Personal
- Name: Mircea Dumitru
- Date and place of birth: July 14 1960, Bucharest
- Nationality: Romanian
- Civil status: married, two children
- Employer: University of Bucharest
- Job: Professor, Department of Philosophy, Rector of the University of Bucharest
- Address: Aleea Valea Salciei, nr. 1, bl. D5, sc. C, et. 4, ap. 29, sect. 6, 061715, Bucureşti
- Telephone: home (40788) 572.994
- department (4021) 318.1556
- e-mail:
Education
- 1998 May: Ph.D. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, U. S. A.
- Ph. D. dissertation – On Incompleteness in Modal Logic. An Account Through Second-Order Logic, supervisor Professor Graeme Forbes.
- 1998 July: Ph.D. University of Bucharest, Romania.
- Ph. D. dissertation – Lois crede ca … . Neo-fregeanism si neo-russellianism in semantica atribuirii de atitudini propozitionale si a referintei directe (Lois Believes That … . Neo-Fregean vs. Neo-Russellian Approaches To Attitude Ascriptions and Direct Reference), supervisor Professor Stefan Georgescu.
- 1994 - 1998: Ph.D. student, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
- 1985: B. A. in Philosophy, University of Bucharest.
- B. A. thesis – ‘Dinamica cunoasterii stiintifice. O abordare metaepistemologica’ (‘Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge. A Meta-epistemological Approach’), supervisor Professor M. Flonta.
- 1980 - 1985: undergraduate, major Philosophy, minor History, University of Bucharest.
- 1979: Baccalaureate Diploma, Musical High School #1, Bucharest.
- 1972 - 1979: Musical School and High School #1, Bucharest.
- 1967 - 1972: Musical School, Craiova.
Academic experience
- 2011 December - : Rector (President) of the University of Bucharest.
- 2017-2022: Visiting Professor, Beijing Normal University.
- 2017-2020: President, International Institute of Philosophy.
- 2016-2017: Minister of Education and Scientific Research, Government of Romania.
- 2011 – 2014 President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy
- 2010 - : Member of the National Council of Accreditation of University Titles, Diplomas, and Certificates (CNATDCU).
- 2008 - 2011: Vice-Rector (Vice-President) of the University of Bucharest, in charge with quality assurance and international relationships.
- 2005 - 2011: President of the Committee for Humanities and Divinity of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS).
- 2004 – 2008: Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, and Chairman of the Department of Theoretic Philosophy and Logic, University of Bucharest, Romania.
- 2004 – present: Professor, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Theoretic Philosophy and Logic, Romania.
- 2000 – 2004: Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, and Chairman of the Department of Theoretic Philosophy and Logic, University of Bucharest, Romania.
- 2001 January – May: Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, New York University.
- 1999 – 2004: Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy.
- 1999 – 2000: Adjunct Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania.
- 1999, September: Visiting Fellow, Tulsa University, Oklahoma, U. S. A.
- 1999, March: Visiting Fellow, CUNY, U. S. A.
- 1996 - 1999: Lector Universitar (Lecturer), Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Theoretic Philosophy and Logic, University of Bucharest, Romania.
- 1996 – 1998: Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, U. S. A.
- 1990 - 1996: Asistent Universitar (Assistant Professor), Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Theoretic Philosophy and Logic, University of Bucharest, Romania.
- 1990 - 1992: Publisher, ‘Humanitas’ publishing house.
- 1988 - 1990: Asistent Universitar (Assistant Professor), Department of Philosophy, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania.
- 1987 - 1988: Professor (Instructor) at Casa Pionierilor (House of Pioneers) Buftea, agricultural district Ilfov.
- 1985 - 1987: Professor (Instructor) at Şcoala generală (General School) Lipia-Gruiu, agricultural district Ilfov.
Fellowships and grants
- 2010 – 2011: Project Manager for the POS DRU Grant – Post Doctoral studies in humanities.
- 2008 – 2011: POS DRU Grant – Doctoral Schools in Romania. Coordinator for the humanities and social sciences.
- 2003 – 2005: Director of the CNCSIS grant “Concepts, Representation, Mental Content. Themes in the Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science”.
- 2004, February – July: NECLINK fellowship, New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest.
- 2003, February – July: NECLINK fellowship, New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest.
- 2001, January – May: World Bank grant.
- 1998 – 2001: RELINK fellowship, New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest.
- 1994 - 1998: Doctoral fellowship and scholarship, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, U. S. A.
- 1993 - 1994: Fulbright scholarship, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, U. S. A.
- 1991: scholarship for two months at Goethe Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Area of specialization and research
Philosophical Logic (especially Modal Logic), Philosophy of Language, Analytic Metaphysics of Modality, Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness.
Area of interest, competence and teaching
Philosophical Logic, Symbolic & Mathematical Logic, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics of Modality, Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness, Epistemology.
Publications
Books
- Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality. Themes from Kit Fine, Mircea Dumitru (ed.), Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2019.
- Lumi ale gândirii. Nouă eseuri logico-metafizice (in Romanian) (Worlds of Thought. Nine Logico-metalysical Essays), “Humanitas” Publishing House, Bucharest, forthcoming, 2019.
- Umanismul necesar (in Romanian) (Necessary Humanism), “Humanitas” Publishing House, Bucharest, forthcoming, 2019.
- Modal Incompleteness and Higher-Order Logic, book manuscript in preparation, Springer.
- Truth, Mircea Dumitru and Gabriel Sandu (eds.), University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2013.
- Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science. Festschrift for Professor Ilie Pârvu, Mircea Dumitru, Mircea Flonta, and Valentin Mureșan (eds.) University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2012, in Romanian.
