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Ed Witherspoon

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy , 205 Hascall Hall
p 315 2287794

Degree

BS, Vanderbilt University, 1985; MA, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1989, 1996

Teaching Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1997-98; instructor, University of Pittsburgh 1996-97

Specialities

History of analytic philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of language

Interests

History of analytic philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of language, twentieth-century continental philosophy

Publications

"Conceptions of Nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein," in Alice Crary and Rupert Read, eds., (The New Wittgenstein. New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 315-349)

"Logic and the Inexpressible in Frege and Heidegger," (Journal of the History of Philosophy, 40:1, 2002, 89-113)

"Houses, Flowers, and Frameworks: Mulhall and Cavell on the Moral of Skepticism" (European Journal of Philosophy, 10:2, 2002, 196-208)

"Much Ado about the Nothing: Carnap and Heidegger on Logic and Metaphysics," (forthcoming in C.G. Prado, ed., A Dubious Estrangement: Analytic and Continental Philosophy in Dialogue, Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2003)

"Conventions and Forms of Life," (Frederick Schmitt, ed., Socializing Metaphysics, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)

Distinctions

Phi Beta Kappa