Edward N. Zalta
Curriculum Vitæ

Address: CSLI/Cordura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
Phone: 650-723-0488 (work)
Birthdate: March 16, 1952
Marital Status: married (to Susanne Z. Riehemann), no children
Electronic Mail: zalta@csli.stanford.edu
World Wide Web Home Page: http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html

Education

B.A., Cum Laude, Ideas and Methods, Rice University, May 1975
(approved by the departments of Philosophy, Biology, Behavioral Science, and Music)

Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, February 1981
(Thesis Director: Terence Parsons)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, AY 1984-1986

Areas of Specialization

• Metaphysics and Epistemology
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophical Logic/Philosophy of Logic
• Philosophy of Language/Intensional Logic
• Philosophy of Mind/Intentionality

Areas of Competence

• Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
• Contemporary History of Philosophy: Bolzano, Brentano, Husserl, Meinong, Frege, Russell, early Wittgenstein, Carnap, Quine
• Modern Philosophy: Rationalists, Empiricists, Kant
• Biomedical Ethics
• Computers and Ethics

Professional Experience

• Senior Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Language and Information,
  Stanford University (September 1997 – present)
• Consulting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
  Stanford University (September 1996 – August 1997)
• Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information,
  Stanford University (September 1989 – August 1997)
• Acting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
  Stanford University (Spring Quarter, 1996)
• Visiting Professor, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Salzburg
  (March 2003, June 1995, June 1992, June 1990)
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland,
  New Zealand (Spring Term, 1994)
• Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
  (AYs 1991–2, 1990–1, 1989–90, 1988–9, 1987–8, 1986–7, 1985–6)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Language and Information,
  Stanford University (September 1984 – August 1986)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rice University
  (September 1981 – August 1982)
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland,
  New Zealand (March 1981 – August 1981)
• Teaching Associate, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts,
  Amherst (AYs: 1978–79, 1979–80; and Fall 1980)

Awards and Fellowships:

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access Award #PA-51255-05, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Project, $150,000, October 2005 -- September 2007
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Grant #2005--6238, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Project, $190,000, September 1, 2005 -- August 31, 2007
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Challenge Grant Division Award #CH-50156,
  SOLINET/Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, $500,000, January 2005 -- December 2008, coauthored with Colin Allen and Sandra Nyberg
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access Grant #PA–50133-03,
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Project, $300,000, October 2003 – September 2005,
  co-authored with Colin Allen
• National Science Foundation, Digital Libraries Initiative II Grant #IIS-9981549,
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Project,
  $528,000, September 2000 – August 2003,
  coauthored with Colin Allen and Uri Nodelman
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Officer's Grant,
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Project,
  $43,000, February 2002 – August 2002,
  coauthored with Colin Allen
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access Grant #PA-23167-98,
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Project,
  $134,000, September 1998 – August 2000
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 1984-1986
• Teaching Associateship, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, 1978-1980
• Teaching Assistantship, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, 1977-1978
• Graduate Fellowship, Rice University, Spring 1975
• ΦΒΚ, Rice University, May 1975

Publications

Books:

Articles:

Critical Studies and Reviews:

Entries in Reference Works:

Online Monographs:

Extracurricular Refereed Publications:

Translations

T5.	Czech translation of A9, ‘O Logice Ontologického Dukazu’, Petr Hromek (trans.), in Studia Neoaristotelica, 4/1 (2007): 5–27.
T4.	French translation of A27, ‘Une base commune et quelques liens surprenants’, Jimmy Plourde (trans.), in Action, Attitudes, et Décision, D. Fisette and D. Vanderveken (eds.), London: College Publications, forthcoming.
T3.	Romanian translation of A22, ‘O Teorie Leibniziana a Conceptelor’, Delia-Ana Serbescu (trans.), in Analysis and Metaphysics, 4/2 (Supplement) (December 2005): 7–75.
T2.	Chinese translation of A14, ‘’, Xing Tao Tao (trans.), in Zhexue Yicong [Philosophical Translations], 1 (1994): 45–53, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
T1.	German translation of A28, ‘Erzählung als Taufe des Helden: Wie man auf fiktionale Objekte Bezug nimmt’, Arnold Günther (trans.), in Zeitschrift für Semiotik 9/1–2 (1987): 85–95. [Note: This translation appeared 16 years prior to the publication in English.]

