Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Specialisation

Philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, and political philosophy

2022–Present. Associate Lecturer in Political Philosophy, Discipline of Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Sydney

2017–2022. Honorary Associate, Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney
2020–2021. Associate Research Scholar / Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
2016–2017. Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Hamburg (Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD))

[10] Ryan Cox “Democracy and Social Equality,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 23, no. 1 (2022), https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v23i1.1890.
[9] Ryan Cox “Constitutivism about Instrumental Desire and Introspective Belief,” Dialectica 999, no. 1 (2022), https://doi.org/10.48106/dial.v74.i4.02.
[8] Ryan Cox “Introspection and Distinctness,” in A Materialist Theory of the Mind: 50 Years on, ed. Peter Anstey and David Braddon-Mitchell (Oxford University Press, 2022).
[7] Ryan Cox “Knowledge of Moral Incapacity,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 2021, https://doi.org/doi:10.1007/s10790-021-09832-y.
[6] Ryan Cox and Matthew Hammerton “Setiya on Consequentialism and Constraints,” Utilitas, 2021, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820821000121.
[5] Ryan Cox “Bromberger on the Syntax of Why-Interrogatives,” Lingua, 2020, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102884.
[4] Ryan Cox “Only Reflect,” Philosophical Topics 47, no. 2 (2019): 183–204.
[3] Ryan Cox “How Why-Interrogatives Work,” Synthese, 2019, 1–38, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02364-w.
[2] Ryan Cox “Knowing Why,” Mind & Language 33, no. 2 (2018): 177–97, https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12173.
[1] Ryan Cox “The Revised Democratic Threshold Principle and the Distribution of Educational Resources,” Interamerican Journal of Education for Democracy 3 (2010): 109–20.

Ryan Cox “Review of T. Parent Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind: An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2017)

2021 Graduate Certificate in English Studies, University of Sydney
2011–2017 PhD. Philosophy, The Australian National University
2013–2014 (6 months) Guest of the Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge University
2012–2012 (6 months) Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Dept. of Philosophy, Princeton University
2009–2011 M.A. Philosophy, The University of Western Australia
2005–2009 B.A. Philosophy (Honours), The University of Western Australia

2020 Philosophy of Mind, Princeton University (coordinator), eval. 4.40/5
2020 Political Philosophy, Princeton Universty (coordinator), eval. 4.23/5
2018, 2020 Democratic Theory, University of Sydney (co-coordinator, coordinator), evals. 4.75/5, 4.83/5
2018, 2019 Introductory Logic, University of Sydney (coordinator), evals. 4.28/5, 4.52/5
2020, 2021 A Brief Introduction to Critical Thinking (School of Medicine, University of Sydney)
2018, 2019 Critical Analysis and Thought Leadership (School of Business, University of Sydney)

2019 Philosophy and Literature, University of Sydney
2018, 2019 Knowledge, Reason and Action, University of Sydney
2017, 2018, 2019 Introductory Logic, University of Sydney
2018, 2019 Philosophy of Mind (Advanced), University of Sydney
2018 OLE Global Ethics, University of Sydney
2009, 2010, 2011 Introduction to Critical Thinking, University of Western Australia
2009, 2010 Key Topics in Philosophy, University of Western Australia
2009, 2010 Introduction to Critical Thinking, University of Western Australia
2009, 2010, 2011 Introduction to Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle
2011 Introduction to Ethics, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle

2020 Daniel Te. Seniors Thesis Supervision, Princeton University (awarded the 1869 Prize in Ethics)
2020 Ken Oku. Certificate in Cognitive Science Supervision, Princeton University

2022 Roundtable “Transforming Higher Education—Equity, Access and Social Inclusion” University of Sydney
- Participant (Contributed mini-lecture on equity and equality of opportunity)
2022 ABC Religion & Ethics
- Early childhood education should not only be free, but compulsory (with Luara Ferracioli)
2022 Sydney Morning Herald (reprinted in The Brisbane Times, The Age, and WA Today)
- The moral costs of McGowan’s decision (with Luara Ferracioli)
- 295,509 unique daily visitors (SMH), 15,626 average story audience
2021 ABC Religion & Ethics
- More persuasion, less evasion (with Luara Ferracioli)
- 694,727 unique daily visitors, 52,974 average ABC Religion & Ethics

2023 Australasian Workshop in Moral Philosophy at Kioloa (ANU Kioloa Campus)
- Political Legitimacy and the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
2022 USyd Departmental Seminar (The University of Sydney)
- De Se Pluralism
2022 Legitimacy Workshop (The University of Sydney)
- Two Concepts of Legitimacy?
2021 PhilSoc (University of Western Australia)
- What is the point of going to school? (with Luara Ferracioli)
2019 Current Projects Seminar (The University of Sydney)
- What is the deliberative theory of self-knowledge?
2018 A Materialist Theory of the Mind: 50 Years On (The University of Sydney, Invited)
- Introspection and Distinctness
2017 Awesome Moral Philosophy Workshop (Australian National University, Invited)
- Knowledge of Moral Incapacities
2017 Normative Capacities Workshop (Utrecht University, Invited)
- Knowledge of Moral Incapacities
2016 Forschungskolloquium: Sprache & Welt (University of Hamburg)
- Hyperintensional Context in Explanatory Language
2015 OZSW Conference (VU Amsterdam)
- Excusing Facts
2015 Sixth Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, SOPhiA (University of Salzburg)
- Hyperintensional Contexts in Explanatory Language