Greg Frost-Arnold

Department of Philosophy
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
CV

Teaching

Critical Thinking (PHIL 102)

Syllabus
Assignment Schedule: as a Word document
Helpful practice problems at the textbook publisher's website
Overheads from lectures

History of Scientific Thought (PHIL 431)

Syllabus
Assignment Schedule -with links to readings
Lecture Notes (plus class handouts)
Reading Guide Questions

Research

Publications

• Carnap, Tarski and Quine's Year Together: Conversations on Logic, Mathematics and Science,
  currently under contract with Open Court Press, to appear in its Full Circle series. [MS Word]
• "The Limits of Scientific Explanation and the No Miracles Argument for Realism"
  Philosophy of Science (forthcoming). Draft in rtf.
• "The Identical Rivals Response to Underdetermination" (with P.D. Magnus)
  in New Waves in Philosophy of Science, Palgrave (forthcoming). Draft in pdf.
• "Tarski's Nominalism,"
  forthcoming in Alfred Tarski: Philosophical Background, Development, and Influence, edited by Douglas Patterson, Oxford University Press. [penultimate draft in rich text format]
• "Too Much Reference: Semantics for Multiply-Signifying Terms"
  (2008)Journal of Philosophical Logic 37 (3): 239-257. [penultimate draft in rtf]
• "The Large-Scale Structure of Logical Empiricism: Unity of Science and the Rejection of Metaphysics"
  (2005) Philosophy of Science 72 (5): 826-838. [penultimate draft in rtf]
• "Was Tarski's Theory of Truth Motivated by Physicalism?"
  History and Philosophy of Logic 25(4), November 2004, 265-280. [Abstract] [Full text (subscription required)]
• "How to be an Anti-reductionist about Developmental Biology"
  Biology and Philosophy 19(1), January 2004, 75-91. [Abstract] [Full text (subscription required)]

Presentations

• Comments on B. Ward's "Taking the Ravens Paradox with a Grain of Salt,"
  Americal Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, 2007 | MS Word
• "Too Much Reference: Semantics for Multiply-Signifying Terms,"
  American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, 2005 | Abstract
  
• "Unity of Science and the Rejection of Metaphysics in Logical Empiricism,"
  Philosophy of Science Association Biannual Meeting 2004 | Abstract
• "Carnap, Tarski and Quine's Year Together: Logic, Science and Mathematics,"
  Sixth Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2004 | Abstract
• "Empirically Equivalent Theories of Semantics and Spacetime: Quine, Einstein, and Occasional Verificationism,"
  UCSD Graduate student conference 2003 | Abstract
• "Galileo Positivist? Evaluating Stillman Drake's Galileo through the Eyes of Descartes,"
  Midwest Junto for the History of Science 2003 | Abstract
• "Constructive Empiricism and the Anti-metaphysical Impulse,"
  Pittsburgh-CMU Graduate conference 2001 | Abstract

Dogmatic slumberings in progress

• I am in the final stages of writing a book entitled Carnap, Tarski, and Quine's Year Together: Conversations on Mathematics, Logic, and Science. Comments on this draft would be greatly appreciated.
  (This book was born from my dissertation, which is available (as a pdf) here.
• In connection with the "Myth and Science" class I've taught several times, I've been working on a paper about the dictum, attributed to Thales, that all things are full of gods. It is still rough in parts.
• I keep an online record of my dogmatic slumberings du jour on my blog, Obscure and Confused Ideas.