Edward N. Zalta
Edward N. Zalta
Edward N. Zalta is a Senior Research Scholar in the Philosophy Department at Stanford University. His research specialties include:
Zalta’s published two books and over 60 research articles. These include multiple articles coauthored with philosophical colleagues, and a few interdisciplinary articles coauthored with computer scientists. He is developing an online manuscript that compiles the theorems of axiomatic “object theory”. Zalta has given keynote lectures at conferences, and has taught block seminars on object theory at universities in Germany (LMU/MCMP, Bochum, Bamberg), the Netherlands (Amsterdam/ILLC), Australia (ANU), Spain (Santiago de Compostela), Austria (Salzburg), Peru (UNMSM/Lima), Italy (Padua), and Sweden (Stockholm, Gothenburg). In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Zalta was the primary author of grants awarded by the NEH and NSF to implement the infrastructure for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He then worked with libraries and donors to fund it for the long term. He's served as the Principal Editor (1995-2022) and as Co-Principal Editor (since Fall 2022) with Uri Nodelman.
Zalta is the winner of the Philip L. Quinn Prize (2025), the K. Jon Barwise Prize (2016), and the Covey Award (2009), and was the 2025 Johan von Spix Visiting Professor at the University of Bamberg.