Professor

Ct. Hall 202 (mail C 108)
432-1694
tamar.gendler@yale.edu

Education
Ph.D.  1996, Harvard

Areas of Interest

Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology and Metaphysics

Current or Recent Courses Taught

* Senior Seminar for Cognitive Science Majors (F06, S07, F07, S08)
*Life Lessons: What Philosophers Got Right about the Human Condition (Freshman seminar, S08)
*Directed Studies; Philosophy (S07)
*Imagination (Seminar, F06)
*Ethics (Lecture course, at Cornell University, S06)
*Epistemology (Graduate course, at Cornell University, F06, S05)
*Philosophy and Psychology (Seminar, at Cornell University, F04)
*Knowledge and Reality (Lecture course, at Cornell University, F04)

Selected Publications:
(for full listing, see CV at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~tgendler/ <http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Etgendler/>)

Selected Articles:

"Alief and Belief," Journal of Philosophy, (forthcoming, 2008).
"Self-Deception as Pretense," Philosophical Perspectives: Philosophy of Mind, (forthcoming 2008).
"Philosophical Thought Experiments, Intuitions and Cognitive Equilibrium," Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Philosophy and the Empirical (2007)
"Imaginary Contagion," Metaphilosophy, 37:2 (April 2006), 1-21.
"Imatinative Resistence Revisited," in Shaun Nichols, ed. The Architecture of the Imagination, Oxford University Press, 2006.
"Genuine Rational Fictional Emotions," (with Karson Kovakovich). Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics, (Matthew Kieran, ed), NY: Blackwell, 2005.
"A Real Guide to Fake Barns: A Catalogue of Gifts for your Epistemic Enemies" (with John Hawthorne). Philosophical Studies, 124 (2005), pp. 331-352.
"On the Relation between Pretense and Belief." Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts. (Domenic Mclver Lopes & Matthew Kieran, eds.) NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 125-141.
"The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance," The Journal of Philosophy, XCVII:2 (February 2000, pp. 55-81.
"Galileo and the Indispensability of Scientific Thought Experiment." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 49, No 3 (Sept. 1998), pp. 397-424.

Edited Volumes:

Perceptual Experience. Co-edited with an introduction by Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne. NY. Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2006. (Anthology of new papers).
Conceivability and Possibility. Co-edited with an introduction by Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne. NY. Oxford: Clarendon/Oxford University Press, 2002. (Anthology of new papers).

Edited Textbook:

The Elements of Philosophy: Readings from Past and Present. Co-edited with Susanna Siegel and Steven M. Cahn, NY: Oxford. Forthcoming 2007. (Textbook; anthology of pre-existing and specially-prepared papers).

On-going Edited Journals:

Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Co-edited with John Hawthorne. (Biannual journal)
Philosophy Compass, Epistemology Section. (On-going on-line journal.).