Professor; Assistant Chair
Stokes Hall North 223
Telephone: 617-552-1977
Email: richard.atkins@bc.edu
Pragmatism
Symbolic Logic
Inductive Logic
Epistemology
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Pragmatism
Epistemology
History of Logic, esp. 19th鈥揺arly 20th c.听American
Philosophy of Mind
W 4-6PM
Richard Kenneth Atkins is a Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of Peirce on Inference (Oxford, 2023), Charles S. Peirce鈥檚 Phenomenology (Oxford, 2018), and Peirce and the Conduct of Life (Cambridge, 2016). His articles have appeared in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Synthese, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, and European Journal of Philosophy, among other venues.
Peirce on Inference: Validity, Strength, and the Community of Inquirers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
C.I. Lewis鈥檚 Theory of Ideas: Royce鈥檚 Problem and Lewis鈥檚 Solution, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, doi:10.1017/apa.2023.15., 2023
On Three Levels of Abstractness in Peirce鈥檚 Beta Graphs, History and Philosophy of Logic, 44:1, 16鈥�32., 2023
Santayana, Commonsensism, and the Problem of Impervious Belief, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 38:1, 37鈥�56., 2021
A Peircean Examination of Gettier鈥檚 Two Cases, Synthese, 199:5鈥�6, 12945鈥�12961., 2021
Charles S. Peirce鈥檚 Phenomenology: Analysis and Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Peirce on Perception and Reasoning: From Icons to Logic. Co-edited with Kathleen A. Hull. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Peirce and the Conduct of Life: Sentiment and Instinct in Ethics and Religion. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Puzzled?! An Introduction to Philosophizing. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2015.