Courses Taught:

Stanford University, Department of Philosophy (n/m = Qtr/Yr)

• Graduate Seminar: Platonism and Naturalism: 1/96
• Graduate Seminar: Object Theory: 1/90
• Graduate Seminar: Axiomatic Metaphysics: 3/86
• Graduate Seminar: Events: 1-2/85-86
• Graduate Seminar: The Semantics of Fiction: 3/85
• Mind, Matter, and Meaning (Philosophy 80): 3/92, 3/91, 1/89, 1/88
• Metaphysics (Philosophy 187): 1/90
• Philosophy of Language (Philosophy 180): 3/89
• The British Empiricists (Philosophy 123): 2/91
• Basic Concepts in Modal Logic (Philosophy 169): 3/90
• Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant (Philosophy 102): 2/89, 2/86
• Biomedical Ethics (Philosophy 78): 3/96, 1/91, 1/87, 1/86
• Computers and Ethics (Philosophy 75): 3/88
• Undergraduate Seminar (Philosophy 194): 3/92 (194B), 2/88 (194E)
• Basic Concepts in Mathematical Logic (Philosophy 159): 1/86

Universität Salzburg, Institut für Philosophie

• Graduate Seminar on Metaphysics and Ontology,
  March 2003, June 1995, June 1992, June 1990

University of Auckland (New Zealand), Department of Philosophy

• Meaning, Reference, and Truth, Spring 1994
• Philosophy of Language (Graduate), Spring 1994
• Philosophy of Religion (Graduate), Spring 1994
• Informal Semantics, Terms I, II, 1981
• Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Term I, 1981
• Mathematical Logic, Term II, 1981
• Biomedical Ethics, Term II, 1981

Rice University, Department of Philosophy

• Introduction to Logic, Spring 1982
• Philosophical Logic, Spring 1982
• Metaphysics, Fall 1981

University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Department of Philosophy

• Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 1980, 1979, 1978; Spring 1979
• Biomedical Ethics, Spring 1980

Invited Lectures:

Invited Conference Lectures

• Plenary Session, 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2008
• Invited Session, Association of Symbolic Logic meetings, Pasadena, CA, March 21, 2008
• Plenary Session, Conference on Logic and Cross-Cultural Communication, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, China, June 20, 2007
• Plenary Session, International Conference, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, June 16, 2007
• London-Paris Workshop, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), Paris, December 17, 2006.
• Keynote Lecture, II International Colloquium on Metaphysics, Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Norte, November 8, 2006.
• ‘Terence Parsons Fest’, Philosophy Department, UCLA, October 28, 2005
• Plenary Session, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, May 20, 2004
• Computing and Philosophy Conference, August 8, 2003
  ("Steps Toward a Computational Metaphysics", with Branden Fitelson)
  Slides for the Lecture (in PDF)
• Young Leibniz Conference, Rice University, April 20, 2003
• Keynote Lecture, Conference on Action, Attitudes and Decision, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, October 4, 2002
• Arché Conference, ‘Does Mathematics Need a Foundation’, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, Summer 2002
• Plenary Session, Workshop on Fiction, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy, June 4 2002
• Plenary Session, Workshop on Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, University of Cambridge, June 1, 2002
• Invited Symposium, Pacific Division, APA, March 28, 2002
• Invited Panel, Pacific Division, APA: The Impact of Computing on Research (Special session sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers), March 31, 2002
• Plenary Session, Computing Arts Conference (Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities), University of Sydney, September 2001
• Keynote Lecture, Spindel Conference, University of Memphis, September 2001
• Plenary Session, LOGICA 2000 Conference, Liblice, Czech Republic, June 2000
• Plenary Session, Conference on Naturalism, Baylor University, April 2000
• Invited Session, National Endowment for the Humanities, Workshop on Encyclopedias, Washington, D.C., June 2000
• Plenary Session, 22nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria (August 1999)
• `Naming, Necessity, and More' Conference, University of Haifa, Israel, June 1999
• Plenary Session, International Frege Symposium, Slovenian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Slovenia, November 1998
• Invited Session, Association for Symbolic Logic Meetings, Los Angeles, March 1998
• Keynote Lecture, 11th Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 1997
• Plenary Session, Workshop on Concepts of Reduction in Logic and Philosophy, 3. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Munich, Germany, September 1997
• International Mally Symposium, Universität Salzburg, Austria, June 1992
• Author-Meets-Critics Session, Pacific Division, APA, March 1992
• Plenary Session, Minnesota Conference on Language and Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 1989

Invited Department Lectures

2008

• Recherches Epistémologiques et Historiques sur les Sciences Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques, Université Paris 7, March 12, 2008.
• Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, March 11, 2008.

