TAKASHI YAGISAWA

• 1981
  Ph.D. Philosophy, Princeton University
  • Thesis Title ... Belief and Synonymy
  • Supervisor .... David Lewis
  • Readers ......... Gilbert Harman, Scott Soames

• 1977
  B.A. (First Class Honours) Philosophy, University of London (University College), UK

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

• 1994-Present
  • California State University, Northridge, Professor
• 1990-94
  • California State University, Northridge, Associate Professor
• 1987-90
  • California State University, Northridge, Assistant Professor

OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

• 2019-20
  • Kyoto University, Temporary Lecturer (winter)
• 2017-19
  • Kyoto University, Temporary Lecturer (summer, winter)
• 2015-16
  • Kyoto University, Invited Collaborative Researcher (summer, winter)
• 2014
  • Kyoto University, Temporary Lecturer (summer, winter)
• 2013
  • Kyoto University, Temporary Lecturer (summer)
• 2012
  • Kyoto University, Invited Collaborative Researcher (spring - summer)
  • Kyoto University, Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics Education and Research, Fellow (spring - summer)
• 2008-11
  • California State University, Northridge, Department Chair
• 1986-87
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor
• 1985-86
  • New York University, Visiting Assistant Professor
• 1984-85
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Visiting Assistant Professor
• 1983-84
  • University of Cincinnati, Charles Phelps Taft Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
• 1981-83
  • Case Western Reserve University, Assistant Professor
• 1978-80
  • Princeton University, Teaching Assistant

Courses Taught:

• Introductory Philosophy
• Introductory Ethics
• Introductory Logic
• Intermediate Logic
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Language
• Epistemology
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Logic
• Seminar on Gödel’s Theorems
• Senior Research Seminar
• Graduate Seminar on Possible Worlds
• Graduate Seminar on Linguistics and Cognitive Science
• Graduate Seminar on Situation Semantics
• Graduate Seminar on Identity
• Graduate Seminar on Existence
• Graduate Seminar on Ontological Argument
• Graduate Seminar on Singular Thought
• Graduate Seminar on Metaphysics of Fiction
• Graduate Seminar on Demonstratives

BOOKS:

(authored)

• 2018
  • Analyzing Numbers (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten), 232 pages.
  • Analyzing Logic (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten), 224 pages.
• 2016
  • Analyzing "Correct" (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten), 237 pages.
  • Analytic Philosophy of Alice in Wonderland (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Kodansha), 312 pages; Chinese Translation in 2018, (Taipei: On Books).
• 2014
  • From God to Possible Worlds: Advanced Introduction to Analytic Philosophy (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Kodansha), 288 pages.
• 2013
  • Meaning, Truth, and Existence: Intermediate Introduction to Analytic Philosophy (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Kodansha), 277 pages.
• 2011
  • Introduction to Analytic Philosophy (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Kodansha), 267 pages.
• 2010
  • Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise, (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 314 pages.

• 1985
  • Japanese Translation of Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), in collaboration with Keiichi Noé, with Yagisawa's introductory essay (Tokyo: Sangyo Tosho), 283 pages.

(edited)

• 2000
  • Reflections on Philosophy, co-edited with Leemon McHenry, (New York: Longman). Contributors include Alred Mele, Mark Timmons, John Heil, et al., 292 pages

ARTICLES:

