Address    Philosophy Department
                  Caldwell Hall CB #3125  1002 Clearwater Lake Rd
                  UNC-Chapel Hill
                  Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125  Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Telephone: (919) 962-3321    (919) 942-9461
e-mail:  dbar@email.unc.edu

Education

                  B.A., Tel Aviv University, Philosophy and Linguistics, cum laude.
                  Ph.D., UCLA, 1989, Philosophy; Dissertation: Indeterminacy of Translation: Theory and Practice.
 
Appointments Held

                  Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill  (1994-present)
                  Visiting Scholar, Tel Aviv University  (Spring 1993)
                  Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill   (1989-1994)
                  Visiting Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill  (Fall 1988)
                  Assistant Professor, Univ. of Rochester  (1987-89)

Fellowships and Awards

Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship (Fall 1999), Research and Study Assignment (Fall 1997); Cognitive Science Course Development Grant (Summer 1997); ACLS Travel Grant (Summer 1996); Max Chapman Faculty Fellowship (Spring 1995); Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (awarded 1994); Lupton Course Development Award (Summer 1993); NEH Stipend (Summer 1992); Junior Faculty Development Award (Summer 1991); Lurcy Faculty Fellowship (Spring 1991); Junior Research and Study Assignment (Fall 1990).

Areas of Specialization and Special Interest

Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Language and of Linguistics; Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (especially Quine, Davidson, Dummett and Wittgenstein), Epistemology

A book manuscript entitled Speaking My Mind: On the ‘Grammar’ and Epistemology of ‘I’-Talk
A monograph Linguistic Understanding: Theory and Practice (tentative title)
A book manuscript, Deflationism, Truth, and Meaning (with Keith Simmons)
A paper entitled “Language, Concepts and Culture: Between Pluralism and Relativism”
A paper entitled “Can Meaning Make True?”
An invited paper for an anthology on Privileged Access and First-Person Authority (Brie Gertler, ed.), Ashgate Epistemology
    and Mind Series (edited by E. Sosa and W. Brewer)
An invited paper for an anthology on Semantic Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism (Umit Yalcin and Susanna Nuccetelli
    eds.), Paul Moser’s series in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory

“Speaking My Mind,” (invited) Philosophical Topics (special issue on Introspection), forthcoming.
“Avowals and First-Person Privilege” (with Douglas Long), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 2001.
“Deflationism and Truth-Condition Theories of Meaning” (with William Lycan, and Claire Horisk), Philosophical Studies, 2001.
 “’Natural’ Semantic Facts – Between Eliminativism and Hyper-Realism”, The Maribor Papers in Naturalized Semantics,
    Dunja Jutronic, ed., 1997
"Anti-Realism and Speaker Knowledge", Synthese, 1996
"Reconstructing `Meaning': Grice and the Naturalization of Semantics", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, June 1995
"Indeterminacy of Translation: Theory and Practice", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, December 1995
"Conceptual Relativism and Translation", Language, Mind and Epistemology, Preyer et al (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers,
    1994
"Is There Such a Thing as a Language", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, June 1992 (with Mark Risjord)
"Semantic Verificationism, Linguistic Behaviorism, and Translation", Philosophical Studies, 1992
"On the Possibility of a Solitary Language", Noûs, March 1992
"The Underdetermination of Scientific Theories and the Indeterminacy of Semantic Theory", Proceedings of Logica 91
    (Czechoslovakia)
"Scepticism: The External World and Meaning", Philosophical Studies, December 1990
"Discrimination, Individual Justice and Preferential Treatment", Public Affairs Quarterly, April 1990
"Justifying Beliefs: The Dream Hypothesis and Gratuitous Entities" in Doubting: Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism (Ross
    and Roth eds.), 1990
"Semantic Indeterminacy and Scientific Underdetermination", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 67, October 1986, 245-263.

Reviews and Other Philosophical Publications

Review of Pragmatics, Vol. II (Asa Kasher, ed.), forthcoming in Pragmatics
Review of B. Loewer and G. Rey (eds), Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics, Philosophical Psychology, 1994
Review of Peter Strawson, Analysis and Metaphysics, Philosophia, 1994
Three entries in the Hebrew Encyclopedia: "Metaphysics", "Ontology", "Philosophical Logic", 1995 (with Keith Simmons)
Review of Christopher Hookway, Quine: Language, Experience and Reality, in International Studies in Philosophy, 1990

