Daniel Bonevac

Contact Department of Philosophy Voice: (512) 232-4333

Information The University of Texas at Austin Fax: (512) 471-4806
1 University Station C3500 Cell: (512) 695-0060
Austin, TX 78712 USA E-mail:bonevac@austin.utexas.edu

Education University of Pittsburgh, 1975–1980: MA, 1977; PhD, Philosophy, 1980

Haverford College, 1972–1975; BA, Magna cum Laude, with Honors in Philoso-
phy, 1975

Professional The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Philosophy: Assistant Pro-

Experience fessor, 1980–1985, Associate Professor, 1985–1992, Professor, 1992–present; De-
partment Chair, 1991–2001

Teaching Massively Open Online Courses Taught:

Experience • Ideas of the Twentieth Century (UT.2.01x, through edX, www.edx.org)—
enrollment so far has been approximately 50,000.

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Philosophy (PHL 301)
• World Philosophy (PHL 302/ANS 301)
• Ethics and Enlightenment (PHL 302C)
• Ideas of the Twentieth Century (UGS 303)
• Contemporary Moral Problems (PHL 304)
• Problems of Knowledge and Valuation (Plan II honors course) (PHL 610Q)
• Introduction to Logic (PHL 312)
• Introductory Symbolic Logic (PHL 313)
• Logic, Sets and Functions (PHL 313K)
• Logic and Scientific Reasoning (Plan II honors course) (PHL 313Q)
• Introduction to Ethics (PHL 318)
• Ethical Theories (PHL 325K)
• The Analytic Tradition (PHL 327/CTI 335)
• Intermediate Symbolic Logic (PHL 344K)
• Argumentation East and West (PHL 348)
• Natural Theology East and West (PHL 348/ANS 340)
• History of Christian Philosophy (PHL 354/CTI 335)
• Philosophical Logic (PHL 358)
• Rationality and Absurdity (PHL 365)
• Knowledge and Abstraction (PHL 365)
• Quine and Contemporary Metaphysics (PHL 360)
• Objectivity (PHL 375M)
• John Stuart Mill (PHL 375M)
• Kant (PHL 375M)
• Skepticism (PHL 375M)
• Ideas of the Twentieth Century (LAH 377H)

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 Graduate Courses Taught:
• Organizational Ethics (HDO 285)
• Conditionals (PHL 391/LIN 393)
• Logic (PHL 389)
• Philosophy of Language (PHL 391/LIN 393)
• Cognitive Science (CGS 380/PHL 383/LIN 394/PSY 394)
• Metaphysics: Realism and Meaning (PHL 382)
• Discourse Representation Theory (PHL 391/LIN 393)
• Philosophy of Mathematics (PHL 382)
• The Analytic Tradition (PHL 384K)
• Metaphysics of Modality (PHL 382)
• Philosophy of Religion (PHL 386)
• Locke and Hume (PHL 381)
• Teaching Seminar (PHL 398T)

Other Teaching Initiatives:

• Impressions, an online philosophy video glossary
• A YouTube channel featuring my class lectures has more than 12,000 sub-
scribers. The Postmodernism lecture has more than 125,000 views; the Dos-
toevsky and Nietzsche lecture has more than 115,000 views. Existentialism
and Wittgenstein have more than 81,000 and 51,000 views, respectively. To-
gether, my videos have about 700,000 views.

Awards
Classical Theism Project:

• Summer Research Award, 2016

Phi Beta Kappa:

• Award of Distinction in Teaching, 2014

National Science Foundation:

• “The Logic and Representation of Propositions and Properties in Computer

Natural Language Processing,” Knowledge and Database Division (with Hans
Kamp, Nicholas Asher, Carlota Smith, and Robert Koons), 1988–1990

• “The Logic Representation of Attitudes in Computer Natural Language

Processing,” Information Sciences Program (with Hans Kamp and Nicholas
Asher), 1986–1987

• “The Logic of Scientific Reduction,” History and Philosophy of Science Pro-

gram, 1984–1986

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 The Journal of Philosophy

• Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy (for the best “first book” in philosophy),

1980

Publications
• Books
• Ideas of the Twentieth Century. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

• An Introduction to World Philosophy. Edited, with Stephen Phillips;

New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

• Today’s Moral Issues. Edited; New York: McGraw-Hill, seventh edi-

tion, 2012; sixth edition, 2009; fifth edition, 2005; fourth edition, 2001;
Mountain View: Mayfield, third edition, 1999; second edition, 1996; first
edition, 1992.

