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Curriculum Vitae

David Sanson

Department of Philosophy
The Ohio State University
372 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210

614–292–2235

Employment

• Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, 2005—present.

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, UCLA, 2005.
  • Dissertation: Being and Time: The Metaphysics of Past and Future in a Dynamic World
  • Committee: Calvin Normore (chair), David Kaplan, Terry Parsons, Philippe Schlenker
• M.A., Philosophy, UCLA, 2003.
• B.A., Philosophy, Reed College, 1996.
  • Thesis: “Intending to act”
  • Supervisor: Mark Hinchliff

Area of Specialization

• Metaphysics

Areas of Competence

• Philosophy of Language, Medieval Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Publications

• “The Way Things Were,” with Ben Caplan, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
• “The Early Arabic Liar,” with Ahmed Alwishah, Vivarium (forthcoming).

Presentations

• “Locality and Necessity,” with Ben Caplan, APA Pacific Meeting, March 2008
• “The Essentially Unreal Past,” APA Central Meeting, April 2007 (invited)
• “Fatalism and Future Contingents,” OSU Undergraduate Philosophy Club, November 2005
• “The Way Things Were,” with Ben Caplan
  • CPA Annual Congress, University of Western Ontario, May 2005 (refereed)
  • APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2005 (refereed)
  • 8th Annual INPC, University of Idaho and WSU, April 2005 (refereed)
• “The Once Present and the Now Past”
  • University of Rochester, February 2005 (invited)
  • University of Manitoba, January 2005 (invited)
  • Ohio State University, January 2005 (invited)

Comments

• “Comments on Dana Goswick, ‘Counterfactual Analysis & Causal Overdetermination,’” APA Pacific Meeting, March 2006.
• “Comments on Marie Pannier, ‘Presentism and Singular Propositions,’” WCPA Meeting, October 2005.
• “Comments on Kelly Trogdon, ‘Dualism, Mental Causation, and Counterfactuals,’” APA Pacific Meeting, March 2003.

Teaching

• Graduate Seminar on Nonexistents (Fall 2007)
• Graduate Seminar on Time and Change (Spring 2006)
• Introduction to Metaphysics (Winter 2007)
• Introduction to Medieval Philosophy (Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Winter 2006)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (Winter 2008, Winter 2007)
• Topics in Early Modern Philosophy (Summer 2003)
• Symbolic Logic (Winter 2008, Summer 2001)
• Informal Logic (Winter 2006)
• Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2007, Spring 2006)

Awards and Grants

• UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2004–2005.
• UCLA Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, 2004.
• Robert M. Yost Prize for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA Philosophy Department, 2000.
• UCLA Department of Philosophy Fellowship, 1996–97.

Service to the Profession

• Referee, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• Referee, American Philosophical Quarterly

Departmental Service

• Colloquium Committee, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
• Research Committee, 2007–08
• Executive Committee, 2006–07
• Undergraduate Committee, 2005–06
• Curriculum Committee, 2005–06
• Fink Committee, 2005–06
• Graduate Representative to the Faculty, UCLA, 2000–01
• Graduate Student Advisor, UCLA Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, 2001–02