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Biography

EVALUATION COMMENT AWARDS: SPRING 2013

Phil 1000A -- Introduction to Philosophy

"I found myself either intrigued and ready to listen, or ready to put my head on the table and catch some sleep."


Phil 1000B -- Introduction to Philosophy

"Alward was a strange Professor, he was funny but at the same time he wasn't funny"


Phil 2220A -- Philosophy of Mind

"I am now reasonably certain I know less about the mind than I did prior to taking [the class]"


Phil 3280A -- Philosophy of Language

"Far and beyond my favourite class of the semester."


HALL OF FAME

"Next time get someone with common sense and a personality. A doorknob would be more interesting than Alward."

"He also walks like a vampire. This could be good or bad, I suppose."

Selected Publications

*** See CV for a complete listing of publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
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Books:
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Empty Revelations: an essay on talk about, and attitudes toward, fiction, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012..


Refereed Journals:
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"Butter Knives and Screwdrivers: an intentionalist defense of radical constructivism," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, forthcoming.

"Abortion Rights and Paternal Obligations," Public Affairs Quarterly, 26.4, 2012: 273-91.

"Description, Disagreement, and Fictional Names," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 41.3, 2011: 423-448.

"Transparent Representation: photography and the art of casting," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 70.1, 2012: 9-17

"Word-Sculpture, Speech Acts, and Fictionality," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 68.4, 2010: 389-399.

"That's the Fictional Truth, Ruth," Acta Analytica, 25.3, 2010: 347-363.

"The (Rump) Parliamentarian's Reply," Dialogue, 48.3, 2009: 665-672.

"Onstage Illocution," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 67.3, 2009: 321-331.

"Cluster Theory: Resurrection," Dialogue, 48.2, 2009: 269-289.

"The Inessential Quasi-Indexical," Philosophical Studies, 145.2, 2009: 235-255.

"Mopes, Dopes, and Tropes," Dialogue, 47.1, 2008: 53-64.

"Ignorance, Indeterminacy, and Abortion Policy," Journal of Value Inquiry, 41, 2007: 183-200.

"For the Ubiquity of Non-Actual Fact-telling Narrators," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 65.4, 2007: 401-404.

"Leave me out of it: de re, but not de se, imaginative engagement with fiction," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 64.4, 2006: 451-460.

"Are Functional Properties Causally Potent?" Sorites, 17, 2006: 48-54.

"A Neo-Hintikkan Theory of Attitude Ascriptions," Kriterion, 19, 2005: 1-11.

"Varieties of Believed-World Semantics," Philosophia, 32, 2005: 51-72.

"Between the Lines of Age: Reflections on the Metaphysics of Words," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 86, 2005: 171-186.

"Mad, Martian, but not Mad Martian, Pain," Sorites, 15, 2004: 73-75.

"The Spoken Work," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 62, 2004: 331-337.

"Is Phenomenal Pain the Primary Intension of 'Pain'?" Metaphysica, 5, 2004: 15-28.

"Correspondence via the Backdoor and Other Stories," Disputatio, 14, 2003: 3-21.

"Fregecide," Dialogue, 42, 2003: 275-290.

"Thomson, the Right to Life, and Partial Birth Abortion," Journal of Medical Ethics, 28, 2002: 99-101.

"The Naïve Argument against Moral Vegetarianism," Environmental Values, 9, 2000: 81-89.

"Simple and Sophisticated "Naïve" Semantics," Dialogue, 39, 2000: 101-121.

"Correspondence on the Cheap," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 77, 1996: 163-178.


Book Chapters:
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"Varieties of Photographic Fiction," in Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics, Gregory Currie, Petr Kotatko, Martin Pokorny, eds., College Publications, London, 2012, pp. 316-42.

"A Neo-Hintikkan Solution to Kripke's Puzzle," in Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods, Kent Peacock and Andrew Irvine, eds., University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. 93-102.

"The Logic of Fiction," (with John Woods) in the Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Volume 11, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 241-316.

Current Research and Creative Activity

Title	Location	Grant Information	Principal Investigator	Co Researchers
Empty Revelations	Lethbridge, AB		Alward, University of Lethbridge
Is Semantics a Mistake			Alward, University of Lethbridge

Previous Research

Title	Grant Agency	Completion Date
Believed World Semantics		2004
Mental Causation		2006
Abortion Rights		2007

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Internet Links

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