Robert Lane, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy

Education / Degrees

• Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Miami, 1998

• Courses Taught
  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics-Honors)
  • PHIL-3110 (Modern Philosophy)
  • PHIL-3120 (American Philosophy)
  • PHIL-4150 (Analytic Philosophy)
  • PHIL-4160 (Symbolic Logic)
  • PHIL-4300 (Senior Seminar)
  • PHIL-4385 (Truth & Reality)
  • PHIL-5385 (Truth and Reality)
• Course Sections and Syllabi

  Spring 2020 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 02
  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 04
  • PHIL-4160 (Symbolic Logic) Section: 01

  Fall 2019 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-4385 (Truth and Reality) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Summer 2019 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [DOC]

  Spring 2019 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 04 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-3120 (American Philosophy) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Fall 2018 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [DOC]
  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 02 Download Syllabus [DOC]
  • PHIL-4150 (Analytic Philosophy) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [DOC]

  Summer 2018 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [DOC]

  Spring 2018 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-4160 (Symbolic Logic) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Fall 2017 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 03 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 04 Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Summer 2017 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Spring 2017 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 25H Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-3110 (Modern Philosophy) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-3120 (American Philosophy) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Fall 2016 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-4150 (Analytic Philosophy) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-4300 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Summer 2016 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [DOC]

  Spring 2016 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics) Section: 03 Download Syllabus [DOC]
  • PHIL-3110 (Modern Philosophy) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [DOC]
  • PHIL-4160 (Symbolic Logic) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [DOC]
  • PHIL-5385 (Symbolic Logic) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Summer 2015 Sections

  • PHIL-4385 (Truth & Reality) Section: 01W View Syllabus
  • PHIL-5385 (Truth and Reality) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]

  Spring 2015 Sections

  • PHIL-2030 (Introduction to Ethics-Honors) Section: 25H Download Syllabus [PDF]
  • PHIL-3120 (American Philosophy) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
• Publication List

  Peirce on Realism and Idealism, Cambridge University Press. [View Publication]

  Peirce's 'Entanglement' with the Principles of Excluded Middle and Non-Contradiction [View Publication]

  Why Bacon's Method is Not 'Certain' [View Publication]

  Peirce's Triadic Logic Revisited [View Publication]

  Why I Was Never a Zygote [View Publication]

  On Peirce's Early Realism [View Publication]

  Safety, Identity and Consent: A Limited Defense of Reproductive Human Cloning [View Publication]

  Synechistic Bioethics: How a Peircean Views the Abortion Debate [View Publication]

  Peirce's Modal Shift: From Set Theory to Pragmaticism [View Publication]

  Peirception: Haack's Critical Common-sensism about Perception [View Publication]

  Persons, Signs, Animals: A Peircean Account of Personhood [View Publication]

  The Final Incapacity: Peirce on Intuition and the Continuity of Mind and Matter, Part 1 [View Publication]

  The Final Incapacity: Peirce on Intuition and the Continuity of Mind and Matter, Part 2 [View Publication]

  Peircean Semiotic Indeterminacy and Its Relevance for Biosemiotics [View Publication]

• Skills and Resources

  Pragmatism / American Philosophy

  Pragmatism is the only major tradition of philosophy indigenous to the United States. It is thus the primary topic of books, classes, and other works dealing with "American Philosophy." Classical pragmatists include Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey. More recent "neo-pragmatists" include Richard Rorty and Susan Haack. Despite great differences among the views of the various pragmatists, what unifies them is their concern to understand traditional philosophical concepts and issues (including truth, reality and knowledge) in terms of human action and experience.

  Medical Ethics

  Bioethics is the area of ethics that deals with concrete issues arising within the medical professions and sciences. My specific expertise includes the moral debates surrounding abortion and human cloning.

  Metaphysics

  Metaphysics is the area of philosophy that asks basic questions about how the world is. Within this area, my specializations are questions about truth and reality.