“Speaking My Mind: Expression and Knowledge”, invited talk at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, UNAM, March 2001
“Speaking My Mind”, invited talk at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Edmonton Alberta, May 2000
“Pains, Stains, and Automobiles: On Concepts and Reality (A Reply to John Heil)”, invited commentary at the UNC-Greensboro
    Symposium in Philosophy, March 2000
“Between Pluralism and Relativism”, invited talk at the XIVth Interamerican Congress of Philosophy, Puebla, Mexico, August 1999
“Speaking My Mind: On the ‘Grammar’ and Epistemology of ‘I’-Talk”, College of William and Mary, March 1999; University of
    South Carolina, November 1998
Comments on A. Anchustegui’s paper, Pacific APA April 1999
Invited workshop on Self-Knowledge, UCLA May 20, 22, 26, 28, 1998 (with Douglas Long)
 “Knowing Selves”, invited paper, Pacific APA March 1998 (with Douglas Long)
"`Natural' Semantic facts: Between Eliminativism and Hyper-Realism", invited paper, conference at Maribor (Slovenia), June 1996
"Naturalizing Semantics", Wake Forest, April 1996
"`Natural' Semantic Facts", East Carolina University, April 1996
"Language, Concepts and Culture: Between Pluralism and Relativism", North Carolina Philosophical Society, February 1996, and Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, April 1996
"Philosophy of Language: from Meaning to Interpretation", Workshop on Interpretation, Tel Aviv University, May 1993
(1) "Semantic Verificationism", (2) "Linguistic Knowledge", (3) "Against Dummett's `Semantic' Argument for Anti-Realism" - a
    series of 3 graduate seminar sessions, Tel Aviv University, April-May 1993
"Anti-Realism and Speaker Knowledge", Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 1993; Virginia Commonwealth University,
    November 1992; University of Maryland, April 1992
"Relativism", talk given to the Undergraduate Club at Virginia Commonwealth University, November 1992
"Translation and the Subject-Matter of Linguistics", paper delivered at a conference on W.V. Quine, Wittenberg University, Ohio,
    April 1992
"The Underdetermination of Scientific Theories and the Indeterminacy of Semantic Theory", Logica (an international conference on
    logic), Czechoslovakia, April 1991
"On the Possibility of a Solitary Language", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 1990;
    the Creighton Club (New York State), April 1989; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 1988
"Comments on Moser's `Two Roads to Skepticism'", Rochester Conference on Skepticism, May 1989
"Discrimination, Individual Justice and Preferential Treatment", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Central
    Division, April 1989; Susan B. Anthony Center Women Study Group, University of Rochester, February 1988; Research
    Triangle Ethics Circle, Chapel Hill, October 1988
"Scepticism: The External World and Meaning", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March
    1989
"Scepticism: The External World, Meaning and Other Minds", North Carolina State University, January 1988; University of North
    Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 1987; University of Rochester, February 1987; University of Iowa, February 1987
"Scientific Realism and Underdetermination", Amherst College, January 1987.
"The Reasons for Indeterminacy Reconsidered", Discipuli (University of Southern California Graduate Conference), April l986

   "`Who's To Say?': Cultural Diversity and the Bind of Relativism", in the College Lights Distinguished Teachers series, March 1996
   "On the Value of Teaching Philosophy", presentation at the first Chapman Conference on Teaching, UNC-Chapel Hill, April 8,
        1995

Professional Office   Treasurer, North Carolina Philosophical Society

Departmental Service at UNC
 
                    Chair, undergraduate committee
                    Chair, Colloquium Committee
                    Member, Graduate Admissions
                    Member, Graduate Committee
                    Member, Placement Committee

University Service

                   Member, Program in Ethics for Academic Affairs
                   Judge, 2nd Annual Southern Philosophy Conference, UNC Ashville (April 1999)
                   Member, Advisory Board for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
                   Member, Arts and Sciences Endowment Committee
                   Member, Committee for Designing a Major/Minor in the Cognitive Science Program
                   Member, Cognitive Science major curriculum committee

Organization Membership   American Philosophical Association

Referee

Linguistics and Philosophy, Noûs, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophia, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
    Poetics Today.

Other Professional Experience

Translator (to date); Television newscaster and interviewer in Hebrew (Channel 18, Los Angeles, 1983); Television writer and interviewer (Israel) Radio producer, editor and broadcaster (Israel).  Published translations include three anthologies in modern analytic philosophy, two novels (by Iris Murdoch and by Kurt Vonnegut), excerpts from novels by Dos Passos and by Dorothy Richardson, and poems by E. E. Cummings., modern Hebrew translations of Treasure Island and Ivanhoe and an English translation of a collection of poems by Zelda, in collaboration with poet and scholar Marcia Falk.