Associate Professor. B.Sc. (Physics, Dalhousie, '85),
MA (Philosophy, Dalhousie, '88), PhD. (Philosophy, Alberta, '93).

Interests: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein, Metaphysics, History of Modern Philosophy.

Publications:

BOOK:

Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

ARTICLES

"Radical Interpretation, Radical Translation and Interpretationalism," The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., (Elsevier Publishers, 2005), forthcoming.

"Indeterminacy, Semantic," The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., (Elsevier Publishers, 2005), forthcoming.

"Going Around the Vienna Circle: Wittgenstein and Verification," Philosophical Investigations 28 (2005), forthcoming.

"Replies to Hanson and Migotti" Dialogue 43, no.3 (2004): 595-606.

"Précis of Philosophy and Its Epistemic Neuroses" Dialogue 43, no.3 (2004): 567-576.

"Putnam and the Difficulty of Renouncing All Theory," International Studies in Philosophy 35, no.4 (2003): 55-82.

"The Dignity of a Rule: Wittgenstein, Mathematical Norms and Truth," Dialogue 42, no.3 (2003): 419-446

"Ebbs's Participant Perspective on Self-Knowledge," Dialogue 41, no.1 (2002): 3-26.

"Wittgenstein, Pessimism and Politics," The Dalhousie Review 80, no.2 (2001): 185-216.

"Being and Being True: Does Practice Make Any Difference?" Idealistic Studies 29, no.1-2 (1999): 33-51.

"Metaphor, Cognitivity and Meaning-Holism," Philosophy and Rhetoric 31, no.4 (1998): 266-282.

"Kant's Private-Clock Argument," Kant-Studien 88, no.4 (1997): 442-461.

"Realism and Self-Knowledge: A Problem for Burge," Philosophical Studies 86 (1997): 303-325.

"Internal Relations and Analyticity: Wittgenstein and Quine," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 26, no.4 (1996): 591-612.

"Truth and Metaphor in Rorty's Liberalism," International Studies in Philosophy 28, no.4 (1996): 1-21.

"Something Less Than Paradise: The Magic of Modal Realism," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69, no.3 (1991): 251-263.

"The Role of Kant's Refutation of Idealism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 29, no.1 (1991): 51-67.

"Wittgenstein on Names and Family Resemblances," Eidos 9, no.1 (1990): 11-30.

"Bad Faith," Philosophy 64, no.249 (1989): 397-402.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Michael N. Forster, Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar, in Philosophy in Review 25 (2005), forthcoming.

Hans-Johann Glock, Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality, in Philosophy in Review 24, no.2 (2004): 120-122.

Mark Q. Gardiner, Semantic Challenges to Realism, in Philosophy in Review 21, no.3 (2001): 177-179.

R. L. Arrington and H. J. Glock (eds.), Wittgenstein and Quine, in Philosophy in Review 18, no.6 (1998): 389-391.

Frank B. Farrell, Subjectivity, Realism and Postmodernism, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 15, no.1 (1995): 32-35.

Barry Allen, Truth in Philosophy, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 14, no.4 (1994): 229-231.

J. E. Malpas, Donald Davidson and the Mirror of Meaning, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 13, no.4 (1993): 165-168.

Julian Roberts, The Logic of Reflection, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews 13, no.2 (1993): 113-115.