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Curriculum Vitae
David H Sanford
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| Attended Oberlin College, 1955-1957. |
| Attended Wayne State University, 1957-60; received B. A. with honors in philosophy 1960. |
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Attended Cornell University, 1960-63; received Ph.D.in philosophy, 1966, for dissertation entitled "An Examination of D. M. Armstrong's Theory of Perception."
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| Instructor (1963-66) and Assistant Professor (1966-70) of Philosophy, Dartmouth College. |
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Associate Professor (1970-78) and Professor (1978-present) of Philosophy, Duke University. |
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Visting Appointments: University of Oregon, Summer 1966, University of Michigan, Winter 1970, Dalhousie University, Summer 1973, Summer 1978. |
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| If P, then Q: Conditionals and the Foundations of Reasoning. London and New York, Routledge, 1989. Pp. ix, 265. Paperback edition, 1992. | |
If P, then Q: Conditionals and the Foundations of Reasoning, Second Edition. London and New York, Routledge, 2003. Pp. xv, 275. Hardbook and paperback. |
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"Notes on Logics of Vagueness and Some Applications," Paul P. Wang and S. K. Chang (eds.), Fuzzy Sets: Theory and Applications to Policy Analysis and Information Systems (New York, Plenum, 1980): 123-6.
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"Illusions and Sense-Data," Peter A. French et al. (eds.), The Foundations of Analytic Philosophy (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1981): 371-85.
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"Where was I?", Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett (eds.), The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (New York, Basic Books, 1981): 232-40.
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"The Perception of Shape," Carl Ginet and Sydney Shoemaker (eds.), Knowledge and Mind: Philosophical Essays (Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1983): 130-58.
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"Infinite Regress Arguments," James H. Fetzer (ed.), Principles of Philosophical Reasoning (Totowa, Rowman & Allanheld, 1984): 93-117.
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"Armstrong's Theory of Perception," Radu J. Bogdan (ed.), D. M. Armstrong (Dordrecht, Reidel 1984): 55-78.
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"The Direction of Causation and the Direction of Time," Peter A. French et al. (eds.), Causation and Causal Theories(Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1984): 53-75.
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"Causal Relata," Actions and Events, edited by Ernest LePore and Brian McLaughlin (Oxford and New York, Blackwell, 1985): 282-93.
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"Self-Deception as Rationalization," Perspectives on Self-Deception, ed. Amelie O. Rorty and Brian McLaughlin (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988): 157-69.
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"Proper Knowledge," Dretske and his Critics, ed. Brian P. McLaughlin (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., Basil Blackwell, 1991): 38-51.
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"Infinity and Vagueness," Infinity, ed. A. W. Moore (Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1993): 153-68. Reprinted from the Philosophical Review, 1975.
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"A Grue Thought in a Bleen Shade: 'Grue' as a Disjunctive Predicate," Grue: Essays On The New Riddle of Induction, ed. Douglas Stalker, (Chicago, Open Court, 1994): 173-92.
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"Topological Trees: G. H. von Wright’s Theory of Possible Worlds," The Logica Yearbook 1997, ed. Timothy Childers (Prague, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1998): 198-207. |
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"Red, Green, and Absolute Determinacy," Philosophical Quarterly, 16 (1966): 356-8.
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"Degrees of Perfection, Proof for the Existence of God," Paul Edwards (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 2 (New York, Macmillan and Free Press, 1967): 324-6. Reprinted in the Second Edition, Donald M. Borchert (ed.), vol. 2 (Detroit, Macmillan, 2006): 677-80.
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"Negative Terms," Analysis, 27 (1966-1967): 201-5.
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"Volume and Solidity," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 45 (1967): 329-40.
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"Contraries and Subcontraries," Nous, 2 (1968): 95-6.
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"McTaggart on Time," Philosophy, 43 (1968): 371-8.
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"Time May Have a Stop," Analysis, 29 (1968-1969): 206.
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"Locke, Leibniz, and Wiggins on Being in the Same Place at the Same Time," Philosophical Review, 79 (1970): 75-82.
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"Disjunctive Predicates," American Philosophical Quarterly, 7 (1970): 167-72.
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"Downing on Positive and Negative Terms," Analysis, 30 (1969-70): 167-72.
