Faculty

Gabriel Uzquiano

Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information
E-mail: uzquiano@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-1074
Office: STO 221

LINKS
PhilPapers Profile (with links to online papers)
 

Biographical Sketch

I received my PhD from the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT in 1999. I taught in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester between 1999 and 2005, and I spent one year in the Department of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. In Fall 2006, I moved to Pembroke College and the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where I taught between 2006 and 2011.

Education

  • Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
  • Other Degree , University of Barcelona

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
  • Professor, University of Southern California, 2011-  
  • CUF Lecturer, University of Oxford, 2006-2011  
  • Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Pembroke College, 2006-2011  
  • Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, 2005-2006  
  • Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, 1999-2005  
Visiting and Temporary Appointments
  • Professorial Fellow, University of St Andrews, 2014-2019  

Description of Research

Research Specialties
Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language

Publications


Book
  • Rayo, A., Uzquiano, G. (2006). Absolute Generality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapter
  • Shapiro, S., Uzquiano, G. (2016). Ineffability within the Limits of Abstraction Alone. Abstractionism pp. 283-308. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2014). Mereology and Modality. Mereology, Topology and Location pp. 33-56. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2011). Mereological Harmony. (Vol. 6). pp. 199-224. Oxford: Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603039.001.0001

Encyclopedia Article
  • Uzquiano, G. (2014). Quantification and Quantifiers. (The Metaphysics Research Lab, Ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. SEP Entry

Journal Article
  • Uzquiano, G. (2019). Impredicativity and Paradox. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 8 (3), pp. 209-221.
  • Bacon, A., Uzquiano, G. (2018). Some Results on the Limits of Thought. Journal of Philosophical Logic. Vol. 47 (6), pp. 991-999.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2018). Groups: Toward a Theory of Plural Embodiment. The Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 115 (8), pp. 423-452.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2018). Quantification, Inference, and Ontology. Analysis. Vol. 78 (2), pp. 305-315.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2017). Atomism and Composition. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 6 (4), pp. 232-240.
  • Bacon, A., Hawthorne, J., Uzquiano, G. (2016). Higher-Order Free Logic and the Prior-Kaplan Paradox. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 46 (4-5), pp. 496-541.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2015). Recombination and Paradox. Philosophers' Imprint. Vol. 15 (19), pp. 1-20. Permalink
  • Uzquiano, G. (2015). A Neglected Resolution of Russell's Paradox of Propositions. The Review of Symbolic Logic. Vol. 8 (2), pp. 328-344.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2015). Modality and Paradox. Philosophy Compass. Vol. 10 (4), pp. 284-300.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2015). Varieties of Indefinite Extensibility. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. Vol. 56 (1), pp. 147-166.
  • Uzquiano, G. (2011). Plural Quantification and Modality. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Vol. CXI (2), pp. 219-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2011.00307.x
  • Hawthorne, J., Uzquiano, G. (2011). How Many Angels Can Dance on the Point of a Needle? Trascendental Theology Meets Modal Metaphysics. Mind. Vol. 120 (478), pp. 53-81. doi: 10.1093/mind/fzr004
  • Uzquiano, G. (2011). Before-Effect without Zeno Causality. Noûs. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00812.x
  • Uzquiano, G. (2010). How to solve the hardest logic puzzle ever in two questions. Analysis. Vol. 70 (1), pp. 39-44. doi: 10.1093/analys/anp140

Magazine/Trade Publication
  • Florio, S., Linnebo, Ø., Rayo, A., Uzquiano, G. Interview with Agustín Rayo, Gabriel Uzquiano and Øystein Linnebo. The Reasoner. Vol. 9, pp. 46-49. Link to Interview


Service to the University


Administrative Appointments
  • Director of Graduate Studies, 2017-  


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