��<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Takashi Yagisawa's C.V.</TITLE> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" TEXT="#003399" LINK="#990099" VLINK="#CC0000" ALINK="#FF3366"> <center><h1>TAKASHI YAGISAWA</h1> <br> <h2><i>Curriculum Vitae</i></h2></center> <br> <p> <hr> EDUCATION AND DEGREES: <p> <ul> <li>1981<ul>Ph.D. Philosophy, Princeton University <ul> <li>Thesis Title ... <i>Belief and Synonymy</i> <li>Supervisor .... David Lewis <li>Readers ......... Gilbert Harman, Scott Soames </ul></ul> </ul> <ul> <li>1977<ul>B.A. (First Class Honours) Philosophy, University of London (University College), UK </ul> </ul> </ul> <hr> AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: <p> Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind <p> <hr> ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT: <p> <ul> <li>1994-Present<ul><li>California State University, Northridge, Professor</ul> <li>1990-94<ul><li>California State University, Northridge, Associate Professor</ul> <li>1987-90<ul><li>California State University, Northridge, Assistant Professor</ul> </ul> <p> OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: <p> <ul> <li>2019-20<ul><li>Kyoto University, Temporary Lecturer (winter)</ul> <li>2017-19<ul><li>Kyoto University, Temporary Lecturer (summer, winter)</ul> <li>2015-16<ul><li>Kyoto University, Invited Collaborative Researcher (summer, winter)</ul> <li>2014<ul><li>Kyoto University, Temporary Lecturer (summer, winter)</ul> <li>2013<ul><li>Kyoto University, Temporary Lecturer (summer)</ul> <li>2012<ul><li>Kyoto University, Invited Collaborative Researcher (spring - summer) <li>Kyoto University, Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics Education and Research, Fellow (spring - summer)</ul> <li>2008-11<ul><li>California State University, Northridge, Department Chair</ul> <li>1986-87<ul><li>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor</ul> <li>1985-86<ul><li>New York University, Visiting Assistant Professor</ul> <li>1984-85<ul><li>University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Visiting Assistant Professor</ul> <li>1983-84<ul><li>University of Cincinnati, Charles Phelps Taft Post-Doctoral Research Fellow</ul> <li>1981-83<ul><li>Case Western Reserve University, Assistant Professor</ul> <li>1978-80<ul><li>Princeton University, Teaching Assistant</ul> </ul> <p> Courses Taught: <p><ul><li>Introductory Philosophy<li>Introductory Ethics<li>Introductory Logic<li>Intermediate Logic<li>Philosophy of Mind<li>Philosophy of Language<li>Epistemology<li>Metaphysics<li>Philosophy of Science<li>Philosophy of Mathematics<li>Philosophy of Logic<li>Seminar on G�del s Theorems<li>Senior Research Seminar<li>Graduate Seminar on Possible Worlds<li>Graduate Seminar on Linguistics and Cognitive Science<li>Graduate Seminar on Situation Semantics<li>Graduate Seminar on Identity<li>Graduate Seminar on Existence<li>Graduate Seminar on Ontological Argument<li>Graduate Seminar on Singular Thought<li>Graduate Seminar on Metaphysics of Fiction<li>Graduate Seminar on Demonstratives</ul> </ul> </ul> <p> <hr> PUBLICATIONS: <p> BOOKS: <br> <br> (authored) <ul> <li>2018<ul><li><a HREF = "https://www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b352573.html"><i>Analyzing Numbers</i></a> (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten), 232 pages. <li><a HREF = "https://www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b341714.html"><i>Analyzing Logic</i></a> (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten), 224 pages. </ul> <li>2016<ul><li><a HREF = "https://www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b266359.html"><i>Analyzing "Correct"</i></a> (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten), 237 pages. <li><a HREF = "http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784062200790"><i>Analytic Philosophy of Alice in Wonderland</i></a> (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Kodansha), 312 pages; <a HREF = "https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010798276"> Chinese Translation</a> in 2018, (Taipei: On Books). </ul> <li>2014<ul><li><a HREF = "http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?isbn=9784062585781"><i>From God to Possible Worlds: Advanced Introduction to Analytic Philosophy</i></a> (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Kodansha), 288 pages. </ul> <li>2013<ul><li><a