2007

• Department of Philosophy, Arizona State University, October 5, 2007
• Department of Philosophy, Capitol Normal University, Beijing, China, June 27, 2007
• Department of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, June 26, 2007
• Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, June 15, 2007
• Lecture Series, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, April 30–May 4, 2007
• Department of Philosophy, U. Texas/Austin, March 29, 2007.

2006

• Arché, St. Andrews University, December 19, 2006
• Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, December 15, 2006
• Institute for Logic, Language and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, December 13, 2006.
• Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, December 12, 2006
• Departamento de Filosofia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, November 13, 2006
• Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência (CLE), Universidade Estadual de Campinas, November 10, 2006
• Philosophy Department, University of Bristol, March 15, 2006
• Jowett Philosophical Society, Oxford University, March 10, 2006
• Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, February 23, 2006
• Humanities Informatics Lecture, Glasscock Center, Texas A&M University, February 22, 2006

2005

• Philosophy Department, Simon Fraser University, March 11, 2005.

2004

• Philosophy Department, Chiba University, December 2004.
• Philosophy Department, Hokkaido University, December 3,6,and 7, 2004.
• Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, May 23, 2004
• Philosophy Department, Hong Kong University, May 18, 2004
• Department of Philosophy, U. South Carolina/Columbia, April 15, 2004
• Philosophy Department, Carnegie Mellon, March 4, 2004
• Center for the Philosophy of Science, U. Pittsburgh, March 2, 2004

2003

• Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California/Irvine, November 21, 2003
• Institut für Philosophie, Universität Salzburg, March 13, 2003
• Seminar für Philosophie, Logik, und Wissenschaftstheories, Universität München, March 6, 2003

2002

• Dipartmento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Torino, June 7, 2002
• Dipartmento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Milano, June 6, 2002
• Dipartmento di Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy, June 5, 2002
• Departement d'études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure and Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, May 30, 2002
• Discussion Group, Oriel College, University of Oxford, May 29, 2002
• Philosophy Programme, School of Advanced Study, University of London, May 28, 2002
• Philosophy Department, Kings College, University of London, May 27, 2002.
• Philosophy Department, U. Maryland, March 20, 2002

2001

• Philosophy Department, University of Arizona, October 2001
• Philosophy Program (RSSS), Australian National University, October 2001
• Joint Faculty Seminar, University of Sydney and Macquarie University, October 2001
• Dipartimento di Filosofia (Lecture Series), Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Series, June 2001
• Philosophy Department, University of Washington, March 2001
• Working Group on History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics and Science, University of California, Berkeley, February 2001
• Technical Forum, Xerox PARC, February 2001

2000

• Philosophy Department, Columbia University, December 2000
• Philosophy Department, Notre Dame University, October 2000
• Philosophy Department, Indiana University/Bloomington, October 2000
• Logic Group, Indiana University/Bloomington, October 2000
• Digital Library Seminar, UC/Berkeley, September 2000
• Institut für Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie, Universität Leipzig, Germany, June 2000
• Institut für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, June 2000

1999

• Philosophy Department, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, September 1999
• Philosophy Department, University of Edinburg, Scotland, September 1999

1998

• Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg, Germany, December 1998
• Studiengang Philosophie, Universität Bremen, Germany, December 1998
• Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Bonn, Germany, December 1998
• Philosophy Department, University of Tasmania, Australia, September 1998
• Philosophy Department, University of Queensland, Australia, July 1998

1997

• Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, December 1997
• Philosophy Program (RSSS), Australian National University, July 1997
• Philosophy Department, Monash University, Australia, June 1997
• Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 1997
• Philosophy Department, University of Colorado/Boulder, February 1997

1995

• Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, November 1995
• Philosophy Department, San Jose State University, September 1995
• Institut für Philosophie, Universität Salzburg, Austria, June 1995
• Institut für Philosophie, Universität Graz, Austria, June 1995
• Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Tübingen, Germany, June 1995
• Institut für Philosophie, Logik, und Wissenschaftstheorie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, June 1995
• Philosophy Department, University of California/Irvine, February 1995
• Philosophy Department, University of California/Santa Barbara, February 1995

