PHILOSOPHY: faculty
The City University of New York Graduate Center
Arnold Koslow
Ph.D. Columbia University
Email:
akoslow@gc.cuny.edu
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Research Interests
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy of Language
- Metaphysics
- The Foundations of Logic
Courses Recently Taught
- Scientific Concepts (Fall 2008)
- Scientific Laws (Fall 2007)
- Space & Time (Fall 2006)
- Possibility; co-taught with Jonathan Adler (Fall 2005)
- Explanation (Fall 2004)
- F.P. Ramsey (Fall 2003)
- Philosophy of Mathematics (Fall 2002)
- Space & Time (Fall 2001)
Representative Publications
- A Structuralist Theory of Logic, Cambridge Press (1992).
There is a recent paperback edition (October 2005), but it is a reprint without any corrections. There is, however, a list of Errata.
- "The Implicational Nature of Logic", in A.Varzi (ed.) The European Philosophical Review (The Nature of Logic), Stanford U. Press (1999).
- "Truthlike and Truthful Operators" in Between Logic and Intuition, Essays in Honor of Charles Parsons, G.Sher and R.Thiesen, Cambridge U. Press, 2000.
- "Ontology and the Laws of Nature", Proceedings of III International Congress of Ontology and Nature, San Sebastian Spain (1998).
- "Explanation, Laws, and the Reduction of Possibilities", in Real Metaphysics, Essays in Honour of Hugh Mellor, G. Rodriguez-Pereyra and H. Lillehammer, Routledge Press (eds.), 2003.
- "Laws and Possibilities", in Philosophy of Science, 71 (2004), pp. 719-729.
- "Ramsey on Simplicity and Truth", in Metaphysica, Special Issue 3, 2005, Nils-Eric Salin (Ed.), pp. 89-108.
- "The Representational Inadequacy of Ramsey Sentences", Theoria, vol.72, 206, part 2, pp.100-125.
- "Structuralist Logic, Implications, Inferences, and Consequences", Logica Universalis, Springer Verlag vol.1, no.1, 2007, pp.167-181.
- "Truth and Simplicity", F.P. Ramsey (Ed. A. Koslow), Brit. J.P.S., 2007, pp.1-7.
- "A Tale of Two Schemata: Tarskian (Finitary) Truth, and Ramseyan Mental States", The Logica Yearbook 2006, eds. O.ÊTomola andÊR.ÊHonzik, Filosofia, Prague 2007, pp.137-156.
- "Does Modal Theory need to be Introduced to Intuitionistic, Epistemic, and Conditional Logic, or have they already met?", IGPL, (forthcoming)