• 2019
  • "Imagining Fictional Characters", Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? edited by Miroslaw Szatkowski (De Gruyter Studium), 203-16.
• 2017
  • "Meta-Representational Me", Perspectives on the Self, edited by Boran Berčić (University of Rijeka): 355-69.
  • "Gluons of Different Colors", International Journal of Philosophical Studies 25-4: 555-59, .
  • "S4 to 5D", Argumenta 2.2: 241-61.
• 2016
  • "Now is the Time", Jahrbuch für Philosophie das Tetsugaku-Ronso 43, 1-13.
  • Descriptive Exposition of the philosophy of David Lewis (in Japanese), in On the Plurality of Worlds by David Lewis (Japanese Translation), (Nagoya: The University of Nagoya Press): 319-27.
• 2015
  • Critical Review of Fictional Objects, edited by Stuart Brock and Anthony Everett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2015.12.19: 2905 words.
  • Two new entries, “occasion meaning” and “semantic ascent”, and one old entry "intensionality" substantially revised, in the third edition of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); see 1995 and 2000 for the old editions.
  • “Impossibilia and Modally Tensed Predication”, Acta Analytica, Volume 30, Issue 4: 317-23, published online first on April 10.
• 2014
  • "Deflationary Existence", Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 22: 1-16.
• 2013
  • Critical Review of Timothy Williamson’s book, Modal Logic as Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2013.10.15: 2,694 words.
  • "The Way of the Modal Realist: Dialetheism and Buddhist Philosophy”, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 63, Issue 3, July: 359-69.
• 2012
  • “Unrestricted Quantification and Reality: Reply to Kim”, Acta Analytica, Volume 27, Issue 1: 77-79, (Online First, July 22, 2011).
• 2011
  • “Modal Space Exploration: Replies to Ballarin, Hayaki, and Kim”, Analytic Philosophy 52.4: 302-11.
  • “Précis of Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise”, Analytic Philosophy 52.4: 270-72.
• 2010
  • "An Analytic Philosopher Learns from Zhuangzi", Chinese Language and Culture 7, (Tokyo: Chinese Studies, Graduate School, Nihon University): 58-70.
• 2008
  • Four entries (“Essentialism”, “Grammar”, “Logic: Modal”, “Possibility”), in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, J. Lachs & R. Talisse (eds.), (London: Routledge).
  • "Modal Realism with Modal Tense", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86.2: 309-27.
  • Critical Review of Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker, edited by Judith Thomson and Alex Byrne, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), Mind 117.466: 532-7.
• 2007
  • “Ghosts are Chilly” (coauthored with W. D. Hart), Persons: Human and Divine, P. van Inwagen & D. Zimmerman (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 166-8.
• 2005
  • “A New Argument Against the Existence Requirement”, Analysis 65.1, 39-42. (This is an electronic version of an article published in Analysis, complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Analysis, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal’s website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/anal or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.)
  • “Possible Objects”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online, first published on April 15; revised on July 21, 2005 and on August 31, 2009), E. Zalta (ed.)
  • Critical Review of Wayne A. Davis's book, Meaning, Expression, and Thought, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 71.3: 744-7.
• 2003
  • “David Lewis”, American Philosophers, 1950-2000 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 279), P. B. Dematteis and L. McHenry (eds.), (Detroit, MI: Gale): 167-75.
• 2002
  • "Primitve Worlds", Acta Analytica vol. 17, issue 28: 19-37.
• 2001
  • "Partee Verbs", Philosophical Studies 103: 253-70.
  • "Against Creationism in Fiction", Philosophical Perspectives, 15: Metaphysics, 2001, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Oxford: Blackwell): 153-72.
• 2000
  • One new entry, "Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis", in addition to the five first-edition entries (1995), for the second edition of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • A chapter on "Logic", in Reflections on Philosophy, Leemon McHenry and Frederick Adams (eds.), (Woburn, MA: Booktech): 11-33.
• 1998
  • "Naming and Its Place in Reference", Lingua e Stile (Anno XXXIII, n. 3, settembre 1998): 445-58.
• 1997
  • "Salmon Trapping", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57.2: 351-70.
  • "A Somewhat Russellian Theory of Intensional Contexts", Philosophical Perspectives, 11: Mind, Causation, and World, 1997, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Oxford: Blackwell): 43-82.
  • "Knocked Out Senseless: Naturalism and Analyticity", The Maribor Papers: Essays on Semantic Naturalism, Dunja Jutric (ed.), (Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press): 82-95.
  • Five entries ("Essentialism", "Saul Kripke", "Modal Logic", "Montague Grammar", and "Naming and Necessity") in Iwanami Dictionary of Philosophy (in Japanese), K. Mishima et al. (eds.), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten).
• 1995
  • Five entries ("Definiendum", "Definition", "Intensionality", "Logical Syntax", and "Rational Reconstruction") in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • "Reference Ex Machina", Karlovy Vary Studies in Reference and Meaning, J. Hill and P. Kotátko (eds.), (Prague: FILOSOPHIA Publications): 215-42.
• 1994
  • "Thinking in Neurons: Comments on Schiffer", Philosophical Studies: 287-96.
• 1993
  • "Modes of Presentation?", Analysis 53, January: 34-36.
  • "Logic Purified", Nous 27: 470-86.
  • "A Semantic Solution to Frege's Puzzle", Philosophical Perspectives, 7: Philosophy of Language and Logic, 1993, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company): 135-54.
  • "The Cost of Meaning Solipsism", Grazer Philosophische Studien 46: 213-30.
• 1992
  • "Possible Worlds as Shifting Domains", Erkenntnis 36: 83-101.
  • Critical Review of Stephen Neale's Descriptions (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), Canadian Philosophical Reviews XII, no. 1, February: 49-51.
• 1989
  • "Psychologism in Linguistics", Perspectives on Psychologism, Mark A. Notturno (ed.), (Leiden: E.J. Brill): 426-89.
  • "The Reverse Frege Puzzle", Philosophical Perspectives, 3: Philosophy of Mind and Action, 1989, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company): 341-67.
• 1988
  • "Beyond Possible Worlds", Philosophical Studies 53: 175-204.
• 1987
  • "Yes, You!", Philosophia 17, March: 169-86.
• 1986
  • "Logical Structure of Ordinary Language" (in Japanese), Symbol, Logic, Metaphor: Iwanami Lectures "Tetsugaku (Philosophy)", vol. 3, S. Omori et al. (eds.), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishing Company): 150-75.
• 1985
  • "The Referential and the Attributive: A Distinction in Use?", The Southern Journal of Philosophy 23, Spring: 109-25.
  • Critical Review of Stephen P. Stich's book, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief (Cambrdige, MA: MIT Press, 1983), Nous 19, May: 288-94.
• 1984
  • "Proper Names as Variables", Erkenntnis 21, July: 195-208.
  • "The Pseudo-Mates Argument", The Philosophical Review 93, July: 407-18.
• 1983
  • "Belief De Re Without Encounter", The Southern Journal of Philosophy 21, September: 461-74.
• 1982
  • "How to Save the Compositionality Principle of Meaning from Quotation", Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association, April: 106-15.
• 1979
  • "Counterfactual Analysis of Causation and Kim's Examples", Analysis 39, March: 100-05.

