Peter Murray

Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy   

Office: Ladd 108
Phone: 518-580-5401
Email: pmurray@skidmore.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Chicago
• M.A. in Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
• B.A. in Philosophy, UC Santa Cruz
• B.A. in Russian and Soviet Studies, UC San Diego

Teaching and research interests:

• Philosophy of Action
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Language
• Ancient Greek Philosophy
• Wittgenstein

Published works:

• (forthcoming) “Language, Thought, and Experience in Chiang’s ‘Story of Your Life’”.Ted Chiang and Philosophy (Palgrave)

• “Review of Neil Smith (1999). Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals”, Journal of Literary Semantics (Oct. 2000, vol. 29, issue 3, pp. 203-211)

Work in progress:

• “Patternism and the Numerical Identity of Persons”
• “Are We Essentially Mortal Beings?”
• “Personhood as an Moral Project”