Marian David

Professor of Philosophy
Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: 574-631-5377
E-Mail: david.1@nd.edu
Office: 223 Malloy
Office Hours: T, R 3:00-4:00 or by appt.
Education:
Ph.D., Arizona.
Areas of Interest:
Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy
Selected Bibliography
Recent Articles:
- "Defending Existentialism?", in M. Reicher, ed., States of Affairs (Ontos Verlag 2009), pp. 167-208.
- "Knowledge-Closure and Skepticism", with Ted Warfield; in Q. Smith, ed., Epistemology: New Essays (Oxford Univ. Press 2008), pp. 137-87.
- "Tarski's Convention T and the Concept of Truth", in D. Patterson, ed., New Essays on Tarski and Philosophy (Oxford Univ. Press 2008), pp. 133-56.
- "Truth-Making and Correspondence", in E. J. Lowe and A. Rami, eds., Truth and Truthmaking (McGill-Queen's University Press 2009), pp. 137-57.
- "Quine's Ladder: Two and a Half Pages from the Philosophy of Logic". In Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (2008), pp. 274-312.
- “Armstrong On Truthmaking”, in Beebe and Dodd, eds., Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (Clarendon Press 2005), pp. 141-159.
- “On ‘Truth is Good’”, in Philosophical Books 46 (2005), pp. 292-301.
- “Some T-Biconditionals”, in Armour-Garb and Beall, eds., Deflationary Truth (Open Court 2005), pp. 382-419.
- "Truth as the Primary Epistemic Goal: A Working Hypothesis", in Steup and Sosa, eds., Contemporary Debates in Philosophy (Blackwell 2005).
- "Theories of Truth", in Handbook of Epistemology (Kluwer 2004).
- "Don't Forget About the Correspondence Theory of Truth", in Jackson and Priest, eds., Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis (Oxford 2004).
- "Content Essentialism", Acta Analytica 17 (2002).
- "Minimalism and the Facts about Truth", in Schantz, ed. What is Truth? (DeGruyter 2002).
- "Truth as Identity and Truth as Correspondence," in Lynch, ed., The Nature of Truth (MIT Press 2001).
- "Kim's Functionalism", Philosophical Perspectives 11: Mind, Causation, and World (1997).
- "Two Conceptions of the Synthetic A Priori", in Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm (The Library of Living Philosophers; Open Court 1997).
- "Analyticity, Carnap, Quine, and Truth", Philosophical Perspectives 10: Metaphysics (1996).
Online Papers:
- The Correspondence Theory of Truth in The Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2009).
- Defending Existentialism?, in Reicher, ed., States of Affairs (Ontos Verlag 2009), pp. 167-208.
- Quine's Ladder: Two and a Half Pages from the Philosophy of Logic. In Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (2008), pp. 274-312.
- On 'Truth is Good', Philosophical Books 46 (2005).
- Some T-Biconditionals, in Armour-Garb and Beall, eds., Deflationary Truth (Open Court 2005).
- Content Essentialism, Acta Analytica 17 (2002)
- Truth and Identity, in Campbell, et al., eds., Meaning and Truth (Seven Bridges Press 2002).
- Minimalism and the Facts About Truth, in Schantz, ed., What is Truth? (DeGruyter 2002).
- Kim's Functionalism, Philosophical Perspectives 11 (1997).
- Two Conceptions of the Synthetic A Priori, in Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm (Open Court 1997).
- Analyticity, Carnap, Quine, and Truth, Philosophical Perspectives 10 (1996).
Books:
- Correspondence and Disquotation: An Essay on the Nature of Truth (Oxford University Press 1994)
- Coeditor of Grazer Philosophische Studien
