Robert Lane, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UWG Philosophy Program

 
Spring 2010

Office: TLC 2247
Office Hours:
 M: 9-9:50am; 12-1:45pm; 3-3:30pm
 W: 9-9:50am; 1-1:45pm; 3-3:30pm
 F: 9-9:50am; 12-1:45pm
and by appointment
Email: rlane "at" westga "dot" edu
Office telephone: (678) 839-4745
Philosophy Program telephone: (678) 839-4848

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  EDUCATION: Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Miami, 1998. B.A. in philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1992. B.A. in psychology, Samford University, 1990.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Persons, Signs, Animals: A Peircean Account of Personhood," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45:1, Winter 2009; review of Short, Peirce's Theory of Signs, in the Journal of the History of Philosophy 46(4), October 2008; "Peirce's Modal Shift: From Set Theory to Pragmaticism," Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:4, October 2007; "Peirception: Haack's Critical Common-Sensim about Perception," in Susan Haack: A Lady of Distinctions, ed. Cornelis de Waal, Prometheus Books, 2007, 109-22 (with a reply by Haack).

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ethics (especially medical ethics); American philosophy (especially the philosophy of Charles Peirce). Works in progress include an article on vagueness and identity; an article on the ethics of Survivor-type games; an article on Peirce's attack on intuition; and a book-length introduction to Peirce's philosophy.

MEMBERSHIPS: Secretary-treasurer of the Charles S. Peirce Society, and a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the American Association of University Professors.

WEB SITES FOR PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT UWG CLASSES:

  • American Philosophy (PHIL 3120, Fall 2009)
  • Analytic Philosophy (PHIL 4150, Spring 2009)
  • Philosophy of Law (PHIL 4110, Spring 2007)
  • Political Philosophy (PHIL 4115, Spring 2003)
  • Professional Ethics (PHIL 4120, Spring 2009)
  • Senior Seminar (PHIL 4300, Fall 2007)

    Curriculum Vitae (updated January 3 2010)

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