Arnold Zuboff

Arnold Stuart Zuboff (born 1946) is an American philosopher. He is the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem.^[1] Zuboff has worked on topics such as personal identity, the philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of probability,^[2] and a view analogous to open individualism—the position that there is one subject of experience, who is everyone—which he calls "universalism".^[3][4]

Arnold Zuboff
Born	Arnold Stuart Zuboff 1946 (age 78–79)
Education
Education	University of Connecticut (BA, 1968) Princeton University (PhD, 2009)
Thesis	Time, Self and Sleeping Beauty (2009)
Doctoral advisor	Thomas Nagel
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Institutions	University College London
Main interests	Personal identity, philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of probability
Notable ideas	Sleeping Beauty problem Universalism

Early life and education

Arnold Stuart Zuboff^[5] was born in 1946.^[6] He was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut.^[7]

Zuboff received a BA in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 1968,^[8] and attended Princeton University Graduate School until 1972.^[9] 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.^[10]

Career

Zuboff lectured at the University College London's Department of Philosophy from 1974 till his retirement in 2011.^[11] He is now an Honorary Senior Research Associate.^[12]

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.^[7]

Zuboff was a close friend and engaged in philosophical discussions with the Canadian philosopher G. A. Cohen.^[13]

Selected works

Articles

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

Books

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

Videos

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

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