Faculty

James Allen
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
James Allen's principal interest is ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He has published articles about ancient conceptions of
expertise, ancient skepticism, its relations to ancient medicine, and stoicism. jvallen@pitt.edu

Horacio Arlo-Costa
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Epistemology, Knowledge representation, Methodological problems in AI, Language and cognition. hcosta@andrew.cmu.edu

Jeremy Avigad
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Proof Theory, Mathematical Logic, and the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. avigad@andrew.cmu.edu and
Home Page.

Steve Awodey
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Category Theory, Logic and Computability Theory, History and Philosophy of Mathematics. awodey@cmu.edu and Home Page.

Nuel Belnap
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Nuel Belnap is co-author (with Thomas B. Steel) of The Logic of Questions and Answers (1976), of Entailment: The Logic
of Relevance and Necessity (volume 1, with Alan Ross Anderson, 1976; volume 2, with Alan Ross Anderson and J. Michael Dunn, 1992), and (with Anil Gupta) of The Revision Theory of Truth (1993), and co-author (with Michael Perloff and Ming Xu) of a forthcoming volume entitled Facing the Future. His present interests lie principally in philosophical logic, with other interests in metaphysics, the philosophy of the social sciences, and computer science. belnap@pitt.edu and Home Page.

Cristina Bicchieri
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Decision and Game Theory, Distributed AI Models, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences. cb36@andrew.cmu.edu

Karen Boxer
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Karen Boxer's main interests are in ethics and the philosophy of action. kboxer@pitt.edu

Robert Brandom
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Robert Brandom is author of Making it Explicit (1994), co-author (with Nicholas Rescher) of The Logic of Inconsistency
(1978), and editor of a special issue of Philosophical Studies devoted to the work of Wilfrid Sellars. His main interests are in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. He is currently working on a book on Hegel's Phenomenology, and a lecture series on Frege. He has published articles on semantics and the philosophy of language in the Journal of Philosophy, Midwest Studies, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Topics, and Analysis. His work on Spinoza and Leibniz has appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, on Heidegger in the Monist, on Hegel in the American Philosophical Quarterly, on Frege in Synthese. His work in the philosophy of logic has appeared in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic and Philosophical Topics. rbrandom@pitt.edu and Home Page.

Joseph L. Camp
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Joseph L. Camp is currently working on a book about collective thought. His specialties are epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and 17th century philosophy (especially Descartes and Locke). joecamp@pitt.edu

Robert Cavalier
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Ethics, History of Philosophy, Interactive Media. rc2z@andrew.cmu.edu

Greg Cooper
Adjunct, Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Medical Informatics, Causal and Statistical Inference.

Preston Covey
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Interactive Media. covey@andrew.cmu.edu

David Danks
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Causal learning (human and machine), Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Bounded Rationality and Decision-making. ddanks@cmu.edu

Cian Dorr
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh in 2003, he taught at N.Y.U. His areas of specialization are metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is also interested in philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaethics, and Hume. csd6@pitt.edu

John Earman
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
University Professor (Adj. Philosophy). Before coming to Pittsburgh, he taught at UCLA, The Rockefeller University, and the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A Primer of Determinism; World Enough and Spacetime: Absolute vs.
Relational T heories of Space; Time, Bayes or Bust: A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory; and
Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes. History, methodology, and foundations of physics. jearman@pitt.edu

Stephen Engstrom
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Stephen Engstrom's areas of interest include ethics, metaphysics, modern philosophy (especially Kant), ancient philosophy, and political philosophy. He is co-editor (with Jennifer Whiting) of Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (1996), and has published articles on Kant's ethics and epistemology. engstrom@pitt.edu

Richard M. Gale
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Professor Emeritus. Richard Gale is the author of The Divided Self of William James; The Language of Time (1968); Negation and Non-Being (1976); On the Nature and Existence of God (1991); and the editor of The Philosophy of Time (1967). He has contributed numerous articles to collections and philosophical journals. His main interest is metaphysics and pragmatism. rmgale@pitt.edu

David Gauthier
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Professor Emeritus. David Gauthier's most recent books are Morals by Agreement (1986) and a collection of essays, Moral Dealing: Contract,
Ethics, and Reason (1990). Earlier writings include The Logic of Leviathan (1969). His current research focuses on practical rationality, contractarian moral theory, and the emergence of modern social thought, especially in Hobbes and Rousseau. dgaut@pitt.edu

