Curriculum Vitae Mark Edward Richard Department of Philosophy 617-495-0386 (office) Emerson Hall 25 Quincy Street Richard4@fas.harvard.edu Harvard University Cambridge MA 02138 Medford, MA 02155 Education B.A., Hamilton College, 1973 M.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979 Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1982 Areas of Specialization and Competence Specialization Philosophy of Language Epistemology Metaphysics Competence Mathematical and Intensional Logic Philosophy of Logic Philosophy of Mind Teaching Since 2010: Harvard University Professor 1984-2010: Tufts University Assistant Professor (1984) Associate Professor (1990) Professor (1999) Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2007) 1982-1984: University of Washington at Seattle Visiting Assistant Professor. 1979-1982: North Carolina State University at Raleigh Visiting Assistant Professor. 1
Publications Meaning in Context: Collected Essays 1981-2010. (2 Volumes; Oxford University Press, to appear in 2012-13). Introduction: Mental States and their Ascription", in Meaning in Context, Volume I, (OUP, to appear in 2012). Time, Tense, and What s Said, in Meaning in Context, Volume II, (OUP, to appear in 2013). Relativisms, in Meaning in Context, Volume II, (OUP, to appear in 2013). Learnability and the Lexicon, in Meaning in Context, Volume II, (OUP, to appear in 2013). Did I Mention What he Said?, in Meaning in Context, Volume II, (OUP, to appear in 2013). "Content Inside Out", Analytic Philosophy, forthcoming. Precis of When Truth Gives Out, Philosophical Studies (In a symposium on Mark Richard, When Truth Gives Out). Published online 11 September 2011: http://www.springerlink.com.ezpprod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/j2803k218g844582/fulltext.html/. Print to follow in 2012. Replies to John MacFarlane, Crispin Wright, and Stewart Shariro, Philosophical Studies (In a symposium on Mark Richard, When Truth Gives Out). Published online 18 September 2011: http://www.springerlink.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/34325858700234g8/fulltext.html/. Print to follow in 2012. Precis of When Truth Gives Out, Croatian Journal of Philosophy XI, no. 32, 141-145. (Part of a symposium of Mark Richard, When Truth Gives Out). Replies to Stojanovic, Lynch, and Miscevic, Croatian Journal of Philosophy XI, 195-206. (Issue devoted to a symposium of Mark Richard, When Truth Gives Out.) Kripke s Puzzle about Belief, in A. Berger, ed., Saul Kripke (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Relativistic Content and Disagreement, Philosophical Studies 156 (2011), 421-431. (Published online January 2011.) Review of Mark Schroeder s Being For (OUP, 2008), Philosophical Review 120 (2011), 321-26. Indeterminacy and Truth Value Gaps in Dietz, R. and Moruzzi, S., eds., Cuts and Clouds, (Oxford University Press, 2010). 2
When Truth Gives Out (Oxford University Press, 2008). Context, Vagueness, and Ontology, in Greenough, M. and Lynch, M., eds., Truth and Realism, (Oxford University Press 2006, 162-174). Opacity, in E. LePore and B. Smith, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (Oxford UP 2006, 667-688). Meaning and Propositional Attitudes, Philosophical Studies 128 (2006), 683-709. Non-truth Conditional Meaning, in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2 nd edition, (Macmillan, 2005). Propositional Attitude Ascriptions in M. Devitt, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language (Blackwell 2006, 186-211). Contextualism and Relativism, Philosophical Studies 119 (2004), 215-242. The Semantics of Tense, in A. Jokic and Q. Smith, eds. Time, Tense, and Reference (MIT Press, 2003), p. 25-45. Objects of Relief, in A. Jokic and Q. Smith, eds. Time, Tense, and Reference (MIT Press, 2003), p. 157-89. Do We need A-properties?, in A. Jokic and Q. Smith, eds., Time, Tense, and Reference (MIT Press, 2003), p. 207-9. Meaning, ed. Mark Richard, (Blackwell, 2002). Conceptions of Meaning, in M. Richard, ed., Meaning (Blackwell, 2002), p. 1-35. Seeking a Centaur, Adoring Adonis: Intensional Transitives and Empty Terms, in French, Uehling, and Wettstein, eds., Midwest Studies in Philosophy, v. 25, (Blackwell, 2002). Reprinted in: Meaning and Context, Volume I (OUP, to appear in 2012). Semantic Pretense, in A. Everett and T. Hofweber, Empty Names, Fiction, and the Puzzles of Nonexistence (CSLI Publications, 2000), 205-232. Reprinted in: Meaning and Contex, Volume II (OUP, to appear in 2012). "Analysis, Synonymy, and Sense", in C.A. Anderson and M. Zeleny, eds., Logic, Language, and 3
