Professor David-Hillel Ruben, Director, NYU in London
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| Professor David-Hillel Ruben, Director, NYU in London
Professor of Philosophy,
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NYU in London:
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DIRECTORIAL POSITIONS:
(1) 1998-2000: Director, London School of Jewish Studies, an Associate Institution of the University of London. (2) 1999-present: Director, New York University in London.ACADEMIC POSITIONS :
1969: Tutor in Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh University.
1970-5: Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy & subsequently Lecturer in Logic, Glasgow University.
1975-79: Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Essex.
1979-84: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The City University.1984-2000: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Philosophy, The London School of Economics, University of London.
2000-2004: Professor of Philosophy (part time), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
2004-: Professor of Philosophy and Director of Jewish Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London
2000-present: Professor of Philosophy, NYU in London.
Summer and other short term teaching appointments: University of Connecticut at Storrs (USA), Tufts University (USA), University of Iceland. EDUCATION1. BA magna cum laude in Philosophy and Religion, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., U.S.A., (1961-5). Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1964.
2. Independent study, Edinburgh University, under supervision of Mr. Errol Bedford (1964-5). Dissertation Topic: 'Mind-Brain Identity Theories'.
3. PhD in Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. U.S.A. (1966-70). Degree awarded, 1971. Thesis Topic: 'Relativism, Rules, and Contemporary Moral Philosophy'. Thesis advisers: Professors Robert Nozick and Roderick Firth.
BOOKS(1) Marxism and Materialism , Harvester and Humanities, 1977, 2nd edition, 1979. Turkish translation: 1989.
(2) The Metaphysics of the Social World, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
(3) Explaining Explanation , Routledge, 1990.
(4) editor, Explanation , Readings in Philosophy Series, Oxford University Press, 1993.
(5) Action and Its Explanation , Oxford University Press, 2003.
(I was also editor of four additional philosophical collections.) ARTICLES: 1. 'Positive and Natural Law Revisited', The Modern Schoolman , May 1972, Vol. 49, pp. 295-317. 2. 'Searle on Institutional Obligation', The Monist , October, 1972, Vol. 56, pp. 600- 611. 3. 'Warnock on Rules', The Philosophical Quarterly ,October, 1972, Vol. 22, No.89, pp. 349-354. 4. 'Tacit Promising', Ethics , October, 1972, Vol. 83, No.1, pp. 71-79. 5. 'Relativism and the Theory of Right', Analysis , April, 1974, No. 34, pp. 167-173.6. 'Epistemological Empiricism', The Monist , July, 1976, Vol. 59, No.3, pp. 392-403.
7. 'Knowledge: Its Definition and its Criteria', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , June, 1977, Vol. XXXVII, No.4, pp.552-555.
8. 'Marxism and Dialectics', in Issues in Marxist Philosophy , Vol. I, eds., Mepham and Ruben, pp. 37-81.
9. 'Laws and Necessity in Marx', Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures , 1979-80.
10. 'Cohen, Marx, and the Primacy Thesis', British Journal of Political Science , II, 1980, pp. 227-234.
11. 'Lewis and the Problem of Causal Sufficiency', Analysis , January, 1981, Vol. 41, No.1, pp. 38-41.
12. 'Causal Scepticism', Ratio , December, 1982, Vol. XXIV, no.2, pp.161-172.
13. 'The Existence of Social Entities', The Philosophical Quarterly ,October, 1982, Vol. 32, No.129, pp. 295-310.
14. 'Social Wholes and Parts', Mind , April, 1983, Vol. XCII, pp.219-238.
15. 'Marxism and the Jewish Question', in The Socialist Register 1982, eds., Martin Eve and David Musson, Merlin Press, 1982, pp. 205-237.
16. 'Social Properties and Their Basis', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , Vol. 85, 1984-85, pp. 23-45.
17. 'Explaining Contrastive Facts', Analysis , January 1987, Vol. 47, No.1, pp.35-37.18. 'A Puzzle About Posthumous Predication', The Philosophical Review ,April, 1988, Vol. XCVII, No.2, pp. 211-236.
'A Reply to Professor Haji on Posthumous Predication', Grazer Philosophische Studien , Vol 38, 1990, pp. 195-99.19. Articles on realism and relativism in The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy , edited by J. Urmson and J. Rée, 1989.
20. 'The Ontology of Explanation', in Freedom and Rationality , eds., Fred D'Agostino and I.C. Jarvie, Reidel, 1989, pp. 67-85.
21. 'Realism in the Social Sciences', in Dismantling Truth , eds., Hilary Lawson and Lisa Appignanesi, Weidenfeld, 1989, pp. 58-75.
22. 'Singular Explanation & The Social Sciences', Midwest Studies in Philosophy , Vol. XV, 1990.
23. 'Simple Attentive Miscalculation', Analysis 52, No. 3, July, 1992, pp. 184-190.
24. 'Introduction' to Explanation , Readings in Philosophy Series, Ed, by D.-H. Ruben, 1993, O.U.P.
25. 'Response to an Essay Review of Explaining Explanation ', Metascience , New Series Issue 1, 1992, pp. 25-30.
26. article on Marxism in Companion to Metaphysics , ed. Ernest Sosa, Blackwell, 1994.
27. 'Mental Overpopulation and the Problem of Action', in Italian in Discipline Filosofiche , 1993, no. 2, pp.273-297, and in English in Journal of Philosophical Research , Vol. XX, 1995, pp. 111-124.
28. 'A Counterfactual Theory of Causal Explanation', Nous , Vol. XXVIII, 1994, pp. 465-81.
29. 'Agency, Causation and Freedom', in E. Barker, ed., LSE On Freedom ,pp. 16-28, LSE Books, 1995.
30. 'Philosophy of the Social Sciences', in A. Grayling, ed., Philosophy: A Guide Through the Subject , OUP, Volume 2, 1998.
31. article on 'Explanation in History and Social Science', in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy , Routledge, 1998.
32. 'Three Theories of Action', in Contemporary Action Theory , eds. Hintikka and Tuomela (Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997), pp. 267-286.
33. 'The Active and the Passive', Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol. LXXI , 1997, pp. 229-46.
34. 'On Searle', in 'Symposium on Searle's The Construction of Social Reality', in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research , Vol. 57, 1997, pp.443-447.35. 'Social Properties and Structuration Theory', in Knowing the Social World , Open University Press, eds. T. May and M. Williams, 1998, pp. 50-68.
36. 'Cambridge Actions', Analysis , 59.4, 1999, pp. 276-283. 37. ‘Karl Marx, in German Philosophy Since Kant , ed. Anthony O’Hear, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 65-79. 38. 'Actions and Their Parts', Proceedings of the 20 th World Congress of Philosophy , vol. 2, Boston, 1999, pp. 73-80. 39. ‘Social Properties: Facts and Entities’, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences , Elsevier, Oct. 2001. 40. ‘Disjunctive Theories of Perception and Action’, Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge , OUP, eds. Adrian Haddock and Fiona Macpherson, forthcoming 2008. 41. ‘Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Five Questions’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Five Questions , ed. by Diego Rios and Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Automatic Press, forthcoming, 2007. 42. 'Con-Reasons as Causes', New Essays on the Explanation of Action ,Palgave Macmillan, ed. Constantine Sandis, forthcoming 2008.
