Marian David Institut für Philosophie Heinrichstrasse 26/5 (316) 380 2297 Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (316) 380 2304 8010 Graz, Austria marian.david@uni-graz.at Areas of Specialization Philosophy of Language (Philosophy of Mind/Language, esp. Theories of Truth and Content); Epistemology. Areas of Competence History of Modern Philosophy; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Logic; History of Analytic Philosophy. Education Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria: 1980/81-85. Diploma: Philosophy (Dec. 1984); Linguistics (April 1985). Magister Philosophiae in Philosophy (May 1985); thesis directed by Prof. Rudolf Haller, University of Graz. Research Assistant: Research project for a bibliography of Austrian Philosophy at the Forschungsstelle Graz (1983-84). Research project on the posthumous writings of Ernst Mally at the Dokumentationszentrum für Österreichische Philosophie in Graz (1984-85). University of Colorado, Boulder: 1985/86. University of Arizona, Tucson: 1986/87-1989/90. Ph.D. in Philosophy (August 1990); thesis directed by Vann McGee and Keith Lehrer, Univ. of Arizona. Employment 1985 1986: Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado 1986 1989: Graduate Instructor, University of Arizona 1990 1996: Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame 1996 2003: Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame SS 1999: Visiting Associate Professor, University of New Orleans 2003 2012: Full Professor, University of Notre Dame 2012 Universitäts-Professor: Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Philosophie, Department of Philosophy, Karl- Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria 2013 Department Chair: Department of Philosophy, Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz Chairman of the association: Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für österreichische Philosophie. Member of the American Philosophical Association. Publications Correspondence and Disquotation: An Essay on the Nature of Truth, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994. Chapter 2 reprinted in Steven D. Hales, ed., Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, Wadsworth Publishing Company 1999: 176-94. Co-Editor of Grazer Philosophische Studien, an international journal for analytic philosophy, published in the Netherlands by Editions Rodopi. Co-editor since January 2000, with Johannes Brandl (Universität Salzburg), Maria Reicher (Aachen University), and Leopold Stubenberg (Notre Dame). Co-Editor of Meinong Studien/Meinong Studies, published by Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. Co-editor since 2013, with Mauro Antonelli (Università di Milano Bicocca). Guest editor of Definitions: Philosophical Studies 72 (1993). Co-editor (with Leopold Stubenberg) of Philosophische Aufsätze zu Ehren von Roderick M. Chisholm [Philosophical Essays in Honor of Roderick M. Chisholm], Amsterdam: Rodopi 1986. *** The Correspondence Theory of Truth. In E. N. Zalta, ed., The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015 (first version 2002; second version 2005; third version 2009): URL=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence. Russian translation (2005 version) in Episteme 5, Yekaterinburg: Ural State Univ. Publishing 2007: 147 77. Spanish translation (2002 version): La teoria de la verdad como correspondencia. Discusiones Filosoficas 5 (2004): 165 90. Lynch s Functionalist Theory of Truth. In N. Pedersen and C. Wright, eds., Truth and Pluralism, Oxford: Oxford 1
University Press 2013: 42 68. How To Take Truth as a Goal? In C. Jäger and W. Löffler, eds., Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreements; Proceedings of the 34 th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag 2012: 203 214. Lehrer on Trustworthiness and Acceptance. In Philosophical Studies 161 (2012): 7 15. The Correspondence Theory of Truth. In E. N. Zalta, ed., The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009 (first version 2002; second version 2005): URL=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-correspondence. Russian translation (2005 version) in Episteme 5, Yekaterinburg: Ural State Univ. Publishing 2007: 147 77. Spanish translation (2002 version): La teoria de la verdad como correspondencia. Discusiones Filosoficas 5 (2004): 165 90. Defending Existentialism? In Maria Reicher, ed., States of Affairs, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag 2009: 167 208. Truth-Making and Correspondence. In E. J. Lowe and A. Rami, eds., Truth and Truth-Making, Stocksfield: Acumen/Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2009: 137 57. Knowledge-Closure and Skepticism. With Ted Warfield. In Q. Smith, ed., Epistemology: New Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008: 137 87. Quine s Ladder: Two and a Half Pages from the Philosophy of Logic. In French, Uehling, Wettstein, eds., Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (2008): 274 312. Tarski s Convention T and the Concept of Truth. In New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy, ed. by Douglas Patterson, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2008: 133 57. A Substitutional Theory of Truth? