Abbreviated CV
Academic Positions
Professor of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 2025-present and Department Chair, 2019-present.
Director, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Assessment, St. Lawrence University, 2024-present.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 2018-2025
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 2015 - 2018.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Lawrence University, 2012-2015.
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 2012.
- Dissertation: “Meaningful Intuitions: The evidential role of intuitions in the study of language”
M.A. Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 2007.
B.A. Philosophy and History, Gettysburg College, 2005.
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Critical Reasoning
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Science
Research
Books
- Maynes, Jeffrey and Steven Gimbel (2022). Personal Memories of Early Analytic Philosophy: Analytic Logic / Synthetic Lives. Palgrave Macmillan.
Publications (Peer Reviewed Articles)
Maynes, Jeffrey (forthcoming), “Evidential and Rhetorical Moves in the Study of Language,” The Springer Handbook of Intuitions, ed. Andrew Arana, Asad Ahmed, David Bordonaba-Plou, Gerhard Heinzmann, Marie-Helene Gorisse, Lisa Indracolo, and Jari Kaukua. Springer. Expected publication: March 2025.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2021). “The Method(s) of Cases,” Philosophical Psychology, 34(1), 102-124.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2017). “On the Stakes of Experimental Philosophy,” Teorema, XXXVI(3), 45-60.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2017). “Steering into the Skid: On the Norms of Critical Thinking.” Informal Logic, 37(2), 115-128.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2015). “Critical Thinking and Cognitive Bias,” Informal Logic, 35(2), 183-203.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2015). “Interpreting Intuition: Experimental Philosophy of Language.” Philosophical Psychology, 28(2), 260-278.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2013). “Thinking About Critical Thinking.” Teaching Philosophy, 36(4), 337-351.
Maynes, Jeffrey and Steven Gross (2013). “Linguistic Intuitions.” Philosophy Compass, 8(8), 714-730.
Maynes, Jeffrey (2012). “Linguistic Intuition and Calibration.” Linguistics and Philosophy, 35(5), 443-460.
Hansen, Jennifer and Jeffrey Maynes (2005) “Psychiatry, Philosophy and the Self.” Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 18(6), 649-652.
Publications (Invited, Editor Reviewed)
Maynes, Jeffrey (2023). “The Good, the Bad, and the Yucky: Valenced Linguistic Intuitions and Linguistic Methodology.” Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity: Theoretical, Epistemology, and Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling ed. David Romand and Michel Le Du. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gimbel, Steven and Jeffrey Maynes (2011). “Ordinary Language and the Unordinary Philosophy of Peter Achinstein.” Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein ed. Gregory Morgan. Oxford University Press.
Publications (Reviews)
- Maynes, Jeffrey (2016). “Review of Mercier and Sperber’s The Enigma of Reason.” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, 31(3), 33-44.
Teaching Experience
Courses Taught at St. Lawrence University
FRPG 1020: Sherlock Holmes and the Art and Science of Reasoning (Taught w/ Tina Tao)
FRPG 2024: Birth, Life and Death - The Philosophy of Your Life
FRPG 2156: The Good Place and the Good Life
PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 103: Philosophy East and West
PHIL 202: Reasoning
PHIL 203: Ethical Theory
PHIL 208: Modern Philosophy
PHIL 247A: What Should I Believe? (Applied Epistemology)
PHIL 301: Philosophy of Science
PHIL 310: Environmental Philosophy
PHIL 350: Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 359: Philosophy of Language
PHIL 370: The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
PHIL 400: Metaphilosophy
Other Teaching Experience
Reading Instructor, Institute for Reading Development, Grades K-12, 2006-2007
Academic Consultant, Johns Hopkins University, 2005-2007.
Pedagogy Workshops Led
“Inspiring motivation,” St. Lawrence University, November 2025.
“Advising and Mentorship,” with Tina Tao, St. Lawrence University, October 2025.
“Attending to Learn,” St. Lawrence University, October 2025.
“Academic Integrity in the Age of AI,” with Melody Denny, Ronnie Olesker, Nicole Roche, and Eric Williams-Bergen, St. Lawrence University, August 2025.
“Teaching on Matters of Race and Racism Across the Curriculum,” St. Lawrence University, April 2025.
