Steven J. Todd

Graduate Student

Department of Philosophy

University of Connecticut

E-mail: steven.todd@uconn.edu

 

Teaching aids for:

 

PHIL 104 Spring 2008

 

PHIL 106 Fall 2007

 

PHIL 104 Spring 2007

 

Education

 

Entered PhD program at UConn Fall 2004. PhD expected Spring 2008.

Master of Arts. Philosophy, University of Houston, 2002.

Bachelor of Arts. Philosophy, University of Houston, 1998.

 

Interests

 

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Logic 

 

Publications

 

“A Difference that Makes a Difference: Passing Through Dennett’s Stalinesque / Orwellian Impasse” (accepted / in press) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

 

Unmasking Multiple Drafts.” (2006) Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 477-494.

 

As Co-author:

 

Breitmeyer, B.G., Ro, T., Ogmen, H. and Todd, S.J. (2007) “Unconscious, Stimulus-Dependent and Conscious, Percept-Dependent Priming with Chromatic Stimuli.” Perception & Psychophysics, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 550 – 557.

 

Haluk Ogmen, Bruno G. Breitmeyer, Steven Todd, and Lynn Mardon (2006) “Target Recovery in Metacontrast: The Effect of Contrast.” Vision Research, Vol. 46, Issue 28, December 2006, pp. 4726-4734.

 

Bruno G. Breitmeyer, Hulusi Kafaigonul, Haluk Ogmen, Lynn Mardon, Steven Todd, and Ralph Ziegler (2006). “Meta- and paracontrast reveal differences between contour- and brightness-processing mechanisms.” Vision Research, Vol. 46, Issue 17, September 2006, pp. 2645-2658.

 

Ogmen, H., Breitmeyer, B. G., Todd, S.J., and Mardon, L. (2004). "Double Dissociation in Target Recovery:  Effect of Contrast." Journal of Vision (vol. 4, no. 8) August, 2004.

 

Of Presented Papers:

H. Ogmen, B. G. Breitmeyer, S. Todd, L. Mardon “Contributions of Parvocellular and Magnocellular Pathways to Metacontrast and Target Recovery” The 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Arlington, VA, 2005.

 

H. Kafaligonul, B.G. Breitmeyer, H. Ogmen, L. Mardon, S. Todd, R. Ziegler “The Dynamics of Contour and Surface Processing in Human Vision” Third Annual Conference on Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Houston, Tx. 2006.

 

Presentations

 

“What psychophysics teaches us about Dretske’s ‘What Change Blindness Teaches About Consciousness’.” Poster Presentation at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, June 2008.

 

“What psychophysics teaches us about Dretske’s ‘What Change Blindness Teaches About Consciousness’.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA., March 2008.  ***Winner of Griffith Award for Best Paper in Philosophy***;  ***Winner of Graduate Student Travel Grant Award***

 

“What psychophysics teaches us about Dretske’s ‘What Change Blindness Teaches About Consciousness’.” University of Connecticut Philosophy Department, February 27, 2008.

 

“Computer Assisted Writing in Philosophy.” Part of a panel presentation: Tutors, Researchers, and Emissaries: Experimenting with Roles For Writing Center Graduate Students in Sparking and Sustaining WAC and WID, Northeast Writing Centers Association 2007 Conference, March 31, 2007; Session 2.1

 

“Metacontrast & Multiple Drafts: a crossroads for Dennett’s Stalinesque / Orwellian impasse.” Invited Lecture from the Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science, University of Houston, October 26, 2006.

 

 “The timings they are a-changin’: an observable difference that makes a difference.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Charleston, SC, April 2006.

 

“The timings they are a-changin’” University of Connecticut Philosophy Department Brown Bag Seminar, April 5, 2006.

 

"Unmasking Multiple Drafts" Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Cognitive Science Graduate Conference, April, 2005, University of Western Ontario April 2005.

 

“Unmasking Multiple Drafts’” University of Connecticut Philosophy Department Brown Bag Seminar, March 2005.

 

“Unmasking Multiple Drafts: a case study demonstrating the impact of empirical data on theories of consciousness” Joint Meeting of Society for Philosophy and Psychology with the European SPP, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. 

 

“Unmasking Multiple Drafts” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA., April 2004.