HREF = "http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2585472"><i>Meaning, Truth, and Existence: Intermediate Introduction to Analytic Philosophy</i></a> (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Kodansha), 277 pages. </ul> <li>2011<ul><li><a HREF = "http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2585200&x=B"><i>Introduction to Analytic Philosophy</i></a> (in Japanese), (Tokyo: Kodansha), 267 pages. </ul> <li>2010<ul><li><a href = http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/philosophy/9780199576890/toc.html><i>Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise</i></a>, (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 314 pages. </ul> </ul> (translated) <ul> <li>1985<ul><li><a HREF = "http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%90%8D%E6%8C%87%E3%81%97%E3%81%A8%E5%BF%85%E7%84%B6%E6%80%A7%E2%80%95%E6%A7%98%E7%9B%B8%E3%81%AE%E5%BD%A2%E8%80%8C%E4%B8%8A%E5%AD%A6%E3%81%A8%E5%BF%83%E8%BA%AB%E5%95%8F%E9%A1%8C-%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BBA-%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%97%E3%82%AD/dp/4782800223">Japanese Translation of <i>Naming and Necessity</i> by Saul A. Kripke</a> (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980), in collaboration with Keiichi No�, with Yagisawa's introductory essay (Tokyo: Sangyo Tosho), 283 pages.</ul> </ul> </ul> <p> (edited) <p> <ul> <li>2000<ul><li><i>Reflections on Philosophy</i>, co-edited with Leemon McHenry, (New York: Longman). Contributors include Alred Mele, Mark Timmons, John Heil, <i>et al.</i>, 292 pages</ul> </ul> <p> ARTICLES: <p> <ul> <li>2019<ul><li><a HREF = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Imgng Fctnl Chrctrs.pdf">"Imagining Fictional Characters"</a>, <i>Quo Vadis, Metaphysics?</i> edited by Miroslaw Szatkowski (De Gruyter Studium), 203-16.</ul> <li>2017<ul><li><a HREF = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Meta-R Me.pdf">"Meta-Representational <i>Me</i>"</a>, <i>Perspectives on the Self</i>, edited by Boran Ber i (University of Rijeka): 355-69. <li><a HREF = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Gluons of Different Colors.pdf">"Gluons of Different Colors"</a>, <i>International Journal of Philosophical Studies</i> 25-4: 555-59, . <li><a HREF = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/S4 to 5D.pdf">"S4 to 5D"</a>, <i>Argumenta</i> 2.2: 241-61.</ul> <li>2016<ul><li><a HREF = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Now is the Time.pdf">"Now is the Time"</a>, <i>Jahrbuch f�r Philosophie das Tetsugaku-Ronso</i> 43, 1-13. <li><a HREF = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/�0�0�0㉬�.pdf">Descriptive Exposition</a> of the philosophy of David Lewis (in Japanese), in <a HREF = "http://www.unp.or.jp/ISBN/ISBN978-4-8158-0846-4.html"><i>On the Plurality of Worlds</i> by David Lewis (Japanese Translation)</a>, (Nagoya: The University of Nagoya Press): 319-27.</ul> <li>2015<ul><li><a HREF = "https://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Review of Fictional Objects.pdf">Critical Review of <i>Fictional Objects</i></a>, edited by Stuart Brock and Anthony Everett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), <i>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</i>, 2015.12.19: 2905 words. <li>Two new entries,  occasion meaning and  semantic ascent , and one old entry "intensionality" substantially revised, in the third edition of <i>The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy</i>, Robert Audi (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); see 1995 and 2000 for the old editions. <li><a href = "http://link.springer.com/search?query=Takashi+Yagisawa&facet-journal-id=12136&facet-content-type=Article&sortOrder=newestFirst"> Impossibilia and Modally Tensed Predication </a>, <i>Acta Analytica</i>, Volume 30, Issue 4: 317-23, published online first on April 10.</ul> <li>2014<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Deflationary Existence.pdf">"Deflationary Existence"</a>, <i>Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science</i> 22: 1-16.</ul> <li>2013<ul><li><a HREF = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Williamson review.pdf">Critical Review of Timothy Williamson s book, <i>Modal Logic as Metaphysics</i></a> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), <i>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</i>, 2013.10.15: 2,694 words. <li><a HREF = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Dialetheistic Buddhist.pdf">"The Way of the Modal Realist: Dialetheism and Buddhist Philosophy </a>, <i>Philosophy East and West</i>, Vol. 63, Issue 3, July: 359-69.