Curriculum Vitae Name: Gary Sol Rosenkrantz Address: Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 216 Foust, 1010 Administration Drive, Greensboro, North Carolina 27412 Telephone: (336) 334-4322 Areas of Specialization: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion. Other Areas of Interest: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and History of Philosophy. Education: The Bronx High School of Science, Diploma, June 1968; The City College of New York, B.A. in Philosophy, June 1972; Brown University, Ph.D. in Philosophy, June, 1976. Dissertation: Individual Essences. References: Peter Simons, (University of Leeds) E. J. Lowe (University of Durham), Barry Smith (University of Buffalo), William Rowe (Purdue University), Ernest Sosa (Brown University). Employment History: Teaching Assistant, Brown University, 1973-1975; Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1976-1981; Associate Professor of Philosophy with permanent tenure, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1981-1994; Professor of Philosophy, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1994-present. Head, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2000-present. Professional Service: Member of the Board of Editors of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1997-present); Member of the Eastern Division APA Advisory Committee to the Program Committee (1997-2000); reviewer for scholarly presses, including Cornell University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press; also have refereed for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal of Philosophy of Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy Research Archives,and Synthese. Consultant to Philosophy Documentation Center. Selected Recent University Service Activities: Summer Excellence Awards Review Committee (1989), Chair, Summer Excellence Awards Review Committee (1990), Instructional Area Committee for Historical Perspectives and Western Culture (1991), University Faculty Senate (1995-2001), University Committee on Academic Computing (1996-99), Promotion and Tenure Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences (1996-1997), Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences (1998-1999), Chair, University Promotions and Tenure Guidelines Committee (1998-99), The Chancellor s Tuition Study Task Force (2000-present),
Administrative Council, College of Arts and Sciences (2000-present), Chair, University Faculty Government Committee (2002-2004), Parliamentarian, University Faculty Senate (2003-2004), 22 Chair-elect, University Faculty Senate (2004-2005), Chair, University Faculty Senate (2005-2006), Chair, University Committee on Promotions and Tenure (2006), Past-Chair, University Faculty Senate (2006-2007). Articles "Omnipotence and Conjunctive States of Affairs", Philosophy Research Archives, 4 (1978), pp. 348-359, with Joshua Hoffman. "Cognition and Identifying Reference", Auslegung, 6 (1978), pp. 51-64. "Haecceities and Perceptual Identification", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 9 (1979), pp.107-119. "On Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom", Philosophical Studies, 37 (1980), pp. 289-296, with Joshua Hoffman. "What An Omnipotent Agent Can Do", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 11(1980), pp. 1-19, with Joshua Hoffman. "The Pure and the Impure", Logique et Analyse, 88 (1979), pp. 515-523. "The Omnipotence Paradox, Modality, and Time", The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 18 (1980), pp. 473-479, with Joshua Hoffman. "Some Reflections on Perception and A Priori Knowledge", Philosophical Studies, 40 (1981), pp. 355-362. Preface to Current Issues in Epistemology, symposium in Philosophical Studies, 40 (1981), p. 308. "The Nature of Geometry", American Philosophical Quarterly, 18 (1981), pp. 101-110. "Mental Events: An Epistemic Analysis", Philosophia, 12 (1983), pp. 307-321, with Arnold Levison.
"Swinburne on Omnipotence", Sophia, 23 (1984), pp. 36-40, with Joshua Hoffman. 33 "Hard and Soft Facts", The Philosophical Review 93 (1984), pp. 419-434, with Joshua Hoffman. (Reprinted in J. Fischer, God, Foreknowledge, and Freedom (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984) "Acquaintance", Philosophia, 14 (1984), pp. 1-23. "Nonexistent Possibles and Their Individuation", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 22 (1984),pp. 127-147. Critical Notice: God and Skepticism by Terence Penelhum, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 47 (1986), pp. 168-173. "Necessity, Contingency, and Mann", Faith and Philosophy, 2 (1985), pp. 457-463. "On Objects Totally Out of This World", Grazer Philosophische Studien, 25/26 (1985/1986), pp. 197-208. [Reprinted in R. Haller (Ed.), Nonexistence and Predication (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986)]. Introduction to Philosophy (Emphasizing Epistemology). In M. A. Clay (Ed.), Teaching Theory of Knowledge (Florida: The Council for Philosophical Studies, 1986), pp. 65-73, with Joshua Hoffman. "Omnipotence Redux", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59 (1988), pp. 283-301, with Joshua Hoffman. Symposium on Thought and Reference (Edited with an Introduction.), Philosophical Studies, 58 (1990). "Reference, Intentionality, and Nonexistent Entities", Philosophical Studies, 58 (1990), pp.165-171. "The Independence Criterion of Substance", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 