Steven Kuhn
Encyclopedia
Steven Kuhn is a Philosophy
professor at Georgetown University
. His areas of research are logic
, ethics
, and metaphysics
and philosophy of language
. Kuhn earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics
from Johns Hopkins University
and his Ph.D. from Stanford University
. Prior to his position at Georgetown, he taught at University of Michigan
, UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania
.
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
professor at Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
. His areas of research are logic
Logic
In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...
, ethics
Ethics
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...
, and metaphysics
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
and philosophy of language
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for analytic philosophers is concerned with four central problems: the nature of meaning, language use, language cognition, and the relationship between language...
. Kuhn earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
from Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
and his Ph.D. from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. Prior to his position at Georgetown, he taught at University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
.
Publications
- Reflections on Ethics and Game Theory, SyntheseSyntheseSynthese is a scholarly periodical edited by Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks and John Symons specializing in papers in epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science...
(forthcoming) - Embedded Definite Descriptions: Russelian Analysis and Semantic Puzzles, MindMind (journal)Mind is a British journal, currently published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association, which deals with philosophy in the analytic tradition...
, July 2000. - Time and Tense (with Paul Portner), Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Vol 7, 2002.
- "Prisoner’s dilemma", in Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy, last revised April, 2000.
- "logic, modal" in Routledge Encyclopedia of PhilosophyRoutledge Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an encyclopedia of philosophy edited by Edward Craig that was first published by Routledge in 1998 . Originally published in both 10 volumes of print and as a CD-ROM, in 2002 it was made available online on a subscription basis...
, 1998. - Agreement-keeping and Indirect Moral Theory, Journal of PhilosophyJournal of PhilosophyThe Journal of Philosophy is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal on philosophy. Its stated purpose is "To publish philosophical articles of current interest and encourage the interchange of ideas, especially the exploration of the borderline between philosophy and other disciplines." The...
93 (1996), pp 105–128. - Minimal Non-Contingency Logic, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 36 (1995), 230-234.
- Pure and Utilitarian Prisoner's Dilemmas (with Serge Moresi), Economics and Philosophy 1 (1995), pp 333–343.
- Numbers without Ones (with Andrew Vogt), The Fibonacci Quarterly, 30 (1992).
- The Domino Relation, Journal of Philosophical LogicJournal of Philosophical LogicThe Journal of Philosophical Logic, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal founded in 1972. It is published by Springer and "provides a forum for work at the crossroads of philosophy and logic, old and new, with contributions ranging from conceptual to technical.Accordingly, the Journal publishes...
, 18 (1989), pp 173–195. - Stenius on Meaning, TheoriaTheoriaFor other uses of the term "contemplation", see Contemplation Theoria is Greek for contemplation. It corresponds to the Latin word contemplatio, "looking at", "gazing at", "being aware of".- Introduction :...
50 (1984), pp 165–177. - An Axiomatization of Predicate Functor Logic, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 24 (1983).
- Logical Expressions, Constants and Operator Logic, Journal of Philosophy 78 (1981) pp 487–499.
- Centered Logic: The Role of Entity-Centered Sentence Representation in Natural Language Inferencing" (with A.K. Joshi), Proceedings of 1979 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, Japan. Translated into Russian and reprinted in Soviet anthology, 1980.
- Quantifiers as Modal Operators, Studia LogicaStudia LogicaStudia Logica is an international journal of mathematics and logic. The scope of the journal is all scientific disciplines, however the main criterion for publication is not the scope of the submission, but rather the use of formal methods...
39 (1980) (Trends in Modal Logic) pp 145–158. - The Pragmatics of Tense, Synthese 40 (1979) pp 331–363.
- Many-sorted Modal Logics (Vol I and II), Philosophical StudiesPhilosophical StudiesPhilosophical Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. The journal is devoted to the publication of papers in exclusively analytic philosophy and welcomes papers applying formal techniques to philosophical problems...
#29, Uppsala, Sweden, 1977.