</ul> <li>2012<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Reply to Kim.pdf"> Unrestricted Quantification and Reality: Reply to Kim </a>, <i>Acta Analytica</i>, Volume 27, Issue 1: 77-79, (<i>Online First</i>, July 22, 2011).</ul> <li>2011<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Modal Space Exploration.pdf"> Modal Space Exploration: Replies to Ballarin, Hayaki, and Kim </a>, <i>Analytic Philosophy</i> 52.4: 302-11. <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Precis of WIPO.pdf"> Pr�cis of <i>Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise</i> </a>, <i>Analytic Philosophy</i> 52.4: 270-72.</ul> <li>2010<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Zhuangzi.pdf">"An Analytic Philosopher Learns from Zhuangzi"</a>, <i>Chinese Language and Culture</i> 7, (Tokyo: Chinese Studies, Graduate School, Nihon University): 58-70.</ul> <li>2008<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/APAE.pdf">Four entries ( Essentialism ,  Grammar ,  Logic: Modal ,  Possibility )</a>, in American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, J. Lachs & R. Talisse (eds.), (London: Routledge). <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Yagisawa Modal Realism.pdf">"Modal Realism with Modal Tense"</a>, <i>Australasian Journal of Philosophy</i> 86.2: 309-27. <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Review of Content and Modality.pdf">Critical Review of <i>Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker</i></a>, edited by Judith Thomson and Alex Byrne, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), <i>Mind</i> 117.466: 532-7.</ul> <li>2007<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Ghosts.pdf"> Ghosts are Chilly (coauthored with W. D. Hart), <i>Persons: Human and Divine</i>, P. van Inwagen & D. Zimmerman (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 166-8.</ul> <li>2005<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Existence.pdf"> A New Argument Against the Existence Requirement </a>, <i>Analysis</i> 65.1, 39-42. (This is an electronic version of an article published in <i>Analysis</i>, complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of <i>Analysis</i>, 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.) <li><a href = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/possible-objects/> Possible Objects </a>, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online, first published on April 15; revised on July 21, 2005 and on August 31, 2009), E. Zalta (ed.) <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Review of W. A. Davis.pdf">Critical Review of Wayne A. Davis's book, <i>Meaning, Expression, and Thought</i></a>, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), <i>Philosophy & Phenomenological Research</i> 71.3: 744-7.</ul> <li>2003<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Lewis.pdf"> David Lewis </a>, <i>American Philosophers, 1950-2000</i> (<i>Dictionary of Literary Biography</i>, vol. 279), P. B. Dematteis and L. McHenry (eds.), (Detroit, MI: Gale): 167-75.</ul> <li>2002<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Primitive.pdf">"Primitve Worlds"</a>, <i>Acta Analytica</i> vol. 17, issue 28: 19-37.</ul> <li>2001<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Partee.pdf">"Partee Verbs"</a>, <i>Philosophical Studies</i> 103: 253-70. <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Creationism.pdf">"Against Creationism in Fiction"</a>, <i>Philosophical Perspectives, 15: Metaphysics, 2001</i>, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Oxford: Blackwell): 153-72.</ul> <li>2000<ul><li>One new entry, <a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/WHORF.pdf">"Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis"</a>, in addition to the five first-edition entries (1995), for the second edition of <i>The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy</i>, Robert Audi (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Ch2.Logic.pdf">A chapter on "Logic"</a>, in <i>Reflections on Philosophy</i>, Leemon McHenry and Frederick Adams (eds.), (Woburn, MA: Booktech): 11-33.