Ruth Barcan Marcus
Senior Research Scholar, Reuben Post Halleck, Emeritus
602 SSS
(203) 432-6033
ruth.marcus@yale.edu
Education
PhD 1946,
Yale
University
BA 1941, NYU
Areas of Interest
Modal Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Analytical Philosophy, Topics in Ethics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology.
Academic Appointments
Prior to 1973: Chair of University of Illinois-Chicago Philosophy Department, then Professor at Northwestern University.
Since 1973: Halleck Professor at Yale, 1992, and then Senior Research Scholar at Yale and Visiting Distinguished Professor (One term per year) at UC,
Irvine
Abbreviated List of Offices Held
Diverse service on editorial boards, and on external advisory panels on programs, grants and awards.
Chairman of the National Board of Officers (1967-83)
President of the Central Division (1976-78) of the American Philosophical association
President of the Institute Internationale de Philosophie (1990-93)
President honoraire (1994-)
President of the Association for Symbolic Logic (1982-84)
Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (1985-2000)
President of the Elizabethan Club (1989-90).
Research Fellowships
Guggenheim Fellow (1953)
NSF Fellow (1963)
Stanford
Center
in Behavioral Sciences Fellow (1979)
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at
Edinburgh
(1983),
Wolfson
College
at
Oxford
(1985, 1986)
Clare Hall at
Cambridge
(1988)
Wolfson
College
,
Oxford
, 1995, 1996.
Mellon Senior Fellow at the
National
Humanities
Center
(1992-93).
Awards
Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale, 2000.
Medal of the College de France (1986)
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters,
University
of
Illinois
(1995)
Machette Prize, for contributions to the profession
Fellow since 1977 of the
American
Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
Recent Courses Taught
* Early Analytic Philosophy and Conflict
* Philosophy of Logic
Selected Publications (frequently reprinted)
BOOKS
The Logical Enterprise, ed. with A. Anderson, R. Martin, Yale, 1995
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, VII, eds. R. Barcan Marcus et al., North Holland, 1986
Modalities: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press, 1993. Paperback; 1995
ARTICLES
Published under Ruth C. Barcan:
"A Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication"; Journal of Symbolic Logic, 11, 1946.
“The Identity of Individuals in a Strict Functional Calculus of Second Order”; Journal of Symbolic Logic. 12, 1947.
"The Deduction Theorem in a Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication"; Journal of Symbolic Logic, 12, 1947.
Published under Ruth Barcan Marcus or Ruth B. Marcus (sometimes indexed under 'Barcan Marcus')
"Extensionality"; Mind, LXIX, ns. 273, 1960.
Reprinted in:
Reference and Modality, ed. L. Linsky,
Oxford
, 1971.
Italian translation of Reference and Modality, Bompiani,
Milan
, 1984.
"Moral Dilemmas and Consistency"; Journal of Philosophy, LXXVII, No. 3, 1980.
Reprinted in:
The Philosophers Annual, 1980 (Best Papers of 1980)
and elsewhere.
"Rationality and Believing the Impossible"; Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXV, No. 6, June 1983.
"Some Revisionary Proposals About Belief and Believing"; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1990.
Reprinted in:
Causality, Method and Modality, ed. Gordon, Brittain, Kluwer, 1991.
"The Anti-Naturalism of Some Language Centered Accounts of Belief"; Dialectica (Special Issue), 1995.