• Deduction. Oxford: Blackwell, second edition, 2002; Palo Alto: Mayfield,

first edition,1987.

• Worldly Wisdom. Mountain View: Mayfield, 2001.

• Simple Logic. Oxford University Press, 2001; Fort Worth: Harcourt

Brace, 1999.

• Understanding Non-Western Philosophy: Introductory Readings. Edited,

with Stephen Phillips; Mountain View: Mayfield, 1993.

• Beyond the Western Tradition: Readings in Moral and Political Philos-

ophy. Edited, with William Boon and Stephen Phillips; Mountain View:
Mayfield, 1992.

• The Art and Science of Logic. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1990.

• Reduction in the Abstract Sciences. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982.

• Articles and Reviews

• “Free Choice Reasons,” Synthese, in press.

• “Heidegger’s Wrong Turn,” Academic Questions, in press.

• “Defaulting on Reasons,” Noûs 50, 3 (2016), doi: 10.1111/nous.12165.

• “Quantifiers Defined by Parametric Extensions,” Journal of Philosophi-

cal Logic (2016), dii: 10.1007/s10992-016-9398-6 (with Hans Kamp).

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• “Arguments from Knowledge, Reference, and Content,” in T. Dougherty
and J. Walls (ed.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga
Project. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

• “MOOCs: The Director’s Cut,” Academic Questions 29, 2 (2016): 59–67.

• “Crisis or Priceless?,” Academic Questions 28, 3 (2015), 355–363.

• “Heidegger’s Map,” Academic Questions 27, 2 (2014): 165–184.

• Review of Istvan Aranyosi, God, Mind, and Logical Space: A Revisionary

Approach to Divinity, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2014).

• “An Evolved Definition of the Term Brand : Why Branding Has a Brand-
ing Problem,” Journal of Brand Strategy 2, 2 (Summer 2013): 112–120
(with Casey Jones).

• “Logic and How It Gets That Way,” Analysis 72, 2 (2012), 380–386.

• “A History of Quantification,” in Dov Gabbay and John Woods (ed.),

Handbook of the History of Logic, Volume 11 (Amsterdam: Elsevier North
Holland, 2012): 63–126.

• “A History of the Connectives,” in Dov Gabbay and John Woods (ed.),

Handbook of the History of Logic, Volume 11 (Amsterdam: Elsevier North
Holland, 2012): 175–234 (with Josh Dever).

• “The Counterexample Fallacy,” Mind (2011) 120 (480): 1143–1158 (with

Josh Dever and David Sosa).

• “Two Theories of Analogical Predication,” Oxford Studies in the Philos-

ophy of Religion 4 (2012): 20-42.

• “The Argument from Miracles,” Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Re-

ligion 3 (2011): 16–41.

• “Is Sustainability Sustainable?” Academic Questions 23 (2010): 84–101.

• “Older Adolescents Perceptions and Intentions Regarding Do-It-Yourself

Genetic Assessment Services,” Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nurs-
ing 17, 2, 159–167, April 2012 (with Lynn Rew, Michael Mackert, and
Lynn Champlin).

• “Systematic Review of Psychosocial Benefits and Harms of Genetic Test-

ing,” Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 31: 631–645, 2010 (with Lynn
Rew, Mandeep Kaur, and Michael Mackert).

• “Adolescents and their parents approaches to genetic testing,” Journal

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 of Adolescent Health, Supplement, 46(2), 2010, S80 (with Lynn Rew and
Michael Mackert).

• “A Systematic Review of Literature About the Genetic Testing of Adoles-

cents,” Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing 14, 4 (October 2009):
284–294 (with Lynn Rew and Michael Mackert).

• “Fictionalism,” in Andrew Irvine (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of

Mathematics, Volume 4 of Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, and John
Woods (eds), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-
Holland, 2008: 345–394.

• Review of H. Cappelen and E. LePore, Insensitive Semantics, Philosoph-

ical Books, 2008: 157–161.

• Review of Rawls’ Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?, Human Rights

Review 9, 4 (2008): 553–555.

• “The Conditional Fallacy,” Philosophical Review 115 (3), July 2006: 273–
316 (with Josh Dever and David Sosa).

• “Free Choice Permission Is Strong Permission,” Synthese 145 (July 2005):

303–323 (with Nicholas Asher).

