Marc Alspector-Kelly

 

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Philosophy

Western Michigan University

 

Current Courses

            3320 Theory of Knowledge

            4800 Naturalism (Senior Seminar)

           

My CV

 

Papers

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.

How to Be a Naturalist

Empiricism Naturalized”

 

Contact Information

Email: marc.alspector-kelly@wmich.edu

Phone: 616-387-6516

Fax: 616-387-4390

Office: 326 Moore Hall

Mailing Address:

Department of Philosophy

Western Michigan University

1903 West Michigan Avenue

Kalamazoo, Michigan

49008-5328