
Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1996
M.A., University of Iowa 1979
A.B., Indiana University 1973
Philosophical interests:
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logic, Ethics.
Publications:
"Antiskeptical
Conditionals", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
November 2006 (.pdf)
"Are there Non-existent Entities?", The Philosophy of Panayot Butchvarov: a collegial evaluation
(Larry
Blackman, ed.), Edwin Mellon Press, Lewiston, New York 2005
"Analyticity Without
Synonymy in Simple Comparative Logic", Synthese, February 2002
"The
Rationality of Science and the Rationality of Faith", Journal of
Philosophy, January 2001 (.pdf)
"Other
Voices, Other Minds", Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June
2000
"A Simple
Logic for Comparisons and Vagueness", Synthese, May 2000
Recent lectures and debates:
"Enough, Already: Bringing an End to Political Correctness" (audio)
"Darwin, Evolution, and Philosophy"
"The Moral Origins of Wicked Institutions"
"Remarks on Global Warming" (debate)
"Remarks on the Death Penalty" (debate with Bill Lofquist, Sociology) (audio)
"Remarks on Hurricane Katrina" (panel discussion) (audio)
Courses for Spring 2008:
PHIL136: Medicine and Morality
Links:
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