Paul Gregory

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago, M.A.
Syracuse University, B.A.

Research

Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Science
W. V. Quine
History of Analytic Philosophy
Epistemology
Metaphysics

Teaching

Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Science
W. V. Quine
History of Analytic Philosophy
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Logic-through Gödel
Western Humanities

Selected Publications

Books

• Quine's Naturalism: Language, Theory, and the Knowing Subject (Continuum, 2008)
• Formal Logic. ≈300 pages. ≈380 exercises. An introductory and intermediate text in symbolic logic, covering truth-functional and quantificational logic, naïve set theory, first-order soundness and completeness. Used in my introductory and intermediate symbolic logic courses.

Articles and Book Chapter

• “Willard Van Orman Quine”, The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. eds. Sahotra Sarkar and Jessica Pfeifer (Routledge Press, 2006), pp. 659-669
• “Putting the Bite Back into ‘Two Dogmas’”, Principia—an International Journal of Epistemology 7 (2003), pp. 115-129
• “‘Two Dogmas’—All Bark and No Bite? Carnap and Quine on Analyticity”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (2003), pp. 633–648

Other Information

Lambda Chapter Advisor, Sigma Nu Fraternity.
Faculty Advisor Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Ethics Bowl.
Faculty Advisor Parliamentary Debate Team.
Faculty Advisor Cystic Fibrosis Ball.
Faculty Advisor Club Soccer.