Arnold Zuboff

Arnold Stuart Zuboff (born 1946) is an American philosopher who has worked on topics such as personal identity, philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of probability. He is the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty Problem and a view analogous to open individualism, which he terms "Universalism".

He is a Senior Honorary Research Associate of the University College London's Department of Philosophy.

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.
• Zuboff, Arnold (January 2001). "Why Should I Care about Morality?" (PDF). Philosophy Now (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.
• Zuboff, Arnold (October 2008). "Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty".
• Zuboff, Arnold (June 2011). "My 8 Big Ideas".
• Zuboff, Arnold (January 2014). "A Justification of Empirical Thinking" (PDF). Philosophy Now (102). pp. 22–24.
• Zuboff, Arnold (January 2015). "Theories That Refute Themselves" (PDF). Philosophy Now (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.