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Richard Grandy

McManis Professor of Philosophy


rgrandy@rice.edu
Huma 206
713-348-2720


Philosophy Dept. MS14, Rice University, 6100 Main St.
Houston, TX 77005-1892
Fax: 713-348-5847

Spring 2010

Fall 2010

Spring 2011

Phil 530 2-5 M

Phil 305 10-10:50 MWF

Phil 355 10-10:50 MWF

Email rgrandy@rice.edu

Phil 505 10-10:50 MW 10-12 F

Phil 504 2-5 Wed

Office 206 Huma

 

 

Phone 713-348-2720  

 

 

 

I am interested in the special human abilities to create and acquire knowledge of logic, mathematics and science. These interests in philosophy of logic, mathematics and science lead me to interests in the related problems in epistemology and metaphysics, and since language is essentially implicated in much our our knowledge, to philosophy of language as well. My methods include gleaning whatever is of use for my inquiries from the histories of logic, mathematics and science, and from the cognitive sciences. My current research is focussed mainly on issues concerning the logic and ontology of vagueness, "ordinary objects", the causes of philosophy, and on the nature of scientific inquiry with implications for science education.


Recent Work & Work in Progress

Vita
Teaching
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Education
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Education:
University of Pittsburgh
B.S., Mathematics, 1963
Princeton University (History & Philosophy of Science Program)
M.A., 1965; Ph.D., 1968
 

Faculty Positions:

  • Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor, 1993-
  • Wray Harrison distinguished visiting professor, Washington University Spring 2001
  • Chairman, Rice University, Philosophy, 1982-88, Fall 1992, 1996-7, 2006-7
  • Director, Cognitive Science Program, 1989-93 Acting Director S 2004
  • Professor, Rice University, 1980-93
  • Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979-80
  • Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974-79
  • Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1967-74
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Fall, 1969
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Summer, 1972
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Stanford University, Summer, 1977

 


Research 

Work in Progress
Philosophy of Logic
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Science Education
Philosophy of Language
Other

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Logic and Philosophy of Logic

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  • Advanced Logic for Applications. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1977. Second Edition (paperback), 1980.
  • "A Note on the Recursive Unsolvability of Primitive Recursive Arithmetic," Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 17, No. 1 (February, 1966), pp. 141-147.
  • "A Definition of Truth for Theories with Intensional Definite Description Operators," Journal of Philosophical Logic (1972), pp. 137-155.
  • "Some Remarks on Logical Form," Nous, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 157-164. 
  • "On the Relation Between Free Description Theories and Standard Quantification Theory, " Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Vol. 17, No. 1 (January, 1976), pp. 149-152. 
  • "Anadic Logic and English," Synthese, Vol. 32 (1976), pp. 395-402. 
  • . "Predication and Singular Terms," Nous, Vol. 11 (1977), pp. 163-167. 
  • "Inference and If-Then," Psychological Review, 1979, Vol. 86, pp. 152-153. 
  • "Intuition and Inconsistency," BBS, p. 494, 1982.
  • "The Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem" in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • "What do those 'Q's and 'R's stand for?", in A Philosophical Companion to First Order Logic, ed.R.I.G. Hughes, Hackett, 1993.

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Philosophy of Science

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  • "Some Comments on Confirmation and Selective Confirmation," Philosophical Studies,
  • Vol. XVII, Nos. 1-2 (January-February, 1967), pp. 19-24. Reprinted in Baruch A. Brody, (editor), Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1970), pp. 428-432.
  • (Editor) Theories and Observation in Science Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, Inc., 1973. Ridgeview Press, 1980.
  • "Incommensurability: Kinds and Causes," Philosophica, 32, 1983, pp. 7-24. 
  • (Edited with B. Brody) Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Prentice-Hall, 1989. 
  • "Information, observation and measurement" in The Cognitive Approach to Philosophy of Science, ed. R. Giere, University of Minnesota Press (1992). 
  • "Theories of theories: A view from cognitive science", in Theories, Confirmation and Other Distractions edited by J. Earman, University of California Press (1992). 
  • "The cognitive perspective on scientific controversies", ed. P. Machamer et al, Scientific Controversies, Oxford University Press 2000
  • "T S Kuhn", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming
  • "C G Hempel", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming

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Science Education

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  • "Psychology and Epistemology: Match or Mismatch When Applied to Science Education?', International Journal of Science Education, 1990 V. 12, #3, pp. 230-243. With R. Duschl and R. Hamilton.
  • "Prototypes and Conceptual Change", with Richard Hamilton, Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Philosophy, History and Science Education, ed. S. Hills, (1992). 
  • "On living without scientific expertise", Science Education to appear 1995 
  • "Constructivisms and Objectivity: Disentangling Metaphysics from Pedagogy", Science and Education, 1997, V. 6 43-53
  • "What are models and why do we need them?" Science & Education, 2003, V. 12, 773-777

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Philosophy of Mathematics
  • "In Defense of a Modest Platonism," Philosophical Studies, 1977.
  • "Shadows of remembered ancestors: Mathematics as the epitome of story telling", Benacerraf and His Critics, ed. A. Morton and S. Stich, 1996, Blackwell, 167-189.

Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics 

  • "On What There Need Not Be," Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXVI, No. 22, pp. 806-812. 
  • "Commments on Moravcsik's Paper," in Approaches to Natural Language, edited by Hintikka, Moravcsik and Suppes. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company 
  • "Stuff and Things," Synthese, Vol. 31 (1975), pp. 479-485. 
  • "On Semantics for some Modifiers," in Rodman, Robert, Explorations in Language and Linguistics, The University of North Carolina, pp. 92-99, 1978.
  • "An Ockhamite Criticism of Church Semantics," The Monist, 1978, Vol. pp. 402-407 
  • "Suppes on Logic and Linguistics," in Bogdan, Radu (editor),Patrick Suppes, 1979 
  • "Ontology and Reduction," Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, 1979, Vol. IX, pp. 69-78. 
  • "Universals or Family Resemblances?," Midwestern Journal of Philosophy, pp. 11-17, 1979.
  • "An unacceptable aspect of acceptability," PPQ, V. 62, 1981, pp. 118-122. 
  • "On the Physical Reality of Colors," in Mind, Value, and Culture: Essays in Honor of E.M. Adams. D. Weissbord (Editor). Ridgeview Publishing, 1989, pp. 229-245.  
  • Philosophy of Language, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
  • "Grammatical Knowledge and States of Mind.," Journal of Behaviorism (1972), pp. 16-21 
  • "Reference, Meaning and Belief," Journal of Philosophy (1973), pp. 439-452. Reprinted in a German anthology of contemporary analytic philosophy; Sukale, Michael (editor), Referenz, Bedeutung, und Glaube, in the Modern Sprach-philosophie series, published by Hoffmann and Campe (January, 1976), pp. 149-160. 
  • "The Private Language Argument," Mind, Vol. 85, No. 338 (April, 1976), pp. 246-350 (1973), pp. 295-300. 
  • "Ramsey, reliability and knowledge," in D.H. Mellor (ed.) Prospects for Pragmatism, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 197-209. 
  • "Forms of belief," Synthese, 46 (1981), 271-284. 
  • "Some Thoughts on Theory and Data in Linguistics," PSA, 1980 Proceedings, Philosophy of Science Association, 1981, pp. 605-612.
  • "What a Theory of Truth Need Not Tell Us," in Truth and Interpretation. E. LePore (Editor) , Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. 179-190.
  • "Some Misconceptions About Belief," in Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends. Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 317-332. 
  • "In Defense of Semantic Fields," in Semantics of Natural Languages. E. LePore (Editor). Academic Press, 1986, pp. 259-280. 
  • "Information-based Epistemology, Ecological Epistemology and Epistemology Naturalized," Synthese, Vol. 70, 1987, pp. 191-204. 
  • "On Grice on Language," J. Phil. 1989. 
  • "Compositionality and Understanding," in Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. IV, ed. J. Tomberlin, 1989. 
  • "Concepts, Prototypes and Information" in Information, Semantics and Epistemology, E. Villanueva (ed.), Blackwells, 1990, 200-8. 
  • "Foundations of conversational implicature", Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Vol. XVI, (1991) University of California Press. 
  • "Semantic fields, prototypes and frames" in Frames, Fields and Contrasts: New Essays in Lexical and Semantic Organization ed. A.Lehrer and E. Kittay, Erlbaum Press (1992). 
  • "Psycholinguistics", in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  • "'Epistemology naturalized' and epistemology naturalized", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, to appear. 
  • "No simulation without (some) theory (somewhere, some kind): Comments on Henderson" Southern Journal of Philosophy 1995 V. XXXIV Supplement 95-9 
  • "Proxy functions and ontology", Logica Yearbook 2003
  • "Sortals" Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006)
  • "Artifacts: ....

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Other

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Newcombe's problem:
"What The Well-Wisher Didn't Know," Australasian Journal of Philosophy (May, 1977), pp. 82-86.
Akrasia:
"On Schiffer's Desires," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1979, Vol. XVII, pp. 193-199.
Grice:
(Editor with Richard Warner) Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 1986.

"A Survey of the Work of Paul Grice," with Richard Warner, in Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends. Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 1-44.
"Grice", Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2006)

 

Edited Journal:
Managing Editor, Linguistics and Philosophy, 1980-88, Vols. 3-10

 