51 (1991), pp. 835-853, with Joshua Hoffman. [Reprinted in S. Hales (Ed.), Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings (Jones and Bartlett Publishing Company, 1999)and Michael Tooley (Ed.) Analytical Metaphysics, Vol. 4 (New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1999)] "Are Souls Unintelligible?" Philosophical Perspectives, 5 (1991), pp. 183-212, with Joshua Hoffman. Critical Notice: The Nature of God: An Inquiry into Divine Attributes by Edward Wierenga,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 51 (1991), pp. 725-728. Critical Notice: The Immaterial Self by John Foster, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 54 (1994), pp. 489-491. J. Rudner Boscovich. In R. Audi (Ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 84, with Joshua Hoffman. [Second Edition, 1999] Mereology. In R. Audi (Ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 483, with Joshua Hoffman. [Second Edition, 1999] Concrete/Abstract. In J. Kim and E. Sosa (Eds.), Companion to Metaphysics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995), pp. 90-92. Revised version forthcoming in Kim, Sosa, and Rosenkrantz, (Eds.) Companion to Metaphysics, Second Edition (Blackwell, under contract). Roderick Chisholm. In J. Kim and E. Sosa (Eds.), Companion to Metaphysics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995), pp. 85-86. Revised version forthcoming in Kim, Sosa, and Rosenkrantz, (Eds.) Symposium on Kinds and Categories (Edited with an Introduction), Philosophical Papers, 26 (1997). 44 Omnipotence. In P. Quinn and C. Taliaferro (Eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1997), with Joshua Hoffman. (New version in preparation for the second edition of A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion.) "On the Unity of Compound Things: Living and Nonliving", Ratio, Vol. XI, December 1998, No. 3. pp. 289-315, with Joshua Hoffman. [Reprinted in D. Oderberg (Ed.), Form & Matter: Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1999)]. "The Science of Being", Erkenntnis, 48 (1998), pp. 251-255. Omnipotence. In E. Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1999), with Joshua Hoffman. Review of A Realistic Theory of Categories: An Essay in Ontology by Roderick Chisholm, The Philosophical Review 107 (1998), pp. 650-653. Organism. In R. Audi (Ed.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), with Joshua Hoffman
Life. In R. Audi (Ed.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), with Joshua Hoffman Perdurance. In R. Audi (Ed.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), with Joshua Hoffman 55 What is Life? In Tian Yu Cao (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy Vol. 10: Philosophy of Science, (Bowling Green, O.: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2001),pp. 125-134. Platonistic Theories of Universals. In M. Loux and D. Zimmerman (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 46-74, with Joshua Hoffman. Review Article: The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time by E. J. Lowe, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXV, No. 2 (2002), pp. 728-736. Reflections on the Ontological Status of Persons, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXIV, No. 3 (2002), pp. 389-393. Omnipotence. In Edward N. Zalta (Ed.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (05/21/2002, revised 06/26/2006), http://plato.stanford.edu, with Joshua Hoffman. Review of From An Ontological Point of View by John Heil, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2004), http://ndpr.nd.edu/ review.cfm?id=4942 An Epistemic Argument for Enduring Human Persons, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXX, No. 1 (2005), pp. 209-224. Review of Analytic Philosophy of Religion by James Harris, Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2005), pp. 377-380, with Joshua Hoffman. Review of Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion by J. L. Schellenberg, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2006), http://ndpr.nd.edu/review/cfm?id=6884 How to Analyze Substance: A Reply to Schneider, Ratio, 20 (2007), pages 130-141, with Joshua Hoffman. God. With Joshua Hoffman. Forthcoming in Kim, Sosa, and Rosenkrantz (Eds.) Companion to
66 Metaphysics, Second Edition (Blackwell, under contract). Substance. With Joshua Hoffman. Forthcoming in Kim, Sosa, and Rosenkrantz (Eds.) Companion to Metaphysics, Second Edition (Blackwell, under contract). Omnipotence. With Joshua Hoffman. In Chad. V. Meister (Ed.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion (London: Routledge, 2007). Omnipotence. With Joshua Hoffman. In Chad. V. Meister (Ed.), The Philosophy of Religion Reader (London: Routledge, 2007). (This is a reprint of Chapter 8 of The Divine Attributes, see below.)
77 Books 1. Haecceity: An Ontological Essay (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993). 2. Substance Among Other Categories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), with Joshua Hoffman. 3. Substance: Its Nature and Existence (London: Routledge, 1997), with Joshua Hoffman. 4. The Divine Attributes (London: Blackwell, 2002), with Joshua Hoffman. 5. Companion to Metaphysics, Second Edition (Blackwell, under contract), with Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa. 6. Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics (Scarecrow Press, under contract), with Joshua Hoffman.