- Words, Theories, and Things. Quine in Perspective, Mircea Dumitru, Constantin Stoenescu (eds.), Pelican, 2010, in Romanian.
- Logic and Philosophical Explorations, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucureşti, 2004, in Romanian.
- Logic-Philosophical Itineraries. Festschrift for Professor Cornel Popa, Mircea Dumitru, Valentin Mureşan (eds.), University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2004, in Romanian.
- Incompleteness and Modality. Modal Logic as Higher-Order Logic, ‘Paideia’ Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, in Romanian. The book received the prize “Mircea Florian” of the Romanian Academy.
- Logic and Argumentation, co-author with Petre Bieltz, textbook for high-schools
- ‘ALL’ Publishing House, Bucharest 1999; second revised edition, 2003, in Romanian.
- On Incompleteness in Modal Logic. An Account through Second-Order Logic, PhD Dissertation, Tulane University, USA, UMI, A Bell & Howell Information Company, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346, USA, 1998.
Papers
- ‘New Perspectives on Compositionality. Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationist Approach to Meaning’, in Advances in Logic, Melvin Fitting and al. (eds.), in preparation.
- ‘ “Ordinary Expressions Have No Exact and Systematic Logic”. Some Remarks on Strawson’s Contribution to Logical Theory’ (in Romanian, ’ “Expresiile obișnuite nu au o logică exactă și sistematică”. Remarci asupra contribuțiilor lui P. F. Strawson la teoria logică’), in Probleme de Logică, vol. …, Alexandru Surdu, Dragoș Popescu, Ștefan Dominic Georgescu (eds.), Bucharest: Romanian Academy Publishing House, forthcoming, 2019.
- ‘What is Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics’ (in Romanian, ‘Ce este filosofia matematicii la Wittgenstein’), postface at the Romanian translation of The Yellow Book, ‘Humanitas’ Publishing House, forthcoming, 2019.
- ‘Rămas-bun Nozick! Îndreptățiri versus dreptate distributivă. Cât de moral este statul minimal?’ (in Romanian); (English title ‘Good-bye Nozick! Entitlements vs Distributive Justice. How Moral Is It the Minimal State?’) in In honorem Valeriu Stoica, Marian Nicolae, Radu Rizoiu, Laura Toma-Dăuceanu (eds.), Universul Juridic, Bucharest, 2018, pp. 1101-1115; and, also, in Șuete culturale la Facultatea de Drept, Flavius A. Baias, Andra-Roxana Trandafir (eds.), Editura “Hamangiu”, Bucharest, 2018, pp. 293-311.
- ‘Modele și reguli. Controverse în fundamentele semanticii contemporane’ (in Romanian), (“Models and Rules. Controversies in Contemporary Semantics”), in Probleme de Logică (Problems of Logic), vol. XIX, Alexandru Surdu, Dragoș Popescu, Ștefan Dominic Georgescu (eds.), Bucharest, Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2016, pp. 47-53.
- ‘Logical Form and Necessity. Going beyond the Wittgensteinian Concept of Necessity in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’, (in Romanian), Formă logică și necesitate. Depășirea conceptului wittgensteinian de necesitate în Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus și întemeierea conceptului metafizic de necesitate’, 60 years in the University, Festschrift to Professor Mircea Flonta (60 de ani în Universitate. O carte dedicată profesorului Mircea Flonta), Mircea Dumitru, Adrian-Paul Iliescu, Valentin Mureșan, Cosmin Văduva (eds.), University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2015.
- ‘Kit Fine’, entry/article in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Robert Audi (ed.), Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2015, p. 360.
- ‘New Perspectives on Compositionality. Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationist Approach to Meaning’ (in Romanian), ‘Noi perspective asupta compoziționalității. Abordarea relaționist-semantică a lui Kit Fine asupra semnificației”, in Problems of Logic, Vol. XVIII, Alexandru Surdu, Ștefan-Dominic Georgescu, Dragoș Popescu (eds.), Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2015, pp. 21 – 27.
- ‘Is Human Mind Fully Algorithmic? Remarks on Kurt Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorems’, in Evolving Computability. 11th Conference on Computability in Europe, Arnold Beckmann, Victor Mitrana, Mariya Soskova (eds.), Springer, 2015, pp. 23 – 33.
- ‘New Perspectives on Compositionality. Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationist Approach to Meaning’, in Meaning and Truth, Sorin Costreie and Mircea Dumitru (eds.), ‘Pro Universitaria’ Publishing House, 2015, pp. 65 – 74.
- ‘A Free Logic for Fictionalism’, in Romanian Studies in Philosophy of Science, Ilie Pârvu, Gabriel Sandu, Iulian Toader (eds.), Springer, 2015, pp. 149 – 163. .
- ‘Logical Form’ (in Romanian), “Logical Form”, in On Form and Pattern, Cătălin Vasilescu, Maria-Luisa Flonta, Ioana Crăciun (eds.), Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2015, pp. 11 – 16.
- ‘Two Profiles of Philosophical Investigations: Arm-Chair Philosophy vs. Experimental Philosophy. Remarks on Radu Solcan on the Experimental Study of Mind’ )in Romanian), ‘Două profiluri ale cercetării filosofice: analiza conceptuală de fotoliu vs. filosofia experimentală. Câteva reflecții pe marginea lui Radu Solcan despre studiul experimental al minții”, in Philosophy of Social Sciences. In Memoriam Radu Mihail Solcan (in Romanian), Filosofia științelor umane. In memoriam Mihail Radu Solcan, Mircea Flonta, Emanuel-Mihail Spocaciu, Constantin Vică (eds.), University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2015, pp. 293 – 302.
