Peter Marton
Graduate Student in Philosophy
Office: Gerard House, 54 College St.
Office Phone: (401) 863-2719
E-Mail: Peter_Marton@brown.edu
Research Interest
Epistemology, logic, History of Modern Philosophy (especially Descartes), Philosophy
of Science, Metaphysics
Current Work
Epistemic paradoxes and skeptical arguments as e.g. the Lottery
Paradox, the Knowability Paradox, the Problem of The Criterion,
arguments and counterarguments on the Brains-in-a-Vat Scenario
Publications
- Marton, Peter (1999): "Ordinary versus Super-Omniscient Interpreters" Philosophical Quarterly, 49, 72-77.
- Marton, Peter (1999): "Skeptics versus Dogmatics: The Battle over the Criterion," Dialectica, forthcoming
- Marton, Peter (1998): "Zombies v. Materialists: The Battle over Conceivability," Southwest Philosophy Review, 14 131-138.
- Erdi, P.; Grobler, T. & Marton, P. (1992): "On the Double Architecture of the Semantic Memory," Nature, Cognition and System 2, Dordrecht: Kluwer Publ., 193-203,
- Grobler, T; Marton, P. & Erdi, P. (1991): "On the Dynamic Organization of the Memory: A Mathematical Model of Associative Free Recall," Biological Cybernetics, 65, 73-79.
- Kövesdi, P.; Marton, P. & Szilágyi, M. (eds.): Megfúvom fűzfa lantomat [An Anthology on Amusingly Bad Poems—in Hungarian], Budapest: Mora, 1990.
- Erdei, H. & Marton, P. (1988): "Élet a zsidó gimnáziumban" [On the History of the Jewish Secondary School at Budapest—in Hungarian], História.
Lectures & Conferences
April 1998 Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
Annual Meeting, New Orleans ("Exclusive Justification and the Lottery
Paradox")
March 1998 APA (Pacific) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA ("What Do Our Counterparts Eat? Beliefs, References and the Skeptic's
Scenarios" presented at colloquium session)
Nov. 1997 Southwestern Philosophical Society's Annual Meeting;
Memphis, TN ("Zombies v. Materialists: The Battle over Conceivability")
April 1997 Emory University Graduate Conference ("Skeptics
versus Dogmatics: The Battle over the Criterion"),
March 1997 Syracuse University Graduate Conference ("Achilles
and the Tortoise on Modus Ponens: The End of the Story")
Links
David Chalmers' Zombie Page
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