Silver Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. 1972 (philosophy), M.A. 1968 (philosophy), Harvard; B.A. 1967 (mathematics), Wisconsin.

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Research Interests:

metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics

Fellowships/Honors:

Lakatos Prize, for Science Without Numbers, 1986; National Science Foundation Research Grant, 1979-1980, summer 1982, 1988-1989; Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1979-1980; National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant, 1972-1973.

Selected Works:

Forthcoming Book: Saving Truth from Paradox (Oxford 2008)

Recent Papers (mostly with on-line links to not-quite-final versions):

• "Do We Have a Determinate Conception of Finiteness and Natural Number?", in Matthias Schirn, ed., Philosophy of Mathematics Today (Oxford University Press 1998), pp. 99-129.
• "Which Undecidable Mathematical Sentences Have Determinate Truth Values?", in H. Garth Dales and Gianluigi Oliveri, ed., Truth in Mathematics (Oxford University Press 1998).
• "Mathematical Objectivity and Mathematical Objects", in S. Laurence and C. Macdonald, eds., Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics (Basil Blackwell 1998), pp. 387-403.
• "Some Thoughts on Radical Indeterminacy", The Monist, April 1998, vol. 81, pp. 253-73.
• "Epistemological Nonfactualism and the A Prioricity of Logic", Philosophical Studies, 1998, vol. 92, pp. 1-24.
• "Deflating the Conservativeness Argument", The Journal of Philosophy, 1999, (pp. 533-40).
• "A Prioricity as an Evaluative Notion", in P. Boghossian and C. Peacocke, eds., New Essays on the A Priori (Oxford University Press 2000).
• "Indeterminacy, Degree of Belief, and Excluded Middle", Nous, 2000, pp. 1-30.
• "Causation in a Physical World", in M. Loux and D. Zimmerman, eds., Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press 2003).
• "Mathematical Undecidables, Metaphysical Realism and Equivalent Descriptions", forthcoming in a Library of Living Philosophers volume for Hilary Putnam.
• "Saving the Truth Schema from Paradox", Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2002, pp. 1-27.
• "A Revenge-Immune Solution to the Semantic Paradoxes", Journal of Philosophical Logic, April 2003.
• "Is the Liar Sentence Both True and False?", in Beall and Armour-Garb, eds., Deflationism and Paradox (Oxford University Press 2004).
• "The Semantic Paradoxes and the Paradoxes of Vagueness", in Beall and Glanzberg, eds., Liars and Heaps (Oxford University Press 2003), pp. 262-311.
• "No Fact of the Matter", in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2003, pp. 457-480.
• "The Consistency of the Naive Theory of Properties", The Philosophical Quarterly, January 2004, pp. 78-104.
• "Recent Debates about the A Priori", in Gendler and Hawthorne, eds., Oxford Studies in Epistemology (Oxford University Press 2005).
• Contributions to symposium on Truth and the Absence of Fact (Precis of book and responses to Gupta and Martinez-Fernandez, Loewer, and McGee), Philosophical Studies (May 2005).
• "Variations on a Theme by Yablo", in Beall and Armour-Garb, eds., Deflationism and Paradox (Oxford University Press 2004).
• "Maudlin's Truth and Paradox", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2006).
• "Vagueness, Partial Belief and Logic", forthcoming in G. Ostertag, ed., Meanings and Other Things: Essays on Stephen Schiffer.
• "Compositional Principles versus Schematic Reasoning", The Monist (2006).
• "Solving the Paradoxes, Escaping Revenge", forthcoming in JC Beall ed. The Liar's Revenge (Oxford 2007).
• "Truth and the Unprovability of Consistency", Mind 2006, pp. 567-605.
• "This Magic Moment: Horwich on the Boundaries of Vague Terms", forthcoming in Dietz and Moruzzi, eds., Cuts and Clouds: Essays in the Nature and Logic of Vagueness (Oxford).

Courses

Graduate
Metaphysics: Causation (in conjunction with Ned Block), Fall 1997
Seminar on Vagueness and Indeterminacy (in conjunction with Stephen Schiffer), Spring 1998
Seminar on Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Spring 1999
Seminar in Philosophy of Mathematics, Fall 1999
Seminar on Theory of Meaning, Spring 2000
Seminar on Causation (in conjunction with Gordon Belot), Fall 2000
Mind and Language Seminar: Content and its Role in Explanation (in conjunction with Stephen Schiffer), Spring 2001
The Semantic and Set-Theoretic Paradoxes (in conjunction with Kit Fine), Fall 2001
Mind and Language Seminar: Factually Questionable Discourse (in conjunction with Stephen Schiffer), Spring 2003
Seminar in Philosophy of Logic, Fall 2003
Seminar in Logic, Spring 2004
Seminar in Philosophy of Logic (in conjunction with Crispin Wright), Spring 2005
Seminar on Truth, Fall 2005
Seminar on Semantic Paradoxes, Fall 2006
Mind and Language Seminar: Formal Epistemology (in conjunction with Jim Pryor), Spring 2007
Seminar on Norms of Rationality, Fall 2007

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