Susan G. Sterrett, Philosophy
| Office Location: | 201 West Duke Building |
| Office Phone: | +1 919-660-3050 |
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| Web Page: | http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/sterrett |
Teaching (Fall 2008):
- PHIL 142.01, PROBLEMS IN PHIL OF SCIENCE
Synopsis
- West Duke 202, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
- PHIL 195.01, SPECIAL TOPICS
Synopsis
- West Duke 202, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 1999 M. A. Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 1989 M. A. Mathematics University of Pittsburgh 1987 B. S. Engineering Cornell University 1977
- Specialties:
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Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Language
History and Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Mind
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- S.G. Sterrett. "Models of Machines and Models of Phenomena." International Studies in Philosophy of Science 20.1 (March, 2006): 69-80. [contribution.asp] [abs] [author's comments]
- Susan G. Sterrett. Wittgenstein Flies A Kite: A Story of Models of Wings and Models of the World. Pi Press (Penguin Group imprint), Fall, 2005. (Appeared December 2005) [net] [abs]
- S.G. Sterrett. "Pictures of Sound: Wittgenstein on Gramophone Records and the Logic of Depiction." Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36.2 (June, 2005): 351-362. [pdf] [abs]
- S.G. Sterrett. ""The Proper Uses of Proportion: Understanding Galileo's Advance Over the Pythagoreans"." 12th UK Conference on Foundations of Physics (September, Accepted, 2003).
- Michael Potter. Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap. Philosophical Books. 44.3 July, 2003. 294-296. [author's comments]