John Biro, Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization

• Philosophy of Language
• Philosophy of Mind
• History of Modern Philosophy

Curriculum Vitae

• CV 2024

Edited Volumes

Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes (with O. Koistinen) Oxford University Press (2001)
Manuscrito special issue: David Hume (1997)
Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later (with P. Kotatko) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1995)
Mind, Brain and Function: Essays in the Philosophy of Mind (with R.W. Shahan) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (1982)
Spinoza: New Perspectives (with R.W. Shahan) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (1978)

Selected Papers

"Speech Acts and Reasonableness in Pragma-Dialectics." Topoi. 43 (4): 1287-1294 (2024)
"'Dogmatism' and Dogmatism." Episteme. doi: 10.1017/epi.2022.15 (2022)
"Two Notes on Composition." Metaphysica. https://doi.org/10.1515/mp-2022-0020 (2022)
"What Galileo Said." Argumenta 7:1, 233-246 (2021)
"Walton on argument, arguments, and argumentation." Journal of Applied Logics 8/1: 183-94 (2021)
"Leading a double life: statues and pieces of clay." Metaphysica 21/2: 273-7 (2021)
"Rearranging the furniture." Philosophia 48: 77-81 (2020)
"Persistence conditions and identity." Metaphysica 20/1: 73-82 (2019)
"'Peer disagreement' and evidence." (with F. Lampert) Logos & Episteme IX/4: 379-402 (2018)
"Constitution and Identity." Erkenntnis 83/6: 1127-38 (2018)
"Saving the Ship." European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 13/2: 43-54 (2017)
"Are There Scattered Objects?" Metaphysica 18/2: 155–65 (2017)
"What is Evidence of Evidence Evidence of?" (with F. Lampert) Logos & Episteme VIII/2: 195–206 (2017)
"Non-pickwickian belief and 'the Gettier problem'." Logos & Episteme VIII/1: 47–69 (2017)
"Co-location and separability." Philosophical Inquiries IV/2: 29–36 (2016)
"Showing the Time." Analysis 73/1: 57–62 (2013)
"Calling Names." Analysis 72/2: 285–293 (2012)
"What is 'That'?" Analysis 71/4: 651-653 (2011)
"The Number of Planets Is Not a Number." Analysis 70/4: 622-631 (2010)
"A Point of View on Points of View." Philosophical Psychology, 19/1: 3–12 (2006)
"A Logically Transparent Theory of Discourse Reporting." (with C. Washington), Mind and Language, 16/2: 146–72 (2001)
"Epistemic Normativity, Argumentation and Fallacies." (with H. Siegel) Argumentation 11/3: 277–92 (1997)
"Are There More Than Minimal A Priori Constraints on Rationality?" (with K. Ludwig), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 72/1: 89–102 (1994)
"Hume's new science of the mind," in The Cambridge Companion to Hume, (David Fate Norton, ed.), Cambridge University Press: 33–63 (1993)
"In Defence of Social Content." Philosophical Studies 67/3: 277–93 (1992)
"Hume and Cognitive Science." History of Philosophy Quarterly 22/3: 257–74 (1985)
"Intention, Demonstration and Reference." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 43/1: 35–41 (1982)
"Meaning, Translation and Interpretation." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 59/3: 267–82 (1981)
"Intentionalism in the Theory of Meaning." The Monist 62/2: 238–58 (1979)
"Rescuing 'Begging the Question'." Metaphilosophy 8/4: 257–71 (1977)
"Hume on Self-Identity and Memory." The Review of Metaphysics XXX/1: 19–38 (1976)

Professional Associations

Hume Society
Florida Philosophical Association

Graduate Education

Syracuse University, PhD 1973

Awards & Fellowships

Research Fellow, U of W. Ontario, 1982
Post-doc Fellow, U of Auckland, 1973-75