Arnold vander Nat
Philosophy Department
Loyola University Chicago
tel. 773-508-2733
e-mail  avande1@luc.edu

As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow I continued my studies at the University of Pittsburgh, working especially in modal and many-valued logics, with Nuel Belnap, Nicholas Rescher, Storrs McCall, and Alan Ross Anderson. My doctoral dissertation was on possible world semantics for weak systems of strict implication.

After finishing my studies at the University of Pittsburgh, I joined the Philosophy Department of Loyola University Chicago. There I have taught courses at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels in logic, epistemology, and early modern philosophy. I have spent quite a lot of time in department administration, six years as assistant chairperson, followed by six years as department chairperson; and there is always an excess of committee work.

My areas of research and expertise include British Empiricism, especially the epistemology (and metaphysics) of John Locke, formal and applied logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. I am knowledgeable in computers, computer technology, programming, and artificial intelligence.

I am presently engaged in a rather large research project: a theoretical analysis of the neurological basis of conceptual representations. This project is in progess and ongoing. I have recently put a long article on-line, entitled "Neurons, Concepts, and Connections in Thinking." It has a lot of bells and whistles; you'll enjoy it.

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8-2003