TAKASHI YAGISAWA

• 1977
  B.A. (First Class Honors) Philosophy, University of London (University College), England
• 1981
  Ph.D. Philosophy, Princeton University
  • Thesis Title ... Belief and Synonymy
  • Supervisor .... David Lewis
  • Readers ....... Gilbert Harman, Scott Soames

Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

• 1979
  • "Counterfactual Analysis of Causation and Kim's Examples", Analysis 39, March, 100-05.
• 1982
  • "How to Save the Compositionality Principle of Meaning from Quotation", Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association, April, 106-15.
• 1983
  • "Belief De Re Without Encounter", The Southern Journal of Philosophy 21, September, 461-74.
• 1984
  • "Proper Names as Variables", Erkenntnis 21, July, 195-208.
  • "The Pseudo-Mates Argument", The Philosophical Review 93, July, 407-18.
• 1985
  • "The Referential and the Attributive: A Distinction in Use?", The Southern Journal of Philosophy 23, Spring, 109-25.
  • Critical Review of Stephen P. Stich's book, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief (Cambrdige, MA: MIT Press, 1983), Nous 19, May, 288-94.
  • Japanese Translation of Saul A. Kripke's book, Naming and Necessity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), in collaboration with Keiichi Noé, with Yagisawa's introductory essay (Tokyo: Sangyo Tosho Publishing Co.).
• 1986
  • "Logical Structure of Ordinary Language" (in Japanese), Symbol, Logic, Metaphor: Iwanami Lectures "Tetsugaku (Philosophy)", vol. 3, S. Omori et al. (eds.), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishing Company), 150-75.
• 1987
  • "Yes, You!", Philosophia 17, March, 169-86.
• 1988
  • "Beyond Possible Worlds", Philosophical Studies 53, 175-204.
• 1989
  • "Psychologism in Linguistics", Perspectives on Psychologism, Mark A. Notturno (ed.), (Leiden: E.J. Brill), 426-89.
  • "The Reverse Frege Puzzle", Philosophical Perspectives, 3: Philosophy of Mind and Action, 1989, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company), 341-67.
• 1992
  • "Possible Worlds as Shifting Domains", Erkenntnis 36, 83-101.
  • Critical Review of Stephen Neale's Descriptions (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), Canadian Philosophical Reviews XII, no. 1, February, 49-51.
• 1993
  • "Modes of Presentation?", Analysis 53, January, 34-36.
  • "Logic Purified", Nous 27, 470-86.
  • "A Semantic Solution to Frege's Puzzle", Philosophical Perspectives, 7: Philosophy of Language and Logic, 1993, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company), 135-54.
  • "The Cost of Meaning Solipsism", Grazer Philosophische Studien 46, 213-30.
• 1994
  • "Thinking in Neurons: Comments on Schiffer", Philosophical Studies, 287-96.
• 1995
  • Five entries ("Definiendum", "Definition", "Intensionality", "Logical Syntax", and "Rational Reconstruction") in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • "Reference Ex Machina", Karlovy Vary Studies in Reference and Meaning, J. Hill and P. Kotátko (eds.), (Prague: FILOSOPHIA Publications), 215-42.
• 1997
  • "Salmon Trapping", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57.2, 351-70.
  • "A Somewhat Russellian Theory of Intensional Contexts", Philosophical Perspectives, 11: Mind, Causation, and World, 1997, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Oxford: Blackwell), 43-82.
  • "Knocked Out Senseless: Naturalism and Analyticity", The Maribor Papers: Essays on Semantic Naturalism, Dunja Jutric (ed.), (Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press) 82-95.
  • Five entries ("Essentialism", "Saul Kripke", "Modal Logic", "Montague Grammar", and "Naming and Necessity") in Iwanami Dictionary of Philosophy (in Japanese), K. Mishima et al. (eds.), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten).
• 1998
  • "Naming and Its Place in Reference", Lingua e Stile (Anno XXXIII, n. 3, settembre 1998), 445-58.
• 2000
  • One new entry, "Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis", in addition to the five first-edition entries listed above (1995) in the second edition of Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • A chapter on "Logic" in Reflections on Philosophy, Leemon McHenry and Frederick Adams (eds.), (Woburn, MA: Booktech), 11-33.
• 2001
  • "Partee Verbs", Philosophical Studies 103, 253-70.
  • "Against Creationism in Fiction", Philosophical Perspectives, 15: Metaphysics, 2001, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Oxford: Blackwell), 153-72.
• 2002
  • "Primitve Worlds", Acta Analytica vol. 17, issue 28, 19-37.
• 2003
  • “David Lewis”, American Philosophers, 1950-2000 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 279), P. B. Dematteis and L. McHenry (eds.), (Detroit, MI: Gale), 167-75.
• 2005
  • “A New Argument Against the Existence Requirement”, Analysis 65.1, 39-42. (This is an electronic version of an article published in Analysis, complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Analysis, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal’s website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/anal or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.)
  • “Possible Objects”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online, first published on April 15; revised on July 21, 2005 and on August 31, 2009), E. Zalta (ed.)
  • Critical Review of Wayne A. Davis's book, Meaning, Expression, and Thought, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 71.3, 744-7.
• 2007
  • “Ghosts are Chilly” (coauthored with W. D. Hart), Persons: Human and Divine, P. van Inwagen & D. Zimmerman (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 166-8.
• 2008
  • Four entries (“Essentialism”, “Grammar”, “Logic: Modal”, “Possibility”) in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, J. Lachs & R. Talisse (eds.), (London: Routledge)
  • "Modal Realism with Modal Tense", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86.2, 309-27.
  • Critical Review of Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker, edited by Judith Thomson and Alex Byrne, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), Mind 117.466, 532-7.
• 2009
  • Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2010
  • "An Analytic Philosopher Learns from Zhuangzi", forthcoming.

