Delia Graff
Curriculum Vitae

Sage School of Philosophy
218 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Personal Information

• Born: Queens, NY; 4/28/1969.
• Citizenship: USA
• Family: spouse, Michael Fara; daughter, Clarissa Graff Fara (born 9/14/2004).

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993–1997. Doctoral Program in Philosophy. Ph.D. (September 1997) with a minor in linguistics. Dissertation: The Phenomena of Vagueness. Advisor: Robert Stalnaker.
• Harvard University, 1991–1993. Doctoral Program in Philosophy. Transferred to M.I.T.
• Harvard University, 1987–1991. Bachelor of Arts (1991), with a joint concentration in Philosophy and Government.

• Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Princeton University, as of July 2005.
• Associate Professor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, July 2004–June 2005.
• Assistant Professor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, July 2001–June 2004
• Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Princeton University, July 1997–June 2001.
• Instructor, Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar—Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, August 2000.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT, Fall 1994–Spring 1997.
• Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department, Harvard University, Spring 1996.

• Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology.

• (2003) "Desires, Scope and Tense," Philosophical Perspectives 17: Philosophy of Language and Philosophical Linguistics, 141–163.
• (2003) "Gap Principles, Penumbral Consequence and Infinitely Higher-Order Vagueness," in J.C. Beall (editor) Liars and Heaps: New Essays on Paradox: 195–221, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• (2002) "An Anti-Epistemicist Consequence of Margin for Error Semantics for Knowledge," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 64, pp. 127–142.
• (2001) "Phenomenal Continua and the Sorites," Mind 110(440): 905–935.
• (2001) "Descriptions as Predicates," Philosophical Studies 102(1): 1–42.
  Winner of 2002 APA Article Prize (for best paper published in 2000–2001 by a younger scholar).
• (2000) "Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness," Philosophical Topics 28(1): 45–81.

• "Descriptions" (2003), entry in The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, second edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Review of Theories of Vagueness by Rosanna Keefe (2003), Philosophical Quarterly 53(212), 460–462.
• Introducing Philosophy (2003), editor of "Metaphysics" section, (Steven Cahn, general editor), Oxford, Oxford University Press.
• Vagueness (International Research Library of Philosophy) (2002), co-edited with Timothy Williamson, Ashgate, Aldershot.
• Review of Gary Ostertag (ed.), Definite Descriptions: A Reader (1999), Journal of Symbolic Logic 64, 1371–1374.

• "Verbal and Nominal Desire Ascriptions," University of Southern California, Linguistics and Philosophy Workshop: Syntax and Semantics with Attitude, 17 April 2005.
• "A Boundary Shifter's Guide to Higher-Order Vagueness," University of St Andrews, Fourth Vagueness Workshop, 5 February 2005.
• "In Defense of the Simple Criterion of Identity for Qualia"
  • Unversity of St Andrews, Vagueness Seminar, 4 February 2005.
  • Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, Conference on Criteria of Identity, 2 December 2004.
• "Desire Ascriptions, Closure, and the Specification Assumption," University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27 August 2004.
• "Infinitely Higher-Order Vagueness (and other problems for supervaluationists)"
  • University of Rochester, 28 February 2003.
  • The Jowett Society, Oxford University, 15 November 2002.
  • UConn-MIT Conference on "Liars and Heaps: The Logic and Semantics of Paradox," 13 October 2002.
• "Descriptions in Desire Ascriptions,"
  • UC Berkeley Philosophy Department, 31 October 2002.
  • UC Davis Philosophy Department, 10 May 2002.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 9 March 2001.
• "Borderline Borderline Cases," Queen's University Philosophy Department, 17 October 2002.
• "Vagueness, Adjectives and Interests (II)," Northwestern University, Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy, 15 February 2002.
• "Ascriptions of Desires and Descriptions of Desires," Union College Philosophy Department, 26 October 2001.
• "Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness," University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 10 November 2000.
• "Individuating Desires and Desire Ascriptions," Columbia University, 26 October 2000.
• "Vagueness, Adjectives and Interests," Rutgers, The Second Semi-Annual Rutgers Semantics Workshop, 12 May 2000.
• "Descriptions as Predicates," Cornell University, Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy, 4 November 1999.
• "Phenomenal Continua and the Sorites"
  • Vassar College, 4 November 1998.
  • Interuniversity Center Conference on Vagueness, Bled, Slovenia, 6 June 1998.
• "The Sorites Paradox," CUNY—The Graduate Center, New York Vagueness Reading Group, 15 November 1997.

