John T. Kearns

Professor and Department Chair
Ph.D., Yale

131 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: (716) 645-8481
Fax: (716) 645-6139
Email: kearns@buffalo.edu

AOC

Logic; Philosophy of Language, including Semantics and Ontology; Cognitive Science. CRI: Speech Act Theory, Illocutionary Logic, which is the logic of speech acts and which supplements and enlarges standard logic.

Sample Publications

• "An Illocutionary Logical Explanation of the Liar Paradox," History and Philosophy of Logic 28 (2007), 31-66
• "Conditional Assertion, Denial, and Supposition as Illocutionary Acts," Linguistics and Philosophy 29 (2006), 455-485
• "Russell's Epistemic Understanding of Logic," Teorema 24(2005), 115-131
• Reconceiving Experience, A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes, SUNY Press, 1996