PHILOSOPHY: faculty
The City University of New York Graduate Center
Rohit Parikh
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
Email:
rparikh@gc.cuny.edu
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Research Interests
- Logic of Knowledge
- Belief Revision
- Vagueness
- Decision Theory
- Wittgenstein (pragmatic approaches to logic and language)
Courses Recently Taught
- Logic (Core) (Spring 2007, Fall 2004)
- Logical Foundations of AI (Spring 2003)
- Modality, Games and Conditionals (Fall 2001)
Representative Publications
- "Existence and Feasibility in Arithmetic", Jour. Symbolic Logic 36 (1971) 494-508.
- "The Problem of Vague Predicates", in Logic, Language and Method Ed. Cohen and Wartofsky, Reidel (1982) 241-261.
- "Vagueness and Utility: the Semantics of Common Nouns", Linguistics and Philosophy 17 1994, 521-35.
- "How far can we formalize language games? in The Foundational Debate edited by DePauli-Scimanovich, Koehler and Stadler, Kluwer Academic (1995) pp. 89-100.
- "Language as social software", (abstract) International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (1995), page 417. To appear in Future Pasts, Ed. Floyd and Shieh, Oxford U. Press, 2000.
- "Propositions, propositional attitudes and belief revision" in K. Segerberg, M. Zakharyaschev, M. de Rijke, H. Wansing, editors, Advances in Modal Logic, Volume 2, CSLI Publications, 1999.