Education

  • Ohio State University. Doctoral Program in Philosophy. Ph.D. awarded in 1999.  Advisors: Neil Tennant (co-director), Robert Kraut (co-director), and Stewart Shapiro (reader).  Dissertation:  The Metaphysics of Classical Logic.  The thesis articulates and defends an argument from semantic anti-realism to the rejection of classical logic.   
  • William Paterson University. B.A. in Music and Philosophy (1993).

Academic Positions

  • Visiting Fellow, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Australian National University, August 2007- August 2008.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, 2002–present.
  • Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, 2000–2002.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, William Paterson University, 1999–2000.

Areas of Research

  • Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Logic.

Books and Editions

  • Knowability and Beyond, (ed.),  Special issue of Synthese.   Projected publication date: 2008.
  • New Essays on the Knowability Paradox, (ed.), Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • "Referee Reports on Fitch's 'A Definition of Value' " J. Salerno and J. Murzi (eds.) to appear in J. Salerno (ed.) New Essays on the Knowability Paradox, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • On Frege, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2001.

Articles (downloads)

    • "Counterfactuals and Context" with B. Brogaard, Analysis, forthcoming 2008. 
    • "Remarks on Counterpossibles" with B. Brogaard, in Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks, John Symons, and Stig Andur Pedersen (eds.), Between Logic and Intuition: David Lewis and the Future of Formal Methods in Philosophy, Synthese Library, forthcoming, 2008. 
    • "The Knowability Paradox" in S. Bernecker, and D. Pritchard (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Routledge, Forthcoming.
    • "Knowability Noir: 1945-1963" in Salerno J. (ed.), New Essays on the Knowability Paradox, OUP, forthcoming, 2008.
    • "Truth-tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge" in Keim-Campbell J. and M. O'Rourke (eds.), Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 5: Knowledge and Skepticism, MIT Press, forthcoming, 2008.
    • "Knowability, Possibility and Paradox" with B. Brogaard, in V. Hendricks and D. Pritchard (eds.), New Waves in Epistemology, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2007.
    • "Knowability and a Modal Closure Principle" with B. Brogaard, American Philosophical Quarterly, 43(3), 2006.
    • "Anti-realism, Theism and the Conditional Fallacy" with B. Brogaard, Noûs, 39(1), 2005.
    • "Fitch's Paradox of Knowability" with B. Brogaard, in Zalta, E. (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2002 and Summer 2004 Editions. 
    • "Clues to the Paradoxes of Knowability: Reply to Dummett and Tennant" with B. Brogaard, Analysis, 62(2), 2002.
    • "Revising the Logic of Logical Revision", Philosophical Studies, 99(2), 2000.

    Other Publications

    • "Review of Jon Kvanvig's The Paradox of Knowability, (OUP, 2006),"  commissioned to appear in Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 
    • "Review of Stephen Hetherington's (ed.), Epistemology Futures, (OUP, 2006)," commissioned to appear in Mind.
        
    • "Williamson on Counterpossibles" with B. Brogaard, The Reasoner 1(3), 2007.
    • "Why Counterpossibles are Non-Trivial" with B. Brogaard, The Reasoner
      1(1),  2007. 
    • "Semantic Anti-Realism and the Problem of Shared Content," with P. Miraglia, in B. Brogaard (ed.), Rationality and Irrationality: Papers of the 23rd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austrian L. Wittgenstein Society, 8:2, 2000.
    • Review of "Anti-Realism and the Philosophy of Mathematics", by Gianluigi Oliveri, in McGuinness and Oliveri (eds.), The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, Kluwer, 1994. Appearing in Mathematical Reviews, January 1997.

    In Progress

    • Must and Can
    • Counterpossible Indicative Conditionals
    • The Most General Factive Mental State Operator 
    • Impossible Thoughts, monograph in progress. 
    • Salerno (ed.) Knowability and Beyond.  Special issue of Synthese.   
    • "Review of Jon Kvanvig's The Paradox of Knowability, (OUP, 2006),"  to appear in Australasian Journal of Philosophy.   

    • "Review of Stephen Hetherington's (ed.) , Epistemology Futures, (OUP, 2006)," to appear in Mind.