- ‘Meaning, Non-Existence, and Empty Terms’ (in Romanian), ’Semnificație, non-existență și termeni non-referențiali’, in Problems of Logic, Vol. XVII (in Romanian), Probleme de Logică, vol. XVII, Alexandru Surdu, Dragoș Popescu, Ștefan Dominic Georgescu eds.), București: Romanian Academy Publishing House, 2014, pp. 27 – 44.
- ‘Explaining Phenomenal Consciousness. Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?’ Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 78, 13 May 2013, pp. 635-641.
- ‘Truthmakers for Modals: Meaning, Truth, Modals and Quantifiers’, Transylvanian Review, Vol. XXII, No. 1. Spring 2013, pp. 47-69.
- ‘Explicarea conștiinței fenomenale. Conceptibilitate epistemică și posibilitate metafizică’ (‘Explaining Phenomenal Consciousness. Epistemic Conceptibility and Metaphysic Possibility’), in Problema minte-creier în neuroștiința cogniției (The Mind-Body Problem in Cognitive Neuroscience), Gabriel Vacariu, and Gheorghe Ștefanov (eds.), University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2013, pp. 97-112.
- ‘Ilie Pârvu on Structural Realism. Case Study on the Argument from Convergence’, in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science. Festschrift for Professor Ilie Pârvu, Mircea Dumitru, Mircea Flonta, and Valentin Mureșan (eds.), University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2012, pp. 47-72, in Romanian.
- ‘Mind and Language in Evolutionary Setting’, in Darwin and Evolutionary Thinking, Mircea Flonta, Laurențiu Staicu, Virgil Iordache, ‘Pelican’ Publishing House, 2010, pp. 126 – 139, in Romanian.
- ‘Is Second-Order Logic a Logic, after all? Quine’s Animadversions upon Second-Order Logic’, in Words, Theories, and Things. Quine in Perspective, Mircea Dumitru, Constantin Stoenescu (eds.), ‘Pelican’ Publishing House, 2009, pp. 78 – 117.
- ‘How We Get Out from The Labyrinths of Attitude Ascriptions? Neo-fregean vs. Neo-Millian Approches in Explaining Attitude Ascription’, in Rationality and Evolution. Philosophical Exploration of Complexity, vol. I, Laurențiu Staicu (ed.), University of Bucharest Publishing Press, 2009, pp. 313 -351, in Romanian.
- 'Talking About What People Believe. Critical Remarks on the Paratactic Analysis of Indirect Discourse and Propositional Attitudes Ascription', in Probleme de logică (Logical Problems), Editura Academiei Române, Bucharest, 2009.
- ‘ “Ordinary Expressions Have No Exact and Systematic Logic”. Some Remarks on Strawson’s Contribution to Logical Theory’, in Organon F, vol. 16 (2009), nr. 4, pp. 542 -551.
- ‘What To Say When There Is Nothing To Talk About’, co-author together with Frederick Kroon, in CRITICA. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofia. Vol. 40, No. 120 (decembrie 2008), pp. 99-111.
- ‘Quine’s Animadversions Upon Second-Order Logic’, in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, Editura Academiei Române, Bucharest, 2008, vol. 52, no. 1 - 2, pp. 39 – 63.
- 'Incompleteness. Some Modal Aspects', in Revista de Filosofie, Editura Academiei Române, Bucharest, 2008, nr. 1-2, pp. 55-70, in Romanian.
- 'Fictional Objects and Free Descriptions', in Revista de Filosofie Analitică, Vol. 1, July – December, University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2007, pp. 37 – 50, in Romanian.
- ' “The First Line of Gray's Elegy”. On the Russellian Criticism of the Distinction Sense-Reference in “On Denoting” ', in Analele Universităţii Bucureşti. Filosofie, University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2005, pp. 33 – 40, in Romanian.
- 'Propostional Attitudes. Problems and Theories (II)', in Revista de Filosofie, Editura Academiei Române, Bucharest, 2004, Vol. 3-4, pp. 465-476, in Romanian.
- ‘Value and Identity. Some Remarks on the Metaphysical Basis of the Axiological Discourse’, in Value, Culture, and Communication, Romanian Academy, Publishing House of the Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations, Bucharest 2004, pp. 40-44.
- ‘”Revista de filosofie” şi comunitatea filosofilor din România’, in ‘Revista de filosofie’ la 80 de ani. Caiet aniversar 1923-2003, pp. 60-65, (Ardealul Publishing House, 2004).
- ‘Oferă orice teorie a adevărului o teorie a înţelesului? O evaluare critică a programului lui D. Davidson’, in Probleme de logică (Problems of Logic), Crizantema Joja and Călin Candiescu (edd.), (Bucureşti: Romanian Academy Publishing House), vol. 11, 2004, pp. 140-153.
- ‘Logica modală ca logică de ordin superior’, in Itinerarii logico-filosofice. Omagiu profesorului Cornel Popa, Valentin Mureşan and Mircea Dumitru (eds.), (Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti), 2004, pp. 178-200.
- ‘”Abolirea logicii”. Wittgenstein – un filosof reformat?’, în Analele Universităţii Bucureşti. Filozofie, pg. 21 – 26, (Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2003).
- ‘Phlogiston, oxygen, water, and other natural kinds. Are substance names indexicals?’ in Proceedings of the Romanian Academy – Series C, 2003.
- ‘Filosofia analitică în istoria filosofiei’, in Pentru ce istoria filosofiei?, Ghe. Vlăduţescu (eds.), Paideia, Bucureşti, 2003.
