Professor and Chair
Office: E&T A432
Phone: (323) 343-4189
Email: mbalagu@calstatela.edu
Office Hours
Research Interests
My main research interests are metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and metaethics.
Publications
| Books |
| Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem, forthcoming, MIT Press. |
| Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics, 1998, New York: Oxford University Press. |
| Papers |
| "Fictionalism, Mathematical Facts, and Logical Facts," forthcoming in Fiction, J. Woods (ed.), Philosophia Verlag. |
| "Bare Bones Moral Realism and the Objections from Relativism," forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Relativism, S. Hales (ed.), Blackwell Press. |
| "Fictionalism, Theft, and the Story of Mathematics," Philosophia Mathematica, vol. 17 (2009), pp. 131-162. |
| "Why There are no Good Arguments for any Interesting Version of Determinism," Synthese, vol. 168 (2009), pp. 1-21. |
| "The Metaphysical Irrelevance of the Compatibilism Debate (and, More Generally, of Conceptual Analysis)," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 47 (Spring 2009), pp. 1-24. |
| "Realism and Anti-Realism in Mathematics," in Philosophy of Mathematics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science), A. D. Irvine (ed.), Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 2009, pp. 35-101. |
| "Kurt Gödel," Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/236770/Kurt-Godel#, 2009. (Print version forthcoming.) |
| "Mathematical Platonism," in Proof and Other Dilemmas: Mathematics and Philosophy, B. Gold and R. A. Simons (eds.), Mathematical Association of America Publications, 2008, pp. 179-204. |
| "Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fictionalism-mathematics/, 2008. |
| "Philosophy of Mathematics," Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/369237/philosophy-of-mathematics, 2007. (Print version forthcoming.) |
| "Indexical Propositions and De Re Belief Ascriptions," Synthese, vol. 146 (September, 2005), pp. 325-55. |
| "A Coherent, Naturalistic, and Plausible Formulation of Libertarian Free Will," Nous, vol. 38 (September 2004), pp. 379-406. |
| "Platonism in Metaphysics," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism/, 2004 (updated 2009). |
| "A Theory of Mathematical Correctness and Mathematical Truth," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 82 (June 2001), pp. 87-114. |
| "Reply to Dieterle," Philosophia Mathematica, vol. 8 (October 2000), pp. 310-315. |
| "Libertarianism as a Scientifically Reputable View," Philosophical Studies, vol. 93 (February 1999), pp. 189-211. |
| "Attitudes Without Propositions," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 58 (December 1998), pp. 805-26. |
| "Non-Uniqueness as a Non-Problem," Philosophia Mathematica, vol. 6 (1998), pp. 63-84. |
| "Indexical Senses," Theoria (March 1998). (Note: this journal is published in Yugoslavia, at the University of Belgrade.) |
| "Towards a Nominalization of Quantum Mechanics," Mind, vol. 105 (1996), pp. 209-26. |
| "A Fictionalist Account of the Indispensable Applications of Mathematics," Philosophical Studies, vol. 83 (1996), pp. 291-314. |
| "A Platonist Epistemology," Synthese, vol. 103 (1995), pp. 303-25. |
| "Patlonismo Pleno," Analisis Filosofico, vol. 14 (1994), pp. 131-48. (Note: this journal is published in Argentina, at the University of Buenos Aires.) |
| "Against (Maddian) Naturalized Platonism," Philosophia Mathematica, vol. 2 (1994), pp. 97-108. |
| Book Reviews |
| "Can We Know That Platonism is True?" (review essay of Jerrold Katz's Realistic Rationalism), Philosophical Forum, vol. 34, (Fall/Winter 2003), pp. 459-75. |
| Review of Thinking About Mathematics by Stewart Shapiro, The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, vol. 8 (March 2002), pp. 89-91. |
| Review of Naturalism in Mathematics by Penelope Maddy, Philosophy of Science, vol. 66 (September 1999), pp. 502-04. |
| Review Essay on Mathematics as a Science of Patterns by Michael Resnik, Philosophia Mathematica, vol. 7 (February 1999), pp. 108-26. |
| Review of Metaphysical Myths, Mathematical Practice by Jody Azzouni, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 60 (1995), pp. 1312-14. |
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Philosophy 1992
- B.A. Philosophy, Psychology, and Mathematics 1986
City University of New York Graduate Center
University of Colorado, Boulder
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