Department of Philosophy
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
The following are courses which I either have taught or currently teach at Macquarie
- PHL134 Introductory Formal Logic
- PHL137 Critical Thinking
- PHL131 Mind Meaning and Metaphysics
- PHL280 Truth and Existence
- PHL281 Language and Logic
- Honours Seminar: Indexicals and Demonstratives
- Honours Seminar: The Philosophy of Race
Graduate Supervision
- Nick Maley (Primary Supervisor) - "A unified theory of representation based on significance"
- Julie Germein (Primary Supervisor) - "A Peircian semiotic analysis of self-awareness"
- Lise Marie Anderson (Associate Supervisor) - "Mental Causation"
Publications
Books
- C.S. Peirce. (forthcoming) (New York: Routledge)
- The Philosophy of Race. (forthcoming) (Acumen)
Journal Articles
- "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)
- “Arguing About Muslims: (Un) Reasonable Argumentation in Letters to the Editor”. (with J.E. Richardson). Text and Talk. 27(1): 1-26.(2007)
- “ ‘You’re Being Unreasonable’: Passing and Prior Theories of Critical Discussion”.(with J.E. Richardson) Argumentation. 20(2): 149-166. (2006)
- “There’s No Place Like ‘Here’ and No Time Like ‘Now’”. American Philosophical Quarterly. 43: 217-80.(2006)
- “Peirce on The Index and Indexical Reference”. Transactions of The Charles S. Peirce Society. 41(1): 161-188.(2005)
Chapters
- "Icon, Index, Symbol". In Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. (forthcoming 2011). (Cambridge MA: Cambridge University Press)
- "Abduction". In Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. (forthcoming 2011). (Cambridge MA: Cambridge University Press)
- "Peirce". Oxford Bibliographies Online (2010). here
- "Pragmatism". Oxford Bibliographies Online (2010).here
- "Peirce's Theory of Signs". Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.(2006)
- “Constructing the Imagined Antagonist”.(with J.E. Richardson). In Argumentation in Practice. Eds. Frans Van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser. (2005). (Amsterdam: John Benjamins)
Conference Proceedings
- “Arguing With Asperger’s”. (with J.E. Richardson and C. Blackmore). In Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA). Eds Van Eemeren and Houtlosser. (2007). (Amsterdam: SicSat)
Reviews
- Review of Peirce’s Theory of Signs by T.L. Short. Mind. (forthcoming)
- Review of Common Sense: A New Look at an Old Tradition by N. Rescher. Mind. 116 (461): 206-9. (2007).
(Drafts and links to some of these papers are 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, developing an account of demonstrative reference, and analysing our concepts of 'race' and 'racism'.
Administrative responsibilities
- Philosophy Marketing and Outreaching Committee
- Philosophy HDR Committee
Contact details
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Location: Building W6A Room 727
Phone: (61 2) 9850 6880
Fax: (61 2) 9850 8892
Email: albert.atkin@mq.edu.au
Office hours: to be advised
(last updated: 8/6/10 )
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