Dave Truncellito

Assistant Professorial Lecturer

Office: Phillips 510A
Office Hours: M 12-1, W 1-2, F 12:30-1:30
Phone: (202) 994-7658
Email: truncell@gwu.edu
Website: http://home.gwu.edu/~truncell

Areas of Interest

• Epistemology
• Philosophy of language
• History of philosophy
• Philosophy of religion

Primary Courses Taught at GW

• Theory of Knowledge
• Historical Introduction to Western Philosophy
• Introduction to Logic

Selected Publications

• "Bob Dylan, skeptic", in Bob Dylan and Philosophy, Peter Vernezze and Carl Porter (eds.), (Chicago: Open Court, forthcoming)
• "Running in circles about begging the question", Argumentation (forthcoming)
• "Epistemology", in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (forthcoming).
• "Knowledge, justification, and the cooperative world" (with Keith Lehrer), in The Externalist Challenge: Studies on Cognition and Intentionality, Richard Schantz (ed.), (de Gruyter, forthcoming, 2004).
• "The ultrasystem and the conditional fallacy", in The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer, E.J. Olsson (ed.), Philosophical Studies Book Series (Kluwer: September 2003).
• "Which type is tokened by a token of a word-type?", Philosophical Studies, 97:3 (Feb. 2000), pp. 251-266.

Presentations, Activities, Work in Progress

• "Actions and action-processes: an account of act individuation", presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Washington, DC, 28 December 2003
• "How to talk about appearances", presented at GWU Philosophy brown bag, 30 January 2004.
• "The Janus-faced nature of epistemic justification", presented at University of Maryland, 17 March 2004
• "An epistemological argument for realism about truth", presented at the Society for Exact Philosophy, College Park, MD, May 15, 2004
• "Berkeley and substrata" (with Don Merrell; in preparation)
• The Concept of Epistemic Justification (book manuscript; in preparation)
• Faith, Reason, and Belief in God (edited anthology; in preparation)