ROBERT C. KOONS

ADDRESSES

Department of Philosophy

Waggener Hall 316

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas 78712-1180

(512) 471-5530 Email: rkoons@mail.utexas.edu

EDUCATION

1979 B.A., Philosophy, Michigan State University,

Summa cum laude

1981 B.A., Philosophy and Theology, Oxford University

First Class Honours

1987 Ph.D., Philosophy, UCLA

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Metaphysics and Epistemology

Philosophical Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Philosophy of Religion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sept. 1, 2000 Professor, University of Texas at Austin

1993-2000 Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

1987-1993 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

HONORS

Philosopher-in-Residence, Valparaiso University, Spring 2001

Gustave O. Arlt Award (Council of Graduate Schools) 1992

Carnap Prize (UCLA) 1987

Richard M. Weaver Fellow, 1985-87

Danforth Fellow, l979-85

Dillistone Scholar (Oriel College, Oxford), l980

Marshall Scholar, l979-1981

RESEARCH GRANTS

National Science Foundation, Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, "The Logic and Representation of Properties and Propositions for Computer Natural Language Processing," with Kamp, Bonevac, Asher, and C. Smith, 1988-1989.

National Research Council Travel Grant for Attendance of the Ninth International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, 1991.

Faculty Research Assignment, "The Logic of Causation and Teleological Function," Spring 1997. Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University.

Faculty Research Assignment, "Mental Causation and the Emergence of Agency," Spring 2002.

Research grant, Discovery Institute. Fall 2002.

PUBLICATIONS

• Books

Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, 1992).

Realism Regained: An Exact Theory of Causation, Teleology, and the Mind (Oxford University Press, New York, 2000)

• Articles

“A Representational Account of Mutual Belief,” Synthese 81: 21-45 (December, l989).

“Doxastic Paradoxes without Self-Reference,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 68:168-177 (June 1990).

“Three Indexical Solutions to the Liar,” Situation Theory and Its Applications, ed. R. Cooper, K. Mukai & J. Perry (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, Calif., 1990), pp. 259-286.

“Doxic Paradox: A Situational Approach,” Situation Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 2 , ed. J. Barwise, M. Gawron, G. Plotkin, & S. Tutiya (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, Calif., 1991), pp. 161-178.

“Doxastic Paradox and Reputation Effects in Repeated Games,” Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge, ed. Yoram Moses (Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, Calif., 1992), pp. 60-72.

“Nonmonotonic Projection, Causation and Induction,” Situation Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 3, ed. P. Aczel, D. Israel, Y. Katagiri, & S. Peters (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, Calif., 1993).

“Faith, Probability, and Infinite Passion,” Faith and Philosophy 10:145-160 (April, 1993).

“The Revision of Beliefs in a Changing World,” (with Nicholas Asher), Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge , ed. Ronald Fagin (Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 1994), pp. 321-340.

“Gauthier and the Rationality of Justice,” Philosophical Studies 76(1994): 1-26.

“A New Solution to the Sorites Problem,” Mind 103 (1994): 439-450.

“Information, Representation and the Problem of Error,” in Logic, Language and Computation, ed. J. Seligman & D. Westerstahl (CSLI, 1996), pp. 333-346.

“Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Moral Dilemmas: the Divorce of Ethics from Classical Logic,” (with T. K. Seung), Defeasible Deontic Logic: Essays in Nonmonotonic Normative Reasoning, ed. Donald Nute (Kluwer Academic, 1997).

“A New Look at the Cosmological Argument,” American Philosophical Quarterly 34 (April, 1997): 171-192.

“Teleology as Higher Order Causation: A Situation Theoretic Account,” Minds and Machines 8 (Dec. 1998): 559-585.

“Situation Mereology and the Logic of Causation,” Topoi 18 (Sept. 1999):167-174.

“Circularity and Hierarchy,” in Circularity, Definition, and Truth, ed. André Chapuis and Anil Gupta, (Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2000), pp. pp. 177-198.

“The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism,” in Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, ed. William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland (Routledge, London, 2000), pp. 49-63.

“Defeasible Reasoning, Special Pleading, and the Cosmological Argument: A Reply to Oddy,” Faith and Philosophy 18 (April 2001):192-203.

“Science and Theism: Concord, Not Conflict,” in The Rationality of Theism, edited by Paul K. Moser and Paul Copan (Routledge, London, 2003), pp. 72-90.

“Dual Agency: A Thomistic Account of Providence and Human Freedom,” Philosophia Christi 4(2002): 397-410.

"The Logic of Causal Explanation: An Axiomatization,” Studia Logica (forthcoming).

• Book Reviews and encyclopedia articles

“Review of Truth, Vagueness and Paradox , by Vann McGee,” Canadian Philosophical Review 12(2):118-122 (April 1992).

“Paradoxes, Semantic,” Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Pergamon Press/ Aberdeen University Press, 1993). Revised edition, 1997.

“Review of Springs of Action: Understanding Intentional Behavior, by Alfred R. Mele,” Review of Metaphysics (June,1993):861-863.

“Book Review: Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap. The Revision Theory of Truth,” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (Fall 1994) 35(4):606-631.

“Probability and Conditionals, Belief Revision and Rational Decision, edited by Ellery Eells and Brian Skyrms,” Journal of Symbolic Logic (March 1997) 62(1):330-335.

“Book Review. Scott Soames, Understanding Truth,” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 41 (2000):77-94.

“Review of Truth and the Absence of Fact, by Hartry Field,” Mind (2002, forthcoming).

“Book Review. Phil Dowe, Physical Causation,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67(2003):244-248.

