Marc Alspector-Kelly
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Current Courses
4800 Naturalism (Senior Seminar)
Please note that the links below are not to
the essays as published. Pagination will therefore differ from the published
version, and there may be some minor differences within the text.
“On Quine on Carnap on Ontology”,
Philosophical Studies Vol. 102 (January 2001),
pp. 93-122.
“Should
the Empiricist be a Constructive Empiricist?”, Philosophy
of Science Vol. 68 No. 4 (December 2001), pp. 413-431.
“Stroud’s Carnap”, Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research Vol.
64 No. 2 (March 2002), pp. 276-302.
“The NOAer’s Dilemma: Constructive Empiricism and the Natural Ontological Attitude”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 33 No. 3 (September 2003). Pp. 307-322.
“Seeing the Unobservable: van Fraassen and the Limits of Experience”, Synthese Vol. 140 No. 3 (June 2004),
pp. 331-353
“Constructive
Empiricism and Epistemic Modesty: Reply to Van Fraassen
and Monton”, Erkenntnis,
in press.
“Knowledge
Externalism”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, in press.
“Pretending to See”, Philosophical Psychology, in press.
Contact Information
Email: marc.alspector-kelly@wmich.edu
Phone: 616-387-6516
Fax: 616-387-4390
Office: 326
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
49008-5328