PHILOSOPHY: faculty
The City University of New York Graduate Center
Alan Berger
Director, Saul Kripke Center
- Ph.D. Rockefeller University
Email:
aberger@gc.cuny.edu
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Research Interests
- Philosophy of Language
- Metaphysics
- Philosophical Logic
- Philosophy and the Foundations of Mathematics
Courses Recently Taught
- Rigid Designation: Its Implications & Applications (Spring 2008)
Representative Publications
- Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric (MIT Press, 2002)
- Book Symposium on Terms and Truth in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, May 2006 ("Precis" and "Replies to Critics")
- Contemporary Philosophy in Focus Series, Volume on Saul Kripke, Editor, and Contributor, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming
- "Kripke on the Incoherency of Alternative Logics", in Contemporary Philosophy in Focus Series, Volume on Saul Kripke
- "The Quinean Quandary and the Indispensability of NonNaturalized Epistemology", The Philosophical Forum, Volume XXXIV Nos. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2003 (Special Double Memorial Issue on the Philosophical Ideas of Jerrold J. Katz)
- "A Formal Semantics For Plural Quantification, Intersentential Binding And Anaphoric Pronouns As Rigid Designators", Noûs, March 2002 issue (Vol.36, No. 1)
- "Propositions, Belief Attributions and Vacuous Names", a chapter in Naming, Necessity and More: An International Conference on the Work of Saul Kripke, Haifa, Israel Procedings, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
- "A Central Problem for a Speech Dispositional Account of Logic and Language", a chapter in Logic Words and Objects: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Willard Quine, eds. Robert Barrett and Roger Gibson, Basil Blackwell, 1990.