</ul> <li>1998<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Naming.pdf">"Naming and Its Place in Reference"</a>, <i>Lingua e Stile</i> (<i>Anno</i> XXXIII, n. 3, <i>settembre</i> 1998): 445-58.</ul> <li>1997<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Salmon.pdf">"Salmon Trapping"</a>, <i>Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57.2</i>: 351-70. <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Somewhat.pdf">"A Somewhat Russellian Theory of Intensional Contexts"</a>, <i>Philosophical Perspectives, 11: Mind, Causation, and World, 1997</i>, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Oxford: Blackwell): 43-82. <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Devitt.pdf">"Knocked Out Senseless: Naturalism and Analyticity"</a>, <i>The Maribor Papers: Essays on Semantic Naturalism</i>, Dunja Jutric (ed.), (Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press): 82-95. <li>Five entries (<a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/IWANAMI.pdf">"Essentialism", "Saul Kripke", "Modal Logic", "Montague Grammar", and "Naming and Necessity"</a>) in <i>Iwanami Dictionary of Philosophy</i> (in Japanese), K. Mishima <i>et al.</i> (eds.), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten).</ul> <li>1995<ul><li>Five entries ("Definiendum", "Definition", "Intensionality", "Logical Syntax", and "Rational Reconstruction") in <i>The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy</i>, Robert Audi (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). <li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/Referenc.pdf">"Reference <i>Ex Machina</i>"</a>, <i>Karlovy Vary Studies in Reference and Meaning</i>, J. Hill and P. Kot�tko (eds.), (Prague: FILOSOPHIA Publications): 215-42.</ul> <li>1994<ul><li>"Thinking in Neurons: Comments on Schiffer", <i>Philosophical Studies</i>: 287-96.</ul> <li>1993<ul><li>"Modes of Presentation?", <i>Analysis 53</i>, January: 34-36. <li>"Logic Purified", <i>Nous 27</i>: 470-86. <li>"A Semantic Solution to Frege's Puzzle", <i>Philosophical Perspectives, 7: Philosophy of Language and Logic, 1993</i>, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company): 135-54. <li>"The Cost of Meaning Solipsism", <i>Grazer Philosophische Studien 46</i>: 213-30.</ul> <li>1992<ul><li>"Possible Worlds as Shifting Domains", <i>Erkenntnis 36</i>: 83-101. <li>Critical Review of Stephen Neale's <i>Descriptions</i> (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990), <i>Canadian Philosophical Reviews XII, no. 1</i>, February: 49-51.</ul> <li>1989<ul><li>"Psychologism in Linguistics", <i>Perspectives on Psychologism</i>, Mark A. Notturno (ed.), (Leiden: E.J. Brill): 426-89. <li>"The Reverse Frege Puzzle", <i>Philosophical Perspectives, 3: Philosophy of Mind and Action, 1989</i>, J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company): 341-67.</ul> <li>1988<ul><li>"Beyond Possible Worlds", <i>Philosophical Studies 53</i>: 175-204.</ul> <li>1987<ul><li>"Yes, You!", <i>Philosophia 17</i>, March: 169-86.</ul> <li>1986<ul><li>"Logical Structure of Ordinary Language" (in Japanese), <i>Symbol, Logic, Metaphor: Iwanami Lectures "Tetsugaku (Philosophy)", vol. 3</i>, S. Omori et al. (eds.), (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishing Company): 150-75.</ul> <li>1985<ul><li>"The Referential and the Attributive: A Distinction in Use?", <i>The Southern Journal of Philosophy 23</i>, Spring: 109-25. <li>Critical Review of Stephen P. Stich's book, <i>From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief</i> (Cambrdige, MA: MIT Press, 1983), <i>Nous 19</i>, May: 288-94.</ul> <li>1984<ul><li>"Proper Names as Variables", <i>Erkenntnis 21</i>, July: 195-208. <li>"The Pseudo-Mates Argument", <i>The Philosophical Review 93</i>, July: 407-18.</ul> <li>1983<ul><li>"Belief De Re Without Encounter", <i>The Southern Journal of Philosophy 21</i>, September: 461-74.</ul> <li>1982<ul><li>"How to Save the Compositionality Principle of Meaning from Quotation", <i>Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association, April</i>: 106-15.</ul> <li>1979<ul><li>"Counterfactual Analysis of Causation and Kim's Examples", <i>Analysis 39</i>, March: 100-05.</ul> </ul> <p> <hr> POPULAR ESSAYS (in Japanese): <p> <ul> <li>2014<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/�0�0�0�0�0�0�0.pdf"> 0�0�0�0�0�0�0�0h0M 0</a>( Aristotle and M ), <i>Complete Works of Aristotle: Monthly Report 7</i> (0�0�0�0�0�0�0�0hQƖ�0g1X�0), �\�l�f�^(Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten): 1-4.