Torsten Odland

Torsten Odland is a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at California State University Long Beach. His research focuses on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of logic, with additional interests in Early Modern and Medieval philosophy. He has taught courses at UCLA and Cal State Long Beach, including Introduction to Philosophy and Upper Division Symbolic Logic.

His work explores topics such as truth definitions, semantic underdetermination, and representational vehicles. Notable publications include analyses of sentential quantification and capacious pluralism about content. Odland’s current research addresses particularism about truth and Leibniz’s theory of symbolic thought.

He has no listed awards or grants, but maintains active research on revenge paradoxes and the epistemological role of symbolic reasoning in Leibnizian thought.