• 1980
  • "Belief and Proper Names", Tokyo University, July; Princeton University, October.
• 1981
  • "The Structure of Meaning", Case Western Reserve University, October.
  • "Names in Attitude Contexts", Case Western Reserve Universtiy, April.
• 1982
  • "How to Save the Compositionality of Meaning from Quotation", The Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meetings, Toledo, April.
• 1983
  • "In Defense of Belief De Se", The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meetings, Boston, December.
  • "Functionalism and the Twin Earth Argument", University of Cincinnati, October.
  • "Functionalism Elaborated", Case Western Reserve University, September.
  • "Platonism in Linguistics", National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, University of Maryland, August.
• 1984
  • "Indexism", Swarthmore College, May; University of Cincinnati, May.
  • "Taking Speaker's Meaning Seriously", Columbia University, February; Boston University, March.
• 1985
  • "On Functionalism", University College, London, England, March.
  • "Indexing Beliefs", University of Iowa, January; Northern Illinois University, February; University of Minnesota, March.
• 1986
  • "Keeping Up with the Oscars", East Carolina University, October; The Triangle Circle Discussion Group on Philosophy of Language and Mind, October; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November.
• 1988
  • "The Reverse Frege Puzzle", California State University, Northridge, April.
• 1989
  • "Names Are Not Singular Terms", California State University, Northridge, November.
• 1990
  • "Proper Names and Frege's Puzzle", Zadar University, Yugoslavia, June; the annual symposium of the Union of the Philosophical Societies of Yugoslavia; University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, June; the Rijeka Philosophy Group, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, June.
• 1991
  • "Names and Informativeness", Conference on Mind and Language, University of Cincinnati, March.
• 1992
  • "A Constructive Proof of the Possibility of a Punctate Meaningful State", National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Rutgers University, August.
• 1993
  • "Another Russellian Theory of Belief Sentences", University of California, Davis, October.
  • "Skepticism Redux", Tohoku Universtiy, Sendai, Japan, June.
  • "Semantics of Indirect Discourse", Tokyo University, May; Keio University, Tokyo, May.
  • "Descriptions of Intensional Objects", University of New Mexico, March.
• 1994
  • "Obstinate Opacity", the Graduate Center, City University of New York, April; University of Florida, May.
  • "Reference Ex Machina", Tulane University, April; Virginia Commonwealth University, May; The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Reference, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, June.
• 1995
  • "Being and Somethingness", The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Questions From Quine, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September.
  • "Existence: Who Needs It? A Modest Proposal on How to Think About God, Superman, the Fountain of Youth, and Everything Else", California State University, Northridge, April.
• 1996
  • "Russell's Theory of Descriptions Withstands the Rising Temperature", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meetings, Seattle, April; Stockholm University, June.
  • "Knocked Out Senseless: Naturalism and Analiticity", The Maribor Conference on Naturalized Semantics, University of Maribor, Slovenia, June.
  • "Linguistic Platonism and Its Implications", The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Interpreting Davidson, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September.
• 1997
  • "Naming and Its Place in Reference", A Workshop on Reference: Semantics and Pragmatics, University of Palermo, Italy, March.
• 1999
  • "Does Captain Picard Exist?", Occidental College, Los Angeles, October.
• 2001
  • "Minimal Realism About Possible Worlds", Bled Conference on Metaphysics, Bled, Slovenia, June.
  • "Primitive Worlds: Modal Innocence Regained", California State University, Northridge, October; The Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November.
• 2003
  • "Philosophical Conversations in Memory of James E. Tomberlin (1942-2002)", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March.
  • “Lewisian Iterated Modal Indexing”, Northwest Philosophy Conference, Reed College, Portland, OR, October.
• 2004
  • “Another Realist Theory of Possibilia”, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, October; Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, October.
• 2005
  • “Modal Realism and Modal Tense”, Southern California Philosophy Conference, California State University, Northridge, CA, October 29.
• 2006
  • “Modal Realism and Modal Tense”, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March.
• 2008
  • “An Analytic Philosopher Learns from Zhuangzi”, Nohon University, Tokyo, Japan, December 18 and 22.
• 2009
  • "Who's Afraid of Impossibilities?", Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, July 9.
  • “Scene Imagined Seen and Impossible Content”, University of California, Irvine, November 6.