Computation (Kluwer, 2000), 547-574. On an Argument of Williamson s, Analysis 60 (2000), 213-217. Semantic Theory and Indirect Speech, Mind and Language 13 (1998), 471-482. "Inscrutability", in Ali A. Kazmi, ed., Meaning and Reference (University of Calgary Press, 1998), 165-209. "Commitment", in J. Tomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives 12 (Blackwell, 1998). 255-281. "Substitutional Quantification"; "Compositionality"; "Scope". Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1998). In E. Craig, ed., Routledge "Deflating Truth", in E. Villanueva, ed., Philosophical Issues 8: Truth, (Northridge: Ridgeview, 1997), 57-78. "What Does Commonsense Psychology Tell Us About Meaning?", Nous (1997), 87-114. Review of Baker, Explaining Attitudes, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), The Philosophical Review (October, 1997). "Propositional Quantification", in J. Copeland, ed., Logic and Reality, (Oxford University Press: 1996), 437-460. "Propositions"; "Propositional Attitudes". In The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, (MacMillian, 1997). "Propositional Attitudes" in C. Wright and B. Hale, eds., A Companion to the Philosophy of Language (Blackwell, 1997), 197-226. Ten Glossary Entries in the Glossary of C. Wright and B. Hale, eds., A Companion to the Philosophy of Language (Blackwell, 1997). "Defective Contexts, Accommodation, and Normalization", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 25 (1995), 551-570. "What Is Not a Belief?", Philosophical Topics 22 (1995), 291-318. Review of Forbes, The Languages of Possibility (Blackwell, 1989) in The Philosophical Review 4
103 (1994), 139-42. "Articulated Terms", in J. Tomberlin, ed., Philosophical Perspectives (Northridge: Ridgeview, 1993), 207-230. "Attitudes and Context," Linguistics and Philosophy 16 (1993), 123-148. Reprinted in: Davidson, M., ed., On Sense and Direct Reference (McGraw Hill, 2007). "Sense, Necessity, and Belief," Philosophical Studies 69 (1993), p. 243-263. "Reference and Competence" (Critical Study of Moravcsik's, Thought and Language) Dialogue (1993), 555-563. Critical Study of of Boer and Lycan, Knowing Who (MIT Press), in Nous 27 (1993), 235-243. "Semantic Competence and Disquotational Knowledge", Philosophical Studies 65 (1992), p.37-51. "Meaning, Indexicals, and Context", Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (Oxford U.P., 1991). "Belief", in Burkhart and Smith, eds., Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology (Philosophia Verlag, 1991). Comments on Schiffer's Remnants of Meaning", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 71 (1990), p. 223-239. Propositional Attitudes: University Press: 1990). An Essay on Thoughts and How We Ascribe Them. (Cambridge "How I Say What You Think", Midwest Studies in Philosophy 14, (Notre Dame University Press: 1989), 317-337. Translated as "Como digo lo que tú piensas" in Margarita Valdes, ed., Pensamiento y Lenguaje: Problemas en la atribucion de actitudes proposicionales, (Instituto de Investigationes Filosoficas, UNAM: Mexico City, 1996), 251-80. 5
