PAGE 1 of 12 CURRICULUM VITAE GRACIELA DE PIERRIS Department of Philosophy Building 90 Stanford University Stanford, California 94305 EDUCATION Profesora en Filosofía (roughly equivalent to a B.A.), and Graduada del Grupo de Lógica y Epistemología (roughly equivalent to an A.B.D.). Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Frank Church Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley, during graduate studies for the Ph.D. Ph.D. in Philosophy. University of California, Berkeley, December 1983. Dissertation: A Priori Knowledge. EMPLOYMENT Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Assistant Professor, 1984-1988. Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Visiting Assistant Professor, Winter 1986. Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Assistant Professor, Fall 1988-Spring 1994. Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Tenured Associate Professor, Spring-Summer 1994. Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Tenured Associate Professor, Fall 1994-Summer 2002. Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Untenured Associate Professor, Fall 2002-Spring 2010, and Tenured Associate Professor Fall 2010-
PAGE 2 of 12 PUBLICATIONS BOOK Ideas, Evidence, and Method: Hume s Skepticism and Naturalism concerning Knowledge and Causation. Oxford University Press, Spring 2015. ARTICLES (An asterisk indicates that the article was subject to blind refereeing.) * "Necesidad como Criterio de la Aprioridad," Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 1987, pp. 33-46. * "Kant and Innatism," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 68, Nos. 3 & 4, September/December 1987, pp. 285-305. * "Frege and Kant on A Priori Knowledge," Synthese, Vol. 77, No. 3, December 1988, pp. 285-319. * "Subjective Justification," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 1989, pp. 363-382. * Critical Study of Barry Stroud's The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, Noûs, Vol. 23, No. 4, September 1989, pp. 531-543. * "The Structure of Empirical Knowledge," Diálogos, January 1991, pp. 187-199. * "The Constitutive A Priori," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 18, December 1992, pp. 179-214. Book Review of The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Paul Guyer, Ethics, April 1994. * "Wittgenstein y el Escepticismo Filosófico," Manuscrito, Vol. 18, No. 2, October 1995, pp. 245-274. * "Philosophical Scepticism in Wittgenstein's On Certainty," in Scepticism in the History of Philosophy, ed. Richard H. Popkin, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 181-196. * Naturalismo y la Autonomía del Pensamiento Filosófico: La Epistemología Naturalista de Quine en relación a la Epistemología Tradicional, Análisis Filosófico, Vol. XIX, No. 1, May 1999, pp. 5-30. * Hume s Pyrrhonian Skepticism and the Belief in Causal Laws, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, July 2001, pp. 351-383.
PAGE 3 of 12 * Geometry in the Metaphysical Exposition, in Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung, Band 2, ed. Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, and Ralph Schumacher, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, pp. 197-204. * Causation as a Philosophical Relation in Hume, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXIV, No. 3, May 2002, pp. 499-545. * A Fundamental Ambiguity in the Cartesian Theory of Ideas: Descartes and Leibniz on Intellectual Apprehension, Manuscrito, Vol. XXV, No. 2, October 2002, pp. 105-146. (Selected in 2008 as one of the fifteen best papers published during the thirty years of existence of the journal Manuscrito; to appear together with the other fourteen in a forthcoming anniversary issue.) * Quine s Historical Argument for Epistemology Naturalized, in The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism: Re-Evaluation and Future Perspectives of the Research and Historiography, ed. Friedrich Stadler, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 189-201. * Hume and Descartes on Skepticism with Regard to Demonstrative Reasoning, Análisis Filosófico, Vol. XXV, No. 2, November 2005, pp. 101-119. * Hume and Locke on Scientific Methodology: The Newtonian Legacy, Hume Studies, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, November 2006, pp. 277-329. * Kant and Hume on Causality (with Michael Friedman), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2008. (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-hume-causality/). * Newton, Locke, and Hume, in Interpreting Newton. Critical Essays, ed. Andrew Janiak, et al., Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 257-279. * Hume on Space, Geometry, and Diagrammatic Reasoning, Synthese, Vol. 186, Issue I, 2012, pp. 169-189. Hume's Phenomenological Conception of Space, Time and Mathematics, in Reference, Rationality, and Phenomenology: Themes from Follesdal, ed. Michael Frauchinger, Ontos Verlag, 2013, pp. 107-119. Hume s Skepticism and Inductivism concerning Space and Geometry, in Mathematizing Space: The Objects of Geometry from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age, ed. Vincenzo De Risi, Basel-Boston-Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2015. WORK IN PROGRESS Edition of a volume in a series on the History of Philosophical Concepts published by Oxford University Press (General Editor: Christia Mercer, Columbia University).
