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American philosopher
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Bradley Dowden
Born1942
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionAmerican philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
ThesisA Theory of Truth: The Liar Paradox and Tarski's Undefinability Theorem (1979)
Main interestsPhilosophy of science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, logic

Bradley Harris Dowden (born 1942) is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the California State University, Sacramento.

Work

He is a general editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, supervising since 1999 a staff of 30 philosophy professors, each with their own subject area expertise. Subject area editors help the general editors recruit faculty to be referees, and they help settle disputes regarding conflicting suggestions for changes in submitted articles. The IEP is the world's most visited encyclopedia of entries written by philosophy faculty members (885 articles with 6.9 million unique visitors per year). Dowden received his MS in physics from Ohio State University and his PhD in philosophy from Stanford University. His main interests are metaphysics, philosophy of science, time, paradox and infinity.

Bibliography

  • The Metaphysics of Time: A Dialogue (New Dialogues in Philosophy), Bradley Dowden, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.
  • Logical Reasoning, Bradley H. Dowden, Belmont CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co. 1993.
  • “Accepting Inconsistencies from the Paradoxes.” Journal of Philosophical Logic 13, no. 2 (1984): 125–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30227024

References

  1. Bradley Dowden Archived January 12, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Review of Bradley H. Dowden's Logical Reasoning by Norman Swartz
  3. The Metaphysics of Time: A Dialogue
  4. "Dowden-Swartz Exchange".

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