LAWRENCE B. LOMBARD CURRICULUM VITAE
Present Position: Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
Address: Department of Philosophy Wayne State University 5057 Woodward, Rm. 12208.2 Detroit, Michigan 48202
Phone: (313) 577-6099 Fax: (313) 577-2077 E-mail: [email protected]
Date of Birth: 24 November 1944
Education: Cornell University (1961-l965), A.B., Philosophy (June, 1965) Stanford University (1965-1969), Ph.D., Philosophy (June, 1974)
Academic Positions Held: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University, l969-l979 (Tenure awarded, June, 1976) Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University, l979-1987 Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University, January-June, l981, Summer, 1993 Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University, 1987- Chair, Department of Philosophy, Wayne State University, 1996-2001
Areas of Specialization: Event Theory Metaphysics
PUBLICATIONS
Book: Events: A Metaphysical Study (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986).
Articles: "Grice's Intentions", Philosophical Studies 25:3 (1974), 207-212, co-authored with G.C. Stine.
"A Note on Level-Generation and the Time of a Killing", Philosophical Studies 26:2 (1974), 151- 152.
"Events, Changes, and the Non-extensionality of 'Become'", Philosophical Studies 28:2 (1975), 131-136.
"Chisholm and Davidson on Events and Counterfactuals", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. VII (1977), 515-522. 2
"Actions, Results, and the Time of a Killing", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. VIII (1978), 341-354.
"Relational Change and Relational Changes", Philosophical Studies 34:1 (1978), 63-79.
"The Extensionality of Causal Contexts: Comments on Rosenberg and Martin", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol IV (1979), 409-415.
"Events", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. IX, No. 3 (September, 1979), 425-460. Reprinted in, R. Casati and A. Varzi (eds.), Events (Hants, England: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1996), 177-212, The International Research Library of Philosophy 15.
"Events and Their Subjects", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 62:2 (April, 1981), 138-147.
"Events and the Essentiality of Time", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XII, No. 1 (March, 1982), 1-17.
"Review of Davidson's Essays on Actions and Events", Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. II, Nos. 2-3 (June, 1982), 81-84.
"How Not To Flip The Prowler: Transitive Verbs of Action and the Identity of Actions", Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985), E. LePore and B. McLaughlin (eds), 268-281.
"'Unless', 'Until', and the Time of a Killing", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70:2 (June, 1989), 135-154.
"Causes, Enablers, and the Counterfactual Analysis", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 59 (1990), 195- 211.
Entry on "Change", Handbook of Ontology and Metaphysics (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1990), Barry Smith and Hans Burkhardt (eds), Vol. I, 137-139.
Entry on "Events", Handbook of Ontology and Metaphysics (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1990), Barry Smith and Hans Burkhardt (eds), Vol. I, 256-259.
"Events, Counterfactuals, and Speed", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 70, No. 2 (June, 1992), 187-197.
"Causes and Enablers: A Reply to Mackie", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 65 (1992), 319-322.
"How Not to Flip the Switch with the Floodlight: Causative-Inchoative, the Instrumental 'With', and the Identity of Actions", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (March, 1992), 31-43, co-authored with Patrick Francken.
"The Doctrine of Temporal Parts and the 'No-Change' Objection", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LIV, No. 2 (June, 1994), 365-372. 3
Entry on "Event Theory", A Companion to Metaphysics (London: Basil Blackwell, 1995), Jaegwon Kim & Ernest Sosa (eds.), 140-144.
Entry on "Individuation", A Companion to Metaphysics (London: Basil Blackwell, 1995), Jaegwon Kim & Ernest Sosa (eds.), 239-241.
"Sooner or Later", Noûs, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1995), 343-359.
"Delaying, Preventing, and Disenabling", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 24:3-4 (December, 1995), 433-447.
"Ontologies of Events", in Contemporary Readings in the Foundation of Metaphysics (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1998), S. Laurence and C.A. Macdonald, eds., 277-294.
"On the Alleged Incompatibility of Presentism and Perduring Entities", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2 (March, 1999).
"The Cambridge Solution to the Time of a Killing", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, Vol. 31, Nos. 1-2 (October, 2003), pp. 93-106.
"The Lowe Road to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", Philosophical Studies 112: 2 (January, 2003), pp. 163-185.
"Scope Fallacies and the 'Decisive Objection' Against Endurance", Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 34:4 (December, 2006), pp. 441-452.
"Time for a Change: A Polemic Against the Presentism/Eternalism Debate", Time and Identity (MIT Press, 2010), Campbell, O'Rourke, and Silverstein (eds.), pp.49-77.
Invited Papers Read "Quotations and Complex Singular Terms", Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Winter,1969.
"Actions, Results, and the Time of a Killing", the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, January, 1976.
"The Extensionality of Causal Contexts: Comments on Rosenberg and Martin", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1977.
"Events", Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, July, 1978.
"Causal Verbs and the Individuation of Action: Comments on Professor Price", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Columbus, Ohio, April, 1982.
