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Diana Raffman

Diana Raffman
BA (music, Yale); PhD (philosophy, Yale)

Professor
Coordinator of Graduate Studies                                                          		   diana.raffman@utoronto.ca
For administrative inquiries:
 graduate.phil@utoronto.ca
  • Areas: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, vagueness, philosophy of music 
  • Courses 2011-12:  
      AU: Professional Development Seminar, W12-3, JHB418
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Click here for Diana Raffman's curriculum vitae

Offices: NE275 (UTM); JHB 408 (admin), JHB414 (research)
     

Books

Language, Music, and Mind  (MIT/Bradford 1992)
   Preface and Chapters 1-3  [ online ]
   Chapters 4-7  [ online ]
 
Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language (forthcoming 2012, OUP)
 

Selected articles

  • "Can We Do Without Concepts?  Comments on Machery's Doing Without Concepts.  Philosophical Studies, February 2010. [online]
  • "Demoting Higher-Order Vagueness". In S. Moruzzi, R. Dietz, C. Wright, Cuts and Clouds, OUP, 2010. [ online ]
  • "Music, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science".  Forthcoming in T. Gracyk (ed.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Music.  [online]
  • "From the Looks of Things".  In Edmond Wright (ed.), The Case for Qualia (MIT, 2008).[online]
  • "Borderline Cases and Bivalence", The Philosophical Review 114(1). 2005. [ online ]
  • "Even Zombies Can Be Surprised", Philosophical Studies. 2005. [ online ]
  • "How to Understand Contextualism About Vagueness: Reply to Stanley", Analysis. 2005. [ online ]
  • "Some Thoughts on Thinking About Consciousness", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72(). 2005.  For a symposium on David Papineau's Thinking About Consciousness.  Published together with commentaries by Tim Crane and Chris Hill and a response by Papineau  [ online ] 
  • "Is Twelve-tone Music Artistically Defective?", Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 2003. [ online ]
  • "Review of Rosanna Keefe, Theories of Vagueness", The Philosophical Review. 2003. (with Stewart Shapiro) [ online ]
  • "What Autism May Tell Us About Self-Awareness", Mind and Language. 2000. [ online ]
  • "Is Perceptual Indiscriminability Nontransitive?", Philosophical Topics. 1999. [ online ]
  • "Vagueness and Context-Relativity", Philosophical Studies 81, 1996.  [online]
  • "On the Persistence of Phenomenology". In Thomas Metzinger, Conscious Experience, Schoningh Verlag. 1995. [ online ]
  • "Vagueness Without Paradox", Philosophical Review 103(1), 1994. [ online ]
 

Unpublished papers