DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE: Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
PRESENT RANK & DATE OF RANK: Associate Professor, 1979
DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH: September 6, 1940, Detroit, Michigan
EDUCATION:
B.A, Wayne State University, 1962FACULTY APPOINTMENTS AT OTHER INTITUTIONS:
Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Ph.D. 1976
Dissertation: Knowledge and Meaning in Philosophy
Advisers: S. Shoemaker, R. Stalnaker, and N. Kretzman
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, 6/69-1/70
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
American Philosophical Association
Book: Dignagean Syllogisms (forthcoming, Hermes)
Articles:
"Some Deontic Logicians", Noûs, Vol I (December, 1967), pp. 381-400.
"A More Effective Average: A Note on Distributive Justice", Philosophical Studies, Vol. XXI, No. 5 (October, 1970).
"Comments on Stalnaker's Propositions", in Issues in the Philosophy of Language, ed. by A.F. McKay and D.D. Merrill (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976), pp. 93-103 - refereed.
"On P-W", The Relevance Logic Newsletter, Vol. I, No. 1 (September, 1976), pp. 131-143.
"Latest on a Logic Problem", The Relevance Logic Newsletter, Vol. I, No. 1 (September, 1976), pp. 144ff.
"Knowledge by Deduction", The Philosophical Review, Vol. LXXXVII, No. 3 (July 1978), pp. 337-371.
"Philosophy and its History", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 50, No.1 (July, 1986), pp. 1-38.
"Quantifier Responsiveness", Notre Dame Journal of formal Logic, Vol. 28 (July, 1987).
"Fool's Model", Journal of Automated Reasoning (1991), co-authored with Meyer and Bunder
"The One Fallacy Theory", Informal Logic, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 303-314.
"What is a Good Argument", in van Eemeren, Grootendorst, Blair, and Willard (eds.), Analysis and Evaluation: Proceedings of the Third ISSA Conference on Argumentation, Vol II (Amsterdam: International Centre for the Study of Argumentation, 1995), pp. 182-190.
"Ad Hominem Arguments", in Proceedings of the Summer 1995 Conferences at Brock University, Canada.
"Equivocation", in Fallacies: Classical and Contemporary Redings, ed. by H. Hansen & R.Pinto (Pennsylvania University Press) - refereed.
"Existentialist Themes", in Thought, Language, and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda, ed. by W. Rappaport and F. Orilia (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
1. Invited and/or Refereed Internationally or Nationally
Reply to John F. Post, "The Possible Liar and Solution to the Liar Paradox", American Philosophical Association, Central Division, May 7, 1991.
Comments on Robert Stalnaker, "Propositions", The Oberlin Colloquium, 1973.
Comments on Mark Pastin, "Foundationalism", American Philosophical Association, Central Division, May, 1974.
Comments on Robert Nozick, "Knowledge and Skepticism", American Philosophical Association, Central Division, May, 1978.
Comments on Charles Chastain, Oberlin Colloquium, April, 1979.
Comments on Wayne Sumner, University of Cincinnati Philosophy Colloquium, November, 1979.
Comments on Gregory Mellema, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Milwaukee, WI, May, 1981.
Comments on M. Swain's Reasons and Knowledge, American Philosophical Association, 1983.
Comments on Harman, "Belief Revision", American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April, 1984.
What is a Good Argument?", ISSA Conference, Amsterdam, June, 1994.
"Question Begging vs. One Fallacy", the 1995 Conference on Informal Logic, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
"Dividing by Zero and Other Mathematical Fallacies", read at the
International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands,
July, 1998
2. Invited and/or Refereed Locally/Regionally
"Necessity and Modal Operators", University of Michigan Philosophy Club, 1967.
"The Heterological Paradox", Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Philosophy Section, 1967.
Comments on Plantinga, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Philosophy Section, 1967.
"Existentialist Themes", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1970.
"Toward an Account of Philosophical Method", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1971.
'On Church's Thesis", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1974.
"Knowledge by Deduction", Wayne State University Philosophy
Department
Colloquium, 1978.
"Socrates -- the Enemy of Philosophy", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1980; University of Michigan, Flint, 1981; Oakland University, 1982.
"Philosophy and its History", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1970; University of Michigan, Flint, 1981.
"Plato -- Prophet of the Forms", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1980.
"Aristotle -- the Lines of the Categories", Wayne State UniversityPhilosophy Department Colloquium, 1982.
"An Induction Problem", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1982.
"The Birth of the Syllogism", University of Windsor, November 7, 1982.
"On Hegel's Dialectic", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1980; University of Wisconsin, 1983.
"Aristotle: the Birth of the Syllogism", SUNY Buffalo, February, 1991; University of Toronto, March, 1991.
"Socrates -- the Enemy of Philosophy", St. Catherine's College and University of Waterloo, March, 1991.
"Aristotle: the List of the Spohisms", York University, March, 1991.
"Giere's Problem Revisted: Induction and Prediction", Wayne State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, 1994.
Undergraduate Courses:
Introduction to Philosophical SystemsGraduate Courses:
Introduction to Philosophical Problems
Critical Thinking
Symbolic Logic
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
17th and 18th Century Philosophy
Advanced Symbolic Logic
Modal Logic
Plato
Seminar in Epistempology
Dissertations Directed:
David McGraw, In Defense of Realism (Ph.D., 1993)
Kimberly Quirk, Criteria of Identity for Artifacts (Ph.D., 1994)
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