PAGE 4 of 12 Hume, Kant, and the Metaphysical Tradition. This is a project to result in a monograph, series of papers, or book. PRESENTATIONS AT COLLOQUIA AND CONFERENCES "Teorías causales del conocimiento," Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1980. "Kripke and Dummett on Necessity and Apriority," Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1981. "Kant's Criterion Revisited," Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, November 1982; and Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1984. "Necessity as a Criterion of Apriority," Indiana University, Bloomington, February 1983. "Frege and A Priori Knowledge," Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1984; Centro de Lógica, Campinas, San Pablo, Brasil, August 1984; and Indiana Philosophical Association, South Bend, Indiana, April 1986. "Is There a Table in Front of Me?" La Casa, Latino Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1985. "El rol de la lógica en el proyecto de Frege: ciencia o filosofía?" XI Congreso Interamericano de Filosofía, Guadalajara, Mexico, November 1985. "Subjective Justification," Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, May 1986; Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1986; Boston University, November 1987; University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 1987. "La enseñanza de la filosofía," Instituto del Profesorado, Tres Arroyos, Argentina, September 1986. "Escepticismo y el conocimiento a priori," Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1986. "Objetividad en Kant y Frege," Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, October 1986. "On Having Evidence," Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, May 1987. "Kant and Psychologism," Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada, January 1988.
PAGE 5 of 12 "Philosophical Skepticism in Wittgenstein's On Certainty," Conference on Scepticism in the History of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, February 1991. "Concepts without Foundations," Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, April 1991. "The Constitutive A Priori," University of Illinois at Chicago, February 1992. "Causality in Hume s Treatise," Notre Dame University, October 1993; Arizona State University, March 1994; Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1994. Internalism and Objective Justification, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, March 1996. Hume s Two Definitions of Cause, Twenty-Third International Hume Society Conference (in collaboration with The British Society for the History of Philosophy), University of Nottingham, England, July 1996. Hume s Pyrrhonian Skepticism and the Belief in Causal Laws, Indiana Philosophical Association, March 1997. Naturalism and Skepticism in Hume: Opposing Interpretations and a New Solution, Intellectual History Group, Bloomington, Indiana, April 1997. Causality as a Philosophical Relation in Hume, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Pittsburgh, May 1997. Hume s Pyrrhonian Skepticism and the Belief in Causal Laws, Twenty-Fourth International Hume Society Conference, Monterey, California, July-August 1997. Naturalismo y la autonomía del pensamiento filosófico: la epistemología naturalista de Quine en relación a la epistemología tradicional, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1997. Escepticismo y las leyes causales de la naturaleza en Hume, IX Congreso Nacional de Filosofía, Asociación Filosófica Argentina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, October 1997. Causal Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume s Enquiry, Pacific Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Berkeley, April 1999; Department of Philosophy, John Hopkins University, April 1999. Quine s Historical Argument for Epistemology Naturalized, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, October 1999.
PAGE 6 of 12 Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume s Epistemology, Eighteenth Century Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 1999; Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, December 1999. Geometry in the Metaphysical Exposition, Ninth International Kant Congress, Berlin, Germany, March 2000. Hume on Causal Inference and Causal Necessity, Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, New York, December 2000. Quine s Historical Argument for Epistemology Naturalized, The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism: Re-Evaluation and Future Perspectives of the Research and Historiography, International Symposium on the occasion of the 10 th anniversary of the Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna, July 2001. Hume on Causal Inference and Causal Necessity, Twenty-Eighth International Hume Society Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, July 2001. Testimony and Laws of Nature in Hume and Locke, Twenty-Eighth International Hume Society Conference, (Four member panel discussion on Hume s remark: A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence ), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, July 2001. El rol de la geometría en la Exposición Metafísica de la Noción de Espacio (I. Kant, Crítica de la Razón Pura, A 22-25 / B 37-40), Conference in Honor of Roberto Torreti, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2001. One of three members in Panel Discussion on Roberto Torreti s Work on Kant, Conference in Honor of Roberto Torreti, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2001. A Fundamental Ambiguity in the Cartesian Theory of Ideas: Descartes and Leibniz on Intellectual Apprehension, The Midwest Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy and Centre D Études Cartésiennes (Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne), Spring Meeting at the University of Chicago, May 2002. Comments on Timothy Black s Hume s Epistemological Compatibilism, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2003. Hume on Laws of Nature and Causal Necessity, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, April 2003. Hume sobre leyes naturales y necesidad causal, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2003. Hume y Locke sobre la metodología de la ciencia, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires Argentina, December 2003.