- ‘Modal Logic as Higher-Order Logic’, in Miscellanea Logica, Tom V, Kamila Bendová şi Petr Jirků (eds.), Charles University, Prague, 2003, pp. 7-30.
- ‘Reprezentare, conţinut, sintaxă. Remarci asupra realismului intenţional al lui Jerry Fodor’ (‘Representation, Contents, and Syntax. Remarks on Fodor’s Intentional Realism’), in Filosofia conştiinţei şi ştiinţele cognitive (Philosophy of Consciousness and Cognitive Science), Angela Botez and Bogdan Popescu (eds.), (Bucureşti: Editura ‘Cartea Românească’, 2002), pp. 405-427.
- ‘Există drepturi individuale ca drepturi naturale? Elaborarea unui sistem de analiză al unor reprezentări referitoare la instituţia drepturilor individuale’ (‘Are There Individual Rights qua Natural Rights?’), in Mentalităţi şi instituţii (Mentalities and Institutions) , Adrian-Paul Iliescu (ed.), (Bucureşti: Editura ‘Ars Docendi’, 2002), pp. 301 – 318.
- ‘The Concept of Necessity in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’, in Ludwig Wittgenstein in the XX-th Century Philosophy, Mircea Flonta and Gheorghe Stefanov (eds.), (Iasi: ‘Polirom’ Publishing House, 2002), pp. 155 – 164.
- ‘Modals and Quantifiers’, Proceeding of the 2nd Annual Conference on Logic and Reasoning, Bulletin of Advanced Reasoning and Knowledge, Volume 1, Richard L. Epstein (ed.), 2001, pp. 49-64.
- ‘Did Priestley Say the Truth? An Interpretation of Kitcher’s Proposal’ in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 2000), vol. 44, pp. 305-332.
- Entry on Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick in Dicţionar de scrieri politice fundamentale, (Dictionary of Fundamental Political Writtings) Laurenţiu-Ştefan Scalat (coord.), (Bucharest: “Humanitas” Publishing House, 2000), pp. 281-292.
- ‘Este logica de ordinul al doilea o logică?’ (‘Is Second-Order Logic a Logic after all?’) in Logic and Ontology, ed. Constantin Grecu, (Bucharest: ‘3’ Publishing House, 1999).
- ‘Saul Kripke and Donald Davidson on Belief Ascription and Indirect Discourse’, in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1997), vol. 41, no. 3-4, pp. 215-250.
- ‘Cuvânt înainte’ (‘Preface’) to Romanian translation of R. Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, (Bucureşti: Editura ‘Humanitas’, 1997).
- ‘Should Modal Operators Be Interpreted As Quantifiers Over Possible Worlds?’ in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1996), vol. 40, no. 3-4, pp. 247-262.
- ‘Self-Predication and The Unity of Virtues in Plato's Protagoras’, in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1996), vol. 40, No. 1-2, pp. 81-96.
- ‘Sofisme’ (‘Fallacies’), chapter in Logică. Manual pentru licee (Logic. Textbook for High-schools) by P. Bieltz and D. Gheorghiu (Bucureşti: Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, 1993, 1996), pp. 105-114.
- ‘Davidson's Truth-Conditional Semantics. An Assessment’, in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1995), vol. 39, no. 3-4, pp. 259-270.
- ‘Identitate şi lumi posibile’ (‘Identity and Possible Worlds’), in Probleme de logică (Problems of Logic), (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1993), Crizantema Joja and Călin Candiescu, eds., vol. 10, pp. 57-71.
- ‘Remarks on Two Alternative Formal Systems of Efficiency Concepts: Comment on C. Popa and J. Wolenski’, in Praxiologies and the Philosophy of Economics. The International Annual of Practical Philosophy and Methodology, J. Lee Auspitz, Wojciech W. Gasparski, Marek K. Mlicki, Klemens Szaniawski, eds., (New Brunswick: Transactions Publishers, 1992), vol. 1, pp. 585-593.
- ‘Intensional Presuppositions of the Realism - Antirealism Debate’, in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1992), vol. 36, pp. 161-165.
- ‘Aspecte filosofice ale logicii modale’ (‘Philosophical Aspects of Modal Logic’), in Aspecte ale creaţiei ştiinţifice (Aspects of Scientific Growth), Ştefan Pascu, Călina Mare, Andrei Marga, eds., (Cluj: Editura Universităţii, 1989), pp. 96 - 108.
- ‘Esenţialism şi logică modală’ (‘Essentialism and Modal Logic’), in Revista de Filosofie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1989), no. 1, pp. 87 - 91.
- ‘Teoria ştiinţifică - relaţiile interteoretice. Studiu de caz’ (‘Scientific Theory – Inter-theoretic Relationships’), in Istoria şi filosofia ştiinţei (History and Philosophy of Science), (Iaşi: Editura Universităţii, 1988), vol. 2, pp. 655 - 663.
- ‘Argumente pentru o teorie unificată a dinamicii cunoaşterii ştiinţifice’ (‘Toward a Unified Theory of the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge’), in Istoria şi filosofia ştiinţei (History and Philosophy of Science), (Iaşi: Editura Universităţii, 1988), vol. 2, pp. 741 - 747.
- ‘Gânduri despre joc’ (‘Thoughts about Game’), in Cartea Jocurilor (Books of Games), G. Feţeanu and G. Păun, eds., (Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii, 1988), pp. 101 - 104.
- ‘Principiul determinismului şi problema relativismului în logică’ (‘The Principle of Determinism and the Problem of Logical Relativism’), in Revista de Filosofie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1987), no. 1, pp. 52 - 58.
