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PAUL BENACERRAF

Department of Philosophy French Citizen Princeton, NJ 08544 U.S. Resident (609)-258-4299

EDUCATION

A.B. Princeton, l953 Ph.D. Princeton, l960

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

Procter & Gamble Faculty Fellow l96l-62 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fall l967; 1970-1 American Council of Learned Socs. l974-75 Center for Adv. Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Sloan Found., NEH l979-80 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1998- Director’s Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, 2004-5

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS (all at Princeton University)

Associate Dean of the Graduate School l965-67 Associate Provost for Special Studies l968-70 Provost l988-91 Department of Philosophy Director of Graduate Studies 1987-88 Chair l975-84, 1992-99

TEACHING POSITIONS (all at Princeton University (Philosophy))

Instructor l960-6l Assistant Professor l96l-65 Associate Professor l965-7l Professor l97l- Stuart Professor of Philosophy l979-98 James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy 1998-

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division: Secretary-Treasurer & Executive Committee, l962-65; Nominating Committee, 1993-95); Association for Symbolic Logic (Exec. Cttee., l967-69; Nomin. Cttee., 1995; co-chr Prog comm, joint APA/ASL meetings, December 2000)). Consultant: NEH, NSF, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Harvard University Committee to Visit the Philosophy Department, 1993-2000, Chair 1995-2000 Chair Visiting Committee, Philosophy Department, University of Arizona Spring 2001; member,Visiting Committee, Department of Philosophy,University of Texas @ Austin, April 2002; member, Advisory Board, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2002; member Advisory Board, School of Humanities and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2004. .

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PUBLICATIONS

l. Logicism, Some Considerations, Princeton, l960, Ph.D. dissertation, University Micro- films.

2. "Tasks, Super-Tasks, and the Modern Eleatics," Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LIX, No. 24, November 22, l962, pp. 765-784. Reprinted in Zeno's Paradoxes, Wesley Salmon (ed.), Library of Liberal Arts, l970.

3. "Mr. Searle on Meaning and Speech Acts," in Knowledge and Experience, C. D. Rollins, ed., Pittsburgh, l963.

4. Philosophy of Mathematics, ed. with , Prentice Hall, l964, Introduction, pp. l-27.

5. "What Numbers Could Not Be," The Philosophical Review, Vol. LXXIV, No. l, January l965, pp. 47-73. Reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill reprint series in Philosophy, and in [13].

6. "God, the Devil, and Gödel," The Monist, Vol. 5l, No. l, January l967, pp. 9-33.

7. Budgeting and Resource Allocation at Princeton University, Report of a Demonstration Project Supported by the Ford Foundation, Princeton, June l972, 390 pp + Appendices, with W. G. Bowen, T. A. Davis, W. W. Lewis, L. K. Morse, and C. W. Schafer.

8. "Mathematical Truth," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXX, No. l9, November 8, l973; reprinted in [13].

9. Translation of "Mathematical Truth" in Moderne Sprachphilosophie, Michael Sukale, ed., Hoffman und Campe, Verlag, Hamburg (l976), pp. 2l6-232. l0. "On the Condition of Partial Exchangeability," translation from the French, with R.C. Jeffrey, of "Sur la condition d'équivalence partielle," by Bruno de Finetti, in Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume II, R. C. Jeffrey, (ed.) l980, pp. l93-205.

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1l. Essay on the Causal Theory of Time, translation from the French (revised by C. R. Fawcett and R. S. Cohen), in Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory, Volume l by Henry Mehlberg, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland, l980, 303 pp..

l2. "Frege: The Last Logicist" in The Foundations of Analytic Philosophy, P. A. French, T. E. Uehling, Jr., H. K. Wettstein, eds., Midwest studies in Philosophy, Vol. VI, l98l, pp. l7-35. l3. Philosophy of Mathematics, with Hilary Putnam, Second Edition (Revised), i-vii + 600 pp., Cambridge University Press l983, with a new Introduction, pp. l-37, and a new Bibli- ography. l4. Reprint of "What Numbers Could Not Be", in (13), pp. 272-294. l5. Reprint of "Mathematical Truth", in (l3), pp. 403-420. l6. "Skolem and the Skeptic", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume LIX, l985. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 85-ll5.

17. "Comments on Maddy and Tymoczko", Philosophy of Science Association, 1984, Volume 2, pp. 476-485. (Published in 1986.)

18. Reprint of "Frege: the Last Logicist", in The Philosophy of Frege, H. Sluga, ed., Vol. 2, pp 211-229, Garland, New York & London, 1993.

19. “Qué no Podrian ser los Números”, Spanish translation of (5), in Mathesis, 9(3), 317-343, Agosto 1993.

20. ", 1958-60: A Reminiscence", in Language, Mind, and Art, D. Jamieson, ed., Kluwer 1994, Netherlands, pp 1-7.

21. Reprint of "Frege: the Last Logicist", in Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics, W. Demo- poulos, ed., Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1995.

22. "H MA HMATIKH A H EIA", Greek translation of "Mathematical Truth" in

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23. "Recantation, or 'Any old -sequence would do after all'", in Philosophia Mathematica, 4(2) May, 1996.

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24. "What Mathematical Truth Could Not Be - I", in Benacerraf and His Critics, A. Morton and S. P. Stich, eds., Blackwell's, Oxford and Cambridge [MA], 1996, pp 9-59.

25. Reprint of "Recantation", in Logica '95, Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium, T. Childers, P. Kolá, V. Svoboda, eds., Philosophia - I I , Praha 1996.

26. Reprint of "Mathematical Truth", in The Philosophy of Mathematics, W.D. Hart, ed., Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996.

27. Translation of "Mathematical Truth" [into Japanese by T. Ilida], in Readings in the Philosophy of Mathematics: after Gödel, T. Ilida, ed., Japan 1995.

28. “What Mathematical Truth Could Not Be – II” (Annual Logic Lecture of the British Logic Association), in Sets and Proofs, S. B. Cooper and J. K. Truss, eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK)1999, pp. 27-51.

29. Translation into Korean of item 13, Philosophy of Mathematics. Acanet, 2002.

30. “Amik A Szamok Nem Lehetnek”, translation into Hungarian of “What Numbers Could Not Be”, in A matematiks filozofiaja, Csaba Ferenc, ed., Budapest, 2003.

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