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (2006): 182 95. Horwich s World. In P. Greenough and M. P. Lynch, eds., Truth and Realism, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2006: 203 7. Armstrong On Truthmaking. In H. Beebe and J. Dodd, eds., Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2005: 141 59. On Truth is Good. In Philosophical Books 46 (2005): 292 301. Some T-Biconditionals. In B. Armour-Garb and J.C. Beall, eds., Deflationary Truth, Chicago: Open Court 2005: 382 419. Truth as the Primary Epistemic Goal: A Working Hypothesis. In M. Steup and E. Sosa, eds., Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Oxford: Blackwell 2005: 296 312. Second edition, 2013. Theories of Truth. In I. Niiniluoto, M. Sintonen, and J. Wolenski, eds., Handbook of Epistemology, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004: 331 414. Don t Forget About the Correspondence Theory of Truth. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (2004): 42 47. Reprinted in F. Jackson and G. Priest, eds., Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2004: 43 8. Content Essentialism. Acta Analytica 17 (2002): 103 114. Truth and Identity. In J. K. Campbell, M. O Rourke, and D. Shier, eds., Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics, New York London: Seven Bridges Press 2002: 124 41. Minimalism and the Facts about Truth. In Richard Schantz, ed., What is Truth?, Berlin & New York: Walter De Gruyter 2002: 161 75. Truth as Identity and Truth as Correspondence. In Michael P. Lynch, ed., The Nature of Truth: From the Classic to the Contemporary, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2001: 683 704. Truth as the Epistemic Goal. In Matthias Steup, ed., Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001: 151 69. Kim s Functionalism. In J. E. Tomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives 11: Mind, Causation, and World, Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1997: 133 48. Two Conceptions of the Synthetic A Priori. In Lewis E. Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm (The Library of Living Philosophers, vol. 25), Chicago: Open Court 1997: 629 51. Analyticity, Carnap, Quine, and Truth. In J. E. Tomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives 10: Metaphysics, Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1996: 281 96. 2
Reprinted in K. Lehrer and J. C. Marek, eds., Austrian Philosophy Past and Present, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997: 203 19. On the Roles of Trustworthiness and Acceptance. In J. Brandl, W. L. Gombocz und C. Piller, eds., Metamind, Knowledge and Coherence: Essays on the Philosophy of Keith Lehrer, Amsterdam: Rodopi 1991: 93 107. Neither Mentioning Brains in a Vat Nor Mentioning Brains in a Vat Will Prove That We Are Not Brains in a Vat. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1991): 891 96. Common Sense und Außenwelt [Common Sense and External World]. In W. L. Gombocz, H. Rutte, W. Sauer, eds., Traditionen und Perspektiven der Analytischen Philosophy: Festschrift für Rudolf Haller [Traditions and Perspectives of Analytical Philosophy: In Honor of Rudolf Haller], Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempski 1989: 272 83. Truth, Eliminativism, and Disquotationalism. Noûs 23 (1989): 599 614. Das Problem des Kriteriums und der Common Sense [The Problem of the Criterion and Common Sense]. In M. David and L Stubenberg, eds., Philosophische Aufsätze zu Ehren von Roderick M. Chisholm, Amsterdam: Rodopi 1986: 3 16. Non-Existence and Reid s Conception of Conceiving. In R. Haller, ed., Non-Existence and Predication, Amsterdam: Rodopi 1985: 585 99. Propositionen [Propositions]. Grazer Philosophische Studien 23 (1985): 38 58. *** Review of Truth as One and Many by Michael P. Lynch (Oxford 2009), in Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (2011): 743 6. Review of From a Deflationary Point of View by Paul Horwich (Oxford 2004), in Mind 116 (2007): 427 34. Künne on Conceptions of Truth. Review essay of W. Künne s, Conceptions of Truth (Oxford 2003), in Grazer Philosophische Studien 70 (2005): 179 91. Review of Veritas: The Correspondence Theory and Its Critics by Gerald Vision (MIT Press 2004), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005. Review of Truth: A Primer by Frederick F. Schmitt (Westview 1995), in Philosophcial Review 106 (1997): 441 43. Review Essay on Working Without a Net: A Study of Egocentric Epistemology by Richard Foley (Oxford 1993), in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (1996): 943 52. Critical Notice of Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics: The Philosophy and Theory of Language of Anton Marty (K. Mulligan, ed., Kluwer 