Brown, Bryson -

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Bryson
Last Name: 
Brown
Department / Program: 
Philosophy
Phone: 
4033292506
Extension: 
University of Lethbridge
Email Address: 
brown@uleth.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Biology
Science
Time Period: 
19th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
Preservationism, paraconsistency, ambiguity logics, laws of nature, free will, inconsistency in science, scientific realism, paraconsistent logic, weakly aggregative logic, preservationist logic
Academics
PHD Program: 
Philosophy
PHD University: 
University of Pittsburgh
PHD Date: 
1985
Major Publications: 
On Preserving: Essays on Preservationism and Paraconsistent Logic, co-edited with P.K. Schotch and R.E. Jennings, forthcoming from University of Toronto Press. Evolution: A Historical Perspective, Westport Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press 2007. Truth and Probability: Essays in Honour of Hugues Leblanc, co-edited with François Lepage, London: College Publications 2006. Logical Consequence: Rival Approaches, co-edited with J.H. Woods. Proceedings of the 1999 meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy. General Editor: Dov Gabbay (Stanmore, Middlesex: Hermes Science Press. 2001). New Essays in Exact Philosophy: Logic, Mathematics and Science, co-edited with J.H Woods. Proceedings of the 1999 meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy. General Editor: Dov Gabbay (Stanmore, Middlesex: Hermes Science Press. 2001).
Membership in Academic Societies: 
CPA, SEP, CSHPS
Courses Taught: 
Logic, from introduction to a senior course in mathematical logic; Wilfrid Sellars' Science, Perception and Reality (4th year seminar); Philosophy and the world view of science 1: Earth and Life Sciences; Philosophy and the world view of sciences 2: Physical Sciences; Epistemology, Metaphysics, Early Modern Philosophy.