| 1967 — 1995 | Professor, Department of Philosophy, Erindale College, University of Toronto |
| 1965 — 1966 | Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1962 — 1967 | Assistant Professor, Cornell University |
| 1961 — 1962 | Acting Assistant Professor, University of Colorado |
| PhD 1962 | Brown University, Philosophy. Thesis: "The Compatibility of Free Will in Determinism" (supervisor Richard Schmidt, Department of Philosophy) |
| MA 1959 | Brown University, Philosophy |
| BA 1957 | George Washington University, Philosophy |
Canfield, J. V. (2007). Becoming human: The development of language, self, and self-consciousness. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian.
Canfield, J. V. (Ed.) (2003). Philosophy of the English-speaking world in the twentieth century 2: Meaning, knowledge and value (Routledge history of philosophy volume 10). New York: Routledge.
Canfield, J. V., and Shanker, S. (Eds.) (1993). Wittgenstein's intentions. New York: Garland.
Canfield, J. V. (1986). The philosophy of Wittgenstein. 15 vols. New York: Garland.
Canfield, J. V. (2009). Back to the rough ground: Wittgenstein and ordinary language. In H. J. Glock and J. Hyman (eds.), Wittgenstein and analytic philosophy: Essays for P. M. S. Hacker (pp. 109-132). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Canfield, J. V. (2009). Wittgenstein, Ned Block and the inverted spectrum. Philosophia, 37, 691-712.
Canfield, J. V. (2007). Wittgenstein on fear. In D. Moyal-Sharrock (ed.), Perspicuous presentations: Essays on Wittgenstein's philosophy of psychology (pp. 12-27). Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Canfield, J. V. (2004). Wittgenstein's religious point of view. In W. Löffler and P. Weingartner (eds.), Knowledge and belief (pp. 90-9). Vienna: öbv&hpt-Verlagsgesellschaft.
Canfield, J. V. (1999). Folk psychology versus philosophical anthropology. Idealistic Studies, 29, 153-171.
Canfield, J. V. (1996). The passage into language: Wittgenstein versus Quine. In R. L. Arrington and H. J. Glock (eds.), Wittgenstein and Quine (pp. 118-143). New York: Routledge.
Canfield, J. V. (1996). The community view. The Philosophical Review, 105, 469-488.
Canfield, J. V. (1995). The rudiments of language. Language and Communication, 15, 195-211.
Canfield, J. V. (1993). Wittgenstein's intentions. In J. V. Canfield and S. Shanker (eds.), Wittgenstein's intentions (pp. 1-37). New York: Garland.
Canfield, J. V. (1993). The living language: Wittgenstein and the empirical study of communication. Language Sciences, 15, 165-193.
Canfield, J. V. (1990). The concept of function in biology. Philosophical Topics, 18, 29-53.
Canfield, J. V. (1983). Discovering essence. In C. Ginet and S. Shoemaker (eds.), Knowledge and mind: Philosophical essays (pp. 105-129). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Canfield, J. V. (1981). Critical notice: Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939. From the notes of R. G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick Smythies by Cora Diamond. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 11, 333-356.
Canfield, J. V. (1975). Wittgenstein and Zen. Philosophy, 50, 383-408.
Canfield, J. V. (1975). Anthropological science fiction and logical necessity. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 4, 467-479.
Canfield, J. V. (1962). The compatibility of free will and determinism. The Philosophical Review, 71, 352-368.
Editorial board: philosophy research archives, Philosophical investigations
Referee: The Philosophical Review, Dialogue, Nous, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy Research Archives, Cornell University Press, Prentice Hall, The National Science Foundation, The Canada Council, Canadian Philosophical Monographs
| 1984 — 1985 | Canada Council Release Time Stipend |
| 1983 — 1984 | Canada Council Release Time Stipend |
| 1981 — 1982 | Canada Council Leave Fellowship |
| 1975 | Canada Council Research Grant |
| 1973 — 1974 | Canada Council Leave Fellowship |
| 1966 — 1967 | Research Associate, M. I. T. |
| 1960 — 1961 | Fulbright Fellowship, University of Göttingen |
| 1957 — 1958 | Woodrow Wilson Fellow |
"Wittgenstein of the Apes: Conceptual Foundations for the Study of Primate Communication." The Mental Lives of Animals, April 1993. Atlanta, Georgia.
"The Private Language Argument." Wittgenstein Conference, April 1989. Biefeld, Germany.
"Wittgenstein and I." Wittgenstein Centennial Conference, August 1989. Kirchberg, Austria.
"The Phenomena of Thinking." Wittgenstein Discussion Group, January 1989. Toronto, Canada.