He 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 over issues 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’ (Nous, 2001), and (with Bonevac and Dever) ‘The Conditional Fallacy’ (Philosophical Review, 2006). He served as 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, forthcoming 2012), and as associate editor of Philosophy for the 21st Century (Oxford, 2002). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Analytic Philosophy and serves as subject editor, for 20th-Century Philosophy, for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
David Sosa