Clark Glymour
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Philosophy of Science, Causal Modeling, Cognitive Science. cg09@andrew.cmu.edu

Mara Harrell
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Environmental Ethics. mharrell@cmu.edu

Kevin Kelly
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Formal Learning Theory, Philosophy of Science, Logic. kk3n@andrew.cmu.edu

James G. Lennox
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
Professor and Director, Center for Philosophy of Science (Secondary Appointments: Department of Philosophy, Department of Classics; Co-Director: Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science Program; Member: Rhetoric of Science Program). Research specialties include Ancient Greek philosophy, science and medicine and Charles Darwin and Darwinism. Lennox has published essays on the philosophical and scientific thought of Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Boyle, Spinoza, and Darwin, especially focused on scientific explanation, and particularly teleological explanation, in the biological sciences. He is co-editor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge 1987); Self-Motion from Aristotle to Newton (Princeton 1995);and Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences (Pittsburgh and Konstanz 1995). jglennox@pitt.edu

Alex John London
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Bioethics, Ethical Theory, Ancient Philosophy. ajlondon@andrew.cmu.edu

Edouard Machery
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Professor. His research focuses on cognitive science. He has been working on concepts, arguing that the notion is ill-suited for a scientific psychology. He is currently trying to turn this idea into a book. Recent research projects include the origin of racial categorization, the application of evolutionary theories to human cognition, the nature of culture, the structure of moral concepts and the place of simple heuristics in human cognition. He has recently published on some of these topics. He has been doing some experimental work and enjoys cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Peter K. Machamer
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
Professor (Adj. Philosophy, The Cognitive Program in Psychology, Rhetoric of Science Program). Research Associate (Learning Research and Development Center). He has edited a number of books, including Motion and Time, Space and Matter, the Cambridge Companion to Galileo, and Studies in Perception. He has written many articles on topics in the history and philosophy of science. He works p rimarily on 16th- and 17th-century topics, the philosophy of psychology and social science, and values and science. He also does empirical work in cognitive psychology. pkmach@pitt.edu

Peter Madsen
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Applied and Professional Ethics, Distance Learning of Ethics, Multi-media education.
pm2n@andrew.cmu.edu

Kenneth Manders
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Kenneth Manders' research interests lie in the philosophy, history, and foundations of mathematics; and in general questions on relations between intelligibility, content, and representational or conceptual casting. He is currently working on a book on geometrical representation, centering on Descartes. He has published a number of articles on philosophy of mathematics, history of mathematics, model theory, philosophy of science, measurement theory, and the theory of computational complexity.
mandersk@pitt.edu

Gerald J. Massey
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Gerald Massey's principal interests are symbolic logic, the philosophy and methodology of science, the philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy. He is the author of Understanding Symbolic Logic (1970), co-editor (with Tamara Horowitz) of Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy (1991), co-editor (with John Earman, Allen Janis, and Nicholas Rescher) of Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds: Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum (1993), and author of numerous articles in logic and many areas of philosophy. From 1963 to 1970 he served as managing editor of Philosophy of Science, and was secretary-treasurer of the Philosophy of Science Association from 1964 to 1970. He is a member of several editorial boards and a former member of the board of officers of the American Philosophical Association. gmas@pitt.edu and Home Page.

John McDowell
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
John McDowell was John Locke Lecturer at Oxford University in 1991. A version of his lectures has been published as Mind
and World (1994) and a two-volume collection of his papers appeared last year. His major interests are Greek philosophy,
philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology, and ethics. jmcdowel@pitt.edu

J. E. McGuire
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
Professor (Adj. Philosophy, History, Communication). He is consulting editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science. He is co-author of Hermeticism and the Scientific Revolution, Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's
Trinity Notebook, and co-editor and contributor to How Things Are: Studies in Pre dication and the History of
Philosophy and Science. He has published extensively on science and philosophy since the Renaissance, on the historiography of ideas, Newton, 17th- and 18th-century natural philosophy, and on the history of 17th-century philosophy. More recent research concentrates on Greek science and cosmology, especially Philoponus and Aristotle, and on the rhetoric of science. jemcg@pitt.edu

Sandra Mitchell
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
Professor. Her research interests are in general philosophy of science, with particular attention to epistemological and
metaphysical issues in biology and the social sciences. She has published articles on functional explanation, units of selection, sociobiology, biological complexity and self-organization, and scientific laws. She is co-editor of Human by Nature: Between Biology and the Social Sciences. Current interests include strategies for integrating diverse explanations of complex phenomena. smitchel@pitt.edu

