Sam Cumming

sam Assistant Professor
PhD Rutgers, 2007

Interests:
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Semantics, Pragmatics, Literature, Film

Coming Events:
UCLA Visual Narrative Workshop, 20-22 June 2012

Online Work:

The Semantics of Attention, MS, 2012

Coordinating on Invisible Symbols, MS, 2011

Creatures of Darkness, forthcoming

A Puzzle About Indefinites, forthcoming

Discourse Content, forthcoming

Narrative and POV, MS, 2010

The Truth-Conditional Contribution of Indefinites, MS, 2010

Variabilism, Phil. Review, 2008 (penultimate version)

Proper Nouns, Dissertation, Rutgers, 2007 


Teaching:

Spring 2012 
      287: Vagueness (with Ed Stabler)

Winter 2012 
      200B: 1st-yr Seminar 

Fall 2011
      127A: Intro to Semantics 
      170: Phenomenal Content

Spring 2011 
      287: A New Basis for Semantics
      161: Mimesis

Winter 2010
      133: Topics in Logic and Semantics
       7: Intro to Philosophy of Mind

Fall 2009
      287: Point of View in Narrative 
      172: Philosophical and Computational Approaches to Pragmatics (with Ed Stabler)