PAGE 7 of 12 Hume and Locke on Testimony, Laws of Nature, and Scientific Methodology, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 2004. Las reflexiones de Quine sobre Hume. Sus clases de 1946, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2004. Hume and Locke on Scientific Methodology, Thirty-First International Hume Society Conference, Tokyo, Japan, August 2004. Hume sobre el espacio y la geometría: los comentarios de Quine, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2004. Hume, the Mechanical Philosophy, and the Idea of Necessity, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2005. Hume and Descartes on Skepticism with Regard to Demonstrative Reasoning, Thirty- Second International Hume Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 2005. Hume and Locke on Scientific Methodology: The Newtonian Legacy, History and Philosophy of Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 2005. Hume sobre el espacio, el tiempo, y la matemática, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2005. Hume's Phenomenological Conception of Space, Time and Mathematics, Conference in honor of Dagfinn Follesdal, on the occasion of receiving the Lauener Award, Bern, Switzerland, June 2006. Comments on Eric Schliesser s Causation, Newton, and the Significance of the Humean distinction between Natural and Philosophical Relations, Thirty-Third International Hume Society Conference, Koblenz, Germany, August 2006. Locke, Newton, y Hume, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2006. Hume and Locke on Scientific Methodology: The Newtonian Legacy, Center for Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Japan, March 2007. Newton, Locke, Hume and Scientific Methodology, Conference on Newton and/as Philosophy, Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 2007. Hume on Space, Time and Mathematics, The Southwestern Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, San Francisco, February 2008. Hume on Space and Geometry, Group Meeting of the Hume Society, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Pasadena, March 2008.
PAGE 8 of 12 Hume on Space, Diagrams, Geometry, and Arithmetic, Paris-Stanford Conference on Diagrammatic Reasoning, Paris, France, October 2008. Hume on Space and Mathematics, Philosophy Department, University of California, Davis, October 2008. La concepción de Hume sobre la geometría como una ciencia inexacta, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2008. Hume s Notion of (Inductive) Proof, Thirty-Sixth International Hume Society Conference, Halifax, Canada, August 2009. Dos Modelos de Conocimiento A Priori y Certeza, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2009. Newton, Locke, and Hume, University of Athens, Greece, December 2009. Hume on Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, February 2010. Hume s Scientific Methodology and Religion, San Francisco State University, March 2010. Intelligible Causes, Conceivability, and Causal Necessity, Thirty-Seventh International Hume Society Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, July 2010. Hume on Geometry and Diagrammatic Reasoning, University of Munich, Germany, July 2011. Hume on Space and Geometry, University of Southern California, October 2011. Hume and Kant on Causality and Induction, University of Campinas, Brazil, December 2011. Hume, Kant, y la Tradición Metafísica, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2011. Hume on Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, May 2012. Hume on Geometry and Diagrammatic Reasoning, Max Plank Institute, Berlin, Germany, August 2012. Stroud on Carnap, Panel presentation at Workshop on Carnap and Kuhn: A Reappraisal, University of Pittsburgh, October 2012. Hume, Kant, y la Tradicion Metafisica: Part II, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2012.
PAGE 9 of 12 Hume s Account of the Idea of Necessary Connection, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2013. Hume, Kant, and the Metaphysical Tradition, Stanford Humanities Center, April 2013. Comments on John P. Wright s Pyrrhonian Scepticism in Hume s Theory of Space, Fortieth International Hume Society Conference, Brazil, July 2013. Keynote Speaker at Conference on Topics in Early Modern Philosophy at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, October-November 2013. Hume s Skepticism and Inductivism concerning Space and Geometry, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, November 2013. Recent Responses to Radical Skepticism, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 2014. Kant s Humean and Newtonian Rejection of Causal Powers, Panel presentation at Workshop on Kant and the Laws of Nature, Cambridge University, June 2014. Keynote Speaker at Second Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice, Singapore, August 2014. PARTICIPATION AT CONFERENCES "Los Fundamentos Éticos de la Nueva Democracia Argentina" ("The Ethical Foundations of the New Argentinean Democracy"), Conference organized by the Ministerio de Derechos Humanos de Argentina and the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1986. Participant at conference on Science and Subjectivity, Munich, Germany, July 1990. Chairperson at session on Kant s Transcendental Idealism, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 1995. Participant at conference on Models of Critique in Science, Society, and the Arts, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel, May 1996. Discussant in sessions on Filosofía Teórica, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1997. Panel Chairperson at IX Congreso Nacional de Filosofía, Asociación Filosófica Argentina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, October-November 1997.
