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John R. Welch |
| Degrees | B.A. (Saint Louis University) M.A. (Boston University) Ph.D. (Boston University) |
| Specialization | Ethics Inductive Logic |
| Selected Publications | “Referential Inscrutability: Coming to Terms without It,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 22 (1984), 263-273. “Apuntes sobre el pensamiento matemático de Ramón Llull,” Theoria 4 (1989), 451-459. “Corporate Agency and Reduction,” The Philosophical Quarterly 39 (1989), 409-424. “Llull and Leibniz: The Logic of Discovery,” Catalan Review 4 (1990), 75-83. “Reconstructing Aristotle: The Practical Syllogism,” Philosophia 21 (1991), 69-88. “Responsabilidad colectiva y reduccionismo,” Pensamiento 48 (1992), 49-68. “La antiteoría y la filosofía del Renacimiento,” Cuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía 20 (1993), 173-178. “Science and Ethics: Toward a Theory of Ethical Value,” Journal for General Philosophy of Science 25 (1994), 279-292. “Hacia una lógica de analogía,” Revista Latinoamericana de Filosofía 20 (1994), 161-167. Review of Animal Minds and Human Morals, by Richard Sorabji, Philosophia, 25 (1996-97), 473-480. “Analogy in Ethics: Pragmatics and Semantics,” in The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy, ed. Paul Weingartner et al. (Kirchberg am Wechsel: die Österreichische Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, 1997), pp. 1016-1021. Review of Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism, by James L. Kastely, Philosophy in Review, 17 (1997), 262-264. “Singular Analogy and Quantitative Inductive Logics,” Theoria 14 (May 1999), 207-247. “Two Types of Moral Dilemma,” in The Future of Value Inquiry, ed. Matti Häyry and Tuija Takala (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001), pp. 75-81. “Cleansing the Doors of Perception: Aristotle on Induction,” in Greek Philosophy and Epistemology, ed. Konstantine Boudouris (Athens: International Association for Greek Philosophy, 2001), pp. 204-213. Ethics and Perplexity, Javier Muguerza, ed. John R. Welch (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004). Memory of the West, Reyes Mate, ed. John R. Welch (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004). “Gruesome Predicates,” in Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation, ed. Roberto Festa, Atocha Aliseda, Jeanne Peijnenburg (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005). “Vagueness and Inductive Molding,” Synthese 154 (2007), 147-172. Review of The Art and Logic of Ramón Llull: A User’s Guide, by Anthony Bonner, Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (2009), 313–314. Other Voices: Readings in Spanish Philosophy, ed. John R. Welch (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010). "Decision Theory and Cognitive Choice," European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (2011), 147-172. "Real-Life Decisions and Decision Theory," in Handbook of Risk Theory, ed. Sabine Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Martin Peterson, Per Sandin (Heidelberg: Springer Verlag)(forthcoming) |
| Recent Conferences |
“¿Cómo elegir una teoría?” Coloquio Complutense de Lógica, Lenguaje y Ciencia. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. “Axiological Choice,” Third International Conference on Axiology, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. "Decision Theory and Rational Choice," Progic 2009: 4th Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic, Groningen, The Netherlands. |
| Distinctions | Editor of Philosophy in Spain (a special series of the Value Inquiry Book Series) |
