CURRICULUM VITAE
David S. Clarke
Biographical
Data
Born March 8, 1936, New Haven, Connecticut.
Lieutenant, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, 1957-60.
Married to Sadako Okano in June, 1965. Two daughters: Jessica (born January, 1967) and Katherine (May, 1968).
Teaching position at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1966-97, 99-01. Promoted to Associate Professor in 1971; to Full Professor in 1980; Professor Emeritus, 1997.
Chair of department, 1973-76; Director of Graduate Studies, 1977-79, 85-86, 88-89, 92-93.
Visiting Scholar, Kyoto University, Fall, 1986.
Invited Professor, Kansai Gaidai University, 1997-99
Education
B.A. Yale University, 1957. Graduated magna cum laude. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa. University scholarship, 1955-57.
Ph.D. Emory University, 1964. Graduate fellowship, 1960-63.
Post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University, 1964-66.
Publications
A. Books
Practical Inferences. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
Principles of Semiotic. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.
Rational Acceptance and Purpose. Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988.
Sources of Semiotic (Editor). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
Deductive Logic, 2nd edition, with Richard Behling. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997.
Philosophy's Second Revolution. LaSalle: Open Court, 1997.
Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Sign Levels. Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers, 2003
Panpsychism: Past and Recent Selections (Editor). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004
Some Pragmatist Themes. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.
B. Selections in Books
"Introduction" to Keiji Nishitani, Nishida Kitaro, trans. by S. Yamamoto and J. Heisig. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
"Judging Sufficiency of Evidence" in L. Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of A. J. Ayer in The Library of Living Philosophers. Peru: Open Court, 1992.
"Semiotic and Transactional Aspects of Language" in J. Stewart, ed., Beyond the Symbol Model. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.
“The Possibility of Acceptance Without Belief” in P. Engel, ed., Believing and Accepting. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.
C. Articles
"The Dispositional Theory of Signs," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 6 (1968): 108-14.
"Mood Constancy in Mixed Inferences," Analysis, 30 (1970): 100-03.
"Mass Terms as Subjects," Philosophical Studies, 21 (1970): 25-28.
"Is There Meaning Independent of Force?", Southern Journal of Philosophy, 9 (1971): 259-64.
"A Defense of the No-Ownership Theory," Mind, 81 (1972): 97-101.
"Reply to Morscher and Zecha," Philosophia, 3 (1973): 103-05.
"The Prescriptional Analysis of Normatives," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 12 (1974): 21-33.
"The Logical Structure of Imperatives," Philosophia, 5 (1975): 417-27.
"The Role of Practical Inferences in Deliberation," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 15 (1977): 15-25.
"Exclusionary Reasons," Mind, 86 (1977): 252-55.
"Natural Signs and Evidence," Semiosis, 6 (1977): 50-56.
"The Addressing Function of 'I'," Analysis, 38 (1978): 91-93.
"Projectives and Their Logic," Philosophia, 8 (1979): 599-614.
"Varieties of Practical Inference," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 17 (1979): 273-86.
"Projective Inferences and Practical Reasoning," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 20 (1982): 1-13.
"Negating the Subject," Philosophical Studies, 43 (1983): 249-53.
"Ignoring Available Evidence," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 22 (1984): 453-67.
"Distinguishing the 'Ought' from the 'Rational'," Philosophia, 15 (1985): 251-70.
"Whitehead and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy," Process Studies, 16 (1987): 26-34.
"Two Uses of 'Know'," Analysis, 50 (1990): 188-90.
"Knowledge, Information Exchange, and Responsibility," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 29 (1991): 445-63.
"Knowledge and Ethics," Journal of Information Ethics, 1 (1992): 22-31.
"Does Acceptance Entail Belief?", American Philosophical Quarterly, 31 (1994): 145-56.
"Alternative Uses of 'We'," Philosophia, 24 (1995): 389-403.
“Hartshorne’s Version of Panpsychism,” Journal of Inquiry and Research 68 (August, 1998): 229-39.
