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CURRICULUM VITAE
BOOKS

Walls and Vaults -- A Natural Science of Morals (Virtue Theory According to David Hume), John Wiley & Sons, 2009.  (front matter, references)

Logic and Theism -- Arguments For and Against Beliefs in God, Cambridge University Press, 2004.  (front matter, Chapter 1, and references)

         Further to Logic and Theism  (solutions to exercises, notes on modal logic and probability, critical discussions, responses, supplementary studies)

Puzzles for the Will -- Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omnsicience, University of Toronto Press, 1998.  (password protected)

    "Notes on 'Death Speaks'."  (Sourcing 'Death's appointment in Samarra'.)
Taking Chances -- Essays on Rational Choice, Cambridge University Press, 1994.  (password protected)

         Chapter 14, "Hyperrational Games.”  (revised December 2000)

Probability, Chance and Choice: A Theory of Rational Agency. ('working manuscript' of 1978 - as revised in September 1980)

What If Everyone Did That? University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1961  (doctoral dissertation)
 
 

SELECTED ARTICLES

"‘Hoist With His Owne Petar’: on the Undoing of a Liar Paradox." Theoria (74), 2008.

"Lotteries and Miracles."  (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion 2, 2009)

"Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens for Conditional Probabilities, and Updating on Uncertain Evidence."  (Extended version of paper published in Theory and Decision, Volume 66, Issue2 (2009), 103-48.)

    Hosiasson-Lindenbaum/Kolmogorov Probability Theory: solutions to exercises in Appendix A of extended version of "Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens ... "

"Collapsing Arguments for Facts and Propositions," Australasian Journal of Logic (6), 2008.

“Backward Induction Without Tears?” Logic, Thought & Action, ed. D. Vanderveken, Springer 2005.

"On Wakker's Critique of Allais Preferences," Croatian Journal of Philosophy (2004).

"Blackburn's Problem: On Its Not Insignificant Residue," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2001).

“On Michael Smith’s Internalisms,” Erkenntnis (2001).

“Money Pumps,” Philosophy of Science (2001).

"A 'Russell' of Spinoza's Ontological Argument," The Logica Yearbook 1999, Prague: Filosophia, 2000.

“Garrett Cullity’s Response to an Imperceptibility Challenge,” in Imperceptible Harms and Benefits, edited by Michael Almeida, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.  (This is not a scan of the published paper which suffers from misprints and truncation.)

"Ramsey's Foundations Extended to Desirabilities," Theory and Decision (1998).

"Cyclical Preferences and World Bayesianism," Philosophy of Science (1998).

"On the Significance of Conditional Probabilities," Syntheses (1997).

"Two Envelopes," Theory and Decision (1994).

"True to Oneself," Erkenntis (1993)

"Kings and Prisoners (and Aces)," PSA 1992, Volume 1.

"Lies, Lies, and More Lies: A Plea for Propositions," Philosophical Studies (1992).

"Self-Doubts," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1987.

"The Law Student and His Teacher," Theoria (1987).

"Utilitarianisms: Simple and General," Inquiry 13 (1970).

"Generalization Arguments," Readings in Ethical Theory: Second Edition, editors, Sellars and Hospers, New York 1970.
 
 

IN PROGRESS
books
(Links to web pages.)

No Light Matter: Socrates and Plato on Justice

Ends and Means: Aristotle on Happiness and Virtue

The Mystery and The Glory: Immanuel Kant’s Philosophy of Morals

Good and Gold: a Judgmental History of Metaethics from G. E. Moore through J. L. Mackie

Words and Symbols, Proofs and Invalidations

Walls and Vaults -- Revised (password protected)

Logic and Theism -- Revised (password protected)

articles
(Links to files.)

"Born Again! Anselm and Gaunilo in the Persons of Charles Hartshorne and William Rowe." (forthcoming in Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)

"Propositions for Quine's Grelling Quandary"

"Nearly Believable Liars"

"On No-proposition Resolutions of Liar Paradoxes, Against Which There Can Be No Revenge"

“Soggy Stockholm: On Moore’s Paradox”

"On William Grey's Construction of 'Gasking's Proof'"

"On Berry/Russell Paradoxes"

"A Calculus for Truth and Propositions"
 
 

COURSE PAGES

PHILOSOPHY C89.  Topics in Analytic Philosophy: Logic and Theism

PHILOSOPHY C05.  Ethical Theory: Classical Texts.  2009F

Three Arguments for Beliefs in God.  Uppsala 2009

PHILOSOPHY C51.  Symbolic Logic II.  2009S

PHILOSOPHY C06.  Ethical Theory: Metaethics.  2008F

PHILOSOPHY B50.  Symbolic Logic I.  2008S

Immanuel Kant's Philosophy of Morals.  Uppsala 2008

David Hume's Philosophy of Morals.  Uppsala 2007

Bayesian Philosophy of Religion.  Uppsala 2006