Education
Ph.D. University of Toronto
MA University of Manitoba
BA University of Manitoba

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Email: glenn.tiller@tamucc.edu
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Spring 2008

1. Professional Ethics 3340.102
2. Professional Ethics 3340.122

Past Courses

American Philosophy and Pragmatism, especially the work of George Santayana and Charles S. Peirce.

Philosophy

• While I was an undergraduate student at the University of Manitoba (http://www.umanitoba.ca/) I became very interested in the philosophy of Santayana. For quite a while Santayana was virtually my only philosophical interest. Most people know Santayana through the quote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." He is a quotable philosopher. But there is much more to him than that. Have a look.

1. http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/
2. http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~kerrlaws/Santayana/Bulletin/seville.html

• In 1996 I entered the doctoral program at the Univeristy of Toronto (http://philosophy.utoronto.ca/site/news/). I worked with Cheryl Misak, along with Angus Kerr-Lawson of the Univeristy of Waterloo (http://www.uwaterloo.ca/). This led me to the writings of Charles S. Peirce, the inventor of (amongst other things) pragmatism. Who is Peirce? The quote at the top of the page following the link below states: "Who is the most original and the most versatile intellect that the Americas have so far produced? The answer "Charles S. Peirce" is uncontested, because any second would be so far behind as not to be worth nominating." Now that's high praise, no? Check it out.

1. http://www.peirce.org/

• The term "pragmatism" signals both a philosophical doctrine about meaning and truth and a philosophical movement which started in America in the 19th century. Peirce invented pragmatism, but it took on a life of its own. Pragmatism is still going strong today. Plenty of information on pragmatism and the pragmatists is found at this site:

1. http://www.pragmatism.org/

Articles

• "Distance From The Truth," Under Any Sky: Contemporary Interpretations of Santayana, eds. Matt Flamm and Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, May 2007.

• "The Unknowable: The Pragmatist Critique of Matter," Transactions Of The C. S. Peirce Society, Vol. 42, No.2, Spring 2006.

• "From Doubt to Dogma: Ontology and Santayana’s Sceptical Analysis of Knowledge," Qui Parle, Vol.15, No.1, Fall/Winter 2004.

• "Peirce and Santayana: Pragmatism and the Belief in Substance," Transactions Of The C. S. Peirce Society, Vol.38, No.3, Summer 2002.

• "Self-Knowledge and Psychology: Literary, Dialectical, and Scientific," Overheard In Seville: Bulletin Of The Santayana Society, Fall 2001.

• "Projectivism, Expressivism and Santayana," Journal Of The History Of Philosophy, Vol. XXXVIII, No.2, April 2000.

• "Caresses and Insults: A Note On Santayana's Metaethics," Overheard In Seville: Bulletin Of The Santayana Society, No.16, Fall 1998.

Encyclopedia Entries

• "Categories", American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse, New York: Routledge, 2008.

• "Santayana, George: Animal Faith", American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse, New York: Routledge, 2008.

• "Santayana, George: Influence", American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse, New York: Routledge, 2008.

Reviews

• Error: On Our Predicament When Things Go Wrong, Nicholas Rescher, Philosophy In Review, Vol.XXVIII, No.2, April 2008.

• The Non-Existence of God, Nicholas Everitt, Dialogue, Vol.45, No.06, 2006.

• Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism, Christopher Hookway, Dialogue, Vol.XLII, No.4, Fall 2003.

• Review essay: The Letters of George Santayana, Vol. 1-4, William G. Holzberger, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, No.96, October 2003.

• The Letters of George Santayana, Vol. 1, William G. Holzberger, ed. Transactions Of The C. S. Peirce Society, Vol.38, No.4, Fall 2002.

• Peirce, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis, J. Brent and John P. Muller, eds. Philosophy In Review, Vol. XXI, No.4, August 2001.

• "Counting Categories With Peirce and Santayana", presented at the December meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, 2007.

• "Distance From the Truth", presented at the II International Conference on George Santayana, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Opole, Poland, June 2006.

• "Facing different problems when we seem to be discussing the same point: comments on Forster", annual meeting of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, San Antonio, March 2006.

• "Thought Experiments and Counterfactuals: comments on Dohutia", November meeting of the Ontario Philosophical Society, University of Ottawa, Canada, 2003.

• "Pragmatism, Belief and Substance", presented at the May meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Toronto, 2002.

• "Kantian or Naturalist? Peirce's Case Against Psychologism: comments on Forster", May meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Toronto, 2002.

• "Self-Knowledge and Psychology: Literary, Dialectical, and Scientific: comments on Wahman", December meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York, 2000.

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