“Two Arguments for Panpsychism,” Journal of Inquiry and Research 69 (Feb., 1999): 267-86.
“Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude,” Journal of Inquiry and Research 70 (August, 1999): 169-83.
“Panpsychism and the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 16 (2002): 151-166.
“Changing Conceptions of Sign Interpretation and the Language of Prayer,” Semiotic Inquiry 25 (2005): 117-134.
“Reductionism and Discourse Relativity,” Philo, 12.1 (2009), forthcoming.
“Contextual Aspects of Belief Ascriptions: A Response to Buckareff,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 18 (2010), forthcoming.
D. Book Reviews
Review of Paul Ziff, Understanding Understanding, Philosophia, 6 (1976): 525-28.
Review of Erik Stenius, Critical Essays, Philosophia, 6 (1976): 359-62.
Review of S. Guttenplan, ed., Mind and Language, Philosophia 13 (1983): 135-40.
Review of S. Korner, Experience and Conduct, Philosophia 13 (1983): 109-12.
Review of B. Aune, Reason and Action, Philosophia 15 (1985): 157-61.
Review of R. Jackendoff, Consciousness and the Computational Mind, Review of Metaphysics, 42 (1988): 147-49.
Review of Allan White, Misleading Cases, Philosophia 24 (1994): 361-66.
"Two Aspects of Hartshorne's Metaphysics," Review of The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, The Library of Living Philosophers, L. Hahn, ed., Vol. XX, Semiotica 1994: 105-11.
Review of Sergio Moravia, The Enigma of Mind, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, January, 1996.
Review of Michael Dummett, The Logical Basis for Metaphysics, Philosophia 25 (1997): 453-59.
Review of Harry Gensler, Formal Ethics, Philosophy in Review 27 (1997): 167-69.
Review of Pasquale Frascolla, Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophia 27 (1999): 649-52.
Review of Raymond Tallis, On the Edge of Certainty, Philosophy in Review 20 (2000): 296-98.
Review of Jennifer Hornsby, Simple Mindedness, Metapsychology.
Review of Elijah Millgram, ed., Varieties of Practical Reasoning, Metapsychology.
E. Selected Professional Paper Presentations
"A Defense of the No-Ownership Theory," Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, May, 1969.
"Is There Meaning Independent of Force?", Eastern APA, December, 1969.
"Meaning, Force, and Rhetorical Effect," Eastern APA, December, 1970.
"Transcendental Arguments: A Comment on Sievert's Paper," Eastern APA, December, 1971.
"A Comment on Addis's Paper," Western APA, May, 1972.
"Philosophy and the University Curriculum," West Virginia University, March, 1976.
"Addresses and Quasi-Subjects," Illinois Philosophy Association, November, 1981.
"Dewey on Deliberation," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March, 1983.
"Ignoring Available Evidence," Western APA, April, 1983.
"Kripke's Puzzle," Central States Philosophical Association, October, 1984.
"Whitehead and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy," Japan Society for Process Studies, October, 1986.
"Contemporary Analytic Philosophy," a series of three lectures delivered at the College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto University, Fall, 1986.
"Philosophy's Second Revolution," Doshisha University, December, 1986 and as the Ming Yu Lecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January, 1987.
"Social Aspects of Our Use of 'Know'," Illinois Philosophical Association, November, 1989.
"The Legacy of G. H. Mead," Kansai Gaidai University, October, 1993.
"The Possibility of Acceptance without Belief," Conference on Belief and Acceptance, Caen, France, April, 1995.
“Transactional Aspects of Belief Ascription,” Illinois Philosophy Association, November, 1996.
“Panpsychism and the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne,” Kyoto Faculty of Letters, June, 1998.
“Social Interactions and Some Misconceptions About Belief,” Tokyo University Department of the History and Philosophy of Science,” June, 1998.
“Why Beliefs Are Not Matters of Fact,” Kyoto Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, June, 1999.