C. ANTHONY ANDERSON Curriculum Vitae Education: Ph.D., Philosophy, UCLA, 1977 (Thesis Director: Alonzo Church; Dissertation: Some Models for the Logic of Sense and Denotation with an Application to Alternative (0)) MS, Mathematics, U. of Houston, Houston, Texas 1965 BS, Physics/Mathematics, U. of Houston 1964 Areas of Specialization: Logic (esp. Intensional Logic), Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Language Areas of Competence: Metaphysics, Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Ethical Theory, Frege, Russell, Spinoza, Leibniz Publications: Articles: Everything is Fine, Proceedings of John M. Dolan Memorial Conference, to appear. Is Everything Nameable?, Erfahrung und Analyse: Beiträge des 27 Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums, Kirchberg: Osterreichische Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, eds. Johann Marek & Elisabeth Reicher, 2004. Alfred Tarski (1902-1983), Alonzo Church (1903-1995), and Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). In A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, eds. A.P. Martinich and David Sosa, pp. 124-138, 2001. Alternative (1*): A Criterion of Identity for Intensional Entities. In Logic, Meaning and Computation, eds. C. Anthony Anderson and Michael Zeleny, pp. 393-427. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. Alonzo Church s Contributions to Philosophy and Intensional Logic. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 4 (1998): 129-171. 1
Gödel s Ontological Argument Revisited (with Michael Gettings). In Gödel 96. Logical Foundations of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics Kurt Gödel s Legacy, ed. Peter Hájek, pp. 167-172. Berlin: Springer, 1996. "Chisholm and the Logic of Intrinsic Value". In The Philosophy of Roderick Chishoolm, ed. Lewis Hahn, pp 407-429. La Salle, Illinois, Open Court, 1997. "Toward a Logic of A Priori Knowledge." Philosophical Topics 21 (1995):1-10. "Degrees of Intensionality." In Analyomen 1, Proceedings of the 1st Conference "Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy, ed. Georg Meggle & Ulla Wessels, pp. 411-20. Berlin & New York, de Gruyter, 1994. "Analyzing Analysis." Philosophical Studies 72 (1993): 199-222. "Zalta's Intensional Logic." Philosophical Studies 69 (1993): 221-229. "Logical Analysis and Natural Language: The Problem of Multiple Analyses." In Praktische Logik, ed. Peter Klein, pp. 169-179. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1990. "Some Emendations of Gödel's Ontological Proof." Faith and Philosophy 7 (1990): 291-303. "Russell on Order in Time." In Rereading Russell: Essays on Bertrand Russell's Metaphysics and Epistemology. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, eds. C. Wade Savage and C. Anthony Anderson, pp. 249-63. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1989. "Russellian Intensional Logic." In Themes from Kaplan, eds. Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein, pp. 67-103. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. "Bealer's Quality and Concept." Journal of Philosophical Logic 16 (1987): 115-164. 2
"Semantical Antinomies in the Logic of Sense and Denotation." Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 28 (1987): 99-114. "Some Difficulties Concerning Russellian Intensional Logic." Noûs 20 (1986): 35-43. "Divine Omnipotence and Impossible Tasks: An Intensional Analysis." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 15 (1984): 109-124. "General Intensional Logic." In Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Volume II: Extensions of Classical Logic, eds. F. Guenthner and Dov Gabbay, pp. 355-85. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel & Co., 1984. "The Paradox of the Knower." The Journal of Philosophy 80 (1983): 338-55. "Some New Axioms for the Logic of Sense and Denotation." Noûs 14 (1980): 217-34. Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries: "Intensional Logic"; "Substitutivity Salva Veritate"; "Variable". In Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. "Object language/metalanguage, "Propositions, states of affairs"; "Isomorphism". In A Companion to Metaphysics, eds. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995. "Paradox of the Knower". In A Companion to Epistemology, eds. Jonathan Dancy & Ernest Sosa, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992. "Alonzo Church". In Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, eds. Hans Burkhart and Barry Smith, Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1991. Abstracts: "Some Emendations of Gödel's Ontological Argument." Journal of Symbolic Logic 55 (1990): 436. 3