“Natural Theology,” New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (IVP, Leicester, 2003).

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Logic at the Cutting Edge: A Practical Introduction to Symbolic Tools, with Daniel Bonevac (under contract with Oxford University Press, USA).

“Logic and Mathematics in Frege and Kant – and in Plato,” with T. K. Seung.

“Frege’s Logicism and his Ontology” with T. K. Seung.

“The Place of Natural Theology in Lutheran Thought,” submitted to First Things

“Explanatory Exclusion and the Metaphysics of Causation”

“Functionalism without Physicalism: An Outline for an Emergentist Program”

“Qualia are Quiddities”

“What do Deflationists seek when the Seek the ‘Truth’”?

MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

Symposium on Barwise & Etchemendy's The Liar, APA Pacific Division Meeting, Los Angeles, March 28, 1990.

“Liar-like Paradoxes and Reputation Effects in Game Theory,” 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, August 7-14, 1991, Uppsala, Sweden.

“Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Causation, and Induction,” Third Conference on Situation Theory and its Applications, Oiso, Japan, Nov. 18-21, 1991.

“Doxastic Paradox and Reputation Effects in Repeated Games,” Workshop on Formal Pragmatics, University of Western Ontario, October, 1991; also read at the Fourth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge, Asilomar Center, Monterey, Calif., March 22-25, 1992.

“Faith, Probability and Infinite Passion,” APA Eastern Division Meeting, Dec. 1992.

“Information, Representation and the Problem of Error,” Fourth Conference on Situation Theory and Its Applications, Moraga, California, August, 1994.

“The Logic of Causation,” Colloquium, Philosophy Department, Indiana University, Nov. 16, 1994.

“The Logic of Causation,” Third International Conference on Time, Space and Movement, Toulouse, France, June 23-27, 1995.

“The Logic of Information,” Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, Italy, August, 1995.

“Gauthier, Game Theory and the Definition of Justice,” Institute 95, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, July 9, 1996.

“A New Look at the Cosmological Argument,” Philosophy Department, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, July 10, 1996.

“Paraconsistent Logic and Moral Dilemmas,” Korean Society for Logic, Daewoo Foundation, Seoul, Korea, July 11, 1996.

“Applications of Nonmonotonic Logics in Linguistics,” Semantics Workshop, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, July 13, 1996.

“The Logic of Causation,” Cognitive Science Institute, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, July 15, 1996.

“A Mereological Theory of Causation,” Society of Exact Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, May 18, 1997.

“The Logic of Causation,” Applied Logic Group, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 21, 1997.

“Is Truth Circular After All?” Symposium on the Revision Theory of Truth, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, March 26, 1998.

“A Causal Theory of Logical and Mathematical Knowledge,” Society of Exact Philosophy, University of Georgia, Athens, May 14, 1998.

“A Web-Based Course in Symbolic Logic,” University of Texas System Summer Technology Conference, El Paso, August 9-11, 1998.

“Post-Agnostic Science: How Physics is Reviving the Argument from Design,” Edwards Lecture on Philosophy and Religion, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, Michigan, November 11, 1998

“A Causal Theory of Logical and Mathematical Knowledge,” Midwestern Metaphysical Mayhem IV, Notre Dame University, August 8-11, 1999.

“The Incompatibility between Naturalism and Scientific Realism,” The Nature of Nature, Baylor University, April 12, 2000; Valparaiso University, April 3, 2001; University of Texas at Arlington, April 9, 2001.

“Defeasible Reasoning, Special Pleading, and the Cosmological Argument,” Gifford Conference, University of Aberdeen, May 27, 2000; King's College, University of London, June 11, 2000.

“The Place of Natural Theology in Lutheran Thought,” Valparaiso University, April 4, 2001.

“Are Probabilities Indispensable to the Design Inference?” Workshop on the Design Inference, Calvin College, May 22-23, 2001; APA Pacific Division, Philosophy of Religion Group, Seattle, Washington, March 26, 2002.

“Dual Agency: A Thomistic Account of Providence and Human Freedom,” University of Notre Dame, January 25, 2002.

“From Explanatory Exclusion to Emergent Agency,” Society of Christian Philosophers, Indiana- University-Bloomington, September 14, 2002.

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE

Undergraduate Advising Committee, 1987-89.

Graduate Admissions Committee, 1989-1992, 1998-00, 2001-2.

Departmental Planning Committee, 1992-99.

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1992-95, 2001-2.

Associate Chair Philosophy Department, 1992-96, 97-98.

University Faculty Grievance Committee, 1995-97, 1999-2002.

College of Liberal Arts, Promotions and Tenure Committee, 1996-99.

University Council, 2000-2.

University Committee on Committees, 2000-2.

Faculty Fellow, Jester Hall, 1998-99; Prather Hall, 1999-00; San Jacinto Hall, 2000-1.

U. T. System Multimedia Instruction Task Force planning grant, “Web-based Course in Symbolic Logic.” (With Prof. Asher and Prof. William Pervin, UT-Dallas) October 1, 1997-- December 31, 1998.

Chair, University Parking and Transportation Appeals committee, 2002-3.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member: American Philosophical Association, Association for Symbolic Logic, European Association for Logic, Language and Information, Society of Christian Philosophers, Evangelical Philosophical Society.

Referee for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Notre Dame Journal for Formal Logic, Journal of Symbolic Logic, Journal of Philosophical Logic .

Program Committee, Fifth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge, 1993-4.

Program Committee, Conference on Information-Based Approaches to Language, Logic and Computation (STA-5), 1995-6.