John Post


John Frederic Post was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy, emeritus at Vanderbilt University. He was the Whichard Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at East Carolina University.

Publications

Books

  • From Nature to Norm: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Morals, BookSurge
  • The Faces of Existence: An Essay in Nonreductive Metaphysics. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987.
  • Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

    Journal articles

  • "Naturalism, Reduction and Normativity: Pressing from Below," forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
  • "Method, Madness, and Normativity"Philo, forthcoming
  • "Reply to Gale and Pruss" Philo, forthcoming
  • "Omniscience, Weak PSR, and Method" Philo, 6, 33–48
  • "Sense and Supervenience." Philo. Fall Wint 01; 4: 123–137.
  • "Sic Transitivity: Reply to McGrew and McGrew." Journal of Philosophical Research. Ja 2000; 25: 67–82.
  • "Is Supervenience Asymmetric?" Manuscrito. O 99; 22: 305–344.
  • "Post-Quinean Philosophical Investigations," Quine and Wittgenstein. Edited by Robert Arrington and Hans-Johann Glock. New York: Routledge, 1996. pp. 252–279.
  • "The Foundationalism in Irrealism, and the Immorality." Journal of Philosophical Research. Ja 96; 21: 1–14.
  • "Epistemology." Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Edited by David Weissman. New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.
  • "Perspectives on Buchler." Metaphilosophy. Jl 95; 26: 279–299.
  • ""Global" Supervenient Determination: Too Permissive?" Supervenience: New Essays. Edited by Elias E. Savellos. Cambridge: Needham Heights, 1995.
  • "Objective Value, Realism, and the End of Metaphysics." Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 1990; 4: 147–160.
  • "Paradox in Critical Rationalism and Related Theories." Evolutionary Epistemology. Edited by Gerard Radnitzky. La Salle: Open Court, 1987.
  • "A Godelian Theorem for Theories of Rationality." Evolutionary Epistemology. Edited by Gerard Radnitzky. La Salle: Open Court, 1987.
  • "On the Determinacy of Valuation." Philosophical Studies. MY 84; 45: 315–334.
  • "On the Determinacy of Truth and Translation." Southern Journal of Philosophy. SUPP 83; 22: 117–136.
  • "Response: "Comment on Paul Teller's 'A Poor Man's Guide To Supervience and Determination." Southern Journal of Philosophy. SUPP 83; 22: 163–167.
  • "Infinite Regress of Justification and of Explanation." Philosophical Studies. JL 80; 38: 31–52.
  • "Presupposition, Bi-valence and the Possible Liar." Philosophia. O 79; 8: 645–650.
  • "Shades of Possibility." Journal of Philosophical Logic. AP 74; 3: 155–158.
  • "Propositions, Possible Languages and The Liar's Revenge." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. S 74; 25: 223–234.
  • "New Foundations for Philosophical Theology: Quine with God." Journal of Philosophy. 7 NOV 74; 71: 736–748.
  • "Shades of the Liar." Journal of Philosophical Logic. JL 73; 2: 370–385.
  • "Referential Presupposition." Australasian Journal of Philosophy. AG 72; 50: 160–167.
  • "The Possible Liar." Nous. N 70; 4: 405–409.
  • "An Analysis of Presupposing." Southern Journal of Philosophy. FALL 68; 6: 167–171.
  • "Special Reasons and Specific Answers." Analysis. JA 65; 25: 86–93.
  • "Does Knowing Make a Difference to What Is Known?" Philosophical Quarterly. JL 65; 15: 220-228