Galen Barry

Associate professor with broad-ranging and interdisciplinary research interests. Experience with academic and non-academic writing. History of successful grant-writing. Independent researcher with skills in conveying ideas to non-expert audiences. Dedicated to philosophy outside of traditional academic contexts.

• Philosophy of Science
• Ethics
• Political Philosophy

• On the Value of Knowledge, Portuguese, ICESPI, Teresina, Brazil, 09/01/24
• Philosophy in Brazil, lecture to the New Rochelle community, as part of a series on Brazil, 10/01/22
• The Social Production of Knowledge, online lecture in Portuguese to the Federal University of Paraíba community, 09/01/22
• Guest participant/speaker, Ethics and Public Philosophy program (Federal University of Paraíba), Spring/Summer 2022
• Dean’s Symposium, The Aims and Methods of Public Philosophy in the United States and Brazil, Iona University, 03/01/22
• Virtue and Social Epistemology, interview with YouTube Channel “Brain in a Vat”, 03/01/22
• Modern Philosophical Challenges to Religion, four-part series for the New Rochelle community, 10/01/19

• Fulbright Scholar Flex Award, Federal University of Paraíba, 2022
• Fulbright Postdoctoral Award, University of São Paulo, 2016
• Jewish Studies Fellow, University of Virginia, 2014-2015
• Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2012-2013
• French Summer Language Institute, University of Virginia, 2013
• Critical Language Scholarship, U.S. Department of State

Epistemic Alienation, Inquiry, 2024; Body, Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon, Karolina Hübner, Justin Steinberg, 2024; Extension, Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon, Karolina Hübner, Justin Steinberg, 2024; A Virtude Intelectual e a Alienação Epistêmica, Antologia de Ensaios sobre Caráter Intelectual, Alexandre Ziani de Borba, Arthur Lopes, 2024; Fact vs. Opinion: Helping Students Overcome the Distinction, Teaching Philosophy, 2022; Two Kinds of Mental Conflict in Republic IV, Gwen Nally, History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, 2021; Spinoza and Counterpossible Inferences, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2021; Spinoza on the Resistance of Bodies, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 2021; Morally Respectful Listening and its Epistemic Consequences, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2020; Spinoza on the Logical Limits of Mental Representation, Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2019; Spinoza and the Problem of Other Substances, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2018; Using Conway’s Game of Life to Teach Free Will, Teaching Philosophy, 2018; The Oxford Handbook for Spinoza, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2018; The Nozick Game, Teaching Philosophy, 2017; Spinoza and the Feeling of Freedom, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2016, Reply to Yenter: Spinoza, Number, and Diversity, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2016; Cartesian Modes and the Simplicity of Mind, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2015

• A Kantian Conception of Intellectual Vice and Virtue, Universidade Estadual do Vale do Acaraú, Portuguese, 03/01/25
• The Shape of an Epistemic Life, NYC Ethics Workshop, City Tech campus of CUNY, 04/01/25, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 02/01/25, 20th meeting of ANPOF, Recife, Brazil, Portuguese, 10/01/24
• The Practical Impossibility of Certain Epistemic Acts, Third Symposium of Logic and Analytic Philosophy, Federal University of Maranhão, 11/01/24
• Spinoza on Representation and Projection, University of Florida, Colloquium, 02/01/24
• Grounding the Epistemic in the Moral, Long Island Philosophical Society, St. John’s University, 04/01/23, Recent Work on Intellectual Character, Federal University of Santa Maria, 11/01/22
• Group Knowledge and Epistemic Alienation, Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Manitoba, 10/01/22, Workshop on the Intersection of Ethics and Epistemology, Federal University of Paraíba, 08/01/22, Federal University of Pernambuco, Portuguese, 08/01/22
• Intellectual Virtue in a Social World, Federal University of Paraíba, Portuguese, 09/01/22, Federal University of Piauí, Portuguese, 08/01/22, Federal University of Paraíba, 06/01/22
• Philosophical Disagreement and Intellectual Vice, Indiana Philosophical Association, 11/01/21
• Feuerbach’s Spinozistic Argument for an Infinite Human Nature, North American Spinoza Society, Central APA, 02/01/20
• Using Op-Ed Articles to Teach the Normative-Descriptive Distinction, AAPT/APA Teaching Hub on Creative Assignments, Eastern APA, 01/01/20
• A New Problem for the Principle of Opposites in Republic IV, Gwen Nally, Main Program, Central APA, 02/01/19
• Morally Respectful Listening and its Epistemic Consequences, Indiana Philosophical Association, 11/01/18, Epistemology of Justice Workshop, University of Memphis, 03/01/19, University of Missouri—Kansas City, 03/01/19
• A Puzzle about Inference in Spinoza, Main Program, Central APA, 02/01/18, Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium, 09/01/17, South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 11/01/17, New York/New Jersey Early Modern Seminar, 09/01/17
• Spinoza, Descartes, and the Laws of Impact, University of São Paulo, 09/01/16
• Spinoza and the Problem of Other Substances, North American Spinoza Society, Central APA, 03/01/17
• Spinoza on Resistance in Bodies, University of São Paulo, 08/01/16
• Hyperintensionality: A Case Study in Spinoza, James Darcy, Spinoza-Leibniz Workshop, Michigan State University, 04/01/16
• Spinoza and the Linguistic Nature of Impossibilities, Main Program, Pacific APA, 04/01/16, Iona University, 03/01/16, University College Dublin, 02/01/16, Early Modern Workshop, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, 11/01/15, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 09/01/16
• Spinoza and the Feeling of Freedom, Federal University of Pernambuco, 09/01/16, University of Brasilia, 09/01/16, Federal University of Minas Gerais, 09/01/16, Main Program, Central APA, 03/01/16, Princeton-Penn-Columbia Graduate Conference in Modern Philosophy, 05/01/15, Kentucky/Indiana Philosophical Associations, 04/01/15, Federal University of Ouro Preto, 09/01/16
• Spinoza’s Projectivist Account of Modal Error, Atlantic Canadian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, 07/01/15
• Why Phenomenal Intentionality isn’t Compositional, Main Program, Central APA, 02/01/15
• Spinoza and the Representation of Contingency, Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium, Washington & Jefferson College, 09/01/14