Cindy STERN

cindy.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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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