Welcome to Otávio Bueno's web
page. You will find here some information about him and his work.
I am a Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University
of Miami, an extremely congenial and stimulating place to do philosophy.
Most of my work focuses on philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics,
and philosophy of logic. I have been trying to develop an empiricist view about
science that is compatible with a nominalist view about mathematics and logic.
Not an easy task, but one that has led me to explore also a number of
fascinating and interrelated issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and logic.
Below you will find a list of some of my papers. Several of them are
available on line.
Just visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/otaviobueno/OBueno/FileSharing17.html
If you are interested in other papers that are not available there, just
let me know. Here's how to contact me:
Otávio Bueno
Department of Philosophy
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33124-4670, USA
e-mail: otaviobueno 'AT' mac 'DOT' com
phone: (305) 284-9218
fax: (305) 284-5594
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URL: http://homepage.mac.com/otaviobueno/index.htm
Date
of last update: July 17, 2008.
Academic Formation.................................................................................................................... 1
Career........................................................................................................................................... 1
Visiting Appointments................................................................................................................. 2
Areas of Specialization................................................................................................................. 2
Areas of Competence................................................................................................................... 2
Selected Publications.................................................................................................................... 2
Books........................................................................................................................................... 3
Selected Reviews......................................................................................................................... 3
Refereed Abstracts
Submitted Papers......................................................................................................................... 4
Work in Progress......................................................................................................................... 4
Selected Presentations in Congresses........................................................................................... 4
Fellowships, Awards and Grants............................................................................................... 10
Teaching Experience.................................................................................................................. 11
Graduate Supervision................................................................................................................. 12
Academic Activities................................................................................................................... 12
Service....................................................................................................................................... 12
Membership of Societies............................................................................................................ 12
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Graduate (PhD) |
Philosophy School of Philosophy, University of
Leeds, UK 1996-1999 Dissertation
title: Philosophy
of Mathematics: A Structural Empiricist View Supervisor:
Professor Steven French Committee:
Professor Bas van Fraassen
and Professor Peter Simons |
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Graduate (MA) |
Philosophy Department
of Philosophy, University of São Paulo 1993-1996 Dissertation
title: Constructive
Empiricism: A Restatement and Defense Supervisor:
Professor José Chiappin |
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Undergraduate (BA) |
Philosophy Department
of Philosophy, University of São Paulo 1988-1993 |
1.
Professor
Department of Philosophy,
University of Miami
From August 2006 onwards
2.
Associate
Professor
Department of Philosophy,
University of South Carolina
From August 2004 to July
2006
3.
Assistant
Professor
Department of Philosophy, University
of South Carolina
From August
2002 to July 2004
4.
Assistant
Professor
Department
of Philosophy, California State University, Fresno
From
January 2000 to July 2002
5.
Teaching
Fellow
School of
Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK
From
August to December 1999
6.
Teaching
Fellow
Department
of Philosophy, University of York, UK
From
August to December 1999
7.
Tutor (Logic and History and Philosophy of Science)
School of
Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK
From
October 1996 to July 1999
1. Visiting Fellow
Department
of Philosophy, Princeton University
August-December 2004
2. Visiting Professor
Department of Philosophy, University of São Paulo
May-July 2004
Philosophy of science,
metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic
Logic and philosophy of
language
Several of my papers are
available on-line,
please visit: http://homepage.mac.com/otaviobueno/OBueno/FileSharing17.html
Single-authored
refereed papers
1. "Scientific Instruments, Domains of Application, and
Incommensurability", forthcoming in Studies
in History and Philosophy of Science, 2009.
2. "Structuralism and Information: Some Challenges",
forthcoming in Metaphilosophy,
2009.
3. "Structural Realism, Scientific Change, and
Partial Structures", forthcoming in Studia Logica, 2008.
4. "Understanding Scientific Change: Partial
Reference and Partial Structures", forthcoming in Synthese, 2008.
5. "The Limits of the Neo-Fregean Philosophy of
Mathematics", forthcoming in Erkenntnis, 2008.
6. "On Parsons' Critique of Structuralism",
forthcoming in Synthese, 2008.
7. "Truth and Proof", forthcoming in Manuscrito, 2008.
8. "Nanotechnolgy: Some Philosophical
Challenges", forthcoming in Spontaneous Generation, 2008.
9. "Nominalism and Mathematical Intuition",
forthcoming in Protosociology,
2008.
10."Scientific Representation and Nominalism: An
Empiricist View", forthcoming in Principia, 2008.
11."Relativism and Skepticism", International
Journal of Philosophical Studies 16,
2008, pp. 247-254.
12."Troubles with Trivialism", Inquiry 50, 2007, pp. 655-667.
13."Representation at the Nanoscale", Philosophy
of Science 73, 2006, pp. 617-628.
[Paper published in 2007.]
14."The Methodological Character of Symmetry
Principles", Abstracta 3,
2006, pp. 3-28.
(A
PDF version is available at: http://www.abstracta.pro.br/english/editions.asp
.)
15."Dirac
and the Dispensability of Mathematics", Studies in History and
Philosophy of Modern Physics 36,
2005, pp. 465-490.
16."On
the Referential Indeterminacy of Logical and Mathematical Concepts", Journal
of Philosophical Logic 34, 2005, pp.
65-79.
17."Davidson
and Skepticism: How Not to Respond to the Skeptic", Principia 9, 2005, pp. 1-18.
18."The
Drexler-Smalley Debate on Nanotechnology: Incommensurability At Work?", Hyle:
International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 10, 2004, pp. 83-98. (Reprinted in Joachim Schummer and
Davis Baird (eds.), Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy,
Ethics and Society (Singapore: World
Scientific Publishing, 2006), pp. 29-48.)
19."Modality,
Semantic Approach and Quantum Mechanics", Scientiae Studia 2, 2004, pp. 85-97.
20."Quine's
Double Standard: Undermining the Indispensability Argument via the
Indeterminacy of Reference", Principia 7, 2003 (published in 2004), pp.17-39.
21."Is
It Possible to Nominalize Quantum Mechanics?", Philosophy of Science 70, 2003, pp. 1424-1436.
22."Logicism Revisited", Principia 5, 2001, pp. 99-124.
23."Quasi-Truth in Quasi-Set Theory", Synthese
125, 2000, pp. 33-53.
24."Empiricism, Mathematical Change and Scientific
Change", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31, 2000, pp. 269-296.
25."Empiricism, Conservativeness and Quasi-Truth",
Philosophy of Science 66, 1999,
pp. S474-S485.
26."What is Structural Empiricism? Scientific Change
in an Empiricist Setting", Erkenntnis 50, 1999, pp. 59-85.
27."Empirical Adequacy: A Partial Structures
Approach", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 28, 1997, pp. 585-610.
Jointly-authored
refereed papers
1. "On What It Takes for There to Be No Fact of the
Matter" (with Jody Azzouni), forthcoming in Noûs, 2009.
2.
"Inconsistency and
Scientific Rationality" (with Newton da
Costa), forthcoming in Erkenntnis, 2009.
3. "How to Change It: Modes of Engagement,
Rationality, and Stance Voluntarism" (with Darrell Rowbottom), forthcoming
in Synthese, 2008.
4. "Stance and Rationality: A Perspective"
(with Darrell Rowbottom), forthcoming in Synthese, 2008.
5. "Descartes' Quasi-Platonism About Mathematical
Essences" (with Raffaella De Rosa), forthcoming in Protosociology, 2008.
6.
"Scientific
Theories, Models, and the Semantic Approach" (with Décio Krause),
forthcoming in Principia, 2008.
7. "Quasi-Truth, Paraconsistency, and the Foundations
of Science" (with Newton da Costa), Synthese 154, 2007, pp. 383-399.
8. "Interaction Free Measurement with Matter
Waves" (with Adonai Sant'Anna), Foundations of Physics Letters 19, 2006, pp. 481-490.
9. "A Nominalist's Dilemma and its Solution"
(with Edward Zalta), Philosophia Mathematica 13, 2005, pp. 294-307.
(A
PDF version is available at: http://philmat.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/3/294?ijkey=z4eokKRoOVMzcQa&keytype=ref
.)
10."Yablo's Paradox and Referring to Infinite
Objects" (with Mark
Colyvan), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81, 2003, pp. 402-412.
11."Paradox without Satisfaction" (with Mark
Colyvan), Analysis 63, 2003, pp.
152-156.
12."On Representing the Relationship between the
Mathematical and the Empirical" (with Steven French and James Ladyman), Philosophy of
Science 69, 2002, pp. 497-518.
