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)