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Cindy STERN
818-677-4853
Sierra Tower 508
Office hours: M W 7:00 - 7:45 AM, M 2:00 - 2:30 PM, and W 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Department of Philosophy
818-677-2757
Sierra Tower 522 & 524
Spring 2009 Courses
PHIL 230 Introduction to Formal Logic M W 8:00 - 9:15 AM SH 190 13855 PHIL 230 Introduction to Formal Logic M W 9:30 - 10:45 AM SH 190 13609 PHIL 431 Philosophical Topics in Logic M W 12:30 - 1:45 PM SH 224 17735
Other courses taught at CSUN
PHIL 100 General Logic 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 355 Mind and Reality 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