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Graciela De Pierris
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Office: Building 100, Room 102D
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Dept. of Philosophy
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2155

Phone: (650) 724-8604
Fax: (650) 723-0985
Email: graciela@stanford.edu

Personal Portrait

Education History
Profesora en Filosofia, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley

Areas of Interest
Historical Topics in Epistemology, especially Hume and Kant; also Frege, Wittgenstein, and Quine; skepticism and naturalism
Selected Bibliography
  • "Necesidad como Criterio de la Aprioridad," Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofia, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 1987, pp. 33-46.
  • "Kant and Innatism," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 68, Nos. 3 & 4, September/December 1987, pp. 285-305.
  • "Frege and Kant on A Priori Knowledge," Synthese, Vol. 77, No. 3, December 1988, pp. 285-319.
  • "Subjective Justification," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 1989, pp. 363-382.
  • Critical Study of Barry Stroud's The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, Noûs, Vol. 23, No. 4, September 1989, pp. 531-543.
  • "The Structure of Empirical Knowledge," Dialogos, January 1991, pp. 187-199.
  • "The Constitutive A Priori," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 18, December 1992, pp. 179-214.
  • "Wittgenstein y el Escepticismo Filosofico," Manuscrito, Vol. 18, No. 2, October 1995, pp. 245-274.
  • "Philosophical Scepticism in Wittgenstein's On Certainty" in Scepticism in the History of Philosophy, ed. Richard H. Popkin, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 181-196.
  • "Escepticismo y las Leyes Causales de la Naturaleza en Hume," Actas del IX Congreso Nacional de Filosofia, Asociacion Filosofica Argentina, December 1998.
  • "Naturalismo y la Autonomia del Pensamiento Filosofico: La Epistemologia Naturalista de Quine en relacion a la Epistemologia Tradicional," Análisis Filosófico, Vol. XIX, No. 1, May 1999, pp. 5-30.
  • "Hume's Pyrrhonian Skepticism and the Belief in Causal Laws," Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, July 2001, pp. 351-383.
  • "Geometry in the Metaphysical Exposition," in Kant und die Berliner Aufklaerung, Band 2, eds. Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, and Ralph Schumacher, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, pp. 197-204.
  • "Causation as a Philosophical Relation in Hume," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXIV, No. 3, May 2002, pp. 499-545.
  • "A Fundamental Ambiguity in the Cartesian Theory of Ideas: Descartes and Leibniz on Intellectual Apprehension," in Dialogue, Language, Rationality. A Festschrift for Marcelo Dascal, ed. Michael B. Wrigley, Manuscrito, Vol. XXV, No. 2, October 2002, pp. 105-146.
  • "Quine's Historical Argument for Epistemology Naturalized," in The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism: Re-Evaluation and Future Perspectives of the Research and Historiography, ed. Friedrich Stadler, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp. 105-146.
  • "Hume and Descartes on Skepticism with Regard to Demonstrative Reasoning," Análisis Filosófico, Vol. XXV, No. 2, November 2005, pp. 101-119.
  • "Hume's Phenomenological Conception of Space, Time and Mathematics," forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 2006 Lauener Conference (a conference at Bern, Switzerland, in honor of Dagfinn Føllesdal).
  • "Hume and Locke on Scientific Methodology: The Newtonian Legacy," forthcoming in Hume Studies.

Recent Courses
Skepticism (Freshman Seminar)
Descartes
History of Modern Philosophy
Hume
Links and Online Papers


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