Department of Philosophy, M/C 267
1402 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607
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Aaron Snyder is a Visiting Professor of Philosophy who is emeritus at the University of Wisconsin [Parkside] and has recently taught at IIT and at Northwestern University. He holds degrees in Philosophy from Princeton[BA], where he wrote his thesis on “Truth”, Harvard [MA], where he focused on proof theory, and Cornell [PhD], where his dissertation dealt with Wittgenstein and ‘ordinary language’. His early essays were mostly in philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology; for a period thereafter, he focused on philosophy
of law [Yale Law], and since then, his main research has conjoined metaphysics and philosophy of science. His most enduring fixation is the ‘free will’ problem, esp. causality and moral responsibility; recently, he has been re-thinking relativism, and he is currently pondering ‘reasonable doubt’. Having such wide-spread interests, he enjoys philosophic dialoguein many domains.