• 1986
  • On Thomas C. Ryckman's "On Saying What We Say Because We Believe What We say", The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meeting, December 29, Boston.
• 1987
  • On James K. Swindler's "Putnam's Demon", The American Philosophical Association Central Division Annual Meeting, May, 1, Chicago.
• 1988
  • On Robert A. Foreman's "Turing Testing Searle's Chinese Room", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 24, Portland, OR.
• 1993
  • On Stephen Schiffer's "The Language-of-Thought Relation and Its Implications", The Thirty-First Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, April 17, Oberlin, OH.
• 1997
  • On Nathan Salmon’s "Tense and Intension", The International Conference on Time, Tense, & Reference, April 12, Santa Barbara, CA.
• 2002
  • On Laura Schroeter's "Gruesome Diagonals", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 28, Seattle, WA.
• 2003
  • On Andrew Egan's "Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties", Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 4, Bellingham, WA.
  • On Guy Rohrbaugh and Louis deRosset’s “A New Route to the Necessity of Origin”, Northwestern Philosophy Conference, Reed College, OR., October 3.

• 1988
  • Two sessions on metaphysics, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25.
• 1990
  • Three sessions on metaphysics, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 30.
• 1992
  • An Author Meets Critics session on Graeme Forbes' Languages of Possibility, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 30.
• 1993
  • An Author Meets Critics session on Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore's Holism: A Shopper's Guide, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 29.
• 1994
  • Four sessions, The Karlovy Vary Philosophical Symposium on Reference, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, June 23.
• 1995
  • An Author Meets Critics session on Jaegwon Kim's Mind and Supervenience, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, April 1.
• 1999
  • A session on epistemology, The American Philosophical Association Central Division Annual Meeting, May 8.
• 2001
  • A session on mental causation, and a session on personal identity, Bled Conference: Metaphysics, Bled, Slovenia, June 6 and 9.
• 2004
  • An Author Meets Critics session on Scott Soames’s book, Beyond Rigidity, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25.
• 2005
  • An Author Meets Critics session on Crawford Elder’s book, Real Natures and Familiar Objects, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25.
  • An Author Meets Critics session on Ernest Lepore and Herman Capellan’s book, Minimal Semantics, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 26.

• 1976
  • Dawes Hicks Award, University College, London.
• 1977-81
  • Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University.
• 1983
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Philosophical Implications of Cognitive Science by Stephen P. Stich, University of Maryland.
• 1983-84
  • Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Cincinnati.
• 1987
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 1988
  • Affirmative Action Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Northridge.
  • Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, California State University, Northridge.
• 1989
  • Affirmative Action Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Northridge.
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 1990
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.
  • Summer Fellowship, California State University, Northridge.
• 1992
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Meaning Holism by Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore, Rutgers University.
• 1993
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the Nature of Meaning by Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore, Rutgers University.
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 1999
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 2001
  • Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.
• 2004
  • Faculty Fellowship, College of Humanities, California State University, Northridge.

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• Mind
• American Philosophical Quarterly
• Australasian Journal of Philosophy
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• 1992-2003 Philosophical Perspectives

• 1978-80 ... Princeton University, Teaching Assistant
• 1981-83 ... Case Western Reserve University, Assistant Professor
• 1984-85 ... University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Visiting Assistant Professor
• 1985-86 ... New York University, Visiting Assistant Professor
• 1986-87 ... University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor
• 1987-90 ... California State University, Northridge, Assistant Professor
• 1990-94 ... California State University, Northridge, Associate Professor
• 1994- ....... California State University, Northridge, Professor
• 2008- ....... California State University, Northridge, Department Chair

Courses Taught:
• Introductory Philosophy
• Introductory Ethics
• Introductory Logic
• Intermediate Logic
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Language
• Epistemology
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Science
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Logic
• Seminar on Possible Worlds
• Seminar on Situation Semantics
• Seminar on Gödel’s Theorems
• Seminar on Linguistics and Cognitive Science.

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