Albert Atkin
BA Nottingham, MA Nottingham, PhD Sheffield
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Albert completed his PhD at Sheffield in 2005 with a thesis on Indexical Reference and the Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. He has worked at Glasgow University and Sheffield University in the U.K. before coming to Macquarie in October 2007.
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Teaching
- PHIL134 Introductory Formal Logic
- PHIL137 Critical Thinking
- PHIL280 Truth and Existence
Recent publications
"Peirce, Perry and The Lost History of Critical Referentialism" Philosophia 36:3. 313-326. (2008)
"Peirce's Final Account of Signs and The Philosophy of Language". The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 44:1. 63-85. (2008)
“Peirce’s Theory of Signs”. Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. (2006)
“There’s no place like ‘here’ and no time like ‘now’”. American Philosophical Quarterly. 43:3. 271-80. (2006).
“Peirce on the Index and Indexical Reference”. The Transactions of Charles S. Peirce Society. 41:1. 161 -188. (2005).
(A more complete list of publications with drafts is available at this site)
Current research
Albert is currently working on linguistic analyses of epistemological concepts, C.S. Peirce's Sign Theories and Diagram Logics, and developing a semantically minimalist account of demonstrative reference.
Contact details
Phone: (61 2) 9850 6880
Fax: (61 2) 9850 8892
Email: albert.atkin@scmp.mq.edu.au
Office hours: Tuesdays, 9am - 11am