Education:

• B.A. (Summa cum laude) Harvard University 1936
• M.A. Harvard University 1938

• Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Philosophy Department, 1939-41
• Lecturer, College of William and Mary, Philosophy Department, 1941-43
• Lecturer, College of William and Mary, Psychology Department, 1942-43
• Professor, University of Toronto, Philosophy Department, 1943-1981
• Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Philosophy Department, 1981-1992
• Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University, Philosophy Department, 1981

Awards and Professional Offices:

• Detur Prize, Harvard College, 1935
• Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard Chapter, 1936
• Sheldon Prize Traveling Fellowship, 1936-37
• Chairman of Region III, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, 1959-63
• President, Charles S. Peirce Society, 1969-70
• President, Toronto Semiotic Circle, 1977-78
• Buck Memorial Lecturer, Trent University, 1977
• President, International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, 1984
• Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow, Semiotic Society of America, 1992.

PUBLICATIONS OF
DAVID SAVAN

1. "John Dewey's Conception of Nature." University of Toronto Quarterly 17.1 (October 1947): 18-28.
2. "On the Origins of Peirce's Phenomenology." In Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, edited by Philip P. Wiener and Frederic H. Young (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952), pp. 185-195.
3. "Review of W. V. O. Quine, From a Logical Point of View." University of Toronto Quarterly 24.2 (January 1954): 205-207.
4. Newcomers from Israel. Toronto: Research Committee, Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region, 1955. 43 pp.
5. "Spinoza and Language." Philosophical Review 67.2 (April 1958): 212-225. Reprinted in Studies in Spinoza: Critical and Interpretive Essays, edited by S. Paul Kashap (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), pp. ??. Reprinted in Spinoza: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Marjorie G. Grene (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor, 1973; Reprinted, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978), pp. 60-72.
6. "Review of H. F. Hallett, Benedict de Spinoza." Philosophical Review 68.2 (1959): 267-270.
7. "Peirce's Infallibilism." In Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, Second Series, edited by Edward C. Moore and Richard S. Robin (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1964), pp. 190-211.
8. "Decision and Knowledge in Peirce." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 1.2 (Fall 1965): 35-51.
9. "Socrates' Logic and the Unity of Wisdom and Temperance." In Analytical Philosophy, Second Series, edited by Ronald J. Butler (Oxford: Blackwell, 1965), pp. 20-26.
10. "Self-predication in Protagorus 330-331." Phronesis 9.2 (1966): 130-135.
11. "Philosophy and the Teaching-Learning Process." In Philosophy and Education (Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1967), pp. 52-58.
12. "Review of Lev Shestov, Athens and Jerusalem." University of Toronto Quarterly 37.1 (1967): 102-105.
13. "Review of Vincent Potter, C. S. Peirce on Norms and Ideals." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 4.3 (Summer 1968): 163-168.
14. An Introduction to Peirce's Semiotics, Part 1. Toronto Semiotic Circle monographs, working papers and prepublications, No. 1. Toronto: Victoria University, 1976. 57 pp.
15. "Questions Concerning Certain Classifications Claimed for Signs." Semiotica 19.3-4 (1977): pp. 179-195.
16. "Spinoza on Death and the Emotions." In Spinoza's Philosophy of Man: Proceedings of the Scandinavian Spinoza Symposium, edited by Jon Wetlesen (Oslo, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, Dreyer aksjeselskap, 1978), pp. 192-203.
17. "Knowledge of God: Intuition, Reason, Revelation and Love." Sound recording on two cassettes, privately recorded at the Gustave and Mamie W. Efrymson Memorial Series, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 2-3, 1978. Cassettes in the library collection of Hebrew Union College.
18. "Spinoza on Man's Knowledge of God: Intuition, Reason, Revelation and Love." In Spinoza: A Tercentenary Perspective, edited by Barry S. Kogan (Cincinnati, Ohio: Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, 1979), pp. 80-103.
19. "Review of R. W. Shahan and J. I. Biro, eds., Spinoza: New Perspectives." Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 10.2 (Summer 1979): 217-221.
20. "La Semeiotique de C. S. Peirce." Languages 58 (1980): 9-23.
21. "Abduction and Semiotics." In The Signifying Animal: The Grammar of Language and Experience, edited by Irmengard Rauch and Gerald F. Carr (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), pp. 252-262.
22. "Peirce's Semiotic Theory of Emotion." In Proceedings of the C. S. Peirce Bicentennial International Congress, edited by Kenneth L. Ketner (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1981), pp. 319-333.
23. "The Unity of Peirce's Thought." In Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays Presented to Thomas A. Goudge, edited by L. W. Sumner, John G. Slater, and Fred Wilson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), pp. 3-14.
24. "Introduction." To Studies in Peirce's Semiotic, Toronto Semiotic Circle monographs, working papers and prepublications, No. 3, edited by David Savan (Toronto: Victoria University, 1982), pp. 1-4.
25. "Comment on Rosenstock and Frischer." Arethusa 16.2 (Spring 1983): 267-275.
26. "Toward a Refutation of Semiotic Idealism." Recherches Semiotique/Semiotic Inquiry 3 (1983): 1-8.
27. "Spinoza: Scientist and Theorist of Scientific Method." In Spinoza and the Sciences, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol. 91, edited by Marjorie Grene and Debra Nails (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1986), pp. 95-123.
28. "Response to T. L. Short." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 22.2 (Spring 1986): 125-143.
29. "Skeptics." In Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986), vol. 2, pp. 954-957.
30. "Stoicism." In Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986), vol. 2, pp. 976-980.
31. "Introduction." To Charles S. Peirce, Textes fondamentaux de sémiotique, traduits de l'anglais et annotés par Berthe Fouchier-Axelsen et Clara Foz (Paris : Méridiens Klincksieck, 1987), p. 11-20.
32. "Peirce's Trivium." Cruzeiro Semiotico (Portugal) 8 (January 1988): ??
33. "La Théorie sémeiotique de l'émotion selon Peirce." Nouvelle Revue de d'Ethnopsychiatrie 11 (1988): 127-145.
34. An Introduction to C. S. Peirce's Full System of Semiotic. Toronto Semiotic Circle Monographs No. 1. Toronto: Toronto Semiotic Circle, 1989. Revised and expanded version of Savan 1976.
35. "Spinoza on Duration, Time, and Eternity." In Spinoza, The Enduring Questions: Essays collected in honour of David Savan, edited by Graeme Hunter (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), pp. 3-30.
36. "Peirce and Idealism." In Peirce and Contemporary Thought: Philosophical Inquiries, edited by Kenneth L. Ketner (New York: Fordham University Press, 1995), pp. 315-328.