Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy, led a workshop at the 17th annual International Workshop/Conference on Teaching Philosophy, run by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT). The workshop was titled "Adjudicating the Objections and Replies: A Cooperative Lesson Using the Objections and Replies to Descartes's Meditations." In it, Marcus presented both an extended, topical re-organization of the Objections and Replies, his work in progress, and some guidelines and amusing ideas for running successful cooperative lessons in class.
Also, his article, "Structuralism, Indispensability and the Access Problem," was published in August in the Swiss journal Facta Philosophica. In the article he argues that structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics avoids the traditional problem of access to abstract objects by relying on an epistemology, derived from Quine's work, on which access is not required for knowledge.
Also, his article, "Structuralism, Indispensability and the Access Problem," was published in August in the Swiss journal Facta Philosophica. In the article he argues that structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics avoids the traditional problem of access to abstract objects by relying on an epistemology, derived from Quine's work, on which access is not required for knowledge.
