Academic Degree Institution Year

Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 1975

Academic Positions Year

PROFESSOR 1998

ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1988

SENIOR LECTURER 1981

LECTURER 1976

External Academic Positions

Asst. Prof., Brandeis Univ., 1973

Fellow, Nat'l. Humanities Center, N.C., 1983-84

Univ. of California, 1984-5; Univ. of Chicago, 1985;

Woodrow Wilson Center, 1990-91;

Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities, 1999.

Awards and Honors:

Johnsonian Prize, Journal of Philosophy, 1981

Research Interests

Philosophy of science. Philosophy of language.

Epistemology. Metaphysics. Philosophy of mind

  Selected Publications

  A counterfactual theory of cause.  2001 

  Causal relevance.  2001 

  Lewis' 'Causation as Influence.'  2001 

  Cause and some positive causal impact.  1997 

  Counterfactual ambiguities, true premises and knowledge.  1994 

  A theory of thinker reference.  1994 

  Mediated reference and proper names.  1993 

  Seeing that and seeing as.  1993 

  The objective dimension of believing de re.  1992 

  Divided reference.  1989 

  Kripke's Belief Puzzle.  1986 

  A Theory of Counterfactuals. Indianapolis, Hackett  1986 

  Beliefs and believing.  1986 

  Quine and modalities de re: A way out?  1982