Sam Cumming

sam Assistant Professor
PhD Rutgers, 2007

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

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

Online Work:

Creatures of Darkness, forthcoming (Analytic Philosophy)

From Coordination to Content, Philosophers' Imprint 13(4)

Indefinites and Intentional Identity, Phil. Studies (penultimate version)

A Puzzle About Indefinites, MS, 2012

The Semantics of Attention, MS, 2012

Discourse Content, forthcoming

Semantics for Nominalists, forthcoming

Narrative and POV, MS, 2010

Variabilism, Phil. Review, 2008 (penultimate version)

Proper Nouns, Dissertation, Rutgers, 2007 


Teaching:

Winter 2012 
     
172: Information Theory and Game Theory

Fall 2012 
      GECLST73A: Mind Over Matter: History, Science, and Philosophy of the Brain

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)