Arnold Zuboff | |
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| Born | January 1946 (age 77–78) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Thesis | Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Nagel |
Main interests | Personal identity, philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of probability |
Notable ideas | Sleeping Beauty problem Universalism |
Arnold Stuart Zuboff (born January 1946)[1] is an American philosopher who has worked on topics such as personal identity, philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of probability.[2] He is the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem[3] and a view analogous to open individualism—the position that there is one subject of experience, who is everyone—which he calls "universalism".[4][5]
Education and career
Zuboff received a BA in philosophy from the University of Connecticut, in 1968,[6] and later a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 2009;[7] his doctoral advisor was Thomas Nagel.[8] Zuboff lectured at the University College London's Department of Philosophy from 1974 till his retirement in 2011;[9] he is now an Honorary Senior Research Associate.[10]
Selected works
Articles
- Zuboff, Arnold (1973). "Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence" (PDF). In Solomon, Robert C. (ed.). Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays. Doubleday Anchor. pp. 343–357.
- Zuboff, Arnold (January 1977). "Moment Universals and Personal Identity" (PDF). Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 52: 141–155. doi:10.1093/aristotelian/78.1.141.
- Zuboff, Arnold (March 1990). "One Self: The Logic of Experience" (PDF). Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 33 (1): 39–68. doi:10.1080/00201749008602210.
- Zuboff, Arnold (July 1992). "A Presentation without an Example?" (PDF). Analysis. 52 (3): 190–191. doi:10.1093/analys/52.3.190.
- Zuboff, Arnold (May 1994). "What Is a Mind?" (PDF). Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 19 (1): 183–205. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4975.1994.tb00285.x.
- Zuboff, Arnold (September 1995). "Morality as What One Really Desires" (PDF). Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 20 (1): 142–164. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4975.1995.tb00309.x.
- Zuboff, Arnold (September 2000). "The Perspectival Nature of Probability and Inference" (PDF). Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 43 (3): 353–358. doi:10.1080/002017400414908. S2CID 54894496.
- Zuboff, Arnold (March–April 2001). "Why Should I Care about Morality?". Philosophy Now. No. 31. pp. 24–27.
- Zuboff, Arnold. "An Introduction to Universalism".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Zuboff, Arnold (Spring 2008). "Thoughts about a solution to the mind-body problem" (PDF). Think. 6 (17–18): 159–171. doi:10.1017/S1477175600003109. S2CID 145231233.
- Zuboff, Arnold (October 2008). "Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Zuboff, Arnold (June 2011). "My 8 Big Ideas".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Zuboff, Arnold (May–June 2014). "A Justification of Empirical Thinking". Philosophy Now. No. 102. pp. 22–24.
- Zuboff, Arnold (February–March 2015). "Theories That Refute Themselves". Philosophy Now. No. 106.
- Zuboff, Arnold (October 2015). "A Justification of Empirical Inference" (PDF). Philosophy Now.
Books
- Zuboff, Arnold (1981). "The Story of a Brain" (PDF). In Hofstadter, Douglas R.; Dennett, Daniel C. (eds.). The Mind's I. New York City, New York: Basic Books. pp. 202–212. ISBN 9780553345841.
- Zuboff, Arnold (2015). The Philosophical High Ground: Our World through the Eyes of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.4642.8643.
Videos
- Zuboff, Arnold (14 November 2015). What You Really Are: A Talk and Discussion About Personal Identity.
- Zuboff, Arnold (7 December 2015). What You Really Are: A Demonstration Using Beads.
- Zuboff, Arnold (7 December 2015). Personal Identity and the Sleeping Beauty Problem.
- Zuboff, Arnold (2 August 2016). Finding Myself – And Undoing the Fear of Death as Annihilation.
See also
- The Mind's I, a collection of essays on philosophy of mind, edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, in which Zuboff's short story "The Story of a Brain" is featured
References
- ↑ "Arnold Stuart ZUBOFF". Companies House. Archived from the original on 2021-08-15. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
- ↑ "Works by Arnold Zuboff". PhilPapers. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
- ↑ Elga, Adam (2000-04-01). "Self-locating belief and the Sleeping Beauty problem". Analysis. 60 (2): 143–147. doi:10.1093/analys/60.2.143. ISSN 0003-2638.
- ↑ Forgas, Joseph P.; Innes, J. Michael (1989). Recent Advances in Social Psychology: An International Perspective. Amsterdam: North Holland. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-444-88519-7.
- ↑ Valentine, Elizabeth R. (2020). "Perception and action in East and West". Philosophy and History of Psychology: Selected Works of Elizabeth Valentine. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-000-08294-4.
- ↑ "1968 June 3". Commencement Programs. University of Connecticut: 25. 1968-06-03.
- ↑ "Arnold Zuboff". PhilPeople. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ↑ Zuboff, Arnold (June 2009). Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty (PDF) (PhD thesis). Princeton University.
- ↑ "Full Programme" (PDF). London School of Philosophy. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ↑ "People". UCL Philosophy. 2020-08-04. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
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