Jeffrey Roland

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Associate Professor of Philosophy

Chair of the Philosophy Undergraduate Studies Committee

108 Coates Hall

jroland@lsu.edu

225-578-2388

Professor Roland specializes in the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, and the philosophy of science with special interest in the nature and scope of philosophical naturalism and the prospects for a realist philosophy of mathematics.  His publications include articles in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

B.A. in Philosophy and Mathematics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (1996)

M.A. in Philosophy, Cornell University (2000)

Ph.D. in Philosophy with a concentration in Mathematics, Cornell University (2005)

PHIL 1021: Introduction to Logic

PHIL 2010: Symbolic Logic I

PHIL 4010: Symbolic Logic II

PHIL 4011: Topics in Advanced Logic

PHIL 3950: Introduction to Epistemology

PHIL 4914: Philosophy of Language

Recipient of Manship  Summer Research Fellowship (2013)

Recipient of Manship  Summer Research Fellowship (2012)

Recipient of the Robert Udick Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (2007)

Recipient of Assistant Professor Summer Research Grant (2011)

Recipient of Council on Research Summer Stipend (2007)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters

“On Naturalism in the Quinean Tradition,” in Philosophical Methodology: The Armchair or the Laboratory?, ed. Matthew C. Haug (Routledge, 2013), 43-61

(with Jon Cogburn) “Safety and the True–True Problem,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 94 (2013): 246-67

"On Naturalizing the Epistemology of Mathematics,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2009): 63-97

“Kitcher, Mathematics, and Naturalism,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008): 481-97

“Kitcher and the Obsessive Unifier,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (2008): 493-506

“Maddy and Mathematics: Naturalism or Not,” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58 (2007): 423-50