AVNER BAZ Professor and Chair Department of Philosophy Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 617-627-2842 [email protected] EMPLOYMENT February 2018-Present: Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University. May 2010-February 2018: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University. July 2004—May 2010: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Philosophy, Tufts University. September 2000—June 2004: A Harper and Schmidt Assistant Professor, University of Chicago. EDUCATION University of Illinois at Chicago, PhD. Degree awarded: June, 2000. University of Tel-Aviv, MA, Summa cum Laude, The Interdisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence. Degree awarded: September, 1994. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Epistemology, Perception, Ordinary Language Philosophy, Kant, the later Wittgenstein. AREAS OF COMPETENCE Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Aesthetics, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Early Modern Philosophy. Avner Baz, p. 2 PUBLICATIONS Books Wittgenstein on Aspect Perception – Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. The Significance of Aspect Perception: Bringing the Phenomenal World into View – Springer (2020). The Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy – Oxford University Press (2017). When Words Are Called For – In Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy – Harvard University Press (2012). Peer-Reviewed Articles 15. ‘Motivational Indeterminacy’. European Journal of Philosophy 25 (2017): 336-357. 14. ‘The Sound of Bedrock: Lines of Grammar between Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell’. European Journal of Philosophy 24 (2016): 607-628. 13. ‘On Going (and Getting) Nowhere with our Words: New Skepticism about the Philosophical Method of Cases’. Philosophical Psychology 29 (2016): 64-83. 12. ‘Recent Attempts to Defend the Philosophical Method of Cases, and the Linguistic (Re)turn – Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (2016): 105-130. 11. ‘Whose Dream Is It Anyway?’– International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 4 (2014): 263-287. 10. ‘Must Philosophers Rely on Intuitions?’ – Journal of Philosophy (Volume 109: 4, April 2012). 9. ‘Geach’s “Refutation” of Austin Revisited’- Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Volume 40:1, March 2010). 8. ‘Who Knows?’ – European Journal of Philosophy (Volume 17:2, April 2009). Avner Baz, p. 3 7. ‘Being Right, and Being in the Right’ – Inquiry (Volume 51:6, December 2008). 6. ‘The Reaches of Words’ – International Journal of Philosophical Studies (Volume 16:1, January 2008). 5. ‘Kant’s Principle of Purposiveness, and the Missing Point of (Aesthetic) Judgments’ – Kantian Review (Volume 10:1, May 2005). 4. ‘Moral Justification and the Idea of an Ethical Position’ – Philosophy (Volume 80: 311, January 2005). 3. ‘What’s the Point of Calling Out Beauty?’ – The British Journal of Aesthetics (Volume 44:1, January 2004). 2. ‘On When Words are Called For—Cavell, McDowell, and the Wording of Our World’ – Inquiry (Volume 46:4, December 2003). 1. ‘What’s the Point of Seeing Aspects?’ – Philosophical Investigations (Volume 23:2, April 2000, pp. 97-122). Invited Articles 14. ‘Stanley Cavell’s Argument of the Ordinary’. The Nordic Wittgenstein Review, December 2018. 13. ‘Contextualism and the Twilight of Representationalism’. In Contextualism and Ordinary Language Philosophy, David Zapero (ed.) (Routledge, 2019). 12. ‘Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of What Normally Goes Without Saying’. In The Form of Our Life with Words. Christian Martin (ed.). (de Gruyter, 2018). 11. ‘Bringing the Phenomenal World into View’. Forthcoming in Wittgenstein on Objectivity, Intuition, and Meaning. James Conant and Sebastian Greve (eds.). (Cambridge University Press). 10. ‘On Alice Crary’s Inside Ethics’. In Syndicate, Timothy Furry and Ethan Smith (eds.) (https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/inside-ethics), 2018. 9. ‘Phenomenology, Language, and the Limitations of the Wittgensteinian Grammatical Investigation’. In Wittgenstein and the Phenomenological Turn, Oskari Kuusela, Mihai Ometita and Timur Ųcan (eds.), (Routledge, 2018). 8. ‘Ordinary Language Philosophy’. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology. Herman Cappelen, Tamar Gendler, and John Hawthorne (eds.). Avner Baz, p. 4 (Oxford University Press, 2016). 7. ‘Aspects of Perception’–in Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation: Seeing-as and Seeing-in. Gary Kemp and Gabriele Mras (eds.), (Routledge, 2016). 6. ‘Questioning the Method of Cases Fundamentally—Reply to Deutsch’. Inquiry 58 (2015): 895-907. 5. ‘Knowing Knowing (that Such and Such)’ – in New Essays on the Philosophy of J. L. Austin. Richard Sørly and Martin Gustafsson (eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2011). 4. ‘Aspect Perception and Philosophical Difficulty’ – in Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein. Marie McGinn and Oskari Kuusela (eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2011). 