13."The Simple Liar Without Bivalence?" (with JC Beall), Analysis
62, 2002, pp. 22-26.
14."Paraconsistency: Towards a Tentative Interpretation"
(with Newton da Costa), Theoria 16, 2001, pp.119-145.
15."Belief Change and Inconsistency" (with
Newton da Costa), Logique et Analyse 161-162-163, 1998 (published in 2001), pp. 31-56.
16."Quasi-Truth, Supervaluations, and Free
Logic" (with Newton da Costa), History and Philosophy of Logic 20, 2000, pp. 215-226.
17."The Logic of Pragmatic Truth" (with Newton
da Costa and Steven French), Journal of Philosophical Logic 27, 1998, pp.603-620.
18."Is there a Zande Logic?" (with Newton da
Costa and Steven French), History and Philosophy of Logic 19, 1998, pp. 41-54.
19."Suppes Predicates for Space-Time" (with
Newton da Costa and Steven French), Synthese 112,
1997, pp. 271-279.
20."The Concept of Quasi-Truth" (with Edelcio G. de Souza), Logique et
Analyse 153-154, 1996, pp. 183-199.
21."Malinowski and Suszko on Many-Valued Logic: On
the Reduction of Many-Valuedness to Two-Valuedness" (with Newton da Costa
and Jean-Yves Béziau), Modern Logic 6,
1996, pp. 272-299.
22."The Logic of Quasi-Truth" (with Newton da
Costa and Rolando Chuaqui), Notas de la Sociedad de Matematica de Chile 15, 1996, pp. 7-26.
23."Paraconsistent Logic in a Historical
Perspective" (with Newton da Costa and Jean-Yves Béziau), Logique et
Analyse 150-151-152, 1995,
pp.111-125.
24."Aspects of Paraconsistent Logic" (with
Newton da Costa and Jean-Yves Béziau), Bulletin of the Interest Group in
Pure and Applied Logics 3, 1995, pp. 597-614.
25."What is Semantics? A Brief Note on a Huge
Question" (with Newton da Costa and Jean-Yves Béziau), Sorites, Electronic Quarterly of Analytical Philosophy 3, 1995, pp. 43-47.
Single-authored
papers in refereed collections
1. "Relativism in Set Theory and Mathematics",
forthcoming in Steven Hales (ed.), A Companion to Relativism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010).
2. "Mapping Scientific Change: A Framework for
Belief Revision", forthcoming in Erik Olsson (ed.), Science in Flux:
Philosophy of Science Meets Belief Revision (Dordrecht: Springer, 2009).
3. "Logical and Mathematical Knowledge",
forthcoming in Duncan Pritchard and Sven Bernecker (eds.), Routledge
Companion to Epistemology (London:
Routledge, 2009).
4. "Models and Scientific Representations",
forthcoming in P.D. Magnus and Jacob Busch (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy
of Science (Hampshire: Palgrave
MacMillan, 2009).
5. "Philosophy of Mathematics", forthcoming in
Fritz Allhoff (ed.), Philosophy of the Special Sciences (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009).
6. "Philosophy of Logic", forthcoming in Fritz
Allhoff (ed.), Philosophy of the Special Sciences (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009).
7. "Structural Empiricism, Again", forthcoming
in Alisa Bokulich and Peter Bokulich (eds.), Scientific Structuralism (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008).
8. "Fitch's Paradox and the Philosophy of
Mathematics", forthcoming in Joe Salerno (ed.), New Essays on the
Knowability Paradox (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2008).
9. "Nominalism in the Philosophy of
Mathematics", forthcoming in Edward
N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(Stanford, CA: CSLI, Stanford University, 2008; http://plato.stanford.edu/).
10."Substructural Logics", forthcoming in Philosophy
Compass, 2008. (http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/)
11."Category Theory, Set Theory, and the Foundations
of Mathematics", forthcoming in Giandomenico Sica (ed.), What Is
Category Theory? Milan: Polimetrica
International Scientific Publisher, 2008.
12."Skepticism and Platonism", forthcoming in
Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte, and Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to
Latin American Philosophy (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2008).
13."Interpreting Music: Beyond Platonism",
forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 8th RAIME International
Symposium, 2008.
14."Incommensurability in Mathematics", in Bart
Van Kerkhove and Jean Paul Van Bendegem (eds.), Perspectives on Mathematical
Practices (Dordrecht: Springer,
2007), pp. 83-105.