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"Does Locke Think Hardness is a Primary Quality?" The Locke Newsletter, 1 (1970): 17-29.
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"What is a Truth Functional Component?" Logique et Analyse, 52 (1970): 483-6.
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"Begging the Question," Analysis, 32 (1971-1972): 197-9.
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"Classical Logic and Inexact Predicates," Mind, 83 (1974): 112-3.
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"Borderline Logic," American Philosophical Quarterly, 12 (1975): 29-39.
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"Intermediate Conclusions," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 53 (1975): 61-4.
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"Causal Necessity and Logical Necessity," Philosophical Studies, 28 (1975): 103-12.
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"Infinity and Vagueness," Philosophical Review, 84 (1975): 520-35.
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"The Primary Objects of Perception," Mind, 85 (1976): 189- 208.
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"The Direction of Causation and the Direction of Conditionship," The Journal of Philosophy, 73 (1976): 193- 207.
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"What Could Have Happened," Nous, 10 (1976): 313-25.
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"Competing Semantics of Vagueness: Many Values Versus Super-Truth," Synthese, 33 (1976): 195-210.
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"The Fallacy of Begging the Question: A Reply to Barker," Dialogue, 16 (1977): 485-98.
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"Causal Necessity and Logical Necessity (Reply to Brand and Swain)," Philosophical Studies, 33 (1978): 185-94.
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"How Plausible is the Principle of Plenitude?", The Personalist, 59 (1978): 149-51.
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"Nostalgia for the Ordinary: Comments on Papers by Unger and Wheeler," Synthese, 41 (1979): 175-84.
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"Independent Predicates," American Philosophical Quarterly, 18 (1981): 171-4.
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"Superfluous Information, Epistemic Conditions of Inference, and Begging the Questions," Metaphilosophy, 12 (1981): 145-58.
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"Knowledge and Relevant Alternatives: Comments on Dretske," Philosophical Studies, 40 (1981): 379-88.
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Abstract: "Lotteries, Horseraces, Probability, and Projection," Nous, 17 (1983): 70-1.
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"Impartial Perception," Philosophy, 58 (1983): 392-5.
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"The Asymmetry of the By-relation," Mind, 93 (1984): 410-1.
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"Pre-Phenomenal Adjustments and the Muller-Lyer Illusion," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 65 (1984): 199-201.
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"Causal Dependence and Multiplicity," Philosophy, 60 (1985): 215-30.
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"The Possibility of Transparent White," Analysis, 46 (1986): 212-5.
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"Begging the Question as Involving Actual Belief and Inconceivable Without It," Metaphilosophy, 19 (1988): 32-37.
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"Can There be One-Way Causal Conditionship?," Synthese, 76 (1988), pp. 397-408.
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"The Truth about Neptune and the Seamlessness of Truth," Philosophical Studies, 58 (1990): 87-93.
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"The Inductive Support of Inductive Rules: Themes from Max Black," Dialectica, 44 (1990): 23-41.
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Abstract: "Coulds, Mights, Ifs and Cans, Revisited," Nous, 25 (1991): 208-211.
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"The Mechanisms of Mental Causation," Acta Analytica, 6 (1990): 79-89.
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"The Problem of the Many, Many Composition Questions, and Naive Mereology," Nous, 27 (1993):219-28.
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"Causation and Intelligibility," Philosophy, 69 (1994): 55-67.
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"Causation," A Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell, 1994): 79-83.
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"Uses and Abuses of Fuzziness in Philosophy: A Selective Survey of How Recent Philosophical Logic and Metaphysics Treat Vagueness," International Journal of General Systems, 23 (1995): 271-7.
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"Circular Reasoning," "Determinable," "Implication," "Indiscernibility of Identicals," "Inference," "Johnson, W(illiam) E(rnest)," The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed.Robert Audi (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995): 124, 197, 362-3, 367, 369-70, 393.
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"Iff," "Indeterminism," "Inference to the best explanation," "Kneale, William Calvert," "Lexicon, the philosophical," "Molyneux problem," "Pseudonyms, philosophical," "von Wright, Georg Henrik," Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995): 393-4, 400, 407-8, 447, 482, 583-4, 725, 903.
