David G. Stern
The University of Iowa
276 English-Philosophy Building
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1408
Phone: (319) 335-0029
Fax: (319) 353-2322
Department of Philosophy
EMPLOYMENT
Professor, University of Iowa. Philosophy. 2004-.
Department Chair. 2005-2007.
Associate Professor, 1994-2004.
Assistant Professor, 1988-1994.
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Bielefeld, Germany. 1998-1999.
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Rhetoric. 1993-1996.
Killam Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Philosophy. 1987-8.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. 1987. Philosophy.
M.A. University of California, Berkeley. 1982. Philosophy.
M.A. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. 1980. History and
Philosophy of Science.
B.A. Oxford University, Oxford, England. 1979. Philosophy, Politics
and Economics.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Wittgenstein; history of analytic philosophy; philosophy of language; philosophy of mind; philosophy of science, philosophy and computing.
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1999-2002 Faculty Scholar, one semester a year for three years,
University of Iowa.
1998-9 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Bielefeld,
Germany.
1997 NEH Fellow, summer Institute on "Practices" at UC
Santa Cruz.
1994 NEH Fellow, summer Institute on "Embodiment" at UC
Santa Cruz.
1993 May Brodbeck Humanities Fellowship, University of Iowa.
MONOGRAPHS:
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction. (Cambridge University Press, paper and hardback, 2004.) 208 + xvi pp. In the Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts series.
Wittgenstein on mind and language. 226 + xii pp. (Oxford University Press, hardback, 1995; paperback, 1996; electronic edition, as part of Oxford Scholarship Online, 2006.)
EDITED VOLUMES:
DoisPontos vol 6 #1 2009, ed. David Stern, João Vergílio Gallerani Cuter and Mathieu Marion, 256 pp. Special issue on “Wittgenstein intermediário” (Middle Wittgenstein.)
Wittgenstein Reads Weininger, ed. David Stern and Béla Szabados. 197 + vii pp. (Cambridge University Press, paper and hardback, 2004.) Published as an eBook, 2006.
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, ed. Hans Sluga and David Stern. 509 + ix pp. (Cambridge University Press, paper and hardback, 1996. Electronic edition, 2005.) Kurdish translation, 2005; Chinese reprint edition, 2005; Greek translation, 2008.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
42. “Private Language.” In The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, edited by Marie McGinn and Oskari Kuusela. 9,000 words. Paper submitted, August 2008. Forthcoming, Oxford University Press.
41. “From the Philosophical Remarks to the Philosophical Investigations.” French translation, for Philosophiques, a Canadian journal, of a revised version of 38.
40. “Wittgenstein, Qualia, and the Inverted Spectrum.” In Wittgenstein: Certeza? ed. Arley Moreno, Campinas, Brazil: UNICAMP, Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência, 2010, pp 49-63. Coleçáo CLE, v. 58. Revised and extended version of 37.
39. “The Bergen Electronic Edition of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass.” European Journal of Philosophy, 18:3 (2010), pp. 455-467.
38. “Another Strand in the Private Language Argument.” In Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: A Critical Guide, edited by Arif Ahmed, pp. 178-196. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
37. “Wittgenstein on the Inverted Spectrum.” In Language and World Part Two: Signs, Minds, and Actions. Proceedings of the 32nd International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium, edited by Volker Munz, Klaus Puhl and Joseph Wang, pp. 135-144. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2010.
36. “Tracing the Development of Wittgenstein’s Writing on Private Language.” In Wittgenstein after His Nachlass, edited by Nuno Venturinha, pp. 110-127. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
35. “From the Philosophical Remarks to the Unity of Science.” In Portuguese “Das Observações Filosóficas à Unidade da Ciência.” In DoisPontos, América do Sul, vol 6 #1 2009, 63-95. Revised version of 30.
34. "Wittgenstein's critique of referential theories of meaning and the paradox of ostension: Philosophical Investigations §§26-48"PDF In Wittgenstein's Enduring Arguments, edited by Edoardo Zamuner and D. K. Levy, pp. 179-208. Routledge, 2009.
33. “Digital Wittgenstein scholarship: past, present and future.”PDF In Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information: Proceedings of the 30th International Wittgenstein-Symposium, edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, pp. 223-238. Ontos Verlag, 2008.
32. “The central arguments of the Philosophical Investigations: an elementary exposition.” In French, in Wittgenstein. État des lieux, edited by Élisabeth Rigal, pp. 169-187. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2008.
31. “The uses of Wittgenstein’s beetle: Philosophical Investigations §293 and its interpreters.”PDF In Wittgenstein and his Interpreters, edited by Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela, pp. 248-268. Blackwell, 2007.
30. “Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and physicalism: a reassessment.” PDF In The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism, edited by Alan Richardson and Thomas Uebel, pp. 305-331. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
29. “How Many Wittgensteins?”PDF In Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works, edited by Alois Pichler and Simo Säätelä, pp. 164-188. Working Papers from the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen no. 17. Bergen: Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, 2005.
29a. Reprinted in a new edition of Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works, edited by Alois Pichler and Simo Säätelä, pp. 205-229. Frankfurt a. M: ontos verlag, 2006.
29b. Reprinted in Analysis And Metaphysics, Vol. 5, August 2006, pp. 40-62.
28. "How to read the Philosophical Investigations." Philosophie 86 (2005), 40-61. In French, in a special double issue of the journal on the Philosophical Investigations.
