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Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Gresham Riley

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Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy
Ph.D. Yale University
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423 Cohen Hall
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Wednesday, 11:15a.m.-12:30p.m. and by appointment
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Since returning to teaching after two college presidencies, I have been engaged in an extended research project on the nature and source of evil. I am especially interested in whether evil acts are inescapably incomprehensible (as some have argued) and what (if anything) distinguishes evil acts from immoral behavior.

Selected Publications: 

"Existence, Reality, and Objects of Knowledge: A Defense of C.S. Peirce as a Realist." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 4 (1968): 34-48.

"Self-Knowledge: A Tale of the Tortoise which Supports and Elephant." The Philosophical Forum, n.s. 1(1969): 274-292.

"Partisanship and Objectivity in the Social Sciences."The American Sociologist. 6 (1971): 6-12.

(Ed.) Values, Objectivity, and the Social Sciences. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1974.

"Peirce's Theory of Individuals." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. X (1974): 135-165.

"The Cost of Speech Codes." ACADEME: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. (July/August 1993): 26-30.

"Demystifying Evil" A work in progress.

Alkistis Elliott-Graves

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Research Interests: 

Philosophy of Science (Concepts and Methodology in Modeling, Target Systems)

Philosophy of Biology 

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Previous Degrees: 

MSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science

B.A. European Social and Political Studies, University College London

Presentations: 

“Abstraction and Conceptualization in Invasive Species Research” ISHPSSB 2011 Salt Lake City

"Is Ecological Inheritance necessary for Niche Construction?" Integrating Complexity 2010 London Ontario

"Why early humans did not think deductively", ISHPSSB 2009 Brisbane

Curriculum Vitæ: 
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Javier Guillot

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Areté
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Previous Degrees: 

B.A. Philosophy (Distinguished with Honors), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2007

Publications: 

(2010 - forthcoming). Cubides, P., Guillot, J., Rey, D. & Rivera, M. L. "Referencia, nombres propios y comunidad lingüística". Areté - Revista de Filosofía [http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/arete/].

Presentations: 

Oct. 2009
Seeing Double and Finding Fraud: Hwang Woo-Suk and His Stem Cell Photographs
(with prof. Malcolm Ashmore, Loughbourough University, UK)
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, Washington, D.C.

Advisors: 

Cristina Bicchieri

Curriculum Vitæ: 
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