David Finkelstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the College. He received his AB in philosophy and psychology from Harvard and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Finkelstein works and teaches principally in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. His book, Expression and the Inner, offers an account of the authority with which we speak about our own thoughts and feelings and of the distinction between conscious and unconscious mental states.
Selected Publications
Expression and the Inner, Harvard University Press, 2003 (PDF chapter 1, PDF chapter 6)
“From Transparency to Expressivism,” in Günter Abel and James Conant (eds.) Rethinking Epistemology (De Gruyter, 2012): 101-118. PDF
Teorema Précis Volume XXX/3 (2011) PDF
Finkelstein's Teorema Replies Volume XXX/3 (2011) PDF
“Rule-Following,” forthcoming in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Cambridge University Press. PDF
“Expression and Avowal,” in Wittgenstein: Key Concepts, ed. Kelly Jolley (Durham, UK: Acumen Press, 2010): 185-198. PDF
"Holism and Animal Minds," Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond, ed. Alice Crary (MIT, 2007) PDF.
"Wittgenstein's 'Plan for the treatment of psychological concepts'," in Wittgenstein in America, ed. Timothy McCarthy and Sean Stidd (Oxford, 2001): 215-236. PDF
"Wittgenstein on Rules and Platonism," in The New Wittgenstein, ed. Alice Crary and Rupert Reed (London: Routledge, 2000): 53-73. PDF
"On the Distinction between Conscious and Unconscious States of Mind," American Philosophical Quarterly 36 (2) (April 1999): 79-100. PDF
"On Self Blindness and the Inner Sense,"Philosophical Topics, Volume 26, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1999 PDF
Media
David Finkelstein interviewed on WBEZ's "Odyssey"
Recent Courses
PHIL 50100 First Year Seminar
This course meets in Autumn and Winter quarters.
Enrollment limited to first-year graduate students.
PHIL 24100 Consciousness
PHIL 50100 First Year Seminar
This course meets in Autumn and Winter quarters.
Enrollment limited to first-year graduate students.
For full list of David Finkelstein's courses back to the 2012-13 academic year, see our searchable course database.