• "Comments on Robin Jeshion's 'Singular Thought without Acquaintance'," Princeton University, Princeton Semantics Workshop, 16 May 2003.
• "Comments on Achille Varzi's 'Events and Indeterminacy'," Workshop on the Philosophy-Linguistics Interface: States and Events, University of Southern California, 16 February 2003.
• "Comments on Marc Moffett's 'Are 'that'-clauses really singular terms?'," American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, Philadelphia, 30 December 2002.
• "Comments on Chris Kennedy's 'The Landscape of Vagueness'," University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Philosophy and Linguistics Workshop. 8 November 2002.
• "Comments on Mark Heller's 'The Immorality of Modal Realism'," Third Annual Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference 2002, Western Washington University, 3 August 2002.
• "Comments on John Martin Fischer's 'Alternatives, Deliberation, and Moral Responsibility'," Werkmeister Conference 2002—Causation and Free Will, Florida State University, 19 January 2002.
• "Comments on Ted Everett's 'Conditional Knowledge and Skepticism'" Creighton Club Meeting, Cornell University, 20 October 2001.
• "Comments on Marian David's 'Truth and Identity'," Syracuse University, Metaphysics Mayhem V, 14 August 2000.
• "Comments on Mario Gomez-Torrente's 'Vagueness and Margin for Error Principles'," American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, Boston, 29 December 1999.
• "Comments on Newton Garver's 'Vagueness, Context and Analysis'," American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, 9 May 1998.

• Introduction to Deductive Logic (PHIL 231), Cornell, Spring 2003, Fall 2001.
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (PHIL 332/LING 332), Cornell, Spring 2003.
• Intensional Logic (PHIL 436/MATH 483), Cornell, Spring 2002.
• Philosophy of Language (PHIL 663), Cornell, Spring 2002.
• Epistemology (PHIL 361), Cornell, Fall 2001.
• Pragmatics and Context-Dependence (PHI 345), Princeton, Spring 2001.
• Introduction to Symbolic Logic (PHI 201), Princeton, Spring 2001, Fall 1999, Fall 1998.
• Vagueness, Graduate Seminar, Princeton, Fall 2000, Spring 1998.
• Vagueness in Logic and Language, Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar, Blagoevgrad Bulgaria, August 2000.
• The Semantics of Descriptions, Graduate Seminar, Princeton, Fall 1999.
• Topics in Metaphysics—Material Constitution, Graduate Seminar (co-taught with Mark Johnston), Princeton, Spring 1999.
• Identity and Constitution, Junior Seminar, Princeton, Fall 1998, Fall 1997.
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (PHI 317), Princeton, Spring 1998.

• Conference Referee: Semantics and Linguistic Theory XIV, Spring 2004; Semantics and Linguistic Theory XV, Spring 2005.
• Editorial Board: Philosophical Studies, 2003-
• Chair: Colloquium on Experience and Qualia, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, May 2001.
• Chair: Colloquium on Truth, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, March 2001.
• Journal Referee: Australasion Journal of Philosophy, Linguistics and Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Nous, The Philosophical Quarterly, The Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies.
• Press Referee: Oxford University Press (both linguistics and philosophy divisions).

Philosophy Department, Cornell University:

• Department Workshop Organizer, Spring 2005.
• Job Search Committees: 2002, 2003.
• Discussion Club Coordinator (a.k.a. Speaker Series Organizer), 2001–2002.
• Graduate Admissions, 2002.

Princeton University:

• Interdepartmental Committee for the Program in Linguistics: 1 July 1999–June 2001.
• Committee on Committees: February 2000–June 2001.
• Interdepartmental Committee for the Program in Cognitive Studies: 1 July 2000–June 2001.

Philosophy Department, Princeton University:

• Graduate Admissions: 1998,1999
• Job Search Committees: 1997, 1998, 1999
• Computer Committee: 1999–2000, 2000–01
• Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: 1997–98, 2000–01
• Appointments Committee 1998
• Course Allocation Committee 1998

• 2002 APA Article Prize for "Descriptions as Predicates": Prize for best paper published in 2000-2001 by a younger scholar.
• Mellon Foundation: New Directions Fellowship. Awarded spring 2002.

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