JAY F. ROSENBERG Taylor Grandy Professor

Jay Rosenberg works in contemporary analytic philosophy. He has published numerous articles on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, is co-editor of an anthology in the philosophy of language, and author of eight books: Linguistic Representation (1974), The Practice of Philosophy: A Handbook for Beginners (1978), One World and Our Knowledge of It (1980), Thinking Clearly About Death (1983, 1998), The Thinking Self (1986), Beyond Formalism: Naming and Necessity for Human Beings (1993), Three Conversations about Knowing (2000), and, most recently, Thinking About Knowing (2002). Some other publications include: "Wittgenstein's Theory of Language as Picture," American Philosophical Quarterly (1968); "The 'Given' and How To Take It -- Some Reflections on Phenomenal Ontology," Metaphilosophy (1975); "The Concept of Linguistic Correctness," Philosophical Studies (1976); "The Place of Color in the Scheme of Things," The Monist (1982); "Conversation and Intelligence," in Knowledge and Representation, ed. by DeGelder (1982); "Comparing the Incommensurable: Another Look at Convergent Realism," Philosophical Studies (1988); "'Tractarian States' and Folk Psychological Explanation," in The Future of Folk Psychology, ed. by Greenwood (1991); "Connectionism and Cognition," Acta Analytica (1991); "Another Look At Proper Names," Philosophical Perspectives (1993); "Raiders of the Lost Distinction: Richard Rorty and the Search for the Last Dichotomy," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1993) "Kantian Schemata and the Unity of Perception," in Language and Thought, ed. by Burri (1998); "Descartes' Skeptical Argument", History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, (1998); "Kant and the Problem of Simultaneous Causation", International Journal of Philosophical Studies (1998); "Perception vs. Inner Sense: A Problem about Direct Awareness," Philosophical Studies (2000), "Sellarsian Seeing: In Search of Perceptual Authority", in Perception, ed. by R. Schumacher (2003). [Complete CV]