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Education
- Wesleyan University, A.B., 1954
- Yale University MA, 1956 and Ph.D. 1959
Positions
- Yale University, Instructor, 1957-1959
- Kansas University, Assistant Professor, 1959-1962
- Kansas University, Associate Professor, 1962-1965
- Kansas University, Professor (on leave), 1965-1966
- Wayne State University, Visiting Professor, 1963
- Hunter College, Associate Professor, 1965-1970
- Hunter College, Professor, 1970-
- Doctoral Faculty in Philosophy, Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1966-
- Ben-Gurion University, Israel, Fulbright Lecturer, 1992-1993
- Fulbright Grant to lecture in philosophy at Ben-GurionUniversity, Israel, 1992-1993
Books
- (with Norman Care) Readings in the Theory of Action, Indiana University Press, 1968 (edited with an introduction)
- The Foundations of Knowledge, Prentice-Hall, 1970 (edited with an introduction)
- The Problem of Universals, Basic Books, 1971 (edited with an introduction)
- Discourse and its Presuppositions, Yale University Press, 1972
- Philosophy: An Introduction to the Central Issues, New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1985
- Color and Consciousness: An Essay in Metaphysics, Temple University Press, 1989
- The Eye and the Mind: Reflections on Perception and the Problem of Knowledge, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993
- Introduction to Epistemology, Blackwell, 1996 (forthcoming)
Articles
- "Does Language Embody a Philosophical Point of View?", Review of Metaphysics, June 1961, 617-636.
- "Philosophical Problems of Memory," Journal of Philosophy, February 1, 1962, 57-65.
- "Metaphysics and Human Nature," Review of Metaphysics, June 1962, 656-671.
- "Dreams: Two Types of Explanation," Philosophical Studies, 1964, 17-23; reprinted in Philosophical Essays on Dreaming, ed. Charles E. M. Dunlop, Cornell University Press, 1977.
- "Mental Events," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1964, 307-317.
- "A Note on Act Utilitarianism," Philosophical Review, 1964, 243-247.
- "A Note on Belief," Analysis, 1964, 239-243.
- "The New Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind," Review of Metaphysics, 1965, 329-345.
- "Reply to Professor Whallon," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1965, 404-405.
- "Promises and Practices," Mind, 1966, 239-24.
- "Consciousness," The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1967, Vol. 2, 191-195.
- "Actions as Universals: An Inquiry into the Metaphysics of Action," American Philosophical Quarterly, July 1969, 247-252.
- "Scepticism about Meaning: Quine's Thesis of Indeterminacy," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, December 1970, 320-337.
- "Abstract Particulars," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1973, 323-337.
- "Specific and Abstract Universals," Idealistic Studies, 1974, 89-105.
- "Thought, Reference, and Existence," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1975, 449-458.
- "Remarks on Reference and Action," Issues in the Philosophy of Language, Proceedings of the 1972 Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, ed. Alfred F. Mackay and Daniel D. Merrill, YaleUniversity Press, 1976, 105-118; and "Reply," 129-133.
- "Locke's Theory of Meaning," Journal of the History ofPhilosophy, January 1976, 23-35.
- "Theory of Knowledge," Social Research, Winter 1980, 803-815.
- "Conduct and Rational Causation," Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, October 1981, 241-252.
- "Against Respect for Persons," Tulane Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 31, 1982, 31-43.
- "Mill on Necessary Truth," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. 8, 1983, 469-475.
- "In Search of Wittgenstein's Scepticism," Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 13, 1986, 349-359.
- "Minds, Brains, and Searle," Metaphilosophy, Vol. 17, April/July1986, 172-182.
- "The Union Movement and the Right to Organize," Moral Rights in the Workplace, ed. Gertrude Ezorsky, State University of New York Press, 1987, 152-160.
- "Perceptual Consciousness and Introspection," Perspectives on Perception, ed. Mary Ann Caws, Peter Lang Publishers, 1989, 55-77.
- "Reflections on Hobbes: Anarchy and Human Nature," The Causes of Quarrel: Essays on Peace, War, and Thomas Hobbes, ed. Peter Caws, Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, 139-148.
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