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David Eck
Curriculum vitae
Department of Communication and Philosophy 4202 E. Fowler Ave, FAO 220
Florida Gulf Coast University Tampa, FL 33620
10501 FGCU Blvd 570-506-5186
Fort Myers, FL 33965 e-mail: deck@fgcu.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Philosophy of Science
Social and Political Theory
Philosophy of Mind
AREAS OF COMPETENCE
Ethics
Philosophy of Technology
Logic
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of South Florida
Philosophy, May 2015
Dissertation: “The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social
Epistemology.” (Advisors: Stephen Turner and Alexander Levine.)
M.A. University of South Florida
Philosophy, May 2012
B.A. Lehigh University
Philosophy, May 2005
B.A. Lehigh University
History, May 2005
EMPLOYMENT
Florida Gulf Coast University
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Communication and Philosophy, Fall 2015 to Present
University of South Florida
Adjunct Instructor
Honor’s College, Fall 2014 to Spring 2015

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EMPLOYMENT (continued)
University of South Florida
Graduate Instructor
Department of Philosophy, Fall 2010 to Spring 2014
University of South Florida
Teaching Assistant
Department of Philosophy, Fall 2008 to Spring 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Eck, D., “Social Coordination in Scientific Communities,” Perspectives on Science, 24:6
(2016, forthcoming).
Eck, D., and S.P. Turner, “Cognitive Science and Social Theory,” in W. Brekhus and G.
Ignatow, The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology, (forthcoming).
Eck, D., and S.P. Turner, “Cognitive Science,” in L. McIntyre and A. Rosenberg, The
Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science, (forthcoming).
Eck, D., and A. Levine, “Prioritizing Otherness: The Line Between Vacuous Individuality
and Hollow Collectivism,” in R. Hakli and J. Seibt, Sociality for Robots and
Humans—Philosophical Investigations, Springer, (forthcoming).
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS AND UNDER REVIEW
Eck, D., under review, “An Interactivist Redirection of the Practice Turn in Social Theory,”
Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior.
Eck, D., under review, “Applying Participatory Sense-Making to Epistemic Communities:
The Danger of Reification,” New Ideas in Psychology.
Eck, D., in preparation, “Epistemic Injustice and Homelessness.”
Eck, D., in preparation, “Explanatory Pluralism or Theft: Evaluating Systems Approaches in
Social Theory.”
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Explanatory Pluralism or Theft: Evaluating Systems Approaches in Social Theory,”
Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Tampa, FL, March 2016.
“Epistemic Injustice and Homelessness,” Public Philosophy and Homelessness Conference,
Ft Myers, FL, March 2016.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (continued)
“Applying Participatory Sense-Making to Epistemic Communities: The Reification of
Coordination Patterns,” Interactivist Summer Institute, Ankara, Turkey, June 2015.
Panel Discussion on Enactivism, Co-Panelists M. Bickhard and A. Levine, Interactivist
Summer Institute, Ankara, Turkey, June 2015.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Florida Gulf Coast University, Department of Communication and Philosophy
Philosophy of Science (Spring 2016)
Ethics in Theory and Practice: Environmental Ethics (Spring 2016)
Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2016)
The History of Ideas (Fall 2015, Summer 2016)
University of South Florida, Honors College
Acquisition of Knowledge (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
University of South Florida, Department of Philosophy
Introduction to Formal Logic (Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Sum 2012)
Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2013, Sum 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2010)
Social Philosophy (Spring 2013)
Science and Society (Spring 2012, Fall 2011)
University of South Florida, Department of Philosophy, Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Formal Logic (Spring 2010)
Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008)
Lehigh University, Department of Philosophy, Grader
Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2006, Fall 2005)
Introduction to Formal Logic (Spring 2005, Fall 2004)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Conference Co-organizer, Public Philosophy and Homelessness, FGCU, March 2016.
Faculty Mentor, PAGES [Professional development, Academic achievement, Global
sophistication, Engaged living, and Skill building] Program, FGCU, 2015, 2016.
Session Chair, The Anxious Body Colloquium, FGCU, 2015.
Referee, Ecological Psychology, 2015; Perspectives on Science, 2013, 2015; Biosemiotics,
2012.
Session Chair, Florida Philosophical Association Conference, 2014.

