David G. Stern
Department of Philosophy
The University of Iowa
276 English-Philosophy Building
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1408
Phone: (319) 335-0029
Fax: (319) 353-2322
EMPLOYMENT
Professor, University of Iowa. Philosophy. 2004-. 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.
1992 Iowa Fellow, NEH-POROI Scholars Workshop: "Figuring
the Self."
1987-1988 Killam Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Alberta.
1986, 1987 Distinguished Graduate Student Instructor Awards, UC
Berkeley.
1980-1982 Ralph W. Church Fellow, UC Berkeley.
1979-1980 Mellon Fellow, University of Pittsburgh.
1979 First Class Honours Degree, Oxford University.
BOOKS
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction. (Cambridge University Press, paper and hardback, 2004.) 208 + xvi pp. Part of the Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts series.
Co-editor, Wittgenstein Reads Weininger, with Béla Szabados. 197 + vii pp. (Cambridge University Press, paper and hardback, 2004.)
Co-editor, The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, with Hans Sluga. 509 + ix pp. (Cambridge University Press, paper and hardback, 1996. Electronic edition, 2005.)
Wittgenstein on mind and language. 226 + xii pp. (Oxford University Press, hardback, 1995; paperback, 1996; electronic edition, as part of Oxford Scholarship Online, forthcoming.)
WORK IN PROGRESS
36. “Private Language.” For the Oxford Wittgenstein Handbook, edited by Marie McGinn.
35. “The uses of Wittgenstein’s beetle: Philosophical Investigations §293 and its interpreters.” In Wittgenstein and his Interpreters, edited by Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela (Blackwell, forthcoming.) 8,000 words.
34. “Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and physicalism: a reassessment” for the The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism, edited by Alan Richardson and Thomas Uebel. 8,000 words.
33. Critical Review of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation, by Matthew P. Ostrow for Inquiry.
32. Critical Review of the Wittgenstein Archives at Bergen CD-ROM edition of the Wittgenstein Nachlass, European Journal of Philosophy.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
31. "Wittgenstein's critique of referential theories of meaning and the paradox of ostension: Philosophical Investigations §§26-48." 11,300 words. Forthcoming in I'll Teach You Differences: Papers on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, edited by Walter Cavini and Edoardo Zamuner (Kluwer). Submitted, September 2003; revised version submitted June 2005. Publication expected 2006.
30. “How Many Wittgensteins?” 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.
29. "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.
28. "Weininger and Wittgenstein on ‘animal psychology.’" Wittgenstein Reads Weininger: A Reassessment, edited by David Stern and Béla Szabados, pp. 169-197. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
27. “Reading Wittgenstein (on) Reading.” Editors’ Introduction for Wittgenstein Reads Weininger: A Reassessment, with Béla Szabados, pp. 1-28. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
26. “The central arguments of the Philosophical Investigations: an elementary exposition.” 8,400 words. Journal of Foreign Philosophy 17 (2004).
26a. Forthcoming (in French) in the proceedings of the International Symposium on ‘Wittgenstein Aujourd’hui,’ held in Nice, France. Editions philosophiques Vrin, September 2005.
25. "The Methods of the Tractatus: beyond positivism and metaphysics?" 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." 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.” 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." 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?" 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,"" 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." 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." 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." 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." 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." 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.'" Philosophical Investigations 17 (1994) pp. 552-565.
11. "The Wittgenstein papers as text and hypertext: Cambridge, Bergen, and beyond." Wittgenstein and Norway, ed. Kjell Johannessen, pp. 251-273. Solum Press, 1994.
10. "Recent work on Wittgenstein, 1980-1990." Synthese 98 (1994) pp. 415-458.
9. "Toward a complete edition of the Wittgenstein papers: prospects and problems." 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,'" with editorial preface and some new translation from passages in German, pp. 202-288.
• "Notes for the 'Philosophical Lecture,'" previously 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." 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." The Monist 74 (1991) pp. 579-604.
4. "Models of memory: Wittgenstein and cognitive science." Philosophical Psychology 4 (1991) pp. 137-152.
3. "Are disagreements about taste possible? 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?' 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.'" Proceedings of the 11th International Wittgenstein Symposium, eds. Paul Weingartner and Gerhard Schurz. pp. 424-426. Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1987.
