About the Author
Richard L. Epstein
P.O. Box 635
Socorro, New Mexico 87801
(505) 835-2517
rle@AdvancedReasoningForum.org
Education
University of Pennsylvania B. A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude, 1969.
University of California, Berkeley M. A. in Mathematics 1971.
Ph. D. in Mathematics 1973.
Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy
1975–77 Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
U. S. National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scholar
1981 Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Fulbright Fellow
1987 Center for Logic and Epistemology, University of Campinas, Brazil
CNPq Fellow
1991 Philosophy Department, University of Paraíba, Brazil
(CNPq is the Brazilian government’s main research funding foundation.)
Academic Employment
Iowa State University
1978–1981 Assistant Professor of Mathematics
1981–1982 Associate Professor of Mathematics with tenure
University of California, Berkeley
1982–1984 Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics
California State University, Hayward
1985–1986 Temporary Associate Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science
San Jose State University
1988 Visiting Associate Professor in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Auckland, New Zealand
1993 Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1995–1998 Lecturer in Philosophy
Advanced Reasoning Forum
1999– Head <www.AdvancedReasoningForum.org>
Books and Monographs
Minimal Degrees of Unsolvability and the Full Approximation Construction
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, no. 162, 1975.
Degrees of Unsolvability: Structure and Theory
Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 759, Springer-Verlag, 1979.
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Initial Segments of the Degrees Below 0´
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, no. 241 (2), 1981.
Computability: Computable Functions, Logic, and the Foundations of Mathematics
with Walter Carnielli, Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, 1989.
2nd edition, including Computability and Undecidability, a Timeline, Wadsworth, 1999.
3rd edition, Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2008.
The Semantic Foundations of Logic
Propositional Logics
Kluwer, 1990. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1995.
3rd edition Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2012.
Predicate Logic
Oxford University Press, 1994. Reprinted by Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2012.
Classical Mathematical Logic
Princeton University Press, 2006.
Critical Thinking
Wadsworth, 1998. 4th edition with Michael Rooney, Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2013.
The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking
Wadsworth, 1999. 5th edition Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2016.
Five Ways of Saying “Therefore”
Wadsworth, 2001.
The Guide to Critical Thinking in Economics
with Carolyn Kernberger, South-Western, 2004.
Reasoning in the Sciences: A Self-Study Guide
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2008.
Essays on Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well
Cause and Effect, Conditionals, Explanations
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2011.
Reasoning in Science and Mathematics
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2012.
The Fundamentals of Argument Analysis
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2013.
Prescriptive Reasoning
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2013.
Reasoning and Formal Logic
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2015.
The Guide to Writing Introductory College Textbooks
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2013.
Conventional Gestures: Meaning and Methodology.
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2014.
An Introduction to Formal Logic
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2016.
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Books in Preparation
An American Gestuary with Alex Raffi
Illustrated dictionary of gestures, 2013. Draft available at www.ARFbooks.org.
Logic, Language, and the World
Volume 1: The Internal Structure of Predicates and Names
Typescript, 2015.
Volume 2: Time and Space in Formal Logic
Volume 3: The World as Process
Essays on Language and the World
Articles
Diagonalization in Degree Constructions (with David Posner)
Journal of Symbolic Logic, 43, no. 2, 1978, pp. 280–283.
Relatedness and Implication
Relatedness and Interpretability (with L. Szczerba)
Philosophical Studies, 36, no. 2, 1979, pp. 137—175, pp. 225—231.
The Algebraic Nature of Set Assignments (with Roger Maddux)
In Relatedness and Dependence in Propositional Logics, ed. Richard L. Epstein
Research Report of the Iowa State University Logic Group, 1981.
Relatedness and Dependence in Propositional Logics
Abstract of talk to the Association of Symbolic Logic, 1979 Spring Meeting,
Journal of Symbolic Logic, 6, no. 1, 1981, p. 202.
A Hierarchy of Sets and Degrees Below 0´ (with R. Kramer and R. Haas)
in Logic Year 1979–1980, eds. Lerman, Schmerl, and Soare, Lecture Notes in Mathematics,
no. 859, Springer–Verlag, 1981, pp. 32–48.
