PHILOSOPHY: faculty
The City University of New York Graduate Center
Richard Mendelsohn
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email:
rmendelsohn@gc.cuny.edu
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Research Interests
- Philosophy of Logic
- Philosophy of Language
- Metaphysics
- Frege
- Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
- Modality
- Descriptions and Direct Reference
- Russell and Wittgenstein
Courses Recently Taught
- Philosophy of Language (core) (Spring 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2003)
- Metaphysics (core) (Fall 2006, 2003, 2001)
- The Philosophy of Frege (Spring 2006)
- Modal Logic; co-taught with Melvin Fitting (Spring 2005)
- Advanced Logic (Spring 2004)
Representative Publications
- "Gottlob Frege and the Grammar of Truth," to appear in Philosophy and Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Thought, ed. Richard Gaskin, Routledge
- "Frege's Treatment of Indirect Reference", in Frege: Importance and Legacy, ed. M. Schirn (de Gruyter, 1996)
- "Diary: Written by Professor Gottlob Frege in the Time From 10 March to 9 May, 1924", Translation, Inquiry 39 (1996)
- First-Order Modal Logic, with Melvin Fitting (Kluwer)