Curriculum Vitae 2015
JAMES THOMAS CARGILE
Place and Date of Birth Ponca City, Oklahoma - 13 April 1938
Education University of Utah, B.A. 1957 University of Virginia, M.A. 1962 University of Cambridge, Ph.D. 1965
Teaching Experience T.A., University of Virginia, 1960-62 Tutor, University of Cambridge, 1962-65 Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, 1965-69 Visiting Asst. Professor, University of Michigan, Fall 1968 Associate Professor, University of Virginia, 1969-80 Visiting Assoc. Professor, University of Illinois, Fall 1970 Professor, University of Virginia, 1981-present FBI Academy (taught logic and ethics)
Areas of Specialization Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosophy of Language
Honors and Awards All-University Outstanding Teaching Award, 1997
Publications
Books
Paradoxes: A Study in Form and Predication, Cambridge University Press, 1979. (This book was re-issued in paperback, 2009).
Articles “Logical Form” in The Force of Argument, ed. By Jonathan Lear and Alex Oliver, Routledge, 2010, pp.48-67.
Critical Notice of The Language of Thought Revisited by Jerry Fodor (Oxford 2008) in Analysis, February, 2010, pp.1-10.
“The Fallacy of Epistemicism” Oxford Studies in Epistemology. 2006. pp. 33-67.
“On ‘Alexander’s Dictum’” Topoi vol. 22 (2003).
“On Russell’s Argument Against Resemblance Nominalism” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2003. “Panteismo” in Arete vol XIII no. 2, 2001.
Comments on Christopher Peacocke’s Being Known for the Book Symposium Philosophical Books 2001.
“Skepticism and Possibilities” Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 2000.
“Proposition and Tense” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 1999.
“On an Argument Against Closure” Nous, June 1999.
“The Problem of Induction”, Philosophy 73, 1998.
“On the Burden of Proof”, Philosophy 72, 1997.
“Evidence and Inquiry” by Susan Haack (Book Symposium), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56, 1996.
“Some Comments on Fatalism”, Philosophical Quarterly 46, 1996.
14 entries for The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 1995.
"Justification and Misleading Defeaters", Analysis 55, 1995.
"Supposing for the Sake of Argument" Inquiry 1995.
Critical Notice of The Revision Theory of Truth by Anil Gupta and Nuel Belnap, in Philosophical Books, 1995.
"On a Problem About Probability and Decision", Analysis 52, 1992.
"Real and Nominal Definitions" in Definitions and Definability: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. by J. H. Fetzer, D. Shatz and G. Schlesinger, (Kluwer Publications, 1991).
“Tense and Existence” in Cause, Mind, and Reality: Essays Honoring C. B. Martin (Norwell Kluwer, 1989).
"What is a Natural Property?", Philosophy 64, 1989.
"Definitions and Counter-Examples", Philosophy 62, 1987.
Critical Notice of Recent Essays on Truth and The Liar Paradox, ed. by R. L. Martin, Mind, 1986.
"Classical Logic: Traditional and Modern" in Principles of Philosophical Reasoning ed. by James H. Fetzer, APQ Library, 1984.
Comments on "The Priority of Human Interests" by Lawrence C. Becker in Ethics and Animals ed. by Harlan Miller and William Williams (Humana Press,1983).
“Postscript to Human Interests, Porcine Interests, and Chipmunk Interests” in Ethics and Animals ed. by Harlan B. Miller and William Williams (Humana Press, 1983).
"Newcombe's Paradox", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 26, 1975.
"The Ontological Argument", Philosophy 50, 1975.
"On an Interpretation of T, S4, and S5", Philosophia 2, 1972.
"In Reply to a Defense of Skepticism" Philosophical Review 81, 1972. (Reprinted in Essays on Knowledge and Justification ed. by George S. Pappas and Marshall Swain, Cornell University Press.
"Moore's Proposition W", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 13, 1972.
"On Near Knowledge", Analysis 31, 1971.
" On Goodman's Riddle of Induction", Ratio 12, 1970.
"Davidson's Notion of Logical Form", Inquiry 13, 1970.
"A Note on `Iterated Knowings'", Analysis 30, 1970.