- ‘Conceptul de teorie închisă şi problema relaţiilor interteoretice’ (‘The Concept of Closed Theory and the Problem of Inter-theoretic Relationship’), in Revista de Filosofie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1987), no. 4, pp. 354 - 359.
- ‘The Principle of Determinism and the Problem of Logical Relativism’, in Revue roumaine de sciences sociales. Serie de Philosophie et Logique, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1986), no. 3 - 4, pp. 195 - 198.
- ‘Dinamica cunoaşterii ştiinţifice’ (‘The Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge’), in Revista de Filosofie, (Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Române, 1985), no. 3, pp. 249 - 253.
- ‘Aspecte epistemologice ale axiomatizãrii’ (‘Epistemological Aspects of Axiomatization’), in Istoria şi filosofia ştiinţei (History and Philosophy of Science), (Iaşi: Editura Universităţii, 1982), pp. 136 - 147.
Translation into Romanian
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Caietul galben (The Yellow Book), ‘Humanitas’ Publishing House, forthcoming, 2019, in collaboration with Mircea Flonta.
- Thomas Nagel, Ce înseamnă, oare, toate acestea? (What Does It All Mean?), Editura “Humanitas”, Bucharest, “Humanitas” Publishing House.
- W. V. O. Quine, Ţesătura opiniilor (The Web of Belief), Editura “Paralela 45”, Piteşti, 2007.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cercetări filosofice (Philosophical Investigations), Humanitas Publishing House, Bucureşti, 2004, in collaboration with M. Flonta.
- Melvin Fitting,‘Logica modală trebuie să spună mai mult decât spune’, in Itinerarii logico-filosofice. Omagiu profesorului Cornel Popa, eds. Valentin Mureşan and Mircea Dumitru, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, Bucureşti, 2004, pg. 155-177.
- Kit Fine, ‘Esenţă şi modalitate’, in Itinerarii logico-filosofice. Omagiu profesorului Cornel Popa, Valentin Mureşan and Mircea Dumitru (eds.), University of Bucharest Publishing House, (Bucureşti, 2004, pp. 201-214.
- Graeme Forbes, ‘Esenţă individuală şi vaguitate’, in Itinerarii logico-filosofice. Omagiu profesorului Cornel Popa, Valentin Mureşan Mircea Dumitru (eds.), (Bucureşti: Bucharest University Publishing House), 2004, pp. 215-234.
- L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, co-translator with Mircea Flonta, (Bucharest: “Humanitas” Publishing House, 2001)
- S. Kripke, Numire şi necesitate (Naming and Necessity), (“ALL” Publishing House, 2001)
- R. J. Bogdan, Temeiuri ale cunoasterii: cum modeleaza comportamentul teleologic mintea (Grounds for Cognition: How Goal-Guided Behavior Shapes the Mind), (Bucuresti: Editura ‘ALL’, 1998)
- Robert Nozick, Anarhie, stat şi utopie (Anarchy, State and Utopia) (Bucureşti: Editura ‘Humanitas’, 1997).
- W. Newton-Smith, Raţionalitatea ştiinţei (Rationality of Science) (Bucureşti: Editura Ştiinţifică, 1995), co-translator.
- W. Newton-Smith, ‘Realismul modest’ (‘Modest Realism’)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Caietul albastru (Blue Book) (Bucureşti: Editura ‘Humanitas’, 1993), co-translator.
- Larry Laudan, ‘Perspectivă critică asupra axiologiei şi metodologiei realiste’ (‘Critical Assessment of Realist Axiology and Methodology’) (a chapter from L. Laudan, Sciences and Values), in Metamorfoze actuale în filosofia ştiinţei (Recent Metamorphosis in Philosophy of Science), Angela Botez, ed., (Bucureşti: Editura Politică, 1989), pp. 89-116.
- R. M. Chisholm, ‘Parte şi întreg. Principii ale esenţialismului mereologic’ (‘The Part and the Whole. Principles of Mereologic Essentialism’), in Metamorfoze actuale în filosofia ştiinţei (Recent Metamorphosis in Philosophy of Science), Angela Botez, ed., (Bucureşti: Editura Politică, 1989), pp. 179-203.
- P. Tibbetts, ‘Elementul subiectiv în descoperirea ştiinţifică: Popper şi filosofii opiniei (Lehrer, Unger, Harman)’ (‘The Subjective Element in Scientific Discovery: Popper and the Belief Philosophers (Lehrer, Unger, Harman)’), in Metamorfoze actuale în filosofia ştiinţei (Recent Metamorphosis in Philosophy of Science), Angela Botez, ed., (Bucureşti: Editura Politică, 1989), pp. 357-366.
Other professional activities: participation in conferences, summer schools and seminars
- New Perspectives on Compositionality. Kit Fine’s Semantic-Relationist Approach to Meaning, master-class held at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, November 30, 2018.
- Truthmakers for Modals, master-class held at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, November 29, 2018.
- Truthmakers for Modals, master-class held at Renmin University, Beijing, China, November 29, 2018.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein on Logical Necessity and the Problem of Logical Form, master-class held at Renmin University, Beijing, China, November 28, 2018.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein on Logical Necessity and the Problem of Logical Form, master-class held at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, November 27, 2018.
- The Universal and the Individual: Aristotle on Substance, Truth, and Love, lucrare susținută la Simpozionul Love and Truth in Religion. An Inter-faith exploration of Aristotelian and Platonic Traditions, conference by invitation held at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, November 16-17, 2018.
- The Truth and the Past. How is Historical Knowledge Possible?, paper held at the Royale Academy of Brussels, November, 2018
- New Perspectives on Compositionality. Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationist Approach to Meaning, paper held at The 24th World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, August, 2018.
