DIETZ Richard, Lecturer of Philosophy

Dr. Richard Dietz

　Biography

M.A. (Univ. of Tübingen), B.Phil (Univ. of Oxford) and D.Phil (Univ. of Oxford)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Arché Research Centre, Univ. of St Andrews, Scotland (Sept 2004-Dec 2006)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophical Research, UNAM, Mexico City (Feb-Dec 2007)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Formal Epistemology Project, Univ. of Leuven, Belgium (Jan 2008-Jun 2011)

（As of October 2011）

　Specialized field / key words

Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophical Logic

　Current reserch / interest

Vagueness, gradable concepts, epistemic disagreement, conditionals, actuality and truth

　Lecture / Seminar

Epistemology (lecture)
Textbook: Michael Williams, Problems of Knowledge, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.
Core Readings in Epistemology: From Gettier's Problem to the Problem of Skepticism (undergraduate seminar)
Textbook: Sven Bernecker (ed.): Reading Epistemology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Philosophy of Perception (graduate seminar)
Textbook:
William Fish: Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction. London: Routledge, 2010.
Howard Robinson: Perception. London: Routledge, 1994.

Philosophy of Language (lecture)
Core Readings in the Philosophy of Language: From Locke to Chomsky (undergraduate seminar)
Vagueness (graduate seminar)

　Publications

“Coming true: A note on truth and actuality”, with Julien Murzi, Philosophical Studies. Forthcoming.
“Vagueness: A conceptual spaces approach”, with Igor Douven (first author), Lieven Decock, and Paul Egré, Journal of Philosophical Logic. Forthcoming.
“Comparative concepts”, in Synthèse. Forthcoming
“A puzzle about Stalnaker’s Hypothesis”, with Igor Douven, Topoi 30 (2011), pp. 31-7.
“The paradox of vagueness”, in The Continuum Companion to Philosophical Logic, L. Horsten and R. Pettigrew (eds.), London: Continuum, 2011, pp. 128-79.
“Ramsey’s Test, Adams’ Thesis, and left-nested conditionals”, with Igor Douven, Review of Symbolic Logic, 3 (2010), pp. 467-84.
“On generalizing Kolmogorov”, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 51 (2010), pp. 323-35.
Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, Its Nature and Its Logic, co-edited with S. Moruzzi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Betting on borderline cases”, Philosophical Perspectives, 22 (2008), pp. 47-88.
“Epistemic modals and correct disagreement”, in Relative Truth, M. García-Carpinter and M. Kölbel (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 239-62.

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