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Curriculum Vitae

Anil K. Gupta

Education:

University of London: B. Sc. (Honors) 1969 : M. A. 1973 Ph.D. 1977 Awards:

Humanities Research Grants, 1977-78, 1978-79, 1981-82 Educational-Development Grant, 1981 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Leave Fellowship, 1982-83 (declined) Short Research Leave, University of Illinois, Spring 1984 Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1985-86 A. C. L. S. Fellowship, 1988-89 (declined) N. E. H. Fellowship for University Teachers, 1988-89 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University, 1994 N. E. H. Fellowship for University Teachers, 1995-96 Fellowship at the National Humanities Center (NC), 1995-96 (declined) Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, Indiana University, 1998 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1998-99 N. E. H. Fellowship for University Teachers, 2003-4 A. C. L. S. Fellowship, 2003-4 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006- N. E. H. Fellowship for University Teachers, 2010 Nelson -in-Residence, Univ. of Michigan, September 2010 Recipient, 225th Anniversary Medallion of the University of Pittsburgh, 2013

Employment:

Assistant Professor, McGill University, 1975-80 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Winter Term 1979-80 Associate Professor, McGill University, 1980-82 Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1982-89 Visiting Professor, , Italy, June 1985 Professor, Indiana University, 1989-95 Rudy Professor, Indiana University, 1995-2000 Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 2001- Chair, University of Pittsburgh, 2013-

Updated: April 2019 CV--Page 2

Professional and Service Activities (a partial list):

Editor, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2016- Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 2012-2015 Advisory Board, Episteme, 2010- Editorial Board, Journal of Philosophical , 2008- Editorial Board, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2001- Editorial Board, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1991-2011 Board of Consultants, The Philosophical Gourmet Report, 2002- Member, Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2010- Member, Board of Advisors, Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science, New Delhi, 1998- Editor, Journal of , 1991-1994 Nominating Committee, Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1995 Program Committee, 1995 Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association Oversight Committee, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1994-95; Chair, 1995 Executive Committee, Association for Symbolic Logic, 1991-1994 Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, 1992-93 Program Committee, Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about (TARK IV) Reviewer for The MIT Press, Harvard University Press, Hackett Publishing Company, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, , Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Noûs, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Linguistics and Philosophy, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Mind, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, ’ Imprint, , Journal of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied , Review of Symbolic Logic, Synthese, Canadian Philosophical Association, Society for Exact Philosophy, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Workshop on Logic, Language Information and Computation. External Referee for several promotion and tenure cases Patten Lectures Committee, Indiana University, 1991-1994 College of Arts and Sciences Promotions Committee, Indiana University, 1994-95, 1996- 98 Director of Graduate Studies, Philosophy, Indiana University, 1997-98 Associate Director, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2004-6 Anil Gupta CV--Page 3

Publications:

“ and ,” Journal of Philosophical Logic 7, 1978, pp. 441-72. C Revised version, with a new section IV, is reprinted in The Logic of Common Nouns.

“A Theory of Conditionals in the Context of Branching Time” (written with Richmond Thomason), The Philosophical Review 89, 1980, pp. 65-90. C Reprinted in William Harper, Robert Stalnaker, and Glenn Pearce (eds.), Ifs: Conditionals, , Decision, Chance, and Time, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1981.

The Logic of Common Nouns, New Haven: Press, 1980, 142 pp.

“A Consecution Calculus for Positive Relevant Implication with Necessity” (written with and J. Michael Dunn), Journal of Philosophical Logic 9, 1980, pp. 343-62. C Revised version is reprinted in Alan Anderson, Nuel Belnap, and J. Michael Dunn, Entailment (Vol. II), Princeton University Press, 1992.

“Truth and ” (abstract), Journal of Philosophy 78, 1981, pp. 735-36.

“Truth and Paradox,” Journal of Philosophical Logic 11, 1982, pp. 1-60. C Revised version with a brief “Postscript 1983” is reprinted in Robert L. Martin (ed.), Recent Essays on Truth and the , Oxford University Press, 1984.

Review of Baruch A. Brody’s Identity and Essence, Journal of Philosophy 79, 1982, pp. 518-22.

“A Fixed Point Theorem for the Weak Kleene Valuation Scheme” (written with Robert L. Martin), Journal of Philosophical Logic 13, 1984, pp. 131-35. A correction to this paper appears in Journal of Philosophical Logic 14, 1985, p. 229.

Review of David Wiggins’s Sameness and Substance, International Studies in Philosophy 17, 1985, pp. 109-11.

