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26Joseph Brent. Charles Sanders Peirce. A life. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis1993, xvi + 388 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 60 (1): 348-352. 1995.
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4Book Reviews (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 7 (1): 77-117. 1986.MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LOGICSIMON OF FAVERSHAM, Quaestiones super Libro Elenchorum. Text in Latin with introduction and notes in English, edited by Sten Ebbesen, Thomas Izbicki, John Longeway, Francesco del Punta, Eileen Serene and Eleonore Stump. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984. xiv + 270 pp. $3 1.OO.JACOPO ZABARELLA, De methodis libri quatuor; Liber de regressu. Edited by Cesare Vasoli. Bologna: Editrice CLUEB, 1985. xxxviii+ 193 pp. Lire 57,000.EDITIONSG. W. F. HEGE…Read more
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C.S. PEIRCE "Studies in logic by members of the Johns Hopkins University"History and Philosophy of Logic 5 (2): 227. 1984.
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3Development and Crisis in Late Boolean Logic: The Deductive Logics of Peirce, Jevons, and SchroderDissertation, Indiana University. 1978.
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31The Substantive Impact of Computers on Philosophy Prolegomena to a Computational and Information‐Theoretic MetaphysicsMetaphilosophy 33 (1‐2): 146-157. 2003.I survey in this article the practical uses of computers in philosophy: except for logic, computers have not yet noticeably improved the quality of philosophizing, research, or pedagogy. They have made work easier. My main interest, however, is in the “substantive” impact that computers may have on philosophical problems, especially in metaphysics. I argue that logic, the notion of decidability, and the theory of computation all predated and did not require modern digital computers. In the philo…Read more
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Charles S. Peirce , "Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 20 (4): 469. 1984.
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32The Life and Logical Contributions of O. H. Mitchell, Peirce's Gifted StudentTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (3). 1994.
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16A. T. Shearman. The development of symbolic logic. A critical-historical study of the logical calculus. A reprint of 1413. Thoemmes, Bristol1990, xi + 242 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (4): 1485-1487. 1992.
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198Peirce’s Propositional LogicReview of Metaphysics 34 (3). 1981.BEFORE Frege’s Begriffsschrift, propositional logic was submerged in the often murky theory of the "hypothetical syllogism." With the exception of the Stoa, a handful of astute mediaeval logicians, Leibniz, and Bolzano, one might well obtain the impression from studying the history of logic that Frege created his theory ex nihilo—which is substantially true, since Frege was apparently little influenced by previous work. One might also obtain the impression, especially by reading Frege himself, t…Read more
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13Essay ReviewHistory and Philosophy of Logic 5 (2): 227-232. 1984.CHARLES S.PEIRCE(ED.), Studies in logic by members of the Johns Hopkins University. Original Preface by Peirce, new introduction by Max H. Fisch, new preface by Achim Eschbach. A Reprint of the original 1883 edition. Amsterdam andPhiladelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1983, lviii + vi + 203 pp. No price stated
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23Philosophers have almost always said something about emotions and passions whenever they have discussed human mental life. Many have asserted that it is some emotions or, more broadly, passions, that are to be primarily valued and sought. These valued passionate states of mind might include emotions, moods, desires, belief-like feelings of conviction and commitment, and romantic or erotic love, which are typically scarcely distinguished. Not only are these states of mind lumped together, but the…Read more
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Peirce's underestimated place in the history of logic: A response to QuineIn Kenneth Laine Ketner (ed.), Peirce and Contemporary Thought: Philosophical Inquiries, Fordham University Press. pp. 32--58. 1995.
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28Other-than-Internet (OTI) Cyberwarfare: Challenges for Ethics, Law, and PolicyJournal of Military Ethics 12 (1): 34-53. 2013.
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22Few philosophers today know much about Charles Peirce’s metaphysics, although a great many know something about his epistemology, philosophy of science, and logic. Indeed, few Peirce experts have written much on his metaphysics or made it the focus of their research. To an extent, this is understandable. Peirce’s writings were left in a disastrously disorganized state (mostly unpublished), and the crucial papers on metaphysics from his later years have not yet been republished in the first-rate …Read more
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David Kelley's "Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Perception" (review)Reason Papers 12 57-70. 1987.
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27Thinking, Language, and Experience (review)Review of Metaphysics 44 (3): 618-620. 1991.This is an extensive and diffuse collection of essays woven together by a number of leitmotifs. It is a work by a technically virtuosic professional philosopher for readers with the same credentials; even many of the complicated examples use extensive insider information about the institution of professional analytic philosophy in the last half of the twentieth century in the United States. In the sequence of its chapters, we see a development that in some ways mirrors Castañeda's philosophical …Read more
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117Some Issues in the Theory of ArtifactsThe Monist 78 (2): 119-135. 1995.I do not think that previous writing on artifacts has been satisfactory, for reasons that will become clear. This situation has only been slightly remedied, I believe, by works such as my Artifacts, Agency, and Art Works, Dipert, sometimes referred to here as “AAA.” At the same time, I believe that a general notion of artifact is crucial for philosophy: the concept of an artifact is a central piece of our conception of the world. One of the important projects in the theory of artifacts that is i…Read more
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46Peirce's theory of the dimensionality of physical spaceJournal of the History of Philosophy 16 (1): 61-70. 1978.
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72Peirce, frege, the logic of relations, and church's theoremHistory and Philosophy of Logic 5 (1): 49-66. 1984.In this essay, I discuss some observations by Peirce which suggest he had some idea of the substantive metalogical differences between logics which permit both quantifiers and relations, and those which do not. Peirce thus seems to have had arguments?which even De Morgan and Frege lacked?that show the superior expressiveness of relational logics
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Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel, "An Introduction to Logic" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30 (4): 1064. 1994.
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18The Puzzle of Music and Emotion in Rand's AestheticsJournal of Ayn Rand Studies 2 (2). 2001.Randall R. Dipert argues that, at first glance, Rand's view of representational arts, such as literature and the visual arts, might seem to have little applicability to pure music. Nevertheless, Rand took music without words as a serious art form, and struggled to develop a plausible theory of music. As Torres and Kamhi note in What Art Is, Rand's approach probably contradicted certain elements of her full aesthetic theory. But her theory of music and its relationship to emotions offers some fas…Read more
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3I spent 18 years as a faculty member at SUNY Fredonia. I moved to my position at West Point in 1995, and assumed teaching duties at Buffalo in fall of 2000. In addition to my dissertation, I have published extensively on the history and philosophy of logic, especially on Peirce and the..
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25Review: A. T. Shearman, The Development of Symbolic Logic. A Critical-Historical Study of the Logical Calculus (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (4): 1485-1487. 1992.
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1112 Peirce's Deductive Logic: Its Development, Influence, and Philosophical SignificanceIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Peirce, Cambridge University Press. pp. 287. 2004.
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2If I look from the outside at the practices of a discipline—any discipline—and see some members declaring themselves to be upholders of one “ism,” or labeling others’ views as representatives of some other failed or flawed “ism,” then I would frankly form the suspicion that this is an immature profession, not quite developed. It has tendencies to fall into modes of discourse that are more characteristic of religious or political fealty and factionalism
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Computing and Information |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |