Emeritus Faculty
E. M. Adams,
Kenan Professor Emeritus, works in value
theory, ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of
the humanities. Among his books are Ethical Naturalism
and the Modern World-View (1960), Philosophy
and the Modern Mind (1975), The Idea of
America (1977), and Metaphysics of Self
and World (1991). His most recent book is
Religion and Cultural Freedom (1995).
Edward
Galligan, Professor Emeritus, works in ancient philosophy
and metaphysics. His Current research interests revolve
around Plato and Aristotles's metaphysics. Sample publication:
"Logos in Theaetetus and The Sophist," in Essays
in Ancient Greek Philosophy, ed. by Anton and
Preus (1983).
Stanley
Munsat, Professor Emeritus, is the author of many
articles and The Concept of Memory (1967).
His interests are in the philosophy of mind, artificial
intelligence, and the philosophy of language. He is
currently working on connectionism and the philosophy
of mind. Some publications include: "Could Sensations
Be Processes?" Mind (1969); "What is a Process?"
American Philosophical Quarterly (1969); "The-Meaning-of-a-Word,"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy (1974); "The Objects
of Knowledge and Belief: Some Linguistic Considerations,"
Dialogue (1977); "Memory and Causality," in Body,
Mind, and Method, ed. by Gustafson and Tapscott
(1979); "Wh-Complementizers," Linguistics and Philosophy
(1986); "Keeping Representations at Bay," Behavioral
and Brain Sciences (1990).
George
Schlesinger, Professor Emeritus, writes on metaphysics,
philosophy of science, the nature of time and space,
and the philosophy of religion. He has published ten
books: Method in the Physical Sciences
(1963), Confirmation and Confirmability
(1974), Religion and the Scientific Method
(1977), Aspects of Time (1980), Metaphysics:
Method and Beliefs (1983),The Range of
Epistemic Logic (1985), The Intelligibility
of Nature (1985), New Perspectives on
Old-Time Religion (1988),The Sweep of
Probability (1991), and most recently,Timely
Topics (1994).
Richard
A. Smyth, Professor Emeritus, has special interests
in the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science.
He has worked extensively on the philosophies of Descartes
and Whitehead, and has just finished Reading Peirce
Reading (1997). He is the author as well of
a book on Kant, Forms of Intuition (1977).
Robert
Vance, Professor Emeritus, specializes in aesthetics,
the history of modern philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy
of mind. He is devoting particular attention to problems
in contemporary philosophy of art. Sample publications:
"On Being Earlier Than," Noûs (1970); "Art
Objects: Modernism vs. Literalism," Dialogos
(1988); "Fiction and the De Se Self,"
Philosophical Papers (1994); "Sculpture," The
British Journal of Aesthetics (1995).
Richard
Zaffron, Associate Professor Emeritus, is a specialist
in the philosophy of the natural and social sciences,
action theory, and Wittgenstein. His work has focussed
on studies of the concepts and methodologies of psychology
and history. Sample publications: "Facts and Values,"
Contemporary Psychology (1969); "On Understanding
What We Don't Know How We Know," Science (1969);
"Identity, Subsumption, and Scientific Explanation,"
Journal of Philosophy (1971). |