27. "Weininger and Wittgenstein on ‘animal psychology."PDF Wittgenstein Reads Weininger, edited by David Stern and Béla Szabados, pp. 169-197. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
26. “Reading Wittgenstein (on) Reading.”PDF Editors’ Introduction for Wittgenstein Reads Weininger, with Béla Szabados, pp. 1-28. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
25. "The Methods of the Tractatus: beyond positivism and metaphysics?"PDF Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, part of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science series, eds. Paolo Parrini, Wes Salmon and Merrilee Salmon, pp. 125-156. Pittsburgh University Press, 2003.
24. "The Practical Turn."PDF The Blackwell Guidebook to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, edited by Stephen P. Turner and Paul Roth, pp. 185-206. Blackwell, 2003.
23. “Nestroy, Augustine, and the opening of the Philosophical Investigations.”PDF Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy. A Reassessement after 50 Years. Proceedings of the 24th International Wittgenstein-Symposium, eds. Rudolf Haller and Klaus Puhl, pp. 429-449. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 2002.
22. "Sociology of science, rule following and forms of life."PDF Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 9/2001: History of Philosophy of Science - New Trends and Perspectives, eds. Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler, pp. 347-367. Kluwer, 2002.
21. "Was Wittgenstein a Jew?"PDF Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy, ed. James Klagge, pp. 237-272. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
20. "The Significance of Jewishness for Wittgenstein’s Philosophy." Inquiry 43 (2000) 383-402.
20a. Reprinted in Essential Readings on Jewish Identities, Lifestyles and Beliefs: Analyses of the Personal and Social Diversity of Jews by Modern Scholars, ed. Stanford M. Lyman, pp. 132-151. Gordian Knot Press, 2003.
19. "The "dénouement" of "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,"PDF co-authored with Keith Lehrer. (Lehrer wrote Part III, pp. 211-213; I wrote Parts I-II, and IV.) History of Philosophy Quarterly 17 #2 (2000) 201-216.
18. "Practices, practical holism, and background practices."PDF Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 2, eds. Mark Wrathall and Jeff Malpas, pp. 53-69. MIT Press, 2000.
17. "Wittgenstein and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge," (in Italian.) Studi Perugini, Wittgenstein e le scienze sociali [Wittgenstein and social science] #7 January-June 1999 pp. 191-219.
16. "Heidegger and Wittgenstein on the subject of Kantian philosophy." PDF Figuring the Self: subject, individual and other in German idealism, eds. David Klemm and Günter Zöller, pp. 245-259. SUNY Press, 1997.
15. "The availability of Wittgenstein's philosophy."PDF The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, eds. Hans Sluga and David Stern, pp. 442-476. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
14. "Towards a critical edition of the Philosophical Investigations."PDF Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Culture, eds. Kjell S. Johannessen and Tore Nordenstam, pp. 298-309. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1996.
13. "New Evidence Concerning the Construction //Troubled History// of Part I of the Investigations."PDF Culture and Value: Philosophy and the Cultural Sciences. Papers of the 18th International Wittgenstein Symposium, eds. Kjell S. Johannessen and Tore Nordenstam. pp. 789-795. Kirchberg, Austria: The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1995.
12. "A new exposition of the 'private language argument': Wittgenstein's notes for the 'Philosophical Lecture."PDF Philosophical Investigations 17 (1994) pp. 552-565.
11. "The Wittgenstein papers as text and hypertext: Cambridge, Bergen, and beyond."PDF Wittgenstein and Norway, ed. Kjell Johannessen, pp. 251-273. Solum Press, 1994.
10. "Recent work on Wittgenstein1980-1990."PFD Synthese 98 (1994) pp. 415-458.
9. "Toward a complete edition of the Wittgenstein papers: prospects and problems."PDF Papers of the 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium, vol. I, pp. 501-505, eds. Roberto Casati and Graham White. Kirchberg, Austria: The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1993.
7-8. Editor, two pieces of Wittgenstein's writing, for L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951, eds. James Klagge & Alfred Nordmann. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1993.
• A full transcription of material previously published in an abridged form as "Notes for Lectures on 'Sense Data' and 'Private Experience,"PDF with editorial preface and some new translation from passages in German, pp. 202-288.
• "Notes for the 'Philosophical Lecture,"PDF p reviously unpublished notes for a public lecture on private language, pp. 447-458. Editorial preface, pp. 445-446.
6. "The 'Middle Wittgenstein' from logical atomism to practical holism." PDF Synthese 87 (1991) pp. 203-226.
6a. Reprinted in Wittgenstein in Florida, ed. Jaakko Hintikka. Kluwer, 1991.
6b. Reprinted in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Second Series eds. Stuart Shanker and David Kilfoyle, volume 1, pp. 262-283. Routledge, 2002.
5. "Heraclitus' and Wittgenstein's river images: stepping twice into the same river."PDF The Monist 74 (1991) pp. 579-604.
4. "Models of memory: Wittgenstein and cognitive science."PDF Philosophical Psychology 4 (1991) pp. 137-152.
3. "Are disagreements about taste possible?PDF A discussion of Kant's antinomy of taste." Iowa Review 21 #2 (1991) pp. 66-71.
2. "'What is the ground of the relationship of that in us which we call "representation" to the object?'PDF Reflections on the Kantian legacy in the philosophy of mind." Doing Philosophy Historically, ed. Peter Hare, pp. 216-230. Buffalo NY: Prometheus Press, 1988.
1. Wittgenstein's Epistemology in the 1920s and 1930s: from the picture theory to 'philosophical pictures."PDF Proceedings of the 11th International Wittgenstein Symposium, eds. Paul Weingartner and Gerhard Schurz. pp. 424-426. Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1987.
