BS, Vanderbilt University MA, University of Pittsburgh PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Teaching Experience
Visiting assistant professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-98
Instructor, University of Pittsburgh, 1996-97
Specialties
History of analytic philosophy
Epistemology
Philosophy of language
Modern philosophy
Twentieth-century continental philosophy
Publications
"Conceptions of Nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein," in Alice Crary and Rupert Read, eds., (The New Wittgenstein. New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 315-349).
"Houses, Flowers, and Frameworks: Mulhall and Cavell on the Moral of Skepticism" (European Journal of Philosophy, 10:2, 2002, 196-208).
"Much Ado about the Nothing: Carnap and Heidegger on Logic and Metaphysics," in C.G. Prado, ed., A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003.
"Conventions and Forms of Life,"(Frederick Schmitt, ed., Socializing Metaphysics, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
"Logic and the Inexpressible in Frege and Heidegger," (Journal of the History of Philosophy, 40:1, 2002, 89-113). Reprinted in Stephen Mulhall, ed., Martin Heidegger (Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2006).
鈥淲ittgenstein on Criteria and the Problem of Other Minds鈥�, in Marie McGinn and Oskari Kuusela, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 472-498.
鈥淲ittgenstein versus Zombies: An Investigation of our Mental Concepts鈥�, in Shyam Wuppuluri and Newton da Costa, eds., Wittgensteinian (adj.) (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020), pp. 423-438. Selected by the editors as the sample chapter for free download.
鈥淟ogic and Attunement: Reading Heidegger through Priest and Wittgenstein鈥�, in Daniel Dahlstrom and Filippo Casati, eds., Heidegger on Logic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 159-181.
鈥淚nner and Outer: From Skepticism to Understanding鈥�, in Shyam Wuppuluri and A. C. Grayling, eds., Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022), pp. 295-318.
鈥淔rom Deflection to Acknowledgment: Cavell on the Problem of Others鈥�, Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies 11:2 (June 2024). ISSN: 1929-6169, pp. 70-95.
鈥淥n Not Acknowledging an Animal鈥檚 Wounds: Reading Coetzee with Mulhall鈥�, forthcoming in Philosophical Topics, 2025.
鈥淎lbritton鈥檚 Wittgenstein鈥�, in Ali Hossein Khani and Gary Kemp, eds., Wittgenstein and Other Philosophers (Routledge: forthcoming 2025).
Presentations
鈥淒avid Hume and Sextus Empiricus on the Nature of Belief鈥�, University of Iceland, June 2009
鈥淐avell on Skepticism and the Ordinary鈥�, Le Moyne College, March 2010
鈥淒isjunctivism versus Skepticism: The Case of McDowell versus Wright鈥�, University of Chicago Wittgenstein Workshop, April 2010
鈥淲ittgenstein鈥檚 Critique of Knowledge by Description鈥�, University of Iceland Conference 鈥淚n Wittgenstein鈥檚 Footsteps鈥�, September 2012
鈥淏rains Don鈥檛 Think鈥�, University of St Andrews and University of Iceland, May and July 2015
鈥淲ittgenstein on the Determinacy of Sense鈥�, Kyoto University conference in honor of Graham Priest, December 2018
鈥淲ittgenstein versus Zombies: An Investigation of our Mental Concepts鈥�, 冈本视频 Arts and Humanities Colloquium, February 2019
鈥淥n Secrecy and Skepticism鈥�, 冈本视频 Philosophy Department Works-in-Progress series, December 2020
鈥淐ommunication Breakdown: Private Language and its Problems鈥�, Lehigh University, March 2022
鈥淭he Logic of Acknowledgment鈥�, 冈本视频 Arts and Humanities Colloquium, March 2022
鈥淥n Not Acknowledging an Animal鈥檚 Wound鈥�, Selfridge Conference in Honor of Stephen Mulhall, Lehigh University, April 2022
鈥淭he Naturalness of Second Nature鈥�, Conference at University of Patras (Greece) entitled 鈥楩irst and Second Nature鈥�, June 2022
鈥淔rom Deflection to Acknowledgment: An Investigation of Skepticism about Other Minds鈥�, Faculty Work-in-Progress Series, University of Manchester, November 2023
鈥淲hat Can Logic Do? Reflections from Heidegger鈥�, 冈本视频 Arts and Humanities Colloquium, February 2024