CURRICULUM VITAE

Education:

B.A. 1965 Swarthmore College (with High Honors)

M.A. 1967 Harvard University (Philosophy)

Ph.D. 1971 Harvard University (Philosophy)

Experience: 1970- Instructor,
1970- 71, University of Connecticut; Assistant Professor, 1971-77; Associate Professor, l977-

Professional Societies: American Philosophical Association; Oxford Bibliographical Society; International Berkeley Society; Hume Society; Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Honors or Distinctions: Phi Beta Kappa; Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard and Oxford, 1969-70; NEH Younger Humanist Fellowship, 1974; Member of Common Room, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1977.

Fields of Specialization: History of Modern Philosophy; Normative Theory, Epistemology.

Research Interests: 17th & 18th century Philosophy and Science; Philosophy of Economics; Wittgenstein.

Publications:

Troyer, J.G. 1971. Color: A Philosophical Study. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University: iii-175.

Troyer, J.G. 1971. Review of Mind and Brain: A Philosophy of Science, by A. Rosenblueth (MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.) & London, 1970). The Philosophical Review, 80 (4): 522-5.

Troyer, J.G. 1972. Review of The Elusive Mind, by H.D. Lewis (George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London; Humanities Press, Inc., New York: Muirhead Library of Science, 1969). The Journal of Philosophy, 69 (6): 168-73.

Troyer, J.G. and S.C. Wheeler III. 1973. "Note on the University of Connecticut Conference on Language, Intentionality, and Translation Theory", Studi Internazionali di Filosofia, 5: 221.

Troyer, J.G. and S.C. Wheeler (eds.). 1974. Intentionality, Language, and Translation, a special issue of Synthese, 27 (3/4): 309-534.

Troyer, J.G. 1975. "Locke on the Names of Substances". The Locke Newsletter, 6: 27-39. Reprinted in Chappell (ed.), John Locke: Theory of Knowledge (Garland Publishing, Inc., NewYork & London, 1992): 549-61.

Troyer, J.G. 1976. "Does Utilitarianism Tell Us What To Do?". Abstract of a paper read at the Western Division meetings of the APA. Bulletin for the Western Division Meetings (April, 1976): 32.

Troyer, J.G. 1976. "Primary Qualities and the 'Corpuscular Philosophy'". The Southern Journal of Philosophy 14 (2): 203-11.

Troyer, J.G. 1977. "Euthanasia, the Right to Life, and Moral Structures". In Englehardt and Spicker (eds.), Philosophical Medical Ethics: Its Nature and Significance (D. Reidel, Dordrecht & Boston): 85-95.

Troyer, J.G. 1980. "The Existence of Simples". In Leinfellner, et al. (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Impact on Contemporary Thought (D. Reidel, Dordrecht & Boston): 121-3.

Troyer, J.G. 1981. "Rationality and Maximization". In Morscher and Stranzinger (eds.), Ethics: Foundations, Problems and Applications (D. Reidel, Dordrecht & Boston): 211-5.

Troyer, J.G. 1982. Review of Ethics in Nursing, by M. Benjamin and J. Curtis. (Oxford University Press, New York, 1981). The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 7: 383-5.

Troyer, J.G. 1982. "Sorites 'Paradoxes' and Ontology". In Leinfellner,

Kraemer, and Schrank (eds.), Language and Ontology (D. Reidel Dordrecht & Boston): 156-8.

Troyer, J.G. 1982. "A.J. Ayer". In Colliers Encyclopedia (Macmillan, New York), vol. III: 404.

Troyer, J.G. 1982. "W.V.O. Quine". In Colliers Encyclopedia (Macmillan, New York), vol. XIX: 576-77.

Troyer, J.G. 1983. "Truth and Beauty: The Aesthetics of Chess Problems". In Haller (ed.), Aesthetics (Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna): 126-30.

Troyer, J.G. , Garry Brodsky, and David Vance (eds.). 1984. Contemporary Readings in Social and Political Ethics (Prometheus Books): ix-436.

Troyer, J.G. 1986. "Bioethics". In Colliers Encyclopedia (Macmillan, New York), vol. IV: 164-164b.

Troyer, J.G. 1992. "Roderick Firth". In J. Dancy and E. Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Epistemology (Basil Blackwell, Oxford): 142-3.

Troyer, J.G. 1992. "C.I. Lewis". In J. Dancy and E. Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Epistemology (Basil Blackwell, Oxford): 247-48.

Troyer, J.G. 1992. Review of Coercion, Freedom and Exploitation, by Michael Gorr (Peter Lang, New York, 1989). Ethics, 103 (1): 199.

Troyer, J.G. 1995. "Transitivity and Rationality". Abstract of a paper read at the Pacific Division meetings of the APA. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association (January, 1995): 125.

Troyer, J.G. 1997. Review of Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy, by P.M.S. Hacker. Review of Metaphysics 51 (Sept. 1997), 155-57.

Troyer, J.G. (ed.) 1997. In Defense of Radical Empiricism: Essays and Lectures by Roderick Firth. (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD): vi + 439.

Troyer, J.G. 1997. "A Pragmatic Defense of Phenomenalism". In The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy, vol II, edited by Paul Weingartner et al. (The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel): 950-54.

Troyer, J.G. 1998. Review of Rule-Following and Realism, by Gary Ebbs. Review of Metaphysics 52 (Dec. 1998), 137-39.

Troyer, J.G. 1999. "Roderick Firth". In American National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford): 940-41.

Troyer, J.G. 2000. "Human and Other Natures: A Comment on Flack and de Waal". In Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross- Disciplinary Perspectives (Imprint Academic, Exeter, UK): 62-66.