“AI Assignment Design: What’s Working, What’s Not?” St. Lawrence University, April 2025.
“What Does It Mean to Teach About Race and Racism?” St. Lawrence University, March 2025.
“Student and Faculty-Centered Teaching,” St. Lawrence University, March 2025.
“Understanding the New DIV-R Requirement,” St. Lawrence University, February 2025.
“Sustainable Grading,” St. Lawrence University, January 2025.
“Designing Courses You Want to Teach and Students Want to Take” with Jeff Frank, Ronnie Olesker, Mindy Pitre, and Jennifer Thomas, St. Lawrence University, December 2024.
“Assignment Design with AI,” Associated Colleges Teaching Effectiveness Conference, December 2024.
“Celebrating and Looking Ahead,” St. Lawrence University, December 2024.
“Preparing for the Day After,” St. Lawrence University, November 2024.
“Advising as Teaching,” with Tina Tao, St. Lawrence University, October 2024.
“Reacting to Disruption and Disagreement,” St. Lawrence University, October 2024.
“Teaching with Tutorial Programs,” St. Lawrence University, September 2024.
“Assessment for Department Chairs,” St. Lawrence University, September and October 2024.
“Productive Disagreement,” St. Lawrence University, September 2024.
“Grant Seeking for Early Career Faculty,” with Carol Smith, St. Lawrence University, September 2024.
“Policies and Classroom Contracts,” St. Lawrence University, August 2024.
“Best Practices with Generative AI,” with Melody Denny, Ronnie Olesker, Nicole Roche, and Eric Williams-Bergen, St. Lawrence University, August 2024.
“Teaching Critical Reading Skills,” St. Lawrence University, First Year Program Summer Retreat, May 2023.
“Scaffolding Research Projects,” St. Lawrence University, First Year Program Summer Retreat, May 2022.
“Social Annotation,” with Eloise Brezault and Jennifer Hansen. St. Lawrence University, July 2020.
“Teaching Critical Thinking,” SUNY Potsdam, WAYS Program, January, March 2020.
“Scaffolding Research Projects,” St. Lawrence University, First Year Program FYS Planning Meeting, November 2017.
“Problem Based Learning” St. Lawrence University, Sophomore Journeys Initiative, September 2017.
“Teaching to Teach Oneself,” St. Lawrence University Peer Mentors Training, November 2016.
“Know Thyself: Metacognition in Student Learning and Critical Thinking,” St. Lawrence University May College, May 2016.
“Problem Based Learning: Teach More by Lecturing Less” with Alison Del Rossi, Serge Onyper, and Melissane Schrems. St. Lawrence University May College, May 2016.
“Scaffolding Research Projects,” St. Lawrence University, First Year Program FYS Planning Meeting, November 2015.
Plenary Address on Metacognition, Associated Colleges Teaching Effectiveness Conference, November, 2014.
“Cultivating Intellectual Virtue," St. Lawrence University, First Year Program Summer Retreat, June 2014.
“Teaching Critical Reasoning Through Course Content," St. Lawrence University May College, May 2014.
“Teaching Critical Reasoning Through Course Content," St. Lawrence University Winter Institute, January 2014.
Professional Development
Council of Independent Colleges Summer Institute: New Currents in Teaching Philosophy, July 2020.
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, University of Delaware Problem Based Learning Workshop, January 2016.
“American Philosophical Association Summer Seminar on Teaching & Learning,” Coastal Carolina University, Summer 2010.
Teacher Training Program, Institute of Reading Development, Summer 2006.
Grants & Awards
Grants
- Implementation Grant, Council of Independent Colleges, 2021-2. $1000 awarded to develop a ‘Philosophy Tutorial’ program to support St. Lawrence students serving as teaching assistants and receiving an education in philosophical pedagogy.
Awards
Owen D. Young Outstanding Faculty Award, St. Lawrence University, 2017.
2014 Lenssen Prize, Honorable Mention, for best article in the teaching and learning of philosophy published in 2012-2013.
Fellowships
Digital Initiatives Faculty Fellowship, 2016-17.
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2010.
Johns Hopkins University Fellowship, 2005–2007.