Review of Greg N. Carlson’s “Generic Terms and Generic Sentences” (written with Leah Savion), Journal of Symbolic Logic 50, 1985, pp. 858-59.

“A Note on Extension, Intension, and Truth” (written with Nuel Belnap), Journal of Philosophy 84, 1987, pp. 168-74. Anil Gupta CV--Page 4

Publications (contd.)

“The Meaning of Truth,” in Ernest LePore (ed.), New Directions in , Academic Press, 1987, pp. 453-80.

“Semantics of Propositional Attitudes: A Critical Study of Cresswell’s Structured Meanings” (written with Leah Savion), Journal of Philosophical Logic 16, 1987, pp. 395-410.

“Remarks on and the Concept of Truth,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89, 1988-89, pp. 227-46. C Reprinted in Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, and Peter Williams (eds.), The Philosopher’s Annual 12, Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1991, pp. 67-86. C Also reprinted in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 73-94.

Critical Notice of Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy’s The Liar, Philosophy of Science 56, 1989, pp. 697-709.

Truth or Consequences: Essays in Honor of Nuel Belnap, (co-edited with J. Michael Dunn), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

“Two Theorems concerning Stability,” in J. Michael Dunn and Anil Gupta (eds.), Truth or Consequences, Kluwer Academic Press, 1990, pp. 49-60.

“A Calculus for Definitions” (abstract), in Volume I of Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, 1991. Reprinted in Journal of Symbolic Logic 58, 1993, p. 760.

The of Truth (written with Nuel Belnap), Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993, 299 pp.

“Minimalism,” in James Tomberlin (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives 7: Language and Logic, Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1993, pp. 359-369. C Reprinted in Fredrick F. Schmitt (ed.), Theories of Truth, Blackwell Publishing, 2004, pp. 295-306.

“A Critique of Deflationism,” Philosophical Topics 21, 1993, pp. 57-81. C Reprinted in Simon Blackburn and Keith Simmons (eds.), Truth, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 282-307. Anil Gupta CV--Page 5

Publications (contd.)

C Also reprinted in Michael Lynch (ed.), The Nature of Truth, MIT Press, 2001, pp. 527-57. C Also reprinted with a postscript, in Bradley Armour-Garb and J. C. Beall (eds.), Deflationary Truth, Open Court, 2005, pp. 199-226. C Also reprinted with a postscript in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 9-52. C Ukrainian translation in Andriy Synytsya (ed.), Anthology of Contemporary , Litopys, 2014, pp. 155-197. C Hungarian translation in Kocsis Làszló (ed.), Az igazság elméletei, L’Harmattan, 2018, pp. 324-348.

“Reply to Robert Koons” (written with Nuel Belnap), Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 35, 1994, pp. 632-36.

Six entries in Ted Honderich (ed.), Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995.

“The Liar Paradox,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996, pp. 299-301.

“ and Revision: A Response to McGee and Martin,” Philosophical Issues 8, 1997, pp. 419-43. C Also reprinted with a postscript in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 135-63.

“Tarski’s Definition of Truth,” in Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, 1998.

“Meaning and Misconceptions,” in Ray Jackendoff, Paul Bloom, and Karen Wynn (eds.), Language, Logic, and Concepts: Essays in Memory of John Macnamara, The MIT Press, 1999, pp. 15-41. C Also reprinted in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 164-95.

Circularity, Definition and Truth (co-edited with André Chapuis), New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2000. Distributed outside India by Ridgeview Publishing Company, Atascadero CA.

“On Circular Concepts,” in André Chapuis and Anil Gupta (eds.), Circularity, Definition and Truth, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2000, pp. 123-53. Anil Gupta CV--Page 6

Publications (contd.)

C Polish translation by Irena Trzcieniecka-Schneider, “O Pojêciach Cyrkularnych,” in Ewy ¯arnecka-Bia³y and Irena Trzcieniecka-Schneider (eds.), Komunikaty i Argumenty, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagielloñskiego, 2002, pp. 19-44. C Also reprinted in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 95-134.

“Truth,” in Lou Goble (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic, Blackwell Publishers, 2001, pp. 90-114.

“An Argument Against Tarski’s Convention T,” in Richard Schantz (ed.), What is Truth?, Walter de Guyter, 2002, pp. 225-37. C Also reprinted in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 53-72.

“Partially Defined Predicates and Semantic Pathology,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65, 2002, pp. 402-09.

