Dorit Bar-On

Dorit Bar-On is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and Director of the Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning (ECOM) Research Group.[1][2][3] Her research focuses on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaethics.[4] She previously held positions at the University of Rochester and UNC-Chapel Hill, where she was the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor of Research and Undergraduate Education from 2014-2015.[5]

Education and career

Bar-On earned a BA (summa cum laude) at Tel Aviv University in Philosophy & Linguistics before earning her MA and PhD in Philosophy at UCLA.[6] Her dissertation, Indeterminacy of Translation: Theory and Practice, was written under the supervision of Tyler Burge, Rogers Albritton, Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan, and David Pears. Bar-On has also written Hebrew translations of poetry, fiction, and philosophy, including three anthologies in modern philosophy, writings by Iris Murdoch, Kurt Vonnegut, Dos Passos, Dorothy Richardson, E. E. Cummings, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, and, in collaboration with Marcia Falk, a collection of poems by Zelda Schneerson Mishkovsky and The Book of Blessings.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Her other professional experience includes being a radio producer, editor and broadcaster for the Israel IDF radio station; a television writer and host in Israel; and a Hebrew television newscaster and interviewer for Channel 18 in Los Angeles.[6] Bar-On also formerly served as the President of MYCO@UNC, a youth chamber organization, from 2009 to 2012.[6]

Research

In Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge, Bar-On investigates the problem of self-knowledge (how, if at all, we are each in a privileged position to know own mental states) in relation to questions of expression and expressive behavior.[14][15] She draws on historical figures including Wittgenstein and Darwin to develop a neo-expressivist view of first-personal expressive utterances (such as, "I am in pain") which explains how these utterances differ epistemically from non-expressive utterances while sharing the same semantic structure.[16] Speaking My Mind has been praised as "a rich book; rich in topics, in argumentation, and in philosophical imagination and insight. It deserves the attention of all who work in mind and language."[17] In subsequent work, Bar-On has applied this neo-expressivist framework to additional problems in the philosophy of language, metaethics, and epistemology.[18][19] More recently, Bar-On has sought to illuminate the nature of human communication by situating it in relation to animal expressive communication more broadly, and thereby to show how human linguistic meaning can be understood consistently with a naturalistic theory of the world.[20][21][22]

Selected publications

Awards and fellowships

Bar-On has received the following awards and fellowships:[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty | Philosophy Department". philosophy.uconn.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  2. ↑ "ECOM Members". Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning Research Group. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  3. ↑ "Bar-On, Simmons from North Carolina to U Conn". Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Dorit Bar-On". Dorit Bar-On. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  5. ↑ "OUR Distinguished Professors | Office for Undergraduate Research | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill". our.unc.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Bar-On, Dorit. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  7. ↑ Kasher, Asa and Shalom Lapids (eds.), translated by Dorit Bar-On (1982). Modern Trends in Philosophy, Vol.1. Yachdav.
  8. ↑ Kasher, Asa, and Shalom Lapin (eds.), translated by Dorit Bar-On (1985). Modern Trends in Philosophy, Vol. 2. Yachdav.
  9. ↑ Murdoch, Iris, translated by Dorit Bar-On (1982). The Nice and the Good. Tel Aviv: Zmora, Bitan, Modan.
  10. ↑ Vonnegut, Kurt, translated by Dorit Bar-On (1983). Breakfast of Champions. Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan.
  11. ↑ Cummings, E. E.; Bar-On, Dorit (translator) (1979). "Translation of E. E. Cummings poems". Achsav ("Now"). Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem Achsav. 39-40.
  12. ↑ Richardson, Dorothy, translated by Dorit Bar-On (1978). Pilgrimage. Achshav, Vol 37-38.
  13. ↑ Falk, Marcia (1999-01-08). Sefer Ha-berakhot. Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807010174.
  14. ↑ Byrne, Alex (2011-11-01). "Review Essay of Dorit Bar-On's Speaking My Mind". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 83 (3): 705–717. doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00500.x. ISSN 1933-1592.
  15. ↑ Bar-On, Dorit (2004). Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge. Oxford. ISBN 9780199276288.
  16. ↑ Schwitzgebel, Eric (2014). Zalta, Edward N., ed. Introspection (Winter 2016 ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  17. ↑ Owens, Joseph (2007-02-09). "Review of Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge". ISSN 1538-1617.
  18. ↑ Bar-on, Dorit and Matthew Christman (2009-06-25). "Ethical Neo-Expressivism", Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume Four (ed. Russ Shafer-Landau). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199566303.
  19. ↑ Bar-On, Dorit (2011). “Externalism and Skepticism: Recognition, Expression, and Self-Knowledge”, Self-Knowledge and the Self, A. Coliva, ed., Oxford UP, 2011. Oxford. ISBN 0415926904.
  20. ↑ Bar-On, Dorit and M. Priselac (2011). "Triangulation and the Beasts." In Triangulation: from an Epistemological Point of View, C. Amoretti and G. Preyer (eds.). Ontos Verlag. ISBN 3868381198.
  21. ↑ Goldberg, Nathaniel (2011-10-17). "Review of Triangulation: From an Epistemological Point of View". ISSN 1538-1617.
  22. ↑ "ECOM Research Group Home Page". Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning Research Group. Retrieved 2016-10-16.
  23. ↑ Bar-On, Dorit. "Dorit Bar-On Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 9 October 2016.
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