Alvin I. Goldman

Professional Biography

Current Position

Board of Governors Professor Department of Philosophy Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick-Piscataway, NJ, USA

Education

Columbia University, B.A., 1960, Summa cum laude Princeton University, M.A., 1962, Ph.D., 1965

Previous Positions

University of Arizona, 1983-2002 Professor, 1983-1994, Regents’ Professor, 1994-2002 University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor, 1980-83 University of Michigan, 1963-1980 Assistant Professor, 1963-69; Associate Professor, 1969-73; Professor, 1973-80, Department Chair, 1977-1979 Visiting Positions: Princeton University, Spring 2004; Yale University, Fall 1991 University of Pittsburgh, Summer 1972

Principal Fellowships, Grants, Listings, and Honors

Listed in Who’s Who in America (2005, 2006) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2004 Resident, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, July 2003 Volume 29 of Philosophical Topics (2001) devoted to The Philosophy of Alvin Goldman Co-winner (with William Talbott), Berger Prize in philosophy of law, American Philosophical Association, 2000-01 Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship, 2000-2001 NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 2000-2001 Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, 2000 William Evans Visiting Fellowship, University of Otago, New Zealand, 1993 Co-Director, NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, 1986 National Science Foundation Scholars Award, 1983 Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1981-82 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1975-76 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1975-76 George Santayana Fellow, Harvard University, 1970-71 Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1960-61 Danforth Fellow, 1960-63 Phi Beta Kappa, 1960 Included in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Ted Honderich, ed. (1995) Biography in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd edition, Robert Audi, ed. (1999) Biography in Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, Routledge (2002) Biography in MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition (2006)

Extramural Positions

President, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1991-92 President, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1987-88 Selection committee, Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship, 2003-2006

Editorial Activities

Editor (in chief). Episteme, A Journal of Social Epistemology, Edinburgh University Press, 2005-

Member of Editorial Boards: Nous; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Oxford Essays in Epistemology; Principia; Ethics and Information Technology; Philosophers’ Imprint (e- journal); Essays in Philosophy (e-journal); Mind and Society; Raritan: A Quarterly Review; European Review of Philosophy

Referee (partial list): Philosophical Studies, American Philosophical Quarterly, Mind, Erkenntnis, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese, Philosophical Review, Nous, Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Ethics, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Child Development, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Law and Philosophy, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Westview Press, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council of Canada

Advisory Editor: Philosophical Gourmet Report; Studies in Cognitive Systems

Member, Board of Directors: Institute for Law and Philosophy (Rutgers University)