- What Do We Know When One Knows and Ethical Norm, and How?, paper held at the “Uehiro” Centre Conference, Oxford, Jude 21, 2018.
- Why Truth Matters: On the Ethics of Truth, and the Fear of Knowledge; Against Relativism and Constructivism, keynote speaker at Literature and Cultural Studies Section: ‘Truth(s) and Alternative Facts’, The 20th Annual International Conference of The English Department, University of Bucharest, June 7, 2018.
- Respect for Truth; What It Is, What It Means, Conference held at the Romanian Atheneum in dialogue with Professor Pascal Engel (EHESS), June 4, 2018.
- Keynote speaker at the Conferința ‘Books which made a real difference in our lives’ (in Romanian), the ‘A. I Cuza’ University, Iassy, Romania, 2018.
- ’New Perspectives on Compositionality about Meaning: Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationism’, conference by invitation held at the University of Macerata, Italy, April 18, 2018.
- ‘ “West” Meets “East”; Virtue Ethics & Neo-Confucian Ethics. A Comparison’, Keynote Lecture 1, conference by invitation held at the International Symposion of Japanese Studies Tradition and Innovation in Changing Japan, Center for Japanese Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, March 3, 2018.
- ”Religion and Public Policy in Education in Romania”, conference by invitation held at the seminar ‘Religion and Public Policy’, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, February 23, 2018.
- “What Does It Mean To Tell the Truth, After All?” (in Romanian, ”La drept vorbind, ce înseamnă să spui adevărul?”), public dialogue with Otniel Bunaciu and Daniel Barbu, National Library, Bucharest, February 20, 2018.
- “On Fear of Truth” (in Romanian, “Despre teama de adevăr. Frământări ale unei epoci confuze”), public conference held within the series The Conferences of the Nathinal Theater in Bucharest, February18, 2018.
- “The Logic of Scientific Research” (in Romanian, “Logica cercetării științifice”), public conference held at the “Floreasca” Emergency Clinique Hospotal, February7, 2018.
- “Modality and Incompleteness” (in Romanian, “Modalitate și incompletitudine (I, II, III))”, conferences held at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest, (I) December 2017, (II) January 11, 2018, (III) February 8, 2018.
- “Is Human Mind Fully Algorithmic? Remarks on Kurt Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorems”, conference held at Beijing Normal University, December 15, 2017.
- Public dialogue held at the Festival Breathing Shakespeare (in Romanian), The Museum of Romanian Peasent, November 10 noiembrie 2017.
- “Science, Truth, Democracy: A Troubled Marriage?”, Keynote Speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Communication and Education in Knowledge Society, Collective Capacity Building, The West University of Timisoara, November 9, 2017.
- “Science, Truth, Democracy. A Troubled Marriage?”, Keynote Speaker, at the Conference The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health, The “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, August 31, 2017.
- “New Perspectives on Compositionality. Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationist Approach to Meaning”, paper held at the 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 9), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU), Munchen, August 21-26, 2017.
- “Incompleteness and Modality. K. Godel’s Contributions to the Development of Modal Logic” (in Romanian “Incompletitudine și modalitate. Contribuția lui K. Godel la dezvoltarea logicii modale”, keynote lecture held at the Annual Logic Conferenece Incompleteness and Undecidability (K. Godel), Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, June 20, 2017.
- “Truth and Post-Truth. Why Does Critical Thinking Really Matter?”, public dialog with ProfessorTimothy Williamson (University of Oxford), the Series The Conferences of the Romanian Athenaeum, May 30, 2017.
- “Farewell, Nozick! Entitlements vs. Distributive Justice. How Moral Is the Minimal State?” (in Romanian “Bun rămas, Nozick! Îndreptățiri vs. dreptate distributivă. Cât de moral este statul minimal?”, conference held in the series Cultural Chats of the Lew School of the University of Bucharest, May 3, 2017.
- “Science, Truth, Democracy: a Troubled Marriage?”, public conference held at the National Banck of Romania, April 28, 2017.
- “Aristotle’s Theory of Syllogism”, Keynote Speaker, The International Conference 2400 Aristotle, University of Bucharest, November 25-26. 2016.
- “What’s the logic underlying applied ethics reasoning?”, paper held at Oxford - Bucharest Work in Progress Seminar, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, November 15, 2016.
- “The Humanitits in the XXI-th Century” (in Romanian “Științele umaniste în sec. al XXI-lea”), conferenece held in the series SpectActor, National Theater of Craiova, September18 septembrie, 2016.
- “Philosophy: Necessity or Luxury?”, public dialogue held with Professor Kit Fine (NYU), in the series The Conferences of the Romanian Athaeneum, June 20, 2016.
- “On Toleration, Charity, and Epistemic Fallibilism”, Keynote Speaker at the International Conference in Political Science: Governing the Future - Interdisciplinary perspectives for a Sustainable World, held at NSPSA, Bucharest, June 9-12, 2016.
- “The King Charles the Ist and the Reforms of the Educational System’ (in Romanian “Carol I și reformele educației naționale”) conferenece held at the Solemn Session, Domnitorul Carol I. 150 de ani de la urcarea pe tronul României, Romanian Academy, May 9, 2016.
- “The End of the Humanities” Why Do We Still Need Humanistic Education in Universities?” (in Romanian “Sfârșitul umanioarelor? De ce mai avem nevoie încă de educație umanistă în universități?”), conferenece by invitation held at the Conference The Romanian Dyaspora in Scientific Research and Higher Education in Romania, The West University of Timisoara, April 27, 2017.
