Philosophical research is a major emphasis at Stony Brook, with a number of diverse areas of cutting-edge work represented among faculty and graduate students. Here are some on-going working groups, projects and articles for casual perusal:

General Research

Group for Logic and Formal Semantics

An informal collaborative group of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates which has produced a range of work in semantic paradox and chaos, fractal images and formal systems, and game theory and cellular automata.

Philosophy and Literature

The International Association for Philosophy and Literature has its Executive Office based at Stony Brook. Graduate students are actively involved in the conferences and development of this major international interdisciplinary professional association.

Graduate students have also contributed to the development of the Undergraduate Research Track in Philosophy and Literature.

The Philosopher's Annual

Continental Philosophy

Faculty Papers

David Allison

  1. "Reading the Case of Christopher: Munchausen's by Proxy Syndrome"
  2. "Iconologies: Reading Simulations with Plato and Nietzsche"
  3. "Transgression and Its Itinerary"

Edward S. Casey

  1. "Smooth Spaces and Rough-Edged Places: The Hidden History of Place"

Robert Crease

  1. "The Health Effects of Radiation"

Patrick Grim

  1. "Evolution of Communication in Perfect and Imperfect Worlds"
  2. "Evolution of Communication with a Spatialized Genetic Algorithm"
  3. "A Fuzzy Fairly Happy Face"
  4. "Undecidability in the Spatialized Prisoner's Dilemma: Some Philosophical Implications (hypertext with graphics)"
  5. "Truth, Omniscience, and Cantorian Arguments: An Exchange"
  6. "Fractal Images of Formal Systems"
  7. The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling
  8. "Learning to Communicate: The Emergence of Signaling in Spacialized Arrays of Neural Nets"
  9. Animated illustrations from "Making Meaning Happen"

Dick Howard

  1. Von der Politik des Willens zur Politik der Urteilskraft, Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2005.
  2. Politisches Urteil statt Moralischer Wille, Kommune 3, 2006.
  3. De l'idéalisme en politique, La vie des idées, June 2006.
  4. Marxist Misunderstandings: Perry Anderson and French Politics, Democraktiya, Summer 2006.

Don Ihde

  1. "How Could We Ever Believe Science is not Political?"
  2. Interview with Don Ihde
  3. "If Phenomenology is an Albatross, is Postphenomenology Possible?"
  4. "Whole Earth Measurements"
  5. "Why Not Science Critics?"
  6. "Expanding Hermeneutics"

Eva Kittay

  1. At the Margins of Moral Personhood
  2. Equality, Dignity and Disability
  3. "Dependency, Difference and the Global Ethic of Longterm Care"
  4. "Encyclopedia of Philosophy Article: Metaphor"
  5. "Response to Peter Singer"
  6. "A Feminist Public Ethic of Care Meets the New Communitarian Family Policy"
  7. "Case Study: Shouldering the Burden of Care"

Gary Mar

  1. "Chaos in Cooperation: Continuous-Valued Prisoner's Dilemmas in Infinite-Valued Logic"
  2. "The Modal Unity of Anselm's Proslogion "
  3. "Real Life"
  4. The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling

Eduardo Mendieta

  1. "Surviving American Culture: On Chuck Palahniuk" [PDF File]
  2. "The 'Clash of Civlizations' and the Just War Tradition" [PDF File]
  3. "'To make live and to let die' -- Foucault on Racism" [PDF File]

Rita Nolan

  1. "The Unnaturalness of Grue "   [PDF File]
  2. "Distinguishing Perceptual from Conceptual Categories"   [PDF File]
  3. "An Ideational Account of Early Categories of Word Learning: A Plausibility Assessment"
    4.    [PDF File]

Hugh J. Silverman

  1. "On the Textuality of Philosophy -- Philosophy and Literature"

On-Line Philosophy Journals

(Linked through the Stony Brook library, this sites include access to full-text articles in current journals to which Stony Brook has a subscription. Access is readily available to those accessing the site on-campus, though journals may be accessed off-campus by Stony Brook faculty and students. For information on how to access from an off-campus location, visit this site: Off-Campus Access to Journals)
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