Review of Haaparanta and Hintikka, ed., Frege Synthesized (Reidel, 1986) in Ethics 98, no. 4 (1988). "Taking the Fregean Seriously", in D. Austin, ed., Philosophical Analysis: A Defense by Example (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1988), 219-239. Reprinted in: Davidson, M., ed., On Sense and Direct Reference (McGraw Hill, 2007). "Quantification and Leibniz's Law", The Philosophical Review 96 (1987), 555-578. "Attitude Ascriptions, Semantic Theory, and Pragmatic Evidence", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 87 (1986/87), 243-262. "Grammar, Opacity, and Quotation", Linguistics and Philosophy 9 (1986), 383-403. "Direct Reference and Ascriptions of Belief", Journal of Philosophical Logic 12 (1983), 425-447. Reprinted in: Salmon, N. and Soames, S., eds., Propositions and Attitudes (Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 169-196. Reprinted (in translation) in R. Cedzo and M. Zouhar, eds., Philosophy of Language (Kalligram: Bratislava, Slovakia), in press. "Tense, Propositions, and Meanings", Philosophical Studies 41 (1982), 337-351. "Temporalism and Eternalism", Philosophical Studies 39 (1981), 1-13. Reprinted in: Meaning in Contex, Volume II (OUP, to appear in 2012). Selected Presented Papers "Attitude Ascription: Algorithmic or Artistic", Invited Address, SEP4 (Semantics and Philosophy in Europe $), Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany, October 2011. "Reference to Rabbits", Keynote Address, Harvard-MIT Graduate Student Conference in 6
Philosophy, March 2011, University of Pittsuburgh, April 2011. Responses to: Isodora Stojanovic, Implicit Genericity in Evaluative Judgments ; Michael Lynch, When Truth Gives Way ; Nenad Miscovic, Richard on Slurs. Special Session on Mark Richard s When Truth Gives Out, Conference on Mental Phenomena, Inter University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September, 2010. Response to MacFarlane and Rescorla, APA Author Meets Critics Symposium on Mark Richard, When Truth Gives Out, San Francisco APA Convention, March 2010. What is Disagreement?, Auburn University, March 2010; Arendt/Schurmann Memorial Symposium, New School for Social Research, April 2010; La Pietra workshop on judgeable content, Florence Italy, July 2010; Inter University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September, 2010; North Carolina State University, September, 2010, National University of Mexico, May 2011. What would an Expressivist Semantics Be?, Arche Workshop on Expressivism, St. Andrews University, November 2009; APA Colloquium on Expressive Language, New York, December, 2009; NYIP workshop on disagreement, May 2010, National University of Mexico, 2011. Normative Confidence, CSMN Workshop on Disagreement, University of Oslo, September 2009, Brandeis University, October 2009. Relativism and Normativity, Rutgers Workshop in Semantics, September 2007. Relativism and Matters of Taste, University of St. Andrews, May 2007. Indeterminacy and Truth Value Gaps, Arche conference on vagueness, St. Andrews University, Scotland, March 2006; Princeton University, May 2006. Did I Mention What He Said?, University of Oslo, Norway, November, 2005, NYU, March 2009. Attitudes and Epithets, Harvard University, November 2004; USC workshop, Syntax and Semantics with Attitude, April, 2005; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, November 2005; University of Maryland October 2006, Barcelona Workshop on Reference, June 2007, Cornell Workshop in Philosophy of Language, May 2008. Learnability and the Lexicon, Carleton College Conference on New Directions in Semantics, Ottowa, Canada, October 2003. Contextualism, Relativism, and Truth, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2002; Univ. of Massachusetts Conference on Contextualism, October 2002. Force, Truth, and Expressibility, Cornell University, Oct., 2000; Usages D Austin Conference, Université de Picardie, France, March 2001; University of Massachusetts, April 2002. 7
How to Look for a Unicorn (2000 Weatherhead Lecture), Tulane University, October 2000. Intensional Transitives, University of California, Irvine, February 1999; University of California, Davis, February 1999; Rutgers University, May 1999; Ohio State University, November 1999. Commitment, University College London, March 1998; University of California at Davis, June 1998. "Inscrutability", Yale University, February 1997; Rutgers University, March 1997. "What does Commonsense Psychology Tell us about Meaning?", APA Symposium Author Meets Critics: Michael Devitt's Coming to Our Senses. APA Pacific Division, Seattle, April 1996. "Translation, Representation, and Logic", APA Symposium Author Meets Critics: Richard's Propositional Attitudes. APA Pacific Division, Los Angles, April 