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"Temporal Parts, Temporal Portions, and Temporal Slices: An Exercise in Naive Mereology" Acta analytica 15 (1996): 21-33.
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"Chisholm on Brentano's Thesis," The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, ed. Lewis E. Hahn (Chicago, Open Court, 1997): 201-214.
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"The Thesis of Extensionality," The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, ed. Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999): 305-6.
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"Demonstrative inference," and "Reasoning," additions to my entry on "Inference," "Vacuous truth," addition to my entry on "Implication," The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Second Edition, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999): 420, 427.
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"Vague Numbers," Acta Analytica 29 (2002): 63-73.
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"Determinates vs. Determinables" (over 10,000 words), the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, 2002, http://plato.stanford.edu.
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"Fusion Confusion," Analysis 63.1 (January, 2003): 1-4.
"Reply to Mr. Aranyosi," Analysis 63.4 (October, 2003): 305-9.
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"Difficulties for the Reconciling and Estranging Projects: Some Symmetries," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2005): 240-44.
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"Supervaluation," Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Second Edition, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford, Oxford University Press): 903.
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"Distinctness and Non-identity," Analysis 65.4 (October, 2005): 269-74.
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"On Defining Intentionality," Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Philosophy, Vol. 2 (Vienna, Herder, 1968): 216-21. |
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"Armstrong's Theory of Universals" [Review Discussion of D. M. Armstrong, Universals and Scientific Realism], The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 31 (1980) 69-79.
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"Epistemology Meets Cognitive Psychology," [Review Discussion of Alvin I. Goldman, Epistemology and Cognition]Inquiry, 31 (1988), pp. 519-33.
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"The Anastylosis of Reason: Fitting Together Stich's Fragments" [Review Discussion of Stephen P. Stich, The Fragmentation of Reason: Preface to a Pragmatic Theory of Cognitive Evaluation], Inquiry, 35 (1992): 113-37. |
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Resemblance and Identity: An Examination of the Problem of Universals by Panayot Butchvarov, Philosophical Review, 77 (1968): 386-9.
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Demons, Dreamers, and Madman: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's MEDITATIONS by Harry Frankfurt, Philosophical Review, 82 (1973): 120-4.
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Perception, Common Sense, and Science by James W. Cornman, Philosophy of Science, 25 (1977): 163-5.
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Truth, Love and Immortality: An Introduction to McTaggart's Philosophy by P. T. Geach, Philosophical Review, 91 (1982): 445-8.
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Hume and the Problem of Causation by Tom L Beauchamp and Alexander Rosenberg, Nous, 17 (1983): 502-8.
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Real Time by D. H. Mellor, Philosophical Review, 93 (1984): 289-93.
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From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science the Case Against Belief by Stephen P. Stich, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 47 (1986): 149-54.
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Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting by Daniel C. Dennett, Philosophy, 61 (1986): 547-50.
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Experience and the Objects of Perception by Leonard S. Carrier, Nous, 21 (1987): 435-8.
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"Symposium Contribution on Events and their Names by Jonathan Bennett," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 51 (1991): 633-6.
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Vagueness by Linda Claire Burns, Mind, 102 (1993):357-60.
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Analysis and Metaphysics by P. F. Strawson, Philosophical Books, 34 (1993): 162-3.
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Causes and Coincidences by David Owens, Teaching Philosophy, 18 (1995): 86-8.
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"Demolishing the Standard View," a Review of Lynne Rudder Baker's Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind,Behavior and Philosophy, 24 (1996): 181-6.
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Conditionals by Michael Woods, Philosophical Books, 40 (1999): 119-22.
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Causal Asymmetries by Daniel M. Hausman, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 62 (2001): 243-6.
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Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms by Josep E. Corbì and Josep L. Prades, Philosophical Books, 42 (2001): 211-213.
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Causation and Explanation by Stathis Psillos, Philosophical Books, 45 (2004): 94-6.
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American Philosophical Association; member of the Eastern Division Program Committee, 1977 and 1978; member of the Eastern Division Executive Committee, 1979-81; member of the Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research, 1992-95.
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North Carolina Philosophical Society; secretary/treasurer/program chairman, 1981-82, 1982-83; president, 1983-84, 1984-85.
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Society for Philosophy and Psychology; president, 2006-07.
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