• 2014
  • 「アリストテレスとM」(“Aristotle and M”), Complete Works of Aristotle: Monthly Report 7 (『アリストテレス全集・月報７』), 岩波書店(Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten): 1-4.
• 2013
  • 「身体が動く、脳が働く」(“The Body Moves, the Brain Works”),『本』3月号 (Books, March issue), 講談社 (Tokyo: Kodansha): 49-51.

• 2018
  • "A Deflationary Conception of the Self", Aspects of Self: A Workshop, Kyoto University, Japan, May 14.
• 2017
  • “Imagining Fictional Characters”, Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? (dedicated to Perter van Inwagen to commemorate his 75th birthday), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, September 27.
• 2016
  • "Lessons of Origin Essentialism", Origin Essentialism Workshop, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, July 16.
  • "Meta-Representational Me", UHamburg-UTokyo Workshop: Language & Reality, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, June 25; Philosophy Conference: The Self, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia, March 31 (by Skype).
• 2015
  • “B-Theory De-Fictionalized”, Metaphysics Workshop, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, July 3.
  • “Gluons of Different Colors”, 1st Veritas Philosophy Symposium, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, May 30.
• 2014
  • “S4 to 5D”, Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)Possible II (keynote lecture), Institute of Philosophy of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 15; Intensional/Hyperintensional Workshop, National Autonomous University of Mexico, September 18; Veritas Philosophy Conference, Underwood International College, Yonsei International Campus, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, June 8.
• 2013
  • "Deflationary Existence and Inflationary Existents", An International Workshop: Ontology of Asian Philosophy, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, April 14.
  • “Deflationary Existence and Necessity”, Conference on Necessity, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 16.
• 2012
  • "Now Actually", International Conference on Truth & Understanding, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, December 14.
  • “Existence De Re”, Conference on the Philosophy of Saul A. Kripke, Peking University, Beijing, China, September 2.
  • “Problems of Existence in Analytic Philosophy”, Darshana Research Project Workshop, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan, August 19.
  • “Metaphysics of Possible Worlds and Beyond”, Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Summer School (the sole instructor), Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan, August 6-10.
  • “Possibility Beyond Possible Worlds”, PhilLogMath Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, July 16.
  • “Metaphysics of Identity”, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, July 9, 10.
  • “Frontiers of Analytic Asian Philosophy”, co-symposiast with Yasuo Deguchi, Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics Education and Research, Kyoto University, Japan, June 26.
  • “Now Actually” (in Japanese), Kyoto Contemporary Philosophy Colloquium Workshop: Possible Worlds, Kyoto, Japan, June 2.
  • “A Deflationary Theory of Existence, Part II”, Hongo Metaphysics Club, Tokyo, Japan, May 30.
  • “A Deflationary Theory of Existence, Part I”, Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan, May 29.
  • “A Deflationary Theory of Existence”, delivered as a keynote speech at the 1st Seoul Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, May 5; Hokkaido Philosophical Association Meeting, Sapporo, Japan, July 21; Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, July 24.
  • “Applied Metaphysics: Contents of Narrative Cinema”, delivered at the inaugural international symposium, Applied Philosophy and Applied Ethics Now, Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics Education and Research, Kyoto University, Japan, April 23.
• 2011
  • “A Modal Realistic Way for the Dialetheistic Buddhist”, Kyoto University, Japan, November 25.
  • “What is Existence?”, University of Rijeka, Croatia, May 22.
  • "A Deflationary Theory of Existence", Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Rijeka, Croatia, May 20.
  • An Author-Meets-Critics Session on my book, Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 22.
• 2010
  • "Order and Disorder of Possibilities”, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, April 7.
• 2009
  • "Who's Afraid of Impossibilities?", Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, July 9.
  • "Scene Imagined Seen and Impossible Content", University of California, Irvine, November 6.
• 2008
  • "An Analytic Philosopher Learns from Zhuangzi", Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, December 18 and 22.
• 2006
  • "Modal Realism and Modal Tense", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March.