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (continued)
Mentor, Philosophy Graduate Student Organization, USF, 2013.
Treasurer, Philosophy Graduate Student Organization, USF, 2011.
Oral Historian, America On Wheels Museum, 2006.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Teaching Workshops, Lucas Center for Faculty Development, FGCU, Fall 2015: Race
Matters Book Club; Safe Zone Ally Training for LGBTQ students; Creating Meaningful
and Spaced Repetition in Courses; Student Perception of Instruction Survey Strategies;
Engaging Students Through Multiple Modes of Representation, Action, and Engagement;
Using Small Groups and Peer Feedback to Engage Students; Using Formative
Assessment Strategies to Deepen Learning.
Letter Writing Workshop for Academic Recommendations of Undergraduate Students, Office
of National Scholarships, USF, Spring 2015.
Teaching Workshops, Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence, USF, Fall 2012:
Using Select Survey for Periodic Student Evaluation and Feedback; Successfully
Integrating Online Discussion; Groups 2.0: Successful Group Projects Online; Teaching
Online using Canvas LMS; Designing Online Courses; Developing Multimedia for
Online Courses: Audio Tools; Introduction to Elluminate; Introduction to Second Life.
REFERENCES
Kevin Aho
Professor of Philosophy and Chair
Department of Communication and Philosophy
Florida Gulf Coast University
10501 FGCU Blvd
Fort Myers, FL 33965
239-590-7422
e-mail: kaho@fgcu.edu
Stephen Turner
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave, FAO 226
Tampa, FL 33620
813-974-5549
e-mail: turner@usf.edu

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REFERENCES (continued)
Alexander Levine
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave, FAO 226
Tampa, FL 33620
813-974-5508
e-mail: levineat@usf.edu
Glenn Whitehouse
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Department of Communication and Philosophy
Florida Gulf Coast University
10501 FGCU Blvd
Fort Myers, FL 33965
239-590-7218
e-mail: gwhiteho@fgcu.edu
Joanne Waugh
Associate Chair
Department of Philosophy
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave, FAO 226
Tampa, FL 33620
813-974-3641
e-mail: jwaugh@usf.edu
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology
There have been monumental advances in the study of the social dimensions of
knowledge in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But it has been common
within a wide variety of fields—including social philosophy, cognitive science, epistemology,
and the philosophy of science—to approach the social dimensions of knowledge as simply
another resource to be utilized or controlled. I call this view, in which other people’s
epistemic significance are only of instrumental value, manipulationism. I trace
manipulationism’s manifestations in the aforementioned fields and explain how to move
beyond it. One common form of manipulationism, which appears in each of the fields, is
based on adaptationist appropriations of the modern Darwinian synthesis. To counter this
tendency, I draw upon the more recent “extended” Darwinian synthesis, especially the
enactivist movement in cognitive science.

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DISSERTATION ABSTRACT (continued)
In moving beyond manipulationism, I present a “transformation view” of social
interaction. The transformation view consists primarily of linking the enactivist movement
with neo-Kuhnian social epistemology. Specifically, I expand the enactivist concept of
participatory sense-making by connecting it to two recent innovations in social
epistemology—the concept of cogent argumentation and the “federal” model of enquiry. The
resulting neo-Kuhnian perspective depicts the social dimensions of knowledge in terms of
immanent, context-dependent processes. This population-level perspective complements the
concept of participatory sense-making, which models emergent dynamics within two-person
social encounters. Taken together, the combined perspectives from cognitive science and
social epistemology challenge one of the strongest intuitions underpinning
manipulationism—namely, the notion that cognitive subjects possess an innate and
immutable cognitive core. As an alternative, enactivism and neo-Kuhnian social
epistemology present an encultured cognitive subject, an account in which agent and
community are bound together in a mutually transformative relationship.