• “Reflection Without Equilibrium,” Journal of Philosophy CI, 7 (July

2004): 363–388.

• “Reduction in the Mind of God” (in Chinese), in The Philosophy of Mind

(2003).

• “Pragma-dialectics and Beyond,” Argumentation 17, 4 (January 2003):

451–459.

• Review of Bell, DeVidi, and Solomon, Logical Options, and Priest, An

Introduction to Nonclassical Logics, Philosophy in Review (2003).

• “Sellars vs. the Given,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Jan-

uary 2002): 1-30.

• “Naturalism for the Faint of Heart,” in G. Preyer and F. Siebelt (ed.),

Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David
Lewis. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

• “Constitutive and Epistemic Principles,” in N. Shanks, B. Gardner, and

J. Boland (ed.), Logic, Probability and the Sciences. Amsterdam/Atlanta:
Rodopi, Poznan Studies, 2000.

• “A Heap of Trouble,” in N. Shanks, B. Gardner, and J. Boland (ed.),

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 Logic, Probability and the Sciences. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, Poz-
nan Studies, 2000.

• “Reply to Lance,” in N. Shanks, B. Gardner, and J. Boland (ed.), Logic,

Probability and the Sciences. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, Poznan Stud-
ies, 2000.

• “Sellars’ Argumente gegen den Atomismus” (in German), Deutsche Zeitschrift

für Philosophie, 48, January 2000: 621–638.

• “Reforming Higher Education Through Statewide Examinations,” Veri-

tas 1 (2000) (with Robert C. Koons).

• “Defeasibly Sufficient Reason,” Paideia: Proceedings of the World Congress

of Philosophy. Volume 10: Philosophy of Science, 1998.

• “Manifestations of Illiberalism in Philosophy,” Academic Questions 12, 1

(Winter 1998-1999), 14–22.

• “Against Conditional Obligation,” Noûs 32 (1998): 37–53.

• “Common Sense Obligation,” in D. Nute (ed.), Defeasible Deontic Logic.

Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997, 159–203; with Nicholas Asher.

• “Prima Facie Obligation,” Studia Logica 57 (1996): 19–45 (with Nicholas

Asher).

• “Philosophy of Logic,” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cam-

bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996: 592–594.

• “The Forgotten Principles of American Government,” Texas Education

Review 1, 1 (Spring 1996): 5–9.

• “Reduction in the Mind of God,” in E. Savellos and U. Yalçin (ed.), Su-

pervenience: New Essays. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995:
124–139.

• “Tort Reform: Has Texas Ended Its Lawsuit Lottery?” Texas Public Pol-
icy Foundation Briefing Papers, 1995.

• “What Multiculturalism Should Not Be,” College Literature 21:3 (Octo-

ber, 1994): 157–172.

• “Kant’s Copernican Revolution,” in R. C. Solomon and K. Higgins (ed.),

The Age of German Idealism. Volume VI, The Routledge History of Phi-
losophy. London: Routledge, 1993: 40–67.

• “Leviathan U.,” in Dickman, Howard (ed.), The Imperiled Academy. New

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 Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1993: 1–27.

• “Prima Facie Obligation,” in Andrew J. I. Jones and Marek Sergot (ed.),

DEON ’94: Workshop Proceedings, The Second International Workshop
on Deontic Logic in Computer Science. Oslo: Tano A.S., 1993, 19–36
(with Nicholas Asher).

• “Plural Values and Indeterminacy,” Ethics 102 (July 1992): 799–813

(with T. K. Seung).

• “Semantics and Supervenience,” Synthèse 87 (1991): 331–361.

• “Ethical Impressionism,” Social Theory and Practice 17 (1991): 157–173.

• Review of Nino B. Cocchiarella, Logical Investigations of Predication The-

ory and the Problem of Universals, Noûs 25 (1991): 221–230.

• “Paradoxes of Fulfillment,” Journal of Philosophical Logic 19 (1990):

229–252.

• “A New Semantics for Quantifiers,” in Theories of Partial Information.

Austin: Center for Cognitive Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1990.

• “Partisan Logic,” Academic Questions 3 (1990): 23–34 (with Robert

Koons).

• “Argumentation and the Common Ground,” in Proceedings of the 6th

Alta Conference on Argumentation, 1989 (with William Keith).

• “Conflict in Practical Reasoning,” Philosophical Studies 53 (1988): 315–

345 (with Thomas K. Seung).