Book Reviews:
Theory and Experience, edited by Lawrence Foster and J.W. Swanson. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970. pp. 160 in Journal of Philosophy , Vol. LXIX, No. 10 (May 18, 1972), pp. 283-286.
Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine, by Donald Davidson and Jaakko Hintika. New York: Humanities Press; Dordrecht, Holland; D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1969, pp. vii, 366 in The Philosophical Review, Vol. LXXXII, No. 1 (January, 1973), pp. 99-110.
Howard DeLong, A Profile of Mathematical Logic, in Journal of Symbolic Logic (March, 1975), Vol. 40, pp. 101-102.
Philosophy of Logic, by W.V. Quine. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970, pp. xiv, 109 in Journal of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 40, No. 4 (December, 1975), pp. 587-588,.
Convention: A Philosophical Study by David K. Lewis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 19690, pp. xii, 213 in Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXXIV, No. 2 (February, 1977), pp. 129-139.
Lawlikeness, Analogy and Inductive Logic, by Juhani Pietarinen. Amsterdam, North- Holland Publishing Company, 1972. pp. 143 in The Philosophical Review (1977), pp. 396-398.
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. VII, Language, Mind, and Knowledge, edited by Keith Gunderson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1975), pp. vii, 424 in The Philosophical Review, 1978, pp. 644-648.
Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy, I. Hacking. Cambridge University Press, 1975, JSL, (1981) , 46, pp. 173-174.
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Relevance: Communication and Cognition, D. Sperber and D. Wilson, TLS, (September 19, 1986), p. 1037.

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Teaching

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2000-2007 Courses 

Spring 2000

  • Phil 357 Incompleteness and computability
  • Phil 530 Seminar on the History of Analytic Philosophy

Fall 2000

  • Phil 304 Metaphysics
  • Phil 305 Mathematical Logic
  • Phil 505 Mathematical Logic for Graduate Students
  • Phil 757 Workshopon teaching Philosophy

Spring 2001

On sabbatical visiting at Washington University-St. Louis

Fall 2001

  • Phil 305 Mathematical Logic
  • Phil 530 Seminar on the History of Analytic Philosophy

Spring 2002

  • Phil 355 Topics in philosophy of logic
  • Phil 530 Seminar on the History of Analytic Philosophy

Fall 2002

  • Phil 304 Metaphysics
  • Phil 305 Mathematical Logic
  • Phil 505 Mathematical Logic for Graduate Students

Spring 2003

 
  • Phil 357 Incompleteness and Computability
  • Phil 513 Seminar on Philosophy of Science
  • Phil 757 Workshop on Teaching Philosophy

Fall 2003

  • Phil 302 Topics in Modern Philosophy (Locke)
  • Phil 305 Mathematical Logic
  • Phil 505 Mathematical Logic for Grad Students

Spring 2004

  • Phil 313 Philosophy of Science
  • Phil 530 Seminar on the History of Analytic Philosophy

Fall 2004

  • Phil 302 Topics in Modern Philosophy (Locke)
  • Phil 305 Mathematical Logic
  • Phil 505 Mathematical Logic for Grad Students

Spring 2005

  • Teaching Release Fellowship from the Humanities Research Center

Fall 2005

  • Phil 305 Mathematical Logic
  • Phil 505 Mathematical Logic for Grad Students
  • Phil 757 Teaching Workshop

Spring 2006

  • Phil 355 Philosophical topics in advanced logic
  • Phil 530 Seminar on the History of Analytic Philosophy

Fall 2006

  • Phil 305 Mathematical Logic
  • Phil 505 Mathematical Logic for Grad Students

Spring 2007

  • Phil 357 Incompleteness and undecidability

Fall 2007

• Phil 304 Metaphysics
• Phil 305 Mathematical logic
• Phil 505 Mathematical logic for grad students
• Phil 757 Workshop on teaching philosophy

 

Past Courses Taught at Rice:

  • Philosophical Perspectives on Science (104) (Spring, 1982)
  • Modern Philosophy (302, Locke) F 2003
  • Metaphysics (304)(1981, 1998, 2000 ,2002, 2004, 2007))
  • Mathematical Logic (305) (Fall, 1981-2007& beyond)
  • Incompleteness and computability (357) (Spring 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2007)
  • Advanced topics in philosophy of logic (355) (1992, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2006)
  • Philosophy of Science (313) (Fall, 1982, Spring 2004)
  • Philosophy of Language (353) (Fall, 1981, 1983, 1991, 1992, 1995)
  • Seminar on Epistemology (503) (Fall 1984)
  • Seminar on Metaphysics (504) (Spring 1986, Spring 1995, Spring 1996, Spring 1999)
  • Mathematical Logic for Graduate Students (505) (Fall 1989-2007 & beyond)
  • Seminar on Philosophy of Science (513) (Spring, 1982, 1991, 2003)
  • Seminar on Philosophy of Language (553) (Spring, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995)
  • Cognitive Sciences Senior Seminar (1989-1993)
  • University 303 Perception, Evolution & Culture (Fall 1996) (with Professor Kathleen Matthews)

Dissertations Directed (at Rice)

  • Leslie Marenchin (1986) on Armstrong on universals
  • Robert Skipper (1987) about "about"
  • Gerald Eichhoefer (1987) on Bradley vs. Russell concerning relations
  • Timothy Deibler (1989) on cognitive theories of metaphor
  • Nader Chokr (1991) on cluster's last stand
  • Dragana Bozin (1993) on foundational questions about length measurement
  • Keith Bowers on a non-foundational realism in mathematics ( U. St. Thomas, 2000)
  • Ian Dove (2003) on fallibilism in mathematics
  • John O'Neal (2007) on metaphysical levels

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In Progress:
  • Stan Husi on rationality and justification
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