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Randall R. Dipert

Randall R. Dipert

C.S. Peirce Professor of American Philosophy
Ph.D., Indiana

105 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone: (716) 645-0139
Fax: (716) 645-6139
Email: rdipert@buffalo.edu
Website: http://www.dipert.org

Main Areas of Research:

Ontology, Military Ethics, Logic, C.S. Peirce, History of Philosophy

Other Research:

Aesthetics, especially music aesthetics; philosophy of science; especially philosophy of physics;

history and philosophy of mathematics; political philosophy; philosophy of mind; artificial intelligence,

automated reasoning and theorem proving.

Sample Publications

  • “The Varieties of Naturalism Worth Wanting,” in The Future of Naturalism (Prometheus Books, 2009)

  • “Preventive War and the Epistemological Dimension of the Morality of War,” Journal of Military Ethics, 2006.

  • “C.S. Peirce’s Logic,” in Cambridge Companion to C.S. Peirce (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

  • “The Mathematical Structure of the World: The World as Graph,” Journal of Philosophy, July 1997).

  • Artifacts, Art Works, and Agency (Temple University Press, 1993)