Mark Balaguer
Professor
Office: E&T, 432
Phone: (323)343-4189
Email: mbalagu@calstatela.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My main research interests are metaphysics, philosophy of
mathematics, philosophy of language, and metaethics.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Platonism and Anti-Platonism
in Mathematics, 1998, New York: Oxford University Press.
PAPERS
“Realism
and Anti-Realism in Mathematics,” forthcoming in the Philosophy of
Mathematics volume of The
Handbook of the Philosophy of Science,
“Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics,” forthcoming in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
“Philosophy of Mathematics,” Encyclopedia Britannica.
“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, 2004 (online).
“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
“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.
“Platonismo
Pleno,” Analisis Filosofico,
vol. 14 (1994), pp. 131-48. (Note:
this journal
is published in
“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
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
PhD Philosophy June 1992
City University of New York
Graduate Center
BA Philosophy, Psychology, and Mathematics May 1986
University of Colorado,
Boulder