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
Assignment and text: William Paley's Natural Theology
Cultural Relativism: text and assignment

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. [pdf] (Note: This does not include the text of Carnap's dictation notes from these conversations, nor my translation.)
• "The No Miracles Argument for Realism: an Inference to a Bad Explanation"
  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?"
  (2004)History and Philosophy of Logic 25: 265-280. [Abstract] [Full text (subscription required)]
• "How to be an Anti-reductionist about Developmental Biology"
  (2004)Biology and Philosophy 19: 75-91. [Abstract] [Full text (subscription required)]
• Review: The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism, Richardson and Uebel (eds.)
  (2008)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, available online at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=13005.

Presentations

• "The Limits of Scientific Explanation and the No Miracles Argument for Realism"
  Philosophy of Science Association Biannual Meeting, November 2008
• "From the Pessimistic Induction to Semantic Anti-Realism"
  University of Utah Colloquium, September 2008
• "How Did Quine Get from 'Truth by Convention' to 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'?"
  Seventh Congress of the Society for History of Philosophy of Science, June 2008
• 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

Dogmatic slumberings in progress

• In connection with the classes involving the Presocratics 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.
• I keep an online record of my dogmatic slumberings du jour on my blog, Obscure and Confused Ideas.