• “Supervenience and Ontology,” American Philosophical Quarterly 25 (1988):

37–48.

• “Determiners and Resource Situations,” Linguistics and Philosophy 10

(1987): 567–596 (with Nicholas Asher).

• “Quantity and Quantification,” Noûs 19, 2 (1985): 229–248.

• “Situations and Events,” Philosophical Studies 47 (1985): 57–77 (with

Nicholas Asher).

• “How Extensional Is Extensional Perception?” Linguistics and Philoso-

phy 8 (1985): 203–228 (with Nicholas Asher).

• “Systems of Substitutional Semantics,” Philosophy of Science 57, 4 (De-

cember 1984): 631–656.

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 • “Semantics for Clausally Complemented Verbs,” Synthèse 59, 2 (May
1984): 187–218.

• “Skolem Fragments,” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 25, 3 (July

1984): 227–232.

• “Mathematics and Metalogic,” Monist 67, 1 (1984): 56–71.

• “We, Robots,” Contemporary Psychology 29, 6 (June 1984): 477–478.

• “Freedom and Truth in Mathematics,” Erkenntnis 20 (July 1983): 93–

102.

• “Chellas on Conditional Obligation,” Philosophical Studies 44 (Septem-

ber 1983): 247–256.

• “Kant on Existence and Modality,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie

64, 3 (1982): 289–300.

University APAC (Budget Committee), College of Liberal Arts, 2015–

Service
Student Affairs Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2016–

Presenter, 47th Chancellor’s Council Annual Meeting, 2014

University Committee of Counsel on Academic Freedom and Responsibility,

2014–2016

University Research Policies Committee, 2014–2016

Curriculum Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2014–2015

Task Force on Online Education, College of Liberal Arts, 2014–2015

Curriculum Committee, Human Dimensions of Organizations, 2011–

Department Chair, 1991–2001

Department Webmaster, 2001–2010

Faculty Council, 1995–98, 2000–2004, 2008–2010

University Technology Committee, 2009–2010

University Admissions Committee, 2000–2001, 2003–2004

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 University Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, 2002–2003

University Committee on the Responsibilities, Rights, and Welfare of Teaching

Assistants and Assistant Instructors, 1997-98 (Chair), 2008–2009

University Teaching Evaluation Committee, 1997–98

University Research Policies Committee, 1996–97

University Committee on Committees, 1995–96

University Council and Faculty Senate, 1988–90, 1992–95

University Fellowship Committee, 1993–95

University ad Hoc Committee on Modified Retirement, 1993

Graduate Studies Executive Committee, 1987–91; Chair, 1988–91

Search Committee, Department of Philosophy, 1986–87, 1989–91, 1995–2001,

2006–2011

Curriculum Committee, Department of Philosophy, 1983–88; Chair, 1984–88;

2001–2006

Admissions Committee, Department of Philosophy, 2002–2005

Liberal Arts Council, 1986–88

University Parking and Traffic Committee, 1986–89

Undergraduate Advisor, 1980–1982

Professional Review panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Editions
Service Service and Translations: Philosophy and Religion, 2013, 2015

Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, 2014

Review panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar

Program, 2010

External Review Panelist for the Department of Philosophy, University of Ken-

tucky

Tenure, promotion, and reappointment reviews for University of Cincinnati, Uni-

versity of Georgia, Bowling Green State University, University of New Hamp-

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shire, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Notre Dame, Arizona State Uni-
versity

External Dissertation Committee Member, Yale University

Tutor in Minority Scholars Program, University of California

Chair, Metaphysics Session, American Philosophical Association, April 2000

Chair, Science and Metaphysics Session, World Congress of Philosophy, August

1998

Refereeing for academic journals:

Mind, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Noûs, Philosophy and Phe-

nomenological Research, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Linguistics and Philoso-
phy, Journal of Semantics, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Philo-
sophical Quarterly, Philosophy of Science, Language, Logic and Information,
Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy Research Archives, Notre Dame
Journal of Formal Logic, Decision Support Systems, Synthèse, The Journal of
Music and Meaning

Refereeing for government granting agencies:

National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Austrian

Science Fund (FWF: Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung)

Refereeing for academic publishers:

MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, McGraw-Hill, Basil Blackwell

Refereeing for academic conferences:

Society for Exact Philosophy, 1980, 1992, Semantics and Linguistics Theory IV,
1995, DEON ’98

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