Curriculum Vitæ

J. Lambert

Logic and Philosophy of Science Phone, voice mail: 949-XXX-XXXX
School of Social Sciences
University of California at Irvine
Irvine, CA 92612

Recent Publications

Books
  1. The: An Introduction to the Philosophical Foundations of the Theory of Descriptions. [Forthcoming]
  2. Free Logics, Their Character, Genesis and Some Applications Thereof. Bonn: Sankt Anslem, 1997. [Forthcoming]
  3. (with Ermanno Bencivenga ad Bas C. Van Fraassen.) Logic, Bivalence and Denotation. Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview, 1986. 2d edition, 1991.
  4. Edited. Philosophical Applications of Free Logic. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  5. (with Gordon G. Brittan, Jr.) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970. 2d ed. Reseda, Calif.: Ridgeview, 1979. 3d ed. Atascadero, Calif.: Ridgeview, 1987. 4th ed. Atascadero, Calif.: Ridgeview, 1992. --Portuguese translation. Sao Paulo: Cultrix, 1972; Spanish translation. Madrid: Guadarrama, 1974. Italian translation. Turin: Boringhieri, 1981; Japanese translation. Kyoto: Koyoshobo, 1982; German translation. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990.
Articles
  1. "Free Logic and Definite Descriptions" In Edgar Morscher, ed., New Directions in Free Logic: Essays in Honor of Karel Lambert. [Forthcoming]
  2. "Free Logics, Philosophical Issues in." In Edward Craig, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 3, pp. 739-743. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
  3. "Nonextensionality" In Wolfgang Lenzen, ed., Das weite Spektrum der Analytischen Philosophie: Festschrift für Franz von Kutschera. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1997.
  4. (with Raymond D. Gumb.) "Definitions in Nonstrict Positive Free Logic." Modern Logic (1997), 7(1);25-55.
  5. (with Raymond D. Gumb.) "A Free Logical Foundation for Nonstrict Functions." In M. Kerber and W. Farmer, eds., Proceedings of the CADE Workshop on the Mechanization of Partial Functions.1997.
  6. "Russellian Names: Notes on a Theory of Arthur Prior." In Jack Copeland, ed., Logic and Reality: Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior, pp. 411-417. Oxford: Clarendson, 1996.
  7. "Attributes, their First Denotative Correlates, and Complex Predicates" In Roberto Poli and Peter Simons, eds., Formal Ontology. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, 53. Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer, 1996.
  8. "Substitution and the Expansion of the World." Grazer Philosophische Studien (1996).
  9. "General Terms, Predicates and Extensionality." Dialectica (1995), 49(2-4):195-202.
  10. "On the reduction of two paradoxes and the significance thereof" in Physik, Philosophie und die Einheit der Wissenschaften, L. Krueger u. B. Falkenburg (Hrsg.) Spektrum, Heidelberg, 1995
  11. "Editorial Preface" Erkenntnis (1995), 43:275-277.
  12. "Meinong, Alexius" In Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds., A Companion to Metaphysics, pp. 305-307. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.
  13. (with Brian Skyrms) "Resiliency and laws in the web of Belief" in Laws of Nature (ed. F. Weinert), de Gruyter, Berlin, 1995
  14. "A Note on Singular and General Exitrence." Kriterion (1994), 4(7).
  15. (with Peter Simons.) "Characterizing and Classifting: Explicating a Biological Distinction." Monist (July 1994), 77(3):315-328.
  16. (with Gerhard Schurz) "Outline of a theory of scientific understanding", Synthese, 101: 1994, 65-120.
  17. "Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects." In Kevin Mulligan, ed., Language, Truth, and Ontology, pp. 78-86. Philosophical Studies, 51. Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer, 1992.
  18. "Russell's Version of the Theory of Definite Descriptions." Philosophical Studies, (February 1992), 65(1-2):153-167.
  19. "A Theory about Logical Theories of Expressions of the Form `The So and So' Where `The' is in the Singular." Erkenntnis (July 1991), 35(1-3):337-346.
  20. "Logic VI: Free Logic." In Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith, eds., Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, Volume 2: L-Z, pp. 470-473. Munich & Vienna: Philosophia, 1991.
  21. "Predication and Ontological Commitment." In Werner Leinfellner, Franz M. Wuketits, eds., Die Aufgaben der Philosophie in der Gegenwart. Akten des 10. Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums, 18.bis 25. August 1985, Kirchberg am Wechsel (Osterreich)/ Schriftenreihe der Wittgenstein-Gesellschaft 12. Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1986. Reprinted in Karel Lambert, ed., Philosophical Applications of Free Logic, pp. 273- 284. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  22. Guest Editor (with Alan Code.) "Topos: Predication. Analyses and Implications." Topoi (1991), 10(1).
  23. "On Whether an Answer to a Why-Question Is an Explanation If and Only If It Yields Scientific Understanding." In Gordon Brittan, Jr., ed., Causality, Method and Modality: Essays in Honor of Jules Vuillemin, pp. 125-142. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 48. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer, 1990.
  24. "Russell's Theory of Definite Descriptions." Dialectica (1990), 44(1-2):137-152.
  25. "On the Nature of Free Logic." Introduction to Karel Lambert, ed., Philosophical Applications of Free Logic, pp. 3-16. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  26. "A Theory of Definite Descriptions." In Karel Lambert, ed., Philosophical Applications of Free Logic, pp. 3-16. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.