Maité Cruz Tleugabulova
Contact: cruztlem@union.edu
Academic appointments
2020-present - Assistant Professor, Union College
2024, Jan-May - Scholar in Residence, New York University
2019-2020 - Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
Education
2012-2019 - Ph.D. in Philosophy, Boston University
2010-2011 - M.A. in Philosophy, University of Western Ontario
2006-2010 - B.A. with Honors in Philosophy, University of Alberta
Dissertation
Title: “Hume on Knowledge of the Past”
Readers: Aaron Garrett, Walter Hopp, Don Garrett (NYU), Lorne Falkenstein (Western)
Publications
Blind peer-reviewed
2024 - “Shepherd’s case for the demonstrability of causal principles,” Ergo.
2023 - “Time for Hume’s Unchanging Objects” (co-authored with Miren Boehm), Philosophers' Imprint.
2019 - “Hume’s Dual Criteria for Memory,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100, 336-358.
2012 - “Hume on Presentation and Philosophy,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42: sup1, 67-81 [accepted 2014; retroactively dated to 2012]
Invited
2024 - “Comments on Susanna Nuccetelli's An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy,” APA Studies on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 23(2), 5-6.
Recent presentations
Blind peer-reviewed
2024 - “Shepherd's epistemology,” Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax.
2022 - “Hume’s Fiction of Time without Change” (co-authored and co-presented with Miren Boehm), Hume Society Annual Conference, Prague.
2020 - “Hume on Temporal Experience,” American Philosophical Association Central Division Conference, Chicago.
Invited
2025 - “Shepherd on Mathematics” (forthcoming), Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
2024 - “Shepherd on the distinction between mathematical and physical knowledge,” Mary Shepherd's Philosophy at 200, University of Toronto, Toronto.
2024 - “Shepherd's epistemology,” Trent University Philosophy Department Colloquium, Peterborough, Ontario.
2024 - Comments on Susana Nuccetelli's Introduction to Latin American Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, New York City.
2023 - “Shepherd on change and causation,” Conference in Honor of Don Garrett, New York City.
2022 - “Shepherd’s case for the demonstrability of causal principles,” Upstate New York Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy, Ithaca NY.
2022 - “Las teorías de Hume sobre el tiempo y el espacio,” Encuentro Internacional Hume desde Latinoamérica, virtual.
2022 - “Shepherd’s Critique of Hume on Causation,” SUNY Albany Philosophy Department Colloquium, Albany NY.
Awards
2019 - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) [declined].
2018 - Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University Center for the Humanities.
2017 - Young Scholar Award, Hume Society.
2017 - Graduate Student Award, Boston University Center for the Humanities.
2016 - Matchette Prize in Philosophy, Boston University.
2013-2016 - Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC.
2012 - Boston University Metcalf Fellowship.
2012 - Young Scholar Award, Hume Society.
2010 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship, SSHRC.
2010 - The Honors Medal in Philosophy, University of Alberta.
Courses taught
Union College
2020-2024(5x) - Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, introductory level.
2021-2025(2x) - Free Will, first-year general education seminar.
2020-2025(3x) - Early Modern Philosophy, intermediate level.
2022-2023(3x) - Latin American Philosophy, intermediate level.
2021-2023(3x) - Symbolic Logic, intermediate level.
2021-2023 - Hume’s Challenge to Reason, upper level.
2023 - Racism and the Enlightenment, upper level.
2022-2023 - New Directions in Philosophy, upper level.
2022 - Comparative Philosophy, second-year general education seminar.
University of Iowa
2020 - Seventeenth-century philosophy, intermediate level.
2019 - Eighteenth-century philosophy, intermediate level.
Huron University College
2016 - Hume, upper level.
McMaster University
2016 - Ethical Issues in Communications, introductory level.
Pedagogical training
2022 - Union College Faculty Development Institute (two-week workshop)
2020 - Union College Faculty Development Institute (two-week workshop)
2018 - American Association of Philosophy Teachers (one-day workshop)
2018 - Teaching Composition (10-week course), Boston University Writing Program.
2017 - Diversity in the College Classroom (8-week course), Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL).
2016 - The College Classroom (10-week course), CIRTL.
Service
2022-present - Co-organizer, Upstate New York Workshop in Modern Philosophy (UNYWMP).
2021-2023 - Co-chair of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Union College.
2017-2019 - Boston University Chapter Representative for MAP (Minorities and Philosophy).
2018 - Workshop leader for the Free Philosophy Project (a BU-affiliated group organizing philosophy workshops in homeless shelters).