David Sanson

Download as PDF

Department of Philosophy
The Ohio State University
372 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210

614–292–2235

Employment

• Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, 2005—present.

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, UCLA, 2005.
  • Dissertation: Being and Time: The Metaphysics of Past and Future in a Dynamic World
  • Committee: Calvin Normore (chair), David Kaplan, Terry Parsons, Philippe Schlenker
• M.A., Philosophy, UCLA, 2003.
• B.A., Philosophy, Reed College, 1996.
  • Thesis: “Intending to Act”
  • Supervisor: Mark Hinchliff

Area of Specialization

• Metaphysics

Areas of Competence

• Philosophy of Language, Medieval Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Logic

Publications

• “The Way Things Were,” with Ben Caplan, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (81.1) 2010: 24–39.
• “The Early Arabic Liar,” with Ahmed Alwishah, Vivarium (47:1) 2009: 97–127.

Presentations

• “Locality and Necessity,” with Ben Caplan, APA Pacific Meeting, March 2008
• “The Essentially Unreal Past,” APA Central Meeting, April 2007 (invited)
• “Fatalism and Future Contingents,” OSU Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 2005
• “The Way Things Were,” with Ben Caplan
  • CPA Annual Congress, University of Western Ontario, May 2005 (refereed)
  • APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2005 (refereed)
  • 8th Annual INPC, University of Idaho and WSU, April 2005 (refereed)
• “The Once Present and the Now Past”
  • University of Rochester, February 2005 (invited)
  • University of Manitoba, January 2005 (invited)
  • Ohio State University, January 2005 (invited)

Comments

• “Comments on Dana Goswick, ‘Counterfactual Analysis & Causal Overdetermination,’” APA Pacific Meeting, March 2006.
• “Comments on Marie Pannier, ‘Presentism and Singular Propositions,’” WCPA Meeting, October 2005.
• “Comments on Kelly Trogdon, ‘Dualism, Mental Causation, and Counterfactuals,’” APA Pacific Meeting, March 2003.

Teaching

• Philosophy 863: Graduate Seminar on Tense and Passage (Winter 2010)
• Philosophy 863: Graduate Seminar on Nonexistents (Fall 2007)
• Philosophy 863: Graduate Seminar on Time and Change (Spring 2006)
• Philosophy 700: First Year Proseminar (Fall 2008)
• Philosophy 663: Advanced Metaphysics (Winter 2009)
• Philosophy 463: Introduction to Metaphysics (Winter 2010, Winter 2007)
• Philosophy 302: Introduction to Medieval Philosophy (Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Winter 2006)
• Philosophy 301: Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (Fall 2009, Winter 2009, Winter 2008, Winter 2007)
• Philosophy 250: Symbolic Logic (Winter 2008)
• Philosophy 150: Informal Logic (Winter 2006)
• Philosophy H101: Introduction to Philosophy, Honors (Fall 2009, Spring 2006)
• Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2007)
• Philosophy C119: Topics in Early Modern Philosophy (UCLA, Summer 2003)
• Philosophy 31: Symbolic Logic (UCLA, Summer 2001)

Awards and Grants

• UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2004–2005.
• UCLA Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, 2004.
• Robert M. Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA Philosophy Department, 2000.
• UCLA Department of Philosophy Fellowship, 1996–97.

Refereeing

• Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• American Philosophical Quarterly

Departmental Service

• Colloquium Committee, 2005-present
• Salary Commitee, 2009–10
• Hiring Committee, 2008–09
• Undergraduate Committee, 2008–09, 2005–06
• Bingham Committee, 2008–09
• Research Committee, 2007–08
• Executive Committee, 2006–07
• Curriculum Committee, 2005–06
• Fink Committee, 2005–06

Supervision

• Dissertation Committee Member:
  • Eric Carter, 2007-present
  • Wesley Cray, 2009-present
  • Cathy Muller, 2008-present
  • Vassilis Tsompanidis (UC Santa Barbara), 2008-present
• Graduate Qualifying Exam Committee Member:
  • Wesley Cray, 2009
  • Cathy Muller, 2008
    
  • Patrick Reeder, 2009
• Graduate Candidacy Exam Committee Member:
  • Scott Brown, 2010
  • Andrew Choi, 2007
  • Wesley Cray, 2008
  • Thomas Evans, 2007
  • Cathy Muller, 2007
  • Daniel Pearlberg, 2009
  • Conrad Robinson, 2009
• Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee Member:
  • Ben Flowers, 2009
  • Matthew Grover (Psychology), 2009

Other Service

• Session Chair, Central APA, 2009.
• Oberlin, external examiner
  • Rachel Randall, “The Ethics of Creation of Persons,” BA Honors Thesis, Defended December 2007.
  • Michael Siniscalchi, “Can Representationalism Bridge Levine’s Gap?” BA Honors Thesis, Defended December 2007.