Samuel C. Wheeler III

Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, U-54
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-2054
Office:  234 Manchester Hall

Phone: 486-3592

Email: samuel.wheeler@uconn.edu                      

Research Interests:

Sam Wheeler writes in metaphysics, ethics, deconstruction, and ancient philosophy. Recent publications include "Davidsonian Rationality and Ethical Disagreement between Cultures," in Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement, edited by Bo Mou, Brill, 2006;"Davidson as Derridan: Analytic Philosophy as Deconstruction," Cardozo Law Review, Volume 27, Number 2, November 2005, pp. 567-585; "Wittgenstein mit Davidson uber Metaphem," in Wittgenstein und Die Metaphor, ed. Arnswald, Kertscher, Kross, Parerga Verlag, Berlin, 2004; and "Davidson on Language and Literature," in Donald Davidson, Cambridge UP, 2003, pp. 183-206. His book Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy, was published in 2000 by Stanford University Press.

 

 

Links:

The band SOFT

Public Affairs Quarterly

                                                                       

Online Papers:

Attributives and their Modifiers

On Textual Individuation
Davidson as Derrida On That Which Is Not

Davidsonian Rationality and Chinese Ethics

Plato Enlightenment the Good as the Sun

Derrida's Differance and Plato's Different Reference and Vagueness

Inference and the Logical Ought

Reparations Reconstructed

Luddism Reassessed

Truth Metaphor Determinability
Megagarian Paradoxes as Eleatic Arguments Wittgenstein as Davidson on Metaphor

 

Gun stuff:

Arms as Insurance (Public Affairs Quarterly)

Self Defense (Public Affairs Quarterly)

 

In Progress:

Philosophy as Art  

God and Lewis

Divine Commands

Kant's Groundwork and Ought Sentences

Notes on a Line in the Sand

 

Reviews:

Review Lycan

Review of a House Divided

 

Full Vita