PAGE 10 of 12 Chairperson of two sessions at Conference on Kant and the Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, March 1998. Participant at Conference on Kant and the Exact Sciences, Oslo, Norway, November 1998. Participant at Conference on Kantian Themes in Contemporary Philosophy of Science, University of Göttingen, Germany, June 1999. Chairperson of a session on Hume, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 2000. Participant at IX. Internationaler Kant-Kongress, Berlin, Germany, March 2000. Participant at Conference on Early Modern Philosophy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 2000. Participant at Conference sponsored by the History of the Philosophy of Science Society and the Vienna Kreis, Vienna, Austria, July 2000. Participant at Conference on Kant and the Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, March 2001. Participant at Conference on The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism: Re-Evaluation and Future Perspectives of the Research and Historiography, International Symposium on the occasion of the 10 th anniversary of the Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna, Austria, July 2001. Participant at Conference on The Future of Analytic Philosophy, at the Einstein Forum, Berlin, Germany, June 2002. Participant at Conference on Philosophy As..., London, U.K., November 2002. Chairperson of a session of the North American Kant Society on Kant s Theoretical Philosophy, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2003. Participant at Conference on Is there value in Inconsistency? Lake Como, Italy, August 2003. Participant at Conference on Les Mathématiques et L Expérience (1918-1938), Collége de France, Paris, France, May 2004. Chairperson of a session and discussant at a Conference on Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge, University of South Carolina, November 2004.
PAGE 11 of 12 Chairperson of a special session of Hispanics for Philosophy on The Future of Analytic Philosophy in Latin America, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, March 2005. Discussant in panel on Relativized A Priori, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2005. Chairperson of a session on Hume s Theory of Knowledge, Thirty-Third International Hume Conference, Koblenz, Germany, August 2006. Participant at a Conference on Historical Epistemology, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, July 2008. Chairperson of a session on Descartes at the Conference on Skepticism, Department of Philosophy, New York University, November 2008. Participant at a Conference on The Relations Between History and Philosophy of Science, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, May 2009. Participant at a Conference on Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism, Institute Vienna Circle, Vienna, June 2010. Participant at a Conference on the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of the History and Philosophy of Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, and the meetings of the &HPS, September 2010. Participant (as an editor in charge of a volume) at the meetings of the Oxford Philosophical Concepts project of Oxford University Press, Columbia University, December 2010. Participant at Conference on A Post-Kuhnian Approach to History and Philosophy of Science, Konstanz, Germany, May 2011. Participant at Conference on The Work of Michael Friedman, Bielefeld, Germany, June 2011. Participant at Bristol Conference in the History and Philosophy of Science, Bristol University, July 2011. Discussant in panel on Carnap and Kuhn: A Reappraisal, University of Pittsburgh, October 2012. Chairperson of a session on Kant on Particular Causal Laws, North American Kant Society Second Biennial Conference, Cornell University, June 2013. Discussant at Conference on The Mechanization of Geometry: From Antiquity to the Modern Age, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, June 2014.
PAGE 12 of 12 COURSES TAUGHT Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Critical Thinking, Philosophical Methods (intensive writing), Introduction to Ethics, Stanford Freshman Seminar on Skepticism. Advanced undergraduate courses on Theory of Knowledge, History of Modern Philosophy (including Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, and Locke, Berkeley, Hume), Descartes s Meditations, Hume s Epistemology, Hume s Ethics, Kant s First Critique, Kant s Theoretical Philosophy, Origins of Empiricism, Skepticism and A Priori Knowledge, Frege, Philosophy of Language. Graduate seminars on several topics in Epistemology, Kant, Hume, Locke, Berkeley, Frege, Quine, Metaphysics -- including, for example, Epistemology in Frege, Skepticism and A Priori Knowledge, Hume and Kant on Knowledge and Causality, Locke, Hume, and Berkeley, Kantian Approaches in Contemporary Epistemology. Dissertation Development Seminar for Third Year Ph.D. Students. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Philosophical Association; Committee of the American Philosophical Association for Hispanics in Philosophy; North American Kant Society; Hume Society; Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico. Miembro Associado del Consejo de Dirección de Análisis Filosófico (journal published by the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico). REFEREEING Análisis Filosófico; Archive für Geschichte der Philosophie; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Hume Society Conferences, Hume Studies, Journal of Philosophical Logic; Manuscrito; Noûs; Southern Journal of Philosophy, Oxford University Press.