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PETER W. ROSS Department of Philosophy December 2013 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 3801 West Temple Avenue (909) 869-3036 Pomona, CA 91768 pwross@ Current Position Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2011-present. Associate Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2006-2011. Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2001-2006. Other Academic Appointments Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2000-2001. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Winter/Spring 2000. Lecturer, Eastern Michigan University, Fall 1999. Lecturer, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1997-1999. Education City University of New York, Graduate School, 1989-1997; Ph.D October 1997 Dissertation: Being Red and Seeing Red: Sensory and Perceptible Qualities David M. Rosenthal, advisor. Honors for both Dissertation and Defense. Oberlin College, 1981-1985; B.A. in Philosophy, minor Psychology, May 1985. Areas of Specialization Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Philosophy and Psychology of Perception Areas of Competence Philosophy of Science Publications “Primary and Secondary Qualities,” forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception, editor Mohan Matthen, Oxford University Press. “Existence Problems in Philosophy and Science,” Synthese, 190, 18 (December 2013): 4239-4259. Co-authored with Dale Turner. “Perceived Colors and Perceived Locations: A Problem for Color Subjectivism,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 49, 2 (April 2012): 125-138. Fitting Color into the Physical World, Philosophical Psychology, 23, 5 (October 2010): 575-599. Common Sense about Qualities and Senses, Philosophical Studies, 138, 3 (April 2008): 299-316. Empirical Constraints on the Problem of Free Will, in Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? editors Susan Pockett, Wil