"A Theory of Possible Languages." Journal of Symbolic Logic 55 (1990): 394. "Semantical Antinomies in the Logic of Sense and Denotation." In Abstracts of the Seventh International Congress of Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 (1983): 14-16. "Alternative (0) with Modality." Journal of Symbolic Logic 49 (1984): 324. Reviews: Review of Intensional Logic, History of Philosophy, and Methodology: To Imre Ruzsa on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, eds. Istvan M. Bodnar, Andras Mate, and Lazlo Polos. History and Philosophy of Logic 11 (1990): 248-50. Review of Structured Meanings by M.J. Cresswell. Philosophical Review 100 (1991): 476-79. Review of Oblique Contexts by Leonard Linsky. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research XLVII (1987): 153-159. Review of Meaning and Modality by Casimir Lewy. Journal of Symbolic Logic 47 (1982): 909-11. Review of "Time and Place Logic, a Further Discussion of A.N. Prior's `Thank Goodness That's Over'" by G.W. Turner. Journal of Symbolic Logic 36 (1971): 518. Review of The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays by Frank Plumpton Ramsey. Journal of Symbolic Logic 35 (1970): 312. Review of "Can Kant's Synthetic Judgments be Made Analytic?" by Lewis White Beck. Journal of Symbolic Logic, 35 (1970): 167-168. Edited Volumes: Logic, Meaning and Computation. Essays in Memory of Alonzo Church, eds. C. Anthony Anderson and Michael Zeleny, Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Acadmic Publishers 2001. 4
Paul Meehl: Selected Philosophical and Methodological Papers, eds. C. Anthony Anderson and Keith Gunderson, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. Propositional Attitudes. The Role of Content in Logic, Language, and Mind, eds. C. Anthony Anderson and Joseph Owens. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1990 Rereading Russell: Essays on Bertrand Russell's Metaphysics and Epistemology. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XII, eds. C. Wade Savage and C. Anthony Anderson, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Teaching & Other Relevant Experience Positions Professor, U. of California, Santa Barbara, 93-present U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: 79-93 (Full Prof: 90; Assoc. Prof: 84-89; Asst. Prof: 81-83; Visiting Asst. Prof: 79-80) Visiting Professor: U. of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria: 92, Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria: 90 Assistant Professor, U. of Texas, Austin, Texas: 75-78 Visiting Lecturer, U. of Washington, Seattle: 74-75 Lecturer, USC, Los Angeles, California: 70-73 Assistant Editor, Journal of Symbolic Logic: 69-70 Courses and Seminars Taught Courses: Introductory Logic, Symbolic Logic, Intermediate Symbolic Logic, Metatheory, Elementary Set Theory, Modal Logic, Nonclassical Logics, Logic of Scientific Reasoning, Introductory Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Introductory Ethics, 5
Moral Problems in Contemporary Society, Introduction to Ethical Theory, Theory of Value, Meta-ethics, Frege, Spinoza, Leibniz, Philosophy and Psychical Research, Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Religion Seminars: The Logic of Sense and Denotation, Intension and Extension, The Logic of Knowledge and Belief, Frege's Theory of Meaning, Philosophical Implications of Gödel's Theorems, Russellian Intensional Logic, A Priori Knowledge, Propositions and Other Intensional Entities, Grim's The Incomplete Universe. Other Professional Activities Papers presented, Lectures and Comments (Representative Selection): Everything is Fine, Conference in Memory of John M. Dolan, Minneapolis; Oct. 2006. Quantified Modality in the Logic of Sense and Denotation, Eighth Symposium on Logic & Language, Drebecen, Hungary; Aug. 2004 David Kaplan: Formal Aspects of His Work, Kaplanfest, UCLA; Oct. 2003. Is Everything Nameable?, University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Sao Paolo, and University of Brasilia, Brazil; Sept. 2003 Quantified Modality in the Logic of Sense and Denotation, Principia International Symposium: The Works of Quine, Florianopolis, Brazil; Sept. 2003 The Theory of Possible Languages, Fourteenth Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Trento, Italy, Aug. 2002 The Lesson of Kaplan s Problem about Possible World Semantics, Conference in honor of David Kaplan, San Marino, Italy; May 2001. Williams, Fitch and Frege-Church, Conference on The Limits of Warrants, U. Waterloo, Canada; May 2001. 6
