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Cindy STERN

Contact Information

Cindy Sterncindy.stern@csun.edu

818-677-4853

Sierra Tower 508

Office hours: Tu & Th 8:00-9:15 AM, and Tu 4:00 - 4:30 PM

Department of Philosophy

818-677-2757

Sierra Tower 522 & 524

 

Fall 2008 Courses

PHIL 100 Tu Th 9:30 - 11:10 AM JH 1212 18316
PHIL 355 with Professor Weimin Sun Tu Th 2:00 - 3:40 PM SH 190 18321

 

Other courses taught at CSUN

PHIL 150 Introduction to Philosophical Thought
PHIL 202 Modern Philosophy
PHIL 230 Introduction to Formal Logic
PHIL 310 Philosophical Problems
PHIL 330 Philosophy of Science
PHIL 331 Intermediate Logic
PHIL 350 Epistemology and Metaphysics
PHIL 402 Advanced Modern Philosophy
PHIL 431 Philosophical Topics in Logic
PHIL 445 Philosophy of Language
PHIL 455 Advanced Topics in Mind and Reality

 

Education

B.A., Philosophy, College of William and Mary, 1974
M.L.S., Syracuse University, 1975
Ph.D, Philosophy, Syracuse University, 1980

 

Research

Interests

metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, Hume's metaphpysics and epistemology

Publications

"The Temporal Priority of Causes: Full Explanation or Full Circle?" Analysis, 53 (1993) 147-154.

"Semantic Emphasis in Causal Sentences," Synthese, 95 (1993), 379-418.

"Discussion: On Justification Conditional Models of Linguistic Competence," Mind , 99 (1990), 441-445.

"Paraphrase and Parsimony," Metaphilosophy, 20 (1989), 34-42.

"The Prospects for Elimination of Event-Talk," Philosophical Studies, 54 (1988), 43-62.

"Hume and the Self at a Moment," History of Philosophy Quarterly, 4 (1987), 217-233.

"Logical Features of Reference to Facts in Causal Statements," Philosophical Studies, 41 (1982), 197-211.

"Lewis' Counterfactual Analysis of Causation," Synthese, 48 (1981), 333-345.

"Natural Kind Terms and Standards of Membership," with Thomas McKay, Linguistics and Philosophy, 3 (1979), 27-34.

"The Alleged Extensionality of 'Causal Explanatory Contexts'," Philosophy of Science, 45 (1978), 614-625.

Dissertation

Causation, Necessity, and the Logic of Causal Statements