1994

• Philosophy Department, Ohio State Univesity, November 1994
• Philosophy Department, University of Adelaide, Australia, June 1994
• Philosophy Department, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, June 1994
• Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, June 1994
• Philosophy Program, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, May 1994
• Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, May 1994
• Philosophy Department, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, May 1994
• Philosophy Department, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, May 1994
• Philosophy Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, April 1994
• Philosophy Department, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, April 1994
• Philosophy Department, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, April 1994
• Philosophy Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Alberta), Canada, February 1994
• Philosophy Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, January 1994

1993

• Philosophy Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, December 1993
• Philosophy Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, November 1993
• Philosophy Department, California State University, Northridge, CA, November 1993
• Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, June 1993
• Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, May 1993
• Institut für Philosophie, Universität Salzburg, Austria, May 1993

1992

• Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, July 1992
• Institut für Philosophie, Universität Graz, Austria, June 1992
• Seminar für Philosophie, Logik, und Wissenschaftstheorie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, June 1992

1981–1991

• Philosophy Department, University of Houston, Houston, TX, March 1991
• Seminar für Philosophie, Logik, und Wissenschaftstheorie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, June 1990
• Institut für Philosophie, Universität Salzburg, August 1989
• Philosophy Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, March 1989
• Philosophy Department, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, March 1989
• Cognitive Science Program, University of California/Berkeley, CA, November 1985
• Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 1983
• Philosophy Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 1981
• Philosophy Department, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, March 1981

Invited Graduate Seminars

• Graduate Seminar, Philosophy of Language, University of California/Davis, March 5, 2008
• Graduate Seminar (Special Workshop), University of Texas/Austin, March 30, 2007
• Graduate Seminar, Metaphysics, University of California/Riverside, October 26, 2006
• Graduate Seminar, Philosophy of Mathematics, University of Bristol, March 14, 2006
• Graduate Seminar, History of Logic, Simon Fraser University, March 3, 2006
• Graduate Seminar, Metaphysics, Princeton University, November 1994
• Graduate Seminar, Logic, CUNY/Graduate Center, November 1994

Contributed Conference Papers and Commentaries:

• European Computing and Philosophy Conference, Pavia, Italy, June 2004
• CSLI Workshop on Logic, Language, and Computation, May 2001
• Pacific APA, March 2001 (Commentary)
• Ancient Studies -- New Technology Conference, Salve Regina University, December 2000
• Computing and Philosophy Conference, Pittsburgh, August 2000
• Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Brisbane, Australia, July 2-7, 2000
• Pacific APA, April 2000
• Eastern APA, December 1999
• Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998
• Australasian Association of Philosophy, Sydney, July 1998 (Contributed Paper)
• Australasian Association of Philosophy, Sydney, July 1998 (Commentary)
• Australasian Association of Logic, Sydney, July 1998
• Stanford Workshop on ‘Empty Names’, March 1998
• Eastern APA, December 1997
  (Group Meeting: Society for Machines and Mentality)
• Australasian Association of Philosophy, July 1997
• Australasian Association of Logic, July 1997
• Pacific APA, April 1996
  (Group Meeting: Society for the Study of Husserl's Philosophy)
• Australasian Association of Philosophy (New Zealand Division), May 1994
• Pacific APA, March 1993 (Commentary)
• Conference on Situation Theory and Its Applications, September 1990
• Pacific APA, March 1990
• Pacific APA, March 1987
• Eastern APA, December 1986 (Commentary)
• Pacific APA, March 1986
• Eastern APA, December 1985
• Pacific APA, March 1985
• Eastern APA, October 1983
• Pacific APA, March 1983
• Eastern APA, December 1981
• Australasian Association of Logic Conference, July 1981
• Australasian Association of Philosophy, May 1981

Other Professional Activities

• Member, Program Committee, Pacific Division, APA 1993–1996
• Journal Referee:
  • Journal of Philosophical Logic
  • Linguistics and Philosophy
  • Noûs
  • Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
  • Synthese
  • Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
  • Erkenntnis
  • Studia Logica
  • CSLI Publications
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
• Editorships:
  • Principal Editor, 1995 – present, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    World Wide Web site (URL) = http://plato.stanford.edu/
  • Editor, 1994 – present, The Metaphysics Research Lab Web Pages
    World Wide Web site (URL) = http://mally.stanford.edu/
  • Associate Editor, 1997 – present, Hippias
    (Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet)
    World Wide Web site (URL) = http://hippias.evansville.edu/
  • Assistant Editor, Themes From Kaplan, Joseph Almog, Howard Wettstein, and John Perry (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
• Coauthor: Computational Metaphysics web pages. Coauthors: Branden Fitelson and Paul E. Oppenheimer
  <http://mally.stanford.edu/cm/>