Philosophy

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Tamar Szabo Gendler

Professor
Ct. Hall 202 (mail C 108)
203.432.1665
tamar.gendler@yale.edu

Personal web page (with papers and lecture slides)

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~tgendler/

Areas of Interest

Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology and Metaphysics

Education

Ph.D. 1996, Harvard

Current or Recent Courses Taught

  • Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature (S11)
  • Senior Seminar for Cognitive Science Majors (F06, S07, F07, S08, F08, S09, F10, S11)
  • Directed Studies; Philosophy (S07, S09)
  • Philosophical Methodology (Graduate seminar, F08)
  • Life Lessons: What Philosophers Got Right about the Human Condition (Freshman seminar, S08)
  • Imagination (Seminar, F06)
  • Ethics (Lecture course, at Cornell University, S06)
  • Epistemology (Graduate course, at Cornell University, F06, S05)
  • Philosophy and Psychology (Seminar, at Cornell University, F04)
  • Knowledge and Reality (Lecture course, at Cornell University, F04)

Selected Publications

(for full listing, see CV)

Selected Articles

  • "Alief and Belief in Action (and Reaction)" Mind and Language (2008)
  • “Alief and Belief," Journal of Philosophy, (2008).
  • “Self–Deception as Pretense,” Philosophical Perspectives: Philosophy of Mind, (2008).
  • “Philosophical Thought Experiments, Intuitions and Cognitive Equilibrium,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Philosophy and the Empirical (2007)
  • “Imaginary Contagion,” Metaphilosophy, 37:2 (April 2006), 1–21.
  • “Imaginative Resistance Revisited,” in Shaun Nichols, ed. The Architecture of the Imagination, Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • “Genuine Rational Fictional Emotions,” (with Karson Kovakovich). Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics, (Matthew Kieran, ed), NY: Blackwell, 2005.
  • “A Real Guide to Fake Barns: A Catalogue of Gifts for your Epistemic Enemies” (with John Hawthorne). Philosophical Studies, 124 (2005), pp. 331–352.
  • “On the Relation between Pretense and Belief.” Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts. (Domenic Mclver Lopes & Matthew Kieran, eds.) NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 125–141.
  • “The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance,” The Journal of Philosophy, XCVII:2 (February 2000, pp. 55–81.
  • “Galileo and the Indispensability of Scientific Thought Experiment.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 49, No 3 (Sept. 1998), pp. 397–424.

Collected Papers

  • Intuition, Imagination and Philosophical Methodology: Selected Papers. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010.

Edited Volumes

  • Perceptual Experience. Co–edited with an introduction by Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne. NY. Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2006. (Anthology of new papers).
  • Conceivability and Possibility. Co–edited with an introduction by Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne. NY. Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2002. (Anthology of new papers).

Edited Textbook

  • The Elements of Philosophy: Readings from Past and Present. Co–edited with Susanna Siegel and Steven M. Cahn, NY: Oxford. Forthcoming 2007. (Textbook; anthology of pre–existing and specially–prepared papers).

On–going Edited Journals

  • Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Co–edited with John Hawthorne. (Biannual journal)
  • Philosophy Compass, Epistemology Section. (On–going on–line journal.).