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Before teaching at Northeastern, Branden held teaching positions at Rutgers, UC-Berkeley, San Jos茅 State, and Stanford and visiting positions at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU-Munich (MCMP @ LMU) and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam (ILLC @ UvA). Branden got his MA & PhD in philosophy from UW-Madison. Before entering philosophy, Branden studied math & physics at Wisconsin, and he worked as a research scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a NASA contractor.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pagecontents"> <div class="section color-1"> <div class="section-container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-5 col-md-offset-1"> <div class="title text-center"> <h3>Current Academic Position</h3> </div> <ul class="ul-dates"> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>Present</span> <span>2016</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4> Distinguished Professor</h4> <p><em><a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/philosophy/">Philosophy </a> @ <a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/">Northeastern University</a></em></p> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-md-5"> <div class="title text-center"> <h3>Education</h3> </div> <ul class="ul-card"> <li> <div class="dy"> <span class="degree">Ph.D.</span> <span class="year">2001</span> </div> <div class="description"> <p class="waht">Ph.D. in <a href="http://philosophy.wisc.edu">Philosophy</a></p> <p class="where"><a href="http://www.wisc.edu">University of Wisconsin, Madison</a></p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dy"> <span class="degree">M.A.</span><span class="year">1997</span> </div> <div class="description"> <p class="waht">Master of Arts in <a href="http://philosophy.wisc.edu">Philosophy</a></p> <p class="where"><a href="http://www.wisc.edu">University of Wisconsin, Madison</a></p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dy"> <span class="degree">B.S.</span><span class="year">1992</span> </div> <div class="description"> <p class="waht">Bachelor of Science in <a href="https://www.math.wisc.edu">Math</a> & <a href="https://www.physics.wisc.edu">Physics</a></p> <p class="where"><a href="http://www.wisc.edu">University of Wisconsin, Madison</a></p> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section color-2"> <div class="section-container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-10 col-md-offset-1"> <div class="title text-center"> <h3>Past Academic Positions</h3> </div> <ul class="ul-dates-gray"> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>2016</span> <span>2014</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4>Visiting Professor</h4> <p><em><a href="https://www.illc.uva.nl/">ILLC</a> @ <a href="http://www.uva.nl/en/home">University of Amsterdam</a></em></p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>2016</span> <span>2011</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4>Visiting Professor</h4> <p><em><a href="http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html">MCMP</a> @ <a href="http://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/index.html">LMU Munich</a></em></p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>2016</span> <span>2013</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4>Professor</h4> <p><a href="http://www.rutgers.edu">Rutgers</a>: <em><a href="http://www.philosophy.rutgers.edu">Philosophy</a></em> and <em><a href="http://ruccs.rutgers.edu">Center for Cognitive Science</a></em> (RuCCS)</p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>2013</span> <span>2010</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4>Associate Professor</h4> <p><a href="http://www.rutgers.edu">Rutgers</a>: <em><a href="http://www.philosophy.rutgers.edu">Philosophy</a></em></p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>2010</span> <span>2007</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4>Associate Professor</h4> <p><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu">Berkeley</a>: <em><a href="https://philosophy.berkeley.edu">Philosophy</a></em>, <em><a href="http://logic.berkeley.edu">Group in Logic & the Methodology of Science</a></em>, and <em><a href="http://cogsci.berkeley.edu">Cognitive Science Core Faculty</a></em></p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>2007</span> <span>2003</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4>Assistant Professor</h4> <p><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu">Berkeley</a>: <em><a href="https://philosophy.berkeley.edu">Philosophy</a></em></p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>2003</span> <span>2002</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4>Assistant Professor</h4> <p><a href="http://www.sjsu.edu">San José State</a>: <em><a href="http://www.sjsu.edu/philosophy/">Philosophy</a></em></p> </div> </li> <li> <div class="dates"> <span>2002</span> <span>2001</span> </div> <div class="content"> <h4>Acting Assistant Professor</h4> <p><a href="https://www.stanford.edu">Stanford</a>: <em><a href="https://philosophy.stanford.edu">Philosophy</a></em></p> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>

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