Curriculum Vitae
of
Peter Marton
Education
May, 2001 PhD in Philosophy,
1994-2000 Graduate student,
Department of Philosophy,
1992-1994 Graduate student,
Department of Philosophy,
1990-1992 Doctoral student, Dept. of Cognitive
Psychology,
June, 1990 M.S. in Physics,
Areas of
Specialization
Epistemology
Logic
(Symbolic and Philosophical)
Metaphysics
Areas of Competence
Social and
Political Philosophy
History of Modern Philosophy
Ethics
Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive
Science
Dissertation Title
Skeptical
Games (see the abstract
of my thesis)
Dissertation Committee
Ernest
Sosa, Advisor
James Van
Cleve
James
Dreier
Awards and Fellowships
1994-1999 Graduate fellowships and teaching assistantships,
1993-1994 Graduate assistantship,
1993-1994 Grant from the Hungarian National Foundation for Research
Activities
1992-1993 Graduate fellowship: Hungarian Soros Foundation (at
1990-1992
Doctoral fellowship:
Teaching Experience
INSTRUCTOR AT
PHIL100:
Introduction to Philosophy
Lecturer at Northeastern University (
PHL1100:
Introduction to Philosophy
PHL1140:
Social and Political Philosophy
PHL 1200:
Introduction to Logic
PHL
1215: Symbolic Logic
PHL
1240: 20th Century Philosophy
Instructor at University of Rhode Island, 1999-
PHL
101: Logic: The Principles of Reasoning
PHL
103: Introduction to Philosophy
PHL
217: Social Philosophy
Visiting Assistant Professor at Wheaton
College (Norton, MA), 2002
PHIL101:
Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL125: Logic
Instructor at Bryant College (North Smithfield, RI), 2000
FLAS
151: Freshman Liberal Arts Seminar
HUM261: Introduction to Philosophy
Instructor at central Connecticut State
University, 1999
Philosophy
220: Introduction to Logic
Teaching
Assistant at Brown University, 1995-1997
Philosophy
19: Contemporary Moral Issues
Philosophy
163: Deductive Logic
Lecturer at Eötvös L. University, Budapest,
Hungary, 1990-1992
Introduction
to Phenomenology
Introduction
to Biometrics, I-II
Publications
“Achilles
versus the Tortoise: The
“The Murderer Returns. A Reply on Zombies to Jamie
Phillips,” Southwest Philosophy Review, 16 (2000), 195-200.
“Skeptics
versus Dogmatics: The
“Ordinary
versus Super Omniscient Interpreters,” Philosophical Quarterly, 49
(1999), 72-7.
“Zombies v. Materialists: The
Battle over Conceivability,” Southwest Philosophy Review, 14
(1998), 131-138.
(with P.
Erdi and T. Gröbler) “On the Double Architecture of the Semantic Memory,” Nature,
Cogfnition and System II, M. E. Carvallo (ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992,
193-203.
(with T.
Gröbler and P. Erdi) “On the Dynamic Organization of Memory.
A Mathematical Model of Associative Free Recall,” Biological Cybernetics,
65 (1991), 73-79.
“Néhány megjegyzés a vers létéről. Játék Faludy György ürügyén.” [Some
Remarksabout the Existence of Poems: A Game on Faludy’s Heine Translation,” –
in Hungarian] Jelenkor, 1993
”A zsibbasztó rája fogságából. Interpretáció Platón Menónjához.” [Escaping from
the Torpedo Fish. Interpreting Plato’s Meno.”
– in Hungarian], Gond 2/1992.
(editor
with Kövesdi, P.; Szilágyi, M.): “Megfúvom fűzfa lantomat” [An Anthology on
Amusingly Bad Poems—in Hungarian], Budapest: Mora, 1990.
(with
Erdei, H.): "Élet a zsidó gimnáziumban" [On the History of the Jewish
Secondary School at Budapest—in Hungarian], História, 1988.
Presentations
“Ascending without Circularity:
Descartes’s Justification of the Clear and Distinct Perceptions,” Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology’s Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, 1999;
and Department Colloquium at Central Connecticut State University, 1999
“Exclusive Justification and the
Lottery Paradox,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology’s Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 1998
“What Do Our Counterparts Eat?
Beliefs, References and the Skeptic’s Scenarios,”Annual Meeting of APA
(Pacific), Los Angeles, CA, 1998
“Zombies v. Materialists: The
Battle over Conceivability,” Southwestern Philosophical Society’s Annual
Meeting: Memphis, TN, 1997
“Skeptics versus Dogmatics: The
Battle over the Criterion,” Emory University Graduate Conference, 1997
“Achilles and the Tortoise on
Modus Ponens: The End of The Story,” Syracuse
University Graduate Conference, 1997
erdos number: 4 (on
the Rényi, Szentágothai, Érdi branch)
Graduate Courses
Logic
Mathematical
Logic (Vann McGee, Rutgers)
Advanced
Topics in Logic (Vann McGee, Rutgers)
Epistemology
Seminar in Epistemology (Ernest Sosa, Brown)
The
Philosophy of Roderick Chisholm (Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim, Brown)
Perception
and Reality (Bill Brewer, Brown)
Philosophy
of Mind/Metaphysics
Consciousness
(Jaegwon Kim, Brown)
Quine
and Davidson (Gary Gates, Brown)
Seminar
in Metaphysics (Brian McLaughlin, Rutgers)
Theories
of Reference (Felicia Ackerman, Brown)
Truth
(Barry Loewer, Rutgers)
Philosophy
of Physics (Tim Maudlin, Rutgers)
History
of Philosophy
Advanced
Topics in Plato (Sarah Broadie, Rutgers)
Aristotle’s
Philosophy of Mind (Martha Nussbaum, Brown)
Descartes’s
World-Picture (Justin Broackes, Brown)
17th
Century Philosophy: Leibniz (Martha Bolton, Rutgers)
Problems
in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (James van Cleve, Brown)
Ethics, Political Philosophy
Morality,
Rationality, Justice (Dan Brock, Brown)
Legitimacy
and Obligation (David Estlund, Brown)
References
Donald J.
Zeyl, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Department, University of Rhode
Island
(Kingston,
RI 02881, (401) 874-2207)
Stephen
Nathanson, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Department, Northeastern
University
(360 Huntington
Avenue, Boston MA, 02115, (617) 373-3636)
Michael
Lipton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern University
(360
Huntington Avenue, Boston MA, 02115, (617) 373-3636)
Ernest
Sosa, Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology and Professor of
Philosophy, Brown University
(PO Box
1918, Providence, RI, 02912, (401) 863-3214)
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