Paul Gregory (he/him) Professor of Philosophy

Paul Gregory (he/him)

Washington Hall 310
540-458-8182
gregoryp@wlu.edu
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Professor Gregory joined the Department of Philosophy in 2002 and is now Professor and Head of the Department.

Professor Gregory’s scholarship centers on the work of W.V. Quine and, more generally, the justification of naturalized approaches to philosophical questions. His first book Quine’s Naturalism was published by Continuum. Gregory’s second book is Formal Logic, a textbook in introductory and intermediate symbolic logic published by Broadview.

Professor Gregory teaches Introduction to Logic, Intermediate Logic, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, and special courses on cyborgs, human enhancement, and transhumanism.

Education

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

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

  1. Quine's Naturalism: Language, Theory, and the Knowing Subject. 2008. Bloomsbury Continuum.
  2. Formal Logic. 2017. Broadview Press. An introductory and intermediate text in symbolic logic, covering truth-functional and quantificational logic, introductory set theory, introductory modal logic. Used in introductory and intermediate symbolic logic courses.

Articles and Book Chapters

  1. “Quine’s Deflationary Structuralism.” Forthcoming. Forthcoming. Quine: Structure and Ontology, edited by Frederique Janssen-Lauret. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. “Quine’s Ding an Sich: Proxies, Structure, and Naturalism.” 2019. Science and Sensibilia: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures, W.V. Quine. Edited by Robert Sinclair. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. “Review of Quine in Dialogue”. 2009. Review of Metaphysics. 63 (2): 489–491.
  4. “On Teaching ‘Science, Nature, Self, and Culture’”. 2009. On the Human. National Humanities Center web project. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/on-the-human/teaching/on-teaching-science-nature-self-and-culture/
  5. “Willard Van Orman Quine”, The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, eds. Sahotra Sarkar and Jessica Pfeifer (Routledge Press, 2006), pp. 659-669.
  6. “Putting the Bite Back into ‘Two Dogmas’”, Principia—an International Journal of Epistemology, 7 (2003), pp. 115-129.
  7. “‘Two Dogmas’—All Bark and No Bite? Carnap and Quine on Analyticity”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 67 (2003), pp. 633–648.