Eli Hirsch

Title

Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy

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Philosophy

Expertise

Metaphysics. Epistemology. Medical ethics.

Degrees

New York University, Ph.D.

New York University, M.A.

CUNY Brooklyn College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	hirsch@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2785
Office:	Rabb Graduate Center, 331

Awards and Honors

Charles Goldman Chair in Philosophy (1989)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1989 - 1990)

Long Island University Trustee Award for Scholarly Achievement (1980)

National Endowment for the Humanities Review Panel (1979)

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (1975 - 1976)

James C. Healey Medal for best dissertation, NYU College of Arts and Sciences (1970 - 1971)

National Science Foundation Fellowship (1966)

Courses Taught

PHIL	1a	Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL	23b	Biomedical Ethics
PHIL	24a	Philosophy of Religion
PHIL	35a	Philosophy of Science
PHIL	136a	Personal Identity
PHIL	144a	Philosophical Problems of Space and Time
PHIL	150b	Topics in Epistemology and Metaphysics
PHIL	182a	Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
PHIL	200a	Graduate Proseminar
PHIL	238a	Metaphysics
USEM	48b	The Rational and Irrational

Scholarship

Hirsch, Eli. Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Hirsch, Eli. "Diabolical Mysticism, Death, and Skepticism." Philosophic Exchange 39. (2010): 17-35 (2009).

Hirsch, Eli. "Kripke's Argument Against Materialism." The Waning of Materialism. Ed. George Bealer. N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2010

Hirsch, Eli. "Ontology and Alternative Languages." Metametaphysics. Ed. Chalmers, et. al. OUP, 2009

Hirsch, Eli. "Language, Ontology, and Structure." Nous (2008).

Hirsch, Eli. "¿Ontological Arguments: Interpretive Charity and Quantifier Variance¿, in Metaphysical Debates (Oxford University Press).", 2008

Hirsch, Eli. "¿Rashi¿s view of the Open Future: Indeterminateness and Bivalence¿, in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2006).", 2007

Hirsch, Eli. Dividing Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Hirsch, Eli. The Concept of Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Hirsch, Eli. The Persistence of Objects. Philadelphia: Philosophical Monographs, 1976.