Peter Murray

teaching Professor

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

Degrees:

• 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”