David W. Agler is a lecturer in philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University, having received his Ph.D from Penn State and his M.A. from IUPUI. His thesis was titled 'Pragmatic Minimalism: A Defense of Formal Approaches to Semantics' and investigated the role that context plays in determining literal meaning.
He is scheduled to teach symbolic logic and critical thinking courses in the summer, fall, and spring of 2012-2013.
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PUBLICATIONS (CV)
(Books)
2012. [in press]. An Introduction to Symbolic Logic: Syntax, Semantics, and Proof. Rowman & Littlefield.
(Papers)
4. Peirce and the Specification of Borderline Vagueness (2013, in press). Semiotica.
3. Polanyi and Peirce on the Critical Method. (2012, in press). Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical.
2. Peirce’s Direct, Non-Reductive Contextual Theory of Names (2011). Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy 46(4):611–640.
1. The UFAIL Approach: Unconventional Weapons and their ‘Unintended’ Effects 2010. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society. 30(2): 103-112.
(Reviews & Dictionary Entries)
5. ‘Review of Robert B. Brandom, Perspectives on Pragmatism: Classical, Recent, and Contemporary’ (2012, in press). In Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical.
4. ‘Hitchcock, Ethan Allen’ (2012). In The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers. Eds. John R. Shook and Cornelis de Waal. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum. 500 words.
3. ‘Review of Laura E. Weed, The Structure of Thinking: A Process-oriented Account of Mind’ (2011). In Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical XXXVIII(1):66–69.
2. ‘Review of Alice Crary, Beyond Moral Judgment’ (2011). In The Pluralist 6(2): 103–110.
1. ‘Book Notice for Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition (1890–1892)’ (2010). The Reasoner. 4(6):93. |