1990), in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1993): 229 32. Introduction to Definitions: Philosophical Studies 72 (1993): 111 14. Critical Notice of Zeichen und Bezeichnetes: Sprachphilosophische Untersuchungen zum Problem der Referenz by Edmund Runggaldier (Walter de Gruyter 1985), in Philosophy and History 21 (1988): 31 34. Critical Notice of The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege by Eike-Henner W. Kluge (Martinus Nijhoff 1980), in Grazer Philosophische Studien 21 (1984): 210 12. Forthcoming The Correspondence Theory of Truth. In Oxford Handbook of Truth, M. Glanzberg, ed., Oxford University Press. In Preparation One Skeptical Argument; co-authored with Ted Warfield, under contract with Oxford Univ. Press. Presentations The Idealist Master Argument, at the 10 th Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy, Innsbruck, Austria, June 5, 2015. Relativismus und Kontextualismus, invited talk at the workshop Epistemischer Relativismus und Dissens, Department of Philosophy, Technische Universität Dresden, May 15 17, 2015. Unglück einige empirische Resultate, invited lecture for Ringvorlesung: Glück, Gerechtigkeit und gutes Leben, Department of Philosophy, University of Graz, November 20, 2014. Analytisch Synthetisch; A priori A posteriori, invited talk at lecture series Kant Kennenlernen, organized by the Studienvertretung der ÖH Graz and the Department of Philosophy, University of Graz, April 10, 2014. 3
Laws of Believing, invited talk at the conference Graz Meets Maribor, Twenty Years of Philosophy Study at the University of Maribor, December 2013; Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, March 20, 2014; invited talk at the workshop Neue Perspektiven der Erkenntnistheorie II: Epistemische Standards, Werte, Ziele, Department of Philosophy, Technische Universität Dresden, May 23 25, 2014; Institut für Philosophie, Universität Salzburg, October 28, 2014; invited talk at the workshop Norm(s) of Belief: BELUX4 Colloquia in Epistemology, University of Luxembourg KU Leuven, April 24 25, 2015. Comment on Martin Holt: A Defence of Hearing Meaning in Words, invited comment at the 44 th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle, Department of Philosophy, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, June 2013. Propositional Justification First, invited talk at the Bled Philosophical Conference: Evidence, Reliability, and Group Epistemology; Bled, Slowenia, June 3 June 7, 2013. Perception and Propositional Justification, invited talk at the workshop Perception and Knowledge, Department of Philosophy, Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz, October 2012; invited talk at the 59 th Eidos Meeting, Truth, Grounding and Metaphysics, Université de Genève, Switzerland, October 2012. Perceptual Justification ; invited talk as the Kline Visiting Speaker at the University of Missouri at Columbia, April 2012. Wie nimmt man sich die Wahrheit zum Ziel? / How to Take Truth As a Goal?, at Departments of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, May 2011, and Karl Franzens University, Graz, July 2011; invited talk at the 34 th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2011; invited talk as the Kline Visiting Speaker at the University of Missouri at Columbia, April 2012. Do Propositions Have Parts?, invited talk at the Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, May 2011. Trustworthy Believers ; invited talk at Department of Philosophy, Brown University, October 2010; and at workshop: The Philosophy of Keith Lehrer, Department of Philosophy, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz, October 2010. Truth and Relative Truth ; invited talk at workshop Phloxshop III, Humboldt University at Berlin, Germany, August 2010. Relative is Absolute ; invited talk at conference on Truth and Relativism at the Universita di Torino & Universita di Bolognoa, Italy, June 2010. A Question Concerning Skepticism and the Closure of Knowledge ; invited talk at the Third Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop, St. Louis University, September 2009. Lynch s Functionalist Theory of Truth ; invited talk at a workshop, Truth: Current Debates, at the Philosophy Department, University of Connecticut, May 2009. Defending Existentialism?, at Notre Dame, Philosophy Department, Fall 2007; invited talk at conference, Perspectives on Truth, University of Nottingham, UK, January 2008; at Departments of Philosophy: University of Arkansas, April 2008; University of Göttingen, Germany, December 2008; Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria, March 2009; University of Salzburg, Austria, June 2009. Kelly on Evidence and Polarization, comment on T. Kelly at the APA, Eastern Division, Spring 2005. On Truth is Good, comments on M. Lynch s book, True to Life; author-meets-critics session at APA, Pacific Division, Spring 2005. Sosa and the Value Problem, comment on Sosa at the 16 th annual conference of the Sociedad Filosofica