Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy

Expertise

Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophical Logic, Contemporary 20th Century Analytic, Philosophy of science

Profile

Visiting Professor at Harvard University Philosophy Dept. (spring, 2011)
Visiting Professor at MIT Philosophy Dept. (2009-2010)
Founding Director of The Saul Kripke Center and Full Professor at the Graduate Center of CUNY (2007-2009)

Awards and Honors

Harvard University (2011)

Slater Foundation Grant (2011)

Templeton Foundation Grant (2010)

Courses Taught

PHIL	66b	Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
PHIL	106b	Mathematical Logic
PHIL	131a	Philosophy of Mind
PHIL	138b	Philosophy of Mathematics
PHIL	139b	Topics in Logic
PHIL	140a	Logic and Language
PHIL	145b	Topics in the Philosophy of Language
PHIL	150b	Topics in Epistemology and Metaphysics
PHIL	165b	Philosophy of Hilary Putnam
PHIL	239a	Topics in Metaphysics

Scholarship

Berger, Alan. The New Theory of Reference and A New Philosophy of Science. 2014. (forthcoming)

Berger, Alan, Berger, Alan. Proceedings to: Philosophy in an Age of Science: A Conference in Honor of Hilary Putnam's 85th Birthday. Proc. of Philosophy in an Age of Science: A Conference in Honor of Hilary Putnam's 85th Birthday. Brandeis and Harvard Universities: Oxford University Press, 2013. (forthcoming)

Alan Berger. "What Does It Mean To Say "Water is Necessarily H2O"?." Library of Living Philosophers: Philosophy Of Hilary Putnam. Ed. Randall E. Auxier, Editor. Open Court Press, 2012 (forthcoming)

Berger, Alan. ""Hilary Putnam on the A Priori"." Philosophy in an Age of Science: A Conference in Honor of Hilary Putnam's 85th Birthday, Brandeis and Harvard Universities. Oxford University Press, 04/01/2012. (forthcoming)

Berger, Alan. Quine: From a Critical Point of View. Oxford University Press, 2012. (forthcoming)

Alan Berger, ed. Saul Kripke. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Berger, Alan. "Introduction to Kripke." Kripke. Ed. Alan Berger., 2011. 17 pages.

Berger, Alan. "Kripke on the Incoherency of Adopting a Logic." Saul Kripke. Ed. Berger, Alan. Cambridge University Press, 2011. 34.

Berger, Alan. "Book Symposium on Terms and Truth." by commentators William C. Lycan, Nathan Salmon, and Scott Salmon (Also includes author's precis and author's replies). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, May, 2006

Berger, Alan. "The Quinean Quandary and the Indispensability of NonNaturalized Epistemology." The Philosophical Forum Volume XXXIV Nos. 3 & 4,. Fall/Winter 2003 (Special Double Memorial Issue on the Philosophical Ideas of Jerrold J. Katz) (2003).

Berger, Alan. "A Formal Semantics For Plural Quantification, Intersentential Binding and Anaphoric Pronouns as Rigid Designators." Nous March 2002 issue (Vol.36, No. 1). (2002).

Berger,Alan. Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric(Paperback Revised Edition, 2005). M.I.T. Press, 2002.