- “Logics applied to ethics. Can one formalize ethical arguments? And if so, how can that help ethics?”, paper held at the Bucharest - Oxford Workshop in Applied Ethics, December 3-4 decembrie 2015.
- “Free Logic for Fictionalism”, paper held at the CLMPS XV, Helsinki, August 3-8, 2015.
- “Is Human Mind Fully Algorithmic? Remarks on Kurt Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorems”, key-note speaker at the Conferenece Evolving Computability. 11th Conference on Computability in Europe, București, June 29 iunie 2015.
- “Logic and Decision Theory”, paper held together with Professor Adrian Miroiu at Academia Sinica, Taipei, May 19-23, 2015.
- “Is Human Mind Fully Algorithmic? Remarks on a Theorem by Kurt Godel” (in Romanian “Este mintea umană algoritmizabilă? Reflecții asupra unei teoreme a lui Kurt Goedel”), public conference held at the Șaguna High-School, Brașov, April 3 aprilie 2015.
- “New Perspectives on Compositionality. Kit Fine’s Semantic Relationist Approach to Meaning”, key-note speaker at the Colloquium of the Romanian Academy, Iassy, January, 2015.
- “Davidson’s truth-conditional semantics. An assessment”, paper held at the Workshop Meaning & Truth, University of Bucharest, January 16-17, 2015.
- “Meaning, non-existence, and non-referring terms”, paper held at the Bucharest Colloquium in Analytic Philosophy, BCAP 2014, September 3-5, 2014.
- “How Do We Think Today Along With Eminescu the Translation of Philosophical Works?” (in Romanian, “Cum gândim azi, cu Eminescu, traducerea și tălmăcirea operelor filosofice? Câteva remarci cu privire la experiența eminesciană a lecturilor kantiene”), paper held at the Conference 125 Years After Eminescu (in Romanian 125 de ani după Mihai Eminescu), Romanian Academy, June 16, 2014.
- “Four Pictures of the Mind”, keynote spekaer at the Annual Conference of the “Titu Maiorescu” University, Faculty of Psychology, May 2014.
- Four Pictures of the Mind and the Problem of Meaning, Jagellonian University in Krakow, May, 8 2014.
- Modal Fictionalism, keynote speaker at a Colloquium held at the NSPSA, Bucharest, April 2014.
- Modal Fictionalism, paper held at the University of Oxford March 2014, and at
- CEU, Budapest, April 2014.
- ‘On Charity, Charity, and Epistemic Fallibilism’, conference by invitation at the
- Beijing University for Political Studies and Law, Beijing, 9 December, 2013.
- ‘On Fine on Prior on Constructing Worlds, Times, and Selves’, keynote speaker
- at the conference ‘Cultural Deixis …’, Sinaia, November, 2013.
- ‘Logica matematică a lui Bertrand Russell’ (‘Russell’s Mathematical Logic’), paper held at the conference Russell …, Romanian Academy, November, 2013.
- ‘On Charity, Charity, and Epistemic Fallibilism’, conference by invitation at the
- Beijing University for Foreign Studies, Beijing, 1 November, 2013.
- ‘West Meets East. Ontology and Language in Western Analytic Philosophy and in
- Chinese Philosophy. The Problems of Identity and Naming’, conference by invitation at Hanban, Central Headquarters of Confucius Institutes, Beijing, 31 October, 2013.
- ‘Four Pictures of the Mind’, key-note speech at the Conference Psiworld 2013,
- University of Bucharest, Romania, 18 October, 2013.
- ‘The Problem of De Re Modality”, paper held at the Conference Philosophy and
- Logic, Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, May 2013.
- “Truthmakers for Modals”, paper held at the Conference of the International
- Institute of Philosophy, Bucharest, September 2012. PhD Class at the University of Helsinki, May 2012
- “A Finean Semantic Relationist Approach to Opacity”, invited lecture at NYU, New York, December 3, 2011.
- “Foundational Issues in Kripke’s Possible Worlds Semantics”, invited conference
- at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA, September 19, 2011.
- “Comments on Saul Kripke’s A Puzzle about Time and Thought”, invited contribution at the panel discussion held at the Conference on Saul Kripke’s Philosophical Troubles, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, September 15-16, 2011.
- PhD Class at the University of Helsinki, May 2011.
- “A Three-Place Relation Approach to Opacity”, invited lecture at CUNY, New York, December 1, 2010.
- PhD Class at the University of Helsinki, May 2010.
- ‘Fictional Objects and Free Descriptions’, paper held at the European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Lisbon, August, 2005.
- ‘Metaphysics of Modalities: Concepts, Problems, Theories’, paper held at the Annual Conference of the Romanian Committee of History and Philosophy of Science and Technique, Romanian Academy, October 15, 2004.
- ‘Intentionality: a Brentanian theme in current cognitive science’ paper held at the conference Filosofia austriacă. Origini, specific, reprezentanţi, (Austrian Philosophy. Origins, Specificity, Representatives) Chair of Theoretic Philosophy and Logic of the Faculty of Philosophy, Bucharest University and the Institute of Philosophy and Psychology, ‘C. Rădulescu-Motru’ al Academiei Române, Bucureşti, 23-24 septembrie 2004.
- ‘Intenţionalitatea ca problemă în filosofia minţii’, paper held at the colloquium Problema intenţionalităţii: istorie şi perspective (Intentionality: history and perspectives), Romanian Society for Phenomenology and Centre for Phenomenological Research, Bucharest, September 21-22 2004.
- ‘On logical modeling’, lucrare susţinută la colocviul Logical modeling, IHPST-CNRS, Paris, 17-18 septembrie 2004.
