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Johnson Address Telephone 699 West 239th St. Apt 6K (718) 548-3260 Bronx, NY 10463 Department of Philosophy 500 West 185th St. New York, NY 10033 Education PhD Princeton University 1989 BA University of Nebraska 1976 University Appointments , 2002-present Associate Professor , 1996-2002 Assistant Professor University of California, Los Angeles, 1995-1996 Visiting Assistant Professor University of Missouri, 1994-1995 Visiting Assistant Professor Syracuse University, 1991-1994 Sutton Distinguished Faculty Fellow University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, 1985-1986 Visiting Instructor College of William and Mary, Spring 1985 Visiting Instructor Somerset County College, New Jersey, Fall 1984 Adjunct Professor Ohio State University, 1982-1983 Visiting Instructor Wesleyan University, 1981-1982 Visiting Instructor University of Connecticut, 1981-1982 Visiting Instructor Books Truth without Paradox (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) Hume, Holism, and Miracles (Cornell University Press, 1999) Articles “The Ghost in the Multiverse,” Sophia 50 (2011), pp. 357-362. “Hume and Reports of Miracles,” in Jeffrey J. Jordan, ed., Philosophy of Religion: The Key Thinkers (London: Continuum Press, 2011), pp. 137-158. “A Modal Ontological Argument,” in David Shatz, ed., Philosophy and Faith (McGraw-Hill, 2001), pp. 179-183. “A Reconsideration of an Argument against Compatibilism,” Philosophical Topics, 24:2 (Fall 1996), pp. 113-122. (Thomas J. McKay, co-author.) “Conventionalism about Logical Truth,” Philosophical Topics, 23:1 (Spring 1995), pp. 189-212. “Induction and Modality,” Philosophical Review, 100:3 (July 1991), pp. 399-430. Dictionary Articles “Bayesian Rationality” (p. 74), “Doomsday Argument” (p. 242), “Envelope Paradox” (p. 268), “Grue Paradox” (pp. 356-357), “Qualitative Predicate” (p. 762), in Robert Audi, ed., Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1999). Professional Papers Presented “The Ghost in the Multiverse,” Workshop on Metaphysics & Philosophy of Religion, University of Texas at San Antonio, April 10, 2010. “Mondadori and Mondadori’s Body,” Conference on Themes from Mondadori, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, November 5, 2008. “Comments on Beiong Lee’s ‘The Knower Paradox Revisited’,” Southwest Philosophical Society Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, 2 November 1997. “A Reconsideration of an Argument against Compatibilism” (co-authored and co-presented with Thomas McKay), Chicago, Illinois, American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, April 1995. “How Do We Know that Contradictions are False?,” Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska, August 1993. “An Epitaph to Pythagoras,” Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University, March 1993. “Notes on Grue,” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, fall 1985. “Life after Death,” Williamsburg, Virginia, College of William and Mary, spring 1985. “Notes on Grue,” Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska, fall 1983. “Causation and Compound Events,” Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, fall 1982. “Against Nozick,” Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, fall 1981. “Passive Counterfactuals,” New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University, spring 1981. “Hume on Induction,” Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Franklin and Marshall University, spring 1981. Grants Member of the NEH Summer Seminar on Naturalism, directed by Robert Audi, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, June-July 1993. Professional and University Service Referee for Nous, 1991. Chair of Philosophy, Yeshiva College of , 2006-2011. 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