LAURENCE DAVIS CARLIN
Brief Curriculum Vitae

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Department of Philosophy 
800 Algoma Blvd.       
Oshkosh, WI  54901
(920) 424-1368
E-mail: carlin@uwosh.edu  

 
EDUCATION
Rice University, Ph.D. in Philosophy, May 2000.
Rice University, M.A. in Philosophy, 1998. 
University of Houston, M.A. in Philosophy, 1995.
Franklin and Marshall College, B.A., Philosophy, 1993.
 
POSITIONS HELD
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006–present.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2000–06.
Instructor, Rice University, 1998–2000.
Instructor, University of Houston, 1998–2000.
 
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
History of Modern Philosophy and Science, Philosophy of Religion
 
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Abstracts available here.)

• "Selecting a Phenomenalism: Leibniz, Berkeley, and the Science of Happiness," Journal of the History of Ideas (forthcoming). (abstract)

• “Leibniz and Berkeley on Teleological Intelligibility,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 23 (2), 2006, 151-169. (abstract)
  
  
• “Leibniz on Final Causes,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 44 (2), 2006, 217-233. (abstract)
  
  
• “Leibniz on Conatus, Causation, and Freedom,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85 (4), 2004, 365–379. (abstract)
  
  
• “Can Any Divine Punishment Be Morally Justified?,” Philo 6 (2), 2003, 280–298. (abstract)
  
  
• "Reward and Punishment in the Best Possible World: Leibniz's Theory of Natural Retribution," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 60 (2), 2002, 139–160. (abstract)
  
  
• “Leibniz’s Great Chain of Being,” Studia Leibnitiana 32(2), 2000, 131–150. (abstract)
  
  
• “On the Very Concept of Harmony in Leibniz,” The Review of Metaphysics 54(1), 2000, 99–125. (abstract)
  
  
• “Infinite Accumulations and Pantheistic Implications: Leibniz and the Anima Mundi,” The Leibniz Review 7, December 1997, 1–24. (abstract)
  
  
• “Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind” (with Mark Kulstad), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu. Authored sections “Matter and Thought,” “Mind-Body Causation,” and “Language and Mind.”
  
  
• “Ascriptive Supervenience,” Southwest Philosophy Review 13 (1), 1997, 47–57. (abstract)

 
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
2005           Winner of the Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition, “Leibniz and Berkeley on Phenomenalism and Teleology.”
 
2004           Selected Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, Philosophy, Science and Theology in the Seventeenth Century.
 
2003           Selected Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Leibniz and His Contemporaries.
 
1997           Winner of the annual Leibniz Society International Essay Competition, “Infinite Accumulations and Pantheistic Implications: Leibniz and the Anima Mundi.”
 

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