Office: WAG 405
Office Hours: T 12:30-1:30; W 3:00-4:00
Phone: 471-5530
koons@mail.utexas.edu
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Education: BA Michigan State, BA Oxford, PhD University of California at Los Angeles

Research interests:
He specializes in philosophical logic and in the application of logic to long-standing philosophical problems, including metaphysics, philosophy of mind and intentionality, semantics, political philosophy and metaethics, and philosophy of religion. His book Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (Cambridge, 1992) received the Aarlt Prize from the Council of Graduate Schools in 1994. His recent articles include 'Gauthier and the Rationality of Justice' (Philosophical Studies,1994), 'A New Solution to the Sorites Paradox' (Mind,1994), and 'A New Look at the Cosmological Argument' (American Philosophical Quarterly,1997). His latest book is Realism Regained: Applications of an Exact Theory of Causation,Teleology and the Mind (Oxford, 2000).

Courses taught:
Logic, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Christian philosophy

Field(s) of Study: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Metaphysics