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Arnold Stuart Zuboff (born 1946) is an American philosopher. He is the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem. Zuboff has worked on topics such as personal identity, the philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of probability, and a view analogous to open individualism—the position that there is one subject of experience, who is everyone—which he calls "universalism".

Early life and education

Arnold Stuart Zuboff was born in 1946. He was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Zuboff received a BA in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 1968, and attended Princeton University Graduate School until 1972. In 2009, he successfully defended his thesis titled Time, Self, and Sleeping Beauty, under the supervision of his doctoral advisor, Thomas Nagel. His examiners were Gilbert Harman, Adam Elga, John P. Burgess, Alexander Nehamas, and Nagel.

Career

Zuboff lectured at the University College London's Department of Philosophy from 1974 till his retirement in 2011. He is now an Honorary Senior Research Associate.

Personal life

Zuboff created a series of paintings and poems inspired by his dreams between the ages of 18 and 21, which he has made available online.

Zuboff was a close friend and engaged in philosophical discussions with the Canadian philosopher G. A. Cohen.

Selected works

Articles

• Zuboff, Arnold (1973). "Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence" (PDF). In Solomon, Robert C. (ed.). Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays. Doubleday Anchor. pp. 343–357.
• Zuboff, Arnold (January 1977). "Moment Universals and Personal Identity" (PDF). Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 52: 141–155. doi:10.1093/aristotelian/78.1.141.
• Zuboff, Arnold (March 1990). "One Self: The Logic of Experience" (PDF). Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 33 (1): 39–68. doi:10.1080/00201749008602210.
• Zuboff, Arnold (July 1992). "A Presentation without an Example?" (PDF). Analysis. 52 (3): 190–191. doi:10.1093/analys/52.3.190.
• Zuboff, Arnold (May 1994). "What Is a Mind?" (PDF). Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 19 (1): 183–205. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4975.1994.tb00285.x.
• Zuboff, Arnold (September 1995). "Morality as What One Really Desires" (PDF). Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 20 (1): 142–164. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4975.1995.tb00309.x.
• Zuboff, Arnold (September 2000). "The Perspectival Nature of Probability and Inference" (PDF). Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 43 (3): 353–358. doi:10.1080/002017400414908. S2CID 54894496.
• Zuboff, Arnold (March–April 2001). "Why Should I Care about Morality?". Philosophy Now. No. 31. pp. 24–27.
• Zuboff, Arnold. "An Introduction to Universalism".
• Zuboff, Arnold (Spring 2008). "Thoughts about a solution to the mind-body problem" (PDF). Think. 6 (17–18): 159–171. doi:10.1017/S1477175600003109. S2CID 145231233.
• Zuboff, Arnold (October 2008). "Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty".
• Zuboff, Arnold (June 2011). My 8 Big Ideas.
• Zuboff, Arnold (May–June 2014). "A Justification of Empirical Thinking". Philosophy Now. No. 102. pp. 22–24.
• Zuboff, Arnold (February–March 2015). "Theories That Refute Themselves". Philosophy Now. No. 106.
• Zuboff, Arnold (October 2015). "A Justification of Empirical Inference" (PDF). Philosophy Now.

Books

• Zuboff, Arnold (1981). "The Story of a Brain" (PDF). In Hofstadter, Douglas R.; Dennett, Daniel C. (eds.). The Mind's I. New York City, New York: Basic Books. pp. 202–212. ISBN 9780553345841.
• Zuboff, Arnold (2015). The Philosophical High Ground: Our World through the Eyes of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.4642.8643.

Videos

• Zuboff, Arnold (14 November 2015). What You Really Are: A Talk and Discussion About Personal Identity.
• Zuboff, Arnold (7 December 2015). What You Really Are: A Demonstration Using Beads.
• Zuboff, Arnold (7 December 2015). Personal Identity and the Sleeping Beauty Problem.
• Zuboff, Arnold (2 August 2016). Finding Myself – And Undoing the Fear of Death as Annihilation.

See also

• The Mind's I, a collection of essays on philosophy of mind, edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, in which Zuboff's short story "The Story of a Brain" is featured

References

1. Elga, Adam (2000-04-01). "Self-locating belief and the Sleeping Beauty problem". Analysis. 60 (2): 143–147. doi:10.1093/analys/60.2.143. ISSN 0003-2638.
2. "Works by Arnold Zuboff". PhilPapers. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
3. Forgas, Joseph P.; Innes, J. Michael (1989). Recent Advances in Social Psychology: An International Perspective. Amsterdam: North Holland. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-444-88519-7.
4. Valentine, Elizabeth R. (2020). "Perception and action in East and West". Philosophy and History of Psychology: Selected Works of Elizabeth Valentine. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-000-08294-4.
5. "Members: Pre-2007". The Phi Beta Kappa Society - Epsilon of Connecticut. 2021-02-16. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
6. "Zuboff, Arnold S., 1946-". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2025-01-06.
7. ^ "About". Arnold Zuboff Art. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
8. "1968 June 3". Commencement Programs. University of Connecticut: 25. 1968-06-03.
9. "Zuboff, Arnold Stuart, 1972". Finding Aids - Princeton University. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
10. "Ph.Ds awarded full list" (PDF). Philosophy - Princeton University. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
11. "Full Programme" (PDF). London School of Philosophy. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
12. "People". UCL Philosophy. 2020-08-04. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
13. Sypnowich, Christine (2024-07-09). G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality (PDF). John Wiley & Sons. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-5095-2996-4.

External links

• Arnold Zuboff at PhilPeople
• Arnold Zuboff at ResearchGate
• Arnold Zuboff's channel on YouTube
• Interview on Universalism on YouTube
• Arnold Zuboff Art

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