</ul> <li>2013<ul><li><a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk/The Body Moves, the Brain Works.pdf"> 0��SOL0�RO003�L0�PO0 0</a>( The Body Moves, the Brain Works ),0,g03g�S (<i>Books</i>, March issue), �NJ>y (Tokyo: Kodansha): 49-51.</ul> </ul> <p> <hr> PRESENTATIONS: <p> <ul> <li>2018<ul><li>"A Deflationary Conception of the Self", <i>Aspects of Self: A Workshop</i>, Kyoto University, Japan, May 14. </ul> <li>2017<ul><li> Imagining Fictional Characters , <i>Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? (dedicated to Perter van Inwagen to commemorate his 75th birthday)</i>, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, September 27. </ul> <li>2016<ul><li>"Lessons of Origin Essentialism", <i>Origin Essentialism Workshop</i>, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, July 16. <li>"Meta-Representational <i>Me</i>", <i>UHamburg-UTokyo Workshop: Language & Reality</i>, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, June 25; <i>Philosophy Conference: The Self</i>, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia, March 31 (by Skype). </ul> <li>2015<ul><li> B-Theory De-Fictionalized , <i>Metaphysics Workshop</i>, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, July 3. <li> Gluons of Different Colors , <i>1st Veritas Philosophy Symposium</i>, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, May 30. </ul> <li>2014<ul><li> S4 to 5D , <i>Modal Metaphysics: Issues on the (Im)Possible II</i> (keynote lecture), Institute of Philosophy of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 15; <i>Intensional/Hyperintensional Workshop</i>, National Autonomous University of Mexico, September 18; <i>Veritas Philosophy Conference</i>, Underwood International College, Yonsei International Campus, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, June 8.</ul> <li>2013<ul><li>"Deflationary Existence and Inflationary Existents", <i>An International Workshop: Ontology of Asian Philosophy</i>, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, April 14. <li> Deflationary Existence and Necessity , <i>Conference on Necessity</i>, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 16. </ul> <li>2012<ul><li>"Now Actually", <i>International Conference on Truth & Understanding</i>, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, December 14. <li> Existence <i>De Re</i> , <i>Conference on the Philosophy of Saul A. Kripke</i>, Peking University, Beijing, China, September 2. <li> Problems of Existence in Analytic Philosophy , <i>Darshana Research Project Workshop</i>, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan, August 19. <li> Metaphysics of Possible Worlds and Beyond , <i>Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Summer School</i> (the sole instructor), Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan, August 6-10. <li> Possibility Beyond Possible Worlds , <i>PhilLogMath Workshop</i>, Tokyo, Japan, July 16. <li> Metaphysics of Identity , Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, July 9, 10. <li> Frontiers of Analytic Asian Philosophy , co-symposiast with Yasuo Deguchi, Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics Education and Research, Kyoto University, Japan, June 26. <li> Now Actually (in Japanese), Kyoto Contemporary Philosophy Colloquium Workshop: <i>Possible Worlds</i>, Kyoto, Japan, June 2. <li> A Deflationary Theory of Existence, Part II , Hongo Metaphysics Club, Tokyo, Japan, May 30. <li> A Deflationary Theory of Existence, Part I , Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan, May 29. <li> A Deflationary Theory of Existence , delivered as a keynote speech at the <i>1st Seoul Philosophy Graduate Student Conference</i>, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, May 5; <i>Hokkaido Philosophical Association Meeting</i>, Sapporo, Japan, July 21; Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, July 24. <li> Applied Metaphysics: Contents of Narrative Cinema , delivered at the inaugural international symposium, <i>Applied Philosophy and Applied Ethics Now</i>, Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics Education and Research, Kyoto University, Japan, April 23. </ul> <li>2011<ul><li> A Modal Realistic Way for the Dialetheistic Buddhist , Kyoto University, Japan, November 25. <li> What is Existence? , University of Rijeka, Croatia, May 22. <li>"A Deflationary Theory of Existence", Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy, Rijeka, Croatia, May 20. <li>An Author-Meets-Critics Session on my book, <i>Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise</i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 22.