“The Sorites Paradox’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 20, 1969. (Reprinted in Vagueness: a Reader edited by Rosanna Keefe and Peter Smith, MIT Press 1996).
“On Consequentialism”, Analysis 29, 1969. (Reprinted in Ethical Theory 2 edited by James Rachels, Oxford Readings in Philosophy 1998.)
"A Note on "Time, Truth and Modalities", Mind 77, 1968. (With G.B. Thomas)
"On Believing You Believe", Analysis 27, 1967.
"The Surprise Test Paradox", The Journal of Philosophy 64, 1967.
"On Omnipotence", Nous 1, 1967. "Pascal's Wager", Philosophy 41, 1966. (Reprinted in Introduction to Philosophy ed. by Perry and Bratman, 1986).
"On Having Reasons", Analysis 26, 1966.
"The Universalisibility of Lying" The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 43, 1965.
"Utilitarianism and the Desert Island Problem", Analysis 25, 1964. (Reprinted in Mill: Utilitarianism, ed. by Samuel Gorovitz).
Reviews
Review of David Kaplan and Richard Montague “A Paradox Regained” Notre Dame of Formal Logic 1960, Martin Gardner “A New Prediction Paradox, The British Journal for The Philosophy of Science, 1962, and Karl Popper, “A Comment on the New Prediction Paradox, Ibid., Journal of Symbolic Logic, pp. 102-3, 1965.
Review of P.T.Geach, “Ryle on Namely-Riders” Analysis 1957, P.J.Fitzpatrick, “’Heterological’ and Namely-Riders” Ibid 1961 and Geach “Namely-Riders Again”, Ibid 1962. Journal of Symbolic Logic, pp. 408-9, 1967.
Review of E.J. Lemmon “On Sentences Verifiable by Their Use” Analysis 1962, Jaako Hintikka, Cogito, Ergo Sum: Inference of Performance? The Philosophical Review, 1962. Journal of Symbolic Logic, pp. 615-16, 1968.
Review, of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel “New Light on the Liar” Analysis 1957, and “Do Natural Languages Contain Paradox?” Studium Generale 1966. Journal of Symbolic Logic, p. 645, 1969.
Review of J.L. Austin, “The Meaning of a Word”, “Truth” and “Unfair to Facts” from Philosophical Papers by J.L.Austin, Oxford 1961. Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1970, pp. 569-71.
Review of M.J.O’Carroll “Improper Self-Reference in Classical Logic and the Prediction Paradox” and “A Three-valued Non-levelled Logic Consistent for all Self-reference” Logique et Analyse 1967. The Journal of Symbolic Logic 1971, PP. 422-3.
Review of P.F. Strawson, Individuals. An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. Methuen 1959. Journal of Symbolic Logic 1973 pp.320-23.
Review of Robert L. Martin, “Toward a solution to the Liar Paradox” The Philosophical Review 1967, and “On Grelling’s Paradox” Ibid. 1968, Bas C. van Fraasen “Presupposition, Implication and Self-reference” The Journal of Philosophy 1968, Brian Skyrms “Return of the Liar: Three- valued Logic and the Concept of Truth” American Philosophical Quarterly and The Paradox of the Liar edited by Robert L. Martin (Yale 1970). Journal of Symbolic Logic, pp. 584-7, 1975.
Review of Rational Belief Systems by Brian Ellis (Rowman and Littlefield, 1979) Philosophical Review, 1981.
Review of Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation, ed. by Richmond Campbell and Lanning Sowden, (Vancouver 1985), Nous, 1984.
Review of Rational Decision and Causality by Ellery Eells (Cambridge, 1982) Journal of Philosophy, 1984.
Review of The Liar, An Essay in Truth and Circularity, ed. by J. Barwise and J. Etchemendy, (Oxford, 1987), Nous, 199_, pp. 757-773.
Review of In Contradiction by Graham Priest (Martinus Nijhoff 1987), Canadian Philosophical Reviews 1989.
Review of Paradoxes, ed. by R.M. Sainsbury, Cambridge, Philosophy, 199_.
Review of Wittgensteinian Themes by Norman Malcolm (Cornell 1995) Philosophical Books 1997.
Review of Truth and Paradox by Tim Maudlin, Clarendon Press 2004, Philosophical Books, July 2005.