Masahiro Yamada

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
143 East Tenth Street
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel.: 909.607.0471
Fax: 909.607.1221
Email: masahiro.yamada@cgu.edu
Spring 2010 Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:30 - 11:30 a.m., or by appointment

Research

My area of specialization is epistemology including related areas in the philosophy of mind, language and metaphysics. My other interests include phenomenology and history of philosophy, especially Aristotle's views on change and biology. For more details about current research interests please see this page about my research.

Teaching

at CGU:

current:

20th Century Analytic Philosophy

past:

Ethics (Phil352, Fall 2009)
Epistemology (Phil342, Fall 2009)
20th Century Analytic Philosophy, (Phil340, Fall 2008)
Manifest Reality, (PHIL342, Fall 2008)
Epistemology (PHIL341, Spring 2008)
Agency and Action (with Dion Scott-Kakures, PHIL338, Spring 2008)

Central Problems in Philosophy (PHIL314, Fall 2007)
Value and Objectivity (PHIL345, Fall 2007)

Epistemology (PHIL341, Spring 2007)
Psychology and Computation (with Peter Kung, PHIL285L, Spring 2007)
20th Century Analytic Philosophy (PHIL340, Fall 2006)
Ethical Theory (PHIL352, Fall 2006)
The Nature of Inquiry (with Jacek Kugler, TNDY401I, Spring 2006)
Epistemology (with Peter Kung, PHIL341, Spring 2006)
Ethics (PHIL340, Fall 2005)

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy:

New York University, Department of Philosophy
Dissertation: "Rationality and the Aim of Truth"
committee: Paul Boghossian, Derek Parfit, Richard Foley

A.M., Philosophy:

Brown University, Department of Philosophy

A.B., Philosophy:

Brown University, Department of Philosophy

Publications

"Rule-following: a pedestrian approach", forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

"A new argument for evidentialism?", forthcoming in Philosophia. (doi:10.1007/s11406-009-9205-5)

"A neglected way of begging the question", (with Peter Kung) forthcoming in American Philosophical Quarterly.

"Getting it right by accident", forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

どこでもないところからの眺め, 2009 [translation into Japanese of Thomas Nagel, The view from nowhere (Oxford University Press, 1989)]. With. Nakamura, N., Okayama, K., Saitoh, Y., Shinkai, T. and Suzuki, Y. Tokyo: Shunjusha. (I also wrote a reader's guide to this edition)