Professor Paul Livingston
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy

Villanova University
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA 19085-1699


 


Office Location: SAC 170
Phone / Voice mail: (610) 519-4714
Paul.Livingston@villanova.edu

Curriculum Vitae

I work on the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language from a historical perspective, focusing on the history of twentieth-century philosophy, analytic and continental.  I also have interests in the philosophy of science and have published on Husserl, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein.  My first book, Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness, is now available from Cambridge University Press, and below are some links to current and recent papers.

 



Current Semester (Spring 2008) Courses:

Philosophy 1050-020: Introduction to Philosophy

Philosophy 4610: Philosophy of Mind
    
 

  
      Office Hours:
     
        Wednesday 2-3
PM       

        Thursday 1-2 PM

  


 

Some recent/current papers (in Word format):

Frege on Psychologism and the Context Principle

Quine's Appeal to Use and the Genealogy of Translation

Wittgenstein, Kant, and the Critique of Totality

 

Some older published papers (in PDF format):

Thinking and Being: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Machination and Lived-Experience

Experience and Structure: Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness

Husserl and Schlick on the Logical Form of Experience

Russellian and Wittgensteinian Atomism