15."Why Inconsistency Is Not Hell: Making Room for
Inconsistency in Science", in Erik Olsson (ed.), Knowledge and Inquiry:
Essays on the Pragmatism of Issac Levi (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 70-86.
16."Bas van Fraassen", in Donald Borchert
(ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
2nd edition (Detroit: Macmillan, 2006), volume 9, pp. 644-646.
17."Von Neumann, Self-Reproduction and the
Constitution of Nanophenomena", in Davis Baird, Alfred Nordmann, and
Joachim Schummer (eds.), Discovering the Nanoscale (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004), pp. 101-115. (A PDF
version is also available at http://cms.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/phil/nano/nano.html
.)
18."Application of Mathematics and
Underdetermination", in Claudio Delrieux and Javier Legris (eds.), Computer
Modeling of Scientific Reasoning
(Bahia Blanca: Ediuns, 2003), pp. 27-42.
19."Mathematical Change and Inconsistency: A Partial
Structures Approach", in Joke
Meheus (ed.), Inconsistency in Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002), pp. 59-79.
20."Can a Paraconsistent Theorist be a Logical
Monist?", in W.
Carnielli, M. Coniglio, and I. D'Ottaviano (eds.), Paraconsistency: The
Logical Way to the Inconsistent (New
York: Marcel Dekker, 2002), pp. 535-552.
21."Scientific
Rationality and Inconsistency: A Partial Structures Perspective", in H.R.
Arabnia (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, IC-AI'2001, volume II
(Las Vegas: CSREA Press, 2001), pp. 834-840.
22."Empiricism,
Mathematical Truth and Mathematical Knowledge", in Niall Shanks and Robert
B. Gardner (eds.), Logic, Probability and Science, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and
the Humanities, vol. 71 (Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 219-233.
23."Bueno's
Reply to Liu", in Niall Shanks and Robert B. Gardner (eds.), Logic,
Probability and Science, Poznan
Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 71
(Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 237-242.
24."Truth, Quasi-Truth and Paraconsistency", in
Walter Carnielli and Ítala D'Ottaviano (eds.), Advances in Contemporary
Logic and Computer Science
(Providence: American Mathematical Society, 1999), pp. 275-293.
25."Second-order Logic Revisited", in Timothy
Childers (ed.), The Logica yearbook 1998 (Prague: Filosofia, 1999), pp. 203-213.
26."Modal Fictionalism, Possible Worlds Semantics
and Quasi-Truth", in Timothy Childers (ed.), The Logica yearbook 1997 (Prague: Filosofia, 1998), pp. 223-236.
27."Pragmatics, Pragmatic Truth and Possible
Worlds", in Paul Weingartner, Gerhard Schurz and Georg Dorn (eds.), The
Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy: Contributions to the Austrian
Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Vol. 5,
Kirchberg, 1997, pp.141-146.
Jointly-authored
papers in refereed collections
1. "Why Advocate Pancritical Rationalism?" (with Darrell Rowbottom), forthcoming in Rethinking
Popper (Dordrecht: Springer, 2009).
2. "Paraconsistent Logic" (with Newton da
Costa), forthcoming in Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte, and Otávio Bueno
(eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
3. "Perspectivism in the Philosophy of Science"
(with Newton da Costa and Décio Krause), forthcoming in Carlos Galles and Pablo
Lorenzano (eds.), History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Oxford: EOLSS Publishers, 2008).
4. "Rationality, Inconsistency, and Partial
Structures" (with Newton da Costa), in Isabella Lucchese and Rita Melillo
(eds.), Le Ragioni Degli Altri: Scritti in Onore di Dominico Antonino Conci (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2008), pp. 229-249.
5. "Paraconsistent Logics and Paraconsistency"
(with Newton da Costa and Décio Krause), in Dale Jacquette (ed.), Philosophy
of Logic (Amsterdam: North-Holland,
2007), pp. 791-911.
6. "On the Usefulness of Paraconsistent Logic"
(with Newton da Costa and Jean-Yves Béziau), in Daniel Vanderveken (ed.), Logic,
Thought and Action (Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2005), pp. 465-478.
7. "A Coherence Theory of Truth" (with Newton
da Costa and Steven French), Manuscrito 29, 2005, pp. 263-290.
