Emeritus Faculty
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).
Douglas
Long, Professor Emeritus, specializes in philosophy
of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics. He has published
papers on a variety of topics, including persons, action,
the mind-body problem, the concept of the human body,
knowledge of other minds, and skepticism. His most recent
work concentrates on an expressivist view of self-knowledge
and on an alternative to dualism and reductive materialism.
Sample publications include: "Why Machines Can
Neither Think Nor Feel," in Language, Mind,
and Art, ed. by Jamieson (1994); "Avowals
and First-Person Privilege" (with Dorit Bar-On),
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2001).
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).
Michael
Resnik, Professor Emeritus, works in logic, philosophy
of mathematics, philosophy of science, and the theory
of rationality. In addition to numerous publications,
he has published the books: Frege and the Philosophy
of Mathematics (1980), Choices: An Introduction
to Decision Theory (1987), Mathematical
Objects and Mathematical Knowledge (1995),
and Mathematics As a Science of Patterns
(1997).
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).
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