“Deflationism, the Problem of Representation, and Horwich’s Use Theory of Meaning,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67, 2003, pp. 654-66.

“Postscript to ‘A Critique of Deflationism’,” in Bradley Armour-Garb and J. C. Beall (eds.), Deflationary Truth, Open Court, 2005, pp. 227-33. C Also reprinted in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 44-52.

“Field on the Concept of Truth” (written with José Martínez-Fernández), Philosophical Studies 124, 2005, pp. 45-58.

“Remarks on Christopher Hill’s Thought and World,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72, 2006, pp. 190-95.

Review of Tim Maudlin’s Truth and Paradox, Mind 115, 2006, pp. 163-65.

“Do the Pose a Special Problem for Deflationism?” in J. C. Beall and Bradley Armour-Garb (eds.), Deflationism and Paradox, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 133-47.

“Experience and Knowledge,” in Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual Experience, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 181-204. C Reprinted under the title “The Given in Conscious Experience” in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 196-229. Anil Gupta CV--Page 7

Publications (contd.)

Empiricism and Experience, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 265 pp. C Paperback edition, 2008.

Review of John Koethe’s , Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning (written with José Martínez-Fernández), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006.09.14.

“Finite Circular Definitions,” in Thomas Bolander, Vincent F. Hendricks, and Stig Andur Andersen (eds.), Self-, CSLI Publications, 2006, pp. 79-93.

“Remarks on a Foundationalist Theory of Truth,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73, 2006, pp. 721-27.

“Definitions,” in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2008 edition). C Substantive revision, April 2015

“Précis of and Experience,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79, 2009, pp. 461-67.

“Equivalence, Reliability, and Convergence: Replies to McDowell, Peacocke, and Neta.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79, 2009, pp. 490-508. C Also reprinted in my Truth, Meaning, Experience, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 230-53.

“Replies to Six Critics,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 17, 2009, pp. 329-43.

“Replies to Selim Berker and Karl Schafer,” Philosophical Studies 152, 2011, pp. 41-53.

“Frey on Experiential Transparency and its Rational Role,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 82, 2011, pp. 717-20.

Truth, Meaning, Experience, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 270 pp.

“An Account of Conscious Experience,” Analytic Philosophy 53, 2012, pp. 1-29.

“A Critical Examination of Sellars’s Theory of ,” in Mélanie Frappier, Derek H. Brown, and Robert DiSalle (eds.), Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Honour of William Demopoulos, Springer, 2012, pp. 31-56.

“The Relationship of Experience to Thought,” Monist 96, 2013, pp. 252-94. Anil Gupta CV--Page 8

Publications (contd.)

“Conditional in Theories of Truth” (written with Shawn Standefer), Journal of Philosophical Logic 46, 2017, pp. 27-63. Published online, February 2016.

“Against Post-Truth,” an interview with Richard Marshall, 3:AM Magazine (online), January 2017. (http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/post-truth-logical-experience-knowledge-cir cularity-truth-etc/)

“The Habits of Experience,” a discussion with Ravi Bhoothalingam and Arvind Kumar, led by Rajat Ranjan, SynTalk (online), March 2017. (https://syntalk.wordpress.com/episodes/turn-three/thoe/)

“M. Chirimuuta’s Adverbialism about Color,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 95, 2017, pp. 229-35.

“Intersubstitutivity Principles and the Generalization Function of Truth” (written with Shawn Standefer), Synthese 195, 2018, pp. 1065-1075.

“Outline of an Account of Experience,” Analytic Philosophy 59, 2018, pp. 33-74.

“Discussion of Anil Gupta’s ‘Outline of an Account of Experience’” (with Alex Byrne et al.), Analytic Philosophy 59, 2018, pp. 75-88.

“Discussion of ’s ‘The Merits of Incoherence’” (with Ori Beck et al.), Analytic Philosophy 59, 2018, pp. 142-48. (My contribution appears on pp. 143- 44.)

“In Praise of a Logic of Definitions that Tolerates Ù-Inconsistency,” Philosophical Issues 28, 2018, pp. 176-95.

Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.