Ibero Americana, on Ought, January 2005. Paul s World, comment on Horwich at a conference on Truth and Realism at the University of St. Andrews, June 2004. Comment on Horisk, at the 2003 meeting of the Central States Philosophical Association. Knowledge-Closure and Skepticism, with Ted Warfield, at Notre Dame, and at the first Kline Conference at the University of Missouri, October 2003. Propositions and Facts, at the University of Salzburg, Austria, January 2003. Armstrong on Truthmaking, invited talk at a conference on Truthmakers at the University of Manchester, England, May 2002. Content Essentialism, at the Bled 2001 Conference on Metaphysics in Bled, Slovenia; at Notre Dame, and at Purdue University, Fall 2001. Comments on BonJour, at a conference in honor of Alvin Goldman, sponsored by Philosophical Topics and the University of Arizona, January 2001. Comments on Yablo, at the 13 th annual Sofia Conference on Realism and Relativism in Oaxaca, Mexico, January 2001. Truth and Identity invited talk at the Third Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, organized by the philosophy departments of the Universities of Idaho and Washington State, March 2000; invited talk at the 5 th Metaphysical Mayhem Conference at Syracuse University, August 2000. General Comments, as invited discussant at the Second Annual Rutgers Conference on Epistemology, April 2000. Truth as the Epistemic Goal, at the Bled 1999 Conference on Epistemology in Bled, Slovenia, and at Notre Dame, February 2000. Two Conceptions of the Synthetic A Priori, at Notre Dame, Spring 1997. Core Deflationism, invited talk at the 1995 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA. Kim s Functionalism at the Ernan McMullin Perspectives Series in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, 4
November 1995. Quine and Carnap on Analytic-in-L invited talk at a Conference on Austrian Philosophy at the University of Arizona, November 1994. T-Äquivalenzen und Sprechakte at the Universities of Graz and Salzburg, Austria, June 1994. Can the T-Equivalences Motivate Deflationism? invited talk at the 31st Annual Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Cincinnati, and at Notre Dame, 1994. Non-Factualism, Deflationary Truth, and the Status of Content at the University of Texas, Austin, Fall 1992. Does Truth Exist? at Notre Dame, SMU, Arizona State, and Rochester, 1991. Neither Mentioning Brains in a Vat nor... at the 1989 Central Division Meeting of the APA. Podiumsdiskussion BioTechMed-Graz Symposium. Universität Graz, Technische Universität Graz, Medizinische Universität Graz. Graz, Austria June 11, 2015. Teaching University of Notre Dame Undergraduate: Introduction to Philosophy (Supersections); Introduction to Philosophy (Regular); University Seminar; Honors Philosophy Seminar; Ways of Knowing; Ethics; History of Modern Philosophy; Formal Logic; Descartes and Locke; Epistemology; Philosophy of Language. Graduate Seminars: Epistemology; Truth, Content, and Meaning; Analyticity; Propositions, Facts, Truth, and Reality; Descartes; Philosophy of Mathematics (Workshop); Truth. University of New Orleans Introduction to Philosophy; The British Empiricists. Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz Vorlesungen/Lecture Courses: Einführung in die Erkenntnistheorie; Elementare Logik. Proseminare: Einführung in die Philosophie; Frege; Descartes s Prinzipien der Philosophie; Willard Van Orman Quine. Seminare: Wahrheit und Wahrheitsträger; Subjektiv-Objektiv-Relativ-Absolut; Philosophisches Forum Fächerübergreifendes Seminar; Foundations of Analytic Philosophy; Themen der theoretischen Philosophie; The Correspondence Theory of Truth; X-Phi Experimental Philosophy. Kaneb Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, 2005. Service Member of the APA book-prize committee (1999-2001). Member of GAP essay-prize committee (2012). Member of editorial board of the Philosophical Studies book series. Reviewed book-manuscripts for Oxford University Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, University of Pittsburgh Press, MIT Press, and Wiley-Blackwell. Referee for: Acta Analytica, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Dialectica, Dialogue, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Philosophy, Faith and Philosophy, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Mind, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Noûs, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophers Imprint, Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Polish Journal of Philosophy, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Synthese, Theoria. References Michael J. Loux University of Notre Dame Loux.1@nd.edu Paul Horwich New York University ph42@nyu.edu Ernest Sosa Brown University/Rutgers University Ernest_Sosa@Brown.edu Chris Gauker University of Cincinnati christopher.gauker@uc.edu Richard Foley New York University rf34@nyu.edu 5
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