    •  "Evidence, Purism and Practical Interests"  
    • "The Logical Necessity of Some Ignorance"  

    Presentations

      • "Must and Can" presented at Epistemology at the Beach, Kioloa, Australia, February 15, 2008.
      • "Counterpossibles, Impossible Worlds and Essence" with B. Brogaard,  discussed at the Arizona Ontology Conference.  January 2008. 
      • "Counterpossible Conditionals" presented to the Philosophy Seminar at RSSS, Australian National University, November 8.
      • "Counterpossible Conditionals", presented at the University of Sydney, October 17.
      • "Counterpossible Conditionals", presented to the Institut d'Histoiri et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, at Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, October 8, 2007. 
      • "Remarks on Counterpossibles", presented with B. Brogaard, 1st Synthese Annual Conference, Copenhagen, October 3, 2007.
      • "Remarks on Counterpossibles" with B. Brogaard, Epistemology Workshop, University of Edinburgh, May 15, 2007. 
      • "The Most General Factive Mental State Operator". International Conference on Linguistics and Epistemology, University of Aberdeen. May 12-13, 2007.  Keynotes by Kent Bach, Peter Ludlow, Jonathan Schaffer & Jason Stanley.
      • "Knowability Noir: 1945-1963". NAMICONA Epistemology Workshop, Department of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen. August 22, 2006.
      • "Knowability Noir: 1945-1963". presented at the Logic Tea to the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam. May 23, 2006.
      • "The History and Significance of the Knowability Paradox". colloquium at the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. May 15, 2006.
      • "Who Discovered Fitch's Paradox and Why Won't it Go Away?". Pacific Division of the APA. Portland, March 24, 2006.
        Commentator: Ali Kazmi
      • "Knowability, Possibility and Paradox" with B. Brogaard. Book launch event for New Waves in Epistemology. Pacific Division of the APA. Portland, March 24, 2006.
      • "A Solution to Fitch's Paradox of Knowability" with B. Brogaard. epistemology workshop at the University of Copenhagen. July 30, 2004.
      • "Contextualism and Subject-Sensitive Invariantism" with B. Brogaard. epistemology workshop at the University of Copenhagen. July 30, 2004.
      • "Truth-tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge". Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference on Knowledge and Skepticism. April 2004.
      • "Tracking and Safety: Some Counterexamples". Pacific Division of the APA. March 2004.
      • "Anti-realism, Theism and the Conditional Fallacy" with B. Brogaard. Central Division of the APA. 2003.
        Commentator: Michael Rea.
      • "To Be is to Be Considered" with B. Brogaard. Presented to the Society for Realist and Anti-realist Discussion. Pacific Division of the APA. 2003.
      • "Anti-realism and Possibility" with B. Brogaard. Pacific Division of the APA. 2003.

      Other Activities

      • Commentary on Salvatore Florio and Julien Murzi's "The Paradox of Idealization".  Eastern Division APA. Baltimore, December 2007.

      • Commentary on Pascal Engel's "Pragmatic Encroachment and Epistemic Value", Epistemic Value Conference at the University of Stirling, August 20, 2006.
      • Commentary on Jon Cogburn's "Moore Problems with Anti-realism". Central Division of the APA. Chicago, April, 2006.
      • Commentary on Mylan Engel's "Contextualism and the Problem of Semantic Ignorance". Illinois Philosophical Association. November 5, 2005.
      • Panel discussant for the Kline Conference on Knowledge, Closure and Lotteries at University of Missouri-Columbia, October 31-November 1, 2003.

      Courses (Syllabi)

        • Graduate
          • Seminar in Philosophy of Logic 
          • Seminar in Epistemology
          • Advanced Logic
        • Undergraduate
          • Epistemology
          • Modern Logic
          • Intro

        Professional Service

        • Session Chair: Pacific and Central APA meetings, 2007.
        • Journal Referee: Abstracta, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Dialogue, Erkenntnis, The Journal of Philosophical Research, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Nous, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, and Synthese.
        • Press Referee: Oxford University Press
        • Grant Proposal Referee: University of Missouri Research Board