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.