JOHN POST's PHILOSOPHY PLACE

The real drama in philosophy remains where it has always been, in pairing the rage for order with delight in near chaotic variety. And the highest challenge is to express the two entwined, to express them by a harmony of argument and metaphor, of logic and passion, so that we may understand and respond with all that is best in us.

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john.f.post@vanderbilt.edu

John Post is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University. He has published in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of science, meta-ethics, and philosophy of religion. Recently he finished a book in metaethics, From Nature to Norm: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Morals (in paperback). The book expands on "Naturalism, Reduction and Normativity: Pressing from Below" in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 73, no. 1 (2006). Another book, though "in progress," is Minimal Epistemology, temporarily on a back burner. His book The Faces of Existence is now in paperback, accessible and affordable.

Here are some further links (under construction) to his work:

Metaphysics:

The Faces of Existence: An Essay in Nonreductive Metaphysics

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction

Realism/Anti-realism

Pluralism

The Meanings of it all

Why does anything at all exist?

How to Refute Principles of Sufficient Reason

SUPERVENIENCE, Evidence, Explanation, Reduction

SUPERVENIENCE, Individualism, Reduction

Physicalism, Materialism, Naturalism

Intentionality, Teleofunction, Adaptation, Normativity

Philosophy of Language:

Using Language to Get Outside Language

Determinacy of Meaning, Reference, Truth

Meaning Naturalized?

Metaphor

Paradox: Liars and the Possible Liar

Meta-Ethics:

From Nature to Norm: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Morals, available upon request in PDF from john.f.post@vanderbilt.edu

Naturalism, Reduction and Normativity: Pressing from Below (PDF) in PPR, vol. 73, no. 1 (2006)

Method, Madness, and Normativity

From Is to Ought: Another Way (182K) -- Revised & expanded, 10/1/01

Epistemology:

The Structure of Reason (130K)

Reason Naturalized

Realism/Anti-realism, Internalism/Externalism(130K)

Truth and Representation

Infinite Regress and Transitivity (PDF)

Regress, Circularity, Internalism(130K)

Track-Record and Other Circularity Arguments(130K)

Philosophy of Religion:

Naturalism and Theism: A Synthesis

Omniscience, Weak PSR, and Method

Reply to Gale and Pruss

Naturalism Defeated?

CV & List of Publications (PDF)

Contact Professor Post at
Department of Philosophy
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
(615) 322-2637
Fax: (615) 343-7259
john.f.post@vanderbilt.edu