David Sosa

Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts

David Sosathe, the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Chair in the Department of Philosophy, is Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. taught at Dartmouth College and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley before coming to Texas. A specialist in the philosophy of mind and language, he has interests ranging widely in ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. His publications include ‘Consequences of Consequentialism’ (Mind,1993), ‘The Import of the Puzzle About Belief’ (Philosophical Review, 1996), ‘Rigidity in the Scope of Russell’s Theory’ (Noûs, 2001), and (with Bonevac and Dever) ‘The Conditional Fallacy’ (Philosophical Review, 2006). Sosa is (since 2010) editor-in-chief of the journal Analytic Philosophy. 

He has served as editor of Bad Words (Oxford, 2018), co-editor (with A.P. Martinich) of A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 2001), Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2001; 2nd edition 2010), and Philosophy of Language (Oxford, 2012), and as associate editor of Philosophy for the 21st Century (Oxford, 2002). He is now editor (with E. Lepore) Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language and subject editor, for 20th-Century Philosophy, for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.