CURRICULUM VITAE 2008

Name:           Tyler Burge

Education:    B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1967, summa cum laude
Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1971

Fields of interest : Philosophy of Language and Logic, Philosophy of Psychology and Mind, Epistemology, History of Philosophy (esp. Kant and Frege).

Positions Held:   
1971-72: Acting Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1972-76: Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1976-79: Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1979-present : (Distinguished) Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1980-81:  Visiting Professor, MIT

1984-:  Visiting Professor, Munich University
1988-:  Visiting Professor, Bayreuth University
Winter 1998:  Visiting Professor, Stanford University
Fall 1998:  Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Spring 2004:  Visiting Professor, University of Bologna

Honors and Awards:

Guggenheim Fellowship
National Science Foundation
American Council of Learned Societies

Member, Institut International de Philosophie, elected 1990
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1993
President, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, 1999
Fellow, British Academy, Corresponding Member, elected 1999
American Philosophical Society, elected 2007

CHANGES IN PROGRESS

Books:

Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Gottlob Frege

Foundations of Mind, Philosophical Essays, Volume 2

Selected Publications :

“Truth and Mass Terms,”  The Journal of Philosophy 69 (1972), 263-282.

"Reference and Proper Names," The Journal of Philosophy, 70 (1973), 425-439; 5 reprintings or translations, including in Foundations of Mind (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2007).

“Truth and Singular Terms,” Nous 8 (1974) 309-325; 3 reprintings or translations, including Philosophical Applications of Free Logic, K. Lambert ed.  (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991).

“Demonstrative Constructions, Reference, and Truth,” The Journal   
of Philosophy 71(1974), 205-223.

“Mass Terms, Count Nouns and Change,” Synthese 23 (1975)
186-205; 1 reprinting: Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems, F.J. Pelletier ed. (Synthese Library, 1979).

“On Knowledge and Convention,” The Philosophical Review 84 (1975), 249-255;
reprinted in Foundations of Mind (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2007).

“Kaplan, Quine, and Suspended Belief,” Philosophical Studies 31 (1977), 197-203;
reprinted in Foundations of Mind (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2007).

"Belief De Re," The Journal of Philosophy, 74 (1977), 338-362.

"Individualism and the Mental," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 4 (1979), 73-121.

"Semantical Paradox," The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1979), 169-198.

"Frege on Extensions of Concepts: From 1884 to 1903," Philosophical Review 93   (1984), 3-34.

"Individualism and Psychology," Philosophical Review 95 (1986), 3-45.

"Content Preservation," Philosophical Review 103 (1993), 457-488

"Reason and the First-Person," in Knowing One's Own Mind, Wright, Smith, MacDonald eds. (Oxford, Blackwell, 1998).

"Five Theses on De Re States and Attitudes" in The Philosophy of David Kaplan, J. Almog and P. Leonardi eds. (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2009)