Vita



Vita

David A. Johnson

Address Telephone

699 West 239th St. Apt 6K (718) 548-3260

Bronx, NY 10463

Department of Philosophy

Yeshiva University

500 West 185th St.

New York, NY 10033

Education

PhD Princeton University 1989

BA University of Nebraska 1976

University Appointments

Yeshiva University, 2002-present Associate Professor

Yeshiva University, 1996-2002 Assistant Professor

University of California, Los Angeles, 1995-1996 Visiting Assistant Professor

University of Missouri, 1994-1995 Visiting Assistant Professor

Syracuse University, 1991-1994 Sutton Distinguished Faculty Fellow

University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, 1985-1986 Visiting Instructor

College of William and Mary, Spring 1985 Visiting Instructor

Somerset County College, New Jersey, Fall 1984 Adjunct Professor

Ohio State University, 1982-1983 Visiting Instructor

Wesleyan University, 1981-1982 Visiting Instructor

University of Connecticut, 1981-1982 Visiting Instructor

Books

Truth without Paradox (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004)

Hume, Holism, and Miracles (Cornell University Press, 1999)

Articles

“The Ghost in the Multiverse,” Sophia 50 (2011), pp. 357-362.

“Hume and Reports of Miracles,” in Jeffrey J. Jordan, ed., Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers (London: Continuum Press, 2011), pp. 137-158.

“A Modal Ontological Argument,” in David Shatz, ed., Philosophy and Faith (McGraw-Hill, 2001), pp. 179-183.

“A Reconsideration of an Argument against Compatibilism,” Philosophical Topics, 24:2

(Fall 1996), pp. 113-122. (Thomas J. McKay, co-author.)

“Conventionalism about Logical Truth,” Philosophical Topics, 23:1 (Spring 1995), pp. 189-212.

“Induction and Modality,” Philosophical Review, 100:3 (July 1991), pp. 399-430.

Dictionary Articles

“Bayesian Rationality” (p. 74), “Doomsday Argument” (p. 242), “Envelope Paradox” (p. 268), “Grue Paradox” (pp. 356-357), “Qualitative Predicate” (p. 762), in Robert Audi, ed., Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Professional Papers Presented

“The Ghost in the Multiverse,” Workshop on Metaphysics & Philosophy of Religion, University of Texas at San Antonio, April 10, 2010.

“Mondadori and Mondadori’s Body,” Conference on Themes from Mondadori, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, November 5, 2008.

“Comments on Beiong Lee’s ‘The Knower Paradox Revisited’,” Southwest Philosophical Society Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, 2 November 1997.

“A Reconsideration of an Argument against Compatibilism” (co-authored and co-presented with Thomas McKay), Chicago, Illinois, American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, April 1995.

“How Do We Know that Contradictions are False?,” Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska, August 1993.

“An Epitaph to Pythagoras,” Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University, March 1993.

“Notes on Grue,” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, fall 1985.

“Life after Death,” Williamsburg, Virginia, College of William and Mary, spring 1985.

“Notes on Grue,” Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska, fall 1983.

“Causation and Compound Events,” Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, fall 1982.

“Against Nozick,” Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, fall 1981.

“Passive Counterfactuals,” New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University, spring 1981.

“Hume on Induction,” Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Franklin and Marshall University, spring 1981.

Grants

Member of the NEH Summer Seminar on Naturalism, directed by Robert Audi, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, June-July 1993.

Professional and University Service

Referee for Nous, 1991.

Chair of Philosophy, Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University, 2006-2011.

Areas of Specialization

Epistemology

Philosophical Logic

Areas of Competence

Logic

Metaphysics

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Religion

Hume

Ancient Greek Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy

Modern Philosophy

Ethics

Courses Taught

Logic

Introduction to Logic (Wesleyan, Ohio State, Missouri, Yeshiva)

Symbolic Logic (Missouri, Yeshiva)

Intermediate Logic (Wisconsin/Milwaukee)

Advanced Logic (William and Mary, Missouri, Yeshiva)

Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science (Time and Relativity Theory), Wisconsin/Milwaukee

Ethics

Ethics (Yeshiva)

Honors Ethics (Ohio State)

Epistemology and Metaphysics

Theory of Knowledge (Wisconsin/Milwaukee)

Metaphysics and Epistemology (Connecticut)

Philosophy of Language (Wesleyan, Yeshiva)

Theories of the Mind (Yeshiva)

Graduate Seminar in Metaphysics (Connecticut)

Graduate Seminar in Epistemology (Ohio State)

Graduate Seminar on Epistemology of Modality (Syracuse)

Senior Seminar on Free Will (Missouri, Yeshiva)

Senior Seminar on Miracles (Yeshiva)

Senior Seminar on Modal Logic (Yeshiva)

Senior Seminar on Truth (Yeshiva)

Senior Seminar on Axiomatic Set Theory & Advanced Logic (Yeshiva)

Senior Seminar on Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem (Yeshiva)

Senior Seminar on Hume (Yeshiva)

Introduction to Philosophy of Mind (UCLA)

Metaphysics (UCLA)

History of Philosophy

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Yeshiva)

Modern Philosophy (Wesleyan, Yeshiva)

20th Century Analytic Philosophy (Wesleyan, Yeshiva)

Contemporary Philosophy (Syracuse)

Introduction to Philosophy

(William and Mary, Somerset, Ohio State, Connecticut, Syracuse, UCLA, Yeshiva)

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