Michael Liston, Associate Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 619
Phone: (414) 229-5217/4719
Fax: (414) 229-5022
e-mail: mnliston@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., University of California-San Diego

Research Interests:
Teaches courses in logic and philosophy of science.

Teaching Interests:
His principal research interests lie in the areas of philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics and philosophy of language.

Publications:
"Does 'Rabbit' refer to Rabbits," European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (2006)

"Thin- and Full-Blooded Platonism," Review of Modern Logic (2004)

"Critical Discussion of Mark Steiner's The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem" Philosophia Mathematica (2000).

"Mathematical Progress: Ariadne's Thread" The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge (2000).

"Externalist Determinants of Reference" ProtoSociology (1998).

"Carnap, Empiricism, and Ontology" L'eredita' di Rudolf Carnap (1995).

"How Abstract Objects Strike Us" Dialectica (1994).

"Taking Mathematical Fictions Seriously" Synthese (1993).

"Reliability in Mathematical Physics" Philosophy of Science (1993).