John T. Kearns
Professor
Ph.D., Yale
131 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645-8481
Fax: (716) 645-6139
Email: kearns@buffalo.edu
Website: www.johntkearns.org
AOC
Logic, Philosophy of Language (including Semantics and Ontology), Cognitive Science.
CRI
Speech Act Theory, Illocutionary Logic (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.