TIMM ASHFORD TRIPLETT

e-mail: tat@cisunix.unh.edu

CURRICULUM VITA


WORK ADDRESS:

Department of Philosophy
University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire 03824
Telephone: (603) 862-3073

HOME ADDRESS:

259 Wadleigh Falls Rd.
Newmarket, New Hampshire 03857
Telephone: (603) 659-7038

EDUCATION:

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts: Ph.D. in Philosophy, September 1982. Dissertation: Does Foundationalism Work?

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: Graduate courses and seminars in Philosophy, Fall 1975.

Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio: B.A. in Philosophy, June 1972. Senior Thesis: "The Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of Knowledge."

University of East Anglia, Norwich, England: Undergraduate Philosophy curriculum. October 1969 - June 1970.


CURRENT POSITION:

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire.


AREA OF SPECIALIZATION:

Epistemology


AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

Philosophy of Mind
Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy
Wilfrid Sellars
Applied Ethics (especially Technology and Values; Medical Ethics)
Philosophy of Science and Technology Sociology of Knowledge
Formal and Informal Logic
Introductory Eastern Philosophy
Introductory Ethics


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS:

In Progress, Knowledge, Mind and the Given: Central Issues in the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars (co-authored with Willem deVries).

In Progress, "The Viability of Strong Foundationalism."

"Is There Anthropological Evidence that Logic Is Culturally Relative?: Remarks on Bloor, Jennings, and Evans-Pritchard," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45, 1994, pp. 749-760.

Review of Knowledge and Evidence by Paul Moser (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51, 1991, pp. 945-949.

"Recent Work on Foundationalism," American Philosophical Quarterly 27, 1990, pp. 93-116.

"Azande Logic Versus Western Logic?" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39, 1988, pp. 361-366.

"Rorty's Critique of Foundationalism," Philosophical Studies 52, 1987, pp. 115-129.

"Relativism and the Sociology of Mathematics: Remarks on Bloor, Flew and Frege," Inquiry (Oslo) 29, 1986, pp. 439-450.

"Chisholm's Foundationalism," Philosophical Studies 38, 1980, pp. 141-153.


SELECTED RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

"Introduction" to Conference on Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Dunabogdany, Hungary, October, 1996. With Willem deVries.

"Sellars's Principle of Observational Knowledge," dialogue co-authored with Willem deVries, delivered at above conference.

"Sellars as a Systematic Philosopher," dialogue co-authored with Willem deVries, presented at a meeting of the Society for Systematic Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, New York City, December 29, 1995.

"The Salience of Sensations and Thoughts as a Challenge to the Rylean Hypothesis," dialogue co-authored with Willem deVries, presented to the Philosophy Alumni Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October, 1995. Also presented to Philosophy Faculty at the University of New Hampshire, October, 1995.

"Sellars's Epistemological Principles," dialogue co-authored with Willem deVries, presented to the University of New Hampshire Philosophy Faculty Colloquium, April 1993.