8. "Logical Non-Apriorism and the 'Law' of
Non-Contradiction" (with Mark Colyvan), in Graham Priest,
JC Beall and Brad Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction: New
Philosophical Essays (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 156-175.
9. "Modal Realism and Modal Epistemology: A Huge
Gap" (with Scott Shalkowski), in Erik Weber and Tim De Mey (eds.), Modal
Epistemology (Brussels: Royal Flemish
Academy of Belgium, 2004), pp. 93-106.
10."Outline of a Paraconsistent Category
Theory" (with Newton da Costa and Analice Volkov), in Paul Weingartner
(ed.), Alternative Logics. Do Sciences Need Them? (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004), pp. 95-114.
11."A Plea for a Modal Realist Epistemology"
(with Scott Shalkowski), Acta
Analytica 15, 2000, pp. 175-193.
12."Infestation or Pest Control: The Introduction of
Group Theory into Quantum Mechanics" (with Steven French), Manuscrito 22, 1999, pp. 37-86.
13."Consistency, Paraconsistency and Truth (Logic,
the Whole Logic and Nothing but the Logic)" (with Newton da Costa), Ideas
y Valores 100, 1996, pp. 48-60.
1. Stance and Rationality (co-edited with Darrell Rowbottom), special issue of Synthese, forthcoming in 2008.
2. A Companion to Latin American Philosophy (co-edited with Susana Nuccetelli and Ofelia
Schutte), Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming in 2008.
3. New Waves in Philosophy of Mathematics (co-edited with Oystein Linnebo), Hampshire: Palgrave
MacMillan, forthcoming in 2008.
4. Constructive Empiricism: A Restatement and Defense [in Portuguese], Campinas: Coleção CLE, 1999.
5. Elements of Paraconsistent Set Theory [in Portuguese] (with Newton da Costa and Jean-Yves
Béziau), Campinas: Coleção CLE, 1998.
1.
"Review of Graham
Priest's Towards Non-Being
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005)", forthcoming in Mind, 2008.
2.
"Review of H.
Beebee and Julian Dodd (eds.), Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005)", forthcoming in
Philosophical Quarterly, 2008.
3.
"Review of Stephen
Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology Futures (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)", forthcoming in Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, 2008.
4.
"Review of T. R.
Baldwin and T. J. Smiley (eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and
Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005)", forthcoming in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2008.
5.
"Review of Paul
Humphreys' Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and
Scientific Method (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004)", forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, 2008.
6.
"Review of Roland
Omnès' Converging Realities: Toward a Common Philosophy of Physics and
Mathematics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2004)", forthcoming in Studies in History and
Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2008.
7.
"Review of JC Beall
and Bradley Armour-Garb (eds.), Deflationism and Paradox (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005)", forthcoming in
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
2008.
8.
"Review of Michela
Massimi's Pauli's Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a
Scientific Principle (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005)", forthcoming in Philosophy of
Science, 2008.
9.
"Review of Roger
Gibson's (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Quine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)",
forthcoming in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2008.
10."Review
of Jody Azzouni's Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)",
forthcoming in Metascience, 2008.
11."Review
of Mauro Dorato's The Software of the Universe: An Introduction to the
History and Philosophy of Laws of Nature
(Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005)", forthcoming in Metascience, 2008.
12."Review
of Davis Baird's Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments (Berkeley: University of California Press,
2004)", forthcoming in Metascience, 2008.
13."Review
of Graham Priest's Doubt Truth to Be a Liar (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)", forthcoming in
Metascience, 2008.
14."Review
of Steven French and Décio Krause's Identity in Physics: A Historical, Philosophical, and Formal Analysis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006)", forthcoming in
Manuscrito, 2008.
15."Review
of David Miller's Out of Error
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)", forthcoming in Principia, 2008.
16.Review
of Luiz Henrique Dutra's Truth and Inquiry: The Problem of Truth in the
Theory of Knowledge [in Portuguese]
(São Paulo: EPU, 2001)", forthcoming in Natureza Humana, 2008.
17."Review
of Alan Richardson's Carnap's Construction of the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)",
forthcoming in De Philosophia,
2008.
18."Review
of L.H. Dutra's Introduction to the Theory of Science [in Portuguese] (Florianópolis: Editora da UFSC,
1998)", forthcoming in Manuscrito, 2008.
19."Review
of Hugh Lacey's Is Science Value Free? Values and Scientific Understanding (London: Routledge, 1999)", forthcoming in Principia, 2008.