“Epistemic Friction” [a critical study of Gila Sher’s Epistemic Friction], Analysis 79, 2019, pp. 164-169. Anil Gupta CV--Page 9

Invited Talks:

Arizona State University University of Calgary, Canada (2) Ashoka University at Berkeley (2) Australian National University, Australia University of California at Davis Beijing Normal University, China (4) University of California at Irvine Brown University (2) University of California at Los Angeles Bryn Mawr College University of Chicago Carnegie Mellon University University of Colorado at Boulder Columbia University University of Delhi, India (2) Duke University University of Hong Kong, China East China Normal University, China University of Illinois at Chicago (4) Harvard University (4) University of Lethbridge, Canada India International Center, New Delhi (2) University of Massachusetts at Amherst Indiana University (5) University of Melbourne, Australia Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2) University of Michigan (5) McGill University, Canada (3) University of Minnesota (2) M. I. T. (2) University of Notre Dame National Chung Cheng University, University of Padua, Italy (a series of Taiwan (2) lectures) Ohio State University (2) University of Paris (Sorbonne), France Oxford University, UK University of Pittsburgh (5) Polytecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy University of Salzburg, Austria Princeton University (2) University of Texas at Austin Rutgers University University of Toronto, Canada (4) San Jose State University University of Vermont (2) Seoul National University, Korea (2) University of Victoria, Canada St. Stephen’s College, Delhi (2) University of Warwick, U.K. (3) University of Waterloo, Canada Syracuse University University of Western Ontario, Canada (3) Tufts University University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Université de Montréal, Canada Wayne State University Université du Québec, Canada Yale University University of Aberdeen, Scotland Zhongshan University, China University of , Spain

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Invited Talks (contd.)

Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, December 1981. Special Joint Session of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division) and the Association for Symbolic Logic, April 1989. Aristotelian Society Meetings, London, U.K., June 1989. The Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, August 1991. Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, Boston University, October 1992. Authors-meet-Critics Session on The Revision Theory of Truth, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April 1996. Symposium on the Revision Theory of Truth, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, March 1998. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, April 1999. Society for Exact Philosophy, University of Florida, March 2000. Authors-meet-Critics Session on Scott Soames’s Understanding Truth, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, April 2000. Three lectures at the Fifth Annual Conference on the Application of Logic in Philosophy and in the Foundations of Mathematics, Karpacz, Poland, May 2000. Authors-meet-Critics Session on Paul Horwich’s book Meaning, Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, May 2001. Benjamin Jowett Society, , May 2002. Conference on Recent Thoughts About the Liar, SUNY Buffalo, October 2002. Conference on Self-Reference, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2002. Annual Lecture Series, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, January 2003. Keynote Address, Third International Conference on Logic and Cognition, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, May 2004. Fifth Annual Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz/ Thomas Tymoczko Memorial Logic Lecture, Smith College, December 2004. Keynote Address, Second Conference on Experience and Truth, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2005. Joint meeting of Indian Council for Philosophical Research and Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science, July 2005. Comment on Bill Brewer, “Perception and Its Objects,” Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, March 2006. Three lectures on Empirical Knowledge at the University of , Spain, June 2006. Jerome S. Simon Memorial Lectures at the University of Toronto, March 2007. Three lectures on Empirical Knowledge at the , Kraków, June 2007. William Demopoulos Conference, University of Western Ontario, May 2008. First Romane Clark Memorial Lecture, Indiana University, September 2008. Authors-meet-Critics Session on Empiricism and Experience, Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, December 2008. Anil Gupta CV--Page 11

Invited Talks (contd.)

Conference on Perceptual Knowledge, Brown University, February 2009. Reply to Professor James John, Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, April 2009. Nelson Lecture, University of Michigan, September 2010 Seventh Barcelona Workshop in the Theory of Reference, University of Barcelona, June 2011 Truth at Work, Université Paris-I, June 2011 Walter Edelberg Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 2012 Whitehead Lectures, Harvard University, April 2012 Brain Korea 21 Lectures, Seoul National University, July 2012 Invited talk, Seventeenth Inter-American Philosophical Society Congress, Salvador, Brazil, October 2013. Alan Ross Anderson Inaugural Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, January 2014 Conference on William Demopoulos’s Logicism and Its Philosophical Legacy, McGill University, Montreal, September 2014 Memorial Lecture, University of Vermont, March 2015 Invited Discussant, Rutgers Conference, May 2015 Comments on Mazviita Chirimuuta’s Outside Color, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, January 2016 George Myro Memorial Lecture, University of California at Berkeley, April 2016 NEH Summer Institute on Presupposition and Perception, Cornell University, July 2016 Conference on Perceptual Experience and Empirical , University of Pittsburgh, October 2016 Storrs McCall Conference, McGill University, April 2018 Four Lectures on the Concept of Truth, Beijing Normal University, April-May 2018

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