</ul> <li>2010<ul><li>"Order and Disorder of Possibilities , Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, April 7.</ul> <li>2009<ul><li>"Who's Afraid of Impossibilities?", Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, July 9. <li>"Scene Imagined Seen and Impossible Content", University of California, Irvine, November 6.</ul> <li>2008<ul><li>"An Analytic Philosopher Learns from Zhuangzi", Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, December 18 and 22.</ul> <li>2006<ul><li>"Modal Realism and Modal Tense", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March.</ul> <li>2005<ul><li>"Modal Realism and Modal Tense", <i>Southern California Philosophy Conference</i>, California State University, Northridge, CA, October 29.</ul> <li>2004<ul><li>"Another Realist Theory of <i>Possibilia</i>", Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, October; Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, October.</ul> <li>2003<ul><li><a href = "Tomberlin-APA.pdf">"Philosophical Conversations in Memory of James E. Tomberlin (1942-2002)"</a>, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March. <li>"Lewisian Iterated Modal Indexing", Northwest Philosophy Conference, Reed College, Portland, OR, October.</ul> <li>2001<ul><li>"Minimal Realism About Possible Worlds", <i>Bled Conference on Metaphysics</i>, Bled, Slovenia, June. <li>"Primitive Worlds: Modal Innocence Regained", California State University, Northridge, October; The Southwestern Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, November.</ul> <li>1999<ul><li>"Does Captain Picard Exist?", Occidental College, Los Angeles, October.</ul> <li>1997<ul><li>"Naming and Its Place in Reference", <i>A Workshop on Reference: Semantics and Pragmatics></i>, University of Palermo, Italy, March.</ul> <li>1996<ul><li>"Russell's Theory of Descriptions Withstands the Rising Temperature", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meetings, Seattle, April; Stockholm University, June. <li>"Knocked Out Senseless: Naturalism and Analiticity", The Maribor Conference on Naturalized Semantics, University of Maribor, Slovenia, June. <li>"Linguistic Platonism and Its Implications", <i>The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Interpreting Davidson</i>, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September.</ul> <li>1995<ul><li>"Being and Somethingness", <i>The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Questions From Quine</i>, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September. <li>"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.</ul> <li>1994<ul><li>"Obstinate Opacity", the Graduate Center, City University of New York, April; University of Florida, May. <li>"Reference <i>Ex Machina</i>", Tulane University, April; Virginia Commonwealth University, May; <i>The Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytic Philosophy: Reference</i>, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, June.</ul> <li>1993<ul><li>"Another Russellian Theory of Belief Sentences", University of California, Davis, October. <li>"Skepticism Redux", Tohoku Universtiy, Sendai, Japan, June. <li>"Semantics of Indirect Discourse", Tokyo University, May; Keio University, Tokyo, May. <li>"Descriptions of Intensional Objects", University of New Mexico, March.</ul> <li>1992<ul><li>"A Constructive Proof of the Possibility of a Punctate Meaningful State", <i>National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar</i>, Rutgers University, August.</ul> <li>1991<ul><li>"Names and Informativeness", <i>Conference on Mind and Language</i>, University of Cincinnati, March.</ul> <li>1990<ul><li>"Proper Names and Frege's Puzzle", Zadar University, Yugoslavia, June; <i>the annual symposium of the Union of the Philosophical Societies of Yugoslavia</i>; University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, June; <i>the Rijeka Philosophy Group</i>, Rijeka, Yugoslavia, June.</ul> <li>1989<ul><li>"Names Are Not Singular Terms", California State University, Northridge, November.