"Actions Performed For Their Own Sake: Comments on Professor Mele", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, April, 1988.
"Comments on Susan C. Hale's, 'A Defense of Identity Conditions for Events in Purely Spatio- Temporal Terms'", The Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1989. 4
"Comments on Professor Gill's Paper", The Joint Meetings of the Central States Philosophical Association and the Illinois Philosophy Association, Edwardsville, Ill., Nov., 1990.
"Logical Form and the Theory of Events: A Plea for Metaphysics", Symposium on the Philosophy of Language, The Pacific Division Meetings, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 1991. (Co-symposiasts: Terry Parsons and Stephen Neale).
"Superficial Comments on the Surfaces of Objects: Comments on Professor Zimmerman's Paper", The Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April, 1992.
"Comments on Merricks' "Comments on Ehring's 'Extrinsicness, Identity, Times, and Worlds'", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1995. "On the Alleged Incompatibility of Enduring and Perduring Entities", Michigan State University, March, 1996. "Comments on Professor Harris's Paper, 'On What There Isn't'", the Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Chicago Illinois, April, 1996. "Beliefs and Propositions: Comments on Peard", the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Oakland, California, April, 1999. "Lombard on Allen on Lombard", the Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 1999. "More than One Way to Slice a Worm", the Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, New York, New York, December, 2000. "Ochlophobia: Comments on Phelan's 'On Numerous Coincident Objects of the Same Kind'", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, April, 2003. "Time for a Change: A Polemic Against the Presentism/Eternalism Debate", (1) The 8th Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference: Time and Identity, Moscow, Idaho, April, 2005, (2) The Philosophy of Time Society, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, April, 2007, (3) Oakland University, March, 2008. "What is Metaphysics and How is it Possible?', Oakland University, November, 2008; Oakland Coutny Community College, March 2011. 5 Refereed Papers Read "Chisholm and Davidson on Events and Counterfactuals", The Eighteenth Annual Illinois Philosophy Conference, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, November, 1974. "Events and Quality Spaces", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, La., May, 1976. "Some Remarks Concerning the Essentiality of Causes and Effects", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 1980. "The Essentiality of the Subjects of Change", The Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Detroit, Michigan, April, 1980. "Causes, Enablers, and the Counterfactual Analysis", The Central States Philosophical Association Meetings, Iowa City, Iowa, October, 1989. Also read at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, LA, April, 1990. "Cambridge Changes and Events with Plural Subjects", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 1993. "Could an event have ended sooner than it did?", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 1995. "On the Alleged Incompatibility of Presentism and Temporal Parts", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Berkeley, California, March, 1997. "The Lowe Road to the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, 2000. "Scope Fallacies and the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics", (1) The Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March, 2005, (2) The Ohio Philosophical Association, Columbus, Ohio, April 1, 2005. Professional Organizations and Activities: American Philosophical Association, Central Division (Program Committee for 1984 and 1998 Central Division Meetings) American Association of University Professors Occasional Referee for Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Linguistics and Philosophy, No^us, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Synthese, Cambridge University Press, Philosophy Documentation Center, Prentice-Hall, Simon and Schuster 6 College and University Activities: Academic Senate (9/82-6/86): Student Affairs Committee (1982-83); Support Services Committee (1983-84); Faculty Affairs Committee (1984-85); Curriculum and Instruction Committee (1984-86) College of Liberal Arts Faculty Council (1989-2002) President of Council (1994-96); Curriculum Sub-committee (1996-2001) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Council (2005-08, 2010, 2011-17) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (2005- ) Chair, Curriculum Committee (2011-13) College of Liberal Arts Promotion and Tenure Committee (1991-93, 1995-96, 2001-04) WSU General Education Oversight Committee (2013-16) Course Review Sub-committee (2013-16) Graduate-Professional Scholarship Review Committee (Winter, 2006) Economics Chair Review Committee (Winter, 2003) WSU Summer Research Grant Committee: Humanities (1989, 1995) College of Liberal Arts Salary Committee (1992-1994) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Salary Committee (2012-2016 AAUP WSU Chapter Council (11/73-9/80) College of Liberal Arts Comparative Arts Committee WSU Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award Committee (1982) WSU College of Liberal Arts Dean's Search Committee (1982-1983) Liberal Arts Natural Science Group Requirement Committee (1983) Liberal Arts Grievance Panel (1983-1992) Review Advisory Panel for Department of Greek and Latin (1989) Review Advisory Panel for the Center for Judaic Studies (1992-1993) Departmental Activities: Chair (1996-2001 ) Acting Chairperson (Winter, 1981; Summer, 1993) Department Webmaster (1996-2014 ) Promotion and Tenure Committee (1976-96, 2001- ) Curriculum Committee (1975- ), in charge of scheduling classes Salary Committee (1973-1996, 2001- ) Director of Undergraduate Studies (1972-96, 2012-2014, Fall 2016) Committee on General Education (1985-96) M.A. and Ph.D. Committees and Supervision