1994. Mark "Words In Collision". MIT Philosophy Colloquium, April 1993; University of Washington Philosophy Colloquium, June 1993. "Propositional Attitudes, Context, and Quantification," a series of three lectures at the National University of Mexico, Mexico City, January 1993. "Sense and Necessity", APA Symposium Author Meets Critics: Graeme Forbes' Languages of Possibility. APA Pacific Division, Portland, OR, March 1992. "Semantic Competence and Disquotational Knowledge", APA symposium Truth and Understanding, March 1991. "Schiffer's Remnants of Meaning", invited contribution to Author meets Critics: Schiffer's Remnants of Meaning, Pacific Division APA meetings, March 1990. "Propositional Quantification," A.N. Prior Memorial Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 1989. Invited lead paper for symposium, "Reference, Structure, and Content"; Pacific Division APA meetings, March 1988. Invited paper in the philosophy of language, the Aristotelian Society, London, June 1, 1987. "Taking the Fregean Seriously", Pacific Division Meetings of the APA, March 1987. "Quantification and Leibniz' Law", Pacific Division Meetings of the APA, March 1986. 8
"The Proper Name Theory of Quotation", Pacific Division Meetings of the APA, March 1985. Other Professional Activities Associate Editor, Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993-2003. Program Committee, Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 2000-2002 Advisory Committee (Philosophy of Language) to American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Program Committee, 1998-2000. Peer Reviewer: Journals: Linguistics and Philosophy; Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic; Nous; Philosophy of Science; Philosophical Review; Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Journal of Philosophical Logic; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; Synthese; Philosophical Studies; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; Mind and Language; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Erkenntnis; Ethics; Philosophical Compass; Mind. Publishers: Harvard University Press; Reidel; Wadsworth; Scribner's; Princeton University Press; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Blackwell; MIT Press Other: NEH Fellowships for College Teachers; National Humanities Center (External Fellowship Review); Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Tenure and Promotion Reviews: Cornell University; University of California, Davis; Amherst College; UCLA; University of Arizona; University of Rochester; Simon Fraiser University; Harvard University; University of Maryland, College Park; Princeton University; UC Santa Barbara; University of Sourthern California; Rutgers University Member: American Philosophical Association Editorial Board, APA: Guidebook for Publishing Philosophy (1986) 9
Grants and Fellowships 1982: NEH Summer Stipend, to attend NEH Summer Seminar, "On the Formal Characterization of Natural Language" (Richard Grandy, Rice University). 1986: Mellon Research Semester Fellowship. (Administered by Tufts University. Leave taken Academic Year 1987-88). 1987: Fellow, Academic Year 1987-88, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. 1989: ACLS Travel Grant to attend A.N. Prior Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand. 1991: NEH Fellowship for College Teachers. Project Title: Reduction, Similarity, and the Status of the Psychological. 1995: Summer Faculty Fellowship, Tufts University. University Service at Tufts University Member, University Budget and Priorities Committee, 2000-2005. Co-Chair, Budget and Priorities Committee, 2003-2005. Chair, Philosophy Department, 1995-1998; 2001-2004; 2005-2008. Member, Faculty Research Support and Facilities Committee, 1995-2001. Member, Research Outreach Committee, 1994-96 Member, Faculty Research Awards Committee, 1989-94 Chair, Faculty Research Awards Committee, 1992-94 Member, Library Committee, 1986-1990 Member, College Writing Committee, 1985-1990 Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Mathematical Sciences Requirement, 1986-87 Member, Undergraduate Advising Committee, 1985-87 10