- ‘Identity and Value. Philosophical Remarks on the Foundations of Axiological Discourse’, paper held at the International Symposium of the Balkan Societies of Philosophy, Pitesti, July 7-10, 2004.
- ‘Fictional Objects and Free Descriptions’, paper held at the Conference LOGICA 2004, Hejnice, Czech Republic, June 21-25, 2004.
- ‘Varietăţi ale a priori-ului. O temă kantiană şi post-kantiană’, paper held at the conference Kant- 200 since his death, organized by the Romanian Academy and the Faculty of Philosophy of Bucharest University, June 11-12, 2004.
- ‘Possible-Worlds Semantic Approach to First-Order Modal Logic’, paper held at the Czech Academy of Science, Prague, May, 2003.
- ‘Identity and Essence’, paper held at The Fourth Conference of Advanced Reasoning Forum, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, December 26 2002 – January 5 2003.
- ‘Modal Logic as Higher-Order Logic’, paper delivered at The Fourth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Lund, Sweden, June 14 – 18, 2002.
- ‘Modal Actualism’, paper delivered at The Third Conference of Advanced Reasoning Forum, Berkeley and Monte Rio, California, S. U. A., July 2001.
- ‘Remarks on Two Styles of Natural Deduction System’, paper delivered at The Third Conference of Advanced Reasoning Forum, Berkeley and Monte Rio, California, July 2001.
- ‘Concepţia despre necesitate în Tractatus’ (‘The Concept of Necessity in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’), paper delivered at the colloquium L. Wittgenstein in the Philosophy of the XX-th Century, University of Bucharest, Facultu of Philosophy, May 2001.
- ‘Valid vs Strong Arguments. An Approach into Fuzzy Logic’, paper delivered at the Second Colloquium of Advanced Reasoning Forum, co-sponsored by New Europe College Romania, held in Bucharest, Romania, July, 2000.
- ‘Should Modal Operators Be Interpreted as Quantifiers Over Possible Worlds?’, paper delivered at the First Colloquium of Advanced Reasoning Forum, Cedar City, Utah, U. S. A., September 1999.
- ‘Remarks on the Reference of Singular Terms’, paper held at The Romanian-Dutch Colloquium, June 1993.
- ‘Intensional Suppositions of the Realism - Antirealism Debate’, paper held at The 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, August 1991.
- ‘Conceptual Imagery’, paper held at the International Conference of Philosophy, organized by ‘Öst - West Dialog’ Society, Otterthal, Austria, June 1991.
- ‘Esenţialism şi logică modală’ (‘Essentialism and Modal Logic’), paper held at the Colloquium of Romanian Academy, Cluj, November 21 - 26, 1988.
- ‘Aspecte modale ale conceptului de regulă metodologică’ (‘Modal Aspects of the Concept of Methodological Rule’), paper held at the Symposium of Romanian Academy, Bucharest, October 6 –7, 1988.
- ‘Modalităţile: operatori sau predicate?’ (‘Modalities: Operators or Predicates?’), paper held at the Annual Session of the Institute of Philosophy, Bucharest, May 1988.
- ‘Problema determinismului şi logica temporală’ (‘Determinism and Temporal Logic’), paper held at the Symposium ‘Noi perspective asupra Logicii Moderne’ (‘New Perspectives on Modern Logic’), Bucharest, December 1987.
- ‘Analiză logico-metodologică a conceptului de metodă’ (‘Logic-Methodological Analysis of the Concept of Method’), paper held at the Colloquium ‘Metodă, Teorie, Program’ (‘Method, Theory, Program’), Bucharest, June 1987.
- ‘Interpretări ale operatorilor modali în logicile polivalente şi în semantica lumilor posibile’ (‘Interpretations of Modal Operators in Many-Valued Logics and in Semantics of Possible-Worlds’), paper held at the Annual Symposium of the Institute of Philosophy, Bucharest, 1987.
- ‘Determinismul şi logicile filosofice’ (‘Determinism and the Philosophical Logics’), paper held at the Colloquium of the History and Philosophy of Science Committee of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 1987.
- ‘The Principle of Determinism and the Problem of Logical Relativism’, paper held at The 8th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Moscow, 1987.
- ‘Argumente pentru o teorie unificată a dinamicii cunoaşterii ştiinţifice’ (‘Toward a Unified Theory of the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge’), paper held at the National Undergraduate Colloquium of History and Philosophy of Science, Iassy, April 24 - 26, 1986.
- ‘Abordări epistemologice contemporane în problema relaţiilor interteoretice şi a dinamicii cunoaşterii’ (‘Contemporary Epistemological Approaches to Inter-theoretic Relationships and Dynamics of Knowledge’), paper held at the Annual Session of the Institute of Philosophy, May 1985.
- ‘Dinamica cunoaşterii ştiinţifice’ (‘Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge’), paper held at The 17th National Undergraduate Conference, Bucharest, 1984.
- ‘Aspecte epistemologice ale axiomatizării’ (‘Epistemological Aspects of Axiomatization’), paper held at the National Undergraduate Colloquium of History and Philosophy of Science, Iassy, 1982.
Foreign languages
English (fluent), French (good), German (reading)
Professional Affiliation
- President of the International Institute of Philosophy (2017-2020).
- President of the European Association for Analytic Philosophy (2011 – 2014).
- Member of the Advanced Reasoning Forum.
- Former Member of the American Philosophical Association.
- Former Member of the Association for Symbolic Logic.
- Former Member of the scientific board of New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania.
- Member of the steering committee of the European Congress for Analytic Philosophy (Krakow 2008, and Milan 2011).