</ul> <li>1988<ul><li>"The Reverse Frege Puzzle", California State University, Northridge, April.</ul> <li>1986<ul><li>"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.</ul> <li>1985<ul><li>"On Functionalism", University College, London, England, March. <li>"Indexing Beliefs", University of Iowa, January; Northern Illinois University, February; University of Minnesota, March.</ul> <li>1984<ul><li>"Indexism", Swarthmore College, May; University of Cincinnati, May. <li>"Taking Speaker's Meaning Seriously", Columbia University, February; Boston University, March.</ul> <li>1983<ul><li>"In Defense of Belief <i>De Se</i>", The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meetings, Boston, December. <li>"Functionalism and the Twin Earth Argument", University of Cincinnati, October. <li>"Functionalism Elaborated", Case Western Reserve University, September. <li>"Platonism in Linguistics", <i>National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar</i>, University of Maryland, August.</ul> <li>1982<ul><li>"How to Save the Compositionality of Meaning from Quotation", The Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meetings, Toledo, April.</ul> <li>1981<ul><li>"The Structure of Meaning", Case Western Reserve University, October. <li>"Names in Attitude Contexts", Case Western Reserve Universtiy, April.</ul> <li>1980<ul><li>"Belief and Proper Names", Tokyo University, July; Princeton University, October.</ul> </ul> <p> <hr> INVITED COMMENTARIES: <p> <ul> <li>2014<ul><li>On Kei Kataoka s  Historical Development of the Apoha Theory , Kiyotaka Yoshimizu s  From Proper Names to Common Nouns in Dignaga s Apoha Theory , and Hideyo Ogawa s presentation, Workshop on the Apoha Theory, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, August 2.</ul> <li>2013<ul><li>On Hideyo Ogawa s  <i>Bhartrhari</i> on Three Types of Linguistic Unit-Meaning Relations , and Yoichi Iwasaki s  Semantics of <i>Navya-Nyaya</i> , CAPE (Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics) Workshop: Collaboration of Philosophy and Indian Studies Aspects of Philosophy of Language, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, August 3.</ul> <li>2003<ul><li>On Guy Rohrbaugh and Louis deRosset s  A New Route to the Necessity of Origin , Northwestern Philosophy Conference, Reed College, OR., October 3. <li>On Andrew Egan's "Second-Order Predication and the Metaphysics of Properties", Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 4, Bellingham, WA.</ul> <li>2002<ul><li>On Laura Schroeter's "Gruesome Diagonals", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 28, Seattle, WA.</ul> <li>1997<ul><li>On Nathan Salmon s "Tense and Intension", The International Conference on Time, Tense, & Reference, April 12, Santa Barbara, CA.</ul> <li>1993<ul><li>On Stephen Schiffer's "The Language-of-Thought Relation and Its Implications", The Thirty-First Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, April 17, Oberlin, OH.</ul> <li>1988<ul><li>On Robert A. Foreman's "Turing Testing Searle's Chinese Room", The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 24, Portland, OR.</ul> <li>1987<ul><li>On James K. Swindler's "Putnam's Demon", The American Philosophical Association Central Division Annual Meeting, May, 1, Chicago.</ul> <li>1986<ul><li>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.</ul> </ul> <p> <hr> INVITED AS MODERATOR: <p> <ul> <li>2012<ul><li>Hud Hudson,  Transhypertime Identity , The 1st Annual California Metaphysics Conference, on Persistence, the University of Southern California, January 20-22.</ul> <li>2005<ul><li>An Author-Meets-Critics session on Crawford Elder s book, <i>Real Natures and Familiar Objects</i>, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25. <li>An Author-Meets-Critics session on Ernest Lepore and Herman Capellan s book, <i>Minimal Semantics</i>, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 26.</ul> <li>2004<ul><li>An Author-Meets-Critics session on Scott Soames s book, <i>Beyond Rigidity</i>, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25.</ul> <li>2001<ul><li>A session on mental causation, and a session on personal identity, Bled Conference: Metaphysics, Bled, Slovenia, June 6 and 9.</ul> <li>1999<ul><li>A session on epistemology, The American Philosophical Association Central Division Annual Meeting, May 8.</ul> <li>1995<ul><li>An Author-Meets-Critics session on Jaegwon Kim's <i>Mind and Supervenience</i>, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, April 1.