• 2005
  • "Modal Realism and Modal Tense", Southern California Philosophy Conference, California State University, Northridge, CA, October 29.
• 2004
  • "Another Realist Theory of Possibilia", Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, October; Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, October.
• 2003
  • "Philosophical Conversations in Memory of James E. Tomberlin (1942-2002)", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March.
  • "Lewisian Iterated Modal Indexing", Northwest Philosophy Conference, Reed College, Portland, OR, October.
• 2001
  • "Minimal Realism About Possible Worlds", Bled Conference on Metaphysics, Bled, Slovenia, June.
  • "Primitive Worlds: Modal Innocence Regained", California State University, Northridge, October; The Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November.
• 1999
  • "Does Captain Picard Exist?", Occidental College, Los Angeles, October.
• 1997
  • "Naming and Its Place in Reference", A Workshop on Reference: Semantics and Pragmatics>, University of Palermo, Italy, March.
• 1996
  • "Russell's Theory of Descriptions Withstands the Rising Temperature", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meetings, Seattle, April; Stockholm University, June.
  • "Knocked Out Senseless: Naturalism and Analiticity", The Maribor Conference on Naturalized Semantics, University of Maribor, Slovenia, June.
  • "Linguistic Platonism and Its Implications", The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Interpreting Davidson, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September.
• 1995
  • "Being and Somethingness", The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Questions From Quine, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September.
  • "Existence: Who Needs It? A Modest Proposal on How to Think About God, Superman, the Fountain of Youth, and Everything Else", California State University, Northridge, April.
• 1994
  • "Obstinate Opacity", the Graduate Center, City University of New York, April; University of Florida, May.
  • "Reference Ex Machina", Tulane University, April; Virginia Commonwealth University, May; The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Reference, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, June.
• 1993
  • "Another Russellian Theory of Belief Sentences", University of California, Davis, October.
  • "Skepticism Redux", Tohoku Universtiy, Sendai, Japan, June.
  • "Semantics of Indirect Discourse", Tokyo University, May; Keio University, Tokyo, May.
  • "Descriptions of Intensional Objects", University of New Mexico, March.
• 1992
  • "A Constructive Proof of the Possibility of a Punctate Meaningful State", National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Rutgers University, August.
• 1991
  • "Names and Informativeness", Conference on Mind and Language, University of Cincinnati, March.
• 1990
  • "Proper Names and Frege's Puzzle", Zadar University, Yugoslavia, June; the annual symposium of the Union of the Philosophical Societies of Yugoslavia; University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, June; the Rijeka Philosophy Group, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, June.
• 1989
  • "Names Are Not Singular Terms", California State University, Northridge, November.
• 1988
  • "The Reverse Frege Puzzle", California State University, Northridge, April.
• 1986
  • "Keeping Up with the Oscars", East Carolina University, October; The Triangle Circle Discussion Group on Philosophy of Language and Mind, October; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November.
• 1985
  • "On Functionalism", University College, London, England, March.
  • "Indexing Beliefs", University of Iowa, January; Northern Illinois University, February; University of Minnesota, March.
• 1984
  • "Indexism", Swarthmore College, May; University of Cincinnati, May.
  • "Taking Speaker's Meaning Seriously", Columbia University, February; Boston University, March.
• 1983
  • "In Defense of Belief De Se", The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meetings, Boston, December.
  • "Functionalism and the Twin Earth Argument", University of Cincinnati, October.
  • "Functionalism Elaborated", Case Western Reserve University, September.
  • "Platonism in Linguistics", National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, University of Maryland, August.
• 1982
  • "How to Save the Compositionality of Meaning from Quotation", The Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meetings, Toledo, April.
• 1981
  • "The Structure of Meaning", Case Western Reserve University, October.
  • "Names in Attitude Contexts", Case Western Reserve Universtiy, April.
• 1980
  • "Belief and Proper Names", Tokyo University, July; Princeton University, October.

