Peter Marton, Ph.D.
Part-Time Professor
Department of Philosophy
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
Phone: (508)-793-7414
Email: pmarton@clarku.edu
Professor Marton was an undergraduate student in Hungary, where he studied physics and biophysics, eventually earning an M.Sc. in both. He spent two years at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and then earned his Ph.D. at Brown University with Ernest Sosa as his thesis advisor.
Although his background is in epistemology, his current interest is in semantic paradoxes. Professor Marton is working on a moderate antirealist framework that dissolves and interprets paradoxes like the Liar, the Knower, the Non-Communicator, and Curry’s. He’s also interested in what concept of knowledge is compatible with this moderate antirealist framework.
Selected Publications
“Calling the Skeptic’s Bluff: Brains, Vats, and Irrelevance”, Philosophia, 47, (2019), 477 – 488.
“Truths, Facts, and Liars”, Organon F, 25 (2018), 155-173.
“Verificationists versus Realists: The Battle over Knowability,” Synthese, 151 (2006), 81 – 98.
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