Professor Peter Sullivan

Professor

Philosophy University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Contact details

Email p.m.sullivan@stir.ac.uk
Telephone+44 (0)1786 467555

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About me

BA (Leeds), MA, BPhil, DPhil (Oxford), FRSE Professor I joined the department at Stirling in 1993 and was appointed Professor in 2003. Professional Activities Member of The Editorial Board of The Philosophical Quarterly Member AHRC Peer Review College

Research

My research interests are in the history of analytic philosophy and the philosophy of logic and mathematics. The principal focus of much of my research has been Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; surrounding this work, I have published papers on Frege, Russell, and Ramsey. From 2003-2006 I was involved in an AHRC-funded research project on the interpretation of the Tractatus which aimed to explore how Wittgenstein's critical conception of the task and method of philosophy emerges out of his detailed engagement with the logical theories of his predecessors in the analytic tradition. Since then I have been working particularly on Ramsey, both in his own right and as a resource for understanding Wittgenstein.

Outputs

Book Chapter

Varieties of Alien Thought

Sullivan P (2019) Varieties of Alien Thought. In: Miguens S & Travis C (eds.) The Logical Alien. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674335905

Book Chapter

Judgments, Facts, and Propositions: Theories of Truth in Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey

Sullivan P & Johnston C (2018) Judgments, Facts, and Propositions: Theories of Truth in Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey. In: Glanzberg M (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Truth. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 150-192. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-truth-9780199557929

Book Review

Frege's Logic

Sullivan P (2009) Frege's Logic. Review of:
Danielle Macbeth, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2005, 256 pp. ISBN 0-674-01707-2. History and Philosophy of Logic, 30 (1), pp. 91-96.

Article

How did Frege fall into the contradiction?

Sullivan P (2007) How did Frege fall into the contradiction?. Ratio, 20 (1), pp. 91-107. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00349.x