Department of Philosophy
“Science, Syntax and Semantics: An Examination of the
Philosophy of
Rudolf Carnap.” PhD Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1975.
Abstract in Dissertation
Abstracts International (October 1975),
36(4A):2254-A.
“On Kaplan On Carnap On Significance.” Philosophical Studies (December 1976), 30(6):393-400.
“The Root of the Problem.” Linguistics and
Philosophy
(July 1977), 1:273-275.
On Michael Root’s
“Nelson Goodman and the Logical
Articulation
of Nominals Compounds.”
“A Query on Entrenchment.” Philosophy of Science (September 1978), 45(3):474-477.
“Benacerraf and Mathematical Truth.” Philosophical Studies (May 1980), 37(4):335-340.
“Nominalism by Theft.” American Philosophical Quarterly (October 1980), 17(4):311-318.
“Smart, Salmon, and Scientific Realism.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy (December 1984), 62(4):404-409.
“Carnap’s Scientific Realism: Irenic or Ironic?” In Nicholas Rescher, ed., The Heritage of Logical Positivism, pp. 117-131. CPS Publications in Philosophy of Science. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985.
“Taking Theories Seriously.” Synthese (March 1985), 62(3):317-346.
“The Initial Reception of Carnap's Doctrine of Analyticity.” Nous (December 1987), 21(4):477-499.
“Mowing the Grass that's Grue: What Carnap Should have Said to Goodman.” In Nicholas Rescher, ed., Scientific Inquiry in Philosophical Perspective. CPS Publications in Philosophy of Science. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987.
Translated (with Richard Nollan) Rudolf Carnap’s “On Protocol Sentences.” Nous (December 1987), 21(4):457-475.
“Counterfactuals for Free.” Philosophical Studies (September 1989), 57(1):95-101.
“Carnap, Quine and the Rejection of Intuition.” In Robert B. Barrett and Roger F. Gibson, eds., Perspectives on Quine, pp. 55-66. Philosophers and their Critics, 6. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1990.
Edited, and with an Introduction. Dear Carnap, Dear
Van: The
Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1990.
“Preface,” pp. vii-xi
“Acknowledgments,” pp. xiii-xv
“Introduction,” pp. 1-43
“Convention, Neutrality, and the Limits of
Logic.” [Abstract] Journal
of Philosophy (October 1991), 88(10):522-523.
Abstract of a paper
presented December 28, 1991 at an American Philosophical Association
“Symposium:
Logical Positivism: A
Retrospective” commenting on a paper by Michael
Friedman entitled "The Re-Evaluation of Logical Positivism."
“Every Dogma Has Its Day.” Erkenntnis (July 1991),
35(1-3): 347-389.
Special Volume in Honor of Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach, edited by
Wolfgang Spohn.
“Carnap's Conventionalism.” Synthese (November 1992;
93(1-2), 141-165.
Issue is entitled “Carnap: A Centenary Reappraisal,” edited by
Sahotra Sarkar.
“Induction and the Gettier Problem.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. (June 1992), 52(2): 401-404.
Review of Gerd Gigerenzer., et al. The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (1992), 14(1):189-190.
Review of Roberto Toretti’s Creative Understanding: Philosophical Reflections on Physics. Isis (June 1992), 83(2):373-374.
Review of Bruce Aune’s Knowledge of the External World. Mind (April 1993), 102(406):339-400.
Review of Danilo Zolo’s Reflexive Epistemology: The Philosophical Legacy of Otto Neurath (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 118) Philosophy of Science (June, 1993), 60(2):359-360.
Review of Peter Hylton’s Russell, Idealism and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy. Philosophical Review (January 1993), 102(1):107-109.
Review of Thomas E. Uebel, ed., Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle: Austrian Studies on Otto Neurath and the Vienna Circle (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 133) Isis (June 1993), 84(2):423-424.
“Functionalist Theories of Meaning and the Defense of Analyticity.” In Wesley Salmon and Gereon Wolters, eds., Logic, Language, and the Structure of Scientific Theories: Proceedings of the Carnap-Reichenbach Centennial, University of Konstanz, 21-24 May 1991, pp. 287-304. Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series in the Philosophy and History of Science. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press; Konstanz: Universitatsverlag Konstanz, 1994.
“From Königsberg to Vienna: Coffa on the Rise of Modern
Semantics.” Dialogue (Winter 1995), 34(1), 113-118.
Critical Notice of J. Alberto Coffa’s Semantic Tradition from
Kant to Carnap: To the Vienna Station.
“Languages without Logic.” In Ronald N. Giere and Alan W. Richardson, eds., Origins of Logical Empiricism. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 16. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
“The Unity of Science: Carnap, Neurath, and Beyond.” In Peter Galison and David J. Stump, eds., The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power, pp. 417-427, Writing Science. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.
“Carnap's Move to Semantics: Gains and Losses.” Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook (1998), 6:65-76.
“Quine and the Limit Assumption in Peirce's Theory of Truth.” Philosophical Studies (May 1998), 90(2):109-112.
Edited (with Jane Maienschein). Biology and Epistemology. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
(with Jane Maienschein.) “Introduction.” In Richard Creath and Jane Maienschein). Biology and Epistemology. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
“The Unimportance of Semantics: Additional Info: Rudolf Carnap Centennial.” PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (2000), 2:405-418