Charles Lassiter

Curriculum Vitae

AOS / AOC

AOS: Philosophy of mind, social epistemology
AOC: Symbolic logic, history of philosophy, philosophy of language

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy — Fordham University, 2013
  "Signs, Signs, Everywhere are Signs": Extended Encultured Cognition and Implicature Calculation
• M.A., Philosophy — Fordham University, 2006
• B.A. — Saint Peter's University, 2003

Employment

• Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University, 2025–present
• Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University, 2019–2025
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Gonzaga University, 2014–2019
• Lecturer in Philosophy, Gonzaga University, 2013–2014
• Teaching Associate, Fordham University, 2006–2013
• Adjunct Faculty, Georgian Court University, 2010–2013
• Part-time Lecturer, Rutgers University (Newark), 2009–2012
• Adjunct Faculty, Monroe College, 2004–2009

Publications

Forthcoming

• "Potted Thinking and Pre-reflective Reasoning" (with Sophie Brotman), Linguistic Frontiers
• "Humble Reflections on the Intellectual Process of Developing a Text-based Measure of Humility in Inquiry" (with Sarah Bratt, Erin Leahey, Charlie Gomez, Jina Lee, and Yeaeun Kwon)
• An Introduction to Embodied Mind: Thinking Outside the Head (with Aaron Kagan), Routledge, April 2026

Published

• "Rejected Experts and the Foundations of Epistemic Authority: A Reply to Censon," Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2025
• "Developing a Text-Based Measure of Humility in Inquiry Using Computational Grounded Theory" (with Sarah Bratt et al.), Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 61, 1 (2024): 855–857
• "Lineages and Mental Powers" (with Joseph Vukov), The Review of Metaphysics 78 (2024): 301–318
• "No Need to Sign Up, You're Already Enrolled! A Reply to Hannum and Ballantyne," Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2024
• "Reply to Jamie Watson's 'Follow the Signs,'" Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2024
• "Precedent and Rest Stop Convergence in Reflective Equilibrium" (with Bert Baumgaertner), Synthese (2023)
• "Introduction to the Special Issue: 'Expertise, Semiotics and Interactivity'" (with Sarah Bro Trasmundi), Social Epistemology 38 (2023): 1–12
• "Reading the Signs: From Dyadic to Triadic Views for Identifying Experts," Social Epistemology 38 (2023): 98–109
• "Dogmatism and Domination: A Simulation Study," Episteme (2023)
• "Convergence and Shared Reflective Equilibrium" (with Bert Baumgaertner), Ergo 10: 24 (2023)
• "Review of David Chalmers, Reality+" (with Aaron Kagan), Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2022)
• "New Ontological Foundations for Extended Minds: Causal Powers Realism" (with Joseph Vukov), Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2022)
• "Inhibitive and Catalytic Causal Powers in Organizational Cognition" (with Joseph Vukov), in Organizational Cognition, Routledge (2023): 145–167
• "Watching People Watching People: Culture, Prestige, and Epistemic Authority," Social Epistemology 36 (2022): 601–612
• "Empowering Biosemiotics," Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio 15 (2022)
• "Could a Robot Flirt? 4E Cognition, Reactive Attitudes, and Robot Autonomy," Society & AI 37 (2022): 675–686
• "Particularized Conversational Implicature and Miraculous Communication," Language Sciences 86 (2021): 1–9
• "In Search of an Ontology for 4E Theories: From New Mechanism to Causal Powers Realism" (with Joseph Vukov), Synthese 199 (2021): 9785–9808
• "Arational Belief Convergence," Synthese 198 (2021): 6329–6350
• "How to Power Encultured Minds" (with Joseph Vukov), Synthese 197 (2020): 3507–3534
• "Reply to Joshua Mugg's 'How Not to Reply to the Tragic Dilemma,'" Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2020
• "Implicit Racial Bias and Sham Epistemic Authorities," Social Epistemology 33 (2019): 42–60
• "Language and Simplexity: A Powers View," Language Sciences 71 (2019): 27–37
• "Macro Conditions for Marginalization" (with Vinai Norasakkunkit, Benjamin Shuman, & Tuukka Toivonen), Frontiers in Psychology 9:812 (2018)
• "Implicit Racial Bias and Epistemic Pessimism" (with Nathan Ballantyne), Philosophical Psychology 30 (2017): 79–101
• "Aristotle and Distributed Language: Capacity, Matter, Structure, and Languaging," Language Sciences 53 (2016): 8–20
• Review of Cognition Beyond the Brain, Cowley & Vallée-Tourangeau (eds.), Philosophical Psychology 28 (2015): 1245–1249
• "When Words Do Things: Perlocutions and Affordances for Social Action," in Austin on Language, Palgrave Macmillan (2014): 32–49
• "Much Ado About Nothing: the Coupling-Constitution Fallacy" (with Aaron Kagan), Pragmatics and Cognition 21 (2013): 178–192
• "Implicating without Intending on a Gricean Account of Implicature," Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 4 (2012): 199–215
• "Externalizing Communicative Intentions," SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy 12 (2011): 123–144

Awards & Grants

• Humanities Washington 50th Anniversary Honoree, 2025 ($1,000)
• 25 Years of Hiring in Professional Philosophy: A Study and Analysis — American Philosophical Association, 2024 ($4,949)
• PrimeTime Reading Grant — Humanities Washington, 2024 ($8,300)
• Community Engaged Learning, Faculty of the Year — Gonzaga University, 2019
• Digital Humanities Fellow — Gonzaga University, 2018 ($550)
• Dean's Faculty Development Funds — Gonzaga University, 2018 ($2,490)
• Sebeok-Love Award — Editorial Board of Language Sciences, 2016 ($350)
• Faculty and Student Research Fund Award — Gonzaga University, 2015 ($7,000)
• Research Support Grant — Fordham University, 2010 ($1,000)

Professional Service

• Member, editorial board of Language Sciences, 2019–
• Reviewer for: Journal of the American Philosophical Association, American Philosophical Quarterly, Language Sciences, Philosophical Psychology, Social Epistemology, Synthese, Episteme, Erkenntnis, Hypatia, Techné, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Intellectica, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Journal of Pragmatics, Bloomsbury Publishing, NEH, Humanities Washington
• Interim Director, Center for the Applied Humanities, Gonzaga University, 2022–2024
• Secretary, Institutional Review Board, Gonzaga University, 2014–2022
• Member, Core Curriculum Committee (Reasoning subcommittee; chair 2022–2023), 2015–2024