Possible World Models for the Logic of Absolute Provability", Conference on A Priori Knowledge, USC, Los Angeles; April 1997 Comments on David Kaplan's "A Chat on Newman I", Conference on Time and Reference, Santa Barbara City C College; April 1997 A Theory of Possible Languages: Meanings and Paradoxes", UCLA; March 1997 Apodictics", Association for Symbolic Logic, San Sebastian, Spain; July 1996 Individual Concepts", Symposium, Saul Kripke's Contributions to Philosophy, San Marino, Italy; June 1996 Possible Languages", UCLA Logic and Linguistics Workshop, Los Angeles; 1994 Toward a Logic of A Priori Knowledge", Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Louvain, Belgium; March 1993 The Status of Ethical Principles", Program in Human Rights and Medicine Seminar, U. Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN; Feb. 1993 Comments on Saul Kripke's "Individual Concepts: Their Logic, Philosophy, and Some of their Uses", American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, D.C.; Dec. 1992 Propositions and Other Intensional Entities", series of ten lectures at the University of Padua, Padua, Italy; June 1992 Axioms of Infinity in Russellian Intensional Logic" Conference on Early Analytic Philosophy, U. Chicago; April 1992 Degrees of Intensionality" (Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Saarbrücken, Germany; October 1991) A Formalization of the Theory of Possible Languages", U. 7
of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; June 1990 On the Logic of Intentional Action", Karl-Franzens- Universität, Graz, Austria; May 1990 Comments on Matthias Steup's "Positive and Negative Epistemic Duties", Minnesota Philosophical Society; Oct. 1989 Some Emendations of Gödel's Ontological Argument" Association for Symbolic Logic, Chicago, IL; March 1989 Comments on Kathleen Gill's "A Question Concerning Event Taxonomies", Minnesota Philosophical Society; Nov. 1988 A Theory of Possible Languages", Association for Symbolic Logic, Padua, Italy; August 1988 Logical Analysis and Natural Language: The Problem of Multiple Analyses", Thirteenth International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria; August 1988 Some Difficulties Concerning Russellian Intensional Logic" American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Symposium with David Kaplan & Hans Kamp, St. Louis, MO; May... 1986 Some Remarks on Ethical Relativism", U. Minnesota; Sept. 1985 Russellian Intensional Logic", UCLA, Los Angeles, August 1985 Comments on Russell Wahl's "Possibilism, Actuality, and World-Bound Individuals", American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL; April 1985) Semantical Antinomies in the Logic of Sense and Denotation", Seventh International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Salzburg, Austria; July 1983 Alternative (0) with Modality", Association for Symbolic 8
Logic, Berkeley, CA; March 1983 Iterated Intensional Contexts: An Axiom for Intensional Logic", Linguistics Colloquium, U. of Minnesota; November 1982 Russell on Order in Time", Conference on Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Science, Minneapolis, MN; June 1982 On Synonymous Isomorphism", U. Konstanz, Germany; Oct. 1980 General Intensional Logic", Conference on Philosophical Logic, Bad Homburg, Germany; October 1980 Honors Russellian Intensional Logic" reprinted in Philosopher's Annual as one of the ten best philosophical papers of 1989 (90) CLA Distinguished Teacher Award, U. of Minnesota (84) Outstanding Graduate Student in Philosophy, UCLA (68-69) NDEA Title IV Fellowship, UCLA (68) Memberships Society of Christian Philosophers, Association for Symbolic Logic, Society for Exact Philosophy 9