Paul Boghossian Silver Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy New York University Room 505 5 Washington Place New York, NY 10003   Phone: (212) 998-8333 Fax: (212) 995-4179 Email: Ph.D., Princeton, 1987

Books

• Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism , Oxford University Press, 2006, available in Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Albanian translations.
• New Essays on the A Priori , (edited, with Christopher Peacocke), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
• Content and Justification: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Selected Articles

• "The Maze of Moral Relativism". Essay from the Stone series in the New York Times, July 24, 2011. Stanley Fish's response is available under "Does Philosophy Matter?", and Paul Boghossian's rejoinder to it under "Does Philosophy Matter? - It Would Appear So. A Reply to Fish".
• “Three Kinds of Relativism,” in S. Hales (ed.) A Companion to Relativism, Blackwell's 2010.
• “The Perception of Music,” in The British Journal of Aesthetics, January 2010.
• “Review of Gillian Russell’s Truth in Virtue of Meaning,” in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, November 2010.
• “Review of Mark Richard’s When Truth Gives Out,” in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, May 15, 2010.
• “The Transparency of Mental Content Revisited,” in Philosophical Studies, October 2010.
• “The Concept of Genocide,” in The Journal of Genocide Research 12 (2010), pp. 69-80, 2010.
• “Our Grasp of the Concept of Truth: Reflections on Kuenne,” in Dialectica, September 2010.
• “Epistemic Relativism,” in Bernecker and Pritchard (eds.): A Companion to Epistemology, (London: Routledge, 2010)
• “Williamson on the A Priori and the Analytic,” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, August 2010.
• “Review of Michael Dummett's Thought and Reality,” in TLS 2008.
• “What is Relativism?” in P. Greenough and M. Lynch (eds.), Truth and Realism, Oxford University Press, 2006.
• “Explaining Musical Experience,” in Kathleen Stock (ed.): Philosophers on Music, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2006.
• “Is Meaning Normative?” in Christian Nimtz and Ansgar Beckermann (eds.): Philosophy—Science—Scientific Philosophy. Main Lectures and Colloquia of GAP.5, Fifth International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Bielefeld, 2003, Mentis, 2005.
• “Blind Reasoning,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, no. 77, 2003, pp. 225–248.
• “Epistemic Analyticity: A Defense,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, vol. 66, 2003, pp. 15–35.
• “On Hearing the Music in the Sound,” in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2002).
• “How Are Objective Epistemic Reasons Possible?” in Philosophical Studies, Dec 2001, pp. 340–380.
• “The Gospel of Relaxation,” (review of Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club), The New Republic, September 2001
• “What is Social Construction?” in Times Literary Supplement, February 2001.
• “Knowledge of Logic,” in New Essays on the A Priori, (Oxford: OUP, 2000).
• “What the Externalist Can Know A Priori,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 97, 1997, pp. 161–175.
• “Analyticity Reconsidered,” Noûs, vol. 30, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 360–391.
• “The Transparency of Mental Content,” Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 8, 1994, pp. 33–50.
• “Physicalist Theories of Color,” (with David Velleman), Philosophical Review, vol. 100, no. 1, January 1991, pp. 67–106
• “Naturalizing Content,” in Barry Loewer and Georges Rey (eds.): Meaning in Mind: Fodor and his Critics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), pp. 65–86.
• “What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us,” Times Literary Supplement, Dec. 13, 1996, pp. 13–14.
• “The Status of Content,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 99, no. 2, April 1990, pp. 157–184.
• “Colour as a Secondary Quality,” (with David Velleman), Mind, vol. 98, no. 389, January 1989, pp. 81–103.
• “Content and Self-Knowledge,” Philosophical Topics, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 5–26.
• “The Rule-Following Considerations,” Mind, vol. 98, no. 392, October 1989, pp. 507–549

Courses

Undergraduate

• Topics in Language & Mind
• Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology

Graduate

• Proseminar (with David Velleman), Fall 2010
• Research Seminar on Mind and Language, Fall 2008
• Proseminar (with David Velleman) , Fall 2006
• Topics in Epistemology (with Paul Horwich) , Spring 2006
• Thesis Prep Seminar , Spring 2004
• Thesis Prep Seminar , Fall 2003
• Epistemology, Spring 2003
• Research Seminar on Language and Mind: Meaning, Rules, & Justification , Spring 2002 (in conjunction with Paul Horwich)
• Epistemology , Spring 2001 (in conjunction with Christopher Peacocke)
• Research Seminar on Language and Mind: The Objectivity of Knowledge , Spring 199 (in conjunction with Stephen Schiffer)
• Research Seminar on Language and Mind: Concepts, Spring 1998 (in conjunction with Ned Block)