Peter Caws
University Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Human Sciences

Selected Publications

Books (author):

• The Philosophy of Science, A Systematic Account (Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1965)
• Science and the Theory of Value (New York: Random House, 1967)
• Sartre (The Arguments of the Philosophers) (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979, paperback edition with additional material 1984)
• Structuralism: The Art of the Intelligible (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1988, paperback 1990); 2nd edition [subtitle A Philosophy for the Human Sciences] Buffalo: Humanity Books, an imprint of Prometheus Publishers, 1997)
• Yorick's World: Science and the Knowing Subject (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
• The Capital Connection: Business, Science, and Government (New York: Baruch College, 1993)
• Ethics from Experience (Boston: Jones and Bartlett [now Wadsworth], 1996)

Books (editor):

• Two Centuries of Philosophy in America (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980)
• The Causes of Quarrel: Essays on Peace, War, and Thomas Hobbes (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989).

Selected recent chapters and articles (lifetime total 150+):

• "Terror: from the Armada to al-Qaeda," in Deborah Staines, ed., Interrogating the War on Terror (2007, forthcoming)
• "Sartrean Structuralism?" in Howells, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (1992)
• "Where the Argument Led," in Karnos and Shoemaker, eds., Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk About Their Calling (1993)
• "Subjectivity, Self-Identity, and Self-Description," in Sadler, ed., Philosophical Perspectives on Psychiatric Diagnostic Classification (1994)
• "Identity: Cultural, Transcultural, Multicultural," in Goldberg, ed., Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (1994)
• "Minimal Consequentialism," Philosophy (1995)
• "Sophistry, Rhetoric and the Postmodern Condition," Symploke (1997)
• "Moral Certainty in Tolstoy," Philosophy and Literature (2000)
• "The Unconscious is Structured Like a City: Freud, Lacan, and the project of the Human Sciences," Janus Head (2000)
• "Natural and Intentional Structures of Sexuality," Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (2003)
• "Psychoanalysis as the Idiosyncratic Science of the Individual Subject," Psychoanalytical Psychology (2003)
• "Arresting Images," catalogue essay for photography show curated jointly with Dr. Nancy Breslin, Luther W. Brady Gallery, the George Washington University (November 2003 - January 2004)
• "The Distributive Structure of the Social Group," Journal of Social Philosophy (2005)
• "To Hell and Back: Sartre on (and in) Analysis with Freud," in van den Hoven and Leak, eds., Sartre Today: A Centenary Celebration (2005)
• "First and Second Order Unification in the Social and Human Sciences," Graduate Journal of Social Science (2005)

Education

Ph.D., Yale