3. ‘On Learning from Wittgenstein; or What Does it Take to See the Grammar of Seeing Aspects?’ – in Seeing Wittgenstein Anew, William Day and Victor Krebs (eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2009). 2. ‘Wittgenstein on Seeing Aspects’ – in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Key Concepts, Kelly Jolley (ed.), (Acumen, 2009). 1. ‘Ordinary Language Philosophy’ – in Pragmatics Encyclopedia, Louise Cummins (ed.), (Routledge, 2009). Reviews 2. Review of Daniel Stoljar’s Philosophical Progress – Mind, October 2019. 1. Review of Michael Campbell and Michael O’Sullivan (eds.), Wittgenstein And Perception (Routledge, 2015) – Notre Dame Philosophical Review, August 2015. Varia Mishla Asks for a New Dad (a children’s book) -- (Sifriyat Po’alim, Israel, July 2005). Avner Baz, p. 5 WORK IN PROGRESS ‘On the Moralization of Moral Theory’. RECENT AND UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS 48. ‘On Édouard Machery’s Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds’. The Annual Meeting of the Pacific American Philosophical Association. San Francisco, April, 2020. 47. ‘The Problem of “The World” in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy’. Georgetown University. February, 2020. 46. ‘Cavell and Merleau-Ponty on Other Minds’. University of Leipzig. November, 2019. 45. ‘Ordinary Language Philosophy’. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. September, 2019. 44. ‘Stanley Cavell’s Argument of the Ordinary’. Boston University. February, 2019. 43. ‘Ordinary Language Philosophy’ (Seminar). University of Zurich. December, 2018. 42. ‘Stanley Cavell’s Argument of the Ordinary’. Harvard University. November, 2018. 41. ‘Response to Critics’. In ‘Author Meets Critics’ session at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific American Philosophical Association. San Diego, March, 2018. 40. ‘Contextualism and the Twilight of Representationalism’. Department of Philosophy, Haifa University, December, 2017. 39. ‘Phenomenology and the Limitations of the Wittgensteinian Grammatical Investigation’. Keynote talk at the ‘What’s Wrong (and What’s Right) with Ordinary Language Philosophy’, Åbo Academy, Finland, May 2017. 38. ‘Stanley Cavell’s Ordinary Language Philosophy Existentialism’. Talk at the ‘Changing Politics: Conversations with Stanley Cavell’ Conference. Tufts University, March, 2017. Avner Baz, p. 6 37. ‘Contextualism and the Twilight of Representationalism’. Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, December, 2016. 36. ‘Contextualism and the Twilight of Representationalism’. University of Porto, May, 2016. 35. ‘What Must be Accepted’. Conference on ‘The Form of our Life with Language’. Munich, May, 2016. 34. ‘Phenomenology, Languge, and the Limitations of the Wittgensteinian Grammatical Investigation’. Keynote Talk at the Annual Conference of the Boston Phenomenology Circle. April, 2016. 33. ‘Motivational Indeterminacy’. University of Chicago. April, 2016. 32. ‘Ordinary Language Philosophy’. Western Michigan University. April, 2016. 31. ‘Contextualism and the Twilight of Representationalism’. Boston University, February, 2016. 30. ‘Ethics and the Indeterminacy of Motivation’, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, July 2015. 29. ‘Aspects of Perception’, University of Amiens, June, 2015. 28. ‘Aspects of Perception’, "Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne" at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, May, 2015. 27. ‘Ordinary Language Philosophy’, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, May, 2015. 26. ‘Aspects of Perception’, Boston University, February, 2015. 25. ‘The Sound of Bedrock: Lines of Grammar between Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell’, Åbo Academy, Finland, May, 2014. 24. ‘Rethinking our Concept of Concept’, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, May, 2014. 23. ‘Kant and Wittgenstein on the Sound of Bedrock’, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, April, 2014. 22. ‘Ordinary Language Philosophy and Empiricism’, Amherst College, Spring, 2014. Avner Baz, p. 7 21. ‘Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, and the Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy’, Tel Aviv University, January, 2014. 20. ‘Contemporary Analytic Philosophy and Empirical Studies of Language’, The Nordic Wittgenstein Workshop, Finland, May, 2013. 19. ‘Wittgenstein and the Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy’, Göttingen, Germany, May, 2013. 18. ‘Armchair Philosophy, Experimental Philosophy, and the Crisis of Philosophical Method’, California State University, Fullerton, March, 2013. 17. ‘Armchair Philosophy, Experimental Philosophy, and the Crisis of Philosophical Method’, Keynote talk at a Conference in memory of Gordon Baker, Oxford University, September, 2012. 16. ‘Responses to Skepticism—Standard and Nonstandard’, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June, 2012. 15. ‘On Thompson Clarke on Dreams’, University of Bordeaux, June, 2011. 14. ‘Seeing Aspects and Philosophical Difficulty’,