</ul> <li>1994<ul><li>Four sessions, The Karlovy Vary Philosophical Symposium on Reference, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, June 23.</ul> <li>1993<ul><li>An Author-Meets-Critics session on Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore's <i>Holism: A Shopper's Guide</i>, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 29.</ul> <li>1992<ul><li>An Author-Meets-Critics session on Graeme Forbes' <i>Languages of Possibility</i>, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 30.</ul> <li>1990<ul><li>Three sessions on metaphysics, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 30.</ul> <li>1988<ul><li>Two sessions on metaphysics, The American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, March 25.</ul> </ul> <p> <hr> AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS: <p> <ul> <li>2016<ul><li>Collaborative Research Fellowship, Kyoto University, summer, winter. <li>Preeminent Scholarly Publication Award, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>2015<ul><li>Collaborative Research Fellowship, Kyoto University, summer, winter. <li>Faculty Fellowship, College of Humanities, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>2012<ul><li>Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Invitation Fellowship for Research (long-term), hosted by Yasuo Deguchi at Kyoto University, April - August. <li>"Award of Merit: for Excellence in Academics and Outstanding Mentorship", by the California State University, Northridge Philosophy Student Body.</ul> <li>2004<ul><li>Faculty Fellowship, College of Humanities, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>2001<ul><li>Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>1999<ul><li>Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>1993<ul><li>National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the Nature of Meaning by Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore, Rutgers University. <li>Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>1992<ul><li>National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Meaning Holism by Jerry Fodor and Ernest LePore, Rutgers University.</ul> <li>1990<ul><li>National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. <li>Summer Fellowship, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>1989<ul><li>Affirmative Action Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Northridge. <li>Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>1988<ul><li>Affirmative Action Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Northridge. <li>Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>1987<ul><li>Research Release Grant, California State University, Northridge.</ul> <li>1983-84<ul><li>Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Cincinnati.</ul> <li>1983<ul><li>National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Philosophical Implications of Cognitive Science by Stephen P. Stich, University of Maryland.</ul> <li>1977-81<ul><li>Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University.</ul> <li>1976<ul><li>Dawes Hicks Award, University College, London.</ul> </ul> <p> <hr> REFEREED FOR: <p> <ul> <li> BroadviewPress <li> Longman Publishing <li> Oxford University Press <li> Pearson <li> Princeton University Press <li> Routledge <li> Wadsworth <li> <i>Acta Analytica <li> American Philosophical Quarterly <li> Analysis <li> Analytic Philosophy <li> Australasian Journal of Philosophy <li> Critica <li> Dialectica <li> Dialogue <li> Erkenntnis <li> Grazer Philosophische Studien <li> Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy <li> Journal of the American Philosophical Association <li> Journal of Philosophical Logic <li> Linguistics and Philosophy <li> Mind <li> Notre Dame Journal of Symbolic Logic <li> Nous <li> Pacific Philosophical Quarterly <li> Philosophical Imprint <li> Philosophical Papers <li> Philosophical Studies <li> Philosophy and Phenomenological Research <li> Synthese <li> The Philosophical Quarterly</i> </ul> <p> <hr> ON EDITORIAL BOARD OF: <p> <ul><li>2011- ............ <i>Journal for Logic Language and Action</i> <li>1992-2003 ... <i>Philosophical Perspectives</i></ul> <p> <hr> <p> <br> <a href = "http://www.csun.edu/~vcoao0fk"><i>Takashi Yagisawa s Home Page</i></a> <br> <br> </BODY> <i>Last Updated: February 26, 2020</i> </BODY> </HTML>