Philosophy of Religion Conference, Baylor University, February 24, 2007.

“Is it True that 'Evolution is a Theory, Not a Fact'?”, Society of Christian Philosophers—Pacific Region, University of San Diego, February 18, 2006.

“Justification-Skepticism, Strong Truth-Conduciveness, and Epistemic Assurance”, Inland Northwest Conference on Knowledge & Skepticism, Washington State University, May 2004.

“Moderate Reasons-Responsiveness, Moral Responsibility, and Manipulation”, Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Freedom & Determinism, University of Idaho, April 2001.

Professional Service

I have served as a referee, on topics in epistemology or the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility, for various philosophy conferences, as well as the following:

• Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• Dialectica
• Erkenntnis
• Journal of Philosophical Research
• Mind
• Nous
• Philosophical Studies
• Routledge
• Synthese
• Topics in Contemporary Philosophy (MIT Press)

Courses Taught

• Epistemology
• Metaphysics
• Epistemology of Religious Belief
• Aesthetics
• Philosophical Classics - Metaphysics & Epistemology
• Introduction to Philosophy
• Reason and Argument
• History of Early Modern Philosophy
• Ethics
• Contemporary Moral Problems
• College Writing