• 2014
  • On Kei Kataoka’s “Historical Development of the Apoha Theory”, Kiyotaka Yoshimizu’s “From Proper Names to Common Nouns in Dignaga’s Apoha Theory”, and Hideyo Ogawa’s presentation, Workshop on the Apoha Theory, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, August 2.
• 2013
  • On Hideyo Ogawa’s “Bhartrhari on Three Types of Linguistic Unit-Meaning Relations”, and Yoichi Iwasaki’s “Semantics of Navya-Nyaya”, CAPE (Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics) Workshop: Collaboration of Philosophy and Indian Studies—Aspects of Philosophy of Language, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, August 3.
• 2003
  • On Guy Rohrbaugh and Louis deRosset’s “A New Route to the Necessity of Origin”, Northwestern Philosophy Conference, Reed College, OR., October 3.
  • On Andrew Egan's "Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties", Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 4, Bellingham, WA.
• 2002
  • On Laura Schroeter's "Gruesome Diagonals", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 28, Seattle, WA.
• 1997
  • On Nathan Salmon’s "Tense and Intension", The International Conference on Time, Tense, & Reference, April 12, Santa Barbara, CA.
• 1993
  • On Stephen Schiffer's "The Language-of-Thought Relation and Its Implications", The Thirty-First Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, April 17, Oberlin, OH.
• 1988
  • On Robert A. Foreman's "Turing Testing Searle's Chinese Room", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 24, Portland, OR.
• 1987
  • On James K. Swindler's "Putnam's Demon", The American Philosophical Association Central Division Annual Meeting, May, 1, Chicago.
• 1986
  • On Thomas C. Ryckman's "On Saying What We Say Because We Believe What We say", The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meeting, December 29, Boston.

• 2012
  • Hud Hudson, “Transhypertime Identity”, The 1st Annual California Metaphysics Conference, on Persistence, the University of Southern California, January 20-22.
• 2005
  • An Author-Meets-Critics session on Crawford Elder’s book, Real Natures and Familiar Objects, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25.
  • An Author-Meets-Critics session on Ernest Lepore and Herman Capellan’s book, Minimal Semantics, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 26.
• 2004
  • An Author-Meets-Critics session on Scott Soames’s book, Beyond Rigidity, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25.
• 2001
  • A session on mental causation, and a session on personal identity, Bled Conference: Metaphysics, Bled, Slovenia, June 6 and 9.
• 1999
  • A session on epistemology, The American Philosophical Association Central Division Annual Meeting, May 8.
• 1995
  • An Author-Meets-Critics session on Jaegwon Kim's Mind and Supervenience, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, April 1.
• 1994
  • Four sessions, The Karlovy Vary Philosophical Symposium on Reference, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, June 23.
• 1993
  • An Author-Meets-Critics session on Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore's Holism: A Shopper's Guide, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 29.
• 1992
  • An Author-Meets-Critics session on Graeme Forbes' Languages of Possibility, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 30.
• 1990
  • Three sessions on metaphysics, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 30.
• 1988
  • Two sessions on metaphysics, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25.

• 2016
  • Collaborative Research Fellowship, Kyoto University, summer, winter.
  • Preeminent Scholarly Publication Award, California State University, Northridge.
• 2015
  • Collaborative Research Fellowship, Kyoto University, summer, winter.
  • Faculty Fellowship, College of Humanities, California State University, Northridge.
• 2012
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Invitation Fellowship for Research (long-term), hosted by Yasuo Deguchi at Kyoto University, April - August.
  • "Award of Merit: for Excellence in Academics and Outstanding Mentorship", by the California State University, Northridge Philosophy Student Body.
• 2004
  • Faculty Fellowship, College of Humanities, California State University, Northridge.
• 2001
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 1999
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 1993
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the Nature of Meaning by Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore, Rutgers University.
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 1992
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Meaning Holism by Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore, Rutgers University.
• 1990
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.
  • Summer Fellowship, California State University, Northridge.
• 1989
  • Affirmative Action Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Northridge.
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 1988
  • Affirmative Action Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Northridge.
  • Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, California State University, Northridge.
• 1987
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 1983-84
  • Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Cincinnati.
• 1983
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Philosophical Implications of Cognitive Science by Stephen P. Stich, University of Maryland.
• 1977-81
  • Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University.
• 1976
  • Dawes Hicks Award, University College, London.

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