A Mistaken Theorem on Degrees of f-r.e. Sets
Abstracts of the American Mathematical Society, 3, no. 1, 1982, p. 129
(correction to Degrees of Unsolvability above).
The Algebra of Dependence Logic
Reports on Mathematical Logic, 21, 1987, 19–34.
Complementing Below Recursively Enumerable Degrees (with S. B. Cooper)
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 34, no. 1, 1987, pp. 15–34.
A General Framework for Semantics for Propositional Logics
Text of invited address to the VII Latin American Symposium on Mathematical Logic,
in Methods and Applications of Mathematical Logic, eds. W. Carnielli and L. P. de Alcantara,
Contemporary Mathematics, no. 69, 1988, pp. 149–168.
A Paraconsistent Many-Valued Logic: J3 (with Itala M. L. D’Ottaviano)
Reports on Mathematical Logic, 22, 1988, pp. 89–103.
A Theory of Truth Based on a Medieval Solution to the Liar Paradox
History and Philosophy of Logic, 13, 1992, pp. 149-177.
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Valid Deductions for Falsity-Default Logics
Reports on Mathematical Logic, 26, 1992, pp. 89–95.
The Metaphysical Basis of Logic
Manuscrito, vol. 22, no. 2, 1999, pp. 133–148.
Arguments and Explanations
Bulletin of Advanced Reasoning and Knowledge, 1: Proceedings of the Advanced Reasoning
Forum meeting in Bucharest, Romania, 2000, New Europe College, 2001.
(Also at <www.AdvancedReasoningForum.org>.)
Relatedness Predicate Logic (with Stanislaw Krajewski)
Bulletin of Advanced Reasoning and Knowledge, vol. 2, 2004, pp. 19–38.
(Also at <www.AdvancedReasoningForum.org>.)
On Models and Theories, with Applications to Economics
Bulletin of Advanced Reasoning and Knowledge, vol. 2, 2004, pp. 77–98.
(Also at <www.AdvancedReasoningForum.org>.)
Classical Predicate Logic with Non-Referring Names
Logique et Analyse, vol. 189–192, 2005, pp. 71–86.
Paraconsistent Logics with Simple Semantics
Logique et Analyse, vol. 189–192, 2005, pp. 189–207.
Mathematics as the Art of Abstraction
In The Argument of Mathematics, eds. Andrew Aberdein and Ian Dove,
Springer-Verlag, 2013, pp. 257–289.
Valid Inferences
In Logic without Frontiers:Festschrift for Walter Alexandre Carnielli on
the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, eds. J.-Y. Béziau and M. E. Coniglio,
College Publications, pp. 105–12, 2012.
A Propositional Logic of Temporal Connectives (with Esperanza Buitrago-Díaz)
Logic and Logical Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 155–200,
DOI 10.12775/LLP.2014.015, 2014.
Reflections on Temporal and Modal Logic
Logic and Logical Philosophy, DOI 10.12775/LLP.2014.020, 2014.
Edited Volumes
Relatedness and Dependence in Propositional Logics,
Research Report of the Iowa State University Logic Group, 1982.
Bulletin of Advanced Reasoning and Knowledge vol. 1
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2001.
Available at <www.AdvancedReasoningForum.org>.
Bulletin of Advanced Reasoning and Knowledge vol. 2
Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2005.
Available at <www.AdvancedReasoningForum.org>.
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Reviews
Review of “Degrees of unsolvability complementary between r.e. degrees” by S. B. Cooper
Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 40, no. 1, 1975, p. 86.
Truth is Beauty
Essay review of John Buridan on Self-reference by G. Hughes,
History and Philosophy of Logic, vol. 6, no. 1, 1985, 117–125.
Review of Logic Made Easy by Deborah J. Bennett
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, vol. 10, no. 4, 2004, p. 577.
Review of Logics by John Nolt
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, vol. 12, no. 2, 2006, p. 290.
Newspaper Column
They’re Not Like You and Me
Published weekly in El Defensor Chieftain, Socorro, NM, from July, 2006 to May, 2008.