Howard K. Wettstein

Professor and Director of the University Honors Program
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1976

HMNSS 3211
howard.wettstein@ucr.edu
(951) 827-5042

Honors website: http://honors.ucr.edu/

• Philosophy of Language
  
  
• Philosophy of Mind
  
  
• Philosophy of Religion

Selected Publications and Talks:

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Books and Collections:

• The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press, 2004. (To read the Introduction, click here*. Click here* for a discount on the hardback and here* for a discount on the paperback from Oxford University Press)
• Diasporas and Exiles: Varieties of Jewish Identity (editor), University of California Press, 2002. (For further information, click here.)
  
  
• Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake?, And Other Essays, Stanford University Press, 1990
  
  
• Themes from Kaplan, (co-editor) Oxford, 1989
  
  
• Midwest Studies in Philosophy (co-editor), 1977-present

Selected Articles:

• "Against Theology"* in Robert Eisen and Charles Manekin (eds.) Philosophers and the Bible: General and Jewish Perspectives (University Press of Maryland, forthcoming)
  
  
• "A Father of the Revolution"
  
  
• "Against Theodicy"
  
  
• "Doctrine," Faith and Philosophy, 1997
  
  
• "Terra Firma," The Monist, 1995
  
  
• "Frege-Russell Semantics?", Dialectica, 1990
  
  
• "Cognitive Significance Without Cognitive Content," Mind, 1988
  
  
• "Turning the Tables on Frege," Philosophical Perspectives, 1987
  
  
• "Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake?", Journal of Philosophy, 1986

Talks:

• "Against Justification," a talk at the Henle Conference of St. Louis University, April 2008, in response to Jerome Gellman's "On Perceiving God."
  A version will appear in the Modern Schoolman.
  
  
• "On Griswold's Forgiveness,"  a talk at the Pacific APA, March 2008.

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