Jessica Moss
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
A member of the Graduate Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science. She specializes in Ancient Philosophy, and is working on topics in moral psychology in Plato and Aristotle. jdm39@pitt.edu

John D. Norton
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
Chair and Professor (Adj. Philosophy). He studies the history and philosophy of physics (relativity, quantum theory and
statistical physics), with a special interest in general relativity, and has published extensively on the detailed steps of Einstein's discovery of ge neral relativity and on its philosophical foundations. He was a contributing editor to the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volumes 3 and 4. He also works in general philosophy of science, with emphasis on different approaches to confirmation theory, inconsistency in theories and thought experiments. He has wasted a lot of time recently on supertasks in classical, relativistic and quantum physics. He is editor for philosophy of physics (space and time) for the Stanford On-line
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for which he wrote the article on The Hole Argument. He has written other things too.
jdnorton@pitt.edu

Robert Olby
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
Research Professor. Formerly at the University of Leeds, UK, Olby is best known for his work on the history of genetics and molecular biology. He is the author of The Origins of Mendelism (1966), Charles Darwin (1967) and The Path to the Double Helix (1994). He is currently writing the Norton History of Biology and researching the conceptual foundations of modern sensory neurophysiology. olbyr@pitt.edu

Linda Palmer
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Kant, Critique of Judgment, Philosophy of Mind, Neuroscience Research Scientist

Michael Perloff
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Michael Perloff is co-author (with Nuel Belnap and Ming Xu) of a forthcoming volume entitled Facing the Future. His current interests focus on the logic of action and agency. mperloff@pitt.edu and Home Page.

Frank Pfenning
Adjunct, Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Logic and Programming Languages, Logical Frameworks, Type Theory.

Nicholas Rescher
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Nicholas Rescher is the author of more than 70 books on a wide variety of philosophical subjects, and has pioneered in the revival and refurbishing of the idealistic tradition in epistemology and metaphysics in the light of ideas drawn from American pragmatism. In 1989-90 he served as President of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division). From 1969 to 1993 he served as editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly. rescher@pitt.edu and Home Page.

Laura Ruetsche
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Laura Ruetsche has published articles in the foundations of quantum mechanics and served as contributing editor for Vol. 5 of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Her interests include the epistemology of scientific practice and the work of Plato. ruetsche@pitt.edu

Merrilee H. Salmon
History and Philosophy of Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
Professor Emerita (Adj. Philosophy, Anthropology). Research Associate (Learning Research and Development Center). Her
current research deals with philosophy of anthropology. She is author of Philosophy and Archaeology and Introduction to
Logic and Critical T hinking, as well as editor of The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism. She is a former editor-in-chief of Philosophy of Science. Her interests include the philosophy of social science and reasoning in conversation.
mhsalmon@pitt.edu

Richard Scheines
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Graphical and Statistical Causal Inference, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Computerized Logical Proof Tutors. scheines@andrew.cmu.edu

Dana Scott
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Model and Set Theory, Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, Symbolic Mathematical Computation. dana.scott@cs.cmu.edu

Teddy Seidenfeld
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Foundations of Statistics, Probability Theory, and Decision Theory. teddy@stat.cmu.edu

Kieran Setiya
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
He is interested in ethics, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology; and he is currently working on questions about virtue and practical reason. kis23@pitt.edu

Wilfried Sieg
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Department Head. Areas of interest include Proof Theory, Philosophy of Mathematics, 19th and 20th Century Logic & Mathematics. ws15@andrew.cmu.edu

Mandy Simons
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Language. simons@andrew.cmu.edu

Peter Spirtes
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Graphical and Statistical Modeling of Causes, Causation in the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Physics. ps7z@andrew.cmu.edu

Michael Thompson
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Michael Thompson's current interests are ethics, political theory, philosophy of mind, and theory of action. The philosophers who interest him are Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Anscombe. mthompso@pitt.edu

Peter Vanderschraaf
Philosophy Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of interest include Decision and Game Theory, Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics. peterv@andrew.cmu.edu

Mark Wilson
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Mark Wilson's main research investigates the manner in which physical and mathematical concerns often become entangled with issues characteristic of metaphysics and philosophy of language; he is currently writing a book on the subject. He is also interested in the historical dimensions of this interchange; in this vein, he has written on Descartes, Frege, Duhem and Wittgenstein. He has also published a number of recordings of traditional folk musicians. mawilson@pitt.edu